Favourite book or books as a child

Hi all,

Sorry if this question has already been asked in the forums. I was thinking about some of the books I enjoyed and treasured from my childhood, what are some of the books that are stand out to you?

Fiction books - pre teenage years - Fantastic Mr Fox (I was obsessed with this book, no idea why really?), Frog & Toad, there was also a scratch and sniff book about a country mouse, day of a dog written like a diary, Teenage years - Dragonlance books & Lord of the Rings

Non fiction - pre teenage years - not sure of the title but it was a big book on dinosaurs, used to love copying drawings of them, various historical books about ancient civilisations, I can't recall their names but used to like get them from the library. Teenage years - Normans...always had a big thing for the Normans, more Roman stuff really.

Would love to hear about some of the books that you remember with fondness

Parents
  • We didn’t have books in the house when I was a child, I had one nice teacher in middle school who read to us every day. My favourite was The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall, another was The Dolphin Crossing by Jill Paton Walsh. Both were set in WW2. I still have my copies of both.

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  • We didn’t have books in the house when I was a child, I had one nice teacher in middle school who read to us every day. My favourite was The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall, another was The Dolphin Crossing by Jill Paton Walsh. Both were set in WW2. I still have my copies of both.

Children