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    Quote Originally Posted by Toodles McGinty View Post
    Good job you didn't read 'The Tiger That Came To Tea' .

    I loved the Famous Five books. Bothered my parents until I had them all. Wish I still had them.

    I remember the very first book I got from the library. It was called 'The Egg' and I can still see the front cover. My Mum was a librarian, and I was so proud of my first library card. I must have been about 3 or 4. Been an avid reader ever since.

    Loved 'Stig of the Dump' and the Chronicles of Narnia too.

    I also read Chronicles of Narnia - they were good.





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    Quote Originally Posted by thediscovolante View Post
    as a child at school we had and read the sven hassel books about ww11 it was always about the german miltary conflicts...a great read
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    I never came across those books as a kid - I have read Andy McNabb recently though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by *concerned* View Post
    Can't really remember any novels read as a young child, but I do recall spending hours and hours reading through Arthur Mee's Childrens Encyclopaedias

    There should be more published today like those - may open children's minds more.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jamyramy View Post
    on the thread jules verne thousand leagues watership down,absolutly all stuff about underwater exploration and space,all things medical and anything about creatively making.

    Under water exploration, yes - outer space no, it did not appear to be so realistic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thediscovolante View Post
    as a child at school we had and read the sven hassel books about ww11 it was always about the german miltary conflicts...a great read
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    When you say child, what sort of age?

    The language and situations in the Sven Hassel books is hardly childhood reading material and I have read them.

    The actions of a Nazi penal battalion during WW11 particularly during the Russian campaign is not the sort of easy reading for a child.

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    Quote Originally Posted by silver fox View Post
    When you say child, what sort of age?

    The language and situations in the Sven Hassel books is hardly childhood reading material and I have read them.

    The actions of a Nazi penal battalion during WW11 particularly during the Russian campaign is not the sort of easy reading for a child.

    Ha!Ha! That depends on the mind of the child!

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    Biggles flies undone was a real eye opener.

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    Treasure Island and Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson.
    Just be yourself, no one else is better qualified!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nick2 View Post
    Treasure Island and Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson.
    Ah yes! Treasure Island - a classic!

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    Quote Originally Posted by said View Post
    What was the best book you ever read when you were young?
    I had quite a few really, of surprisingly varying genres, especially for a kid barely at adolescence! I loved anything by Enid Blyton, but also loved reading my big brother's Encyclopedia's of knowledge.
    Perhaps the most surprising one was a very old and tattered hard backed book, 'The complete works of Shakespeare' At first, I just liked holding it and flipping through the pages, just to inhale that unique smell of a very old book, and also running my fingers tips over the pages, worn ultra smooth by age and time. And from there, I started to read it, and I liked it too!

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    Quote Originally Posted by KissThis View Post
    I had quite a few really, of surprisingly varying genres, especially for a kid barely at adolescence! I loved anything by Enid Blyton, but also loved reading my big brother's Encyclopedia's of knowledge.
    Perhaps the most surprising one was a very old and tattered hard backed book, 'The complete works of Shakespeare' At first, I just liked holding it and flipping through the pages, just to inhale that unique smell of a very old book, and also running my fingers tips over the pages, worn ultra smooth by age and time. And from there, I started to read it, and I liked it too!

    I did read one or two Shakespeare novels - but I don't think I actually finished them as I found them boring. Othello was weakly funny in parts - but the stories were not memorable.

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    Quote Originally Posted by said View Post
    I did read one or two Shakespeare novels - but I don't think I actually finished them as I found them boring. Othello was weakly funny in parts - but the stories were not memorable.
    Shakespeare wrote novels???
    Just be yourself, no one else is better qualified!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nick2 View Post
    Shakespeare wrote novels???

    Sure! They were novel to me!

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    Quote Originally Posted by said View Post
    Sure! They were novel to me!
    Yeah! you're a dramatist too, like the Bard, but not much of a poet!
    Just be yourself, no one else is better qualified!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nick2 View Post
    Yeah! you're a dramatist too, like the Bard, but not much of a poet!
    Wouldn't you just know it
    I am told I am not a poet
    I may not be like Shakespeare
    Nowhere near
    But comparing his talent to mine
    I think I make out just fine!

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