Nostalgic heaven!

[Leah]

Went into a beeyootiful shop on the weekend for a browse [gorjuss antique and repro georgian and victorian furniture,,,,,window shopping only, sigh....] and the chap had a beautiful bookcase crammed with old books of his daughter's that she was selling in aid of the dogs' trust.
I got complete set of Malory Towers and St Clare's books, lovely handful of 'William' books, an Angela Brazil that is so un-pc it's just fabulous.....

Elisabeth and I have been reading and swapping ever since, I just LOVE the fact that she is enjoying the same books I loved at her age. :)

[Carole]

I think my school life was miles away from Malory Towers, so school life today must be light years away! so it's lovely that Elisabeth wants to read them AND enjoys them - it shows they were well written, even if people do like to knock them today. Pony books were really my thing.

Carole

[audrey]

It's lovely that she enjoys reading.

[Princess Leia]

I adored the Mallory Towers and St Clares series - AND the Chalet Girls, Hardy Boys etc etc :D :D :D

[Leah]

There was a chalet school book too so i was really smiling when I came out!:)
I do think they were written in a very appealing way, and the most important thing to do if you want children to read is to give them something interesting to read. The choice in school is often quite poor, esp for boys. I love trawling around charity shops etc for good old fashioned classics that I know are proven pg turners for the kids. :)

[Joyce]

Oh I loved Mallory towers books and famous five I also collected all the pony for jill books, wonder what happend to them all!

[Leah]

Oh I loved Mallory towers books and famous five I also collected all the pony for jill books, wonder what happend to them all!
They were all in dragon books when I was little, do you remember collecting red, blue and green dragons?! :) They fell drastically out of favour with the PC crowd and stopped being printed. THey are so funny when you read them again, you just don't see anything like it now. JK Rowling took the best bits from all these old school stories and used them to help Harry Potter on his way to popularity, which I think is great, as the circle has turned and has created an interesr in these classics :)

[Joyce]

you can still get Mallory towers books today - my mother got some for my neice recently from waterstones!

[Leah]

you can still get Mallory towers books today - my mother got some for my neice recently from waterstones!
Excellent! Hope she enjoys them. :)

[Mochali]

What a find!

[Carole]

Has she read the Narnia books ? - they all meant so much to me when I was a child.

Carole

[Leah]

She's read some of them, and has her eyes on the rest. I still can't read the last one without crying.

[Carole]

I spent half my childhood hoping I'd be killed in a rail accident (which was unlikely because we never travelled by train) so I too could go and live in Narnia :roll:

The Silver Chair is still my favourite.

Carole

[Leah]

DOn't know if I could pick a whloe favourite book, so many favourite moments.
Don't remember how old I was when the full import of the las t battle and the traincrash hit me, just remember being so stunned .