Books you loved when you were younger

[doofqueen]

the fraggles ROCKED!!!!! i loved them and still do...i'd turn the tv back on just to watch that

well i never had any of the books, just love the tv show 8)

 

[Killing_time]

Frank Herbert!

Dune! :O
sequels!

The planet Arrakis known as Dune.
Hell yes.
That book was the shit.
Have you any sequels?
They're constantly releasing 'new' one's written by 'Herbert Jr.' although i'm not sure if they're any good.
Hmmmm

 

[bumble83]

astro smurf - i'm related to william cole the man who wrote the cole's funny book series, he is may great great grandfather (or something like that)

 

[astrosmurf]

^^that is so rad, can i marry you now? i love his books and my dad used to spend hours reading them to me when i was little!

P.S. did your great grandfather happen to take pyschadelics by any chance? his books sure have some tripped out stuff in them

 

[Strawberry_lovemuffin]

Aha! It still exists!

http://www.scholastic.com.au/dromkeen/

Are you guys all too young to remember Dromkeen? Or don't they take school groups there anymore?

edit: applies only to Melbourne obviously

 

[Dandy]

Books I loved when I was younger ---

Animalia - by Graeme Base.
The Eleventh Hour - by Graeme Base also.
ZOO - by Anthony Browne
Willy the Wimp - by Browne.
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Willy and Hugh - Browne.
Cat's Cake - by Richard Fowler.
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Lots more, though I can't quite remember.
I also loved the "Goosebumps" books and everything by Paul Jennings.

 

[.dR spgeddi]

apart from enid blyton there was seuss... esp from the cat in the hat series, here's a link to my collection thus far. (hope you dont need to register to see it, let me know if so and i'll copy the layout)

early teens was all about richard bach.


but this is the one that counts the most...

 

[keej]

- A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
- Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit, Tolkien
- Anything by Roald Dahl, but especially The BFG!
- Animalia and The Eleventh Hour by Graeme Base
- Enid Blyton's books
- All the Asterix books! Oh Obelix, you silly fat bastard

I'm sure I'm missing a whole bunch of great books, I used to read all the time

 

[BopGirl]

Grug!

Jillian Jigs

 

[ozbreaker]

You had the right idea keej!
- Enid Blyton - all her Famous 5's including the french translated ones! + her other stuff involving boarding schools and binkle and flip
- The hobbit - freaked me out a bit
- The 3 Investigators - Jupitor Jones and his fellow adventurers!
- Asterix
- The Hardy boys
- All Roald Dahl's stuff
- as for the golden books - killing_time i thought 'The Pokey Little Puppy' was the best too as was tootle!! I still have them all somewhere.
- I also loved a book called 'Big anthony and the magic ring' i found it a month back and read it to my mum whilst i was visiting as she was cooking as she was a huge fan of it when i was little and she loved it!

 

[MazDan]

Oh I did so love reading as a kid....

Famous Five.

Secret seven

Nancy drew

The Bobbsey twins

Biggles

Snugglepot and cuddlepie

The Saint

Noddy


Dr suess

So many happy memories

 

[Shucklak]

"wheres waldo?" series
"the brothers lionheart"
"the berenstein bears" series