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What's your favourite childhood book? New campaign tries to get kids reading for Christmas

Research shows over half of Irish parents would like to read to their children more.


Arts Council / Vimeo

IT COULD BE the Famous Five, Harry Potter or The Lord of the Rings: but most of us have a favourite book or series we remember fondly from our childhood.

A new campaign from the Arts Council features some notable Irish talking about their favorite books from when they were growing up and what reading means to them.

Writer Roddy Doyle, broadcaster Sean MonCrieff, and presenter Diana Bunici are among the presenters talking about reading and their favourite books.

The campaign’s goal is to encourage parents to buy their children a book this year for Christmas and for them to spend more time reading with their children.

Research carried out by iReach Insights on behalf of the Arts Council found that over half of Irish parents questioned wanted to spend more time reading with their children.

infographic draft 5.cdr The results of a survey commissioned by the Arts Council. Pete Reddy Pete Reddy

Each personality featured as part of the campaign will reveal their favourite childhood book on a separate day on the Arts Council’s Facebook page.

“We’re hoping this campaign will encourage parents and families to focus on the magic of storytelling this Christmas,” said Orlaith McBride, director of the Arts Council.

“We hope they will take some precious time to enjoy a good book together.

Buy it, borrow it or dig it out from the bottom of a box in the attic. Just take up a book this Christmas and watch your child’s imagination take flight.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 5:42 PM

    The magic far away tree -Enid Blyton. I don’t know how many times I read that book! my favourite.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 5:59 PM

    Biggles

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    Dec 10th 2016, 6:00 PM

    Mine too. I loved it.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 6:40 PM

    Oh I loved that book

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    Dec 10th 2016, 7:42 PM

    Kelly there is several books about the children of the far away tree. We’ve read them all. Pure magic

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    Dec 10th 2016, 7:48 PM

    I remember getting the book when I was about 9/10 and it was a big hard back book and it had loads of stories of the far away tree in it. I still have the book at my folks. Can’t wait until my daughters reading it.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 7:55 PM

    I loved the Faraway tree books, there were 3 of them. My 7 year old daughter is reading them now..

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    Dec 10th 2016, 8:45 PM

    @rose I loved Biggles

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    Dec 10th 2016, 10:45 PM

    The bfg

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    Dec 10th 2016, 11:42 PM

    Bought that book recently for my daughters Kelly and The wishing chair – loved those books!

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    Dec 11th 2016, 7:10 AM

    I just read them to my Daughter (6), a little un pc for this day and age but she loved them.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 5:48 PM

    Anything by Dahl or the famous five and secret seven books.

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    Dec 11th 2016, 1:51 AM

    Famous Five.Enid Blighton.

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    Dec 11th 2016, 1:53 AM

    Blyton.Reading obviously didn’t teach me to spell too good.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 6:46 PM

    The Malory Towers series and the St Claire series used to make me wish I was at boarding school.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 5:21 PM

    The secret diary of Adrian mole.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 5:25 PM

    @Carol Lynch O’Toole: I just read the 13 3/4 one again a few weeks ago. Excellent.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 10:20 PM

    I keep Adrian and the Weapons Of Mass Destruction on my table to dip into if I need a lift.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 5:37 PM

    George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl and The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Good night Mr Tom is also a great read for teens.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 5:39 PM

    Little Women series and Anne of Green Gables series. Still re read them

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    Dec 10th 2016, 8:25 PM

    @Jeanniejampots: I’ve read all the AoGG books , still re read them now. The DVD with Megan Follows as Anne is wonderful as well.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 10:10 PM

    Loved those. Oh, and as a child, the whole Laura Ingalls Wilder series, starting with Little house in the big woods.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 5:46 PM

    The Narnia series. Read them over and over again.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 5:23 PM

    A Christmas Carol was great. Goodnight Mr Tom is a great read. The Artemis Fowl books are good to get boys reading, or Alex Rider if they’re a bit older.

    Visit your local library – they’ll have good advice

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    Dec 10th 2016, 5:36 PM

    @Martin Byrne: tuppence is tuppence

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    Dec 10th 2016, 5:50 PM

    Great film good night mr Tom

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    Dec 10th 2016, 6:33 PM

    Loved Enid Blyton when I was younger, Aunt Fanny, Dick and the rest of the famous five.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 5:30 PM

    The Wind in the Willows or Danny Champion of the World!

