Books you used to love as a kid...

Amp34

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So i'm sure most people read when they were younger. My favourites were The Famous 5 and Secret 7, then The Hardy boys and another one similar* when I got older.

So what were your favourite books when you were younger?

*Can't remember the series name unfortunately. It was about a pair of brothers that used to go catching animals for their parents(?) zoo and always ended up in trouble, thwarting poachers and such. Anyone know what they were called?
 
Never heard of the Faraway Tree, probably would have been good to read if it was along the same lines as the other two.

Enid Blyton really did love fanny though... (Sorry had to be put in there :o, there seems to be one in all her books.)
 
buckeejit said:
I'm probably going to get flamed for this but I don't read much but my fave as a kid were the Goosebumps series of books :D
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Forgot about Goosebumps, they were all good. They also had a load of those adventure books too (the turn to page 5 to open the door, page 9 to turn back things).

JayMax said:
I think the Biggles books were pretty good when I was a kid. But I liked Warlord and Battle Action too back then :)
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And Biggles, how could I forget them, they were awesome!

I actually have all the Famous 5/Secret 7 and Boggles books in a couple of boxes somewhere, probably going to my kids (if I have any) when they are old enough, that's if they are in one piece because a lot of them were originally bought for my mother when she was young...:D
 
Abraham said:
Know exactly the ones you mean but also can't think of the title, fairly sure I'll have them in my box of kids books I'm saving for when I have my own so can check later on.
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That would be cool, thanks. :)

I probably have them in my box of books but they are the other side of the country at the moment so...

semi-pro waster said:
I rather think people are judging "kid" by rather different standards as some of these books seem at somewhat disparate levels. If we're using kid as before high school (<11) then: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Three Investigators, The Hardy Boys, Swallows & Amazons, Just William, The Falcon's Malteaser, White Fang, Archie's Goon (recently bought this again as I've been wanting to read it for a while) were all among books I enjoyed.
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Yeah, there does seem to be quite a mix of ages here but I guess we could still class them as kids books. Things like LOTR and such seem really advanced for the age I was initially thinking. :D
 
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