 | Watership Down (Puffin Books) by Richard Adams
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £0.01 Must have read it 7-8 times at least before I was 11!
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 | Shadow the Sheepdog by Enid Blyton
This was my favourite when I was very young.
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 | The Lord of the Rings (3 Book Box set) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £11.96 / Used from: £11.99 Read all three back to back when I was about 11.
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 | The Chronicles of Narnia: All seven Chronicles bound together by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: £11.01 / Used from: £4.86 Absolutely loved these and I'm sure I've read them all.
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 | Jennings and Darbishire by Anthony Buckeridge
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £4.68 I used to get as many of these as I could get my hands on from the library. This is just one of the Jennings series.
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| Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School by Frank Richards
Buy used from: £9.00 Like the Jennings books I used to enjoy the Billy Bunter series.
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| Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot by Alfred Hitchcock
I first encountered Hitchcock as a childrens writer. I used to love his Three Investigators series, much better than Blyton's Famous Five or Secret Seven!
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 | Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Popular Classics) by Daniel Defoe
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 My dad gave me his childhood copy, which I still have twenty years on! Read it many times. I still find facing life on a desert island a fascinating subject to think about!
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 | Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jonathan Swift
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 Later in life I was to take up reading science fiction in a big way. This book set the ball rolling.
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 | Fantastic Mr. Fox (Young Puffin Read Alone) by Roald Dahl
Buy used from: £0.01 I think it was the only book I owned by the author, but read it many, many times.
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