After reading some comics
Enid Blyton - perhaps my first English book
soon "graduated" to the routine stuff
three investigators
hardy boys
Nancy Drew - ( just one or two - I convinced myself this is a girls book
),
I enjoyed them but they were never my "favourites", I simultaneously developed an interest in "World Classic series" (mostly abridged)
My favourites were
1. Robin Hood
2. Treasure Island
3 Mobi Dick (faniced myself on the deck many days!)
4. Alice in Wonderland )didn't like it much then - too unrealistic for me!)
5. Comedy of Errors
6. Robinson cursoe
7. Kidnapped
(I guess you get the picture
)