Read this book in the late 1970s, but think it was written maybe in the 50s. It was set after WWII, about an ex Navy LTJG who was salvage diving, came across a young stowaway and put the boy to work for him on his boat. It was an adventure story, with a run-in with an octopus, storms and bad guys, but in the end they found the treasure. Ring any bells?
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The book was either published in the 1970-1980’s I believe, since late 1970’s was when I read it. It was a children’s story about Harum Scarum, an old man that was known by the children to be mean. Harum Scarum became nice and gave the children his candy. It was a beautiful short story about how the man was a good person, but just because the kids thought he was mean, they didn’t interact with him. They found out he was a nice person when he gifted them candy. If I’m not mistaken, the setting was a farm or the outskirts of town. The story was in a book that had several bedtime stories in it. I can’t find the title of the book or the name of the story. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
This is an elementary age paperback I read in the 1970’s. It is about a girl who had friends in school but they turned against her. She had to find new friends, and she made many different kinds of friends, like adult friends, that she never before paid attention to until she had to make new ones.
This is a kids book I read in the 1970’s – paperback. It is about two families and one family with two children move away. The second family’s children are very sad. Suddenly, mysterious clues start appearing around and the old family has to decipher the clues. It leads them somewhere, like through the woods, to where the new family had moved to.
The book I’m looking for is definitely older. It is a large, aged, dull lime green or olive green hardcover. I can’t remember what’s in the front, but there is a picture of what may be a friendly green-faced (again, duller green) troll with a white wig and a red shirt doing a cartwheel on the back cover of the book, along with a short description below it.
It is about a foot tall, 8″ wide, and 3-4″ thick. It has 600+ pages, I think… definitely more than 300.
This book looked old to me back in the 90s, so I’m guessing it is from 1990 or earlier.
Looks like it might contain a collection of Aesop, The Brothers Grimm, and Hans Christian Andersen tales as well as some other stories.
Some of the stories definitely include (from memory):
– The Nightingale (Aesop)
– The Water of Life (Grimm, German)
– Sinbad the Sailor’s 4th Journey
– Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves
– The Tinderbox (Aesop)
– The Emperor’s New Suit / Clothes (Aesop)
– Stone Soup
– The Pied Piper
– The Twelve Dancing Princesses (Grimm)
– The fisherman and his wife
– The Golden Goose (Grimm)
– The Princess and the Pea
There are illustrations in the book with the stories and it is done in a very old-fashioned art style… I would think to date it to before 1980, but I’m not an expert.
I know this is pretty hard considering the lack of detail. I’ve been looking for this book for a long time. =(
I am looking for a children’s Christmas book I read to my son in the 70’s. It is about children getting ready for Christmas. They are decorating and also baking Christmas cookies. I think the cover had a light blue background.
I was elementary-school-age in the 70’s, and I read a series of short stories with Christian morality themes. Each story was in its own book, each book had a white glossy paper cover, and featured the same family of four (I think): mom dad brother sister.
SCI/FI mid-late ’70’s post alien catastrophe where humanity must rebuild itself based on combining all of the human subgroups that have evolved or mutated. One scene involves the mating of a regular male with a mutated and vicious female being.
Looking for kids’ fiction book between 1965-1976 that is about a quetzalcoatl. I remember that it was scary. I got it in my elementary school library so it was about 3rd-5th grade level. Children conjured up a quetzalcoatl by accident and it turned out to be evil and dangerous? Possibly turned an old feather boa into a quetzalcoatl using some magic dust they may have found in an old jewelry box.
A sick girl is home in her room in a building or high rise apartment. In order to pass the time she looks out at windows in the building across from her. Based on what she can see she (torn blind, potted plant) imagines what’s going on in the apartments.
One apartment has a plant family who walk around in dirt. One has a dog who sits at a typewriter all day.
This was a favorite book of mine as a child in the 70’s.