To be so happy about a book from childhood

[Sunny67]

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

I'd managed to convince myself over the years that the title of the book had something to do with fire, like fireside tales or similar. No I set I couldn't find it. I used to draw( very badly) the pictures too Daisy, loved the little flames with faces

Emwithme I'd forgotten that about it but yes, by age.

Did anyone have What Do People Do All Day?' By Richard Scarry? I loved that book as a kid.

I just knew it was the Hilda Boswell book, Sunny, as I had it too. The green one. It's upstairs, squirrelled away where dses wrecking fingers can't find it, although I used to read to them from it when they were much smaller.
I loved it and still do, especially the poem about Winkin, Blinkin and Nod sailing away in a wooden shoe :-).

I remember my mum reading me the one about the father on "the ship that would come no more". I was 7 and sobbed for ages until she showed me the picture of the shipwreck and told me that the daddy had managed to swim to shore and was just around the headland, galloping home on his white horse.

Love that book, and I have a Hilda Boswell nursery rhymes book too.

one of my favourites was '5 minute bunny tales for bedtime'

www.amazon.co.uk/5-minute-Bunny-Tales-Bedtime-Sheringham/dp/0603550444

I have that book OP! I got it in a charity shop last year and though i never had it as a kid, I do love it as an adult.

This is the nursery rhymes book:

www.amazon.co.uk/Hilda-Boswells-Treasury-Nursery-Rhymes/dp/images/0001371029

A boy called David who came for tea with his mum one day scribbled all over the I Wish I could Live In A Caravan poem, and The Beggars Are Coming To Town

Sunny - I'm a couple of years older than you but I also had that book. Not thought about it in years but some of the poems coming back to me. I don't have my book any longer but I have a couple of other childhood books my parents had kept and they are very special.

I did that with one of the ladybird books just to get a copy of a poem called Sammy and the whale

I've still got my now very ancient copies of A Child's Garden of Verse and the AA Milne books I had as a child. My favourite was Peter Pan. All these are hardback and books with beautiful illustrations. I'm ashamed to say that I didn't take very good care of them and that they are really pretty tatty now, but they were very well read and much loved and just fell to bits. I recently had some water come through the ceiling and all over a bookcase and a book that my Grannie had given me when I was six was soaked through. I was more upset about that than the other damage. It had her message to me in the front - The Puffin Quartet of Poets. I still remember some of the poems in it.

I'd forgotten Winkin Blinking and Nod, Harriet, until now. Mes, it's such a lovely book. I'm looking forward to reading it as an adult too.

DD has two favourite poems in the book. The one about the silver buckle and bedtime. She knows them off by heart.b

I've tracked down several books I used to love and am saving them for my granddaughter!

Thanks for the reminder, I loved this book. Time to retrieve it from my parents!

OP - your post made me so happy for you. There is something just fabulous about a book from your childhood - I remember trawling ebay and amazon for the ruth manning sanders books about witches and trolls and giants. I was so happy when they arrived, even though they were a bit battered. I read some of them to my dd when she was younger and she was wide eyed with wonder - just thinking about it makes me happy.

I've been looking for a book for years - a picture book about a dear old horse who dies at the end and the little boy who always loved the horse sees it flying across the sky on the last picture. I've tried a specialist pony book site, AbeBooks forums and trawled Amazon to no avail. It's not Ludo and the Starhorse, several people have suggested that.

YES! GraysAnalagy I first read these as a teenager 20 years ago, where is "Strange Fate"!

There's a childhood book I've been looking for for years - I wonder if anyone knows it? It was a large, thin, hardback book about animals in the zoo. Every evening, a different one of the animals tells a story. The main character is a little tiger, who is in the zoo with his mother. There is also a wicked crocodile (?) called Spats, a sloth, an elephant and lots more. In one of the stories, the little elephant is covered in snow to make a "snow elephant". I can't remember any more! A long shot, but I'd be delighted if anyone recognised it...

Looks like we've stirred some happy memories