Favourite books from your childhood

[Tony Moanero]

I know we have "The GF book thread" already, but this is a little bit different. What were your favourites?

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

The hungry caterpillar

TV Guide

Playboy

[Tony Moanero]

The Tiger Who Came to Tea

The Snowman

The Famous Five series

The Witches

[Tony Moanero]

These

 

[Ian Sea]

Any Enid Blyton for me; Famous Five, Secret Seven, the Faraway Tree, Wishing Chair etc.

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

Inside the worm: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Inside-Worm-Robert-Swindells/dp/0440870186

[Rotpeter]

Anything Drizzt

 

[Anubis]

Younger Years:

 

 

 

Translated from the original German, a fantastic book of cautionary tales for kids in which the protagonists meet rather grisly fates because of their unruly or nasty behaviour. No punches are pulled as various children are burnt to death, savaged by a dog, and have thumbs cut off - to name but a few.

 

 

Older Years:

 

[Jairzinho]

Famous Five and Secret Seven are great shouts.

 

There was a series (maybe six books) about a kids cricket team. Written probably early 90s. Can't remember what they were called off the top of my head, but they were great. 

 

Horrible Histories were ace.

[Tony Moanero]

The Munch Bunch series

 

 

Here is a picture of me wearing my Munch Bunch t-shirt and turd brown shoes and generally looking a bit of a bad ass, on, I think, a trip to London.

 

[Baresi]

Meg and Mog. 

[Total Longo]

The first three or four of these were just ace.

 

Roll a 6. Go to page 237. "Your adventure ends here."

 

Absolutely heartbreaking. 

 

[Dave D]

[Bobby Hundreds]

Funny bones

[Guest Pistonbroke]

 

[Mook]

Meg and Mog. 

 

Fuck me, I'd completely forgot about Meg & Mog, this one in particular was a favourite.

 

 

[Atticus Finch]

Weirdstone of Brisingamen & The moon of Gomrath by Alan Garner, stories woven round local folklore of Alderley edge and a little bit borrowed from Lord of the Rings but as a 10 year old I thought they were great.

[Carvalho Diablo]

I remember way back in junior school the teachers used to read us a book called Little Black Sambo. From what I remember it was a cracking little story of a tiger chasing a little black boy round a cooking pot, but several decades removed I can't help thinking that perhaps their was a slight racial undercurrent to that book.

 

Unbelievable really and no wonder it's taking so fucking long to rid our societies of racism when books like that were acceptable social norms and actively pushed upon impressionable young kids by the teachers themselves.

 

A few years later I also loved Kes and Lord of The Flies, just like PB.

[VladimirIlyich]

Goalkeepers are Different,Brer Rabbit,Issi Noho(A panda.)

[SasaS]

 

 

Is Lord of the Flies something people read as children?

[Guest Pistonbroke]

We did it at school, think I was about 13/14 at the time. It was part of our CSE Curriculum. 

[SasaS]

That early? I didn't know that. Always though it was pretty grown-up stuff.

[Carvalho Diablo]

I read Lord of The Flies as part of my O Level English Lit coursework, around 13ish.

 

Also loved Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, Whilst My Guitar Gently Weeps, and tons of others.

 

I remember my mother reading The Amityville Horror to me and my little brother when we were around 9 and 7 respectively. "Based on a true story." Yeh, nice one Ma, way to go.

[Dave D]

Goalkeepers are Different,Brer Rabbit,Issi Noho(A panda.)

Goalkeepers are different. Bloody hell, that was a blast from the past.

[Captain Turdseye]

Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl would have to be the favourites. Read every single one of their books when I was little.

 

That top makes you look like a bit of a quim.