Looking for a 1950s/60s baseball book for juveniles about a boy who forms a baseball team. Someone on the team drinks too many milkshakes. NOT by Matt Christopher or Clair Bee.
315O: Baseball and milkshakes don’t mix
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315N: Teen fiction book, bullying, blackmail and revenge!
Hi, I am trying to find an older children/teen fiction book probably published in the 90’s. It is about a group of classmates being blackmailed by the caretaker’s son, who knows each of their secrets. They group together to seek revenge and get their secrets back. There is an Asian or Indian girl, who cheated on a test, a girl with a white streak in her hair from a scar, the bully refers to her as ‘bird crap’ and I think her name was Rosa? A boy called Liam, nicknamed ‘mouse’ and the son of a famous footballer player, who is new to the school. The caretaker’s son loves battenburg cake, which he calls ‘window cake’. They all get their secrets back from him in the end, and confront him, meet his mother, etc. I have hunted the internet, but can’t find any sign of it!
315M: Swathed in Scarves and Coats
Hi, I have the memory, but not the title, of a thin paperback? book that was in publication around 1960 or so. It was the story of three (I think old) women who lived together. Their furnace goes out and they have to go the basement to try and fix it. They are all swathed in scarves and coats and they have pointy red noses and they always go together when they have to go to the basement because it is scary. I don’t remember how it turns out. I have looked for it in every children’s bookshop that I know.
315L: One Step at a Time
I hope you all can help. I am looking for the title to a children’s picture book that I read in the late 1950’s to mid 1960’s about a woman who lived in a decrepit house (maybe with a cat) surrounded by peeling paint, cracked plaster, torn, sagging curtains and general disrepair. The cover (as I remember it) was this woman sitting at her wobbly legged table with a cracked wall and possibly a filthy window behind her (the cat may have been on the cover, too). Her expression is one of sadness, possibly even resignation. One day she decides to either repair the table leg or maybe paint the table and it looks great, but makes all else appear even worse, so motivated by her success with the table she tackles the other issues one by one filling cracks, painting, cleaning until she has transformed not only her once humble abode, but her entire outlook on life. Being excessively tidy and organized myself I adored that book but have no ideas regarding the title or the author and probably only read it once or twice though it has stuck with me all these years, a constant reminder to just keep putting one foot in front of the other no matter the circumstances and all will turn out in the end.
315K: First Train Ride
I have been looking for a book from my childhood about a young girl’s first train ride. I’m thing it could have been copyrighted in ‘50’s or ‘60’s. I loved it & recently rode the train from Kansas City to Chicago. It brought back memories of this book.
315J: A Child Dreams of Pink
I am a 74 year old woman who remembers some details about a children’s picture book my mother read to me. Actually, this was one of the many books we read that helped me learn how to read before entering kindergarten.
Unfortunately, soon after I was married, my parents’ basement flooded and all my books were lost. I think about this one often. If one has knowledge of a picture book where the child dreams of everything being pink( clouds, dresses, food) I would greatly appreciate their info.
315I: The Marvelous Train Trip
The book was hardcover, dark blue, large (10″ x 7″) about 1″ thick. The characters in the story: Fritz, a workman who has restored a venerable steam locomotive, a boy who takes the locomotive on a trip across the United States.
The locomotive cannot stop, but can slow down for a variety of adventures, such as traveling through the New York subway, and rescuing people from a forest fire (perhaps inspired by the fire at Pestigo, WI). Upon return, Fritz announces that the “bearings are burned out,” and the final picture shows the locomotive’s diamond stack off to one side, and a deer’s skull and antlers on the wall.
This book was in my Grandmother’s home in Berkeley, California. I would have paded through it when I was six in 1949. I was overseas in the Army when she died. The house, and all the books, were sold.
315H: Hedgehog Book
I am looking for a children’s counting book which was a story about a mother hedgehog and her 10 children. She counts as she puts them to bed. On the last page it say something like “ten happy hedgehogs, one happy family.” I read this to my kids approximately 1978. I have looked everywhere and can’t find it.
315G: Alien Spheres??? (Solved)
Read a story in the late 60s early 70s about alien lifeforms that were spheres. Two of them would merge into a third “super” sphere. The story was about one that wished he could meet this particular super sphere without realizing it was half of its creation.
315F: A Good Dog with a Good Bone
A Children’s book from the mid-50s to 60s about a small dog who is adopted by a circus. Every night he gets a bone from the cook, who says, “To a good dog, a good bone!” He buries it but can’t find it in the morning, getting more and more upset until one night he stays up and realizes the circus moves during the night. He perks up, realizing that since the circus does a circuit, he’ll have a bone to dig up in every town! I believe the illustrations are charcoal, black and white.