favourite childhood books?

[beth]

i don't know if it's just me and my family, but my mom was very very pro-reading when i was a little girl and henceforth i have a lot of happy childhood book related memories.

does anyone else have any special books from their childhood?

i got a few really:

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this book popped up repeatedly when i was little. my mom read it to me when i was tiny, and then in year 1/2 at school we used to do comprehension on it and then when my youngest sister was little, they read it during the bedtime hour in cbeebies and i was like awwwwwww reminsce. hahaha.
it's basically about a little boy who loses his toy dog, it's super cute.

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only just realised this is another shirley hughes book, we had a lot of her stuff through the house. i remember the really cute illustrations. ANYWAY alfie!! i used to have so many books from this series, i remember the alfie gets in first particularly though cause it's so funny. basically he gets in first and manages to lock everyone out of the house hahha. there's another about his new shoes too which i remember vividly.

and finalllyyyy:

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this was the first "grown up/teenager" book i read when i was about 8 years old. i remember reading it and then my mom read it too and she was like BLOODY HELL I WISH I'D READ IT FIRST... this book really opened my eyes to a lot of things. single parent families (there weren't that many of them then), mental illness, poverty... i felt like it taught me a lot from a simple book. i still read it now and again, and it's as hardhitting to a 21 year old as it was to me when it was 8. love it.

SO yeah, yr turn.

[wiktoria]

i loved jacqueline wilson books and whenever a new one came out i would always buy it hahaha. my favourite of all would have to be the goosebumps books though i loved them

[Eric]

http://childrensbookalmanac.com/wp-content/uploads/Alices-Adventures-in-Wonderland.pngAlice's Adventures in Wonderland! :D

[Mathew]

Omg I read Alfie Gets In First!! :P My parents would read to me SO much as a child and I guess it stuck all through my childhood. I had an obsession with encyclopedias for years and would just browse non-fiction books each night, just to learn random facts. There's soooo many to remember in terms of fictional, but I do remember the books by Jill Murphy such as "Five Minutes Peace".

Woooo, fun!!

[Neversoft]

There was this one where these kids built a snowball and it rolled down a hill and got huge. I can't remember what it was called, but it was amazing. There was another one I think called The Big Ball of String where this kid had a huge ball of string and did all kinds of things with it. That book was the best. Then there was of cause Rupert Bear and all the classics.

[Jazz]

the the very hungry caterpillar. I used to read and read this book over and over as a kid :-)

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[Mikey]

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hehe!

[beth]

the the very hungry caterpillar. I used to read and read this book over and over as a kid :-)

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this book is seriously the cutest thing ever, i love the whole book it's so fantastic.

[Vause]

Harry Potter for sure. And of course, goosebumps! Use to love those books aha.

[kitten]

i used to read the jacqueline wilson books all time, and the very hungry caterpillar was my absolute fave!!

[Inseriousity.]

Omg I read Alfie Gets In First!! :P My parents would read to me SO much as a child and I guess it stuck all through my childhood. I had an obsession with encyclopedias for years and would just browse non-fiction books each night, just to learn random facts. There's soooo many to remember in terms of fictional, but I do remember the books by Jill Murphy such as "Five Minutes Peace".

Woooo, fun!!

lolol it's cute when bethie says it but when you say it, it just sounds dirty. :P

Anyway, I was obsessed with reading all the roald dahl books and before that it was the Magic Key series with biff and chip! i remember not liking fantastic mr fox much but i loved the others. and then harry potter came along and it was roald who?

[Mathew]

LOOOOOL Mike that's so disgusting.. ;l

Yeah I read all the Rhoald Dahl books too - I remember reading Matilda in like three days whilst on holiday in Benidorm!! Yes omg the Magic Key too, and then I think I had it on video (VHS lol, what's that?) and liked it so much!! Then yeah ofc Harry Potter: I tried reading the first book but I think it was too difficult and I couldn't get into it.. tried again a year or so later and read all that were out at the time! :P

[Vause]

Oh aye, I read all the Rhoald Dahl books too. Love Matilda & The Twits :p

[SackRace]

The cat in the hat and the catipillar!

[Showder]

Roald Dahl, J.R.R Tolkien and Enid Blyton are my fav :3

[The Don]

The Twits, standard.

[David]

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[FlyingJesus]

Dogger is amazinggggggggggggg also the CS Lewis Narnia books, read them when I was like 6 SO ADVANCED XOXOX also a book called Emil and the Detectives which I just found out was written in 1929 in Germany lol am not that old honest

[:odey:]

Loved Matilda and George's Marvellous Medicine :D!

[beth]

Dogger is amazinggggggggggggg also the CS Lewis Narnia books, read them when I was like 6 SO ADVANCED XOXOX also a book called Emil and the Detectives which I just found out was written in 1929 in Germany lol am not that old honest

were you reading it in the trenches as a young lad?

[shiver]

i used to LOVE lemony snicket's a series of unfortunate events, i read them all

i also loved the alex rider series (stormbreaker, point blanc etc) by anthony horowitz

and of course roald dahl X

[Jurv]

i think my favourites were the hungry caterpillar one and dr seuss: horton hears a who. i loved them both.

[Gina]

green eggs and ham
or the gruffalo

[Seikou]

the the very hungry caterpillar. I used to read and read this book over and over as a kid :-)

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i used to abolutely love that book, i read it like everyday aww!

[Cerys]

I had an amazing book, but I just can't remember the name... I read it when I was 5-ish.

It was about a penguin who meets a whale, and they go to the bottom of the ocean to find this fallen star.

It was amazing :D

[Samantha]

MikeyFusion; omg I have those horrid henry books got them in like year nine for free though. I'd say Jacqueline wilson and roahl Dahl were he main authors I read then and I could read a Jacqueline wilson book over and over and not get bored.

[JerseySafety]

hungry caterpillar or peter rabbit for sure :P