Help me find this book - Pobble!

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When I was a little girl I had a book which told the story of the pobble losing his toes.

It definitely wasnt the Edward Lear poem, it was a proper fairly lengthy childrens book.

Only other thing I really remember is there.was some sort of dark shadowy shark like villain but the rest is lost to.me.

Any ideas wise mumsnet? Google only gives me Lear

The pobble who had no toes, had once as many as we...
Are you sure it wasn't just an unfamiliar version of the Lear one, I mean a different edition to the one you know? I think the Lear poem does go into detail of how the toes were lost.
I haven't heard of it being incorporated into someone else's story, sorry, that doesn't really help you.

No it was a proper full on book, not a poem at all.

I have a vague recollection that the pobble might have been in a school type setting and as I say there was a villain of some sort who maybe was a shark, or turned into a shark- pretty sure he had some involvement in the toes going missing

www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ll/pobble.html

It's not in a book but I think this is the poem you're after. A porpoise steals his nose flannel while he's swimming the Bristol Channel and his toes disappear.

There's some used versions available here

If its not that, then you may be mixing it up with something else. I'm sure there's only one version of how the pobble lost his toes...

Could it be another of his poems? I used to adore The Quangle Wangle's Hat. Maybe you had a collection of his poems?

www.amazon.com/Pobble-Toes-Little-Books-Nonsense/dp/0246128828?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

This is a book based on the poem it says

I remember having a book called pobble and the runcible spoon.i cannot find any reference to it via Google,but I suspect it was the same one you had.loved that book and wish I'd kept it!

I am definitely not mixing it up with the poem, trust me there was an entire book!

@stillinvinganzoo I think that's it but it's the runcible cat

this?