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313S: Missing Clock Tower Automatons (Solved)

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A girl goes on dangerous magical quest to find missing clock tower automatons. I read this book sometime in the mid-1970s. It may have been published from the 1950s-1970s. Statues or automatons have disappeared from the town cathedral or clock tower (I lean toward the clock) and if they are not restored by midnight (?) on a certain day, chaos will ensue. There is a European city feel to the magical yet current-day setting. Toward the very end, some adults are talking, “I’m letting her sleep. ” There is a sense that she has done things which were not quite lawful but she is excused because of her accomplishment. The adults may be a mother and aunt, or maybe aunts only.

313R: The Boat Shrinks to be Carried

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I am looking for a fantasy book in a series of books about young people of Celtic descent who live in the southern American states who encounter and fight beings of Celtic mythology. They travel on a boat which resembles a metallic dragon which shrinks to be carried. One of the young people is an Native American Indian who gets help from beings of the Native American Indian mythology. The books, I think, were published in the 1980s.

313Q: Calico Cat and Her Kittens Live in a Candy Store

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I’m looking for a children’s book that I had received in the early to mid 70s. It was a thin illustrated book about a calico cat that had kittens and lived in a candy store. Those are the details I’m completely sure about.

I’m relatively sure that one of the kittens was white or cream colored. It may have been discolored by dust or soot at one point. The kittens were adopted. I’m pretty sure an old man owned the store and he gave the dirty kitten to a sad little girl who loved him and cleaned off the dirt to discover its beautiful fur.

I’ve been looking for this book for decades.

313P: Dinosaur Skeleton Eats Balloons

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I read this book in the 1980s.

Book features a long necked dinosaur skeleton in a museum. A child tries to feed the dinosaur food but it keeps dropping out of his bones. He then fills the dinosaur skeleton with coloured balloons.

Please help I loved this book

313O: An Easter Egg with Another World Inside

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This is an obscure a book that has an Easter theme or at least involved rabbits who produced these really ornate Easter eggs, in which some or at least one of them had another world inside. I seem to recall something about a Grand bunny or master rabbit or similar; but there also seemed to be some kind of theme where a child escapes their current world into one of the eggs (like a pied piper kind of story)

313M: Rhinoceros Escapes from Zoo

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I read this book to my children between 1966 and 1970. The story is about a rhinoceros who escapes from a zoo and two children, a boy and a girl, find the rhinoceros in a park and see to it that he gets home.  My recollection is that the book had a brown cover.  I don’t remember it having a dust jacket, although it may have when it was new.  We must have purchased it at a local bookstore in Northridge, California.

 

313L: Two Ladybugs Make Slippers

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When I was a child, we enjoyed many books from the local library (located at Coventry Rd and Euclid Heights Boulevard in Cleveland Heights, Ohio).

A favorite was about two bugs. I remember them pictured as lady bugs named Pimpernel and Cochineal. Their friend Bagley Beetle was sick and they went to visit him and gave him some slippers they made for him.

Book was probably printed 1930’s or earlier.

313K: Stories From Around the World (Solved!)

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The book I’m looking for was stories for older aged kids than the grade school library I found it in (our librarian wanted to encourage us). The book had a red hardcover, about 16″ x 8″ and was about 2″ thick. It had an illustration from the first story, I think, on the cover. The only story I remember the title for is The Twelve Princesses. It had stories from Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and probably more. When us grade schoolers got on the bus with it the older kids tried to borrow it! It was quite a read and some bits of the story lines were, the stairs to heaven with a trapdoor on one of the ends (Japanese), and the man who escaped a pond/water which he had to pass by putting a shell to his ear which had been filled with a love song by his beloved (Malaysia, I think). I wish I had more specifics.

313J: Girl gets carried by big bird to a fantasy land

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Girl gets lifted by a big bird to a far off fantasy land. She has golden blonde hair and brown eyes. All of the people in the new land have white hair and blue-green eyes, and the kids ride to school on six-legged unicorns.There is a wise old woman who grants each person one answer to an important question in their lifetime. This was a children’s book I borrowed from the library in 1972 or 1973.