I’m looking for a poem from the 1980s. Here’s what I remember:
One day mommy brought me a treat
and I asked her if it was something to eat
or is it round and can I bounce it on the ground
No my dear she said to me
its neither and she let me see
and there inside the the wrappings lay
a sailboat for which to play
? – something about bringing it down to the pond
the fastest little craft afloat
Thank you!!
Illustrated Children’s book with the theme ” You can choose”. We had this book in the late 1980s/ early 1990s. It was square with a yellow hardcover with a cartoonish girl/boy on it. Book was about 20 pages ( 10 layouts with different scenes where the boy and girl make different choices between colours and objects etc. ). Each scene ends with a phrase similar to ” You can chose”. Very repetitious. One scene has them in a classroom. Size of book 20cm x 20cm. I know it is not the following books “If I could choose” or “Which one would you choose”.
I am looking for a big book of stories I enjoyed as a child in the early to mid 1980s. It’s possible the book was published in either the 70s or 80s. It is NOT the typical hardcover collection of stories but rather a paperback, rather oversized book – almost like a telephone book with same type of “newspaper like” pages and black and white print. A distinctive feature is that it had pastel multicolored sections of pages inside. Each color represented a specific type of story like yellow for fairy tales, pink for animal stories, blue for classics adapted for kids, etc. The most specific story I remember is the 12 Dancing Princess who wore out their shoes. It had beautiful illustrations with ladies sporting the French pompadour style with ringlets hairdos and full ballroom dresses. I also have a vague memory of a cute little story featuring a ladybug and other various insects conversing with each other. We also had a similar type big book of jokes (featuring different types of jokes including Tom Swifties!) that I seem to remember having a mostly white cover; I always thought they were part of a series of big books but I could be wrong.
Thanks for any help.
The book is from the late 70s-early 80s. A woman gets divorced, then retreats to Cape Cod in the winter. She lives in a house on the beach, learns to be alone and independent. I think she has a dog. Eventually goes back to society. Nonfiction (I think).
This book was read in middle school. It featured four stories with the same gang of young boys. One story was of them faking a Loch Ness Monster using radio-controlled boat in their lake. Another was their search for a crashed airplane using radio direction finding. A third was their competing in a hot-air balloon race. The fourth I do not remember. This was probably published in the 80’s or late 70’s.
This book is titled “Sandy” or “Sandie” I believe. It’s a story (real-life) written by a doctor about the death from his wife, Sandy (born as Alexandra) from cancer. I think she must have died in about 1967 or 1968. She had a 3 year old son called Alexander. I read the book sometime between 1978-1982 when I was younger. I’ve always wondered if I could find a copy of it and all my research has come up with nothing. It’s possible I have some of the details wrong. I got the book out of the Rochester, NY Public Library at the time. It was in hard-cover. I am sure that it was published by a “reputable” publisher. I have searched for “cancer narratives” to no avail.
I read a juvenile novel in the 1980s (from my school library). It may have been from the 1960s or 1970s about a very lonely girl who moved to a new house in the country, and while exploring, she found a secret playhouse that had dolls and teddy bears in it, and I think they came to life. Kind of like The Lonely Doll meets The Curious Clubhouse, but definitely not either of those! It had illustrations, maybe an orange cover, and I feel like Secret may have been in the title, and the author’s last name began with G or H?
International bankers corner all the markets and plot to take over the world. I read it in the 70s or 80s and I think it might have been a Robert Ludlum book.
A French boy chosen by father to travel from British territory to French territory in the new United States to buy a home. He saves Spanish boy from Indians with gold but managed to recover the gold. He goes from a boy to a man. Young Adult, boy read, early eighties in high school.
Children’s book set entirely in a rural setting at night. A mother mouse guides her child mouse through grass and vegetation — perhaps a meadow — and I think I remember berries in the illustration. I think she teaches/explains her surroundings to the child mouse as they go. At some point, they encounter a road, and the child mouse feels its cold, hard, unfamiliar texture. I think the mother mouse tells him that the road is dangerous. I was reading this book in the late 80s or early 90s.