This was read to me 1968-70ish. Bigger than A4 sized beautifully illustrated hardcover book, with one “chapter” and picture per two pages. British published as I was in New Zealand. The stories of Helen of Troy, Paris, Achilles, and Ulysses were there.
Looking for the title of a wordless book about kids who lived in a city and collected things people threw away and transformed their little garage into a fun place to play.
Possibly written in the 60s or 70s?
Sorry, no clue about the author’s name.
A children’s picture book likely 1950-1970’s about a bunny who finds a magic egg. When he looks through the egg it allows him to see different parts of the world. Possibly Easter related.
I am looking for a book that was on the Elementary School Library shelf in 1960. A young girl lives in the woods by herself. She spends her time baking treats for all her woodland friends. I can only recall that she made honey cakes for the deer.
This book has stuck with me since my childhood. To this day, I am almost sure that it is my idea of a perfect existence.
I read this book probably in the mid 1970s, may be from the 1960s or a little earlier. I checked it out from the library in what was then the Children’s section, probably considered young adult today. I have no idea of title or author. The girl’s name may be Gail, not sure, about 15 or 16 years old. She is camping? with her family: mother, father and I think one younger sibling. She becomes separated someway and I believe she may be trying to get to a Ranger’s station or something. Some weird guy is following/stalking her. I don’t remember if he is just after her, a young girl, or if she saw something he did & is trying to stop her from getting help. That’s about it, not a lot to go on, but I remember the book and would like to read again if I can find it! I was probably 12 or 13 when I read it and it was very suspenseful to me at the time, different from Nancy Drew & Trixie Belden books I read.
The book I am looking for is a hardback, large sized (slightly bigger than A4), picture book that would have belonged to my mum, so printed early 60’s maybe? It had a pastel green cover with a picture of several girls playing, at least one of them was skipping rope.
The girls were drawn with the chubby cheeked vintage look similar to Strawberry Shortcake/Holly Hobbie. The pictures closest to what I remember are the books by Maria Luisa illustrated by MR Batlle. I think they wore the puffy caps similar to Strawberry Shortcake too, and maybe wore aprons over their dresses? I seem to remember one of the girls wore glasses.
I don’t remember what the actual story was about but it may have been about going to school. I have absolutely no idea of the title or author sorry but I would love to be able to find this book again!
Even if you had some clues about authors/illustrators that had similar style drawings I would be grateful.
Book about Glen Canyon before/just as it was flooded by a dam. There were two boys, teen/preteen, Anasazi ruins, mystery involving murder/looting of ruins/ecologists (?). Pre-1975 publication date, I seem to remember a green hard cover w/ gold or white print.
A mid 20th century chapter book, I think. A girl discovers a red eft (juvenile newt) in the woods and houses it in a jar, which she fixes up with twigs and moss. She brings the eft to school. The eft may be named Reddy.
It is a picture book with words. A family fixes up little sailboat, there is a rainstorm, and they have a picnic. It is probably about 20 pages long, kindergarten to 2nd grade book probably, late 50’s early 60’s (pre-67 I’m pretty sure).
In my school library, early 1960’s 2nd grade, it was about a poor family of four who bought a run down house and fixed it up, added a pond, and either the stars fell from the night sky into the pond, or they were reflected there. I think the cover was blue.