What's the name of the website where you can input vague memories of a book you once read, and it tells you what it was called?

[MrsMuddle]

Does anyone know?

Oh Boogalooblu, really? Do you remember anything about it? I think a boy used to meet someone who lived in the other world and then one day he couldn't get in. It was sad. Sounds a bit like His Dark Materials now, but obv, not that!

myjobismum
Was it "working wonder" by Jenny Colgan?
Just did a search on google and this is a book about a town planner in coventry trying to get European city of architecture status, with round-table fantasy bits too. Have a look and see.

Sorry - can't help you with that one.

This one is children's fiction. Girl has a pony, takes it out for rides and stumbles across a secret gate/gap in hedge.
If I remember correctly they entered another beautiful sunny world and "babylon" seems to ring a bell, but it wasn't in the title.
Read it when I was about 8 and loved it but then I lost the book

Ah. I had that, I think its still at my mum's in the attic

There was a ghost girl that rode side saddle, non?

It's called Mumsnet, isn't it?

Aha - Can I Get There By Candlelight

Is it always sunny on Mumsnet?

Are you sure?

there was a book about a fairy at the bottom of the garden ... quite an adult book actually, heavy reading for a child, and I LOVED it. It was by Lyn ried banks, but can't remember the name and can't find it.

Myjobismum, I am sure I have the book you are describing - did one of the wives shag on of the staff at the resort? was one of the characters senile?

No, I mean the website where you input vague memories and it tells you the book. It's mumsnet!

Thought you were being very generous, sunny and babylon and all that!

char;liegal - i think its is a joan aitken one.....
I have necklace of raindrops and kingdom under the sea here and can check tomorrow...

When I was about 8(?) I read a book from the library, it was about some children who 'found' a house in the middle of the forest. It was semi-derilict (sp) and they did it up and used it as a den to escape from real life.
It has haunted me for years, would love to get hold of a copy, any ideas?

Did they dig a sort of moat round it?

I've got a book now.

It's set in a dolls house, none of the dolls who live in there 'match', one is made out of celloid (a type of plastic), one is called Vanessa and she was the bossy doll who put herself in charge of the house but she also happened to wear red flannel petticoats which made the other dolls laugh at her and there were 2 or 3 other dolls in there as well. I think the plastic doll was called Mabel or May and she ended up melting after a row one day and she was left too near the fire. It's quite an old book, or is set 'in the olden days' . I really can't remember much more but I remember what a bitch Vanessa was to the other dolls. Any ideas??????????

It's a childrens book btw .

We have it!!!!! let me go and look...pink and green cover...might be in mum's attic. hang on

Yes - I'm sure that's it. I don't quite remember Marchpane though . Mind I did read this over 20 years ago .

There was Lupin, Marchpane, Vanessa and I can't remember but wasn't there a policeman doll? still looking btw...

I've got one.

It's a short story from the 70s or early 80s. Someone is demonstrating has a machine he's invented for writing stories. It's a bit like an organ, with a keyboard and pedals that you can use to select plot devices and add effects such as mystery, romance, or suspense.

The inventor explains it enthusiastically. He seems a bit of an anorak. As the story progresses, you realise that it has been written by the machine.

For example it says something like:- 'you can keep the reader interested by putting in an unusual word at the end of a paragraph' he said, epexegetically.

Any ideas?

Fingers crossed

The Great Automatic Grammatizator by Roald Dahl.

Don't know if any of you had the same reading scheme at school but I clearly remember in 2nd year infants some hardback books, silver spine, black and white cover I think, or black with white or silver line drawings - something like Fairies and Moonlight? The thought of them is at the back of my mind, I can picture where they were on the shelves, but wish I knew what they were called...