Favourite but obscure

Oh, and Redwall by Brian Jacques.

Mollie Hunter

The Kelpie's Pearls
The Stronghold
The Ghosts of Glencoe 😢

Toofle: I made one of my dolls a yellow outfit like Jane gets from Aunt Cora.

I think what I liked about it was Jane got to be important without actually changing her moodiness. Often books that start with the bad-tempered one getting their wish end up with them being a plaster-saint at the end. Jane is still Jane, although you can also see that she's been helped by being the important one for a while.

The tree that sat down

Do you know, I LOVED that book..but never met anyone else who has read it! Also remember that there was "The stream that stood still" and I think maybe another one?

You've made my day!

Witchend:
"We can go. We can all go. A rich aunt's died who I never knew, and left me a thousand pounds!"

Toofle I love that one too. :D

Witchend, we have a lot of the same stuff in our heads.

Anyone else love Noel Streatfeild's Painted Garden? That's my favourite of hers.

I came on here to say the Sadlers Wells books as well Don'tKnow

And I was horrified to find out that The Three Investigators books are out of print when I went to try and buy the first one for DD as I loved them and thought she would like them.

Carbonel is still in print I think - I have the first two, and managed to pick the last one up a couple of years back, it was in a posh-edition hardback though.

Lots of lovely books already mentioned. I loved Afke's Ten - it's a dutch classic about - you've guessed it - a family of ten children

I recently reread Brenda of Beech House - really lovely scenes of early Girl Guiding - its author, Dorothea Moore - was a guider.

Also recently read the Victorian classic Froggy's Little Brother. I have to confess that I thought it'd be very saccharine but - for me - it was very moving.

The man who was magic by Paul Gallico.Everyone should meet Adam and his dog Mopsey

my parents kept loads of our old books, some my girls will never read, some my hubby refuses to read as the font is so tiny, others are much loved. Bullerby Children, Noel Streatfield, E. Nesbit, Bogwoppit, Necklace of raindrops, Supergran (all 4), Carbonel, Charlotte Sometimes and lots more. Heidi I never liked the books so my sister now has those, we had all the Famous Five books, Family from One End Street, Treasure Seekers, Oggy the hedgehog, Rag Dolly Anna, Little Grey Rabbit (I loved Little Grey Rabbit)

Wings over Witchend is a title I remember. Set near the Long Mynd IIRC

One in a series of 20 Lone Pine books by Malcolm Saville. Wings is one of my favourites-I read it to ds each Christmas.
They're set in various places, the Long Mynd ones (which include Wings) Rye ones, a London one, Yorkshire, Orford and a couple in Dartmoor.

Cora Ravenwing by Gina Wilson. Nobody else has ever heard of it but it was brilliant, and really sad for a children's book.

Also liked Trebizon series, especially The Tennis Term at Trebizon. I reread that one constantly!

Wings over Witchend is a title I remember. Set near the Long Mynd IIRC

The Emma series by Honor Arundel

The Greyhound by Helen Griffiths. I read it in second year juniors and absolutely loved it. It's out of print now but I managed to get a copy a few years ago on Amazon.

@TizzyDongue I saw Bogwoppit in the library on Thursday! Not just on a normal shelf, on a stand to highlight a few books. I loved it when I was young.

And the ghost and Bertie boggin. And Ursula Bear

Sorry to ask a really random question - about a book I read at school in english (I think?), 1980s.

Can anyone remember a book about a boy that ends up living on a Scottish estate, adventure, swimming in the loch, there were wild animals. Some kind of danger/drama and I remember that he learned to swim though a submerged tunnel (with air stop along the way) to a hidden cave or something - somehow this was related to saving the day against poachers or something? sorry this is really vague.

I can't for the life of me remember the title or any part of it - something like 'laird' rings a bell but thats all i've got? I think my kids would love it (DS 10 and DD 8) and I'd love to track it down.

any clues appreciated!

thanks
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'From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler.'

My favourite book when I was 10.

Ooh and The Family From One End Street (I think that's what it was called).

I loved A Dream of Sadlers Wells and the sequels.

Also The three Toymakers and sequels.

The Silver Crown

Yes yes to Fell Farm books, Noel Streatfeild (especially the Gemma books), the Heidi bioks (I had lovely hardback versions), Monica Dickens.

I also remember a very old book I found in a book stall at a school fete called Polly of Primrose Hill about an orphan girl who goe sto live with an old man and his sickly daughter. Very like Anne of Green Gables kind of thing though I think set in 30s or 40s UK.

The Little Wooden Horse by Ursula Moray Williams
Hazel the Guinea Pig (can't remember authour name)

Shadow the Sheepdog by Enid Blyton
The Poky Little Puppy (can't remember author's name)
Guinea Pig Podge by Racey Helps
The Little Grey Rabbit series by Alison Uttley
Catch as Catch Can by Margaret Ruth Brown (very obcure book about a pair of porcelain antique dogs wo get seperated at an auction but come to life at night and try to find each other with the help of real live dogs. Sounds odd but I loved it. Printed early 80s)

Ugly Wuglies beyond terrifying! I liked Harding’s Luck.

I agree the Kiplings are wordy.

Great to find another Betsy fan..