Obscure children's books that you used to love

Anyone read the book with an owl that said 'gronk' and 'flunk'? Gronk has our family exclamation of grumpiness ever since, but the name of the book now has a very rude meaning and the book seems to not be around anymore (googling brings some interesting results). Be interested to know if anyone else remembers it!

I don't remember them getting married Niminy - it's about what happens in Ww1 when their fathers have to go and fight so Jansci has to run the farm on his own, and then they have to go on a journey to rescue one of them.

The other series I love was the Foxwood series. Like Farthing Wood but the animals lived in proper houses and wore clothes!

Oh, so many of these that I remember! I probably averaged a book a night for several years in my early teens and lots of these are bringing back memories even if I don't recognise the titles.

Seeing as mine haven't been mentioned yet, I'm guessing they are pretty obscure:
The Bunjee Venture (time travel with a speaking, woolly-mammoth-esque bunjee)
The Pobble and the Runcible Cat (not the poem, a story by Muriel Lamb based on it)
Miss Jaster's Garden (short-sighted old ladies sows seeds on a hibernating hedgehog who then walks off with all her flowers)
and my all-time favourite, The Winter Bear (poem, kids find a battered old teddy bear stuck in a tree).

Funnily enough, all of them were stories I remember my dad reading to me. He will always be a bunjee and Treebeard from Lord of the Rings to me. Eep eep worra worra frenlee frenlee bunjee...

And in case anyone can remember this, my mum and I wish we had never thrown out a story we refer to as Emily Woodmouse. It was in a series of small, thin books which were square with a green cover on the back. Emily Woodmouse collected seeds, nuts and berries etc for her larder - I'm picturing a bramble - and that's about as much as I remember. Illustrated. Anyone know the book I mean?!

Has anyone read Requiem for a Princess by Ruth M Arthur? It was about a teenage girl who had just found out accidentally that she was adopted, and she was upset and didn't want to talk to her parents about it, but ended up processing it on holiday in Cornwall by going back in time and living the life of an adopted Spanish girl in the sixteenth century? It had a lot of piano playing in, which I loved.

Countess of Fitzdotterel I found a copy of The Good Master a couple of years ago to my joy, but I'venever read The Singing Tree. Is that the sequel? If so, do Kate and Jansci get married?

Ahhh, *Ultramarine not Aquamarine.

The Aquamarine series by Jenny Nimmo. The first one was the Rainbow and Mr Zed and whenever I mention it, people look at me like I'm speaking ancient greek!

Thanks to whoever mentioned Girls of the Rose Dormitory- had completely forgotten this but just found it on Amazon in a volume with Good for Gracie! and A Rebel Schoolgirl. Happy days

SuperFly I know Haynes Lane but never bought any books there weirdly, just crockery mainly.

Cow who Fell in the Canal is an old favourite and Anatole too - think it's Anatole the Cleverest Mouse in France? Would makes great film, I always thought, but then they made Ratatouille which is a bit too similar maybe.

Another French book I loved is One Hundred Million Francs about a gang of very poor and streetwise kids in Paris who uncovered some dastardly doings. It's a really exciting and evocative read - I always longed to be an urchin running round the streets of Paris after reading it.

Thank you therealsquireofwildacre

I think I only had the one Blackberry Farm book. I expect my mum picked it up at a jumble sale or fete.

I had a few of the blackberry farm books. They were lovely. Mr Nibbles Calls a Doctor was my favourite.

Pesto Mrs Nibbles was part of the Blackberry Farm series: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackberry_Farm_(books)

'Fat Tulip' by Tony Robinson.

Many of my favourites on here already, but no-one has mentioned Kate Seredy 'The Good Master' and 'The Singing Tree'.

Consulate I loved The Endless Steppe! I wanted to use it for my Open Study but I believe it's a translation so they wouldn't let me.

I loved The Endless Stepoe when I was a tween. In a similar vein to The Diary of Anne Frank, it's the memoir of a Polish girl who was exiled to Siberia during the war. It was pretty tough reading but I was enthralled by it.

Loved...
Mousehole Cat
Comic and Curious cats
Monkeys Marching Band
Brambly Hedge
Kabouter by Rien Poortvliet
There was another one called something like Georgina and the Dragon. It was awesome, but unfortunately I can't find it anywhere!
Oh and the Jolly Witch

Oh I've just remembered another one - a mouse who lived in a French cheese factory, with his wife and their 3 sets of twins, Claude and Claudette, George and Georgette and I can't remember the 3rd set - he was called Anatole and he used to come out at night and score the cheeses out of 10.
I loved that book, I wanted his job!

I remember one from when I was very small called 'Mrs Nibbles moves house'. About a family of rabbits who used a wheelbarrow to move house. I don't know why, but it really resonated with me

I also loved the Ant & Bee books, which I used to take out from the library.

Lastly, there was I think a French author who used to write older childrens/young teenager stories which involved quite exciting adventures I think, one involved a place flooding. Sadly I can't recall the name of the author and I didn't own any of his books as I used to borrow them from our local library.

Snozzberry We are Manx and it will be a lovely addition to my Manx collection of books.

Another book Angry Arthur about the rage that takes over a small boy and destroys the universe leaving him on his bed on a floating bit of Mars in space thinking "why was I so angry ?"
Very weird and I thought Japanese but the author is South African Hiawyn Oram , however the illustrator IS Japanese, Satoshi Kitamura.
It's a great book and my toddlers loved it during the terrible years .

Glad to be of help, trumpton - I hope it's as good as I remember!

snozzberrypie just ordered Manx Mouse . Paul Gallico . Thank you.

nimimny - I recall having a book which my mum has kept about Laplanders - more of an informative but sort of 'life as a Laplander'.

I still have Z for Zachariah - never read it until about 15-16 but amazing for its time if a bit depressing then.