A young boy gets the opportunity to go the store for his birthday to pick out a bicycle for his birthday, normally items are shipped directly to the house. It is set in the future. I originally read the book in the mid-1970s.
This was a YA book that I read back in the 1960s or 70s about a girl who wanted a forever home. It might have been set in England. She had marbles, or maybe just one marble, that she thought carried power. At the end of the book, the marble rolled under the front porch of her new home and she decided that meant that they were there to stay.
A girl stains a carpet and moves all the furniture into a big pile in the middle of the room to hide the stain. I vaguely remember her name being Harriet but I could be wrong about that. A 70s book for young kids, illustrated.
Beautiful cover with picture of an opening through a forest. The colours were browns and golds and green. It was a story about a boy and girl traveling into an enchanted place and the things they experienced there, an adventure. I read this book over 50 years ago.
This is a child’s book circa 1950s about a bird who is trying to bring twigs into his/her birdhouse to build a nest. The twigs don’t fit in the small birdhouse door because the length of the twigs is too long to fit in the oval entrance. The bird finally realizes that the twigs can be brought in by turning them to go straight in. The bird then screams Wowee Kee Flowee! Of course, I might not have the entire story correct since it has been over 60 years since I read it, but I will always remember Wowee Kee Flowee!
I read this book in the 1980s, however I think it was older. It had something to do with a child living in a house on the ocean. I vaguely remember something about a witch and a storm (and perhaps a cave?) The rest is a little fuzzy. It may have taken place in New England, but it had nothing to do with Salem. I realize that this may not help at all, but I had to ask.
This was a hardcover chapter book I read in the ’60s. Don’t know when it was published, but it felt like contemporary writing, though the story was set in the early 20th century. No illustrations. A very young man lives with his mother in a small town- the nearest city is Spokane, I think. Possibly his older brother is missing. He goes to the ice cream parlor and has a pineapple ice cream soda. There is some sort of quest, some railroad tracks. He fights a cougar or puma, and is wounded, and emerges scarred but triumphant. He gets the girl.
Picture book – published prior to 1985
Rabbits in jeopardy. Little (young) rabbit wants to escape. Persuades old, previously resigned-to-his-fate rabbit to escape with him. Big rabbit is scared out in the larger world, returns to his fate where they began. Little rabbit goes on to other adventures alone. Could be related to Watership Down – maybe a chapter of that turned into picture book. Illustrations were beautiful, and NOT clips from the cartoon movie of that book.
Children’s book set entirely in a rural setting at night. A mother mouse guides her child mouse through grass and vegetation — perhaps a meadow — and I think I remember berries in the illustration. I think she teaches/explains her surroundings to the child mouse as they go. At some point, they encounter a road, and the child mouse feels its cold, hard, unfamiliar texture. I think the mother mouse tells him that the road is dangerous. I was reading this book in the late 80s or early 90s.
While living in Scotland in the late 70s, I used to read my children a book about Harriet, the Hedgehog. That may have been the title or perhaps it was just the name of the main character, I can’t remember. Now I would like to read that story to my grandchildren, but can’t find it. Can you help me, please?
Thank you.