We’re trying to find a story in the 1950s series “Through Golden Windows” about a boy who can fly. My husband recollects a story about this in this series but we can’t find what volume.
289E: Boy Who Can Fly (Solved)
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Category Archives: 1950s
289B: A little boy and his pony
I am trying to locate a title of a book
The book is from the 1950s or 1960s. It is a children’s book about a little boy and his pony. Him, his dad and grandpa are searching for a baby calf.
It is a hardcover book – blue in color but black and white pages.
My dad is trying to remember the name to hopefully track down the book to buy for my little girl.
288E: Ragamuffins and a talking cat (Solved)
I remember my mother reading aloud to us a chapter book (in the early 1960s) about a group of children called Ragamuffins (maybe just four children). They meet a talking cat named Pouffon (that is how she pronounced the name; I don’t know how it is spelled). Each time the cat speaks though, it loses one of it’s special whiskers, or it’s whiskers changes back to a normal color. It was very sad when the cat spoke for the last time, to help the children, since the cat only had one special whisker left. I think the book is probably a literary award winning book, since my mother made sure we read all of the Newberry and Caldecott Award winning books. I hope it is still in print. I think the book had a navy blue cover, (hardback), and maybe a line drawing at the start of each chapter. It may have been published much earlier than the 60s. It was probably a library book, and was pretty well-worn then.
Thank you so much for your help!
288C: Family of mice take a beach vacation
I’m looking for a children’s book from the 50’s or 60’s. I can’t remember the title. The book is about a family of mice that ride a train to the beach for vacation. They are dressed up like people (in clothes) for the train ride and I can see (in my mind) their little tails coming out of their clothes. They love the sand, the beach and the creatures on the beach.
The illustrations are color but I’d say that they are pretty minimal – that is to say – great illustrations but not a lot of extra stuff in them.
I sure hope you can locate this book.
288A: Beginning Reader about animals
This is probably really impossible, but I read a series of books about a group of animals in the 60’s. The otters seemed to be a main family, it was a young reads book not a picture book. I can’t remember the name and the title, but was hoping someone would know of it.
I know this is all very vague, but I thought it was worth a try.
285E: Alternate telling of Cinderella
In the 1950s I had child’s chapter book, line drawing illustrations, an alternate telling of Cinderella. Hero was a boy (Teddy?) who found a key to the castle gates (fell asleep while reading?) and he and King had adventures. Buttons and butter involved.
285A: Squeaker at the Zoo
In 1962, my kindergarten class performed a play for children called Squeaker at the Zoo. The plot concerned a dog (Squeaker) who became lost at a zoo. The little girl who owns Squeaker goes around to the various animals at the zoo and asks them if they have seen her dog. Each group of animals answers, in turn, “No, no, no–we have not seen your dog.” Finally Squeaker turns up.
According to a newspaper article, “Squeaker at the Zoo” is described as an “operetta” or “song story” that is taken from a Reading Readiness Program workbook entitled “Here We Come.” The play seems to have been performed by many kindergarten classes across the country in 1963 and in the years after.
Can you find the play for children entitled, Squeaker at the Zoo?
279H: Houses that gossip amongst themselves at night
This is the children’s picture book I am looking for:
Circa 1940s +/- a decade
Pictures are, I think, in water color
Colors are dark and muted as it is night time
Story has to do with houses that – at night – gossip among themselves
Pictures show mouths and eyes and expressions on the fronts of the houses
Some of the houses are very proud and snooty to other houses
That’s all I remember.
277B: Little Girl Wakes Up on the Wrong Side of the bed (Solved!)
I am searching for a children’s picture book that I had read to me as a child. I can’t recall the name of the book and after much Googling, I am still no closer to finding any results. I am 30 years old, from Australia. I have checked all databases recommend by Loganberry Books.
The storyline went as follows – A little girl woke up on ‘the wrong side of the bed’. She went about her day to day tasks only to find that everything went wrong and she felt generally irritable. Toward the end of the book she goes back to bed and literally gets out of the other side of the bed and is in a better mood. I distinctly remember that the main character was a little girl, there was a scene where she was in brushing her teeth and I think she may have worn striped PJs. This book was an older book, my best guess is 1960s based on the illustrations.
Anyway, I can tell you that the book is definitely NOT ‘Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day’ and from memory the book illustrations were blue and orange (illustrations were sort of done using a painted effect for lack of better description) only which tells me the book was most likely released published anywhere from the 1950s – early 1980s. It was not a Golden Book. I have searched on world cat and other such sites and it is NONE of the books that come up in the results. PLEASE HELP! None of the books ‘The Wrong Side of the Bed’ that I have found have been the right book. Please help me!
276E: A Pekingese puppy and a mystery (Solved)
The book that I’m looking for was written sometime between the 1940’s and 1960’s (or so). It was about a young woman who moved to live with her glamorous aunt in London. Her aunt gave her a Pekingese puppy that she named “Peke Ah Boo”. There was some kind of mystery having to do with the house next door and possibly a young man who turned out to be a spy? It may have been a YA book – the copy that I had was hardcover in robin’s blue but there may have been a dust jacket at some point since I don’t remember any identifying marks on the cover.
Any help would be appreciated greatly, it’s driving me crazy!