[stone monkey]

I read it so many times at such an impressionable age that I may actually have committed it to memory in its entirety...

[Stradivarius]

lol its pretty well embedded into my mind too!

[alestar]

stone monkey, on Feb 27 2009, 11:10 PM, said:

alestar, on Feb 26 2009, 06:04 PM, said:

I remember reading a series (no idea the name of the books or author...help...) set in the England, a group of young kids adventuring in the moors near where they live.

I must have read 4 or 5 books in this series (circa late 70's - early 80's) and really enjoyed them. Unfortunately, 30 years has since passed and my brain has stored this info in some dust-coated box somewhere in my head...

If anyone has a clue what I am talking about, please enlighten me, I would like to pick them up for my kids.

That sounds a teensy bit like Alan Garner's Alderley Edge books but, as far as I'm aware, there are only two of them: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath. I read them as a kid myself in the late 70s and they're actually set not far up the road from me; which made them all the more fascinating for me at the time. He also wrote a novel called Elidor that's also set in the Greater Manchester area during the late 60s/early 70s; which was a great big nostalgia blast for me when I reread it again last year, as a lot of the places he describes in it are ones I remember very well from my childhood and also aren't there any more.

I figured out that they were the "Famous Five" books by Enid Blyton...but I may check out the Alderley Edge books for my kids.

Thanks!

[LadyMTL]

Ooof, it's hard to pin it down...I've been reading since birth (practically...) Thanks to my parents I belonged to a book club for kids where every month I'd get sent a "Little Golden Book" and man, did I love getting packages in the mail at the ripe old age of 5!

If I had to choose specific books that really sparked my love of reading I'd say it's a tie between the Little House on the Prairie series and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

[stone monkey]

alestar, on Mar 2 2009, 10:07 PM, said:

I figured out that they were the "Famous Five" books by Enid Blyton...but I may check out the Alderley Edge books for my kids.

LOL! Trust me to go for the obscure answer, when the obvious one would have done...

[Icarium Kalam]

Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher

[thewikkidone]

I've read from very early on, choose your own adventures and the dungeon and dragon versiion of them, and i used to read some books that took place in the early 1900's I think, about some brothers one of which everyone called brain, they were always getting into trouble, but I don't remember what they were called. Read chronicles of narnia and other random stuff.
But the book that got me hooked on reading, ah that book. I was moving to Oregon with my aunt Carol by train when I was 11(I'm from Illinois and know no one in Oregon, neither did she) and my other aunt Wanda bought me a book at a garage sale to read on the way. The Sword of Shannara. That book became my gateway drug. I went to the library everyday after that and read all summer, every shannara book out and then any fantasy I could find. My aunt bought me the Hobbit after she saw I loved fantasy so much. I've been hooked ever since!

[Traveller]

Stradivarius, on Mar 2 2009, 07:30 PM, said:

Mine would have to be 'The Little Grey Men' by BB. i think it was one of the first books i read on my own. classic book as good now as it was then! a must buy book if you have kids and want them to get into reading! Absolute magic in every way

Whoa, that rings a bell - I must have read that a while back. Did it have some little men like hobbits that lived near a river?

Also, 'The Weirdstone of Brisingamen' sounds familier. Was that about some evacuee kids out in the country finding a load of weird creatures? Someone remind me please!

@ Mez - I read both the Deptford Mice series and the The Whitby Witches, cheers for reminding me! It was a bit weird visiting Whitby just after I'd finished reading them.
p.s that hound seems somewhat familiar now..

This post has been edited by Traveller: 03 March 2009 - 01:10 PM

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

thewikkidone, on Mar 3 2009, 01:51 AM, said:

I've read from very early on, choose your own adventures and the dungeon and dragon versiion of them, and i used to read some books that took place in the early 1900's I think, about some brothers one of which everyone called brain, they were always getting into trouble, but I don't remember what they were called. Read chronicles of narnia and other random stuff.
But the book that got me hooked on reading, ah that book. I was moving to Oregon with my aunt Carol by train when I was 11(I'm from Illinois and know no one in Oregon, neither did she) and my other aunt Wanda bought me a book at a garage sale to read on the way. The Sword of Shannara. That book became my gateway drug. I went to the library everyday after that and read all summer, every shannara book out and then any fantasy I could find. My aunt bought me the Hobbit after she saw I loved fantasy so much. I've been hooked ever since!

