Favourite but obscure

[littlebillie]

The same modern books come up as favourites for the modern childhood I want to hear about books that are probably out of print but well loved. Mine are

Trebizon series
The tree that sat down
Heidi
Turpenny Feefo and jinks

Heidi is not obscure yet - it has always been one of dd's favourite books. There are usually at least two or three different versions of it in any decent bookshop. I know this because dd was very fussy about her preferred translation and used to check obsessively.

The Noel Streatfield books are still quite commonplace too, and the Secret Garden/Little Princess. And Stig of the Dump appeared on one of dd's school reading lists a couple of years ago, so don't think that one is too obscure yet either.

My old favourite that seems to have gone out of circulation now is All About the Bullerby Children by Astrid Lindgren, and the others in that series. I used to love them, but have only been able to track down old second hand copies for dd to read.

Lots of the above plus

Patricia Lynch, the Grey Goose of Kilneven, the Bookshop on the Quays.

I can jump puddles.

Pollyanna and sequels.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
A Girl of the Limberlost
Understood Betsy.. ( is that it?)
Emily of New Moon and sequels,

100 million Francs

The bronze bow
Children of the House ( heartbreaking)

Les Malheurs de Sophie, such a naughty little girl

My naughty little sister, a classic. My older sister used to read it to enraged me...

Puck of Pook’s Hill
Rewards and Fairies
The Just So Stories
The Jungle Book
Kim

Roger Lancelyn Green’s Tales.. of the Norsemen/King Arthur and.. etc

The Phantom Tolbooth
The story of Ferdinand the Bull ( top top fave now)
The Little Wooden Horse

Phantom Tollbooth appeared on dd's primary school reading list as well. And Tom's Midnight Garden/Carrie's War.

I wish I could afford to read the last books in the Trebizon series!

Mine are:

• The Dolphin Crossing
• Oscar and the Ice Pick
• The Gumdrop series

Ruby Holler, and Walk Two Moons. Both by Sharon Creech.

Orlanda yes Understood Betsy is the US title; in the UK it was published by Bodley Head with the title Betsy. I own the same edition I used to borrow from the library as a child; glorious book!

Orlanda- my favourite E. Nesbit were and still are The Story of the Amulet and The Enchanted Castle. Remember the Ugly Wuglies? Absolutely terrifying! I loved Puck of Pook’s Hill and Rewards and Fairies, but I’m not sure how many children would read them now. They are very wordy.

Ugly Wuglies beyond terrifying! I liked Harding’s Luck.

I agree the Kiplings are wordy.

Great to find another Betsy fan..

Shadow the Sheepdog by Enid Blyton
The Poky Little Puppy (can't remember author's name)
Guinea Pig Podge by Racey Helps
The Little Grey Rabbit series by Alison Uttley
Catch as Catch Can by Margaret Ruth Brown (very obcure book about a pair of porcelain antique dogs wo get seperated at an auction but come to life at night and try to find each other with the help of real live dogs. Sounds odd but I loved it. Printed early 80s)

The Little Wooden Horse by Ursula Moray Williams
Hazel the Guinea Pig (can't remember authour name)

I also remember a very old book I found in a book stall at a school fete called Polly of Primrose Hill about an orphan girl who goe sto live with an old man and his sickly daughter. Very like Anne of Green Gables kind of thing though I think set in 30s or 40s UK.

I loved A Dream of Sadlers Wells and the sequels.

Also The three Toymakers and sequels.

The Silver Crown

Yes yes to Fell Farm books, Noel Streatfeild (especially the Gemma books), the Heidi bioks (I had lovely hardback versions), Monica Dickens.

Ooh and The Family From One End Street (I think that's what it was called).

'From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler.'

My favourite book when I was 10.

Sorry to ask a really random question - about a book I read at school in english (I think?), 1980s.

Can anyone remember a book about a boy that ends up living on a Scottish estate, adventure, swimming in the loch, there were wild animals. Some kind of danger/drama and I remember that he learned to swim though a submerged tunnel (with air stop along the way) to a hidden cave or something - somehow this was related to saving the day against poachers or something? sorry this is really vague.

I can't for the life of me remember the title or any part of it - something like 'laird' rings a bell but thats all i've got? I think my kids would love it (DS 10 and DD 8) and I'd love to track it down.

any clues appreciated!

thanks
D

@TizzyDongue I saw Bogwoppit in the library on Thursday! Not just on a normal shelf, on a stand to highlight a few books. I loved it when I was young.

And the ghost and Bertie boggin. And Ursula Bear

The Greyhound by Helen Griffiths. I read it in second year juniors and absolutely loved it. It's out of print now but I managed to get a copy a few years ago on Amazon.

The Emma series by Honor Arundel

Wings over Witchend is a title I remember. Set near the Long Mynd IIRC

Cora Ravenwing by Gina Wilson. Nobody else has ever heard of it but it was brilliant, and really sad for a children's book.

Also liked Trebizon series, especially The Tennis Term at Trebizon. I reread that one constantly!

Wings over Witchend is a title I remember. Set near the Long Mynd IIRC

One in a series of 20 Lone Pine books by Malcolm Saville. Wings is one of my favourites-I read it to ds each Christmas.
They're set in various places, the Long Mynd ones (which include Wings) Rye ones, a London one, Yorkshire, Orford and a couple in Dartmoor.

my parents kept loads of our old books, some my girls will never read, some my hubby refuses to read as the font is so tiny, others are much loved. Bullerby Children, Noel Streatfield, E. Nesbit, Bogwoppit, Necklace of raindrops, Supergran (all 4), Carbonel, Charlotte Sometimes and lots more. Heidi I never liked the books so my sister now has those, we had all the Famous Five books, Family from One End Street, Treasure Seekers, Oggy the hedgehog, Rag Dolly Anna, Little Grey Rabbit (I loved Little Grey Rabbit)

The man who was magic by Paul Gallico.Everyone should meet Adam and his dog Mopsey

Lots of lovely books already mentioned. I loved Afke's Ten - it's a dutch classic about - you've guessed it - a family of ten children

I recently reread Brenda of Beech House - really lovely scenes of early Girl Guiding - its author, Dorothea Moore - was a guider.

Also recently read the Victorian classic Froggy's Little Brother. I have to confess that I thought it'd be very saccharine but - for me - it was very moving.

I came on here to say the Sadlers Wells books as well Don'tKnow

And I was horrified to find out that The Three Investigators books are out of print when I went to try and buy the first one for DD as I loved them and thought she would like them.

Carbonel is still in print I think - I have the first two, and managed to pick the last one up a couple of years back, it was in a posh-edition hardback though.