Picture book. Featuring a snail called Selina (sp?). Was beloved by my grandpa when he was a child – he was born in the late 1930s. He recalls the illustrations as fantastic. Unsure of title or author. Possibly an Australian title. Google searches haven’t turned anything up. Look forward to hearing from you. Can contact me at moo_haha@hotmail.com.
Regards, Sharni
There was an Australian author David Hunter Gilmore (also known as DH Gilmore) who wrote the adventures of insects in the 1940s. He illustrated them with lush watercolors. Some of these have been reissued in the 1980s in different collections: A summary of The Little World of DH Gilmore mentions a Selina Snail character. There is another collection called The Delightful Adventures of Catkin and Codlin and Friends, but I don’t know what stories are included in that collection.
Maybe The Story of Two Snails Who Traded Houses by Ursula von Hippel?