I read these books as a kid – it had a purple monster with an inflatable trunk(like an elephant)?
The story was somehow a brother and sister have to go back in time to rescue their father who got sent back to the dinosaur age. When they get to the dinosaur age they find this creature that becomes a friend. It is a 4 legged big bushy purple monster with an elephant trunk. The monster can inflate his trunk to fly and help solve other problems as the 3 go looking for the kids father?
Read in 1960s, aged 7/8.Set in the then present and Victorian UK. Mustard & white hardback cover with black line drawings of an ornate mantel clock with dolphins/town house. A boy and girl found/bought the clock in the summer holidays and traveled by it to live with a family in Victorian times.
Addition: When I was 7 or 8 in the 1960s my dad read me a hardback library book which neither of us has forgotten and which we mention fondly now and again. My dad is 90 on 13 June and I want to find the book as a gift for him. I do not know the title or author. I remember a pale brown//yellow and white cover with a line drawing in black of a gilt clock and perhaps children. It was a book about children of the time (i.e.60s), a boy and a girl I think (I imagined them to be the same age as I was), who were given/bought a mantelpiece clock with ornate dolphins adorning it from a junk shop. It was the summer holidays. Through the clock they were transported to Victorian times where they lived as part of a Victorian family and had adventures. They found the Victorian clothes, etc. very strange.
This book was a children’s book read in the 80s. It is about a young girl who has some kind of party (possibly a birthday party) on a yacht. The illustration of the boat has lots of strung lights and balloons. I originally thought that this was a Madeline book, as I remember it being similar, but have not come across anything like it.
This is a book I read as a child and borrowed from the school library in the early 1990s. I’m fairly certain it was a fictional book, not an autobiography. I think it was called ‘Under the Mulberry Bush’ but could be wrong, as I can’t seem to find any book that matches that. It was about a girl (possibly with a French grandmother?) who goes to live with another family that’s experiencing some financial troubles, and they have a lot of mulberry bushes, which means that they have a lot of silkworms, which eat mulberry leaves. She comes up with the idea of using the silkworms to make money by harvesting the silk they produce and selling it. It’s a very risky proposition, and it takes a lot of exhausting work because she doesn’t know anything about silkworms and harvesting their silk, but she manages to learn all she needs to and get it to work. In the end, she saves the family and falls in love with one of the family’s sons, even though they didn’t get along at first. (and I want to say they have some sort of private joke about crab apples, and in one of the ending scenes, he throws a crab apple at her and she catches it)
Sorry, I don’t have much more than that! As a child I remember it being a sweetly romantic tale that I would love to buy and reread.
I purchased this book in the 80’s from a major Australian book chain. I don’t remember the author or title of the book.
In the book, the protagonist is a young girl whose mother is a witch. She rules some sort of kingdom under the sea.
The novel ends in a battle between the protagonist and her mother, which the girl wins. I think they battled using thunderbolts. I remember a large thunderbolt striking the mother which ends the battle. The mother becomes good again and I think she reunites with the girl’s father.
The protagonist also has a brother in the novel but I can’t quite remember his role.
I can also recall a description of sand dunes.
The book is a medium-sized hardcover compilation of children’s stories that includes one about a woman who is upset because she cannot find or does not have a blue teapot. Her friends and neighbors begin bringing her teapots of varying sizes and patterns, but none of them are the right one. Eventually she finds the teapot she wants and decides to give the other ones away.
Other stories may include a clambake, a young boy taming/naming a horse named Starbuck on a ranch, the circus coming to town, and a man who peddles pots on a mountain. My memory is fuzzy, so I’m not sure if those will be included in the book — but it’s important that the story of the teapots is there. I believe that this is a book my mother read as a child, so it should be published before or during the early 1960s. The cover (sans dust jacket) is bright green and depicts a valley or meadow. Any help or suggestions you could give would be invaluable.
A girl (dirty?), who carried a sock with some sort of animal (frog?) in it everywhere & maybe put more stuff in the sock along the way. I think the book itself was small in size? I’m pretty sure it’s not JunieBJones, Ramona, maybe Pippi but I don’t rem a monkey or horse. Please help!
Paperbacks with blue coloured illustrated covers read in the 1970s, probably target audience of 8 years plus. Underwater adventures with speaking sea creatures, including a king and an evil eel. A girl and her younger brother are in the book and one of them is crowned as king or queen.
A beautifully illustrated hard cover book of folk and fairy tales from around the world, including Peer Gynt, Tovik Tomte and the Trolls, a story about African wind, the Twelve Seasons, a blue-beard type story from China, an Australian story about the breadfruit flower/tree, a Scottish story about a black bull & an Irish story about a mermaid.
Wife’s description: Kid’s Christmas book, probably from the mid-80’s (or older). A family can’t finish decorating their cookies before bedtime(?) on Christmas Eve. During the night, elves (?? Wife is certain it wasn’t mice…) help finish the cookies for the family. That’s what we have — HELP!