For many people September means back to school time, although here in Scotland the schools have been back since mid-August as our termtimes are a bit different.
I was thinking about books I used to enjoy when I was younger – yes I’ve always been a bookworm! I still have many of my books in a box in the attic including the full Famous Five, Malory Towers and St Clare’s series. Pretty sure I also have Enid Blyton’s Mystery and Adventure series -I was a big fan of her exciting books. I have loads of the Chalet School books by Elinor M Brent-Dyer, Enid Blyton’s Naughtiest Girl in the School and Anne Digby’s Trebizon books. I’ve got lots of books about horses too: Ruby Ferguson’s Jill series, Patricia Leitch’s Jinny at Finmory series and many books by the Pullein-Thompson sisters. I obviously had aspirations to be a horse-owning, boarding school pupil!
On my bookshelves I have a few old battered favourites which you can see in my photo. I’m not sure The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe is a particularly old copy but the Narnia series was one of my favourites. I had all the Heidi books although only seem to have the sequel here. Perhaps the others are in that box in the attic!
What were your favourite childhood books? If you have children, have you read any of your old favourites to them? Have you still got some treasured copies somewhere? I’d love to hear about everyone else’s favourite childhood book memories.
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The Nancy Drew mysteries. And the Brenda Starr comics. She was a red headed girl reporter in New York and I was a red headed child dreaming of being a reporter.
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I loved The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew.
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I think you’ve named most of my childhood reading there! Pop in Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, Sweet Valley Twins and that’ll be it (I think). I’ve got the odd batter book on the bookshelves but not as many as you!
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I read all those too and the Sweet Dreams romances 💗
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Lovely post! I loved the Narnia books and still do, in fact I’ve just started listening to them again this week!
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I love LWW but I think The Magician’s Nephew is a close second to being a favourite.
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What a lovely post Joanne, St Clare’s was one of my favourites as a child!
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I just loved all boarding school stories. I so wanted to go but I know I would have hated it really 😄.
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Same 🙂
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I was a Nancy Drew girl! I have a very very old edition of The Bobbsey Twins somewhere.
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Oh I liked Nancy Drew as well and the Hardy Boys!
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No boarding school stories – knew I’d hate that, knew I was safe too, fees astronomical, even then.
No ponies, and including LWW, S&A, Green Knowe. so many children in fiction went to boarding school. Enjoyed Tolkien, then, also Alan Garner, Rosemary Sutcliffe. Think I moved on to fiction fairly young.
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Lovely list! I have not read all of them, but I have read many of them!
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Thank you. Made me quite nostalgic!
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My first love was Noddy, apparently Mum had to read Noddy at the Seaside over and over again and now I live by the sea! We were read The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe at junior school and I couldn’t wait for the end of the day for the next episode. I also loved Richmal Crompton’s William books, also read to us at school; one time I laughed so much I got told off! Then something happened and I got side tracked onto pony books and missed out on other great books; I never did get a pony!
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You’ve named most of my favourites 😀
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I think many people of a similar age would list a lot of these books as favourites! 😊
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