Also, this reminds me all of those good old books I read as a kid that apparently nobody has ever heard of (sadly)... like
Angela and Diabola by Lynn Reid Banks. I loved that book. It's also a twin book, actually, with a pure good twin and a pure evil twin. (Diabola would be in Slytherin hands down. Angela would probably be put in Gryffindor in fanfic, but she's more a Hufflepuff really.)
Dick King Smith's Sophie series. I can't tell you how awesome it was to read about a tomboy character when so much little girl fiction isn't. They were... Sophie's Snail, Sophie's Tom, Sophie Hits Six, Sophie in the Saddle, Sophie is Seven, Sophie is Lucky. Mind you, he wrote plenty of other stuff that people do know about - The Queen's Nose, for instance. (Also a good series!)
The Josie Smith books by Magdalen Nabb! That was adapted into a pretty good TV series, I used to record it. XD They were... Josie Smith, Josie Smith and Eileen, Josie Smith at Christmas, Josie Smith at the Seaside, Josie Smith at School, Josie Smith in Hospital, Josie Smith at the Market, Josie Smith in Summer, Josie Smith in Winter, Josie Smith in Spring, Josie Smith in Autumn. I definitely didn't read the season ones (I don't think they were published at the time I read the series), and maybe not the market one either.
The Milly Molly Mandy Storybook by Joyce Lankester Brisley was pretty cool too. An older book than the others on this list, but I really enjoyed it.
There were these Charlie and Angela books I can't for the life of me remember the name of and it's really irritating me. Um... Creative googling took way too long (it got swamped in Moonface and Twilight results). These books are apparently obscure enough I can't even pull up my book list on the author, but while I can't recall the order, I believe the books are My Best Fiend, Holiday With the Fiend, The Fiend Next Door, Revenge of the Fiend, Trouble With the Fiend, Calamity With the Fiend, Disaster With the Fiend. They're by Sheila Lavelle.
And of course there were Roald Dahl books... which people do know. And Enid Blyton who is, again, known. :P Malorie Blackman's Whizziwig (and various other stories)! The Mister Majeika stories!
These were all things I read when I was about... six to ten? I definitely remember being about the same age as Sophie when I read the Sophie books...
And sorry for the comment of random, but your post made me get all nostalgic. XD
What books did you read when you were younger? Any obscure ones?
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Angela and Diabola by Lynn Reid Banks. I loved that book. It's also a twin book, actually, with a pure good twin and a pure evil twin. (Diabola would be in Slytherin hands down. Angela would probably be put in Gryffindor in fanfic, but she's more a Hufflepuff really.)
Dick King Smith's Sophie series. I can't tell you how awesome it was to read about a tomboy character when so much little girl fiction isn't. They were... Sophie's Snail, Sophie's Tom, Sophie Hits Six, Sophie in the Saddle, Sophie is Seven, Sophie is Lucky. Mind you, he wrote plenty of other stuff that people do know about - The Queen's Nose, for instance. (Also a good series!)
The Josie Smith books by Magdalen Nabb! That was adapted into a pretty good TV series, I used to record it. XD They were... Josie Smith, Josie Smith and Eileen, Josie Smith at Christmas, Josie Smith at the Seaside, Josie Smith at School, Josie Smith in Hospital, Josie Smith at the Market, Josie Smith in Summer, Josie Smith in Winter, Josie Smith in Spring, Josie Smith in Autumn. I definitely didn't read the season ones (I don't think they were published at the time I read the series), and maybe not the market one either.
The Milly Molly Mandy Storybook by Joyce Lankester Brisley was pretty cool too. An older book than the others on this list, but I really enjoyed it.
There were these Charlie and Angela books I can't for the life of me remember the name of and it's really irritating me. Um... Creative googling took way too long (it got swamped in Moonface and Twilight results). These books are apparently obscure enough I can't even pull up my book list on the author, but while I can't recall the order, I believe the books are My Best Fiend, Holiday With the Fiend, The Fiend Next Door, Revenge of the Fiend, Trouble With the Fiend, Calamity With the Fiend, Disaster With the Fiend. They're by Sheila Lavelle.
And of course there were Roald Dahl books... which people do know. And Enid Blyton who is, again, known. :P Malorie Blackman's Whizziwig (and various other stories)! The Mister Majeika stories!
These were all things I read when I was about... six to ten? I definitely remember being about the same age as Sophie when I read the Sophie books...
And sorry for the comment of random, but your post made me get all nostalgic. XD
What books did you read when you were younger? Any obscure ones?