View Full Version : Your favourite Kiddie winkle book!
Inspired by Mister Jingo Jango (that's not a book... just why I started the thread :D)
1. The Hungry Caterpillar
2. Roald Dahl, Dirty Beasts
3. Roald Dahl, Revolting Rhymes
4. Roald Dahl, Vicar of Nibbleswicke
5. The Shoemaker Elves (I dunno who wrote it but bravo! Kept me entertained for years!)
6. Spike Milligan, Silly Verse for Kids
7. Bill Waterson, Calvin and Hobbes (not really kiddies read but my Pa would read them to me when I was ickle :) Loved them!)
8. Some awesome space pop up book. God knows who by but I loved it.
9. Roald Dahl, Matilda (can you see a pattern here)
10. Roald Dahl, The Minpins
:D
There's loads more... I just canny list them all!
*edit* whoops... the title of this thread probably isn't best. When browsing, audio visual says "Your favourite Kidde winkle"
lol! Whoopsy whoops!
Roald Dahl for the win :D Read all his books sooooooo many times when I was a kid.
Also read plenty of Enid Blyton, and then as I got a bit older, Fighting Fantasy adventure game books. Oooh and Jacqueline Wilson......ooh and Brian Jacques. I absolutely loved the Redwall books!
When I was a kid, I'd read pretty much anything I could lay my hands on. The local library was always my favourite place to go :)
Del Lardo
16-07-2009, 16:28
Thomas the Tank Engine
My father still twitches whenever the name is mentioned.
CaptRugWash
16-07-2009, 16:28
Forgot the name of the series, thos of you that aren't older than the hills will remember Biff, Kipper and Chip and the Magic Key which thinking about it is a blatant reference to Mushrooms I'm sure.
I used to love reading these to my kids:
Where The Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
Noisy Nora - Rosemary Wells
The Cat In The Hat - Dr Seuss
The Cats Of Tiffany Street - Sarah Hayes
Stomp Stomp - Bob Kolar
Spot.
Worst Witch Trilogy.
Famous Five adventure books.
BB x
Anything by Roald Dahl or Jaqueline Wilson. Also read a lot of the Babysitters club. When I got a bit older I was really into the Point Horror/Romance books and Phillip Pullman.
My all time favourites have to be The Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell or Watership Down by Richard Adams. Both are beautiful books and lovely well written and I've read them both fairly recently.
I also noticed the funny thread title, it's why I had to have a look, not as sinister as I thought!! :p
Spot.
Worst Witch Trilogy.
Famous Five adventure books.
BB x
How could I forget Spot :shocked:
Loved the others too :D
I've read "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" to Josh about 50 times.
I must get another book.
The Story of Tracy Beaker - J Wilson
Matilda - Roald Dahl
The Five Little Button Elves - Enid Blyton
Ill think of more :D
Thomas the Tank Engine
My father still twitches whenever the name is mentioned.
Probably not as badly as I do out here. Americans refer to him as "Thomas the Train".
He's NOT A TRAIN YOU IDIOTS! The TRAIN is what the engines pull along behind them. They aren't a train themselves.
Gahh... Rage... taking over...
The Tiger that came to Tea
The Worst Witch trilogy - there are more now, my mum bought them last year ;D
Gobbilino the Witch's cat
Jeffy the Burglar's cat
First day of the holidays (Ladybird book about Penguins)
George's Marvellous Medicine
Tales of the Faraway Tree (3 books I think)
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Flat Stanley
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
The Borrowers
The Hobbit
The Famous Five
The Secret Seven
St Clares
Mallory Towers
Sweet Valley High
The Railway Series (Written by The Rev W Awdry, and later by his Son Christopher) Starring amongst others Thomas the Tank Engine (Yes, I'm a pedant ;D)
The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall
That's about it. By the time I started Junior School I was already reading adult books. Never really had time for kids books after that :)
Kell_ee001
16-07-2009, 20:00
When really really little "Pretty Star The Pony" and "The Kitten Who Couldn't Get Down" :o
Kell_ee001
16-07-2009, 20:13
Oh, and Brer Rabbit's a Rascal! :D Don't know how I forgot that one!
I still have all 3 :D
There are gajillions of stories...
of mischief and fun,
but to keep things simple,
let's start with just one...
about a mom and two kids...
and a house and a hat...
that, oddly enough,
was worn by a cat.
The Cat in the Hat - Dr Seuss
The Lion The Witch& The Wardrobe
Loved them both 30 odd years ago and love them to this day :)
In no particular order....
Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak
The Magic Faraway Tree – Enid Blyton
A Bear Called Paddington – Michael Bond
The Owl and the Pussycat – Edward Lear
Winnie the Pooh – A. A. Milne
When We Were Very Young - A. A. Milne
The Worst Witch – Jill Murphy
James and the Giant Peach – Roald Dahl
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
Little House on the Prairie – Laura Ingalls Wilder
NokkonWud
16-07-2009, 21:46
Roald Dahl - George's Marvellous Medicine
Maurice Sendak - Where The Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak - Not Now Bernard
Those are the 3 that come to mind. So psyched about the new Where the Wild Things Are movie. Looks great.
Fungus the Bogeyman
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Flibster
16-07-2009, 23:40
6. Spike Milligan, Silly Verse for Kids
Awesome book. :D
My name is Fred Fernakapan,
I walk about the town.
Sometimes, with my trousers up,
And sometimes, with them down.
And when they are up, they are up.
And when they are down, they are down.
But when they were only halfway up...
...I was arrested! :D
Anyway...
Book wise - if it was written by Roald Dhal really.
Stan_Lite
17-07-2009, 04:55
Mostly liked the Famous Five books and Asterix the Gaul when I was a nipper. Also enjoyed Charlie and the chocolate factory and the great glass elevator.
How did I forget Asterix :eek:
He was brilliant :D Used to read loads of Tintin too.
Bill Waterson - Calvin and Hobbes
I have a LE box set at home. It shaped my childhood and can be deep enough for the grown-up me too.
Pumpkinstew
17-07-2009, 13:26
The earliest one I remember was called The Beast in the Bathtub.
Greenlizard0
17-07-2009, 18:19
Fungus the Bogeyman
http://www.theweeweb.co.uk/images/bookthumbs/20070130023347.jpg
Iiiiiiiii remember that!
from my childhood
the hungry caterpillar.
peace at last.
whatever next
beatrice potter.......any of it.
alice in wonderland, alice in the looking glass (is that the name? not sure)
a book about a girl who became friends with the lockness monster, was lovely story but forgotten its name.
Umm any fairytale.
My kids books..
hungry caterpillar
bedtime bear
whatever next.
harry and his bucket full of dinosaurs.. harry goes to school.
Doing the animal stomp.
book of fantastic poems.
Books:
Secret Seven
Famous Five
Winnie the Pooh
Wind in the Willows
Jungle Book
Comics:
Asterix (French)
Tintin (French)
oooh lion, witch and the wardrobe loved that.
cat in the hat, fox in socks is brilliant and Josh loves them.
Loved all the Roald Dahl books, like faysh said we have read charlie and the chocolate factory loads of times lol
ladybird books too, can't think what the series I loved was called, funny green monster that could turn invisible???
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