Free Flight (The Willows Dip series Book 3)

Anyone else read this? Far too many to list, even now you have removed the word-count restriction from HYS! But early memories include: A couple of weeks after I started at primary school, the reception class teacher told my mother off for having taught me to read before I got there and spoiling her lessons!

My mother protested I'd done it all by myself. By 7 I had a reading age of And I'm still a bookworm today. At junior school I remember being a member of the Puffin book club. The Hobbit, Charlotte sometimes Oh and Wind in the Willows and Winnie the Pooh of course. Then there is the Swallows and Amazon series Reading was and still is a huge part of my life, it is the nearest we can get to being inside someone else's head and so gives a wider perspective on life Enid blighty, famous five,less famous three, Moondial by Helen Cresswell.

It was based about 5 miles from where I lived and was made into a tv series when I was Helen Cresswell visited our school and signed my book. It made my final year at primary school and is a life long memory. I was transported each time a new adventure commenced so much so that my parents had to throw me out of the house to get fresh air. I remember almost tasting the picnics they had with ginger beer and sandwiches although to this day I still don't actually like the taste of it i could almost taste it, such was the great descriptive style that Ms Blyton had.

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I think J K Rowling is a close contender but perhaps appeals to the older children. I adored Enid Blyton's magical 'Mr Pinkwhistle' series where he put his magic to good use by teaching bad children how to be good children! And that bad never prevails. I sat for hours getting lost in these books as a child. I loved reading as a child. One of the earliest books I remember is what I thought was called "Remus and the Tramp", but I now realise must have been "Rasmus and the Tramp" by Astrid Lindgren, now usually titled "Rasmus and the Vagabond". Favourite childrens books were Famous Five and Mallory Towers I tried to persuade my parents to send me to boarding school but to no avail!

However my ultimate favourite was a book whose title and author escapes me but I'd love to read it again. It was about a girl who wanted to be a jockey and went to work at a trainers stables and all the ups and downs that went on and while she did achieve her ambition to be a race rider, it was the horses name Gobbledygook that stuck with me. Still to this day some 20 odd years later, if I ever own a horse, his name will be Gobledygook.

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If anyone can tell me the name and author of the book I would be most grateful! As a teen, I was reading adult literature. Funny how things come full circle Anyone who read the Goats will probably remember the gut-clenching horror that was the troll. I read that with my boy when he was small and now he is terrified of the troll too. As is one of my 30 year-old mates Those Ladybird books seem to strike a chord with everyone- I've got loads of them and, whenever I have visitors, am often rewarded by cries of "Oh!

I used to have that when I was small!

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I lost my copy so had to buy another!! I had a book called "Oliver Ostridge" and another called "Everybody said No" both of which I loved as a small child - although I believe my mother fell out of love with them when I made her read them for the hundredth time! Later, the animals of Farthing wood, the far way tree and Treasure Island - which gave me a carear ambition to be an old style pirate for several years.

In my memory my favourite children's book was Wind in the Willows but when I read it to my 7 year old we found the language really difficult. Still a lovely story but not written for young children. My son and I love Anthony Browne's books and we're working our way through the Alex Rider series now. I think Moon Face has kept his name though The Adventures of Captain Underpants And yes, I am old wnough to know better. Others favourites across various age ranges included Famous Five, Spot the Dog, lots of the Janet and Allan Ahlberg books, in particular Each Peach Pear Plum - a rhyming book which is firmly etched in to my memory!

Stig of the Dump by Clive King.

I was convinced for a while that there were feral people living in quarries. The TV series was a little disappointing, but only because it wasn't the same as my minds eye. Narnia Chronicles, they were our Harry Potter really weren't they? And I don't know if anybody remembers them, but I had two books, in a series, 'How big is big' and 'How small is small', fascinating.

Commando Comics and because we were a forces family, a steady supply of American comics with wierd ads in them!! Swallows and Amazons for me - I was never an Enid Blyton fan. I have them to this day. Mark and Mandy Go To Market by Lornie Leete-Hodge - although my mother who had to read it to me repeatedly until I learnt to read for myself would probably violently disagree! I am tempted to say the Mr Men books as I read them to my children now and they love them.

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It's almost anything by Roald Dahl as his stories contain just about everything you need for a good read. My personal favourite is George's Marvelous Medicine. Farmyard Tales by Heather Amery and S. Cartwright This is Apple Tree Farm. She has two children called Poppy and Sam and a dog called Rusty. Find the duck on every page. Sixteen years later, unforgettable. My favourite book was a story called "Dogger", about a beloved, worn toy dog who is lost at a fete.

Nobody else has heard of it, but I remember loving it as a child. I'm 18 now, and if I feel down I still read it to bring back the memories of feeling safe. I also loved having books like "A Little Princess", "The Secret Garden" and "Heidi" read to me, and then, when I was a little older I started reading on my own at 5 I enjoyed reading them to myself all the more. Roald Dahl was an obvious favourite; I had made my way through all his books by the age of 7, but "George's Marvellous Medicine" always remained enthralling to me and is one of my firm favourites.

My dad's an amateur archeologist, so I was heavily encouraged to read "Horrible Histories", so perhaps a little oddly these are on my list of favourite books as well. They are perhaps the most read books of my collection which is now rather large , and I still dip into them now as a fun and educational journey.

