General Chat

Five on Kirren Island-where did the parents think the kids were staying?Wonderful books,lovely Timmy,all coming back to me now....

I remember the very first one I read and that was Mr Galliano's circus. We read in in class when I was about 7 and I just found it amazing! My little boy loved it too, which was great. Although I have to say, it loses it's magic a bit when you get older lol! I've probably read 200 plus books of Enid Blyton, I used to get a few every week to read, and read all the Famous 5, Secret 7, Adventurous 4, Five Finder Outers & a Dog, The Mystery ofs, the Adventure Books, The Secret of .... you name it lol.

Rosie, I loved the Castle of Advenure too, I think my fave Adventure book was the Valley of Adventure though, I think that's the one where they all found this massive cave to stay in! It was pure magic in those days. No TV, just books and playing out. (well I watched Rainbow on a lunchtime!).

Don't forget Just William Jennings and Co and the Fifth Form at St Dominic's

Read just William in the school infirmary, dregged up that memory from the depth....Don't know why the nuns thought that was suitable for invalids...

remember that one Margaret .... magical days ... i used to get my books from library ... no spare pennies to buy ... but there you go .... i used to wonder are there really farmhouses out there that would take in some waif's and a dog and feed em the most magnificent tea's lol ... am talking 50's here food still in short supply .... but lovely escape from reality stories xxx

Read all the Enid Blytons. Still have Adventure of ... series and Famous Five in hardback. Also used to read the Chalet School books by Elinor M Brent-Dyer. Janice

I loved them too - my daughter who's 8 is really into them, along with every book every written about anything in the world - ever!! Snowdrops

Chalet school, loved them and then Cherry Ames....

........and don't forget Rosie.......the lashings of ginger ale!! Mau ;0)

Was the Secret Seven the ones where the leader of the gang was called 'Fatty'.........no offence meant to anyone....or were they called something else? I also remember one about a girls boarding school.....Mallory Towers? Susan

oh yes margaret forgot about the ginger ale lol .... another thought i just had .... they got left on their own so many times ... they would be in care in real life lol xxxx

Billy Bunter was good too!

I enjoyed some about the Long Mynd area. I think tiltles included Lone Pine 5 and Seven White Gates, but cannot remember the author. There was one broadcast on Children's Hour and I missed the last episode and still do not know how it ended.

I think she did short bed time stories ?...

Golly! Yes I remember the Famous 5...read them over and over and over...lashings of ginger beer and there was always a train/secret tunnel to explore. I remember going to the library a lot in those days, no money to just go out and buy books. Birthdays and Christmas I always got a nice book from my uncle...still have them...Black Beauty, Little Women, The Little Tin Soldier, I've lost track of the amount of times I've read them. Other favourites were Mallory Towers, Secret 7, and the Katy series, ie What Katy Did, etc.

Think I had a deprived childhood,never read those books,never had them bought for me,I had greek mythology and stuff like that bought for me to read,think my mom had delusions of grandeur . Lol

Yes I remember them well! I also enjoyed the '..of Adventure' series by Enid Blyton, have started to collect them from Ebay! Also remember a series by Willard Price about 2 brothers who collected animals for zoos, and the Ruby Ferguson 'Jill' pony books.

Shady - so read them now, it's never too late!!!!! Karen x

Awwwwwww ! Shady Lady, that is sad....I had all the legends of Greece and Rome as well, but got my Enid Blyton as well.....I was reading Dickens at seven and my mum used to brag about it.....!!