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Does anyone remember this picture book (prob 80s)?

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Oobalooba · 22/05/2026 00:13

I have vague memories of a picture book I used to read as a child, it was in the 80s.
Really vague!
Certain images I can recall are of a girl going underground, maybe through some kind of trap door?
I think jam is involved somehow?
And maybe knights and / or a dragon?
I've been searching on and off for years with no luck!
Is there anyone that knows what this book might be?

Thank you!

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AreWeHeadingForAnotherLockdown · 22/05/2026 01:37

So i have come up with 2 possibilities

Does anyone remember this picture book (prob 80s)?
Does anyone remember this picture book (prob 80s)?
AreWeHeadingForAnotherLockdown · 22/05/2026 01:37

The dark hills divide or the trapdoor mysteries

AreWeHeadingForAnotherLockdown · 22/05/2026 01:41

Or

The Secret World of Og

benten54 · 22/05/2026 02:39

The OP said ‘picture book’ so quite clearly a book for a child much younger than the ones suggested.

Oobalooba · 22/05/2026 07:04

Yes a picture book for younger children. I don't remember it being dark or gothic. I was really hoping it would trigger someone else's memory!

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NashEnquirer · 22/05/2026 07:05

It wasn't one set in a school where the kids were learning about Persephone, was it? And then the teacher got married?

Lisanne55 · 22/05/2026 07:06

The Tunnel by Anthony Browne?

mushroomfairy · 22/05/2026 07:22

Is it 'the princess and the dragon'?
Pic attached might take a while to appear

Does anyone remember this picture book (prob 80s)?
TallagallaPenguin · 22/05/2026 07:36

I don’t think there’s jam so it may not be right, but John Burningham “time to get out of the bath, Shirley” has a girl imagining she sails down the plug hole out onto a river and is caught up in a fairytale make believe world with knights etc all while daydreaming in the bath.

Does anyone remember this picture book (prob 80s)?
Does anyone remember this picture book (prob 80s)?
Does anyone remember this picture book (prob 80s)?
AreWeHeadingForAnotherLockdown · 22/05/2026 17:51

benten54 · 22/05/2026 02:39

The OP said ‘picture book’ so quite clearly a book for a child much younger than the ones suggested.

Ok. No need to be narky... Is it the heat?

Oobalooba · 22/05/2026 17:55

All good suggestions, thank you! I don't think any of them are it though. Hoping I didn't just dream it! Really appreciate the suggestions

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Tootjaskoot · 28/05/2026 00:29

Could it be ’On the Way Home’ by Jill Murphy?

JonathanGirl · 28/05/2026 07:09

Could it be a picture book version of Alice in Wonderland/Through the looking glass?
That has girl, tunnels, jam and knights, but no dragon

Caferouge · 28/05/2026 07:25

Shirley Hughes “Stories by Firelight” has a weird underground dream sequence. With little creatures, but not dragons. Can’t remember there being jam.

Artesia · 28/05/2026 09:35

Might it have been Ogden Nash's Tale of Custard the Dragon?

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