Books you used to love as a kid...

The Dread Pirate · 12 Jan 2011 at 11:14

I can't believe I forgot to list this

Biggles!

gettothechopper · 12 Jan 2011 at 11:34

geroges marvellous medicene and fantastic mr fox
Knightmare adventure books !(everyone used to cheat though lol)

beachBOYken · 12 Jan 2011 at 11:47

i dont read much ,but as a kid i loved the Goosebumps series of books , they were scary storys for kids and i remember being really drawn into the storys.

brilliant books

hood1971 · 12 Jan 2011 at 11:49

Loved quite a few of the Enid Blyton as a kid - mostly famous five and the adventure series. Which made me remember the the adventure series by Willard Price - brilliant.

As an early teen I must have read Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard at least 10 times

Jamie23 · 12 Jan 2011 at 12:46

Fell in love with Anthony Horowitz's books, loved the diamond brother books especially

semi-pro waster · 12 Jan 2011 at 13:57

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.

Hamoodii · 12 Jan 2011 at 14:44

Anything by Anthony Horowitz, except the secret agent series.

Gilly · 12 Jan 2011 at 14:51

Famous 5
Secret 7
The Hobbit
LOTR
Discworld (Mort and so on rather than Wizard/Witch historic lines)
Pretty much all of Roald Dahl
CS Lewis (LW&W, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, etc)
The Belgariad and Mallorean

I read and re-read most of those before I was 10. I've carried on re-reading the majority of them still

Masterdog · 12 Jan 2011 at 15:09

Also, Point Horror

Goosebumps couldn't hold a candle.

Ahleckz · 12 Jan 2011 at 15:49

My brother came round yesterday with my Christmas presents, included was this:

I'm not sure how I feel about getting it, and a bit concerned I look like a bit of a paed having it...

Jonnybmac · 12 Jan 2011 at 15:59

Nobody knows Biff Chip and Kipper?

Gilly · 12 Jan 2011 at 16:20

Jonnybmac said:
Nobody knows Biff Chip and Kipper?

My young un does but I'd never heard of them before he started school.

His classes are known as Biffs, Chips, Kippers, Floppies etc.

Jonnybmac · 12 Jan 2011 at 16:45

Just done abit of research, they got revised in February 22 2010. Were about 15-18 years ago when i was a nippa though

Amp34 · 12 Jan 2011 at 18:08

jp_bl_68 said:
Oooh, I'm getting a raging clue!

Sorry, lost you there.

Amp34 · 12 Jan 2011 at 18:13

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.

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.

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.

Amp34 · 12 Jan 2011 at 18:35

Moses said:
Sharpe.

Really need to get round to reading them at some point.

4T5 · 12 Jan 2011 at 18:41

Asterix.

Jokester · 12 Jan 2011 at 18:42

Jokester said:
I used to love the Famous Five and another similar set of books about a gang set in Shropshire I think it was, but I can't remember what it was called

After a bit of googling it would appear this was the Lone Pine series of books by Malcolm Saville.

tripitaka · 12 Jan 2011 at 18:45

Amp34 said:
HHGTTG?

How old were you reading LOTR? Must have been mid teens rather than 10 I guess?

I think I first read this when I was 7. Took me a while!

Psypher5 · 12 Jan 2011 at 18:49

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
point horror
just william
Beano...

there was this one book i got on holiday once, about a kid who used to secretly go off and spray paint places :/ I loved that book.

probably more