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Favourite Childhood Reads

I’ve been getting back into reading a lot more recently and have been thinking about what I used to love when I was younger. I visited a local Books For Free store the other week and saw so many of my old favourites that I wish I could have taken home with me. What were your favourite childhood reads?

I was a big Enid Blyton fan back in the day and especially loved the Malory Towers books. I loved the whole boarding school idea around the age of 7 (I hoped to be sent to one, strange child!) and these books definitely influenced that!Of course, I can’t write a post about favourite childhood reads and not talk about the series that shaped my childhood, the Harry Potter series. Love, love, love – especially The Prisoner of Azkaban. I also loved The Sleepover Club books and really wished I was in fact Matilda.

Another of my big loves was the Point series – especially the Point Horror books. I definitely preferred The Babysitters Club to The Sleepover club back then but looking back, why so many characters??

I’m not sure that The Eyes of the Dragon really counts as a children’s book – yet our year 5 teacher read this to us and I have loved it ever since! Stephen King is a genius. My copy of Heidi has been read so many times over the years, I love it that much! A classic that everyone should read.

It is no surprise that I am a Roald Dahl fan, mentioning Matilda up there. Two other favourites have to be George’s Marvellous Medicine and The BFG. Such magical stories. I loved the film of The BFG – I watched it multiple times as a child!If asked to pick my favourite classic, I would have to pick Little Women. I SO wanted to be Jo. This book may be quite old now but it is still a beautiful book that everyone should read, man or woman. I’ve mentioned I was a huge Enid Blyton fan as a child and I think I had almost every single book of hers so it is hardly surprising that I loved The Magic Faraway Tree and The Wishing-Chair. I remember most people were massive Famous Five fans but I much preferred the books of the Secret Seven – they held my interest more.

Finally…the harder hitting books. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar was read to us in year 5 as well and although a little grown up, the story stayed with me since and I finally tracked down a copy. I’ve read it about four times since I got myself a copy and the story never gets old. The book that really got me thinking in regards to subject matter has to be Noughts & Crosses. A book that I couldn’t put down and a book that I wanted to re read as soon as I had finished. In fact – I may even buy myself a copy to reread it again!

What books did you love as a child? I also loved Sweet Valley High books (I wanted to be Elizabeth!) and Animal Ark. How about you?


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2 thoughts on “Favourite Childhood Reads”

  1. The first books I properly got into were by Jacqueline Wilson. Bad Girls by Wilson was what made me fall in love with books.
    Enid Blyton's The Naughtiest Girl series was the first book series I loved. I remember bonding with my year 4 teacher over those books, haha.
    I also loved the HP books, or course. Prisoner of Azkaban was my favourite too, probably because it was the first one I read. I loved books with magic in them, and I fell in love with The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine, as well as the Wicca series by Cate Tiernan.
    I could seriously go on and on.
    Rubi | The Den | http://www.the-den.blogspot.com

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