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Can any help me decide whether this ruddy book was real, or whether I dreamed it?

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GreenLumpyTonsilsAgain · 15/11/2006 21:10

It was called "The Birthday Present" I think. But when I search (Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Waterstones etc) there are other books with the same name but not the one I remember

I was about a child wanting to buy a birthday present for his/her mother, I can't remember whether it was a boy or a girl. Various options get considered and rejected, it goes through all the different colours, and the eventual result is a basket of fruit (ie all the colours in one present). I think there was a rabbit in there somewhere, making suggestions.

Please tell me it really existed. I want to get it for ds2, but I can't find it

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FrannyandZucchini · 15/11/2006 21:19

Yes thank you Greeny, we were very clever to find it for you, weren't we?

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GreenLumpyTonsilsAgain · 15/11/2006 21:18

OK, Mrs Obscure Book Woman, I bet you don't remember two elves called Fudge and Speck

There are two books of them I had, one was called Fudge and the Dragon and the other one I can't remember but it was mostly underwater.

I need to get those for ds1

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GreenLumpyTonsilsAgain · 15/11/2006 21:15

[ashock]

That's it!! Maurice Sendak, the same one who wrote Wheer the Wild Things Are

I am SO getting it for ds2, it is right up his street

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FrannyandZucchini · 15/11/2006 21:15
FrannyandZucchini · 15/11/2006 21:15

To be fair MP you did provide a link

morningpaper · 15/11/2006 21:15

get back to your slash den, filthy lady

FrannyandZucchini · 15/11/2006 21:14

Beat ya again

morningpaper · 15/11/2006 21:14
Angry
morningpaper · 15/11/2006 21:14

damn you Franny

FrannyandZucchini · 15/11/2006 21:14

Beat ya MP

morningpaper · 15/11/2006 21:13

we've got that

Mr Rabbit and the Lovely Present

FrannyandZucchini · 15/11/2006 21:13

Mr Rabbit and the Lovely Present. by Maurice Sendak.

Greeny you should just ask me, about books. I always know

SneakyMouse · 15/11/2006 21:11

Oh!

I remember that one!

I will think more and ask my mum.