Obscure children's books that you used to love

Tai-Lu abroad 50s book about a Siamese cat. Can't remember much about it now but I kept re-reading it - probably because there weren't many books in the house.

Oooh, Power of Three is fantastic. One of my very favourites when I was younger. Must get it for DD.

DeeWe, we know Hagbane's Doom The Musical rather too well, as DD was Hagbane in the school's version (she has the hair for it), but I hadn't heard of the other books. Might have a rootle on Ebay and surprise her.

Dog called Pal, stupid autocorrect. Nothing to do with a Clooney at all.

Oh please: has anyone heard of a set of books (3 I think) where the children went through, not over, a wall into another land called Aquilegia? Been trying to track them down for ever.
I really liked the Kemlo books, about children living on a sort of International Space Station, and because they were born there they dudn't need breathing apparatus.
Then I also love, still do for reading aloud to children, The Voyage of QV66 by Penelope Lively. Wonderful anthropomorphic characters, a dog called Amal (because if the picture on a can of dog food), a motherly cow, a kitten who is brainless and pretty etc, all trying to find what Stanley is. It's brilliant to do the voices.

I also loved What-a-mess. I had a strange book called Rackety Packety House which was about dolls living together. They were all rather irritating I seem to remember. My really obscure one was Fifth Form at St Dominic's by Talbot Baines Reed. It was written in the 1880s and I just loved it. I was born nearly a hundred years later. And a girl. But archaic boys' school stories really floated my boat.

DeeWe - that musical must be something to behold!!

And yes, very CS Lewis derived...

Henrietta yes I had them as Sunday school prizes. There's two more. Turin's revenge and Something's (tugbad?) Lair if I remember correctly. They're also released them under different names (and renamed the children too)and there's a musical based on Hagbane's Doom too.

Although Hagbane's Doom was so clearly an imitation of The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe it was irritating, but Gublak's greed was excellent.

Oh, and the Silver Crown. Creepy!

I have the full set of Wells books plus every children's book that Noel Streatfeild wrote.

Other old favourites include (and I have copies of all these):
Rebecca's World
The Lost Prince
The Whispering Knights
The Midwinter Violins
The Tree That Sat Down, The Stream that Stood Still, The Mountain of Magic and The Wickedest Witch in the World - all by Beverly Nichols.

I also loved the books Masha and The Circling Star by Mara Kaye but can't find copies that don't cost £££.

The Kangaroo With a Hole in Her Pocket

www.amazon.co.uk/Kangaroo-Hole-Her-Pocket-Rejane/dp/B0006CPTVM/ref=sr_1_sc_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1437418528&sr=8-2-spell&keywords=the+kangaroo+with+a+whole+in+her+pocket

Makes me think of my dad - he read it regularly at bedtime.

And the Mrs Pepperpot books which reminds me of my infant school teacher.
www.amazon.co.uk/Pepperpot-Stories-Summer-Reading-Collections/dp/0099411393/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1437418584&sr=8-1&keywords=mrs+pepperpot

Yes I now remember The Endless Steppe and also used to make my dad read The Cow That Fell Into The Canal most nights.
The Sue Barton nurse series were great too but the children's library we went to most weeks didn't stock all of them.
Phantom Tollbooth was awesome.
Flat Stanley was another favourite but I'm not sure if that's very obscure.

Btw, rather a random one but does anyone remember Hagbane's Doom, Gublak's Greed & Surin's Revenge?

Anyone remember Granny Perkins' Thinking Cap? My absolute fave when I was wee.

Another vote for Phoebe and the Hot Water Bottles - beautifully illustrated.

Professor Peabody's First Case. There are questions on each page so you can help the professor solve the case, we've still got a very dog eared copy, loved by me and both Ds's ( now both in their teens).

Free ah yes we had Island of the Blue Dolphin too so magical, will check with my mum when I see her next if she has it still.

marsh just in case you're wondering I had to go to Haynes Lane yesterday and the old bookstore place has gone but a new one just outside the sort of main entrance past the crockery is there. I looked briefly but didn't see a huge amount of children's books but had 5-10 minutes. I'm sure if more time I could unearth classics or ask for them to be looked out for!

Oh yes, Grimble was magnificent!

Probably not that obscure, but I absolutely adored The Naughtiest Girl books from Enid Blyton, though they seem to be some of her lesser known ones. My copy is falling apart!

Oh and "there is no such thing as a dragon". Very much like not now Bernard - the grown ups ignore the child's plea to see the dragon / feed the dragon etc and it eats everything and grows out if the doors, windows and chimney!

Adding Grimble - DH favourite childhood book . I hadn't heard of it.

Another vote for arabels raven etc.

And many of the above.

Annabel and Bryony - oh I loved it so much I wrote to the author. Had a heartbreaking reply: she wrote two sequels, but alas, sales figures on the first book had been bad so... Had I been older I might have begged for manuscript copies!