Did you have any favourite stories when you were a child....ones that you loved to listen to or read over and over, or ones that made you laugh or transported you far away to a magical, wonderful place, or captivated your child-like imagination.
And if you read any childrens books or stories nowadays, do you have a favourite one that you love, even as an adult.
Have you introduced your children to your childhood stories and if so, did they like them or feel they were too out dated?
I loved to read as a child, ad in fact was reading properly by the age of 3. My most favourite bok as a child were the ones about the Folk of the Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton.
I so wanted to visit that tree and meet all of its characters who lived with in its branches, and visit the different lands that came to the top of the tree.
Absolutely fabulous for a childs imagination, and I read these over and over again.
Nowadays I just LOVE the 'Hairy MacLary from Donaldsons Dairy' series...thay just crack me up and I sometimes read them just for the sheer enjoyment of doing so, even when the kids are not there!!.
The rhyming text and the drawings just make me smile whenever I open the books about the scruffy mongrel Hairy MacLary and his friends Scnitzel Von Krumm, Bottomly Potts and Hercules Morse and the cats Scarface Claw and Slinky Malinky.
If you havent read these to your kids, I highly recommend them....class!!
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Favourite Childrens Stories....Then and Now
Five Children & It, and The Amulet - fantastic stories and brilliant evocation of 1900's London. I'm on my zilllionth reading of The Amulet!
Also - the "Mystery" series by Enid Blyton. I'm not sure if they still print these, as there's a character in them called "Fatty". I know our school wouldn't have them in the library.
Also - the "Mystery" series by Enid Blyton. I'm not sure if they still print these, as there's a character in them called "Fatty". I know our school wouldn't have them in the library.
I love Nancy Drew & Enid Blyton, had loads of them and I kept them all. My daughter now has all my collection of books that I had and she now reads some of them to her children.
My fav though is my book of Nonsense Songs by Edward Lear, wont part with that for anything.
I love The Courtship of The Yonghy Bonghy-Bo and The Dong with the Luminous Nose...
My fav though is my book of Nonsense Songs by Edward Lear, wont part with that for anything.
I love The Courtship of The Yonghy Bonghy-Bo and The Dong with the Luminous Nose...
You had stories when you were kids?
You were the lucky ones...
all we had was the sound of gunfire to shape our imaginations... and on a good day the chance to try to see pictures in the smoke billowing over the slum-clearance.
but actaully... I can't remember any stories at all from young childhood... Narnia crept into consciousness at some point... that Prince Caspian.... dodgy!
lp
You were the lucky ones...
all we had was the sound of gunfire to shape our imaginations... and on a good day the chance to try to see pictures in the smoke billowing over the slum-clearance.
but actaully... I can't remember any stories at all from young childhood... Narnia crept into consciousness at some point... that Prince Caspian.... dodgy!
lp
Sex God
My son loved the Katy Morag books - set on a Scottish Island (with full Scottish accents by yours truly - badly).
My fave was a book whose name and author I have forgotten but was about a blue porcelain mouse that was made when a potter got drunk. The mouse came to life and had various adventures. I would love to find it again.
My fave was a book whose name and author I have forgotten but was about a blue porcelain mouse that was made when a potter got drunk. The mouse came to life and had various adventures. I would love to find it again.
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My son loved the Katy Morag books - set on a Scottish Island (with full Scottish accents by yours truly - badly).
My fave was a book whose name and author I have forgotten but was about a blue porcelain mouse that was made when a potter got drunk. The mouse came to life and had various adventures. I would love to find it again.
where?
there on the stair!
where on the stair?
right there, gaw blimey
lp
Love this ons Anais, so this is just for you....
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,
On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
In a Sieve they went to sea!
And when the Sieve turned round and round,
And every one cried, `You'll all be drowned!'
They called aloud, `Our Sieve ain't big,
But we don't care a button! we don't care a fig!
In a Sieve we'll go to sea!'
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,
On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
In a Sieve they went to sea!
And when the Sieve turned round and round,
And every one cried, `You'll all be drowned!'
They called aloud, `Our Sieve ain't big,
But we don't care a button! we don't care a fig!
In a Sieve we'll go to sea!'
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.
Sex God
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My son loved the Katy Morag books - set on a Scottish Island (with full Scottish accents by yours truly - badly).
My fave was a book whose name and author I have forgotten but was about a blue porcelain mouse that was made when a potter got drunk. The mouse came to life and had various adventures. I would love to find it again.
where?
there on the stair!
where on the stair?
right there, gaw blimey
lp
God, I remember that song - it was always being played on Saturday morning Radio 1 about 30 years ago. LOL
Quote by foxylady2209Oh, I had forgotten about Katy Morag books, they were great!
My son loved the Katy Morag books - set on a Scottish Island (with full Scottish accents by yours truly - badly).
