Children’sChildren’s picture book. Takes place in Mexico. Written in 60s or 70s, maybe 80s… read in early 80s. Main character, Mexican boy, who interacts with a jaguar and a pyramid.
school book, monkey beside a stream drinking from a tin cup. Book is blue and orange with pic of Indian Brave with chaps on walking thru woods. 1930s/40s in public school in Logan county WV
Loganberry Books would like to thank all the Magicians, Wizards, Geniuses, and Miracle Workers out there who help solve our Book Stumpers. Without you we would never be able to reunite people with their long lost book titles.
In the spirit of the season we would like to extend a token of our appreciation to all you wonderful people. This year there are three gifts to choose from.
1) Vintage Children’s book (titles and condition vary)
2) Advanced Reader’s Copy (contemporary grab bag)
3) One free Stump the Bookseller posting in 2014
Please send me an email (ami@logan.com) with Stumper Magician in the subject line by January 13th. Tell me something about yourself (what do you do for a living? How many Stumpers have you solved? What do you wish would be reprinted?), and let me know which gift you would like. If you are choosing a book, please be sure to include your mailing address.
Many thanks and Happy Holidays,
Ami & the rest of the crew at Loganberry Books
I read a young adult fiction book when I was about 13, probably published in the 70s. I was certain it was called PS I Hate You, but can’t find anything on Google with that title. It was about a teen girl, possibly named Marley, who leaves a note on the kitchen table, closing with P.S. I hate you and runs away to her father in the city. While living there, she falls in love with her English teacher when he introduces her to the poem Nothing Gold Can Stay (the same poem used in The Outsiders). She is also insulted by another teacher, who calls her “plain, plump and pimply.”
I am looking for a book, I guesstimate that I read it 4-10 years ago and typically I read books that are new and currently selling in bookstores. Here is my dream-like recollection:
Theme of book is surviving a disaster, but not a historical fiction (ie, not dust bowl, depression per se) but I do feel like it was Americana rural setting maybe in 1930s-1950s? There are only 3 main characters: a mother, her teen son and a neighbor/man/stranger. The disaster has caused a shortage in gasoline and the mother/son drive to the bank and grocery store but they can’t get money from bank and there is very little food left at the grocery. They go home and have to survive. Maybe the neighbor/man kills an animal? The mother has to rely on and trust this stranger/neighbor. The mother has to trade something very valuable to a roaming salesman who is selling butter/milk. Money is worthless. The neighbor/man has a severe toothache and extracts his own tooth.
It is not a children’s book though. If you can’t find the book, can you recommend another searching source – I’m not so great with “google”.
Thank you very much for your time!
I am looking for a children’s book about a mouse (rat?) who would see something pretty or shiny and pick it up. He would get distracted by the next shiny thing and put down what was in his hands and pick up the next thing. My husband thinks it’s called “Pick it, Put it” or the other way around. It was his favorite book in the early 60’s. Can you help? Thank you for trying!
I wish I had more information, but my girlfriend described a book that she had as a child. It was (I believe) a picture book, with various pictures of children of color and descriptions of their skin tones (like “John’s skin is the color of a penny,” stuff like that). I know it’s not a lot to go on, but if anyone remembers anything, that would be great.
We’d love to reconnnect with this children’s book we had from our local library, but despite extensive online searching, can find no trace of it, as cannot remember or even guess at the title.
Illustrated short children’s book from c. 1990, for readers perhaps 5 – 9. The young heroine (age 8-ish, possibly called Anna) is not good at timekeeping, and is often late for tea. She therefore observes that ‘time is [like] a monster, marching on’. She meets the clock-keeper of the town hall clock, asks him about the nature of time, and he kindly on one occasion puts the clock back about 5 minutes, so that she does not seem late home for tea. The story and pictures have a mainland European feel to it. Someone suggested it may have been set in Switzerland. It is almost certainly a translation into English, and the English has that sense of maintaining a foreign idiom.
If this resonates with anything you recall, we will be overjoyed!
Nephew receives a box in the mail from his uncle. When the boy opens the box he is surprised there is a penguin inside.
My father who was born in 1930 tells me this is one of the first books he ever read which leads me to believe the book was published in the 1930s. My father doesn’t remember much else but he always laughs when he describes the boy opening the box and finding the penguin. I would love to be able to find this book for him to read again.
What I remember: an elf/dwarf? sets out on a quest. He pulls a sword out of a muddy swamp,there is a monster. There is a boy/prince? who can turn into a black or white swan. At the end, there is a huge sea wall with ice/nets? Boy saves the day, ship able to pull into harbor, people cheer, flags fly.