Your favourite book as a child

[200Plus Club]

Which book absolutely stands out as your defining best book memory as a child?
I loved the magic far away tree series and read them avidly but once aged 12 on holiday i found a magical book I still can remember to this day reading in amazement. I've recently bought it again to re-read and it's still fab.
"The Earthsea Trilogy" by Ursula Lee Guin.
What's yours and have you revisited it as an adult?

[droopsnoot]

200Plus Club said:

Which book absolutely stands out as your defining best book memory as a child?
I loved the magic far away tree series and read them avidly

I remember that was probably one of the first books I read. And I read all the "Famous Five" books as well, although I probably still have them somewhere I haven't re-read them. Reminded of them a bit when I was watching "Scorpion" until recently.

[C0ffin D0dger]

I can't read

[kowalski655]

The Swallows and Amazons books by Arthur Ransome. Particularly Swallowdale, but I read all of them many times.

[alock]

A biology picture book I got when I was about 8.

[crashley]

I had to study all sorts of grown up literature as a kid but the first book i actually enjoyed was Jaws by Peter Benchley, probably when i was about 13 or 14. Slightly left-field at the time.

[200Plus Club]

my mum was an avid reader often had 3 or 4 books on the go at once, as a result as a child/youth i read just about all of stephen king's output, dick francis, agatha christie, le carre, etc. it was my mum who got me into reading and let me just about read anything i could manage from an early age. the earthsea trilogy just stood out by far and got me into all fantasy and sci fi books ive loved since. :-)

[neenaw]

The Machine Gunners. Absolutely loved that book and I must've read it a dozen times as a child.

[200Plus Club]

Oh I remember that very well. They also made it into a tv series if I remember

[BRISTOL86]

Wagstaffe the Wind-Up Boy

Edited by BRISTOL86 on Friday 5th August 13:29

[DavesFlaps]

Spacecraft 2000 - 2100 AD by Stewart Cowley is the one I remember the most. I used to spend hours as a young boy transfixed by the brilliant illustrations and dreaming.

[brrapp]

Shadow The Sheepdog, by Enid Blyton when I was six, I read and reread it for about two years. Searched for and found a copy for my nephew's 6th birthday recently as my old copy has fallen to pieces. He loves it as much as I did.

[omgus]

I was a reading machine when i was about 10 could speed through a book in a couple of hours so the library was a regular place to find me.

Narnia books - repeatedly.
The Just So Stories - repeatedly.
The Jungle Book - I might read that again this weekend.
The Encyclopedia Britannica 1992 edition - I was a strange kid it took me months.
Lots of early Discworld stuff - i have probable read all the discworld book 5+ times now.
Any of the Asimov anthologies - Off to dig those out this weekend.
The early David Gemmell stuff.

I was about 20 before i discovered i had missed out lots of normal kids/teen books because i was to nervous to go upstairs on my own and had just stayed near the counter and discovered the Sci-fi and Fantasy section.



ETA - just remembered, the Willard Price books and the White Deer Park books, i used to have to read them for the parent after an eye operation when i was 7, kind of eye physio for 7 months.
My Mother fking hates those books now.

Edited by omgus on Friday 5th August 14:04

[soad]

Probably The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

[Tannedbaldhead]

Either the Adventure series of books by Willard Price or the Narnia books by CS Lewis.

[Crush]

Enid Blyton - The Enchanted Wood

[kowalski655]

Was that so he didnt get Dinah Doll pregnant?

[Supernova190188]

Has to be the hungry caterpillar, well either that or the goosebumps series!

[Hub]

I was a big Roald Dahl fan - probably George's Marvellous Medicine.

[stuartmmcfc]

The faraway series series always stuck in my mind and years later I read them to my son. Over and over again.
Still as good although some of the names have been changed