Judith Hamilton, one of the winners in Bookbite's recent My Life in Books promotion, shares her choice of the five books that most influenced her life.
The Inquisitive Harvest Mouse
Noel Barr
My father taught me to read when i was four or five, and at my first school - aged five-and-a-half - I won 'The Inquisitive Harvest Mouse', by...
The Enid Blyton Holiday Book
Enid Blyton
The Enid Blyton Holiday Book was something I looked forward to as much as the holiday itself. Poems about fairies and stories about children that I longed to...
Little Women, Good Wives, Jo's Boys and Little Men
Louisa May Alcott
I can’t remember a time when I did not read and write, and I was quite young when I came across Jo March in Louisa May Alcott’s Little...
Claudia
Rose Franken
Claudia, by Rose Franken, and all the other books in this light and sentimental series, is again a family orientated book that was loved by my mother and...
World in Dust
Kurt Offenburg
World in Dust, by Kurt Offenburg, is a memoir written by my grandfather. He died when I was three but finding this book, which admittedly is rather dry,...
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