Early- to mid-1970’s: A boy builds robots in a non-urban area. A lightning strike makes them autonomous. At the end of the book, he tells them to “stop rowing for a minute. ” They take the instruction literally and, 60 seconds later, row away, never to be seen again. IIRC the book had some insignia on its paperback cover saying that it had won some sort of literary award.
I remember a story (read in the 1960s – 1970s), and I’m not sure if it was a stand-alone or a featured story in a collection. It was a funny rhyming story about a king who started taxing everything in his kingdom, until finally the people revolted. I only remember bits and pieces, but the lines I remember are:
“A plague (?) on Max’s taxes! They are anything but fair. He taxes both our income and our patience, we declare!” and…
“So up they rose upon their toes…” and then something about going into the palace. The final line is something like “they stuck their tacks in Max!”.
Any ideas/suggestions?
I have been searching for this book for so long with no luck. Unfortunately, I don’t remember the title.
I got it when I was in elementary school in the 1970’s. It was probably published early to mid 70’s. I got it through one of the school’s reading program catalogs, so it may be a Scholastic book or another company like that. My best friend and several other students also purchased it. It was a Halloween book. It was about school students who have a young, pretty new teacher come to their school. Her name was Miss – something. Maybe Miss Grey. (I don’t trust my memory that far though.) The students think there is something odd about her. She wears a big, wide-brimmed hat. Of course, she’s suspected of being a witch.
The book was a thin paperback. The illustrations were pencil drawings in black and white. That’s about all I’ve got on it. It was such an unusual story and I’ve never seen the book again. Wish I knew where my copy got off to. Probably gave it away when I felt I was too old for children’s stories… geez…
When I search online, the later 80’s series about “Miss Nelson” pops up, but that is not it.
Thank you for your time!
A picture book from the 1980s, potentially from the 1970s, about a little boy who wishes to be older. His neighbor grants his wish (with her magical garden I believe) but he decides to go back when his mother doesn’t recognize him. I believe the illustrations are in a style similar to Ron Barrett.
I used to get books in the mail — “Me and the Terrible Two,” “Alvin’s Secret Code” — and one of them was a book about a boy who watched the moon landing all summer while some family drama was also going on. The book had a low-key melancholy tone. I read it in 1974 or 75, when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade. I wish I could remember more about it, but I’m stumped!
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!
Juvenile fiction from late 1960s or early 1970s with color illustrations of a teen boy and his father/uncle and their adventures scuba diving. I worked in the school library when I was 13-14 and was fascinated by this book, which piqued my interest in oceanography. I’ve searched on and off for many years. It’s not Sea Hunt and it’s not a Hardy Boys book. Any help locating a copy of this book would be much appreciated.
I am looking for a humorous picture book that was published at least 35 years ago. I do not know the title or the author.
It is told from the point of view of the pets. The owners, whose legs are all you see in the illustrations, are looking for a guard dog to protect them from robberies. They get new dogs but the old pets in the house persuade each new dog that everyone who comes to the house is a friend.e.g. the milkman, the postman. Eventually a robber comes to call. The pets play with him. He doesn’t rob the house so everyone is satisfied. Would love to find this book for my son who remembers it with great fondness from his childhood.
I’m looking for a book that a friend of mine read between 1978 and 1982 but the book may be older than that. It is about a family that wants to sell their house and each prospective buyer wants them to change something about the house (paint the inside, fix something outside etc). Over time they make so many changes to the house that the family decides not to sell. They end up liking the changes they’ve made and stay put.
A children’s picture book, 1960s or 70s I think. The text of the Eden story from Genesis, illustrated with black-and white photos of a boy and girl. The children are naked but the shots are unobjectionable — nothing creepy about them.