Impact!

    

    Can you remember the first book you read which had an impact on you?
     Maybe it was something read to you often as a child, or the first book you read independently, or something later on which filled your imagination and made a big impression - for whatever reason that might be.
                                                                                                                                                                               Mr. C. cites Richmal Crompton's William books, I'd probably go for Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle,  Enid Blyton's Malory Towers (but look at the modern covers - a travesty!!) or The Famous Five, and then the pony books by the Pullein-Thompson sisters, Pat Smythe and Ruby Ferguson (she of the delightful Lady Rose and Mrs. Memmary) - it's good to see that her 'Jill' stories will be back in print soon thanks to Fidra Books!.

There were others, too, of course, but those are the earliest ones and they did make a big impression on me.
How about you?