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Maybe: Cherries and Cherry Pits, by Vera B. Williams.
Key to the Treasure, by Peggy Parish.
Okay, I’m looking for a book for a friend about a man who leaves a complex scavenger hunt for his children before he goes off to fight in a war. He sets up a huge, large-scale, multiple-stage scavenger hunt for his kids but the mother accidentally destroys the first clue packet in the wash and the man never returns from war, so the game is on hold for generations and until his great-grandchildren spontaneously find one of the clues and then pursue the scavenger hunt thread to completion decades later…It was a book for children written about 40 to 50 years ago possibly by a female author
The True Princess, by Angela Elwell Hunt.
I am looking for a children’s story book It would’ve been around 2008 when I owned it but unsure of how old it was, It had heaps of stories in it including riddles, rhymes, things like the old lady who swallowed a fly, the little red hen, I also distinctly remember japanese folk tales like shiro the dog, also the five chinese brothers. I remember the cover being green but that’s about it, can anyone help me out!!!
Hello, I am looking for a children’s book about a little BIPOC girl who lives in a big city (maybe New York) and has a tree in her apartment’s courtyard. The tree grows into her apartment and becomes a massive place full of all kinds of things for the whole neighbourhood. I think it would have been published in the late 90s or early 00s. It was a small illustrated book. any suggestions would be appreciated.
Found this one:”Oliver’s pool” by: Krings, Antoon
Published1992
Summary: Oliver tries to go for a swim in his inflatable pool, but problems keep delaying him.
I’m looking for a storybook it would’ve been like 2008 when I had it. It was filled with multiple stories, riddles & rhymes and I particularly remember some stories of Japanese folk tale like shiro the dog and the one about brothers lost at sea. From memory the cover was green and there was about a hundred different stories, I need help with the name anyone please help!!
Hello, I’m looking for the name of a book which I read as a child. I really don’t remember much about it apart from the fact it had a pink hardcover and was about a young girl who discovered a door or passage way to a world with some sort of creatures, maybe ghosts or spirits? I also remember there being mentions of a mountain. Her father was also potentially involved in their creation or discovery. The book also had intricate illustrations on every few pages. Any suggestions would be much appreciated!
My wife remembers reading a children’s book where the king leaves the country for a length time. The princess and her grandmother leave the castle to hide in the city as a baker and a baker’s apprentice. During that time the princess learns to do everyday tasks on her own. Once the king comes home, many young girls claim to be the princess but the king recognizes his true daughter. Thank you.
I remember a childrens book from the 70s about a girl who is sent to be a housekeeper at a house near the sea which belongs to the underground passage to help slaves escape.She meets a gypsy boy and starts to grow up.
Does anyone remember this? It haunts me.
Looking for a book for a friend all I got was Girl around 12yo fell from roof with her pet (thinks standard pet most likely dog or cat) and is sent to another place where she is able to meet friends and has those for the first time having been a loner in life. She has her pet still by her side but she eventually comes back to life in the second book? Possibly a trilogy. She said the second book was mostly her back alive which was sad be she left all her actual friends behind. Third book possibly dies and is actually dead dead this time. She read this about ten-ish years ago back when she was a kid. Said it was a great book to escape to. TIA anything helps
I’m looking for a children’s book from the 1950’s in which the last page is Santa sitting down to a huge breakfast meal. This book sparked a Christmas tradition of “Santa Breakfast” for our family.
Hi, I’m looking for a book called “The Apple Garden”
Super helpful group thank you.
I remember a series from when I was a young teenager, about a group of teens who turned into some kind of big cats on a maybe monthly basis. There were twins, who led the group. The male twin got involved with a newcomer who also transfigured (or became able to), and the female twin did not like her. It was possibly a trilogy. I only read the first two and have been wondering what happened in the rest ever since – even though I can’t remember now what happened in the first two either! Would be great to find and read them again
Little Things, by Anne Laurin.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1325700.Little_Things
Hello! I am looking for an Australian chilren’s book from the 90s about a Koala dad and his daughter who are trying to get to the swimming pool but keep forgetting things. I know it sounds dull, but my kids loved the simplicity of it and the message of just trying to get on with things when things fo wrong. Thanks!
oops, forgot my manners……Thank you
I remember reading a children’s book to my children about an old woman who sat and knitted constantly. The knitting became so large it spilled out of the house and down the road. She continued until her husband said “enough” your little thing has become a big thing.” Also he repeatedly said before that point “little things dont bother me” Have you and knowledge of such a book and its title etc. ??
