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Old 08-10-2014, 06:18 AM #1
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The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton

I still love that book
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..just Enid Blyton in general, Ruby/The Famous Five...all of those jolly, jolly sandwiches and ginger pop...Halcyon Days.....
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..just Enid Blyton in general, Ruby/The Famous Five...all of those jolly, jolly sandwiches and ginger pop...Halcyon Days.....
I should've been in that world
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.....everybody should've been in that world, Ruby...
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The Kama Sutra ..... Just kidding.

All Enid and Beatrix. Halcyon days indeed.

Oh, later I graduated to Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe, Moonfleet - I loved those adventure stories.
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The Kama Sutra ..... Just kidding.

All Enid and Beatrix. Halcyon days indeed.

Oh, later I graduated to Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe, Moonfleet - I loved those adventure stories.
..Treasure Island was a bit of a funny one4 for me..although I was totally absorbed in the story/adventure..Blind Pugh and the Black Spot were something that gave me nightmares/like a 'boogeyman' thing..I absolutely adored the story of Robinson Crusoe and also the Mark Twain stories of Tom Sawyer and good old Huck....
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The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe......this was the first book i bought from a Church book sale

The Twits
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The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe......this was the first book i bought from a Church book sale

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...Roald Dahl was an absolute genius the way he related to children's imaginations..I would probably say that he's my favourite children's author of all time...
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The Famous Five
The Secret Seven
Sweet Valley Series
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What Katy Did....and What Katy Did Next

Then I loved Judy Bloom books
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The Witches by Roald Dahl, I loved the Sweet Valley books as well josy
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I loved the Enid Blyton school stories, the Ruby Ferguson "Jill" pony stories...the Willard Price adventures, Just William, Jennings and Darbishire...

Can you tell I was a bookworm? Still am, and still LOVE to re-read these from my childhood.
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Can you tell I was a bookworm? Still am, and still LOVE to re-read these from my childhood.

..one of the great things about working in a school is that you still get to listen to all of these stories when the children read them...
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Oh, and not to forget Anne of Green Gables and What Katy Did stories!!
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Charlottes Web too as well as the others I posted earlier
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Another vote here for the Roald Dahl books.
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James and the giant peach
The secret seven
and a one nobody has probably even heard of, I'm pretty sure I was very young maybe 5 or 6 and the book was called The adventures of binkle and flip and it was about 2 rabbits. I adored that book
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My favourite was when they went to get new shoes.
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