Your favourite childhood books to share with family for National Storytelling Week
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To mark National Storytelling Week we asked readers on our social media pages what their favourite childhood books were and have compiled a list of some of your favourites.
Coming out on top was anything by Enid Blyton, C.S. Lewis, Louisa May Alcott, and Roald Dahl, with Black Beauty also a firm favourite among readers.
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![circa 1870: US writer Louisa May Alcott, (1832 - 1888), born in Philadelphia. Her books include 'Little Women' (1868), which drew on her own experiences. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images](https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/webimg/T0FLMTI4NzExNDg2.jpg?crop=3:2,smart&width=640&quality=65)
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Enid Blyton
* The Famous Five series
* The Faraway Tree series
* The Secret Seven series
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C.S Lewis
* The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
* The Chronicles of Narnia
Roald Dahl
![Children's writer Enid Blyton (1897 - 1968) sitting in her garden in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Photo by George Konig/Getty Images](https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/webimg/T0FLMTI4NzExNDg5.jpg?crop=3:2,smart&width=640&quality=65)
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* Danny the Champion of the World
*The Twits
* Fantastic Mr Fox
Louisa May Alcott
* Little Women
* Little Women and Good Wives
* Jo's Boys
* Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
* The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
* Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
* The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
* Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
* The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
* Children of the New Forest by Frederick Marryat
* Heidi by Johanna Spyri
* The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr
* Nancy Drew Mysteries by Carolyn Keene
* Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
* Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
* The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
* Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
* What Katy Did series by Susan Coolidge
* The Chalet School series by Elinor Brent-Dyer
* Anne of Green Gables series Lucy Maud Montgomery
* Watership Down by Richard Adams
* The Animals of Farthing Wood by Colin Dann
* Janet and John series by Mabel O'Donnell and Rona Munro
* Stig of the Dump by Clive King
* Robin Hood and his Merrie Men by Anon
* The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickins
* Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
* Little Rabbit Foo Foo by Michael Rosen
* Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson
* The Wonkey Donkey by Craig Smith
* The House That Sailed Away by Pat Hutchins
* Bunty published by D.C. Thompson
* Pookie by Ivy Wallace
* Barney Blue Eyes by Mabel Marlowe
* The Magic Cottage by James Herbert
* Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones
* The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
* Little O’s Naughty Day by Edith Unnerstad
* Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
* The Tree That Sat Down by Beverley Nichols
* Which Witch? by Eva Ibbotson
* Bobby Brewster by H.E.Todd