Is there a magical website that helps you find books from your childhood?

[NigelWithTheBrie79]

I've tried googling details I remember for different books but no luck as of yet.

[quote Loookinmecoookboook]@bookworm14 that’s it! Thank you! I can get it for my son now.[/quote]
My post above is about the series. I thought I'd quoted the first person to mention Over Sea Under Stone. There are 5 books to enjoy. 😁

[quote Loookinmecoookboook]@bookworm14 that’s it! Thank you! I can get it for my son now.[/quote]
Hooray!

Loved The Grey King!

@postitnot

Loved The Grey King!

The whole series is wonderful. I reread The Dark is Rising every Christmas.

Hmm, Witch Week is also the right era, but I can't shake the idea that dragons were involved too.

@SexyNeckbeard you could be right! I was convinced the pony was called Kestrel but maybe I got confused. I devoured so many pony books as a child I'm amazed I can tell them apart anyway. Such powerful nostalgia.

@x2boys

I was an avid reader as a child ,I remember a book probably not a children's book as I read anything and everything, A young women had had a child out of wedlock ( it was probably set in the 60,s or 70,s ) that she named Gaye ,they lived with her parents father not on the scene ,the women's mother took over most of the childcare whilst the young women worked , The women decided to take the child on holiday to a caraven for a weekend and for the first time had to do the childcare ( the child was about three ) somehow the child's father turned up and they spent time as a family and got married and lived happily ever after 🤣, I think the book was called ,long weekend ,or rainy weekend or something I have never been able to find it ,I know the story probably sounds dull but it's stayed with me for years!

@x2boys this sounds like The Longest Weekend by Honor Arundel. The young mum, Eileen, takes her 3 year old daughter Gay away for the weekend. Up until now her mother has done much of the childcare. Eileen’s boyfriend Joel, Gay’s father, turns up. Published 1980.

Anyone remember a book where a boy shrinks & he’s living in the supermarket in a freezer? Something to do with frozen peas. It sounds really bizarre so I might have remembered it wrong but I’ve been trying to work it out for ages.

@NoisyBrain

Hmm, Witch Week is also the right era, but I can't shake the idea that dragons were involved too.

Not Earthsea? No, no broomsticks.

This is bugging me now!

@Ilovealido

Anyone remember a book where a boy shrinks & he’s living in the supermarket in a freezer? Something to do with frozen peas. It sounds really bizarre so I might have remembered it wrong but I’ve been trying to work it out for ages.

There is a story called The Little Girl and the Tiny Doll, about a doll who lives in a freezer.

Oh wow @pollyhemlock I have googled this for years!

@bookworm14, oh wow, thank you! I’ll just check it out now.

@bookworm14- that’s it, I could cry! Thank you so much. It’s just how I remembered it. I’m going to order it for my daughter for Christmas.

[quote SalaciousCrumble]@SexyNeckbeard you could be right! I was convinced the pony was called Kestrel but maybe I got confused. I devoured so many pony books as a child I'm amazed I can tell them apart anyway. Such powerful nostalgia.[/quote]
Jane badger books is publishing a lot of pony books on kindle if you fancy a canter down memory lane!

Awesome thread!

[quote Ilovealido]@bookworm14- that’s it, I could cry! Thank you so much. It’s just how I remembered it. I’m going to order it for my daughter for Christmas.[/quote]
You’re very welcome!

Does anyone remember a book about a series of (domestic) adventures of a girl called Lottie? I think that was her name, and the book was a Swedish translation. She fell from a roof and was hurt, and everyone brought her lovely presents? The gardener said something like 'we thought that that was it for our little Lottie'. Funny the things that stick with you...

@pastapestoparmesan that's The Greatest Gresham! I loved that book as a child but my own children were very meh when I got them a copy.

@FazedNotPhased

Does anyone remember a book about a series of (domestic) adventures of a girl called Lottie? I think that was her name, and the book was a Swedish translation. She fell from a roof and was hurt, and everyone brought her lovely presents? The gardener said something like 'we thought that that was it for our little Lottie'. Funny the things that stick with you...

This is Mardie by Astrid Lindgren.

@FazedNotPhased Sounds like the Lotta series by Astrid Lindgren.

It’s Mardie where she falls off the roof.

@bookworm14 Yes, I think it’s Mardie rather than Lotta.

@MissyB1 There was a series of books about Brownies written in the 1970s by Verily Anderson. Unfortunately there don't seem to be many still available and I couldn't find one about Christmas.

@bookworm14 you have a very apt username!

@bookworm14