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    Dec 10th 2016, 8:21 PM

    All the famous fives – anything else by Enid Blyton and anything by Roald Dahl. Also, the mystery of the screaming clock by Alfred Hitchcock

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    Dec 10th 2016, 8:04 PM

    ‘I Am David’ by Anne Holm

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    Dec 10th 2016, 10:49 PM

    My ultimate favourite too

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    Dec 10th 2016, 7:56 PM

    The folk of the faraway tree, the magic faraway tree,

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    Dec 10th 2016, 5:21 PM

    the wind in the willows

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    Dec 10th 2016, 10:50 PM

    Wind in the Willows was great, also BB’s The little grey men, and Down the bright stream.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 5:28 PM

    Jilly Cooper – Riders

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    Dec 10th 2016, 5:59 PM

    Children’s books Monty , children’s books …

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    Dec 10th 2016, 6:33 PM

    @Suzie Sunshine: Sorry, I thought it was ‘childhood books’. I read it when i was 11. Well, bits of it…

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    Dec 10th 2016, 7:29 PM

    True Monty , it does say childhood books and if you read it at that age ..then I stand corrected !

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    Dec 10th 2016, 8:53 PM

    Nothing wrong with your eyesight Monty even if your arm is a bit wonky now.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 7:29 PM

    For me it has to be ” The boy with the bronze axe ” by Kathleen fiddler I think was the authors name. An absolute cracker. I’ve never forgotten it. Can’t recommend it enough. Also very much enjoyed ” The lost prince ” by frances hodgson Burnett. First published in 1915 and almost forgotten now. She better known for other books but this may be her best..I lost my original copy and had to settle for an abridged copy when I tried to buy a copy for my son. Last but not least I rate the books , Watership down, Black beauty by Anna sewell and shardick by Richard Adams very highly.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 5:19 PM

    Journey to the centre of the Earth.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 7:44 PM

    That time when you realise your enjoying the book more than your child. priceless

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    Dec 10th 2016, 6:31 PM

    Kids don’t need to be taught how to enjoy books. Read to them as often as possible when they are kids and let them take it from there. Fond memories of reading Roddy Doyle’s children’s series to my little one and laughing till we cried.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 8:18 PM

    Everything Lord of the Rings was what I loved but as a young lad I read The Scorching Wind by Walter Macken and was fascinated by it.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 10:45 PM

    There are two other great books in that trilogy- Seek the Fair land and the Silent People, how nobody has written a screenplay for Seek the Fair Land is a real shame. Better story and warriors than Braveheart..
    Walter Macken was one of our greatest unsung authors, Irish fiction at its finest.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 11:23 PM

    @Tony Bergin: I have read them as well and I agree, Macken is indeed an unsung author. I had been given the book by his wife when I did a job in a neighbours house out by Menlo in Galway, years ago, and ended up doing a small tommer for her. The book she gave me is long since lost unfortunately.

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    Dec 11th 2016, 1:04 AM

    My dad was a Kerry man and died last year god bless him.
    He told me if you ever want to find a woman, find a good pub and order a pint of Guinness and read a book.. At that point you stop projecting need and totally content.
    Women hate that :)

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    Dec 10th 2016, 7:07 PM

    Flight of the Doves, Goodnight Mister Tom and as I got a bit older The Outsiders.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 7:09 PM

    Can’t believe I forgot….. I was mildly obsessed with Nancy Drew too. And a bit miffed to later discover the author wasn’t a real person….. Just a pseudonym used by multiple random people.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 7:52 PM

    Tell me about it tricia. Had the same experience with THE HARDY BOYS supposedly written by a Franklin w Dixon but in reality by a whole different bunch of writers for hire. The publishers had a virtual cottage industry of them going on. Thought the books were the bees knees at the time , but truth is they read like they were put together by committee. Very bland.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 8:03 PM

    @Anthony Mitchell: does it matter who wrote them? as long as you enjoyed them…

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    Dec 10th 2016, 7:53 PM

    Harry potter all the way.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 9:51 PM

    My son loves the books, he has read them all at least 3 times. I have bought him “Fantastic Beasts” and “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” for Christmas. He said they are so much better than the movies.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 6:20 PM

    My 7 year old grandson is a great reader & I want to get him a good book for Christmas. Ide welcome any suggestions please! :-)

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    Dec 10th 2016, 6:31 PM

    Can’t go wrong with Roald Dahl for fiction & if he likes fact the Horrible History /Geography /Science books are brilliant

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    Dec 10th 2016, 8:02 PM

    @Colette Kearns: The Horrid Henry series is great, my 7 year old daughter has read them all

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    Dec 10th 2016, 9:48 PM

    David Walliam books are very popular also.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 10:50 PM

    The Rover books by Roddy Doyle are great too.

