What books did you read at school?

[blue jammer]

Stig of the dump, Adrian Mole, James and the giant peach (fkkn class, was gutted when they made a film of it and it was really shit!) also read some book about this girl growing up and she was a witch, can't remem the name, think there were 2 follow up ones that were quite good as well

[jenwah]

i read all them biff chip and kipper and the magic key books at primary school, also read various roald dahl books - ledgend!!!

at high school, we did macbeth - fantastic play, and to kill a mockingbird! what a book that was.

oh and of mice and men, which made me cry!!!

[Miss C]

High school was all about Educating Rita!!

[beaker]

I can remember 'sam the fox' and 'meg the hen' from primary school.

Other than that i cant remember much apart from Kes and the BFG which was mint

[glazzy]

James and the giant peach the bfg, stig of the dump, the witches... and 2 books that i can't remember the names of now but i'm sure one was called jesus boots ?? and the follow on was summat to do with dessert wellies maybe lol they both sound like dodgy names for mens leather sandles

loads that i can't remember too

jayne x

[PepeLePew]

Shakespeare - Twelfth Night
Hemingway - The old man and the sea
Orwell - Animal Farm

Hated English. Took me 3 attempts to pass that 'O' level, only kept persisting so I could go to Uni, but by the time I was that age I had flunked out of too much to get in.

Now I love reading. I'd feel a great loss if I couldn't immerse myself in a good read on the train to work. Currently reading Dan Brown - Angels & Demons Which does seem to be as good as the DaVinci Code

[grover]

chicken licken
james and the giant peach
the magic faraway tree

[jenwah]

Originally Posted by grover

the magic faraway tree

i am sure i have read that!! what is it??? i think my childhood games wit my cousin were based on it........but i cant remember it

[grover]

Originally Posted by jenwah

i am sure i have read that!! what is it??? i think my childhood games wit my cousin were based on it........but i cant remember it

quote from a website :

"Jo, Bessie and Fanny take their cousin Rick on an adventure he'll never forget to the magic Faraway Tree, where he meets Moon-Face, Silky the fairy and Saucepan Man, and visits all the different lands at the top of the Faraway Tree. Like the Land of Spells, the crazy Land of Topsy-Turvy, and the land of Do-As-You-Please, where the children ride a runaway train! "

[Lozzie]

Yeh, the hungry catapillar, Neclace of raindrops (beautifull story), I used to read encyclopaeodia's (spelling) alot too believe it or not. I am dyslexic so my attention span for stories is not too good.
I love Orwells Animal farm....an absoluely cracking read. Lord of the flies too.

Enid Blyton Books, also alot of things by the brothers grim too. An obviously Rold Dahl. Georges marvellous medicine was the best.

When I was a kid...there was these books called "Point Horror". They were a series of cheesey american horror stories.

I also used to read alot about horses, Like stuff about their nutrisional needs.
Also anything about space......I love that. I be a great physisist if I could do math. I just get it. But I can't actually do the sums.

[turpieaj]

Remember the various ladybird books with fred,tom and penny (around 5 years old at the time)
Hungry Catapillar, penguins pantry and charlie and the glass elevator.

Andy

[ScouseCol]

some of you must remember the Dick and Dora books in primary school

http://www.sterlingtimes.org/dick_and_dora.htm

[Debsdoesdallas]

Originally Posted by ste huxley

also them mystery ones, 'the case of the face at the window' or something, and it had loads of alternative endings and you turned to page such and such to do this blah blah.

NO WAY!!! I remember those...

Mine were cat in the hat... meg an mog (which was on last sunday.. ) urm... can't remember further back than that!

[Firthsta]

I was never much of a reader. For GCSE English Lit we had to read Lord of the Flies.
Night before the I rented the film, and was a little taken aback by the exam.
Somehow I managed to get a B!

[blue jammer]

Originally Posted by grover

quote from a website :

"Jo, Bessie and Fanny take their cousin Rick on an adventure he'll never forget to the magic Faraway Tree, where he meets Moon-Face, Silky the fairy and Saucepan Man, and visits all the different lands at the top of the Faraway Tree. Like the Land of Spells, the crazy Land of Topsy-Turvy, and the land of Do-As-You-Please, where the children ride a runaway train! "

LOL sounds mad as fook that, Saucepan Man! heh what a top name