This young adult book from the 1960s or 1970s was set in the Southwest, maybe Arizona or New Mexico. A girl's parents have divorced so she is sent to live with her father, I think. The song "For everything, turn, turn, turn, there is a season, turn, turn, turn" is featured in the story somehow. Some of the characters in the story are Native American but I'm not sure whether the girl and her father are, or not.
My daughter checked the book out of her school library in first grade, the year being 2001.
The book is about an elephant who exhibits bad behavior and suffers the consequences. She gets angry and therefore stomps in the water due to her anger. Because of that, the water becomes muddy and she has no clean water to drink. She also gets angry and therefore knocks her tree over and therefore has no place to take shelter from the sun.
My daughter pronounced the elephants name as “Moolaui” or “Moo lau ee”. I really hope you can assist in finding this book as we shared many laughs as she read it to me.
Thank you so much.
I’m not sure if you can help or not, but I’m trying to remember a story that I either read or heard as a child. It goes something like this:
There once lived a famous artist. He was highly respected and thought of everywhere, as a great man. As fate would have it, the great man happened one day to travel through the city where his daughter and granddaughter lived. So he called and asked if he could join them for dinner. Of course he was invited with open arms. His daughter was very excited and determined that all must be perfectly arranged, for after all, her father was a great man. In time the father came and they sat down to dinner. Soon a soup was served, and the man’s little granddaughter, paying more attention to her grandfather than her manners, made a bit of a mess. This embarrassed and angered her mother. So after dinner, the little girl was sent to stand in the corner until she could learn manners. The grandfather said nothing, and in time they all retired for the evening. The next morning the daughter came to prepare for the morning meal and was startled to see her father painting a beautiful mural in the corner where just the night before his granddaughter had stood. It was the most beautiful mural she had ever seen, and it was obvious that her father had been up all night painting it. Why, she asked, why have you painted this? Then the grandfather said to her, if my little granddaughter has to spend so much time standing in this corner, I want to be sure she has something beautiful to look at.
Hello! I am looking for a book that my father used to read to me when I was a kid (late 90s). As far as I can remember it was about a family of ducks(?) who were often threatened by a scary pike in the area. I remember it had pictures, and I could have sworn it was called ‘all through the night’ but haven’t been able to find that title. I’ve been searching for years without any success!
Filbert? A goat?
He ate the flowers on the mayor's wife's hat. He was put in jail for that?
Kids trained to 'push' virtual soldiers on a digital (AR/VR) tabletop. The soldiers turn out to be real people. There are two kids (boy and girl?) who are able to sneak out and talk to each other during their training. I think this was a YA novel as I read it in elementary school in the late 90's/early 00's
Seeking a fantasy series from the 80s/90s. In the series was an inept wizard who carried a satchel full of rune sticks leftover by a long lost race called the Rebus/Rhebus/Rhybus (I'm not 100% sure of the spelling). The wizard often failed because he had trouble decoding the rune sticks. Eventually his satchel caught fire and he lost them all. The enemies in the books were somehow made of ice and wary of sunlight - I think they were dark elves. When killed, they would degrade into a puddle of dirty water. In one of the books was a character who flew around inside a cavern while wearing an old-fashioned helmet with a hinged visor. He could blast fire from his eyes and regularly chuckled while firing at the trolls below. Any help finding this series would be much appreciated.
I got a book from a scholastic book fair back in the 1990s. It was about a girl who lived in a house with her baby brother (maybe sister). There was a creature in the woods who stole the baby and she had to rescue him/her. The cover was terrifying (at least to 11 year old me) and I even bought it twice because the cover came off of one.
This creature was maybe a witch or something that needed the youth of the baby to survive – it fed off of the baby or something like that. The book would probably have been written between 1985 and 1995, young adult thriller/horror/fantasy.
Any help is appreciated!!!