what did you read as a child ?

[james.a.vivian]

Remember Tin Tin?

I was more an Asterix and Obelix man myself in fact I still am, not to say that I didn't read Tin Tin

Totally agree with you about Astrix and Obelix. I used to read them while I had detention in the school library.

Have you seen the movies that the french did, there pretty good.
I've bought all the old animated movies in a boxset

[snowballs]

Remember Tin Tin?

I was more an Asterix and Obelix man myself in fact I still am, not to say that I didn't read Tin Tin

Totally agree with you about Astrix and Obelix. I used to read them while I had detention in the school library.

Have you seen the movies that the french did, there pretty good.
I've bought all the old animated movies in a boxset

Seen 1, the kids have it on dvd, that ones funny

[deldaisy]

Remember Tin Tin?

I was more an Asterix and Obelix man myself in fact I still am, not to say that I didn't read Tin Tin

Totally agree with you about Astrix and Obelix. I used to read them while I had detention in the school library.

Have you seen the movies that the french did, there pretty good.
I've bought all the old animated movies in a boxset

Are you talking about the Asterix movie with Gerard Depierdiu (I have no idea how to spell his name).? Or the cartoons?

[snowballs]

Remember Tin Tin?

I was more an Asterix and Obelix man myself in fact I still am, not to say that I didn't read Tin Tin

Totally agree with you about Astrix and Obelix. I used to read them while I had detention in the school library.

Have you seen the movies that the french did, there pretty good.
I've bought all the old animated movies in a boxset

Are you talking about the Asterix movie with Gerard Depierdiu (I have no idea how to spell his name).? Or the cartoons?

Yeah him with the big nose.

[BatrickPatrick]

The first novel-like books (not story-books) I remember really liking were the Green Smoke ones about dragons in Cornwall...I had my mum's copies of them and things like the Silver Brumby and the Jinny Books about horses.

KM Peyton, too, Flambards and Fly By Night.

The Series of Unfortunate Events when I was a bit older...

Should I count H2G2 as I read them when I was about 13?

[ShadowNinjaCat]

I read Spot the Dog all the time according to my mom.I remember the dog but not really the stories.I remember little bits of some of the stories though .

[deldaisy]

I read Spot the Dog all the time according to my mom.I remember the dog but not really the stories.I remember little bits of some of the stories though .

My daughter (grown) loved Spot. I had to paint pictures of him for her for her walls. (soo hard )
I had learnt to read before I started school and read mhy first novel then i was given this in grade one.....

Dick and Dora

Edit: DUH! This is Dick and Jane WE had Dick and Dora. Where the hell are my glassesDo you KNOW what hell I went through as a child with MY name (D'Lora) so I got called Dee at school for a few years.

[snowballs]

Oh god, Dick and Dora. We had those too, terrible books. I was the same being able to read before I started school and being forced to read those books was a nightmare. Worst when you had to read the bits with Fanny in them as well as Dick, I was allways getting put in the corner for sniggering.

[mystmoon]

Did anyone else have to read Biff and Chip? (Why do all these kids have ridiculous names?)

[snowballs]

Did anyone else have to read Biff and Chip? (Why do all these kids have ridiculous names?)

Never heard of Biff and Chip. I think in the oldendays when we was young the gave the characters those types of names because they thought they were spiffingly good names.

[Tonyblack]

We had Dick and Dora in school too. I think it was Nip the dog and Fluff the cat in there.

[james.a.vivian]

We had Meg and Mog at school, I don't remember the stories but I remember the cat.

[snowballs]

David Eddings (think thats the right spelling as I have none here) I read them when I was 9 or 10 and remember that they were amazing.

[james.a.vivian]

Remember Tin Tin?

I was more an Asterix and Obelix man myself in fact I still am, not to say that I didn't read Tin Tin

Totally agree with you about Astrix and Obelix. I used to read them while I had detention in the school library.

Have you seen the movies that the french did, there pretty good.
I've bought all the old animated movies in a boxset

Are you talking about the Asterix movie with Gerard Depierdiu (I have no idea how to spell his name).? Or the cartoons?

Yeah him with the big nose.

I hear that their making 'Asterix in Britain' Due for 2012

[BaldFriede]

The scariest thing I ever read as a kid was "Krabat" by Ottfried Preußler.I was eleven or twelve, and it scared the living daylights out of me. And yes, it is a book for kids, but for grown-ups too. In a way it is a darker version of Harry Potter, though it came out some twenty years before Rowling's books.
It was made into a movie two years ago; here the trailer. It gives you a bit of the atmosphere, though the in my opinion really scary things are not shown in this trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyQfRmnAJv8
And the movie is not half as good as the book.