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Alan Garner's "The Weirdstone of Brisingamen" and "The Moon of Gomrath" are impossible to beat, in my estimation.
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Noddy, Rupert, Toby Twirl (handed down from my much older siblings) Enid Blyton, Charles Dickens (loved his books) The Water Babies, Grimms Fairy Tales and Hans Christian Anderson's.
Gill's Gymkhana, Anne McCaffery's dragon books, then all the spooky stuff by Dennis Wheatley!
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When I was very young I had lots of Enid Blyton books, Amelia Jane, Noddy, Bimbo and Topsy.... then the Mallory towers and St Clares series.
Also the Bancroft Classics books, like Little Women, Three Musketeers, Tom Sawyer etc.
One book that did make a lasting impression on me was an Enid Blyton book, The Land of far beyond. A simpler version of Pilgrim's Progress. My copy eventually fell apart. But I just bought a reprint edition recently, it is still an endearing story.
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I too read Enid Blyton when I was a youngster. I liked her adventure books.
When I was older I loved the Bulldog Drummond books, and also books by John Buchan.
As an older teen I remember going through a phase of reading awful romance novels.
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In the school holidays, l would spend a whole day in the library reading Enid Blyton magazines! Then l would take out the Famous Five and Secret Seven books to read at home! Later, l liked to read Nancy Drew books, 'Heidi' and ' What Katie Did' books
My mother used to buy me a book every so often, my favourite book of all time was Little Women. She also bought me Alice in Wonderland and Black Beauty, plus other classics.
At school the teacher read The Railway Children to us, which l loved! Other books read to the class were, The Circus is Coming and Moonfleet, l remember John Trenchard was in it!
I was a real bookworm in those days!
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I had book with a strip cartoon version of Robinson Crusoe

Another strip cartoon book was of Fudge and Speck; no-one seems to mention them or have heard of them now

Swallows and Amazons, and others by Arthur Ransome; I learned to recognise the distinctive patterned & coloured covers in the children's section of my local library.
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Originally Posted by Bruce ->
I learned to read with Janet and John booksMy favourites at primary school and as a young teen were the Just William books by Richmal Crompton, Jennings Books by Anthony Buckeridge, the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome and, of course!, Biggles by W. E. Johns (essential reading for every young person then).

The first two series I thought were hilarious, the other two just plain adventurous (until I read King Soloman's Mines which scared the s%^t out of me).

Another I remember with some pleasure was one called The Silver Sword, I can't remember who wrote it but it was a war time adventure taking place in Europe.
Do you remember how proud we felt when the teacher said we were ready to move onto the next book?
 
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