Childhood Books

Good Morning! (or whatever time it is) Anyway today I thought I would share with you how this all began- my childhood books.

The First lot are books that I remember being read to me:

• Peepo
• Guess How Much I Love You
• Winnie the Pooh, A.A.Milne. 
• My Big Book of Bedtime Stories, this is a stunning book it is fully illustrated in colour and it entirely captivating.  

The books that I read alone when I first started that stand out to me were:

• The Rainbow Magic series, Daisy Meadows. This is all to do with fairies and two girls who always help them out against their enemy Jack Frost; I still own around 50 of these I adored them! Yes the plot line is basically exactly the same in every book but I thought they were great. 
• The Fairy Charm Collection, Emily Rodda. I was hooked on fairies when I was little if you hadn't noticed yet. This was about a girl who finds a secret door in her garden to the land of the fairies and the edition I own had 3 stories in it.
• The Historical House series. There are 6 books to this each taking place in a different era but in the same house(6 Chelsea Walk, London). I loved the historical side and my favourite was the 2nd- Lizzie's Wish all I remember is her planting a walnut and that the tree was always nodded to in the rest of the series. 

Others from when I was slightly older are:

• Prophecy of the Gems, Flavia Bujor. This had magic and a girl named Jade so it was a given really. I just remember flying through it, I read at a time where I was starting to read all the time. 
• Lastly is A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett. This is the book that had the biggest impact on my life. I picked it up because I had read Secret Garden (same author) in school and the cover was purple. I read it when I was 11 right after my Dad died (in hindsight probably not the best idea- you'll get it if you know the story) but I guess Sara and her strength to be a "princess" or a good, kind person really struck me among others. I re-read it recently and it is such a well written, beautiful story.

And that's that. You may have been expecting Harry Potter and while I did read and enjoy them they weren't a big love of mine till I was a bit older. What was you favourite book as a child?

Speak soon,

Jade xx