It's a children's book, kind of big, maybe 8"x10", old, probably from the 60's or earlier. Hardcover. There is a lion on the front, I think the cover was pinkish. Multiple stories, one involving a lion that gave his hair to birds and lost it all, so they brought him leaves. I think another was about monkeys. I've been searching for years. Halp! đ
The book was hardcover, dark blue, large (10″ x 7″) about 1″ thick. The characters in the story: Fritz, a workman who has restored a venerable steam locomotive, a boy who takes the locomotive on a trip across the United States.
The locomotive cannot stop, but can slow down for a variety of adventures, such as traveling through the New York subway, and rescuing people from a forest fire (perhaps inspired by the fire at Pestigo, WI). Upon return, Fritz announces that the “bearings are burned out,” and the final picture shows the locomotive’s diamond stack off to one side, and a deer’s skull and antlers on the wall.
This book was in my Grandmother’s home in Berkeley, California. I would have paded through it when I was six in 1949. I was overseas in the Army when she died. The house, and all the books, were sold.
Published in the 1940's about a girl who longs to fly away with the wild geese. . . and, finally, does. Small, beautifully illustrated children's book.
Iâm looking for a book from my childhood (1940s) that had many little lessons of various kinds, for instance, one page was about âG,â who liked going fishing, swimming, etc., and felt left out when someone went âfishin’â or âswimmin.â
I had a wonderful childrenâs book (maybe from the 40âs??)
Hard cover, lighter green embossed cover. Larger dimensions than a regular book.
It was not very thick (maybe an inch or two??)
It was filled with fables, short stories, poems and nursery rhymes
I remember It included âPandoraâs boxâ, a poem about âwho loved mother bestâ and âthe land of counterpaneâ among many others
I lost it many years ago.
I would do love to know what it was called do I might try to find it again...
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,
âHow Horatius Kept the Bridgeâ by Macaulay
A tale about Ralph the Rover who removed the bell from the Inchcape Rock
âRikki Tikki Taviâ by Rudyard Kipling
âJackanapesâ about the boy who became a bugler in Wellingtonâs army at Waterloo. I think the author is J H Ewing.
âStratosphere Expressâ: 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
âPower on Deckâ 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.