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326M: Boy Has Adventures On River
I’m looking for a children’s picture book from the 70s or 80s for my friend. Her mom used to read it to her, but she can’t remember the name. It’s about a boy who floats down a river and has many adventures on the way involving animals and food. She thought it was “In the Peanut Butter Colony” by Louis Ross but that doesn’t look right after all. Thank you for any help!
326L: Beautiful Dresses From Night Sky
I live in the UK and I am looking for a Children’s anthology of stories (I think), which I had as a child in the 1950s (it may have been older). It included a story about three poor princesses called Cordelia, Sylvia and Arabella who were invited to a ball but had to make their dresses from old curtains. The animals and birds helped to make them beautiful dresses from the night sky, sashes of rainbows, ice crowns and stars for their hair and fluffy cloud cloaks. It was a lovely story, illustrated with black and white drawings. I have been searching for it for years with no luck. Maybe someone might recognize it and be able to tell me more.
326K: Young Kid And Travelers On Mission In Dark Cave
326J: Bunny Eats Snowdrops
I can’t remember much except the book was beautifully Illustrated and I loved looking at the pictures. It was a large size book as I recall. What I can remember is that the bunny ate snowdrops. That’s all I have. Good luck.
326I: Two-Eyed Freak
It was a thin children’s book, mostly of illustrations, about a girl who was born with two eyes and is considered a freak by everyone in her community who only has one eye. But she sees the world in color while everyone else sees in the world in black and white. I want to say the protagonist has long, dark hair. I don’t know how it ends. I think I read it in the mid-90s. No later than ’98.
326H: 1800’s Children On Father’s Whaling Ship
I am in search of a book about two children, Jason and Miranda, who sail aboard their father’s whaling ship, possibly out of New Bedford or Nantucket in the 1800s. Black and white line drawings, probably published in the 1950’s or before.
326G: Kid’s Bad Day Is Remade Into Better Day (Solved!)
I’m looking for a book that is about a bad day, but *not* Alexander’s. The book I remember has a main character who is school-aged. The character wakes up late, puts too much sugar on his/her morning breakfast (after the mother warned him/her not to), and ends up wearing slippers to school. The kid decides to reset the day by going home at lunchtime and starting the day over. Puts the right amount of sugar on breakfast, wears the right clothes to school, and has a better day.
326F: Artistic Computers as Counterpoint to Throw-Away Technology
326E: Planetary Creature Encyclopedia
I had an amazing book when I was a kid that I haven’t seen for decades. I was born in 1973, so it would have been published sometime in the 70s or early 80s. It was a large, slim encyclopedia- or reference-style book, but it was about all of the planets and what each of their creatures would look like based on the physics, chemistry, and gravity of the planets. It was very colorful and there were wonderful renderings of all of the would-be creatures. I believe it also listed what these creatures’ habits, diet, lifestyle, etc. would be like as well.
I hope you can help me find out what it is!