What were your favourite childhood stories

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What were your favourite childhood stories

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Gardener's post about the hungry caterpillar made me think of all the children's books I have read or read to my kids.
I used to be an avid reader got put off a bit due to study and all the novels and plays we had to read :shock: :roll:

I loved the Enid Blyton ones
The Famous Five Books
-Five go genealogy hunting!
-Five find a missing rellie
-Five go reading inscriptions on graves

I loved reading my kids the not now bernard one!

Of course I have moved on now and tend to read.... Parish registers
:grin:

but which was your favourite
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Five go genealogy hunting!

It must have rubbed off on you :lol:
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I loved Children of the New Forest, Black Beauty,The Railway Children and The Bunty.The 4 Mary's were my favourites.Mary Cotter,Mary Radleigh,Mary Field and Mary Simpson.How sad am i? :o
And Charlie Buchans Football Monthly. Dan Dare Pilot of the future and Limp along Leslie.
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Gonna stop cos i'm on a roll!!!
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I vaguely remembered the story of Rumpelstiltskin so I googled it........and just watched the whole 8 minutes of it :grin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9axf6JhVE0
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I used to read those well known publications :
The Victor, Hotspur and Hornet.
couldn't be bothered with books.

:lol: :lol:
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Rob wrote:I loved Children of the New Forest, Black Beauty,The Railway Children and The Bunty.The 4 Mary's were my favourites.Mary Cotter,Mary Radleigh,Mary Field and Mary Simpson.How sad am i? :o
And Charlie Buchans Football Monthly. Dan Dare Pilot of the future and Limp along Leslie.
:lol:
Gonna stop cos i'm on a roll!!!


I had the Bunty!
those cut out dolls on the back .....loved em!
and you read Bunty did ya Rob...figures!
:lol:

And Beezer and Dandy and Beano.

Loved Janet and John books
and that cat in the hat book by was it ts elliot
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a5baggie wrote:I used to read those well known publications :
The Victor, Hotspur and Hornet.
couldn't be bothered with books.

:lol: :lol:


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Oh Rob! The Children of the New Forest! I loved it and used to read it over and over. I was a Royalist through and through. I had a book called The Land of Green Ginger that I cherished.
Used to love Enid Blyton books too, when I was little - The Wishing Chair and The Faraway Tree. And there was a book about an English family who went to live in the wilds of Canada. Oh, yes, and Ann of Green Gables ... now you've got me started!
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