Obscure children's books that you used to love

[LadyPlumpington]

Mine is 'The Island of the Skog' by Steven Kellogg. The DC love it too :)

What are your old obscure favourites?

The Noggin the Nog books, though perhaps so obscure?

The Giant Jam Sandwich. Hardly anyone has ever heard of it!

The Tales of Olga da Polga. Written by Michael Bond but no one seems to have heard of it when I rave about how good a book it is! The hero is a guinea pig.

Otto is a Rhino.
They made a terrible film of it a few years ago.

Froggy's Little Brother by Brenda. Have very vivid memories of this as a child, it's a serious tear-jerker. I'm very tempted to buy it from Amazon, but keep thinking I'll find my original copy one day in my mother's attic.

I've heard of Olga da Polga!

I used to love Thursday's Children, by Rumer Godden. Not that obscure, but not too many people seem to know it.

I've read the Giant Jam Sandwich! I had one Noggin book which I loved, just the style of the language and the pictures. It was about mermaids and a fake volcano.

Mine would be King of the Copper Mountain and Camerons at the Castle, although I don't really know if they are obscure or not. I also liked a non fiction Q&A book which had a family of red headed children illustrating all the answers must have been Amercian because they were questions like "Why do we have Thanksgiving?"

Th worst fifth on record. Loved it and read it over and over.

The Overland Launch. It's based upon the night that a Devon lifeboat crew dragged their big wooden boat across Dartmoor to launch it during a huge storm.
I still reread it every five years or so.

The Thief of Always by Clive Barker. Loved that book.

I love the Giant Jam Sandwich and so do my DC. Some of Julia Donaldson's books, like 'What the Ladybird Heard', 'Tyrannosaurus Drip' and 'Jack and the Flum Flum Tree' have a very similar rhythm and style.

Bogwoppit.

Sponge, X and Y. I paid £45 for a copy earlier this year - worth every penny :)

I remember the Olga da Polga books! purple

My obscure book is "William the Dragon". It was written by a child/teen and I don't think it was published for very long. The DC recently found the old, battered, drawn in copy at my mum's house. I looked online for one in better condition for them, and they seem to sell for about a million pounds (I exaggerate!)! Damn you dsis and your "artistic" ways....

DH and his brothers had the jam sandwich book as kids. I saw it for the first time when I read it to our DC a few months ago - loved it and so did they. I used to love Miss Flora McFlimsey & Little Laughing Water. My dad hates it as he had to read it every night to me for years.

Probably not obscure here but obscure in Canada where I grew up - Jill's Gymkhana and related books. Loved them. Adored them. Bought them for the DDs to read. They ignored them.

My favourite was called Five Dol?s in a House or something like that. I read it over and over again.

It was about a Dolls House where five dolls lived and there was a naughty monkey who lived on the roof.

I know I still have the book somewhere but can't find it anywhere. My daughter would love it.

The Story about Ping

Clive Barker signed my copy of Thief of Always. What a long time ago that was!

I love The Thief of Always! And Dogsbody.

I saw Olga da Polga in Waterstones yesterday

Was just gonna say the Jill's pony books.

And a book about a cat with one eye called Pyewacket.

The Land of Green Ginger, by Noel Langley.

What about Moomintroll? He seems neglected these days. And Tintin. And Asterix.

We have a copy of The Giant Jam Sandwich, it's a great book.

Mine is a book published by a zoo, I think, back in the 80s, called Marcus Who Am I. It's about a tapir who wanders around the zoo trying to work out what kind of animal he is.

I've been after it for ages and just found a copy on eBay for £15. Which is a bit ridiculous for a kids book, and I'm not sure I'd even let DD read it but I am soooo torn...

Bet no-one has heard of mine. Pondus the Penguin.

I had a book when I was really young about two sisters (or friends) called Erica and Inge. One of them had a doll called fat belly cross-eye. Does anyone know what the book title was? I'd really like to read it again. I loved that book.