I’m going to DM you!

Okay, these sound great! I want to share them with some kids I know. Can you find the names of the series?

I had all the Malory Towers books and I had a couple Famous Five and Secret Seven. I really loved them. Couldn’t find them in the libraries here in the US but I had Canadian relatives.

Because of Malory Towers I would pick up any boarding school story I found in a secondhand store. Lots from the 1940s.

Can I ask how old you are? (I’m late 50s and I think it was unusual for someone my age to love them so much.)

Yep. I found plenty of English books in our secondhand stores but I don’t recall a single book set in Australia. (Except for A Town Like Alice, later on.)

Never knew how to pronounce “gymkhana,” but I eventually looked it up and found out I’d done it right in my head!

I’m surprised and happy to see all the other Enid Blyton fans here. I read Mallory Towers obsessively as a girl. Really loved them.

& even as a very young American girl, I recognized her classism and thought it was shitty. (“Can he buy an aitch?” Ha ha ha.) I think of that when I see people worrying about the books kids read. Kids can keep the wonderful and recognize the bad.

I know, it’s great, isn’t it??? Wish I had known all of these book lovers back when I was a kid in the 70s.

They say that’s the Golden Age of science fiction: age 12. :)

Any horse book I could find in a library or secondhand store. Never came across The Silver Brumby but … Black Stallion books, The Horsemasters, Bluegrass Champion (Harlequin Hullabaloo), Showjumping Secret, Scarlet Royal, Winter Pony and Summer Pony, American Girl Book of Horse Stories…

And boarding school books too. Yep. Loved what HP did with the concept!

Great series where the books are connected but not direct sequels. As a child that both mystified and enchanted me. Made the world of the books seem very large.