I am looking for a hard cover children’s book with 2 children, a brother and sister (name might be ginger) who start out on a plane and end up in a jungle with a monkey named Monkey Monk and a tiger named Tiger Rag. They have lots of adventures and go through a Purple City and many other exciting places with a cliffhanger at the end of every chapter. 3rd-6th grade?
This has been nagging me for years and years. I am coming up 63 years of age now and I would be eternally grateful to anyone whom could help me. It is a story that I read when I was about 10 – 12 years old …………… so probably from the 1950’s or 1960’s. It haunts my dreams – although (however hard I try) I cannot recollect a title. It is an English book (I am English – although, now, live in NZ) about a girl called PERDITA and a MOUNTAIN. A mystery story, I think. Hoping for some help!
This story is one of many characters, and is beautifully illustrated. I recall one character as very tall, lanky man, dressed in oranges, reds, and browns, almost as if a medieval or early renaissance peasant. His hair is a very red-hued brown, spiky, and seems to have its own agenda. His face is freckled, ruddy, and very long. He has no facial hair, from what I recall. His ears are pointed, almost as if elven, and his neck is quite thin. Layers of these dark red and burnt-orange-colored and brown tunics fall over spindly legs covered in what looks like tights of the same colors. His shoes are pointed and seem to have no soles. He is also shrouded in fire, and at one point in the story, he cooks a feast of meats and vegetables for the group, as there were no ovens or other ways to cook. Another character is a large, green-hued man with a very round face, and maybe no neck. He is smiling and dressed in greens. His tunic is flowing and I believe his tights are brown. In the story, he grows tall, as a leafy tree, and protects the group of travelers from wind and rain. There are other characters, but I cannot remember many details. In the story, they are all traveling to meet a Czar, for what reason I do not know. The czar has a pointy beard. I also recall a character who resembles a bee, short, with a pointy nose, and wearing a yellow and black striped tunic. At one point, he turns into a swarm of bees to fight of an intruder. The illustrations are many, and greatly detailed. I know it is not a lot to go on….
I’m looking for a kid’s/youth book that had fantastic full page illustrations, and was fairly long. It featured a goblin/elf/hobbit-like creature who went on a quest, and at the end of the book, there was a large stone staircase where you would turn to stone/statue, but the main character managed to avoid being turned to stone and complete his quest. I can’t remember much more than that, but the illustrations were great, and very dark in colour.
When I was a kid, sometime between 1987-1992, my grandmother bought me a hardcover book that contained 2 or 3 haunted plays that all took place in a mansion (or maybe a hotel?). In the front cover of the book was a pop up of the mansion, that included several rooms, to be used as the set for the plays. If I remember correctly, it also included cardboard cut outs of the characters to move from room to room as you “acted out” the play. My cousin and I played with this book for hours, but for the life of me, I cannot remember the title or the author. It’s not the haunted pop up book by Jan Pienkowski and it’s not the Disney haunted house book. If anybody can help me figure this out, I would GREATLY appreciate it.
Only story I remember from a book of stories I received in the 1st or 2nd grade, mid to late 1960’s. A hardcover book with color illustrations, about a boy and girl, lighthouse keeper’s children, who go with Mom to a big city department store with an escalator. No title, author or publisher.
A girl (Girl A) lives with her parents in a brownstone(?) or apartment building across the street or adjacent from Central Park. She has a good life but would like a friend of similar age. Very early on in the book, a girl about her age moves into the building! Girl A makes friends with this girl, has many high spirited adventures in and around Central Park & NYC.
This book is titled something like “The World of Xanadu” or “Xenon” or “Xenia”, but “Xanadu” sounds most right to me. the X-word is the title of the imaginary world that the girls have made up. Early on, Girl A daydreams that she will find a friend her age and when she does, she says “We will make a fantasy realm called ‘Xanadu'”. This aspect feels like it has a “Bridge To Terabithia” element to it.
The setting is very close to “The One Hundredth Thing About Caroline” by Lois Lowry, but it isn’t that, because that book has more of a mystery/suspense nature to it.
Any help would be wonderful! Thank you!
In late 50′s my grandmother read to me many times a book checked out from our local public library. It was about a little girl who broke her leg. Someone would carry her outside every day and she spent the summer in a hammock beside a brook. She made friends with the small animals. She mesmerized them with her soothing voice. Maybe that’s where the brook comes in – her voice was like a flowing brook. I don’t remember the little girl’s name or any other details. I have had several librarians through the years be on the lookout for the book, but no one has identified it yet.
The book I’m trying to find was probably published in the 1970s. It was mostly text, with some black and white line drawings. The storyline involved some kids visiting a fantasy world with an owl for a mayor. For the owl’s birthday, they bake him a cake in the shape of an owl. The owl is horrified and refuses to eat the cake because it looks like him. That’s all I remember, except that it also contained the word “turd” which greatly horrified my mother. It’s possible the book was written in verse, or that this was just one story in a collection, but I don’t remember. I think I had this book when I was about 10, so it was probably written for the tween market. The tone of the book was playful and irreverent.
I think it was in 1978, while in 2nd grade, I read a mystery book about a boy visiting a castle (I think in Scotland) and there were ghosts trying to tell him something. I think I remember something about the ocean and maybe characters who names were like those in Macbeth or another Shakespeare book