This is the Great Brain series. Great stuff. The best one is the book where he goes to boarding school with the Jesuits in Salt lake City and thwarts their authority.

[stone monkey]

Traveller, on Mar 3 2009, 01:09 PM, said:

Whoa, that rings a bell - I must have read that a while back. Did it have some little men like hobbits that lived near a river?

Yep, that's the one

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Also, 'The Weirdstone of Brisingamen' sounds familier. Was that about some evacuee kids out in the country finding a load of weird creatures? Someone remind me please!

Er... No. It's about a pair of kids who get mixed up in a bunch of Arthurian weirdness around Alderley Edge. Which in the real world is a hill near Macclesfield, in the North West of England, that has a bunch of legends about it.

This post has been edited by stone monkey: 03 March 2009 - 06:44 PM

[thewikkidone]

Raymond Luxury Yacht, on Mar 3 2009, 01:43 PM, said:

thewikkidone, on Mar 3 2009, 01:51 AM, said:

I've read from very early on, choose your own adventures and the dungeon and dragon versiion of them, and i used to read some books that took place in the early 1900's I think, about some brothers one of which everyone called brain, they were always getting into trouble, but I don't remember what they were called.

This is the Great Brain series. Great stuff. The best one is the book where he goes to boarding school with the Jesuits in Salt lake City and thwarts their authority.

yeah that's the one! I'm gonna have to look those up, maybe my kids will like them.

[Arthur Dayne]

The Trumpeter Swan and Stuart Little. I got those from my 2nd grade teacher and read them until the pages started falling out of the binding. My mom was a huge shel silverstien fan too so those are close to my heart. It's fun to read them to my son, I hope to give him the same love of reading I have.

[Unwitnessed]

I remember my first "real" book clearly. I was 8 or 9 and went to the library and got My Side of the Mountain. I loved that book. My home life was not the best and the topic of the young boy living out in the wild on his own reallllly appealed to me at the time.

My first Sci/fi book was Mute by Asminov. Nothing spectacular about it but I remember being very intrigued about ...out there.

My first fantasy book(s) were the Amber Chronicles, by Zelazny. Read everyone one of them.

Since then I have read thousands of books, mostly fantasy and sci/fi with a bit of historical romances thrown in for guilty pleasure, heh.

[Catherine]

My aunt brought me back an illustrated copy of Black Beauty when I was 5, I still have it after + 45 years.

[Tuberski]

Hi Everyone!

My first books were, Stuart Little, Encyclopedia Brown and The Great Christmas Kidnapping Caper (about mice living in a dollhouse in Macy's)

My first fantasy books were the Circle of Light by Neil Hancock.

This post has been edited by Tuberski: 07 March 2009 - 06:09 AM

[Use Of Weapons]

Does anyone remember a series of books about an android boy built by an inventor, with a sister he goes to school with? I think the first one was called 'Batteries Not Included'.

[alestar]

jitsukerr, on Mar 11 2009, 02:02 PM, said:

Does anyone remember a series of books about an android boy built by an inventor, with a sister he goes to school with? I think the first one was called 'Batteries Not Included'.

This?

[Use Of Weapons]

alestar, on Mar 12 2009, 05:03 PM, said:

jitsukerr, on Mar 11 2009, 02:02 PM, said:

Does anyone remember a series of books about an android boy built by an inventor, with a sister he goes to school with? I think the first one was called 'Batteries Not Included'.

This?

Yes, that's the one! Woo-hoo! Kudos, my friend!

[Grimjust Bearegular]

Chronicles of Narnia and R.L Stine's Goosebumps books followed by Animorphs. Myself and four other friends (yes, I had that many) had our own little book-club

[Traveller]

stone monkey, on Mar 3 2009, 06:44 PM, said:

Traveller, on Mar 3 2009, 01:09 PM, said:

Whoa, that rings a bell - I must have read that a while back. Did it have some little men like hobbits that lived near a river?

Yep, that's the one

Quote

Also, 'The Weirdstone of Brisingamen' sounds familier. Was that about some evacuee kids out in the country finding a load of weird creatures? Someone remind me please!

Er... No. It's about a pair of kids who get mixed up in a bunch of Arthurian weirdness around Alderley Edge. Which in the real world is a hill near Macclesfield, in the North West of England, that has a bunch of legends about it.

Hey, i just found a book synopsis for this - there are a load of weird creatures (called svarts) as well as wizards etc. It was the one I remember reading, anyhoo.