Trying to find the name of a kids picture book I used to read. It was between 1985 to 1995; it was an action book bout a hero or heroes fighting against a green monster. The only thing I remember about one of the books is the heroes chase the green monster, with two orange tentacles things from his mouth, into the water and the book said “to be continued.”
If you can find what those books are called I’d be so happy.
It was a book I read in the 80s about a boy or a boy and girl who lived in a bubble/bunker or enclosed community because the world had been destroyed by pollution or a nuclear war. They eventually find their way out and find the world recovered and beautiful.
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.
I’m looking for a children’s book that was available around 1990 (not sure if that is the publication date or not). The story details I can remember are that a girl is either kidnapped or befriended by a fairy, and her mother tries to get her back. When the mother finds the daughter, she is told she has to hold on to her no matter what. The fairy then turns the daughter into different things trying to get the mother to let go (snakes, thorns, and finally hot iron). As the mom holds on to the hot-iron version of the daughter, the metal melts and turns back into the actual girl and they can leave together.
The version of this book that I remember had gorgeous illustrations in sort of an art-nouveau/greek style. Very detailed and beautiful. Thank you for the help in identifying the title/author!
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.
There was a book that I always took out of my elementary school library between 1975 and 1978. Although I do not have the title, what I recall is as follows:
The book is about witches and fairies. The little witch in the story never felt right with the other witches, they were mean. I think she used to see the fairies and wish she was one of them. The middle gets fuzzy but towards the end she discovers that when she was a baby she was caught in the witches web and that’s how she came to be with them. But she was really a fairy and was returned to them.
I know this is not much but at 47 years old I cannot put this story out of my mind. I have always been an avid reader and hope to find this book. It will haunt me otherwise.
Hey guys … I’m looking for a book that I always checked out in elementary school, which was about 1980-1986. All I have to go on is what was on the cover, which was a robot, a knight (maybe) and either a huntsman, woodsman or Robin Hood. It might have been about time travel? Thanks!
YA novel, read it in 1990s. There was a shaman-like creature, something like a mole, and in the end there was a kind of lost civilisation (something to do with Atlantis), and he activated a fire salamander and burnt the lot (p.s. not the Psammead).
This is a fairly recent book, having had my hands on it sometime between 1996-1998. It was definitely a picture book. I can’t remember if the classroom copy was paperback or hardcover, but I don’t think the book was published any time before 1985 and it was more likely to have been put out after 1992.
My clearest memory is of a page showing a slim girl with cropped black hair who, as a thief, had a magical belt or girdle that made her invisible. The belt may have been silver. The story took place in an imaginary land or in the past; I think she was dressed in a very sort of medieval page way.
I am certain there were other girls with other specific talents and magical objects in the book, but I am unsure as to how many. Judging from trends in children’s literature it was probably 3 or 7.
Thank you so much!