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Help me find this book from my childhood ?

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graveyardsmash · 13/12/2023 21:59

I remember a book from when I was younger late 1990s possibly early 2000s. It was about little elf or fairy type creatures. It was a large hard back book mainly green in colour with lots of little short stories about these creatures in. It quite possibly was a annual but I'm not sure. The illustrations were sort of water colour and basic. I think a lot of the fairy types creatures had w names such as Wanda. It's really bugging me ! Does anyone have any ideas ?

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Falkenburg · 11/01/2024 06:30

This says elves but has a different photo. Contact them
For clarification

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31689822449&cmsp=snippet---srp1--tile1&searchurl=ds%3D10%26spo%3D0%26sortby%3D17%26p%3D1%26an%3DFrancisca%2BFr%25F6hlich%26sp%3D1

eldon93 · 11/01/2024 06:08

graveyardsmash · 11/01/2024 00:10

Now just the problem of trying to get hold of one Confused

9781901094268 (ISBN10: 190109426x)

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graveyardsmash · 11/01/2024 00:10

Now just the problem of trying to get hold of one Confused

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graveyardsmash · 11/01/2024 00:05

Found it, thank you everyone

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graveyardsmash · 14/12/2023 03:18

All these suggestions look like beautiful children's books but I haven't found it yet. I will keep you all updated if I do find my old copy. ( my husbands even agreed to go in the loft at my dads house so hopefully it's still there !!)

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lavenderlou · 14/12/2023 02:44

Probably much older than you are thinking of but when I was young I had some of Lang's fairy books picked up second hand somewhere. They each had a different colour. There is a green fairy book (wish I'd kept them now I see how much they sell for second hand!).

https://onlineshop.oxfam.org.uk/the-green-fairy-book-andrew-lang-the-folio-society-edition/product/HD_301563771?pscid=ps_ggl_OOS+-+Performance+Max+-+ROAS+(Books)_&crm_event_code=20REUWWS08&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAyeWrBhDDARIsAGP1mWQTaodkAC9u1bvARBYEyDgckl35ZMMPtAulpKs1uIi5pV-VrOfIfv0aAj4dEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

chergar · 14/12/2023 02:10

Could it be one of the Purnell books illustrated by Willie Schermele?

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/314817197969?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=BmoaRpCqQvi&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

weatherheather · 14/12/2023 00:21

Adventures of PIp Enid Blyton?

LoreleiG · 14/12/2023 00:13

Fairies and elves by Colin Thubron?

lalalalalullaby · 13/12/2023 23:53

stargirl1701 · 13/12/2023 22:58

Found a green one!

Omg I loved that book, I had completely forgotten it until now, thank you

stargirl1701 · 13/12/2023 23:37

Fingers crossed! Keep us updated if you find it!

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graveyardsmash · 13/12/2023 23:31

@fizzkat no but thank you for trying

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fizzkat · 13/12/2023 23:26

Could it be the Adventures of Timothy and Nicky?

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graveyardsmash · 13/12/2023 23:07

@stargirl1701 thank you so much but sadly not I am heading to my childhood home to visit my dad this week. I'm hoping it's still there somewhere and as soon as I find it I will post a picture here. It's probably one of those obscure books that hardly anyone else has read or heard of. It's so frustrating because I can picture the characters so clearly but can't find anything remotely similar !!

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stargirl1701 · 13/12/2023 22:58

Found a green one!

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graveyardsmash · 13/12/2023 22:57

@no I don't think the illustrations were int he same style. This one I'm thinking of had very basic drawn outlines thin pencil. then it looked like the water colour to colour them in had bled out of the lines in places or missed bits. Very pale and pastel. Very basic drawings. Close to being childlike but not quite

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stargirl1701 · 13/12/2023 22:52

Looked a bit like this. Same illustrator maybe?

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graveyardsmash · 13/12/2023 22:47

@menopausalmare nope not that either but thank you for trying to work out my weird patchy childhood memories Grin

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menopausalmare · 13/12/2023 22:45

Tales for little people.

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graveyardsmash · 13/12/2023 22:42

@stargirl1701 I'm off to Google again but that sounds promising !

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stargirl1701 · 13/12/2023 22:39

Marks and Spencer had an annual like that when I was a child but that's the early/mid 1980s. I think it was under the St Michael brand.

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graveyardsmash · 13/12/2023 22:38

There was also an ermine (stoat) that they collected it's winter white coat from when it shed to make something possibly clothes or bedding

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graveyardsmash · 13/12/2023 22:36

Sorry guys I'm not giving you much to go on. I'm not even entirely sure that they were fairy's but I do think some had wings and some didn't. One of the stories the collected needles of a plant of some sort and used them to make ice skates in the winter

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