Look for the earlier edition with illustrations by Don Wallerstedt.
The Cat Who Knew the Meaning of Christmas, by Marion Chapman Gremmels.
That’s the book. Thank you! Seeing that simple bookcover the original edition has is something I recall from when I was little. I can’t believe how much most of the listings for the original edition are.
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Thanks for letting us know! Suzanne
Could it be a version of The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain?
Thank you for your suggestion. The story sounds close, but the illustrations are too detailed and realistic. The ones from the story I remember are very simplistic and almost child-like.
And possibly the friend of the prince is a little girl, named Rose.
Could it be the Little Grey Rabbit books? They’re probably quite old, definitely older than the 90s, but I was also a child in the late 90s-early 00s so maybe worth a shot
This might be too vague or obscure but I remember a book I used to borrow from my primary school library (in Australia) in the 90s. I’m not sure if the book was by an Australian or British author though. It had a green cover, squarish in shape. I feel like it was called something like Birthday or Birthday Party (but try googling that and you get so much rubbish!). I recall a blonde white boy in the story, there may have been something about a red sweater or red balloons (could be remembering this wrong), maybe he receives a parcel in the mail? Hmm….. If anyone can help I would be very grateful! Thank you 🙂
EDIT — I know this hasn’t been approved yet, but I think I found it?
https://www.amazon.com/Birthday-Party-Out-About/dp/0803707177
The Birthday Party by Helen Oxenbury. I remember the green border. But I’ve gotten the story a bit wrong, maybe there’s a different book I’m getting mixed up with!
I suddenly remembered a Christmas story about a frightened boy and his cat. I think the boy was trying to sleep and something was causing him to be too anxious to fall asleep. At that time, he was talking to his cat, and I believe he asked his cat to tell him story to help him fall asleep. To his surprise, the cat responds and tells the boy of the Biblical story of Christmas. I remember something about how the cat’s purrs transform into human speech. I keep wanting to think the boy’s name in the book is Andrew. I remember this book’s illustrations were in black and white, possibly drawn with charcoal. This book had to be written before 1995, maybe even 1990.
Hello!
My friend, an 83-year-old musician, is trying to find a book from his childhood. It’s a children’s book that he read in, he believes, 1948. He thinks the book is from the 30s, but I would guess it could be from anywhere around 1910s through 1940s.
The book contains two stories: A longer narrative about a white boy who escapes his abusive father and goes to live with the Native Americans nearby, where he learns their culture and I think goes to school with them. Then the story has a very sad ending where the white boy ends up back with his abusive father, snatched away from his new friends. The main memory my friend has is this very unhappy ending, which was the first time he’d read something with a sad ending.
The shorter narrative is also about Native Americans, possibly N.A. children, but it’s substantially shorter than the long tale of the white boy with the abusive father.
If anyone has any ideas, I’d love to hear them. The only thing I’ve found in my search so far that MAY be correct is The White Indian Boy by Wilson, but it’s nonfiction and my friend is pretty certain the book was fiction.
TIA for any help!
Sounds a bit like Noddy (Enid Blyton) – I am about your age and it was still a popular series in the UK when we were little. Maybe not quite right but similar anyway…Noddy is a gnome with a pointy blue hat (maybe he had a toadstool one too…), he drove a car, and he and his friend Big Ears had all sorts of adventures!
Hi Im helping look for a book for my friend the plot she gave me was “ 90s book. Mouse and wife travel with elves on a dragons back who has houses built into it. They meet a sea witch who tells them to go to the man in the moon with the candles. No humans in it. It’s a children’s book but “dark”. If you could help that would be great! Thanks
I’m looking for a childrens book where the characters were all different type of animals, and wore clothing and visited each other and stuff, very human like. It had illustrations similar to the peter rabbit books or frog and toad, overall reminds me a lot of those. Specifically I remember in one of them they were throwing a birthday party and made a lemon cake with sliced lemons on top of the cake. Probably from 90’s? i was a child in the 2000’s though. Thank you!
I found it! Johnny Lion’s Bad Day if anyone else is looking for it
I am trying to find a YA mystery book which I read sometime in the late 70’s or early 80’s. The plot is a treasure hunt of sorts, which ultimately leads the protagonist to find a clockwork owl in a tree, which I THINK has something to do with his father.
