Oh yes, Gallico...do you remember your parents telling you "you are too young to read this"? Well, it certainly didn't deter me the one time it happened to me. The book in question was The Boy Who Invented The Bubble Gun, and I was seven years old.

The frustrating truth was that I did not understand the book on my own. It took a lengthy discussion with my mother to accept that a book could indeed not have a happy ending...

I've read the silver crown. I don't remember much about it, so I ';m sorry I can't help you with what is was about - it is floating around somewhere in my bedroom avalanche!
Horowitz I used to read also, the Diamond brothers series and Groosham Grange. Was stormbreaker the movie ok? I didn't get around to seeing it.

Does anyone else remember "The Goalkeeper's Revenge" by Bill Naughton?

(I doubt if it travelled well beyond the UK & Ireland, so apologies to everyone further afield, who probably have no chance of ever having heard of it!)

never got round to reading the series or seeing the movie, kind of abandoned it all when it went 'main stream'

One of my favorite series which I don't think has been mentioned yet is the "So you want to be a wizard" series. Those were great.

And I have read the Silver Crown -- that is a great book and I agree, very scary.

And no on has mentioned the Berenstein Bears series -- those were great chapter books! Especially "Bears in the night" and "spooky old tree".

I also remember reading Robin McKinley's Hero and the Crown when I was a little older and loving that, as well as almost every other book mentioned on this thread!

Stormbreaker was a book? I saw the movie at one stage on the bus. Seemed like James Bond as a teenager. Complete with Q/R scene. Was not overly enthralled by it.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

yes as far as i know the entire alex rider series was book before film (as usual:-))

i bought a box set of dr suess series love the cat in the hat and are u my mummy thoses books mean so much more when read as an adult

i think jasper's books are like alice in wonderland if written by douglas adams and monty python more in them they need to be read more than once.

i want a Dr Suess tshirt anyone know where i can get them on line

Ah well, sounds like I would have wasted my money going to the cinema to see it-
I too got bored with the books after book... 3? I enjoyed elements of them, not Horowitz's best offering. Prefered the diamond brothers or even The Switch.
Full of cliches and bad puns! quite enjoyable ^_^

Mr PV - my sister bought "Oh! The Places You'll Go!" for my son's 3rd birthday present. I had not read it for years. It was a totally different experience. I want a Dr. Seuss shirt too.

Enid Blyton
Dr Doolittle
Biggles
Winnie the Pooh and other politicians, sorry, other associates of the questionable Christopher Robin.
Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass
Phantom Comics
Classics Illustrated
Waqlt Disney Comics, esp Uncle Scrooge
Batman
Mad Magazine books
Arthur Mee's Children's Encyclopaedia
Guiness Books of Records
Robert Louis Stevenson stories, but cannot remember much of them now.
Eric Linklater
Eric Frank Russell


I was a compulsive reader ( trans: socially inept) so I read anything that had print. Much I did not understand but what's changed?


They had just stopped using cuniform when I started reading, but it has come in useful for my computer is so old that its operating systemn is written in cuniform.

I was kind of discounting books like the railway children and alice in wonderland on the sort of assumption that most children who read have read them, was I in error?

I have never read "The Railway Children", but still enjoy "Alice" vols 1 & 2. I'm not sure that they are really childrens' books though.

I quite liked the film of "The railway children", even if it is one of the very few where Jenny Agutter remembered to get dressed before appearing before the camera..........

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

Lymond cannot remember if he was in Erie!

Too much cake I'm afraid.


Small aside: Noddy was banned in Australia for many years as Blyton reported that 'he went into the woods and felt a little queer'. So who knows what others see/imaging as a result of reading childrens' stories.

I just remembered how much I love Where's Wally! Timeless classic! :)

If the railway children that you mentioned is by Edith Nesbit- I cannot share anyone's enthusiasm for it!
Alice in Wonderland I do love- children these days stare at you blankly when you ask if they have read the book! Especially if there is going to be a movie made (they say why bother when there will be a movie?)
Reading should be mandatory! Especially Jasper and other certain authors!

Is sad. :(

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

I seem to remember the animation also being banned- and not so long ago- because Big Ears told Noddy to 'come to bed' or something.

I like Alice in Wonderland better now than I did when I was a kid-
probably because it comes up so often in books about quantum physics-
there's even a book called Alice in Quantumland...

I'll read anything I can find by Roald Dahl, for kids or adults-
though I must say the grown up stuff is much funnier.



Guess I'm in the minority because I have a Cat in the Hat t-shirt-
but since it's from my college days (got it on campus),
it's tye-dyed & he's holding a rose in one hand
& one of those funny cigarettes in the other-
it goes nicely with the wall hanging of the hookah smoking caterpillar...

That sounds like one of the coolest shirts on the planet!