Forest of the Dead (out of print books and nostalgia)

She did the Firebird too, and some of the drawings from that were just as powerful. Can't find them though

The Moira Kemp illustrations for Cinderella are indelibly scorched into my memory too. No soft-pedalling here, the sisters' eyes get properly picked out at the end by the curiously ever-present birds that beautifully haunt every page. Renaissance quality to these I think. bookillustrations.quora.com/Moira-Kemps-Illustrations-for-Cinderella

Pure nostalgia. I remember this one so well.

Found it again on YouTube, hence the hand!

Brambly Hedge

Yes, that one's amazing. Love Lungbarrow, and all the additional lore it spun. Eccleston mentions Lungbarrow in a recent audio Who story, which was a cool moment. Bittersweet time that book, with the icence coming to an end. Then The Dying Days seeing out the range with its one McGann story. 

I hadn't heard of it, but it does look fun!

My favourite NA was Lungbarrow. I think I must have read it three or four times, more than most of the others. I guess the idea that the Doctor grew up with family/peers who couldn't understand him and thought he was weird must have resonated; I wonder why? Some great imagery in that novel too, it could have worked well as a graphic novel. It seems less original now I've read the Gormenghast books, but that's the fun of Doctor Who too, that it leads you on to a whole load of other great books, TV and films.

Another amazing one that I loved for tracking tiny details across each page...

The Great Green Mouse Disaster. Each room in the hotel gets affected by the cascade of events, so the evolving story (all in pictures) can be read many times focusing on each one in turn as its own thing. I just found out they made a computer game out of it back in the day too - wow! 

This is fun as well: it's an actual book. 

Yes, the Gary Gillatt editorship was very much the high benchmark for all of that. Heady days. Loved that vibe of the books growing up with the readership. I have most of those NAs and MAs and would like to plug the odd remaining gap if I ever can afford to. Some amazingly striking covers for the NAs. 

Those are wonderful pictures!

I would have to think (and probably research) about childhood books out of print. Off the top of my head, you will probably appreciate that I have a stack of old Doctor Who novelisations and New/Missing Adventures, mostly out of print, that were a big part of my childhood/teenage reading and which I feel nostalgic about now.

I haven't been involved in current Doctor Who fandom for a while, but feel nostalgic for the fandom of the nineties and early noughties, when Doctor Who wasn't on TV (mostly) and it felt like it belonged to the fans alone, when Doctor Who Magazine would oscillate between the seriously analytical, the bitingly sarcastic and the utterly silly from page to page. At the time, I didn't know what I had...

Wonderful thread.   

The picture above is like something painted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

Look at that, someone had a 4D inspired vision.

Another one that was exquisitely detailed: the fever dream of a fantasy world that was Trouble for Trumpets by Peter Cross. All those glorious hidden worlds revealed in cross sections.