It was the sequel to the Dalmatians and I was utterly enchanted by the thought of flying dogs and all humans and other animals being asleep and not knowing a thing about what was going on. I borrowed the book from the library and read it over and over again. It's just a shame that hardly anyone seems to have heard of it. I'm not entirely sure how popular this one is, but it was always my favourite bedtime story. I happened to stumble across the 'Barf-o-rama' books by Pat Pollari a few years ago and whilst they are pitched at children, the humour in them is clearly intended to amuse us adults: My parents encouraged us to read from as early as possible, in fact I was given my very own library ticket many years before I was officially old enough to join the public library.

The librarian noticed that my mother always brought me to the library with her, and always took out a book for me on her own tickets - apparently she was so impressed with the fact that I could read at such an early age, she wanted to encourage it so full marks to her! My favourite early books were "Plop, the owl who was afraid of the dark" by Jill Tomlinson and "Orlando the marmalade cat" by Kathleen Hale. There were a series of books about Orlando and I vividly remember the cat on the front cover. Many years later, I adopted a stray kitten who was the very same colour as that cat and despite being female it made perfect sense to call her "Orlando".

Oooh, I had lots of favourite books as I was growing up, and lots more now - I was pretty lucky in that I already knew how to read before I started school. My mum kept my reading record from reception class she still has them, I went through 3 of them in my first term. I stil remember the first books I picked out for myself in a bookfair my school was holding, shortly after I started, it was called "Oink and Pearl" and "Mooch the Messy", I still have them, and love them dearly.

By the time I reached secondary school, I was reading To Kill A Mockingbird primarily because my mother left it lying around and Jane Eyre, I believe I was very lucky to live in a household where reading was actively encouraged and I was allowed to read whatever I fancied during "reading time" at school after my mother complained that she felt the books they were offering my class to read were for babies.

But the ultimate storyteller has to be Roald Dahl, I still giggle at George's Marvellous Medicine and Fantastic Mr Fox, and I hope they will make many more generations of people smile as much as they made me: There were so many great children's books when I was growing up. My dad was a bookseller so I was lucky to live above the shop and take my pick!! I used to dream of being like George and wish I had an older cousin to look after me like Julian. I introduced this last one to my own children and they too loved the words John Christopher's "Tripod Trilogy" was another I had fond memories of, I quite recently read them again actually.

My grandpa read a book called Scupper the Sailor Dog to me and my brother. It was before we learned to read but I remember Scupper walking on his hind legs with a red and white spotted hankerchieg tied to a stick over his shoulder. His boat was a galleon with a big hole in the bow repaired by 2 bits of wood in an x. Pity there are no recs anymore - we could have had a vote on this. I read voraciously as a child, learning by the time I was 3, and got into trouble at school for not reading when teachers had failed to notice I could read to myself while the other children were still sounding out their syllables.

I found it very strange when I discovered that as there were no books in my husband's house as a child, he hadn't learned to read until he learned at school aged five! Thanks to Puffin, Penguin and all the others for some great years' reading! I loved the Famous Five but was a bit concerned that they never went to the loo. I also enjoyed 'The Tale of Mr Prettimouse' but haven't noticed it on the shelves these days.

No-one's voted for Andy Stanton's Mr Gum books yet and that's just plain wrong, so 'fill yer boots' - there are seven of them and my seven year old son loves them. PS The truth is a lemon meringue! The first broadcast I picked up was the "archers" theam music using the crystal set first stage of the project. The first books I read at about age 4 years were the Ladybird books such as the Peter and Jane reading books and later books like the Ladybird book of flight. I loved these books and then I graduated to the Griffin and Pirate books which featured pirates called Roderick the Red pirate, Gregory the Green pirate and Benjamin the Blue pirate and had amazing colourful artwork.

I then read classics such as Black Beauty, the Three Musketeers and the Man in the Iron Mask but what I loved the most was a series of American encyclopaedias produced by Art Linkletter of which I still possess one today. Does anybody out there in Have Your Say land remember any of these wonderful publications or is it just me in my own little world of childhood memories?

Favourites were Wind in the Willows - still is - scene where Rat and Mole find baby Otter safe and sheltered by the Great God Pan still makes me want to cry ,and Fairy Folk and Fairies - can only remember the title, haven't a clue about the contents. From about 7 years old I read every night with a torch under the bedclothes. When it was confiscated I would manage to get hold of another - by fair means or foul. Grandmother said "That child doesn't read books - she devours them"', She used to take them and ask me questions about them.

I could borrow them from the Childrens' Library. I always asked for a book or an Annual for a Birthday or Christmas present.

Nothing has changed, I spend far too much time reading books and much more than I can afford buying them. One of my happiest jobs was working in a Public Library in New Zealand. I need to be surrounded by books. I'm sorry for those who miss out on one of life's greatest pleasures - reading a book. The Famous Five of course, anything else by Enid Blyton and I seem to remember some books at primary school called 'my naughty little sister' or something like that which were good.

Oh-I forgot 'Pinochio', which was the first hard backed book I remember being given. I was 6, and was told not to take it to school but disobeyed, and was discovered as it rained and watermarked the red-dyed edges. One's sins do find one out!! This entry is now closed for comments. This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets CSS enabled. While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience.

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Biggles really was my superhero! I was into comic books and their annuals. For example, Beano, Dandy, Beezer, Topper. I loved the books in the Three Investigators and Hardy Boys series. So I've just bought it on Amazon. Not the same picture as I remember but Jump to more content from this site About this site. Here are some tips on taking part in our debates. Subscribe to Have Your Say. You can stay up to date with Have Your Say via these feeds. The Editors' blog Newswatch. Related blogs and links. More from this site Help us improve our Author Pages by updating your bibliography and submitting a new or current image and biog.

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