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Old 05-04-2021, 02:17 PM #1
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Default What were your favourite childhood books/authors etc...
...I’m just re-reading a book atm and although it’s not one from childhood...it did make me think about childhood books for some reason...who/what influenced your reading world as a child...?...
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KA Applegate, JK Rowling, RL Stein ...

The Animorphs series was rather formative for me tbh
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Particularly The Twits, Danny champion of the World and Fantastic Mr Fox
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Roald Dahl! More so for the Quentin Blake illustrations!
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I loved and read all the Jennings serier by Anthony Buckeridge

I was so exciting to go to the library each week and find a new one

There were 24 in the run and was about the humorous escapades of J.C.T. Jennings, a schoolboy at Linbury Court preparatory school in England.
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And after buying a sheaf of Jackie magazines at a jumble sale when I was about 10 I was hooked
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Roald Dahl, the Harry Potter series, Goosebumps, the Horrible Histories books, a couple of my sister's Jacqueline Wilsons ...

Only "standalone" book I remember reading as a child was 'The Other Side of Truth' by Beverley Naidoo (about a Nigerian girl who was a political refugee during the 90s)... everything else was part of a series of something. I think I read the first Artemis Fowl book but didn't really like it...

Edit: just seen this is asking for favourites, not everything I remember reading that Other Side book really made an impression on me as a 11 or 12 year old (it came out in 2000 but my English teacher had it in her class just available to read at secondary school)... and then I loved Matilda, The Twits and the best Harry Potter was Goblet of Fire...
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The Redwall books by Brian Jacques were my favourite as a kid but I've never really met anyone else who read them

Aside from those the ones that stand out are Harry Potter, Roald Dahl and A Series of Unfortunate Events
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Louisa May Alcott..Little Women.

Sarah Chauncey Woolsy.
The What Katy did series.

Charles Dickens, as I grew up a bit.

But would read anything and everything I could get hold of.
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Harry Potter (duh)

But my favourites as a teenager were Anthony Horowitz and Darren Shan.
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Louisa May Alcott..Little Women.

Sarah Chauncey Woolsy.
The What Katy did series.

Charles Dickens, as I grew up a bit.

But would read anything and everything I could get hold of.
I loved the What Katy Did series... and little women and Secret Garden.

My son loves reading....his faves are Harry Potter series, he loved Artemis Fowl, Percy Jackson, David Walliams, Roald Dahl and the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. He will read anything though
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Oh yes What Katy did next , i read lots of those. All the Mallory Towers , i was an avid reader as a child and couldn't wait for next trip to the library as i had usually finished way before the next trip was due.
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Enid Blyton...Famous Five and Secret Seven
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What Katy did next and Little Women too
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Can anyone remember those adventures books where the ending changed depending on what clues you followed etc

Also forgot to add to my first post but I loved the Disney read along tapes series too especially the fact you got a case to keep all the different cassettes and books in.
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I was always a Jacqueline Wilson fan and a bit of CS Lewis .

I've never read any of Malorie Blackman stories but i remember watching 'Pig Heart Boy' when it was made into a drama for CBBC years ago . I was also meaning to watch noughts & Crosses but haven't yet.

I always liked Goosebumps aswell .
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Can anyone remember those adventures books where the ending changed depending on what clues you followed etc
I'm not sure which specific ones you're talking about, but I think the generic term was "choose your own adventure" ? There were some for Goosebumps, Animorphs, and more which I don't remember as being part of a series.
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Roald Dahl was my favourite, I loved the Anne Rice Vampire series too probably a little bit older when i moved on to that. Black Beauty was my favourite book at one point as a child too
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Louisa May Alcott..Little Women.

Sarah Chauncey Woolsy.
The What Katy did series.

Charles Dickens, as I grew up a bit.

But would read anything and everything I could get hold of.
Did you go to any of Dickens book signings?
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