Revisiting my favourite childhood reads

Back in 2018 I wrote an essay called Arthur Ransome: nature writer? for Land Lines, an AHRC funded project looking at British Nature Writing 1789-2014. I really enjoyed revisiting the book and so over the last couple of years I’ve been rereading and writing about other childhood favourites. You can find links to all the posts in the series below, including my complete read through of C.S. Lewis’ Narnia stories. There’s also a bonus post about visiting The Story Museum in Oxford.

Books

• The Fairy Caravan – Beatrix Potter
• Danny the Champion of the World – Roald Dahl
• Andersen’s Fairy Tales – Hans Christian Andersen
• Moondial – Helen Creswell
• Goodnight Mister Tom – Michelle Magorian
• Exploring the Countryside – Michael Chinery
• The Complete Borrowers – Mary Norton
• The Railway Children – Edith Nesbit
• The Animals of Farthing Wood – Colin Dann
• The Rockingdown, Ring O’Bells and Rat-a-tat Mysteries – Enid Blyton
• Winter Holiday – Arthur Ransome

Returning to Narnia

• Introduction
• The Magician’s Nephew
• The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
• The Horse and His Boy
• Prince Caspian
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
• The Silver Chair
• The Last Battle

Bonus post

• Oxford: A city of stories