It has been a very long time, but I have a serious treasure hunt obsession to which I ascribe a portion of blame to this book and I’d really love to re-read it. It might even have been a Hardy Boys adventure. Whenever I see “The Tower Treasure” cover I think it’s this book, so it might have a similar cover, but it’s definitely not that book.
Hello I am looking for a children’s book from 1960s about a little girl (possibly named Suzy) who wore a pink dress and had a growth spurt and ripped her dress and couldn’t fit in her favorite chair (broke it.) Size approximately 6″x9″ book.
I’m looking for a children’s book where a child and I believe his grandfather fly over a snowy town and look through the clouds at the snow falling. The snow turns from white to rainbow colored. Probably from the 1990s.
‘Timmy Slept On’ by Eva Grant?
I am looking for an illustrated childrens book (for 2-3 year olds) that was read to me in the early 1990s. It was about a baby lion (or tiger) who was afraid to go to bed, and the parent lions comforting the baby lion. I also remember there was a scary owl, may have been a nightmare of the lion’s. One of the illustrations included the baby lion in a bed. Any help would be much appreciated.
A friend at work remembers a special book from his childhood about a peacock that wants to be someone else until the end. He was in grade school in the late 80’s early 90’s. I hope it rings a bell with someone!
Hi! I’m looking for a sci-fi chapter book that I read as a kid in the early/mid 1990s. I remember it being called something (very difficult to Google) like Space Cat, with a sorta headshot of a white Persian cat in a space suit on the cover, which was maybe purple-ish? It was about an anthropomorphic cat space explorer, and she had a small green alien sidekick who lived in a floating bubble pod. I think she had some kind of romance with a black cat who was kind of warrior monk, and he tragically died in the final battle. I sorta remember it having a 1950s/1960s futurism/space aesthetic, but it could have been written in the 70s or 80s. Thank you!
When did you read it?
Maybe 4th- 5th grade-ish, which would’ve been 1995-1996…
my last question from 2 days ago hasnt been posted yet, I dont know if that is normal of if I am exceeding a posting limit. if so apologies. ANother three books: two baseball books, alost same plot so possibly same author. one at least famous enough to have been referenced on a baseballl broadcast a year or two ago, 15 yr old protaganists in each book. one, he is a batter that NEVER misses contact during a swing. He is signed to a major league team, walks every plate appearance strictly forbidden+ from hitting ball fair by manager, until final atbat in world series where he homers. In the other book, the Phenom is a pitcher with a fastball he calls the rocket. he refuses to throw any other pitch. taken into major league, where is team makes World Series. there in final game two out, he faced the one yankee slugger who handle his pitch, and as he winds up and throws at the last second he turns his wrist over, throws a curve and wins the world series, though the manager shouts that was a lousy curve all next spring you will work or words to the effect
Third book is about a fatherless boy who hot rods his car and gets into a gang of hot rodders who bait the adjacent county’s sheriff by speeding through and beating him to the county border where his remit runs out. These hot-rodders are all for show though they dont actually know any mechnical ability. Our here does get nabbed, but in his court hearing, an owner of a professional racing garage arranged to mentor him and taech him when it is proper to race. One detail, among the professional drivers at the garage is one Brit, who crashes his car because he had been using a cow in a field as a breaking point (ie to mark the place before the curve when you begin breaking) and the’ blasted beast moved.’………
Hi, I’m looking for a book from my childhood (I’m 56). I think I remember an abandoned red? car was found by a gnome? with a toadstool hat and a ladybird. I think the gnome? drove it. I think it was a British book
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Looking for title of a book from around 1998 that my math teacher read to us. Each class she’d read a chapter and at the end of the chapter we’d go home with a puzzle to solve. It was a private school – so the only time I’ve ever experienced something like that – but this teacher started my love of logic type problems. So I’m on the hunt for this book! I only recall random pieces:
– school field trip? Possibly in the summertime?? Exploring caves and the group of kids end up elsewhere and have to figure out how to get back
– one puzzle was about number of coins they had, using a certain combo to open a door
– one puzzle was about a phone number relating to an animal name using the numbers on a phone dial pad (like 2=abc) and the answer was gorilla (it stumped me bad at the time)
I know this is very little to go on and I may be off about pieces. But if anyone has any possible clue where I could look or how to search please let me know!!
