I am trying to locate a book for a friend. The title is not known and it was probably published in the late1940’s or early 1950’s. Some Disney friends went looking for gold in the Yukon and ran into Peg-Leg Pete. While trying to escape him one of the friends shook hands with a totem pole and a trap door opened up to save them from Peg-Leg.
I am trying to find a book that I remember reading as a child.
I do not remember the title but I think it was from the 1950’s.
It was a thin book about the size of a Golden Book.
At the end of the story the main character paints all of the landscaping overnight bright and beautiful colors, which surprises everyone the next morning… 🙂
A 1950s book about a girl, who every day, one summer watches a dump truck (or cement mixer/concrete truck) roll down her street. She dreams of all the things it builds. End of book, the truck arrives at her house and builds a blue pool.
Circa 1945-60. Main character: Petey/Pete, youngest child of rather large family. Chapter book. Scenes include: Christmas he just wants a little matchbox car, gets many; snow day makes a quilt with siblings; likes milkman’s mule and visits his farm, meets family (including daughter, I think).
This was a paperback available in the 50’s. Not the one on an island that was made into a movie or the one by David Lyall.
In this story, the protagonist trains in many disciplines necessary to win a competition, then goes to Mongolia to compete.
The books were regular sized, approximately 8.5 x 11″ and were numbered. Maybe 8 to 12 of them? Illustrations were art deco or art nouveau (I get them confused). Not lots of vivid colors. Heavy black lines/white/gray/yellow/rose colors. Each book had stories and poems. I am not positive that they came with a set of encyclopedias, but that is my general recollection. I could have been World Book or Encyclopaedia Britannica, since we acquired both around the same time. Any ideas?
This was my American history text for the school year 1958-1959. I remember only two things about it:
1. Among the illustrations was the usual Thomas Nast cartoon of the Tweed Ring, but what I really liked was the “Through History With J. Wesley Smith” cartoons by Burr Shafer.
2. It was the only textbook I’d come across that seemed to have been written by an actual person, with actual ideas, and maybe even a sense of humor!
Aside from that, I think it had a blue cover, and there were questions after the chapters. Not much to go one, but the Shafer cartoons were memorable.
Folding children’s train book, published 1955-1963.
Size about 4″ x 6″ folded up accordion-style with flap on top.
Each book panel is a different kind of train car with a pocket containing a small booklet with a story, puzzles or games.
Final panels contained coloring paper & box of crayons.
A Red Leather book with an interesting symmetrical design and texture within the leather that is a self help book, of sorts, for adolescent boys with a title conveying the general principal of “now.” Title examples are, “Right Now” or “Today,” Published in the 40’s or 50’s.
My mom used to read me a book in the early 1950’s which told the story of a bunny who disobeyed his mother and fell into a hole in the woods–eventually rescued, he learned his lesson. The distinctive thing about the book was that the illustrations were photos of real bunnies dressed up in human clothing–for some reason, I think the photographer’s first name was ‘Bill’, but not certain about that. Any help greatly appreciated.