Help Books you liked when you were a kid

[russell]

Help -I have to read 50 kids books in the next couple of weeks (training to be a primary teacher)

Please let me know any books you particulary remember enjoying as a kid. Pref age range 5-11. Can be cartoons, non- fiction, quite hard stuff like 'His Dark Materials' or 'Lord of the rings' etc...

Basically anything that you remember liking -or that you read to your kids now?

Ask around for me -cheers

 

[ECA]

Where the Wild Things Are
Narnia stuff
Princes ( this is a book full of short stories about princes, I bought it w/ book tokens I won at school /geekery ).

Lots of trashy fiction ( hardy boys )


I should remember more my mum was a librarian and I used to read 2-3 books a week.

 

[russell]

Thanks ECA. Good stuff, love Narnia and Where the wild things are. I had forgotten all about the Hardy boys. Cheers

 

[ECA]

Oh, all the horrible history series as well, trying to think up some more.

 

[ECA]

Dune
Swallows and Amazons
Moominland
Asterix

 

[Moriath]

roald dahl

 

[chipper]

famous five
secret seven
hardy boys (maybe not the age range u after tho)

roald dahl books
enid blyton books etc

 

[gunner440]

Nancy Drew!

 

[00dave]

The animals of farthing wood series
the hobbit

 

[chipper]

oh my how could i have forgot this one

stig of the dump!

 

[Dreamor]

Not sure if anyone remembers this one, but a group (massive in fact) of books called Goosebump - was ok, but had the odd decent story.

Narnia was the only other thing I remember reading a lot of.

 

[russell]

Thanks guys -this is really helpful

 

[Mabs]

where The Wild Things Are

Qft

 

[xane]

Just William is still popular, younger Enid Blyton would be The Faraway Tree.
Michael Morpurgo is a good childrens author.
R L Stine (Goosebumps) is good for even 8 yo.
5-11 is a wide range, 11 yo could probably read Anthony Horowitz (Alex Rider), Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl), etc.
Gruffalo for youngsters is a good one.
Highly recommended Louise Arnold

 

[russell]

Just William is still popular, younger Enid Blyton would be The Faraway Tree.
Michael Morpurgo is a good childrens author.
R L Stine (Goosebumps) is good for even 8 yo.
5-11 is a wide range, 11 yo could probably read Anthony Horowitz (Alex Rider), Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl), etc.
Gruffalo for youngsters is a good one.
Highly recommended Louise Arnold

Cheers. Is Miss Louise Arnold one of us?

 

[Damini]

Cheers. Is Miss Louise Arnold one of us?

She might be

Don't forget the Demon Headmaster, fantastic book.

 

[caLLous]

Swallows and Amazons, everything Narnia, everything from the 'Adventure' series by Willard Price.

Edit: Oh and the 'Bromeliad Trilogy' by Terry Pratchett (although I only just found out it was called the Bromeliad Trilogy). Truckers, Diggers and Wings.

 

[mycenae]

I also loved anything by Willard Price...awesome books.
Anything by Dick King-Smith (his book inspired 'BAbe' the film, called the Sheep pig)
For the older age range, the Duncton Wood series by William Horwood was lovely.
Vae wants me to suggest Lord of the Flies and Watership Down.....thats up to your discretion!
Anything by Roald Dahl - wonderful author.
Definitly Louise Arnolds Books
Oh, and books by Garth Nix....again, possibly for the older age range, but a very different genre....writes about necromancy, but not in a wierd and creepy way.
Anything by Gerald Durrell (of the 'My family and other animals' fame!)
Swallows and Amazons and anything else in that series.
The otterbury Incident by Cecil Day Lewis.
When Hitler stole Pink Rabbit - Judith Kerr.
In terms of younger stuff...
I've always loved the Hungry Caterpillar, The Tiger who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr, Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, anything by Dr Seuss, Uncle Stories by JP Martin (about a Millionaire elephant!)

Thats probabaly enough to be going on with!

 

[Hawkwind]

Tom's Clockwork Dragon 3+ ISBN: 978-0-19-276336-5

The many Horrid Henry books.

 

[old.user4556]

Was I the only one that played Steve Jackson's adventure game books?

 

[Hawkwind]

Was I the only one that played Steve Jackson's adventure game books?

Aged 5-8?

 

[old.user4556]

I played the Steve Jackson game books when I was about 8 to 10; I liked the idea of being in control of a story per sé. Ok it's not really a kids book, but it was a concept that grabbed me as a kid as I never had the attention span to read books as a kid, but the involvement in the role playing had me hooked.

 

[Tom]

Amazon.com: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen: A Tale of Alderley: Alan Garner: Books

I loved that book. Bloody scary stuff in the tunnels.

 

[Fweddy]

The suggested age range is 9-15 but I used to adore Brain Jacques' Redwall books.

 

[Kryten]

All of Roald Dahl's books, fantastic writer. Favourites were Boy and Going Solo.
Choose your Own Adventure books where a novelty, not sure I ever really liked them though.
Red Dwarf
The Faraway Tree/The Enchanted Wood

 

[haarewin]

Seconding (thirding?) anything by Roald Dahl. The Twits was my absolute favourite book as a kid. Another book I loved - Gulliver's Travels! Fantastic.
I had a mythology book and a fairy tales book that I loved, full of really random tales. I loved the tales about Thor and Odin and co.

 

[phazey]

Was I the only one that played Steve Jackson's adventure game books?

ooh i loved those.....you're not alone.

Books...

Charlottes Web
How to eat fried worms
The wind in the willows
Secret diary of Adrian Mole

Just ones i remember reading whilst at school...

 

[noblok]

Chalk me up for Roald Dahl as well. Seconding Waterhip Down too: I loved this when I was a kid. My brother quite liked Horrowitz as well, but I never did. I did skip the whole 12-16 years range, though: those books never seemed to catch my interest, went straight from Dahl to Tolstoy.

Some more titles:
Jules Verne, Michael Strogoff and Around the World in Eighty Days.
Alphonse Daudet, Tartarin de Tarascon.
Theodor Storm, The Dykemaster.
Michael Ende, The Neverending Story e.a.

I also wonder if Gorky would be suitable to read for kids. I think I might have enjoyed his autobiographical stuff, but as I did not actually read it as a kid, I might be mistaken.

 

[Dr Medusa]

My favourite childrens book of all time is 'The Little Broomstick' by Mary Stewart. She also did 'A walk in Wolf Wood' which is cool too. Next would be 'Carbonel' by Barbara Sleigh and the two sequels 'The Kingdom of Carbonel' and 'Carbonel and Calidor'. Also 'The Worst Witch' by Jill Murphy and 'Spell me a witch' by Barabara Willard. 'The Secret Garden' or 'A little Princess' by Frances Hodgeson Burnett. Lavinia Derwent's 'Sula' series. Beverly Cleary's 'Ramona' books are fun too. For older kids I'd go for 'devil on the road' by Robert Westall, 'The chocolate war' by Robert Cormier and 'The peacock spring' by Rumer Godden.
People have already covered the rest I reckon.
Oooh, dont forget Beatrix Potter though!

 

[throdgrain]

When I was a kid I like The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart, as mentioned above.

I still like it now, a splendid book.