I'm trying to find three children's books from my 1980's childhood. ?

Question

First book: an otter travels down a river on a large boat. He is pestered by a clumsy frog on a bike who keeps on crashing/falling off, and the boat encounters a huge storm, meets with a young otter who cannot swim and other random things I simply can no longer remember. It was a large, hard back illustrated book, and the front cover had a picture of the otter, the frog and possibly a further animal peering out of a porthole window.

Second book: a family cannot decide on where to go on holiday, so they create a holiday environment on their roof using sand, water and assorted extras. Seagulls were involved somewhere. This is a fairly slim illustrated book.

The third book is a little more fuzzy in my memory, and all I can remember is a large hardbacked book, illustrated, with a story about animals living in a large house in a forest - possiby another otter, not sure if this has something to do with my first book query.

Many thanks everyone

Answer 1

The first one sounds like wind in the willows.

Answer 2

wind in the willows and tarka the otter might be one of them.

Answer 3

The Wind in The Willows?

Oh, there was a TV programme which sounds like the first book.

Answer 4

Cool. I used to really like the one about robins and machines. when the machine came around i kind of like either cried or laughed or something. it had this strange emotional effect on me.

Answer 5

The first one sounds like Wind in the Willows and the last one might be The animals of farthing wood.

Answer 6

the 3rd book sounds like Redwall by Brian Jaques

he wrote a series of books about the animals of Redwall abbey

Answer 7

You may try the forum links below , I hope you find your books - good luck .

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http://whatsthatbook.com/

http://forums.abebooks.com/abesleuthcom

http://community.livejournal.com/whatwas...