I’m trying to remember a book I read around 1962 - 1965. It was about a boy and girl who somehow get a magic ring and when they put it on, they can understand what the animals around them are saying. I just loved it and took it out of the school library again and again until my teacher asked me “wouldn’t you like to read something different?” I’ve been doing engine searches for a long time now and I can’t seem to find it. I think it was called either The Magic Ring or The Golden Ring and it wasn’t a Raggedy Ann/Andy book. It was cloth-bound and green … I think. I’m sure that last point is most valuable to you. If you could help me that would be wonderful.
Stump the Bookseller
New format, same book stumper solving.
One of Ruth Chew’s books maybe?
Ruth Chew’s first book was published in 1969, and at least her first few don’t seem to fit the description.
The description is similar, but not completely alike; perhaps it may be worth checking:
Forbus, Ina B. The Magic Pin; Viking, 1956. 138p.
Described as ‘…fantasy about a small girl who is able to talk to animals. Neelie’s (Cornelia) power comes to her unexpectedly one day when she is wearing a gold horseshoe pin, inherited from her grandmother, for the first time. On discovering the power of the pin, she wears it constantly and succeeds, through her friendship with the animals, in ridding her grandfather’s mill of rats and in saving the life of a neighbor’s sick baby during a flood when the neighbor is unable to reach the doctor.’