Favorite books as a kid.

[Alba Badger]

Badger JR. and I have been enjoying reading Matilda this week and that got me to a thinking. What we're you lots favourite books as kids.

 

[Berty23]

Fantastic mr fox is the correct answer.

 

[Goldstone1976]

The Narnia series.

Later, King Solomon's Mines (well written, swashbuckling story, but, by today's mores, oh so racist).

Later still, Penthouse letters.

 

[Baker lite]

Razzle.

 

[spongy]

The Twits was a personal favourite but loved all Roald Dahl.

Also remember Stig Of The Dump.

The Iron Man

Also have vague memories of a series about a vampire who only used to eat Ketchup. Can't remember what it's called now. Vlad? Over 30 years ago now!

 

[Jam The Man]

The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler

 

[Alba Badger]

The Twits was a personal favourite but loved all Roald Dahl.

Also remember Stig Of The Dump.

The Iron Man

Also have vague memories of a series about a vampire who only used to eat Ketchup. Can't remember what it's called now. Vlad? Over 30 years ago now!

I still have my old iron man school book. The boy love's it.

 

[Albion100]

Stanley Bagshaw and the short sighted football trainer.

 

[spongy]

The Machine Gunners was also a good one for me.

 

[Alba Badger]

The Machine Gunners was also a good one for me.

"Where ya goin' now?"

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

Never ever really was a book person,not fictional story type books,was always outside playing,if i had a favorite type it was Dandy & Beano etc...

 

[Norman Potting]

Anything by the Rev. W. Awdry ��

 

[mr sheen]

Willard Price books, Amazon adventure etc. Loved them

 

[Is it PotG?]

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

The Time Garden by Edward Eager

 

[jakarta]

The Machine Gunners was also a good one for me.

Bob Westall was our Art Teacher at Sir John Deane's Grammar School in Northwich back in the 1970's.

He was bit of a miserable bugger but I suppose he had to deal with a bunch of non-artistic teenagers who just wanted the lesson to finish.

Never read the book but all the reviews are very good, I must get around to it at some point!

 

[glasfryn]

Treasure Island

 

[Eeyore]

Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. A must buy if your kids are about eight. Still love the book even now.

 

[Merdalfthewizard]

Alfred Hitchcock wrote a series of books about amateur detectives (boys version of Nancy Drew I suppose), the 3 investigators I think, Jupiter Jones was the main character.

Later would have been The Hobbit and Lord of the Flies

 

[Algernon]

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner.