Favourite but obscure

Orlanda- my favourite E. Nesbit were and still are The Story of the Amulet and The Enchanted Castle. Remember the Ugly Wuglies? Absolutely terrifying! I loved Puck of Pook’s Hill and Rewards and Fairies, but I’m not sure how many children would read them now. They are very wordy.

Orlanda yes Understood Betsy is the US title; in the UK it was published by Bodley Head with the title Betsy. I own the same edition I used to borrow from the library as a child; glorious book!

Ruby Holler, and Walk Two Moons. Both by Sharon Creech.

I wish I could afford to read the last books in the Trebizon series!

Mine are:

• The Dolphin Crossing
• Oscar and the Ice Pick
• The Gumdrop series

Phantom Tollbooth appeared on dd's primary school reading list as well. And Tom's Midnight Garden/Carrie's War.

Lots of the above plus

Patricia Lynch, the Grey Goose of Kilneven, the Bookshop on the Quays.

I can jump puddles.

Pollyanna and sequels.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
A Girl of the Limberlost
Understood Betsy.. ( is that it?)
Emily of New Moon and sequels,

100 million Francs

The bronze bow
Children of the House ( heartbreaking)

Les Malheurs de Sophie, such a naughty little girl

My naughty little sister, a classic. My older sister used to read it to enraged me...

Puck of Pook’s Hill
Rewards and Fairies
The Just So Stories
The Jungle Book
Kim

Roger Lancelyn Green’s Tales.. of the Norsemen/King Arthur and.. etc

The Phantom Tolbooth
The story of Ferdinand the Bull ( top top fave now)
The Little Wooden Horse

Heidi is not obscure yet - it has always been one of dd's favourite books. There are usually at least two or three different versions of it in any decent bookshop. I know this because dd was very fussy about her preferred translation and used to check obsessively.

The Noel Streatfield books are still quite commonplace too, and the Secret Garden/Little Princess. And Stig of the Dump appeared on one of dd's school reading lists a couple of years ago, so don't think that one is too obscure yet either.

My old favourite that seems to have gone out of circulation now is All About the Bullerby Children by Astrid Lindgren, and the others in that series. I used to love them, but have only been able to track down old second hand copies for dd to read.

Carbonel, Rumer Godden ( Holly and Ivy, The Diddakoi, Greengage Summer); Green Knowe, E. Nesbit, Elizabeth Goudge Little White Horse, Linnets and Valerians/ The Runaways, yes yes yes.

Mishmishmish, love the name.. reason for choosing?

Witchend Fell Farm Holiday is the third one. I tracked them all down on AbeBooks last year for DD who is completely disinterested . Loved them and was so excited the first time I went through the Lake District.

Little White Horse
Lone Pine Club
Bobby Brewster

Green Knowe series...
Land of Green Ginger
Some of the 5 children and it/Phoenix and the magic carpet stories

I love The Greengage Summer too, bookworm14! Also Rumer Godden's The Peacock Spring.

Carbonel
The Box of Delights
The Faraway Tree
The Great Granny Robbery

These were all childhood favourites of mine which my son is now enjoying.

Also - The Greengage Summer, anyone? One of the best coming of age stories ever written.

Oh, the Melendys! I must reread those. I was obsessed with finding secret rooms for a while after reading The Four-Storey Mistake.

Fell Farm yes, though I preferred Swallows and Amazons, the Melendys yes.

Phoebe and the hot water bottles yes but if you don't have a copy, have you seen the price it goes for!

Phoebe and the hot water bottles.

The Jill books by Ruby Ferguson are hilarious and great for any pony-mad DCs - ridiculous wish-fulfillment stuff, but really enjoyable.

Elizabeth Enright's Melendy family books are brilliant, starting with The Saturdays.

Has anyone else read the Fell Farm Set. Fell Farm campers, Fell Farm Christmas, I think and one more?

Then Eric Leyland adventure stories were loved by dd1 at one point. Vaguely spy types I think.

Yy to hayboxes. Think they featured in The Kerry Caravan which was a fave of mine.

Also loved Rebecca’s World
Lion at Large

And a favourite of my mum’s from the 40s - Brown Mouse.

Bogwoppit by Ursula Moray Williams. Loved it as a child;couldn't say if it's out of print now though.

Yes, I wouldn't count most of these as obscure, just old and some out of print.

Demon Island by I think Cecil Baldock is one my DC liked and no one else seems to have completed me across.
Some of the rarer Malcolm Saville ones, especially the Marston Haines spy series probably count (although the Buckingham series is also good, but not as rare)
I'm sure we've got other rate ones I can find later.

I don't know how many of these are obscure.

My DD had read a lot of them - but maybe that's because I kept my own copies (and in some cases my Mum's copies) which she has read.

Crown of Violet is Geoffrey Trease.
Also Cue for Treason by him.

I don't think Secret Garden or A Little Princess are obscure these days - my dd has been given copies of both (and I have my old copies).

Love to see that Trebizon is on the list - I absolutely loved it, but have seen some mixed reviews here! I've bought the new versions for my dd and she loves them too and has got all her friends reading them