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What is your favorite childrens adventure books? Any books that you can read over and over.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.When I was a kid I wanted to be a character in an Enid Blyton story and solve mysteries involving baddies that didn't have guns, I wanted to spend summer hols with cousins in beautiful country places (my cousins lived in Great Wyrley which is crap for adventures), I wanted to speak most frightfully posh. My favourite story was the Children of Kidillin which, together with Mischief at St Rollo's, formed the book Adventure Stories - a book which fell apart so much that I am now keeping an eye out at book fairs for a copy of the same edition.
As a boy, I think my favourites would have been Biggles, Jennings & (Just) William. I don't re-read any of them these days but if I spot a reading, or a dramatisation, of either Jennings or William on Radio 4 or BBC7, then it's definitely required listening.
Looking through the lists above, of whatever other people enjoyed, I can spot a definite male/female divide here. (If I could expunge any book from the history of literature my first choice would be the dire, drab and totally unreadable 'Little Women!!).
As a further note on the male/female thing, I can still remember my horror, astonishment and utter disbelief when my father told me that Richmal Crompton was a woman!
Chris
Looking through the lists above, of whatever other people enjoyed, I can spot a definite male/female divide here. (If I could expunge any book from the history of literature my first choice would be the dire, drab and totally unreadable 'Little Women!!).
As a further note on the male/female thing, I can still remember my horror, astonishment and utter disbelief when my father told me that Richmal Crompton was a woman!
Chris
Oh Buenchico I loved Little women...Jo's Boys and Good Wives.Required reading for little girls in the fifities!!
I used to haunt the library for Just William books.. but my son loved them too and has the complete set in paperback.Another one of my favourites was Heidi and Ivanhoe by Sir walter Scott.Needless to say the minute I hit senior school I graduated to bodice rippers!!
I used to haunt the library for Just William books.. but my son loved them too and has the complete set in paperback.Another one of my favourites was Heidi and Ivanhoe by Sir walter Scott.Needless to say the minute I hit senior school I graduated to bodice rippers!!
You're right Lemarchand! I forgot about Narnia too! They became a bit too christian for me in the end though. But the first ones...
Buenchio, don't know if you know it, but JK Rowling uses her initials instead of just Joanne Rowling as boys/men very often do not want to read a story by a female author and/or a female main character! Thus they just skip those by a female author, even if the books have got a raving review.
- Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators; series
- Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy
- Jennings; series by Anthony Buckeridge
- down with skool; Geoffrey Williams and Ronald Searle
- Mennyms; series by Sylvia Waugh
- Fireweed; Jill Paton Walsh
- The Silver Sword; Ian Serraillier
- Slake's Limbo; Felice Holman
- I am David; Anne Holm
- Flour Babies; Anne Fine
- Firestorm; Roger Vaughan Carr
- Among The Hidden; series by Margaret Peterson Haddix
- Holes; Louis Sachar
- A Long Way From Chicago; Richard Peck
So many books, so little time ...