Look what's NOT back in print...

The Flying Postman is on eBay from time to time for £90-ish
I bought a copy last year for £30-ish.

Can anyone help me name this book (I've trawled book shops & can't find it); it's a picture book
A teddy (wearing dungarees & a red and white check/plaid shirt) is put in the attic, he finds a mouse & a lady doll (possibly a toy soilder too) in a dolls house...and they become their own family or something like that.

Slightly OT but the Johnny Morris cd of him reading the Just So Stories is also lovely.

I am a HUGE Noel Streatfeild fan. I just read Tea by the Nursery Fire, which is the story of her dad's nanny in Victorian England and is brilliant. Weirdly it only came out last month - I'm sure it's been published before though.
You can see where she got ideas for lots of the nannies in her books from. I've also recently read Saplings, her adult novel which is wonderfully bleak.

Lots of the children's ones are out of print, sadly.

I also loved Charlotte Sometimes and Antonia Fraser. I liked the Jill books too. I never quite got to grips with the Chalet School though.

Thinking about books I loved when I was little is the only time I have a pang about only having boys. I did buy Gobbolino for my oldest and he wasn't having it, so I don't fancy my chances with Ballet Shoes. Mind you, no guarantees a girl would like it either!

My sons have the Johnny Morris CD and they love, love, love it.

stealthsquiggle I don't know if Bagthorpe's are out of print, but the tin shaking is in 'Absolute Zero', and I discovered whilst tidying the other day that we have 2 copies of this! If you would like it pm me with your address and I'll post you a copy!

Are the Bagthorpe books out of print too, then?

I was trying to explain tin shaking to DS the other day.

OP have you tried abebooks? I searched for Gunilla Wolde and there seem to be loads within reach cost wise: www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?an=Gunilla+Wolde&bt.x=0&bt.y=0&sts=t.

And can I join everyone in the love fest for Streatfield, One End Street et al? I was delighted to see my DS happily read through all the ballet focused ones of Streatfield. They're just such good stories.

For the person up-thread looking for books for her DS. I'd recommend another oldie: The series by Elizabeth Enright that starts with The Four-Story Mistake seems to be back in print: www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=8006965315&searchurl=kn%3Dfour%2Bstory%2Bmistake%26sts%3Dt%26x%3D0%26y%3D0. Fab series about a close-knit family of children, first set in New York, then in the countryside (Long Island, I think).

So many more I could list here. Thankfully I hoarded most of my childhood loves, although I had to chuck out a few really musty ones from the 60s that were printed on inferior paper and binding.

Ah yes - I have oodles of Diana Wynne Jones and AND - claim to fame, I have been round Green Knowe! We had all the books and I remember the TV series one Christmas, frightened me so much!

The Parlicoot books by Alex McLeod.
There were copies of them at my GPs house. We still have them but are very, very fragile (well-loved). I'd love to buy new copies so I can actually read them to my DCs properly.

Someone has very kindly put the story and pictures on www.parlicoot.com. But it's just not the same.

Luckily I managed to buy some Pookie books when they were breifly republished a few years ago.

I've got loads of Diana Wynne Jones here.
I've never sold a copy of any of them in the entire 4 years I've been here.
And yet, I would call them classics.

yes, most Susan Coopers are available - in fact, one of my schools is doing the Dark is Rising sequence!

Essie - gobbolino is in print. i have it here

i loved the garden gang! definitely out of print, but i found some in a charity shop and i snapped them up!

lots of Joan Aiken's are back in print - Black hearts in battersea, wolves of willoughby close, dido & pa, necklace of raindrops, cuckoo tree, stolen lake etc.

Ant and Bee

The Family from One end Street is available in all good bookshops
Rusty

BardofBarking How much do you ache? It's on Amazon for £120.00 (gulp). Christmas present from someone who loves you? (A lot!)

Dianne 2000

was it : Five Dolls in a House? I have it upstairs, my dds are not inerested

'The seven times search' I ache for this book.

The majority of Cooper, Garner and Aiken's books are still in print and freely available to order from bookshops or A**n.

Tree That Sat Down will need to be bought secondhand though - a tenner if you're lucky.

Oh yes! Susan Cooper and Alan Garner for definite! And Narnia. And Diana Wynne Jones and The Children of Green Knowe. I could go on for ever, sigh....Bagthorpes, anyone?

Also, am I the only one who, when very stressed, can retreat with a quarter of sweeties and happily re-read these books? I'm nine again, la, la, la, and I don't have bills/mortgage/housework/teenage kids/ to think about.

Oh and all the Joan Aitken, Alan garner, Susan cooper, the tree that nvere sat down trilogy.

Also I have the original tottie book, one end street books and for the fans of Thomas kempe dont forget the revenge of Samuel Stokes!

Bottersnikes and Gumbles

I second or third Whatamess.

For me it HAS to be the Ladybird Talkabout books, and Garden Gang books. Doing fairly well out of second hand stalls, and the fact my DM and DMIL still have all the ones DH and I had as children.

Several picture Puffins: Leo The Late Bloomer. The Wind Blew. The Chick & The Duckling. All still at M&Ds house but would be nice to have a copy here. Rosie's Walk is fucking boring compared to the Wind Blew; both Pat Hutchins. I don't understand.

Oops, missed a page, somehow! Justfloating I think it sounds like 'Five Dolls in a House' by Helen Clare. The dolls were Vanessa, Amanda, Lupin, Jane and Jacqueline - and they had a monkey that lived on the roof and was naughty. The little girl that owned the dolls house used to shrink and go and call on them, saying she was their landlady. Does that sound like it?

I loved Malcolm Saville's Lone Pine series, not keen on the other ones as much. Joan Aiken anyone? Loved the Wolves of Willoughby Chase series particularly. And 'Midnight is a Place'.

I've got 'Charlotte Sometimes'. Justfloatingby they were 'The Family from One End Street', 'Further Adventures of the Family...' and 'Holiday at the Dew Drop Inn'. I loved them too! (And still have them). Lots of us seem to have loved the same books. I loved Noel Streatfield and 'The Swish of the Curtain' books. Loved the Sadlers Wells stories. Also the 'Jill' books and the Gemma stories. Also have all the Beverley Nichols. I really liked the Antonia Forest 'Cricket Term' 'End of Term' etc - and the one I'm missing is 'Peter's Room' which I never got to read as a child. Cheapest I have found it is about £60 (gulp). I am so fortunate that my mother never threw any books out and I still have (and re-read) all my childhood books. It's the ones you loved from the library that I keep trying to track down! Lots of these books are still in print but try abebooks.co.uk for second hand/out of print books.

The Uncle books by JP Martin. Uncle and Uncle Cleans Up were republished a few years ago, but the rest of the series - including the marvellously namely Uncle and the Treacle Trouble are incredibly sought after and expensive. (if you haven't heard of these fantastic books, they are about a millionaire elephant who lives in a castle made up of skyscrapers and wages a constant battle against a crew of baddies headed by a character called Beaver Hateman. Surreal doesnn't really do justice to them.)

Jusfloatingby that has been tickling my brain... Then suddenly popped into my head while watching tv tonight. Do you mean Five Dolls in a House by Helen Clare?
I loved Malcolm Savile too. He is def on my list for DS when he is old enough.
There were the Cherry books by Will Scott too, e.g. The Cherrys on Zigzag atrial. Saw one on That Website for £600!!!