Re: Your favourite childhood book

Yes EZ Rider, "We didn't mean to go to sea" is a fantastic yarn.
Apparently Ransome took his own boat on the trip to make sure that he had all the details correct. There is one slight anachronism where he mentions the radar towers which were not built when the story was supposed to have taken place. A great adventure story (that could have happened) for both boys and girls.

Re: Your favourite childhood book

Second choice - "Treasure Island", written by RL Stevenson in Braemar in the Scottish highlands. There is a plaque on the house where he wrote the book. It seems that John Silver was once a blacksmith in the village.

Re: Your favourite childhood book

Oooo, there are lots.

Let's start with:

Stuart Little
Charlotte's Web
At the Back of the North Wind
Old Yeller
Harriet the Spy
The Secret Garden
Winnie the Pooh
The Hobbit...

Re: Your favourite childhood book

Peter Pan
The Call of the Wild
The Wind in the Willows
Treasure Island
Swiss Family Robinson
and The Jungle Book!

Re: Your favourite childhood book

Oh, yes, I'd forgotten The Call of the Wild, another great read.

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Heidi...loved it also famous five..Enid Blyton.

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Stig of the dump........Robinson Crusoe ...I did so want to be shipwrecked after reading this..................The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling.....

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The Secret Lemonade Drinker (Guy Bellamy).

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Ring of Bright Water

Re: Your favourite childhood book

I loved the "William Brown" novels by Richmal Crompton - my friends and I saw ourselves as the "Outlaws." I wanted to be William, but because of my hair colour I mostly got to be "Ginger."

As I got a bit older(10/11) I got into science fiction and loved the novels of John Wyndham and Ray Bradbury as well as the Jules Verne and H.G. Wells classics.