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
I am looking for a Children’s picture book which my daughter loved in 1985, I remember the title as A Package For Andy. It is the story of a boy named Andy, who receives a gift in the mail. When he opens the package, it contains a stuffed bear, Andy is very disappointed. He thinks it is a terrible present and tosses it aside. That night the bear comes into Andy’s bedroom and takes Andy on a great adventure. They fly out of his window into a wonderful fantasy world. Andy can fly with the aid of an umbrella. When Andy awakens loves the bear who becomes his favorite toy.
I have been trying for decades to find a book from my childhood. I would have been about 6 or 7 when I got it, so it would seem to be late 1970’s/early 1980’s. It was a hardcover book, about 8.5 x 11 size, with illustrations on each page that had the reader solve a mystery. I cannot remember the title though I seem to think it was a set of two, and perhaps the main character had “professor” in his name somehow. I also seem to recall one or both mysteries being set on a dock and/or boat. The illustrations were brightly colored with dark outlines; a graphic style more so than a detailed realistic illustration. Any help would be appreciated!
I read a book in the late 60s or early 70s about a young girl that went to live with someone (perhaps aunts). She went out for a walk and to a house down the street where she met a family that had children near her age. She visited them and but came to find out they were actually from the past
I’m looking for a Christmas book that’s a sort of modern day nativity story. It’s one that my husband grew up with and he talks about it a lot, but hasn’t been able to find it. In the end, there the baby is born in a station wagon outside a truck stop…
This one’s really vague. Some sort of animal (a dog? pig? cat? Susan?) roams the countryside at night. It encounters a creature with a magic bag full of whatever sandwich you want. The illustrations were all black and white and it was a small book.
A horror anthology read in the early 90s, found at a school book fair.
-A girl has the power to shrink people who she feels betray her and keeps them in a dollhouse or birdcage.
-Two siblings befriend the new neighbor only to find that she’s a vampire
-A girl keeps hearing something in the cellar begging her for help. It turns out to be some mummified creature that drags her under the floor and that it had meant “help” as in “I’m hungry”
-SHADOWS COME TO LIFE AND KILL PEOPLE. There’s this big scene at the end where the latest victim family is desperately trying to light matches to keep the shadows away.
I read this in the late 80’s / early 90’s. A girl discovers that her friends are using a cube like device that when activated sends them on adventures. The only adventure I remember is all of them being shrunk and swimming in a pool of spilled soda. But with each use, they lose more of their knowledge and start using other words because they can’t remember the actual one-in one case saying “Hitchcock” instead of ketchup. The girl finds out through her dreams(?) that the device has been sent from another world by a queen who’s already drained all of her subjects of all their knowledge. I remember the cover was mainly black with the girl looking into a light.
This was about a teen (18?) from Colorado who moves to Florida to be the live-in nanny for a young boy with rich parents. The boy is very intelligent and begins killing people using his inventions. Eventually he’s eaten by an alligator while trying to kill the girl in a swamp.
late 80’s-“we didn’t see London, we didn’t see France, but lucky us, we saw Iggy’s underpants”!
That’s basically all I remember about this book in which a grade-school boy is continually harassed by a female classmate. (The above was one of the things she said to him)