It took me that long to type that bloody post that I’m late on mentioning the Three Investigators! I especially loved The three Investigators and the screaming clocks, fantastic book!
Also, I might have missed this, but I don’t think anybody’s mentioned all the wonderful E. Nesbitt books, including Three Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet and The Railway Children.
I love those books - haven’t read them in ages, though.
*starts making plans to go searching all the city’s charity shops*
They really are great, Maegan—you might want to give them a try.
Madmouse - 07 April 2008 11:07 AM
I love those books - haven’t read them in ages, though.
*starts making plans to go searching all the city’s charity shops*
I found one of those several-books-in-one-volume collections, so even though it was new, it wasn’t very expensive. But vintage editions would be much, much cooler.
I have six The Three Investigators books. Four paperbacks, of which three are silhouettes and one is a keyhole. The other two are ‘Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Series’ hardbacks (one matte and one shiny, both rather falling apart even though they’ve never been abused - just cheap construction).
Looking at them I noticed my Encyclopedia Brown books. I’d forgotten about them, and they were great fun. So were the Danny Dunn and the Alvin Fernald books.
I had Judy Blume in a longer first post, but I changed my mind because listing everything was really, really long. And frankly I only read her stuff because it was popular, not because I particularly enjoyed it.
Don’t forget the Boxcar Children, or Choose Your Own Adventure, or Henry Reed, or From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, or zillions of others.
