I read this book probably in the early 1970s. This is what I remember: a boy lives in an apartment building, something’s weird with one of the neighbors, there’s a brownie that he eats, just a few bites at a time, I think, he notices strange things happening to him, and ultimately, he eats enough brownie and turns into a cat and sneaks into the neighbor’s apartment through an open window ledge.
I am trying to locate a book from the 1960s or before about a cat with a wooden leg. It was very important to me because I grew up with a walking disability so the book meant great deal to me.
Someone threw it away, unfortunately, after my husband just died suddenly!
Could you possibly help me locate a copy or at least the name?
I would be eternally grateful!
Very bright coloured picture book. Blocky figures of workers going to a job site and using every piece of heavy equipment imaginable. They carry lunch boxes, break for lunch and leave at the end of the day. Plain language. My boys (b. 1986 and b. 1989) loved it!
I read a book in the 90s….around 1990-1992 probably. It was checked out from the library so I don’t know how old it was. It was fiction.
The plot was of a wealthy white family, possibly English or British. They owned a number of slaves and the slaves revolted, killing everyone in the family except for a young girl 8-14 years old probably). I think they stabbed the family to death. The slaves took her to live with them and I remember her working outside to grow food and talking about how she would take off her shirt and let her skin get tan, which her mother would have hated. She loved the freedom of living with them. It seems like it was set in the late 1800s or early 1900s.
For the life of me I cannot remember the title of the book or the author. It was from the late 80’s or early 90s and was a mystery with teenaged characters. There was a girl sent to spend the summer with her aunt and a selfish cousin. I think a few years pass after the cousin’s death and there is a reunion and all of these odd things start happening. It was on a lake and had a French name like Fond du Lac or Chance du Lac. It might have been on the Wisconsin/Canada border. There was a romance element to it and the heroine was meant to feel like she could trust no one.
I remember almost nothing about this book except the cover and the fact that I loved it. The cover was blue, with a picture of a glass mountain on it, and a couple of little witches on broomsticks flying around it. I read it in the early 1970’s when I took it out of the library and it was probably aimed at 10 – 12 year olds. I realize this is not a lot to go on! But thank you for any help anyone can offer.
Kids book from 1970s/1980s. Kids solve a mystery based on hidden clues they find – at their grandparents house maybe? I forget where the first clue was or how it started. The second clue (maybe?) is found in a loose stone of a stone fence. Then there’s something about kids being chased by geese trying to get gooseberries. The last clue is found tucked in an Indian Headdress socket where feather would fit in. Thank you! Been searching for years.
Child’s book from the 1950s. A 9×12 book with a cover in seafoam green. Realistic illustrations of children in soft pastel-like style. Stories about a family, perhaps called The Bumpsies. We think in one story, they have a picnic in the attic.
I read this when I was in Middle School in the late 1960s/ early 1970s and I had a brother in active duty in Vietnam trying to stop the “Domino Effect” of Communism from overtaking the free world. I believe it was written by an author who specialized in this genre. The plot was that the United States was being drawn into a war between the then Red China and Soviet Union by both sides that was threatening to become nuclear. The US President was keeping the nation neutral, until warheads were pointed at the opponent’s shores, MAD was close, and the leaders of both governments were imploring that the United States side with them to turn the tide. The end of the book never said which country the US supports, but the Soviet leader says something like, “you need to fight on our side – at least we both are of the white race” near the cliffhanger of the novel.
I would love to quote this book in a text book I am writing these many years later, but cannot identify it. Please help!
I am looking for a children’s poetry book published early 60s or maybe 50s. It had a purple hardcover. I believe a girl was on it. Maybe she was swinging?
Three poems I remember are the moon’s the north wind’s cooky , Tyger Tyger and the mock turtle song.