This is a longshot- but I am looking for an 80s/90s kids picture book. The background is dark blue and it has that classic 80s triangle-squiggle-straight line geometric background i think in orange or yellow. I am pretty sure it includes a pink bunny or multiple bunnies and the content goes something like “bunnies hop, birds go cheep, something something go peep peep peep”. The illustrations are kind of strange as i remember. I cannot for the life of me remember ANYTHING else about it.
Lentil?
Signe Ivarson, The Everyday Story Book.
Hi! I’m looking for a child’s chapter book. It was about a little girl and a new girl comes to her school. The new girl can speak French. They become friends, I think. There’s a yellow kitchen thrown in somewhere. Sorry about so little details!
Hi, I remember a book that my nan used to read to me and it was about these monsters in the forest that used to chop up little children and run their bodies throug the forest. Can anyone help with the name/title?
Try the books by Berniece Freschet, such as Moose Baby.
Thank you for that. It wasn’t the particular ones I was looking for, but I will check them out. I called my mom to ask and was pleasantly surprised that she knew instantly which series I meant. Sam Campbell’s 12-set Living Forest books from the 50’s.
Paula Beth Sheedy God Knows. You can see it read on Youtube.
Hugo and the Ministry of Holidays (also titled Hugo and the Bureau of Holidays), by Tony Ross. You can read it on archive.org .
Hello,
I have been looking for a book that I loved when my grandma read it to me. I cannot remember the title except for the key line on every page “still Timmy slept on”. Everyone kept trying to wake him up, the local band, etc. and still he slept on. If anyone could help out, I would sure appreciate it.
Maybe the Eight Children books?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3574998-eight-children-move-house
Hi, I remember a book from my childhood about a character called Hugo – I think he had other adventures – who was some kind of animal. In this story Hugo helps Santa out and basically organises it so the parents take the presents from him and distribute them. Would love to find it to help my son with some of his concerns.
Maybe: Shen Roddie, Mrs. Wolf.
Oh my goodness yes!!! Thank you so much!!!!!!!🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
You’re welcome!
Signe Ivarson, The Everyday Story Book.
I’m looking for a book I had as a child, late 90s early 2000s. It is a God Sees Me type book where the main character is a little teddy bear. Each page is a different “God sees when…” The main one I remember is something like “God saw when my gold fish died”. It was a smaller paper book. It was my favorite book and my mom and I have been looking for this for almost a decade now because my little sister ripped it up when she was a baby (15 years ago). If anyone knows anything about this please let me know.
The First Christmas Stocking.
http://lookingglassreview.com/books/the-first-christmas-stocking/
I’m looking for what I think was a series I read as a child in the late 70s, but they may have been written in the preceding decades. One was about a young beaver learning to build a dam. Another one was about a moose in his first year of life. I recall the moose getting into a fight with another male to prove himself.
They were illustrated with black and white drawings and I don’t think they characters had human names – it was more narrative.
I’m looking for an illustrated book. The drawings look older but I’m not sure on how old the book was. It was a collection of stories about children and their pets. One of the stories had a little boy and girl who had a dog, when they got a kitten the dog hated it, then one day they were sitting by a pond and the kitten fell in, and when the dog saw the girl crying it jumped in and saved the cat. Another story I remember was about a family who wanted to have a picnic, but then it started raining, then the parents decided to have a picnic in the attic instead. I may be misremembering because I haven’t read it in a few years, and I was pretty little. Thank you in advance!
Hi. I am looking for a childrens book. It was very obscure. An elephant wears different live animals as clothes. A snake as an earring and cockatoo as something else. The book rhymed, the elephant undressed herself and possibly had tea with the rest of the animals. I know this sounds like a bad dream but I remember the book.?
Hi, I have been desperately looking for a picture story book that was read to me and my sister as kids in the late 90s, early 00’s. The title was something like “ The ——— clean the lake” but the name of the creatures in the titles was really long and hard to pronounce. In the book these creatures go to a lake and see that it’s really dirty so they can’t swim in it. They decide to clean it up and end up recycling enough things to create a tire swing and other equipment. I wish I remembered the name of the creatures but I know my dad hated reading it because he couldn’t say their name.
ms. frisby and the rats of nimh, Robert C. O’Brien ?? not sure if it matches the monster thing though
unfortunately that isn’t it, but i thank you dearly for trying
The Doll People by Ann M. Martin
Looking for a children’s Christmas book where a girl knits and she is selling stockings to a family at the top of a hill and she gives away one of the socks to a boy on the street who is freezing on her way to deliver the stockings to the wealthy family and then the woman gets mad. Please let me know!
