265G: This Room Is Mine (Solved)

A 1960’s-early 70’s color (I think) children’s picture book about a girl who is forced to share her bedroom with a sibling. She copes by drawing a line down the middle of the room to stake out her territory.

5 thoughts on “265G: This Room Is Mine (Solved)

  1. Gayle

    I figured it out myself, when the actual title popped into my head as I submitted this post! It was in the recesses of my brain all these years. I just found it online: This Room Is Mine, by Betty Ren Wright. Crazy! There were apparently two different formats (one gold cover, small with a spiral-notebook type of binding), and the larger picture book size of one I had, which had a pink version of the same cover art (a girl looking out of her curtained bedroom window with a horse behind her, framed by the bricks of the exterior of her home). I need to find the larger, pink one, because that’s the one I had.

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  2. Susan Bourgeau

    This sounds like A Room for Cathy by Catherine Woolley. Published first in 1956 and reprinted many times afterwards….most notably the 1970s Scholastic edition

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  3. Kelly W

    Betty Ren Wright, This Room is Mine! (It also had another title–one was paperback, one hardcover, I think.)

    My sister and I loved that book! The room looked so much like ours, we turned it into a play for all our relatives. 🙂

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