Hello. I’m looking for a children’s/ young adult novel I found in a school library in 1977. I thought of it then as an “older book,” so I’m guessing the publication date to be between 1945 and 1965. It’s historical fiction that takes place during Scotland in the Jacobite period. The main character is a teen girl who sometimes has visions via the “second sight,” a gift that allows her to help save the prince at the end. It’s not a Sally Watson book.
My father is desperate to find a cherished book from his childhood in Northern Ireland. It was a compilation of poems and short stories published around 1945-1950. He thinks it may have been a War Economy publication. He cannot remember the name of the anthology. The stories and poems he recalls are,
“How Horatius Kept the Bridge” by Macaulay
A tale about Ralph the Rover who removed the bell from the Inchcape Rock
“Rikki Tikki Tavi” by Rudyard Kipling
“Jackanapes” about the boy who became a bugler in Wellington’s army at Waterloo. I think the author is J H Ewing.
“Stratosphere Express”: the tale of a huge, futuristic airliner that flew at 500 miles an hour and 60,000 feet across the Atlantic and, would you believe, was highjacked on its first trip
“Power on Deck” about the young engineering cadet who saves his ship from certain disaster
There was another story about a mysterious seaplane and the three children who put an end to its smuggling activities… with a little help from the Fleet Air Arm
The adventures of Mr. Bumbletoes of Bumbleton, the nursery floor creation who came alive at night with all his fellow citizens.
Children stranded on island, cared for by older sister, and rescued by a ship at end. The sister only regrets that one child’s broken leg had been set incorrectly. I read this in the fifties, probably published before WW II.
The book I am looking for is/was a children’s book that I loved as a child. I was born in 1955 so I am guessing the book was published in the 1940s or 1950s. I checked it out, with the help of my mother, from the Pittsburg, California Public Library. I think I remember that the cover of the book was red and the illustrations were in black and white.
It was about a little Hispanic boy, Mexican, I think, who hated to take a bath. His family and village all must convince him to take a bath for some special celebration. I think the name of the book was the boy’s name, maybe Miguel, The Dirty One.
I do not know the author or the name of the book but it was published about 1947or 1948 It was the same time I read Elizabeth Enright's "Four Story Mistake."
It was about a girl who had very little in common with the kids in her school and had few friends and believes it will be worse now that she has moved. She is standing on a bridge in the new town and down at a field when a boy joins her and says "white sheep in a green field, doesn't that remind you of "Kim". That was just what she was thinking and she makes her first of many friends in a school that shares her interests.
I am hoping to find a book that my father read to me when I was about 5 years old. After that, I remember reading it myself for years. This was a very long time ago…probably 1948 or so. No, I don’t remember the name of the book or the author but I can still visualize the black and white line drawings. The book told the story of how human beings “diversified” and the different races and ethnic groups evolved as they traveled across the Earth over centuries. The groups of people were called by various nonsense names….as I recall, there were names like Goopledops but that’s about as close as I can get. I know it was a hardcover book. I wonder if anyone remembers it. Thank you.
I grew up in the mountains of Virginia. In my three room country school, there were very few books, but there is one I remember very fondly and would love to have a copy of it. I don’t remember the title or author, but I would have read this around 1946 or 1947. Here is a gist of the story. A family lives very happily in a tiny, tidy one room house. One day they decide that their house is too small so they begin adding rooms onto the one room. They continue to add so many rooms (one behind the other) that they seldom see their family members. I believe that the house became such a curiosity that train tracks were built along side the house so tourists could see it. The family members navigated this long house on roller skates. One day the family happened to meet together in one of the many rooms and decided that they were much happier in their one room. So they proceeded to tear down all of the added rooms until their house was back to the one room. Here is the part that intrigued me and the reason I believe I still remember it. On the final page, it said. “If you want to see what this family did next, turn back to the front of the book and read it again!”
Six little Robbins (or Robins). Children’s chapter book about a family that moves into an old schoolhouse and refurbishes it. Probably 1940-1960s. Might have a subplot of the father not being around.
I have a library customer searching for a children’s book, but she doesn’t remember the title or plot. She thinks the author’s last name was Harper. It was a hardback picture book about a lighthouse keeper who was a shy man. The cover illustration was of a man in a long yellow rain slicker with a yellow rain hat over his face. It was published around 1948 or so. She said that her grandfather, Alonzo Washington, worked for a family called Harper who ran a publishing business in the Greater Philadelphia (Chester County) area, and one of the family members wrote this book for her when she was a child. She’s positive it was actually published, not a one-off. Her name is Marcilene Brown, if that will help at all. I haven’t been able to find any ties between her “Harper family” and the NYC Harper publishers. I hope you can help solve this mystery! Thank you very much for your help.
Looking for a children’s book my mother, born in 1956, would have read as a child. She remembers it involving dogs having a party, getting messy and taking a bath, and putting on “poochie powder” or “poochy powder” after the bath.