Mystery at Cranberry Farm?
Are you sure? I saw a photo image that included the lines you mentioned, even the British spelling of “tyres.”
The link above did not go to that book but to one by Mr Pillinger called Big Red. I’ll try it again.
Found one by that title on AbeBooks Hopefully it is the right one and thank you either way.
Found it! Thank you so much. Knowing the authors name was a great help!
Hello! This is driving me nuts. My friend swears she remembers reading a 90s picture book about a girl who thinks she’s really a kidnapped princess and shouldn’t have to do chores, and that it had very realistic 90s illustrations (also the family had red hair). However the only book that I’ve found is “I Am Really A Princess” by Carol Diggory Shields which has a very cartoony cover. Were there ever any other illustrated editions? Or was there a different but very similar book? Thank you!
Brilliant! Thanks!
You’re welcome!
Hi! Looking for a childrens book about monsters available in the UK in the early 2000s. The monster types in the story all had different numbers of eyes and legs. A monster couple befriended a large round lump of a monster who I believe people were often rude to. He ended up taking care of the couples eventual monster children hatched from eggs, Pinky (boy) and Bluebell (girl). Everything took place under a large tree with a strange name, which may also have been included in the title of the book (Under The Something Tree?). Thanks in advance, a long shot!
I’m searching for an illustrated children’s book I had in the late 90s. It featured a black cat sailing the sea. Beautiful art. The cat is wearing octopus/tentacles around his head.
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I believe my book was published early 2000s? I remember reading it a lot in the third grade. (I’m 23 now). It was about a wolf who finds a young sheep/lamb. He takes the kid home. The book makes it out like the wolf’s giving the sheep/lamb a bath, so it’s not dirty when he eats it, and feeding it and fattening it up to eat. But really he’s giving the sheep/lamb a bath and feeding it cause it’s hungry and dirty! He then helps find the sheep/lambs mom! Its not the Lamb who came to Dinner. I swear I remember the art style being different. More blues and less reds. Please help if anyone remembers this book!!!
hello, i’ve been searching for this book since i last read it which was in grade 2. i read it in french; i’m not sure if it’s in english, however the plot is about this mother mouse who has 200 babies, half boys & half girls. she leaves in search of something, i think it may be food? the mother has many encounters with monsters which resemble a ‘hand drawn engraving’ art style. if you searched up ‘sun with face drawing’ on google images the monsters resembled alot to those. unfortunately that’s all i remember but it would mean so much if someone were able to help me find it. thank you
Hello! Looking for a favorite childhood book. Hardcover, an encyclopedia of sorts it had so many topics. male/female anatomy, what happens to your finger when you get a cut with illustrations of men in white blood cell suits acting as the defenders of the body, a section detailing why the house makes noises at night due to the temperatures cooling. A layout of “you are what you eat” with the body illustrated with foods as hands, eyes arms etc. it’s a long shot, but I remember it fondly and would love a copy for my kids. But all I have are childhood memories of the pages detailed. Thanks for reading.
This is a book I used to read to my grandson when he was a small boy. It was possibly written in the first part of last century or maybe the 1950s. It is larger than A4. The story is set in the Australian bush about a young boy aged 8 or 9. At nighttime, he gets u out of bed and, wearing nothing but a pair of boots, runs out of his house, across a clearing and into the bush. The moon is up. As he leaps and runs along his way, he meets various bush creatures who call out to him, “Look out for the yowie!” He eventually returns to his house. The story has a feeling of light-hearted fearlessness and freedom about it. The illustrations are old-fashioned soft black and white brushstrokes of the boy running in the moonlit bush.
I am trying to remember the title and author of a book that I used to read to my young grandson. It was possibly written in the first part of the 20th century or maybe the 1950s. It was bigger than A4. The story, set in the Australian bush is about a young boy aged maybe 7 or 8. In the night, he gets up out of bed and, wearing nothing but a pair of boots, runs out of his house and into the bush. The moon is up. As he leaps and runs along his way, he meets various bush creatures who call out to him, “Look out for the yowie!” He eventually returns to his house. The story has a feeling of light-hearted fearlessness and freedom about it. The illustrations are old-fashioned soft black and white brushstrokes of the boy running in the moonlit bush.
