In the 1970s, I loved reading a novel (I don’t believe it was a true story) about two young men who embarked on what was supposed to be a two (?) week canoeing adventure into the Canadian wilderness. Things started off well but, of course, their canoe capsized in rapids. They almost drowned. They lost virtually everything they had packed to survive. What little wasn’t lost was wet including matches. In assessing their situation, I believe one of the characters says, “…grub box couldn’t swim.” However, they survived that day, that night, and even the winter… then finally escaped and/or were rescued. In 2000s, someone asked me if I’d read “Into The Wild” and just by the title I thought he was talking about this book (he wasn’t). Years later, I saw that something similar happened in real life and I want to say, “Sounds like ____” but I still cannot locate any sign of the old book. It was a great story! Possibly had been some sort of award winner.

I am trying to find this book for my Dad, who remembers it from when he was a kid. It would have been published in the late 1960s at the very latest. It was a hard-cover children’s book with colour illustrations. He thinks it was called, “The Day that Winter Went Away,” but we haven’t been able to find anything by searching that up, so I am guessing it is not quite the right title. The plot is that there are a some woodland animals (rabbits, squirrels, birds, maybe others) grousing about the start of winter. One of the animals says something like “I wish winter would go away and never come back. ” Winter (which kind of looks like a head blowing cold wind) hears this and decides to leave. This causes a lot of ecological problems. The rabbits turn white but there is no snow, so they can’t hide. The trees don’t leaf out properly in spring, so the birds building nests have no shelter. etc. So the animals have to go on a journey to find Winter, apologize, and ask him to come back. It would be amazing if you were able to find this book. Thank you for looking!

I read a book in seventh grade in about 1973 about the revolutionary war. I honestly don’t remember if it was fiction or nonfiction. It was not the last of the Mohicans. It was a huge book 500 or 600 pages if not more, huge by my seventh grade standard. My dad had read the book when he was in Jr High school probably about 1940. My dad is passed away and this mystery has plagued me for a couple of years.

When I read the book it was on my seventh grade reading list in history. It was my first introduction to Tories and many things relative to the revolutionary war.

Childrens book. An overweight boy, who gets teased and bullied, finds an amulet. He makes friends with a ghost? has one female friend. Out of print. I thought it was ‘the ghost in the shadow’, but can’t find under that title.

The book was a children’s book about an escaped pet bird who befriends a shabby zoo lion.  There may or may not have been the word “moon” in the title, or as part of a word in the title.  Unfortunately that’s all I can remember.  Thank you.

Anyway, I am trying to locate a book for my mother-in-law.  The book was most likely published before 1980. She would read it to my husband when he was a child and it contained the phrase “supper stew”.  She thinks it was about a mouse or mice and was possibly based on the story about the old woman that lived in a shoe.  For years she has tried to find the book but to no avail.  Unfortunately, this is all the information she can remember and my searches based on the info have come up empty.  Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated!  It has been driving her nuts for years and now it is driving me nuts!  Thanks!

Cinderella book probably published 1975-1985. The twist is that she’s not exactly pretty. She’s tall, has big feet, etc. I don’t remember how it ends. I don’t remember much color on the pages. My local librarian couldn’t find it. Thank you!