Another ghost story. The “ghost” is also from the Revolutionary War. The ghost was murdered for some reason and his body hidden (in a well, I think). He befriends a human modern-day boy and together they solve the mystery of the ghost’s demise.
The first book is about a modern day boy who lives in New England. Every time the fog rolls in, a mysterious village of Revolutionary War era appears in the woods. The boy develops a relationship with the villagers and eventually realizes that his own father also had a similar experience. Either the boy or his father was gifted a pocketknife by the ghost villagers.
I am looking for a book that was bought at a school book sale in Massachusetts in the mid 60’s by a ninth grader. It’s about a group of men on a desert island with poisonous spiders or crabs. One man has immunity to them and becomes the leader. A black man also develops immunity and splits loyalty in the group. At that point in the story the book was stolen from my friend and he hasn’t read another book since. Thank you for any help.
. I read this memorable book in 1965 when I was ten years old. I was a 5th grader at P.S. 92 in Brooklyn, NY. The story was about the friendship which grew between two teenage boys-one white, one black; teammates on a baseball team in the South (Texas, perhaps?). The black teen lived with his widowed father in a small, meticulously maintained home. Initially, the white teen is wary of his teammate, his attitude shaped by the segregationist attitudes of that time; the novel very movingly describes how mutual mistrust evolves into a soild friendship. I’d be grateful for any help you could give in helping me find this wonderful little book…
I’m looking for a book i had when i was a child in the 1960’s. I called this book “Little Pink Rosie” but don’t think that was its actual title. Its about a pink goat that gets kidnapped by foxes. I remember monkeys although i can’t be certain She’s kept in some sort of cage.
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).
I am looking for a book with a story that my brother and I used to read in the 60s. We think it was called the Story of the Little Round Man. This funny round man lived in a ball-shaped house that could roll around very fast. In the story he saves some children wandering in the woods who find some beautiful shoes which, it seems, someone has left there for them to try. Tempted, they do try them on, but the shoes immediately force them to follow them all the way to a cave where a bad witch lives. They are her prisoners! The Little round man has to find a way to be directed to the witch’s lair. He puts on only one of the magic shoes, and, asking his rolling house to follow him, controls the shoe enough to discover where the witch lives, and can plan the escape of the children. The house is left outside the entrance and is spotted by the witch. Intrigued by the house, she steps inside, but the Little round Man jumps out from hiding, bangs the door shut, and orders the house to move as fast as possible with the witch inside (she’s all bones and angles), until she relents and accepts to save the children. I think the illustrations were black and white but can’t be sure.
1960’s/1970’s storybook- This was a short, very colorful story within a book of many stories. It was about a gnome/ old bearded man who scented and colored the flowers. One day he was carrying his glass bottles filled with his potions and they fell into the stream. Some fish tried to help him and there was a young girl/ fairy type character who was with him. Her named could have been Melinda or Belinda. There also may have been a part to the story about some matches getting wet.. It was written in a comic book strip style ( at least that is what my mother recalls.) I feel like the book was red and white and don’t remember the other stories.
A boy builds an airplane from a vacuum cleaner and flies off to rescue his dad. I think it’s to get him home for Christmas. On the way back home they stop off to buy presents for each other, and they buy the boy’s mom some perfume from Paris.
Addition: It’s a picture book – a fairly short story on large, colourful pages. I read it in the 1970s and it seemed of its time. Borrowed from my (then) local library, in fact. Would it help to mention I’m in the UK?
Early to mid-1960s children’s picture book. Story about some kids (maybe one’s a young teen?) and their friend, a small troll who, I believe, wears a sweater and has a ’60s Beatles haircut. BIGGEST DISTINGUISHING FEATURE: It breaks the fourth wall — they know they’re in a book. Colorful, hip.