Childhood books

Thinking back to my childhood I can clearly remember books that I read or were read to me and what impact they had on me as a child. Ones in particular I remember well were, The Cat In The Hat, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, Alice In Wonderland, Goosebumps, The stories of puddlelane, Enid Blyton - The Faraway Tree etc. These were some of my favourite books because they were all about magical lands and places that you dreamed existed as a child. I was convinced that one day I would be able to get into Narnia from my wardbrobe and I remember the countless times I pulled back the clothes from the rack hoping to see the lamp post and be greeted by Mr Tumnus. I enjoyed stories that fed my imagination and kept me believing that there were other lands and creatures that no one else knows about. I was always creative as a child, making houses for my teddies out of boxes and painting and pretending all the time. I remember after reading Alice In Wonderland I asked my mom to buy mushrooms from the supermarket because I believed it would make me smaller like Alice. All these books that were based around magical fairytale lands have stayed with me in life and I think was the start of me wanting to become a writer. Not to write about fairytale lands but because I saw writing as a key to a new world of imagination and now I love the idea of creating stories and characters through writing.