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what was your favourite book?
Mine was velveteen rabbit.. just bought ty a copy and the bit where the rabbit gets thrown outside to be burnt is still sad :(

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Mine has to be the Enid Blyton books. Famous Five.................I named my dog Timmy :)

Ane the Mallory Towers and the St Clairs books. I always wanted to go to Boarding School after reading those

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Mine was Charlotte's Webb.

Gail xxxx

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I went to school at age 3 and could read at age 5.
The children's book which made a big impression on me was-
Children of the New Forest
It stirred my interest in history which has lasted a lifetime.

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spot the dog & wheres wally

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i loved all the Enid Blyton books when i was ickler, but i loved reading Topsy and Tim when i was at school :D

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Yep another Enid Blyton fan as a kid

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I was a fan of Enid Blyton's Secret Seven, Mallory Towers and St Clare's series.

I also liked Judy Blume books. When we were about 13 the girls in our class discovered the book 'Forever' which was about a girl losing her virginity to her boyfriend.

It was thought to be quite explicit at the time although it would be quite tame now I suppose. We thought it was almost pornographic. :eek::D

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Ian Allen's Combined Volume.

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Mine was James and the Giant peach!!! First book I ever read all on my own, and that was the start of a love of books.

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I loved Enid Blyton's Famous Five books and the Faraway Tree books. I also adored Richmal Crompton's "William" - and still do. :D

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All mentioned so far have fond memories, but the biggest thrill for me was a book I'm surprised hasn't yet been mentioned, was the one I remember my parent's reading to me and then I read to my children.

Wind In The Willows.

So many questions of, how, when, why, that I asked and then they were repeated to me and so difficult to explain, I had the same problem with mine! But the joys of the book, (and then taking them to the Cinema, (still so much better than renting a video), and watching joy on their faces), as the story unfolds before their eyes, because they know that bit! Yes, Star Wars, Indiana Jones and others can be heroes but nothing is like seeing the written word transformed into the adventures those animals went through.

O.K. so that's my thought anyway! :D

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i get annoyed when books are made into films because they always jazz it up instaed of sticking to the original... i loved roald dahl but i dont like the new charlie and the chocolate factory because its too different to the book.

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i know what you mean Em about them making the films different to the books, but i thought Johnny Depps version of the film was absolutely hilarious, the adult humour in it had me in stitches when i went to see it at the cinema

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Enid blyton's the magic faraway tree! loved them, famous 5, the lion the witch and the wardrobe i loved reading as a child i used to read to my sister.

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Would be interesting to know if we all still read a lot, I love reading still

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I think i must have read every book of Enid Blyton book when i was a child,,i too loved the famous five, the secret seven, and the boarding school books ,but i realy, realy liked the adventure books best with the parrot kiki,,,but now i am stummped trying to remember the names of the kids,, i wont be able to sleep tonight now:alright:
erm I think one of the boys was called Jack

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A book called Milly Molly Mandy but don't know who wrote it and Enid Blyton's stories especially the famous five.
Always wished I had a big brother. I loved reading to MUMMIBOO she couldn't get enough of books. Would read her one story and she'd want another and another. She could read before she went to school.

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My mums problem with me was keeping me from reading all the books. I used to go to the library every saturday and i'd have read them by wednesday/thursday. Favourite books - black beauty by anna sewell, enid blyton - mallory towers and famous five, the naughtiest girl in the school etc, elinor m brent dyer - the chalet school series (ive still got some of them somewhere), louisa may alcott - little women, good wives etc and eight cousins. I still read a lot now - any visitors to my house know theres books everywhere...

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I love reading and ty does 2, he reads them for himself now, doesnt need mummy to do it anymore :( he gets a new reading book every day and we have piles of books upstairs lol

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Ditto. I also loved The Borrowers series of books by Mary Norton and Paddington Bear was also a big favorite.:dancedog:

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i go back to Biggles ..Dan Dare in the Eagle..
all good ripping yarns ;)

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Mine was Penthouse or Readers wifes...LOL nah im kidding.

It used to be the griffin lane books, or atleast thats what they were called.
It had a green dragony thing.

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No surprise here really,

"Johnny Balls Book of Numbers" and "How to program in Sinclair BASIC"

I've never been one for fiction.....

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puddle lane?

It had 2 parts, one for the parent to read and one for the child..... i love them.... might have a few at grandads somewhere

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List of Puddle Lane books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

puddle lane :D

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My favourites were Puddle Lane,Thomas the Tank Engine and as i got a bit older i loved all the Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl books!
Brilliant memories!

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Ivanhoe and Treasure Island , also still have a full set of Charles Dickens from my Grandad , should pass them on to my eldest grandson , only problem he doesn't speak/read/write English :eek: :eek:

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yes ofcourse, Puddle Lane! Thanks for correcting me on that one cos its been blagging my head for ages as to what they were called.
I think i got the griffin part cos there was a story with a green dragon thingy called a griffin if i remember correctly

:)

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Yeah i think there was a friendly green one called the griffle and a bad red one called the gruffle!
Or it could be the other way around!
I used to hide behind the settee when the gruffle came out he really scare me!!

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yeah the griffle even lol And your right the red one was the gruffle lol Used to sacare me too lol

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Good glad i wasn't the only one LOL!!:D

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Ithink the puddle lane books might have been my school reading books, looking at that list I'm pretty sure I've read them all. I still have nearly a full set of Thomas the tank books, I used to read everything put infront of me ranging from Mr Men and Littlemiss to Roald Dahl and then the POINT Crime, Thriller, Romance and drama series' when I was a teenager. Loved them all

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That is an intriguing remark Steeljack, and demands further explanation.

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PM sent , its a long story ;)

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I remember having rather a large book by Hans Christian Anderson

My mum bought it for my birthday or christmas one year

It had quite a few stories in it

Other than that, when I got to pre/early teenage years, I quite liked Point Horror books

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So, I'm teh only person who doesn't do fiction then......

OK, probably explains a lot :D

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I don't mind factual books, although I couldn't read a manual:p

I do love other people's imaginations tho:)