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To be so happy about a book from childhood

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Sunny67 · 08/05/2015 23:13

I had. book of poems as a child and I loved it. It dropped to bits through constant and probably none too gentle handling. I adored the pictures that accompanied the poems, the spider and the fly, Summer morning, January brings the snow. I've never been able to remember who the book was by, only the picture on the cover. Well I've found it on Amazon, second hand and I'm going to order it. Is it unreasonable to be so happy about an old chore a book?? I'm one happy bunny Grin

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Sunny67 · 08/05/2015 23:15

Chore!! Childhood ...

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HobnobsandTea · 08/05/2015 23:17

No, I'd be thrilled too. I've been looking for a childhood favourite for years, don't know the name of the book or the author so I have little to go on.

Enjoy!

SpinDoctorOfAethelred · 08/05/2015 23:18

I think it's lovely you've found it. I think lots of us have fond memories of long-lost books like that. It's so fantastic when you actually spot copies.

Goldmandra · 08/05/2015 23:18

I did the same with A Child's Garden of Verses.

My DDs have a copy each now.

Walkthroughthefire · 08/05/2015 23:18

Not at all! I love to re-read my childhood favourites and I'm looking forward to sharing them with my children. Now I'm nosy & want to know what the book is?!

CadieAgain · 08/05/2015 23:19

YANBU. That's lovely Smile

I had this one. Well, me and everyone else that year.

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Sunny67 · 08/05/2015 23:22

Thanks hobnob. I only tracked it by typing the words I could remember from one of the poems, summer morning, I didn't remember that was the name of it, took me to a thread of someone doing the same as me and low and behold, a person replied with the name of the book.

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Donnadoon · 08/05/2015 23:24

honnobs try describing it
I posted in chat when looking for a book from the 80s with no title or author
I knew what the book was about and remembered the picture on the cover
Within half hour someone knew what I was on about and I was able to order it
Never underestimate the power of MN Grin

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Sunny67 · 08/05/2015 23:25

GrinGrin

To be so happy about a book from childhood
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DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 08/05/2015 23:27

DD has a copy of Just So Stories, bought by DM for her 5th birthday. DM's own copy was bought for her 5th in 1935. The happiest times I remember were her reading it to us when the werewolf was quiescent.
When I sat DD on my lap to read it to her myself, a tear ran down my brutish cheek.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 08/05/2015 23:31

Oh I love Hilda Boswell's books, amazing illustrations. I recently bought the treasury of fairytales.

When I saw your post about a childhood book, I remembered 'Twigwidge'. I wish I'd kept the book as a child but couldn't find it. I had it for an anniversary present a few years back, v.v. expensive but it's very much loved and treasured and no sticky chocolatey fingers allowed on it! Grin

iknowimcoming · 08/05/2015 23:45

Not at all I have a copy of the water babies, the exact one from the film which I had as a child, which I also got from Amazon a few years ago, spotted it the other day when clearing out some books and it made me smile again! I also have in my basket currently a cookbook which I remember from my childhood - can't wait for that to arrive (sad)!

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Sunny67 · 09/05/2015 09:41

Glad it's not just me.

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Tokelau · 09/05/2015 09:47

OP, I have that book! I had it from a young age, and although I'm not really a lover of poetry, I loved the pictures in that book. There was one about pictures in the fire, and another about a lamplighter I think. I'm going to go and find it, and refresh my memory!

I also had the other book pictured above, and one called 'the book of a thousand poems' which I always called 'a thousand book of poems'!

beezlebop · 09/05/2015 09:48

Yanbu, books from childhood are amazing little memories!

Duckdeamon · 09/05/2015 09:49

I was delighted to find Little Grey Tabbit books by Alison Uttley because I loved them as a child: the illustrations are still really lovely but the writing and stories have dated a lot and don't compare well with newer books.

Duckdeamon · 09/05/2015 09:49

Rabbit! Bloody autoincorrect!

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Sunny67 · 09/05/2015 09:51

Tokelau, I loved the pictures in the fire too, I'm getting way too giddy about this, I'm nearly 48 Smile

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neepsandtatties · 09/05/2015 10:37

Mumsnet has just identified a childhood book for me!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_tack_room/2369697-Long-shot-trying-to-identify-a-pony-book-from-my-childhood

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Sunny67 · 09/05/2015 11:31

That's great Neeps

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Coffeethrowtrampbitch · 09/05/2015 11:35

I had this too, a kind Mumsnetter told me the book I could not remember the name of was probably The Ghost Drum by Susan Price. It was, and I spent a happy time reading it again when I thought I never could.

Enjoy you book!

Favouritethings · 09/05/2015 11:58

I don't suppose anyone remembers a childrens story book about an elephant that puts out a forest fire from the water in his trunk?! A long shot I know, but it's a book my df has fond memories growing up, I'd love to track it down for him

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Sunny67 · 09/05/2015 11:58

It's ordered and should be here on Tuesday Grin

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Tokelau · 09/05/2015 13:01

This picture is for you Sunny, to keep you going until Tuesday.

The lamplighter isn't in the book, it must be in one of my others. :-(

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hels71 · 09/05/2015 13:03

I had that book too....and I got DD a copy when she was born. It's a beautiful.book. We also have the nursery rhymes or.