Look what's NOT back in print...

Swish of the curtain series are being republished by Longwater books (unabridged) - only the 5th in the series Maddy Again has yet to be published. Check amazon - they are all about £10 new.

Noel Streatfield are also republished but for some inexplicable reason they seem to have changed most of the titles to ones ending in 'shoes' eg Party Frock has become 'Party Shoes'

Noggin The Nog.

Bottersnikes and Gumbles.

I am that Noel Streatfield books are out of print. I shall have to raid my parents' bookshelves when they are not looking.

Themumsnot - sometimes just sometimes they do come back. I lent a book i loved to my sister who lent it to a work colleague. Ten years later and both of them living in different town to where they used to work, they bumped into one another. The colleague still had my book, returned to my sister and i now have been reacquainted with it. I thought it was lost to the ether.

I ahve a copy of "The Youngest Lady in Waiting" which is apparently worth £200, I found it in Hay on Wye about 20 years ago for 50p. I'm still cross that I didn't buy "Masha" fro 50p from Cambridge library about 25 years ago.
"The Swish of the Curtain" is available on Amazon for £6.97.

Charlotte Sometimes is an amazing book (and also a often-listend to song in my house)

I lent my copy to a friend a few years ago, and she lost it, the twit. I keep meaning to get another one.

Takver I have a copy of all the Beverly Nichols' books and they still read really well (I agree though, that the Mountain of Magic is bonkers!).

I also have a copy of Rebecca's World. It's one of the few books that I don't lend out.

I've managed to track down all the Sadler's Wells and NS books over the years but they do seem to be getting more and more pricey.

I've been looking for some Mara Kay books for ages. A Circling Star is currently selling for about £200!

Drina Ballerina. Have rescued some from
Mums loft though! Admittedly not a great literary classic but I loved them!

Emily! (the little sister).

Oh, I remember Charlotte Sometimes! The bit at the end when she gets the letter from Claire's little sister, who's now a grown woman with her own children at the school was spine-tingling for me.

Thanks Diana.

So glad other people remember Charlotte Sometimes.

justfloating I used to love the Jill books! Expect you can still get them on amazon marketplace. I actually bought Charlotte Sometimes from there purely out of nostalgia, along with some others that I remember fondly from my childhood like Tom's Midnight Garden and Marianne Dreams

I wish they'd reprint Phoebe And The Hot Water Bottles. It's a brilliant story about a little girl who wants a puppy but her dad keeps buying her hot water bottles instead and she puts them all on leads and pretends that they are dogs. But then she fights a fire with the hot water bottles and finally gets a puppy as a reward for saving the day. It's about £80 on eBay and amazon now :(

I lent my copy of Charlotte Sometimes to a friend a couple of years ago. Never got it back. Remind me not to do that again.

Oh, and also 'The Swish of the Curtain' by Pamela Browne.

Most of Noel Streatfeild's books are out of print. I have bought some on Amazon but I think children would still love them today. She was definitely my favourite writer as a child.
I also used to love a series of books about a girl called Jill who was pony mad. They were really witty and I'd love to re read them.
I also remember a brilliant story called 'Charlotte Sometimes' about a girl at an English boarding school who goes back in time and becomes a girl who attended the school years before her. I've tried to find it a few times in bookshops but it doesn't seem to be available.

Rebecca's World - the one with the Larry Learmonth illustrations. Going for around £150 on Abe Books

Whatamess is out of print? Gah. They were great. Did anyone ever read Sherlock Hound?

I loved the Flying Postman and the What a mess books when I was little. Luckily my mum kept them and so I can now read them to my son. Bit of a tangent but this shows how Richard Scarry books have been changed when re-published.

Me and my brother loved the Whatamess' books in the 80's. I have been looking out for those at boot sales and charity shops without success, they are no longer in print

Strangely DD1 and 2 loved the Drina and Sadler's Wells books and also Malory Towers, Angela Brazil and Antonia Forest, but wouldn't read the Chalet School at all.

They're fab books. I hope dd enjoys them when she's a bit older. Sadly she's never even touched any of my chalet school books. Reckons they look old fashioned and boring!

Viva - I have all the When the War Began series - some of them did have to come from the US! I thought DD1 would like them but she won't read them.

The Drina Ballerina books. I tracked them all down very painstakingly in charity shops but some of them go for £££ online.
Also the Chalet school books and most of the Sadler's Wells series.
DH doesn't understand why I won't get rid of the books the children have grown out of but I want to be sure that they will be able to share them with their own children eventually.

The When The War Began series. The first 3 have recently been republished but not the later ones. I managed to track some down from America but expensive.

The Chalet School series.
You can still get some of them but they're fairly expensive. Would be rather out of date for today's kids but I loved them!