OT Childhood books you still own and read.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the Molesworth books yet.

 

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"I don't know, I've never..."

I hate these threads. I've just dredged up "The Beastly Beatitudes of
Balthazar B" from deep-memory, and now I've had to go off to Abebooks to
order a copy.

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Oh yes :-(

 

The Red Paint by Albert Saunders and The Ladybird Book of Motor Cars
1963.

 

Not surprising, with the small cakes they sell.

 

They don't exactly bear up to re-reading now though, do they? To say
they were painfully dated would be an understatement.

 

In communiqué <1i90r1o.jbz76e1w84ghpN%>,

I will admit that the passage describing Mole opening up his old home
again at Christmas time can still bring a tear to my eye.
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In communiqué <1i90r43.75vpqf1dl6pjjN%>,

<pats copy of "The Complete Molesworth". Also "The Tao of Pooh and the
Te of Piglet" (not kid's books at all though)>

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Lady Nina secured a place in history by writing:

Saki. About the only thing I can recall reading whilst qualifying as a
child that I'd still show any interest in today. Everything else I read as
a child was shit (Billy Brewster shit, Enid Blyton shit, Dr Who shit,
Tolkien shit etc etc Anything about trolls, goblins or elves shit.) Or
books for hard of thinking adults: Stephen King, James Herbert, Jeffrey
Archer etc.

Hang on...John Wyndham. There're probably others, but not that really
qualify as children's books.

 

Nah, it's the bit after that, when the carol-singers happen by.

 

Unfortunately, that's probably true.

 

Lady Nina formulated on Wednesday :

One of Kipling's was my first good, proper read.

 

Harry Bloomfield formulated on Wednesday :

Then I seem to remember reading a lot/all of H G Wells.

 

Bear says...

Great films....gave me time for a few hours well needed kip while they
kept my then girlfriend busy watching.

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Fantasising about Legolas, more like.

"Lozzie, speak Elvish for me...."

 

"and come indoors. You'll catch your death sitting out there on that
mushroom."
<sound of tiny feet rushing in>
"Oh. It's a fishing rod. Never mind then."

 

Shush, don't spoil it for him; he still thinks "The Railway Children" is
a true story.

 

Well you'll have to remain boggled then. I have no recollection of
books like Janet and John or Enid Blyton. I might have been read
bedtime stories but again I don't remember them either. I can't
recall school books either. I think this may well be why I have an
under developed appreciation of fiction writing.

There's no need for the sarcy references to railway books. I didn't
have any technical books when I was young. As for most children I had
things like Labybird books or I Spy books that taught you about all
sorts of things like nature, animals, the world around you and things
like cars and trains. I don't see that I was unusual in having those
sorts of books.

Paul Corfield
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Primary school prize: Brother Blackfoot by Alan Sullivan
Keep it for years after reading it the once and being most
impressed.

Found it recently on Amazon and was again impressed that it
stood the test of time (50 ish years, it's all relative).

Otherwise everything in the library on archery and glove
making !

 

I *loved* the Ladybird books because the pictures in them always
depicted "real" toys. You could identify your own Dinky or Hornby toy
from the illustrations.