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Look what's NOT back in print...

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forgottoremember · 20/09/2012 22:37

I'm feeling v frustrated that so many books I loved in childhood AREN'T in print, and are only available for insane amounts of money second hand.

For eg
Tilly's House
books by Gunilla Wolde (Thomas bakes a cake etc. etc.)
Benjamin and Tulip

Why is this? Why aren't they republished?

What are your other longed-for books, that can't be got without (not quite) a second mortgage?

OP posts:
TheOriginalSteamingNit · 24/09/2012 11:32

'Tom got very excited and rather cross' - loved that book.

unsureunderneath · 24/09/2012 11:30

I found Lucy and Toms Christmas in a charity shop and bought it for 25p last Christmas. 4yo dd1 loved it as much as me.

Meglet · 24/09/2012 11:26

Mr Rabbit and the Lovely present. My copy is almost 40yrs old and sellotaped together.

festereagain · 24/09/2012 11:24

when they reprinted Carbonel and The Kingdom of Carbonel they did not bother reprinting Carbonel and Calidor Confused

TheOriginalSteamingNit · 24/09/2012 10:39

I've got all the B Nichols books, dd loved them! Mountain of Magic is a bit mental though.

Colyngbourne · 24/09/2012 10:38

Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles is definitely in print and available, though I found my copy in a library sale about fourteen years ago, so it has the old hardback illustrations I remember from my own childhood. It is one of my kids' favourite books from their own childhood too.

Beverley Nichols' books are also available (though not all in print) on Amazon marketplace. I have read them since I was young, and I would still rate The Tree That Sat Down and The Stream That Stood Still as the best of the four. And my children (all pretty much grown up now) would agree.

dotty2 · 24/09/2012 10:06

Fullfridge - I bought The Last of the etc from Amazon (new) a year or two ago having been reminded of it by a MN thread. So if it's out of print now, it has been in print pretty recently.

Frontpaw · 24/09/2012 10:02

Can't get the Shoe Shop Bears either...

Takver · 24/09/2012 09:53

The Beverly Nichols books - The Stream that Stood Still, the Mountain that Moved etc. Mind you I don't know if they would be terrible on reading now! Some books I've gone to great effort to track down and then realised that actually they just weren't that good (Children on the Oregon Trail was one of them).

ReshapeWhileDamp · 24/09/2012 09:27

Shirley Hughes' Lucy and Tom books - some of them are, some of them inexplicably aren't. Confused They're all equally dated (and equally charming and timeless) so I don't get it. Lucy and Tom's Christmas comes up as a no. 1 MNs' favourite Christmas book, but you have to pay silly prices on Amazon for second hand copies.

(I did something very very bad - there was a dog-eared copy of it at a holiday cottage this summer, disregarded at the bottom of a pile of children's books. I half-inched it. Blush I did leave a stack of my own paperbacks as payment though!)

BikeRunSki · 21/09/2012 09:23

We have a very battered and scribbled 40 year old copy of "William the Dragon". I looked on Amazon, then eBay to replace it. 50p or something in 1972, £80 now!

Pascha · 21/09/2012 09:20

The Flying Postman by V.H. Drummond. I made my dad read it every night at bedtime for months and months. I would cry and cry when the postman lost his job and cheer when the strawberry ice cream was a success Grin

I imagine its not in print any more because no bugger but us bought it. It was an appallingly bad story.

kittenspjs · 21/09/2012 09:18

Used to be all the Antonia Forest books, but then a couple of people set up their own publishing company to republish. I think it was Girlsgoneby. It only helped if you knew about the publication dates though, as only a limited number of copies were made so you didn't get one of those, you were back looking at silly prices.

ILoveAFullFridge · 21/09/2012 09:11

The Last of the Really Great Wangdoodles by Julie Andrews