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Best forum to ask about finding an old children's book?

Tombi! · 2012-08-21 17:43:14

I dunno where to ask this. I'd try other forums but I'm sure it was one of those English/Irish books so I don't think it'd have reached overseas (maybe it did, I dunno). Anyway far as I remember it was one of those kinda... cardboardy "hardback" book. It was a hardback but a really thin one cause it was a kids book.…

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I dunno where to ask this. I'd try other forums but I'm sure it was one of those English/Irish books so I don't think it'd have reached overseas (maybe it did, I dunno).

Anyway far as I remember it was one of those kinda... cardboardy "hardback" book. It was a hardback but a really thin one cause it was a kids book.

Anyway, I am 100% sure it would have had a list of books on the back, like how the old kids books would have had like when we were in primary in the 90s or so.
I forget so much about it, as in barely remember a few bits and pieces.
I remember reading some of the books in primary.

So where's my best bet to ask? Parenting/primary/lit?

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#2 21-08-2012 05:44PM

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How old?

Maybe, All Thing Retro forum?

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#3 21-08-2012 05:47PM

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I have no clue
Well, it was before say... 1996. I would have read it maybe when I was around six, so 1994. But again, it could have been years upon years old, like Enid Blyton books old. But I don't think it was, it probably (from what I remember of how the books felt) would have been after the 80s.

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#4 21-08-2012 05:52PM

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Depends on what aspect of it you're interested in.

There's plain literature:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=19

and as mentioned, retro:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=253

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#5 21-08-2012 06:09PM

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It was a kids book. As in one you'd give a child about 8 years old to read. So I dunnno if it'd be actually literature or how retro it is.

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#6 21-08-2012 06:12PM

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Retro could help identify it at least. They have a good track record of these things.

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#7 21-08-2012 06:12PM

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Spear wrote: »

Retro could help identify it at least. They have a good track record of these things.

Alright, hope it works, thanks!

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