I’m looking for a collection of short stories, possibly by Saul Bellow.
The book may have chapter headings which are names of Bible books, such as Job, Exodus, Psalms, etc). The collection may include a humorous story about a man on a ledge, ready to jump, but he keeps moving, and so do the well-meaning people down below who are ready to catch and help him.
My husband (currently 62) fondly remembers a short book about a retired train engineer who was bored at home.
The engineer’s wife suggested he build a backyard railway – which he did – and the neighbourhood children flocked to it for rides and happy times.
This made the retired train engineer very happy and no longer bored.
Sorry I have nothing more to go on other than the book would have been purchased in Montreal, Quebec (in English, not in French) and it may have a
British connection as Andrew’s parents were born in England and moved to Canada in the late 1940’s.
Any assistance you can offer in helping me to locate this book would be invaluable as Andrew is an only child and both his parents have passed on.
It is a memory he speaks of often and I would dearly love to find the book for him.
This is an old (perhaps 1950’s?) children’s chapter book about a young girl living in a small Maine coastal lobster town, where her father is a lobsterman. I don’t specifically remember her mother being in the story… The main story line is that someone is stealing lobsters from traps in the town and somehow her father becomes a suspect – I think related in some way to a red sash from one of her dresses that he has in his pocket, that people think is the mask that the thieves were using. Somehow, his innocence is confirmed and I think she has something to do with it….
There are other pieces to the story as well, about her daily life, and I remember a part where she talks about listening to the rain pattering on the tin roof of their house.
Unfortunately, I do not remember any other specifics. Any help would be sincerely appreciated!
A picture book that I checked out repeatedly from my elementary school library. No idea of title. I was checking it out 1986-1988ish, and I remember it being newer, so I’d guess printing would be late ’70s-early ’80s. The girl plants different things on one page, and then when you flip the page, the tree has grown from those “seeds.” I specifically remember her planting diamonds/gems and getting a tree covered in necklaces (I remember that tree as a shimmery blue-white). I feel like there was also a hat tree that grew. There were definitely several different ones. I also feel like there was an old man/grandfather character. I think the ending was some moral about planting love and getting a family, but I’m least certain about that.
Would love to get this book for my daughters. Many thanks for your help!
I read this book in 1984 in the fourth grade. Actually my teacher read it to us. I recall a school age girl who visits a woman who lives alone and can’t see well. I’m not sure why she visits, perhaps to help her or get tutoring, but she visits regularly. The girl thinks the woman is blind and lies to her and/or steals, though I think she lies about her own appearance. She learns at the end of the story that the woman wasn’t blind after all and could see her the whole time.
I remember this book from when I was a kid (I’m 29, but have no idea how old it was). I’m not sure that it’s a book for children, but I do remember that it was illustrated with these beautiful pictures. The characters are flowers (with faces?) and I believe the main character, which may be a dandelion or daisy dies. I remember it as being very dark and sad, and it really stuck with me, but my parents have no memory of it. I’ve been trying to figure out what it was for years. I hope someone can help!
My father was a middle school teacher, and I believe he brought this book home for me as he did with so many. I believe this would have been classified YA maybe 5th grade and up?
(Stories are not in order, just as I think of them)
*There were definitely black and white illustrations.
I have been searching for this book for over 15 years – I surely hope you can help me!
I am looking for the title of a book I read over and over when I was in primary school. I am 50 this year so around 40 years ago. I got the book from the school library and borrowed it over and over again. The book is about a Blind girl who befriends a wild horse, I don’t remember many other details but the girl has a operation to restore her site, the horse goes wild while she is away and I feel the horse was shot just before she returned, not the happiest story line but this book had a huge impact on me when I was young. Any help would be appreciated.
My query is on a book I read in the mid 1960’s, however I don’t know when it was published. It was a child’s book about a young student (I believe a girl) whose parents worked in a restaurant. Because of that, she “had” to bring lovely, delicious restaurant leftovers for her school lunches. I vividly remember the descriptions of her covering her desk with a checked cloth, and taking out all this elegant, gourmet food. The twist was that she was ashamed of her lunches, for being different. I hope you can help!
I’m looking for a book that I read about 15 years ago that was already well aged at the time I read it, probably from the 70s or 80s. It was on a classroom bookshelf in my elementary school. It’s about a girl who I think moves… from the city to the country with her mother for sure, possibly her father has died. She isn’t too pleased about the move but eventually while exploring their new large country house she discovers the servants passage and a room where it appears an old lady used to live, I think. She also likes to play in the apple cellar, befriends someone at school, and there is a not well-liked older fellow who lives in a dark small house who I think may have lived in their house at one point? I may totally wrong on some of these things because I was young when I read it, but I think I’m right.
Thanks!