Favourite Books As A Child

[dizzyblonde]

flat stanley and fungus the bogeyman are in my cupboard. And my little lad found burglar bill the other day

Originally Posted by Biker Biggles

That's why I'm so intolerant of the PC risk averse namby pamby nanny state we have become.

I grew up on the Janet and John books and look what they did to me

Jules Verne, 20k leagues under the sea.

About the only book I ever enjoyed reading as a kid... Brilliant it was to.

Oh, and anything from Arthur C Clarke

[tigersaw]

Stig of the dump, and a series called 'the three investigators'

[Richie]

Originally Posted by Ed

I grew up on the Janet and John books and look what they did to me

Hummm, I remember those books.

[timwilky]

**** & Dora, Janet & John, and the br'er rabbit stuff is about the earliest I remember.

I think the first book I ever bought myself was probably Alistair MaClean's Guns of Naverone or HMS Ullysse. For some reason in the late 60's I liked that sort of book. Boys and adventure etc.


edit.

Bloody heck the P.C. controls wont even let me write the title of a 60 childrens book. Well people I was referring to an popular nickname for people called Richard and Dora then

The Beano annual was about the only "book" I would read as a youngster, despite my mum's best efforts.

Funny how your perspective changes once you've had children of your own, though. During the week, I try not to let a day go by without getting my two little 'uns to read aloud for at least 10 minutes each and most of the time they insist on carrying on by themselves. Certainly not a chip off the old block!

Mr Galliano's Circus was an really old book of my Dad's that I read constantly, along with my pop-up book of Hans Christian Andersan's Fairy Tales.
Still got them too.

Stig of the Dump was cool, as was The Bogwoppit - but Blyton was just too twee for me even back then.

As for Potter, don't get me started on the travesty of writing those books have become.
Read the Artemis Fowl books by Eion Colfer, better by far.

I used to get 'oor wullie' or 'the broons' alternate years from the scotish side of the family and I remember 'rag' tag and bobtail' but not sure who wrote it ( e blyton ?) Best thing about the broons and oor wullie books was none of me mates borrowed them cos they couldnt understand. Also seem to remember a german book called 'strumpempeter' or something similar with a kid who had big hair and long fingers.

Resevoir dogs!

Nah...only joking.

My favourite was Corel Island......R.M.Ballantyne!