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One wonders how "forgotten" Peter Rabbit is, as it has almost 20,000 ratings here.

True -- or Heidi, for that matter (over 28,000 ratings) ...

I second both of those, though most of the rest aren't known to me or only vaguely.

One can only create a list and hope that folks will add books that match the criteria. I'd agree that Heidi and Peter Rabbit are far from forgotten but then I'm sure some folks have forgotten more books than I'll ever read!

Recently thought to add Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories to this list but left it out when I was surprised by how many ratings it had. I've always thought of it as somewhat (dated and) obscure.

Ah! I can't pick what to vote on! I have read and loved too many of them! There are just too many wonderful old books out there!

Removed The Neverending Story for too many ratings.

Removed The Witch of Blackbird Pond and The Indian in the Cupboard. Both are great books but are not very obscure with +75k ratings each

Removed Beezus and Ramona, which has over 75k ratings.

removed Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey.. by Greg Mortenson, 286,000 ratings

Removed Falling Up by Shel Silverstein Good book but well over the 75K limit so not really forgotten.

I love Tattooed Potato, Mara, the Penderwicks, Johnny Tremain, Sherwood Ring... (lots more, but I won't list them.) I'm so sad they're on the obscure list, but glad that I can vote for them! They're all favorites of mine. :)

Der Brief für den König (#723) and Der Wilde Wald (#700) are not 'forgotten'. I bought copies of both books a couple of years back (De brief voor de koning/Geheimen van het Wilde Woud) because I loved the books so much as a kid (and I had borrowed them from the local library then).

They have low ratings on GR because the originals are in Dutch. However, as I said, they are not 'forgotten', as they are still in print here in the Netherlands!

I have read or own almost a hundred of these. There may be more that I didn't recognize the title of.

@Stephen
Have you tried What's the Name of That Book??? on GR yet? The more you remember about a book, the more chance you have of the right book being found.

They've helped me out twice (they asked me questions and the more I thought about a book I was looking for, the more I remembered about it).

The Moffats series by Eleanor Estes would be a good addition to this list of chidren's books.

You could add them; it's easy to add books to lists. At the top of the list, at the tab next to "All Votes."

Stephen wrote: "The evil owl who was mayor of a town

Dear Bibliophiles of the World,
I am looking for a book from my childhood but I know neither the title nor the author. I think it was mostly a book of text wi..."

THE WICKED ENCHANTMENT by Margot Benary-Isbert

I'm sure J.K. Rowling read this book as a child, and it's reason Weasley family owl was named Errol (after wicked Earl owl). DANGEROUS SPRING by Margo Benary-Isbert also seem echoed in Harry Potter series; has strong young woman marrying scarred man. A TIME TO LOVE has girl pursued by boy who is handsome, rich, but in Hitler Youth, seems version of Lily Evans Potter breaking with Severus over political allegiances. CASTLE ON THE BORDER has character whose ancient family crest includes stars and flowers which are her interests; HP series uses names of stars and flowers for characters (In 2nd Fantastic Beasts film, Lestrange family tree represents females as flowers), main character of WICKED ENCHANTMENT is named Anemone, also a flower. LARK ON THE WING by Elfrida Vipont (Ch. 12) has scene in boarding school that seems inspiration to Professor Slughorn's Slug Club in Harry Potter. Tonks' name may be from one of Barbara Sleigh's CARBONEL books. [See other books listed on my shelves for more titles that Rowling appears to hint at in her own stories.)

Removed The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Tuck Everlasting, Momo, The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Tales of Wayside School, Madeline, and various books in the Anne of Green Gables Series for having over 75,000 votes.