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Help me find this book from my childhood!

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CloggingLight · 18/02/2025 19:19

Trying to remember a book so I can read it to my son. I think it was about a stuffed rabbit air maybe a teddy bear or something. It’s either about a rabbit that gets lost or a toy that needs fixing. I can remember a girl in a nurse’s or doctors outfit doing like surgery to fix the teddy. Maybe I’m mixing up two stories but I would love to remember what it is to get it for my son!

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Fushia123 · 18/02/2025 19:27

Could it be Dogger by Shirley Hughes?

Chuchoter · 18/02/2025 19:27

What decade was your childhood?

Comedycook · 18/02/2025 19:28

I think I know what you mean... wracking my brains though

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TheTecknician · 18/02/2025 19:28

It could be a Teddy Robinson story. I'm sure I remember one that featured a visit to a doll's hospital.

CloggingLight · 18/02/2025 19:29

Would have been the 80’s but a lot of my books might have been from my mums childhood.

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CloggingLight · 18/02/2025 19:29

It’s not dogger, I just had a google of that.

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FudgeSundae · 18/02/2025 19:31

Velveteen rabbit? Beautiful book.
or Lollopy?

Arrggghhhhhh · 18/02/2025 19:33

Hospital toys

ItWorriesMeThisKindofThing · 18/02/2025 19:35

Might it be called Alpaca? Did the girl have a birthday party?

CremeEggsForBreakfast · 18/02/2025 19:37

The Doll Hospital?

It also reminds me of Nurse Nancy from the Twinkle magazines my great aunt used to buy me 🙂

EllenDo · 18/02/2025 19:39

Enid Blyton’s the blue eyed cat?

YouLookRadiantCousin · 18/02/2025 19:53

Teddy's Ear by Niki Daly?

Tortielady · 18/02/2025 19:54

CremeEggsForBreakfast · 18/02/2025 19:37

The Doll Hospital?

It also reminds me of Nurse Nancy from the Twinkle magazines my great aunt used to buy me 🙂

I thought of Nurse Nancy as well. Twinkle Comic day was a big event in our house, because it was a Friday and I had the whole weekend to enjoy it after school.

gavisconismyfriend · 18/02/2025 20:00

Sounds like the Velveteen Rabbit

gubbinsy · 18/02/2025 20:00

Could be one of the stories in the Teddy Robinson books? He goes to hospital and there are lots of dolls there? - ignore me - just seen someone above said the same!

Hazey19 · 18/02/2025 20:01

Velveteen rabbit?

Choice4567 · 18/02/2025 20:04

I was going to say Nurse Nancy from Twinkle. It was delivered with the newspaper on a Saturday morning. Oh the joy

Yellowbananasarebetterthangreen · 18/02/2025 20:06

The bear nobody wanted by Janet Ahlberg?
The Bear Nobody Wanted by Janet Ahlberg | Goodreads

GalaxyWasOnOffer · 18/02/2025 20:07

I came to say it sounds like Teddy Robinson where Deborah was a nurse...and that it reminded me of Nurse Nancy in Twinkle. But I see I'm behind several others who have said the same thing 😀

Ah the joys of a 1970s and 1980s childhood!

RhubarbThumb · 18/02/2025 21:02

.sound nothing like the Velveteen Rabbit. That rabbit doesn't get lost, nor need fixing (just gets a bit worn) ... And it's deliberately thrown out. Nothing about the book suggests it was out out to be fixed. Just that it was unhygienic!

WomanFromTheNorth · 18/02/2025 21:48

The Winter Bear? Three children find a teddy bear stuck in a tree and take him home to fix him.

TheOliveFinch · 18/02/2025 21:58

Lollopy is when the rabbit gets lost in the woods and needs to be repaired after being found , I have this on my bookshelf now