I am a librarian in need of HELP. A patron has asked for a children’s book published before 1968. The only thing they can remember it’s about a man delivering or selling milk with a donkey cart. The donkey gets hurt in the story. I have tried everything looking for this book. If you can help me it would be gratefully appreciated. It is a birthday gift for a patron’s sister
Stump the Bookseller
New format, same book stumper solving.
A wild guess as this book is not about a man with a donkey but has an older boy with a donkey in it and the donkey is used to pull a cart delivering food and is abused. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken? Published in 1962 I think.
I asked the patron and this is what they said “The book is about a donkey and a man and they deliver milk to people’s home.”
Just in case details are a bit different, “The Horse that Takes the Milk Around” by Helen Sterling (1946) illustrations by Marjorie Hartwell The Horse is treated well and tucked in at night