h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

For me it is Rupert Bear annuals - I had one every year - and then Milly Molly Mandy

Probably 'Die Kinder von Bullerbü' by Astrid Lindgren. No idea what the title is in English.
I can also remember reading books by Christine Nöstlinger, no idea what was earlier.

what age group would it have been for tav - i can see its the children from . . . .

is Bullerbu a town or village maybe ? can you remember what it was about ?

It was either Noggin the Nog books or a horrid tale about a bear called Horace who ate up several members of the same family!U til only little lulu was left..then he ate her too!
My mum says I learned to read by reading the Guardian! i cant remember not reading.

It was something elementary school. Yes, Bullerbü is a very small village in Sweden with only 3 houses. In one lives the storyteller, a little girl of 8 years or so, can't remember her name and she has two brothers, Lasse and Bosse. In one live two sisters, Inga and something and in the last one Ole, another boy. And there are of course the parents and the people who work at the farms and later Ole gets a little sister.
They're very nice storys about how they live. It's things about drinking lemonade out of buckets after working in the fields and such things. Or once Ole gets a dog which has been mistreated by its master and so. Very nice stories.
All of them go to a very small school in a village nearby. And there's also much talk about what they do on the way to there and so.

they sound lovely tav - much like the little house on the prairie that ditz has mentioned on the other thread

They do dont they. Comfort reading!

oh yes, they're very lovely, there's also a TV series about them I've recently discovered.

They might be called 'Six Bullerby Children' in English... says wiki