What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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Children's book, purple, about cave-creatures, one possibly named "lumpy." Help!
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Chris, can you describe the creatures? Did they have big noses, large eyes, wings,wear hard hats, etc?Do you know if the book may also have been a cartoon or TV show?
Did they dig for coal, goal, diamonds, something else?
The creatures were purplish and ... lumpy. Humanoid but squat. Large round cartoonish noses. I'm not honestly sure what they were digging for, and I am unaware of an associated cartoon.
(I know, there's not really much here to go on.)
I'm still around and still drawing a blank. :/
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Is this a picture book or a chapter book with a few illustrations?
Could it be R.L. Stine`s Goosebumps The beast from the east?https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Kris: as far as I recall, the book only had these creatures in it. There MAY have been drawings of cave-moles, but they didn't factor into the story. MissLoveReadingBooks: Sadly, this book is about twenty to thirty years removed from the Goosebumps book you mentioned. The artwork doesn't look right either.
If I recall correctly, I'd say the artwork had a "watercolor" look to it.
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Sadly, I remain unable to source this. ☹️
I'm trying to source a children's book, with lots of purple-colored pages and illustrations, that takes place entirely underground. It's about a group of miner-creatures, one of whom may have been named "lumpy." I think one gets split off from the group, but I cannot be sure about this.
I read this around 1979-1982.
The book was likely British--not a variant on "The Wombles," though. It is possible, though less likely, that the book could be American.
This was, obviously, a paper-book. I'm not sure if it had a stiff cover or not, and I'm not sure if it was a Little Golden book (I doubt it) or a Ladybird book (I doubt it). The illustrations strike my memory as looking like they'd been done via watercolors.
Oh, and I also remember "oof" and "bump" coming up frequently. Mining is tough business, even for adorable non-human characters.