Whats the best books you read before you were 10?

[d.a.s.h]

'Trillians', a kids sci-fi story about tiny grit-like things which could lock together and assume any shape.

And a series of books about space aliens called Tripods colonising the Earth: 'City of Gold and Lead', 'The White Mountains' and 'Pool of Fire'. They were great.

When a bit younger liked a book called 'Greensmoke', which was about a dragon who lived in a cave in Cornwall.

 

[DotCommunist]

'Trillians', a kids sci-fi story about tiny grit-like things which could lock together and assume any shape.

Nicolas Fisk iirc. Great kids sci fi author. There were sequels to trillians

And a series of books about space aliens called Tripods colonising the Earth: 'City of Gold and Lead', 'The White Mountains' and 'Pool of Fire'. They were great.

they were awesome. The beeb televised them

 

[DotCommunist]

ooh, does any one else remember those 'choose your own adventure books'?

Steve Jackson and the other bloke co-authored. They went on to found the Mighty Games Workshop

I couldn't play those books without cheating

 

[marty21]

i did use to read a lot of enid blyton as a kid, used to get a couple a week from the mobile library which came on a friday - hoovered them up

 

[Lea]

Lots of Enid Blyton too including Famous Five, Secret Seven, MAllory Towers and St Clares.

 

[becki1701]

I read The Hobbit before I was ten...not sure if I understaood it all though so maybe not a great choice. I loved Danny and Solo by Roald Dahl

 

[Fosters Mackem]

Roald Dahl was my favourite, i have read all of his books but im unsure if i read them all before i was 10. I also used to get loads of Asterix and Obelix books out of the library!!

 

[brixtonvilla]

Loads of Roald Dahl. Also Willard Price's various ...Adventure books. Trapping endangered species and ethnic stereotypes FTW!

 

[DotCommunist]

I remember Kes depressing the hell out of my 9 year old self. Saw a film of it years later.

 

[_pH_]

Didn't do it for me.

Monday: Hid
Tuesday: Hid
Wednesday: Hid

lol but for lolling

 

[_pH_]

Swallows and Amazons

me too! and all the sequels

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Not sure what it was called but it had a guy in it called rodger who may have ahad a red hat.
I think there was a ball in it too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Two_Three_and_Away

 

[_pH_]

I remember Kes depressing the hell out of my 9 year old self. Saw a film of it years later.

That's a great film.


The reeves and mortimer skit was v. funny too.

 

[qwerty777]

The Faraway Tree... Wow ... I'd forgotten all about that until someone mentioned it on this thread. Them books were ace !

Anything by Roald Dahl I loved , just bought a box set with all roald dahls stories in it actully , really enjoying digging through them all . Fantastic stories they really are .

Roald Dahl is the Best !

 

[Roadkill]

me too! and all the sequels

Wonderful, aren't they? I've got most of them in old hardback, my mum's old copies from when she was a child. I think they're worth a bit, actually, but I'd never part with them. They're lovely stories.

I also loved Roald Dahl, Dick King Smith, Penelope Lively, Richard Carpenter and Norman Hunter. IIRC I was also reading adult historical fiction - C.S. Forester, Alexander Kent and so on - by the time I was ten or so.

I've been trying to collect the books I loved when I was little, mainly as a nostalgia trip, and because good kid's books are still great entertainment. I passed a happy evening reading The Ghost of Thomas Kempe recently. It's still a great story.

 

[kittyP]

Much Dahl, favorites being The Witches and Matilda.
Much Blyton, favorites being The Faraway Tree and Famous Five
The Children of Green Know series (would love to find a copy of the TV adaptation too).
The Animals of farthing wood series.
The Moon Dial
Toms MIdnight garden
The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase
The Chronicles Of Narnia

God this is very much making me want to be a kid again.
Such beautiful hours of innocent reading under the covers till all hours of the morning, so completely gripped by a magical world.

 

[_pH_]

Wonderful, aren't they? I've got most of them in old hardback, my mum's old copies from when she was a child. I think they're worth a bit, actually, but I'd never part with them. They're lovely stories.

innit? but fwightfully middle-upper class

 

[fen_boy]

the silver sword - ian serrallier (i think)

this.

 

[Roadkill]

innit? but fwightfully middle-upper class

Still jolly good though, what!

 

[Mrs Magpie]

My Mum banned Enid Blyton from our house when I was a kid. Recently I asked her why and she said it was because they all featured a very limited vocabulary. We did manage to smuggle the occasional one in though. Her rationale was that children who read nothing but Enid Blyton would think they were fluent readers but then get a shock when they got something that was better.

The first two books I remember reading that I haven't mentioned, (but not books I remember loving and re-reading again and again) were The Water Babies which I read when I was about seven and The Owl Service when I was a bit older. I was reading stuff like Dorothy L. Sayers by the time I was about eleven. I just read all the time as a child.

My biggest love however has always been non-fiction.

 

[Vintage Paw]

I really loved a pop-up edition of The Dwindling Party by Gorey. Still got it. It's ace.