I think it was set in Denmark in the 30’s or up to the 50’s? The family has many hardships and some of their children die due to illness. The daughter decides to have birthmark removed. I think this novel could have been published from the 1940s to the 1960s as I read in the early ’70s.
From 1960-1970’s? Maybe a STORY BOOK Greetings type book – it was long and thin – A kitten trying to be helpful painting a house – House was a strange shape – Pyramid maybe? mixing wrong colors in buckets – making new colors. Man throws bucket -paints mix more in air – leaving spots on kitten
Children’s picture book circa 1980.Most pages had a honeycomb border with bees, containing the illustrations.Story may have been set in the Middle Ages.My niece was born in 1976,so I’m guessing the book was published before she was 8 or 9.I may be remembering the bees commenting like a greek chorus.
Illustrated children’s story in which a star grows sick or possibly sad. A child/person notices it through their window. The star grows ashen/grey/possibly greenish as it gets sicker/sadder. The top point of the star is flopped forward. I believe the star is taken in by child/person & nursed to health. There is definitely an image in my mind of a star in bed with a thermometer sticking out of its mouth. The story takes place in wintertime.
The book I am looking for is NOT: Lovely Summer, The by Marc Simont (Mar 1, 1992). The book is about two rabbits Gladys and Tyrone, Globby the Woodchuck, two vacationing humans with a cocker spaniel, and a conflicts in use of a garden. Pub. in 50s or 60s (?)
b & w illustrations, blue cloth cover
I’m looking for a book of childhood stories that contains the story about a colony of rabbits and a bobcat. The story was illustrated with a bobcat wearing overalls with suspenders. To avoid being eaten, the rabbits would hide in Mr. Bobcat’s house at night while the bobcat searched for a rabbit
I probably read this book between 1972 and 1975, but I got it from the library so there is no telling how old it was.
The only thing I remember is that the heroine started the book as a poor relation. She had dyed the dress she was wearing for dinner and was embarrassed about it. In the middle of the family meal the hero showed up, asked her to marry him and took her off into the west with him.
I used to think it was an Edna Ferber book, but I’ve read through every Ferber book I can think of. It is also definitely not Michener’s _Centennial_ which has a similar scene involving Levi and Ellie Zendt.
This was a hardback book, with a picture of a beautiful blonde girl on the front with a well and green hills in the background, and I recollect it being blue? But that could be wrong.
It was a compilation of different fairy tales and except for the ‘seven brothers into seven crows’ tale, none of them I have ever come across since.
The tales included stories about;
A little girl who lied a lot and then got given a ring and the ring squeezed her finger and went bright red when she lied.
A little elf who went to a house with blue flowers in the garden and somehow he was invisible and he went inside the house where the other elves were baking and tried to steal toffee but got caught.
A wicked magician who had a cloak made out of enchanted beads and somehow moths got to it and it disintegrated and beads spilled everywhere and the villagers took them.
And , the one I remember most clearly was a tale about a wicked mother who had two daughters, one beautiful and one plain – she went away and told the girls to cook clean etc. but the ugly sister wouldn’t do it and so the pretty one did everything but when the mother returned the ugly sister lied and said she did everything so the pretty sister ran into the woods. In the woods she found the house where an old woman lived and so she asked to stay, she made the woman delicious apple pie and cleaned her whole house and so the woman said pick a brooch and a cloak. She picked a ratty old cloak and a plain lark pin, even though the woman had many fine ones. When she left the house the sun shone on the cloak and it was rich velvet with precious jewels all over it. When she got home her mother and sister were so mean she went out to the well and cried but when she sobbed it came out sounding beautiful and a passing prince wanted to marry her. Her sister was jealous and so went into the woods and found the old woman but she did nothing and made the woman cook for her and then demanded a cloak and brooch. She took the fanciest cloak and a emerald toad pin. When she went outside the cloak turned into a motheaten piece of cloth and when she got home and went to the well and cried but it came out sounding like a toad croak.
There were more tales but I can’t remember them. I specifically want the compilation, rather than individual adoptions of the tales. If anyone knows about this it would make me so happy as my mum accidentally gave this book away and it was my childhood favorite.
I read a book in the mid 1980’s about two teenagers who had conversations with God. One was named Denise Meyer (my maiden name in real life) and the other was a boy. I don’t know his name. Also I believe they wrote letters or got phone calls. Can you help?
Unsure when published. Around 20 pgs. Children’s short stories/poems. Included 3 Billy Goats Gruff, a story of a man who walked on his hands & planted a garden. Last story about boy who hated a perfect girl in class (focused on her name). Many others. Each story 1-2 pgs. No color pics, just drawings