I remember reading Enid Blyton and smoke-la and dot-and-go-one and The Amulet and Jungle Book etc. when I was very young, and I remember more or less what I used to read as a teen, but what did I read at ten? I don't know. Are the Narnia stories ten-year-old-ish stuff? Can't enter the comp unless you know what kids read.
I bet nobody knows the dot-and-go-one and smoke-la references. My local library had some weird books. I spent ages trying to turn myself into smoke, as one book assured me I could. Never worked.
poetjude | October 3, 2009 - 22:05
I read things like Narnia from age 8 to 33 and counting. Aged 10 I read James Herriot, Gerald Durrell. Also some young fiction from the school library ...Joan Lingard sticks out in my memory.
jude
brooosh | October 4, 2009 - 00:05
For me it was Richmal Crompton's William books, Jennings by Anthony Buckeridge and the incredibly politically incorrect Billy Bunter and Biggles series. Capt W E Johns also wrote a very cosy space adventure series which I used to love.
I was a big fan of Enid Blyton as well. Though even back then she wasn't known for her political correctness.
poetjude | October 4, 2009 - 13:25
Ah yes, William books were great. I also liked the Hardy boys.
jude
ggggareth | October 6, 2009 - 11:40
Hardy Boys books were big when I was ten (about the same time as the "Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Mysteries" were on TV. They were modern day Enid Blyton adventures, and just as good.
About the same time I started a love affair with Jack London novels - "Cruise of the Dazzler", "White Fang" and "Call of the Wild".
Jack London led me onto my greatest ever discovery, the novels of Jim Kjelgaard - "Big Red", "Irish Red", etc - novels about a boy alone in the world with his faithful canine companion. Absolutely brilliant!
tretchicovmanicova | October 6, 2009 - 18:11
One ten year old I mentor is reading Sun Tzu's "The Art of War."
`T. Imaan Tretchicovmanicova
"There is naught
so disobedient
as an untrained mind."
FTSE100 | October 6, 2009 - 18:30
Jennings I read - too elitist these days. Bunter I read - too hard on fat owls of the remove to be acceptable now. Narnia books - far too fanciful. In fact I'll have to go back and give my ten-year-old self a good talking to. Oh, and I read Three Men in a Boat. I think that's still okay, isn't it? A bit down on smelly cheeses, dog ornaments and German singers. Maybe I'd better forget that too, just to be on the safe side.
threeleafshamrock | October 6, 2009 - 18:47
William books are my all time favorite. Liked Biggles too.
What was the first 'proper' book that you read? Mine was 'Stig of the dump' by Clive King; I'll never forget it...well, until I go senile anyway.
I followed with Blyton and Compton, etc...