Booked by 3

Courtesy of Shelly's Book Shelf, here's a meme about children's books. 

Name your 3 favourite children's series.
This is where I confess I loved the tom-boy girl detective Trixie Belden. Throughout my childhood and into my early teens I used to save my pocket money and buy a new book in the series whenever I had enough money. If I remember correctly each book was 99c from my local supermarket!

Enid Blyton's Famous Five. I inherited the original red leather hardcovers from my mother, who was a great fan. I inherited a couple of Secret Seven books too, but never really liked them as much as Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the dog.

C.S.Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia. I fell in love with these books when I was about 7 or 8 years old and remember reading the entire collection one wintry holiday by the coast with my parents. In fact, I had to wait for my dad to read them first before they were passed onto me! Unfortunately, I waited until I was 30 before I treated myself to the boxed set, but when I reread them I was severely disappointed. The magic had definitely been lost and I couldn't see beyond the racism and sexism of the text. 

Name your 3 favourite non-series children's books.
The Silver Crown by Robert C. O'Brien (I think I read this book about 15 times! Absolutely LOVED, LOVED, LOVED it!)

Z is for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien

The Children of Cherry Tree Farm by Enid Blyton (another one I read over and over).

Name 3 favourite children's  book characters.
The Muddle-headed wombat from the books by Ruth Park.
Paddington Bear from the books by Michael Bond.
Trixie Belden

Feel free to put your answers in the comment box below, or simply post your own answers on your blog, and leave me a note so I can go check out your responses.

Comments

[Sarcasmom]

I had forgotten about "Trixie Belden!". I also loved "Campfire Girls "and the ever plucky "Nancy Drew".

[Shelly]

I love Trixie Belden. Still have them.

And I loved Z for Zachariah, but I read it as an adult, when I was a YA librarian. It was one of the books I book talked.

[kimbofo]

Sarcasmom, yes, Trixie Belden rocked! I never quite liked Nancy Drew as much.

Shelly, Z for Zachariah was so earth-shattering when I read it at the height of Reagan's Star Wars years. It really resonated unlike any other book I read as a teen.

[Susan]

I bought my Trixie Beldens in the grocery store, too!

[iliana]

Guess what was one of my favorites? Trixie Belden of course :) I posted my faves too. I think I grew up thinking I was really was going to have my own detective agency one day. Heh.

[Julia]

Another Trixie Belden fan here, although towards the end of the series I started to wonder whether she'd ever do more than hold hands with Jim!
Big Blyton fan too - I read just about all of them as a kid and desperately wanted to board at St Clare's or Mallory Towers - all those wizard midnight feasts!
Non series - Children of the New Forest, The Secret Garden, The Changeover (Margaret Mahy)
Love KM Peyton's Patrick Pennington - of Pennington's Seventeenth Summer, Pippi Longstocking, Ann of Green Gables

[kimbofo]

Oh my, so many Trixie Belden fans. I feel a new post coming on!! :)

Julia, I'd forgotten about Pippi Longstocking. I also quite used to like the Moomintroll family too, which I see they've recently republished/repackaged for today's children.

[Leah]

My choices are up and I am feeling left out. I have never heard of Trixie Belden.

[kimbofo]

Oh. My. Goodness. Leah, how have you survived? You don't know what you have missed. Trixie Belden rocked! A tomboy detective who was way cooler than Nancy Drew!!