I am trying to find a book that I loved as a grade schooler.
It’s about a boy who lives in the country or on a farm. He finds out he can read dog’s minds. There is a big dog who communicates in black and white and a little dog who communicates in color.
I have part of the title, but not all
It’s J. —–‘s ESP.
I am looking for one of my childhood favorites from the 80s possibly 90s. It’s a picture book about a highway that always takes a family to the city (I think) for their summer vacation. One summer the highway decides to take them to the beach because the highway wants a vacation. The pictures that stand out in my mind are of a road twisting and turning, bumping a family to the beach. The road ends up in the waves of the ocean at a crowded beach. I feel like the title is something like Highway 101 Goes to the Ocean.
From the 80s/early 90s? This kid (cant remember of it was a boy or girl…possibly siblings) would somehow time travel back to when their parents were his/her age, the 1950s I think. They would wake up in a house where the owners were away so they could stay there while back in time. It was winter.
I have been searching for this book for years. It captured my imagination during childhood, and I must have read it at some point in the 1980’s – may well have been published well before that. I am sure I have some details wrong, but the plot involves a child coming to visit a large home near a lake for the summer, with an older woman as the guardian for the summer. This woman had years ago lost her own child, her son, who I believe drowned in the lake. The details I remember more clearly involve a special lake island playhouse that she built especially for her son – the playhouse had its own furniture, dishes, silverware, etc. This special playhouse and island was off limits now that the son was dead, and the woman did not want to talk about him. I believe the dead son’s name could have been Trelawney, or something like that. The child now visiting for the summer sneaks to explore the world of the island and the playhouse, and falls into some sort of danger. The ghost boy (? Trelawney) helps save the day. For some reason I am thinking the word “green” may be in the title, but that could be wrong. Please help!! Thank you!
A girl has a secret refuge, either in the attic of her house or a loft in a barn, where a wise, nurturing grandmother type lives. There is a beautiful, soft bed where she can rest and a magic tub, where she can wash away all cares and fatigue. But when she shares the refuge with another girl, this girl tells her there’s no grandmother, the bed is just a pile of straw and the tub is just an old wooden bucket. However, the main character still believes what she has seen and experienced. I think the book is British and was probably written in the 30s or 40s, although I read it in the early 50s. It may be part of a series. I remember it was included in a New Yorker Christmas books for kids article in the late 80s (should have saved that article!) so maybe some kind of anniversary edition was issued then.
I am looking for a children’s book that I had in the 80’s. The latest being August 1986. There were 100 stories each being one or two pages long. There was an illustration for every story. The pages were 8 x 5 3/4. I do not recall the title of the book. However, I found “100 BEDTIME STORIES ” published in 1980 by Hamlyn, unfortunately this wasn’t it.
The book was hard covered with a white background and lots of pictures on the front.
Some of the stories are:
1. Space age Jimmy
2. Winston goes to sea
3. Jane and the wasp
4. Sparky and the cat
5. Playing indoors
6. First steps
7. A windy day
8. Blowing bubbles
9. Scrambled eggs
10. The diary
11. A pantomime
12. Dressing up
13. Adam’s scrapbook
14. Fun on wheels
15. Swimming lessons
16. The twins’ den
17. The library.
I read this in elementary school in the late 70s or early 80s. It’s a story about a family who travels around the western US, I think in a covered wagon, putting on a variety-type show in the small towns they pass through. It is mostly about the older daughter who wanted to be treated more as an adult and fought with her mom about whether she could wear a hairstyle that did or did not show her ears. At the end of the book she defied her mother and performed some kind of ballerina act with the adult hairstyle. The parents also let each kid pick one day a year where they could break all the rules and not be punished. There was also a part about them searching for a “man with a Bowie knife” who had committed a crime. It had some funny elements and a nice family dynamic.
Picture book with almost watercolor like illustrations of pink and grey. Much whitespace. About a child (boy/girl don’t remember) and he/she looks into the reflection of the water (lake?) and fairy land is on the other side. He/she falls in and is trapped and cannot get home? Read in mid/late 80s.
I’ve been trying to find the title to this book. I don’t remember much about it but its essence stuck with me. There are orphaned (i believe) siblings (i believe) who have a hide-out and get mixed up with Jesse James (i believe) or some other bank robbers on the frontier.
Large book, about a sequoia or redwood in the pacific rainforest, it drops its nuts on the forest floor and several trees grow up around it, forming a circle. Ultimately it dies in a lightning storm, then becomes a nurse log. Beautiful artwork, animals, trees. Poignant story.