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Obscure children's books that you used to love

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LadyPlumpington · 15/07/2015 20:06

Mine is 'The Island of the Skog' by Steven Kellogg. The DC love it too :)

What are your old obscure favourites?

Obscure children's books that you used to love
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Asleeponasunbeam · 15/07/2015 20:19

I love the Giant Jam Sandwich and so do my DC. Some of Julia Donaldson's books, like 'What the Ladybird Heard', 'Tyrannosaurus Drip' and 'Jack and the Flum Flum Tree' have a very similar rhythm and style.

SuffolkNWhat · 15/07/2015 20:17

The Thief of Always by Clive Barker. Loved that book.

GiddyOnZackHunt · 15/07/2015 20:17

The Overland Launch. It's based upon the night that a Devon lifeboat crew dragged their big wooden boat across Dartmoor to launch it during a huge storm.
I still reread it every five years or so.

Wobblystraddle · 15/07/2015 20:17

Th worst fifth on record. Loved it and read it over and over.

LauraChant · 15/07/2015 20:17

I've read the Giant Jam Sandwich! I had one Noggin book which I loved, just the style of the language and the pictures. It was about mermaids and a fake volcano.

Mine would be King of the Copper Mountain and Camerons at the Castle, although I don't really know if they are obscure or not. I also liked a non fiction Q&A book which had a family of red headed children illustrating all the answers must have been Amercian because they were questions like "Why do we have Thanksgiving?"

RunAwayHome · 15/07/2015 20:15

I've heard of Olga da Polga!

I used to love Thursday's Children, by Rumer Godden. Not that obscure, but not too many people seem to know it.

SaguaroBlossom · 15/07/2015 20:14

Froggy's Little Brother by Brenda. Have very vivid memories of this as a child, it's a serious tear-jerker. I'm very tempted to buy it from Amazon, but keep thinking I'll find my original copy one day in my mother's attic.

LegArmpits · 15/07/2015 20:12

Otto is a Rhino.
They made a terrible film of it a few years ago.

PurpleDaisies · 15/07/2015 20:11

The Tales of Olga da Polga. Written by Michael Bond but no one seems to have heard of it when I rave about how good a book it is! The hero is a guinea pig.

calilark · 15/07/2015 20:09

The Giant Jam Sandwich. Hardly anyone has ever heard of it!

AmazonsForEver · 15/07/2015 20:09

The Noggin the Nog books, though perhaps so obscure?