A book of rhymes, one of which was “Under the raft Melissa dived to find some shells for Joe. But all she found was seaweed, and a crab that pinched her toe.” Also. Billy’s bouncing ball as big as he which ended up in a tree and one about a black cat covered in flour. Thank you.
YA book I read around the 70’s. Fantasy genre. Some kids find an odd-looking stray dog – white with red ears; maybe eyes that glow? They want to adopt the dog. They find out the dog is from the Wild Hunt. The dog isn’t supposed to be in the mortal world. British folklore references.
Series about a boy living on a plane. Plane has a lab?
girl living in Nazi-occupied Finland or Sweden. Mother gives her a necklace (gold?) and is subsequently killed (perhaps in an avalanche?)
Fantasy/ children’s about a Girl and community who are branded on the forehead. Read circa 1995.
I am looking for an anthology of short children’s stories that I had as a child ( in the mid 1980s). Based on my recollection, it should have been published in the late 1970s to mid 1980s. It had a shiny navy blue cover with some illustrations. There were spot color illustrations throughout the book. I would estimate that it had between 200 – 300 pages in total. It contained numerous short stories.
The story that i recall most clearly involves a boy who had to wash dishes as a punishment. During this chore, he was magically transported to a land where everything was made from pancakes. There were countless other stories in this book, including one about elves who were cobblers and a pirate who was a rat.
i don’t know the title or author, which is why i need you. this is a YA type mystery or horror (not sure how they categorized things back then) from the late 70s early 80s. I probably got it through scholastic at school (i was in 4th or 5th grade at the time). i’ve searched and searched book covers for years and am hoping you can help.
i don’t remember much, but finding this book means so much because of events surrounding it during that period. dark green cover with a broken gravestone on it, possibly a crow, possibly trees (an orchard or grove) as well. the story itself was a boy gone to live with his grandparents (? or relatives in general?) and befriends a ghost in the walls/closet/something in the house. ends up in the orchard out back. finds the boy’s grave. god that’s not a lot to go on!
Thank you in advance!!
fictional story of a young man who is hired to help carve horses for a carousel, his model turns out to be a pony/horse stolen from a circus, pony might have been grey. The circus people recognize the pony from the carvings and threaten to destroy the carousel. I read it in the 1960’s, but it was not a new book.
young child book about horse farm, one colt is orphaned and does not have a mother, all the other horses are paired up (mother and baby) ….finally the farmer brings a mother horse and she and colt make a family. all the mother and baby horses look each other including the orphaned colt and his new mother….book was from my childhood probably late 1960’s (1968 or so) thank you
Kids’ sci-fi, girl sees scenes (future?) on TV after repair by strange men, (possibly aliens?). In dialogue, girl has sarcastic sense of humor, refers to baby brother as “lucky stiff.” 1970s or 1980s, paperback.