Day 20: Your Favourite Childhood Book

I'm not doing very well at posting one of these a day but I'm still working slowly through the questions... I suppose the important thing is that I'm still going, rather than how quickly I get through them.

I'm not sure I can pinpoint a single favourite book but I utterly loved The Famous Five by Enid Blyton. Family, adventures, a dog, picnics, ginger beer... That was the life I wanted as a child and I loved every single things those four children got up to. Looking back at them as an adult, there's a lot of eye-opening and facepalming at what they were allowed to do, but then it was a different time, wasn't it?

I mean, a character called Dick has a completely different connotation nowadays!

Then again, it could be interesting, in the hands of a competent author, to see an updated 21st century version of Julian, Dick, Anne, George, Timmy & their adventures. Purely for curiosities sake.

But, really, nostalgia is where its at