Many years ago when I was about 4 I had a children's picture story book called "Dell's House". It was about a little elf who lived in a mushroom but one day there was a storm and his house was washed away. The other elves found him a new mushroom and decorated it for him.
I remember the pages of the book were mushroom shaped and each page had a few lines of the story (which was in the form of a poem) and were illustrated with a scene which those lines described.
It started off:
In Mushroom Town, all red and brown, there lived a merry elf.
Day after day, at work and play he whistled and sang to himself.
His name was Dell, and a tale I'll tell of how one very sad day
The rain came down in Mushroom Town and washed his house away.
Dell cried, "Oh dear, it's ruined I fear. It really is a shame."
His neighbours all had heard him call and out of their houses they came.
They looked around until the found a mushroom new(?) and dry.
They painted the door, and covered the floor with a carpet as blue as the sky.
I would love to have a copy of this book as it was the first book I ever had and I'd started to learn the poem but it got lost when we moved house and I never learned the rest of it.
It would be great if anyone recognised it from what I can recall. It must be at least 49 years old!:^O
I remember the pages of the book were mushroom shaped and each page had a few lines of the story (which was in the form of a poem) and were illustrated with a scene which those lines described.
It started off:
In Mushroom Town, all red and brown, there lived a merry elf.
Day after day, at work and play he whistled and sang to himself.
His name was Dell, and a tale I'll tell of how one very sad day
The rain came down in Mushroom Town and washed his house away.
Dell cried, "Oh dear, it's ruined I fear. It really is a shame."
His neighbours all had heard him call and out of their houses they came.
They looked around until the found a mushroom new(?) and dry.
They painted the door, and covered the floor with a carpet as blue as the sky.
I would love to have a copy of this book as it was the first book I ever had and I'd started to learn the poem but it got lost when we moved house and I never learned the rest of it.
It would be great if anyone recognised it from what I can recall. It must be at least 49 years old!:^O