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    Dec 11th 2016, 7:15 AM

    The beast quest series are great for small kids. Short managable chapters and Roald Dahl of course.

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    Dec 11th 2016, 9:55 PM

    The David Williams books are popular with that age group

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    Dec 10th 2016, 11:13 PM

    Pretty much anything by Enid Blyton Secret Seven, Famous Five, Malory Towers, St Clare’s
    Moved on to Chalet School books later (the Armada versions) now from time to time I see the ones in the series that I missed as a child on Amazon & buy them and read them even now

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    Dec 10th 2016, 5:45 PM

    Toms midnight garden

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    Dec 10th 2016, 7:20 PM

    Oh wow, memories flooding back, so imaginative, dreamlike and magical

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    Dec 10th 2016, 5:16 PM

    The Diary of Samauel L. Pepys

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    Dec 10th 2016, 9:00 PM

    Yeah right

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    Dec 10th 2016, 6:52 PM

    The Old Testament.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 7:06 PM

    @Alex Falcone: a well known work of total fiction but far too gothic and warped for young impressionable minds.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 7:13 PM

    The sequel was great also.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 10:27 PM

    You two really never stop do you?

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    Dec 11th 2016, 9:55 PM

    Too many plot holes.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 10:42 PM

    I couldn’t get enough of Enid Blyton. Loved how the kids got to the root of the mysteries.

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    “Miranda! You rang the bells!!”

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    Under the hawthorn tree. An amazing book. I read it when I was about 10/11 but it’s always been in my head.

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    When the Wind Blows – J. Patterson
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    Dec 10th 2016, 6:51 PM

    PG Wodehouse or HG Wells. I had no idea who wrote the first or what it was called at the time…..I found it in a c wardrobe but it had no covers !….it was really funny.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 10:19 PM

    The Hounds of the Morrigan, often re-read it still, the original Winnie the Pooh ( pre Disney) Where the Wild Things Are, The Velveteen Rabbit ( used part of it in our wedding booklet ) The Discworld books , Artemis Fowl series , The Alchemist series , Skullduggery Pleasant series, chronicles of Narnia

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    Turf cutter’s donkey

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    Dec 11th 2016, 2:52 AM

    Black beauty the little princess The secret garden Mallory Towers Famous five

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    Dec 11th 2016, 12:57 AM

    Danny Champion of the world…. debate over

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    Danny the champion of the world

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    Dec 10th 2016, 8:47 PM

    @Skeyes & @ Patrick Mc Garry thank you so much x.

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    Robinson Crusoe.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 6:00 PM

    krampus

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    Dec 11th 2016, 2:18 AM

    Famous five .

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    Dec 11th 2016, 6:40 AM

    Malory Towers!! The original 6 book box set!! First published between 1946 and 1951….I got the set for Christmas in 1974 when I was very young!! Fabulous…loved those stories! Still have the set!

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    Dec 10th 2016, 9:52 PM

    Secrets of the school underground – never met anyone else that read it never mind like it

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    Dec 10th 2016, 9:40 PM

    My Camp My dad used to read it to me in an angry German accent

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    Dec 10th 2016, 10:28 PM

    If you’re going to try and provoke a response because you need the attention (a) give the book it’s proper title and (b) get a correct translation.

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    Dec 11th 2016, 12:12 AM

    a) Didn’t think it would provoke a response but thanks for stopping by b) Intentionally misspelt as a child would hear it c) Have a lovely evening you barrel of laughs you !

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    Dec 11th 2016, 9:59 PM

    Marry me, Daniel!

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    Dec 10th 2016, 11:26 PM

    The Life of the Saints…?

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    Dec 10th 2016, 11:28 PM

    The Dictionary as it was full of rude words lol.

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    Dec 11th 2016, 12:26 PM

    When the Luvenders came to Merrick Town by June Considine. I still have it. Also loved Bert, Nan, Fred and Flossie the Bobbsey Twins by Laura Lee Hope. Anne (with an ‘e’!!) of Green Gables also a favourite. At some stage in my early teens brought A Town Like Alice on holiday to France. Loved it to absolute bits.

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    Dec 11th 2016, 3:01 PM

    Huckleberry Finn. Billy Bunter. Asimov.

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    Dec 10th 2016, 10:30 PM

    Famous Five, Secret Seven, St Clare’s, Malory Towers, The Chalet School

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    Dec 10th 2016, 5:21 PM

    George’s Marvellous Medicine

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