The book is a large, blue cloth covered, fully illustrated book similar to the Waldo books. It was about a caveman with orange hair who traveled through different eras of history – wild west, Rome, Egypt, with large, detailed illustrations of people, activities and buildings. Late 80s.
A young adult (or middle reader?) book published sometime in the 1980’s about a boy who escapes from a New York City field trip and spends the day charmingly conning New Yorkers out of their money. The cover may show the boy dressed in a tuxedo, surrounded by a captivated street-corner audience.
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Bought this around 1986 (6th grade book fair!) and cannot remember the title or main character names. Loved the story though, and hope I can find it for my daughter.
The hardback cover was green, and the picture was of three girls singing and stirring a fourth girl in a pot.
The story was of a girl in her early teens at summer camp. She ends up feeling saddled with another girl who is strange and a little disgusting – the weird girl borrows a barrette from the main character and uses it to clean her toenails.
There is a talent show (depicted in the cover art), and the weird girl is the one in the pot.
The main character ends up tossing the weird girl out of a canoe, and leaves her bobbing in the lake. She tries to make up with her before they leave camp, but the weird girl yells at her in the cafeteria.
The main character goes home regretting what she did, and tries to think of some way to make amends.
This is a book that my mom read to me when I was a little girl in the late 80’s, early 90’s. I think it was called something like “Mrs. ______’s Cake Shop” (or possible Bake Shop) although I’m not sure and haven’t found anything by searching with those keywords.
I remember that it was about a lady who had a cake shop with all different kinds of cakes. The illustrations were really cute and it talked about how she made big cakes, and little cakes, and short cakes, and tall cakes….The illustrations showed cakes of all colors and sizes sitting on different platters. Some cakes had frosting and were very fancy, others had no frosting. Some were little like cupcakes and had pink frosting (I think) with cherries on them.
I think the story continued with her boxing up a cake, or several cakes, that she was going to deliver somewhere. As she is walking along with her cakes, it starts to rain. I think she didn’t bring her umbrella with her because she was holding all the cakes, or there is something about her umbrella in the story, but I’m not sure if its a main part of the story or not.
And that’s all I can remember!
This was one of my favorite books as a little girl and I can still remember the illustrations of all the little cakes in my mind but I just can’t seem to remember the title or how the rest of the story goes.
I don’t remember the title, but I think it may have been from Scholastic. I want to say in the 1980-1983 range.                                                               Â
I do remember the very first story was called “Hugh” and it was the classic hitchhiker story, and in this case Hugh the ghost saves the driver (if I’m not mistaken) from an accident.
I think this book stumper may be one of the harder ones. I’ve been trying to help my friend find this one and we’ve gone ALL over the Internet to every single site that does this sort of thing and NO ONE has the slightest idea of what the book is. SO, if you guys can figure it out we’d both be eternally grateful!! 🙂
 What is Remembered About it:
the name of the planet translated to “Tawny” if I remember. that was also the colour of the eyes of all natives there. the woman who was transported
to the planet had different coloured eyes.
I remember that she became a “priestess’ due to the fact she had more than
one child with her husband back on Earth. as well as due to her transport.
she had special abilities. abilities these males in a bad area wanted to
stop. because they wanted the natives to stop breeding.
1) Available in 80s or 90s in SF/Fantasy
(2) The author is definitely a woman
(3) It is *not* part of a series – it is a stand alone book
(4) I have a vague recollection of the word “Karin” or “Kirin” or “Kyrin”
or something like that in the title or possibly the name of the main
character or the planet. But, searches on these words have been fruitless.
(5) The opening of the book is set in “modern” times – i.e. 20th century.
(6) The main character is a 30-something year old woman who is out jogging
and gets transported to another world through a vortex. She finds herself
as a pseudo servant on this planet. Character ‘falls’ for overlord of
manor. The book sounds like a corny sci-fi romance, but it is not a
‘bodice
ripper’. [I recall a scene in a horse paddock where the
‘overseer/overlord’
is trying to capture her. She is still wearing her jogging shoes and she
is
able to evade him because her running skills are superior to the other
captives. Another scene I remember takes place in a sauna. Another woman
reaches out and touches the main character’s c-section scar. A spark leaps
between them and the other woman is able to get pregnant. In another scene
she is back on a starship and finds out that she was kidnapped illegally
and that there is no way for her to get back to earth as too much time has
now passed there and her family is long gone
(7) The book is NOT part of the “Gor” series by John Norman. Again, not a bodice ripper!
I am looking for a middle reader or young adult book published late 1980s to early 90s. It involved (I believe) a boy who had these sugar cube type things (or possibly seeds) that when he ate them gave him magic or granted a wish that he spoke.
Children’s book from prob 1981-1984. It’s about mythical creatures, including cyclops, sirens, griffin, loch ness, bigfoot, minotaur. The cover was possibly sky blue, and some illustrations were cyclops w/lightning bolt, bigfoot with skulls. Ordered from scholastic fair, can’t remember title/author.
This was a favorite book of mine when I was very little at the Travelers Rest, South Carolina library between 1987-1990 (age 4-7). It was a small picture book, I believe with fairly simple illustrations on white pages. The little girl pretends she is a giant (or thinks she is a giant?). She goes through various scenarios showing this. The only page I remember clearly is when she is eating trees for her broccoli.
A children’s book (early 90s/late 80s?). Comes with tape. A boy enters an abandoned house (w/ little sister?); it’s really an intergalactic airport for aliens. Aliens are friendly; one that’s green with multiple eyes buys him a multi-flavored milkshake.