Trying to remember illustrated kids' book from the 80s.

1Dgaf 1 Mar 2015 17:14:37 5,211 posts
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It was full of made-up, fantastical, inventions. I'm pretty sure one of the scenes was set in a swimming pool / aquarium / underwater, and it had a things like robotic crabs or a submarine with lots of appendages. (I seem to remember tiles, as if in a swimming pool, and a window with brass fittings around it.)

There may have also been a scene set in a bedroom, with Heath Robinsion style gadgets to wake people up.

The ilustrations were colour line drawings. I think the book was a hardback. This would have been early-ish 80s, so it could have been from that period or even released in the late 70s.

Any ideas?

Edited by 1Dgaf at 17:15:07 01-03-2015

FartPipe 1 Mar 2015 18:01:16 5,307 posts
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Enemy Mine
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Hungry caterpillar?
1Dgaf 1 Mar 2015 19:32:50 5,211 posts
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@Phil-McCrack That's a sci-fi film starring Dennis Quaid and Lou Gosst Jr. I ordered the DVD the other day.
1Dgaf 1 Mar 2015 19:33:27 5,211 posts
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@Grax This is a book about a hungry catterpillar, not an inventive catterpillar.

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