My aunt gave me a book about ten years ago when i was about 5 or 6. It was full of older looking drawings, but I’m not sure how old the book actually was. it was a collection of stories the two I remember the most vividly were one about a little boy and girl who had a dog, when they got a little grey kitten, the dog hated it. One day the children were sitting by a pond and the kitten fell in, the dog saw the little girl crying and jumped in and saved it. the other story was about a family going on a picnic, then it started raining and they couldn’t go, the parents then had the idea to have a picnic in the attic instead. I’ve tried looking for both of these stories but haven’t found anything and it’s really frustrating that i can’t find them. Any help would be appreciated!
Hope someone can help ID this book! It’s a children’s book I would have read in the 1980s, though was probably older. One or more children was looking for treasure in an old house, and there was an intricate old quilt depicting the many rooms of the house itself. My only clear memory of the plot is that (spoiler alert!) the treasure was found in a window seat in a room at the top of the house, and the child(ren) discovered this because the quilt piece depicting the window seat was the wrong color — it was gold, and was sewn on loosely, with the correct color for the upholstery showing underneath, so the kid(s) realized the piece was added later as an indication of where the treasure was hidden in the house. Thanks in advance!
Journey to an 800 Number, by E. L. Konigsburg.
You are a gem, an absolute angel, a Christmas fairy 💕💖 Thank you SO much for finding this title! Merry Christmas 🎄🥰
The Puzzling World of Winston Breen?
Unfortunately that is not it. I feel like the main protagonist was a girl, and that her younger brother was with her, and there may have been one other child with them, a classmate, probably male.
I finally ended up finding it! “Who Stole the Wizard of Oz” by Avi, in case anyone ended up being curious. 🙂
Thanks for writing back, someone will be following this!
A widow’s walk for sure, or a cupola?
Do you remember any of the children’s names?
The series where the mother is hit by a car are the Amy and Laura books by Marilyn Sachs: Amy Moves In, Laura’s Luck (about summer camp) and Amy and Laura.
Excellent, you’re a wonder!
Glad to help! Thanks for posting back.
The first one (India, orchids, tiger) is What Then, Raman?, by Margery Gill.
https://bookfossils.com/2020/02/23/the-power-of-a-childrens-book-what-then-raman-by-shirley-l-arora/
Wonderful, many thanks.
You’re welcome.
Adopted Jane.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/689269
two that fit: “The Big Book of Search & Find” and “The Big Book of Seek & Find”
Those looked kinda close! The book itself wasn’t that big, about half the size of that one! And I do remember the spine on the book being red and the title of the book being in the top middle, the text wasn’t big enough to cover more than 1/3 of the top of the book, and there was a little cartoon sheep on top of the title, everything in the book was cartoon as well! Thank you for your help in my search 🙂
Masha’s Awful Pillow by Galina Lebedeva — copies on abebooks.com
Thank you so much!! That’s it!
aScch just remember yet another book I am looking for.. Orphan girl gets a chance to go stay with an older woman, train journey but isnt tired by it, wants to play with the woman’s dog but just gives it a lady like pat on the head….then gets to go to a farmer with a daughter her age. they have lots of fun. Both the older woman and the farmer make an offer to adopt the girl, and despite the fun she had at the farm, she decides for the older woman, as the woman is lonely and needs company. Thanks.l
Hello. Iam trying to find books available in the mid 70s or earlier. One was in India, the mountains (the father travelled to the hot plains for work), the boy earned money to buy books by finding orchids for an English Lady. A Tiger was also involved I think. In the conclusion of the story, the boy’s younger brother is ill,so he uses the money to buy a red blanket for him, and the bookseller assures him that the book will not be sold, but will be waiting for him……another series had a girl heroine. Her mother was hit by a car, and the girl made her pancakes during the recovery…..and also went on a camping trip with her class and they were frighted by ghost stories and loon calls and saw the northern lights…and final book for this time, a boy is injured and in hospital and befriends another boy and agirl. The girl then dies, even though they thought she ‘only’ had the flu…this book is remarkable because the hero spent his time in hospital wandering in middle earth ie reading tolkien, and was the first time I learned of the Lord of the Rings…..oh yes, one final book a fantasy where children from this world are brought into an alternative world, and get back by uniting the two halves of an amulet or coin. yellow and green are significant as well….Any help is appreciated.
