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favourite childhood book!

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    #32
    Smartly Dressed
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    Berlie Doherty's, Street Child.


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    #33
    booksale
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    The Little Prince, my favourite all the time. But I read it in my teenage though, does it count as my childhood book then? :D

    and all Anderson's children's books.


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    epgc3fyqirnbsx
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    I also really loved Goodnight, Mr. Tom. I must have read it 20 times


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    AnnyHallsal
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    booksale wrote: »
    The Little Prince ...

    Oh this reminded me, Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess and The Secret Garden. Both read many times.


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    MsJenjers
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    Jairo Purple Cuckoo wrote: »
    I also really loved Goodnight, Mr. Tom. I must have read it 20 times

    Loved that book!


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    pljudge321
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    Einhard wrote: »
    I wish I had been born 15 years later though. The quality and range of childrens' literature has increased hugely. Imagine reading Pullman's His Dark Materials series at 12 or 13!!:eek::)

    I don't need to imagine. Reading this has brought back vivid images of my 11th birthday, just after Christmas. We were going to see the traditional Christmas panto in the Gaiety but I insisted on dragging my parents and four brothers into Dubray Books so that I could buy the Amber Spyglass with some of my birthday money. I then remember reading it in its entirety the next day and then going to bed contented with a throbbing headache from my day long literary binge.


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    superelliptic
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    James and the giant peach, and treasure island. Must have read those books about 50 times.


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    thegoodgirl
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    One of my all time favs was Under the the Hawthorn tree by Marita Conlon-McKenna followed up by the rest in the series.

    I also loved all the Helen Forrester books - Twopense to cross the Mersey and the others.

    Others are the secret garden, 2 kill a micking bird and all the Roald Dahl classics. I was a huge reader back then and still am :p


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