My fave was a book whose name and author I have forgotten but was about a blue porcelain mouse that was made when a potter got drunk. The mouse came to life and had various adventures. I would love to find it again.
i loved reading the chalet school books, i think they were by enid blyton
i was given a book called a childs garden of verse and enjoyed that, especially one poem called... in winter ...
i cant remeber any books that were read to me when i was younger
when my children were young i loved reading any shirley hughes book, lovely stories and beautiful pictures
i also loved hairy mcclary books, so funny and nice to read because they rhymne
i read them to children at work now
i was given a book called a childs garden of verse and enjoyed that, especially one poem called... in winter ...
i cant remeber any books that were read to me when i was younger
when my children were young i loved reading any shirley hughes book, lovely stories and beautiful pictures
i also loved hairy mcclary books, so funny and nice to read because they rhymne
i read them to children at work now
Sex God
I was a voracious reader as a kid, still am. Love losing myself in a book.
I read all sorts of books. My favourites were The Secret Garden (still have the copy I was bought for my 6th birthday,) Enid Blyton - too many to mention, The Hobbit (still have the copy I was bought for my 10th birthday - I'm a book hoarder!) I also loved Ballet Shoes and the others in the series by Noel Stretfield. I desperately wanted to be a Chalet School girl when I read the Brent Dyer series, or the Little Princess in her garret, or Jo in Little Women and don't even get me started on Nancy Drew!! I also adored the Redwall series by Brian Jacques.
To be fair, there wasn't much I wouldn't read and now I am lucky enough to have nieces and nephews who recommend me books all the time. I am a HUGE Philip Pullman fan and also like Malorie Blackman. Children's books are great, but yes... there are classics that I could read and re-read forever. Happy, happy memories indeed!
Nola x
I read all sorts of books. My favourites were The Secret Garden (still have the copy I was bought for my 6th birthday,) Enid Blyton - too many to mention, The Hobbit (still have the copy I was bought for my 10th birthday - I'm a book hoarder!) I also loved Ballet Shoes and the others in the series by Noel Stretfield. I desperately wanted to be a Chalet School girl when I read the Brent Dyer series, or the Little Princess in her garret, or Jo in Little Women and don't even get me started on Nancy Drew!! I also adored the Redwall series by Brian Jacques.
To be fair, there wasn't much I wouldn't read and now I am lucky enough to have nieces and nephews who recommend me books all the time. I am a HUGE Philip Pullman fan and also like Malorie Blackman. Children's books are great, but yes... there are classics that I could read and re-read forever. Happy, happy memories indeed!
Nola x
Sex God
Famous Five (The whole series)
Malory Towers
The Diddakoi
Amelia Jane (about the naughty doll)
That Mad Bad Badger
The Yearling
Milly Molly Mandy
Secret Seven
Fox In Sox
I could go on and on.......
Malory Towers
The Diddakoi
Amelia Jane (about the naughty doll)
That Mad Bad Badger
The Yearling
Milly Molly Mandy
Secret Seven
Fox In Sox
I could go on and on.......
)Loads that have been mentioned. But also Anne of Green Gables.
I was an enid blyton fiend. I couldn't quite make up my mind whether I wanted to be George, Anne or Dick. I never wanted to be Julian as he was always sooo bossy. I didn't like the way he directed Anne all the time.
I wanted to hug the tinpot man in the Magic faraway tree.
I was an enid blyton fiend. I couldn't quite make up my mind whether I wanted to be George, Anne or Dick. I never wanted to be Julian as he was always sooo bossy. I didn't like the way he directed Anne all the time.
I wanted to hug the tinpot man in the Magic faraway tree.
Sex God
I loved Enid Blyton. Had most of her books but they went missing in a house move - maybe my parents 'lost' them, I don't know. I bought the magic Fararway Tree books again though, a few years ago - love them!
Sex God
I loved the Enid Blyton books 'The Children of Cherry Tree Farm' and... 
the other one, name escapes me!
I soooooo wanted to live on that farm, have a pet red squirrel and eat high tea cooked by the lovely Dorcas! Alas family hols to North Wales in the oft freezing February half terms managed to put me off a rural way of life!!
High teas though... yum!
Oooh, now I've had a think - was it called something like 'Willow Farm'?
St Enid... what a story teller!
the other one, name escapes me!I soooooo wanted to live on that farm, have a pet red squirrel and eat high tea cooked by the lovely Dorcas! Alas family hols to North Wales in the oft freezing February half terms managed to put me off a rural way of life!!
High teas though... yum!
Oooh, now I've had a think - was it called something like 'Willow Farm'?
St Enid... what a story teller!
Sex God
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Loads that have been mentioned. But also Anne of Green Gables.
I was an enid blyton fiend. I couldn't quite make up my mind whether I wanted to be George, Anne or Dick. I never wanted to be Julian as he was always sooo bossy. I didn't like the way he directed Anne all the time.
I wanted to hug the tinpot man in the Magic faraway tree.
I definitely wanted to be George because she's the one that lived in Cornwall!!!