I’m looking for a book series that I read as a
child in the 1970s in the United States. It was about a family with many children and they lived in a big Victorian house with a widows walk at the top. I loved the series and I loved the house and all the children, can’t for the life of me remember the name of the series. If anyone has a recollection of this I would love a lead on this series. Thank you! Gioia
I’m looking for a book title. I believe I read it in the late 80s or very early 90s, and as a part of the weekly reader book club. It was aged for somewhere around 10 years, very few pictures (though a few). I believe it took place in Ohio, though that may be incorrect. The story was about 2 or 3 children in a fairly small town. An older person, who the main protagonist had befriended via the local library, and who was a descendant of the founder of the town, had passed away, and all of their own children found that the fortune they expected to get was to go to whoever figured out the riddle to find it. The kids end up finding it (behind a mirror in the library) by following the clues that used the maps in certain library books to mark real world places in the town to find the next location. The final clue used an illustration of the chess game in “Through the Looking Glass” which, when compared to a map of the grid-patterned town, pointed to the library. In the end, the fortune had been spent on a first edition of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”.
Anyone have any thoughts??
Could it be The Doll’s House by Rumer Godden? A wooden doll named Tottie and her family live happily until mean Marchpane comes in.
I am trying to remember the title , author or illustrator of a Christmas book I read to kindergartners for 30 years. It was in the 70’s or 80’s. The illustrations were line drawings and precious. They told the story. An older brother and younger sister set a trap for Santa. The brother wanted to prove he didn’t exist I believe. Does anyone know what I am talking about?
I’m looking for a book I listened to by audiobook (on CD) as a child – it started with a boy playing an instrument (a flute?) and all the animals and people in this town started following him. I’ve latterly connected this with the pied piper story but I don’t remember it being explicitly mentioned in the book. I’ve scoured lists of adaptions of the pier pipers and can’t seem to find it.
I am looking for an audiobook that has children looking for clues in a grocery store, donut shop and other places around town. The person hiding the clues has a puppet van. And he says the line ”This is not a game”. They end up in New Orleans during Mardi Gras in a hot air balloon.
i am trying to rembember a where a mouse loses her brother at a circus when he follows a blue balloon
Hello! My friend is looking for a book that they read between 2009 and 2013. It was about a fox who meets a girl, and then they meet a third animal (Along the lines of a hedgehog or beaver). They all decide to go on a picnic, and then it started raining. The third animal started lamenting how their pastries (either buns or biscuits) were now wet. My friend found the book in a bundle of other children’s books, and they remembered that the cover of the book was very orange. My friend thinks that the book might have been part of a series, but is unsure. They are very confident that the book was likely for toddlers,
hello! The children’s book that is misplaced in my memory is one about little forest, woodland creatures who find an orange. I believe there are some little elves or fairies, and maybe some toads, or squirrels in it. The orange lands on the forest floor one day (from a human child who dropped it out of their bag), and the creatures think it’s a gift from the sun. One creature tries eating the peel and gets ill from it. I don’t remember if they ever tried the juicy goodness on the inside. But I remember dazzling at the drawings as a kid, and imagining what life would be like as a small woodland creature exploring the forest floor.
I am looking for a book I loved when I was very little. It is about a boy/girl who’s pillow is lumpy so she goes and sleeps with all the animals then goes back to bed and finds the pillow really comfy. The book, I am sure is called something like mascha’s pillow, sascha’s pillow???? I was little in the 70s so could be a book from 50s 60s or 70s.
I am looking for a book I always read as a child in the 70’s and took out of the school library many times. The little boy had orange hair and looked like Ziggy. Also, two phrases in the book, one Pickles, Pickles, Pickles and “You Don’t Know Me, But I Know You.” One side of the page was black and the other side white. There was a presence in the house that the little boy was trying to find out. Thanks
Here are things that I may remember from the book:
– protagonist is a girl
– someone (protagonist I believe) carves birds from wood–usually with the wings tucked in. towards the end of the novel, she finally carves one with the wings spread.
– special needs child (boy) that the protagonist interacts with breaks the carved (wings-spread) bird.
– does the special needs child die?
– title may have been something like ‘[name] was here’.
looking for an older book that was about a boy that went to the beach and found a dragon that took him time traveling or something and the dragón wrote him a goodbye poem or note or something like that