Hi and thank you. It is a children’s book that my mom read with me in the early 70s. Its pages are full illustrations with a fair amount of text on each. It is about an elf or fairy or pixie. . . my mom and I cannot recall anything else except that he goes to bed on a snowy night in a tree or nut on an amazing bed of milkweed.
Any help is appreciated.
I read the book around 1978-1983. It was a fantasy with a child who stayed with family and went into the woods and found a passage to a fantasy world of fairies which she ended up traveling to. The book had a title that was a play on Maestro or some other musical name. The cover of the book was brownish red with the face of one of the fairies. The face was very large and very round(side-wise oval) and with a very wide mouth. I was between 9-12 yo when I read it but this is what I remember.
I would have read this book in the early to mid 90’s but I’m not sure if that’s when it was published. I remember that it was shelved with the Halloween books at my local library. An old man who has a white mustache is telling his grandson (may have been multiple grandchildren) about how his hair turned white. In his story he is pictured as a young boy but he still has the mustache, I remember thinking this was hilarious as a child. The gist of the story as far as I remember it is that when he was young he went into a haunted house or witch’s house on Halloween night and when he came out his hair had turned white. I have been wracking my brains for ages trying to remember the title of this book, I would love to read it again.
Paperback juvenile fiction from the 1970s about kids who install a fan in their tree house and accidentally turn it into a helicopter. Among the kids is the son of the ambassador from a fictitious Latin American country.
Picture book I read as a child in the mid to late 1970s: A boy is challenged to eat an enormous mound of mashed potatoes. At first he thinks it is impossible. But with a small spoon, just one little bite at a time, he completes his task.
I loved this chapter book in the 1970s. It took place during a much earlier era. A coal mine in, I believe, Wales is closing which employs most of the people in the town. The town children are afraid of what will happen to the ponies that work in the mine pulling the coal carts. They want to “retire” the ponies to a field. The parents are worried about losing their jobs and don’t have the money to help the children save the ponies. I believe the children make an appeal to the wealthy owner of the mine, who is sympathetic. There may also be descriptions of the miners being sick, and of a canary dying from gas in the mine. I remember this book having the same kind of feel to it as “The Wheel on the School.” Thanks everyone for your help!
The children’s book I’m looking for was read to me in the late 60’s early 70s. It was about a dalmatian who wanted to be a fire dog but had no spots. Thanks.
A young, shy, and lonely girl visits her (aunt, grandmother, ?) for the summer. She cuts her long hair, referred to as “her glory,” that her mother refused to let her cut. After she cuts her hair, she experiences a “freeing” self confidence boost. I read this probably in the late 60s to 70s.
I first read it when I was somewhere between first and third grade, in the early ‘70’s, and, unfortunately, don’t know what its cover or illustrations looked like, since I read it in braille. I have only the vaguest description, but hope this helps me find its title so I can now read it through adult eyes. It involved several kids who built, I think, a mechanical horse that time-traveled (maybe). Their workshop was someone’s basement—I remember they had to move some “lead weights” periodically, and I remember this only because, at the time, having never encountered the word as pronounced “led”, it took me a while to catch on that they weren’t “leed weights,” but were, indeed, “led weights”. I’m guessing it may have been 150-200 pages in print.
This book is one of a series of books by a female illustrator (and for some reason I think she has an Asian name). They are all different stories from different cultures. The one I am searching for (and found years ago on a site from Australia when I still remembered the actual name but neglected to write it down) is a story about an East Indian Prince who listens to a parrot’s advice about a Princess. The Princess has many sisters and an overbearing father. The Prince is cast out into the wild, I think he’s beaten up by other Princes, and the parrot is there with him to give him advice. I can’t remember if the parrot is more of a trickster parrot who gets the Prince into trouble, or a helpful parrot. I think they end up together (Prince & Princess) and I don’t know what happens to the parrot. Regardless, the illustrations are simply beautiful and with crisp and clear colours belonging to the mid-century era of illustration. I believe it’s oriented landscape, about 8”x11” (or smaller, but not by much), and it’s paperback. My Mum bought it in the early 1970s Victoria, BC, Canada, but I’m not sure if she bought it used or new.