Looking for a beautiful line-drawn picture book from earlier than 1975, about a witch and her daughter who live beyond the seven valleys and the seven seas. The daughter witch is selfish, and does not come home to her mother on time. Her mother sends her away until she can do a selfless favor for someone, while disguised as a regular girl. She is dropped off outside a village. Eventually, she finds a little boy who is also being punished, and helps him peel mounds and mounds of potatoes. She falls asleep doing this, and her mother comes to collect her. Ends with a line something like, "but she could never stand the sight of another potato."
Category Archives: 1960s
349F: Boy with gigantic tall spoon catching clouds
348Y: The Magician’s Windows and Other Short Stories (Solved!)
348V: Science Fiction Series with Swords Made of Leaves
348R: Fairies who paint?
348L: Uncle Oscar and making pancakes
My mom remembers this book from approximately 1963 – 1965 when she was living in Menlo Park, California. It was a thin children’s book and she recalls a character named Uncle Oscar and at some point they make pancakes for breakfast.
347U: Girl Sent to Live with Her Father Who Is a Pilot (Solved!)
347T: 1960ish – Girl on farm for summer, horse riding, Indian rock paintings (?), county fair (?)
I read this book in about 1962. A girl goes to stay with relatives (I believe) on a farm for the summer. I seem to recall that she was straight laced and the farm family was very laid back. She learned to ride horses and they rode all over the countryside. A particular place I remember them going was to a rocky area (by a creek?) that had Indian paintings or markings on the rocks. I think the climax of the book was them going to possibly a county fair where there was a horse race.
347O: Children’s Picture Book – Bears Confused By Clothes (Solved!)
346V: Sex Workers Categorize Their Types of Clients
Non-fiction. Published pre-2008. Possibly a few decades earlier. Authored by 1 or 2+ woman writers. This book details 13 (?) 15(?) types of male johns who frequent female prostitutes. It is the result of studies and/or interviews conducted with prostitutes (possibly including 1 or more of the authors?) about the archetypes of johns who are categorized based on their preferences, requests, proclivities. It is an obscure book, somewhat academic in nature. Possibly a U.S.-based publication. The title–I believe–did include a number referencing how many categories of johns there are. (Note: the book is NOT The Johns: Sex for Sale and the Men Who Buy It).