Looking for a book I read around 1987. It was in our church children’s library. It took place on a lake with a strange name, really long like Winnapauskee but it wasn’t that. It was just a nice story about a girl going to this lake with her grandpa Possibly light blue cover with a girl and a canoe
This was an illustrated children’s book I had as a child in the mid sixties about a young boy who goes sailing with his father and looses his favorite marble in the cabin below. Years later as a young man, and with a child of his own, he discovers a shipwreck and finds his marble then restores boat
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 was a short story that was in a compilation that I read in grade school around 1976. The plot was an old man (a grandfather, I believe) who was despised by his family and made to sit in the corner to eat his bowl of soup for dinner. It was very emotional and upsetting to me.
Looking for a children’s book-series (i remember three books – maybe there were more of them), with many illustrations.I read them at school library in South Africa around 1980/1981. The style the peoples were illustrated was sort of like Mick Inkpen-style. And it was always about to boys/young men. And after some thoughts it dawned to me, that the books seem to have described economical or political situations for children, worked into some fantastic stories. Here some of the contents/pictured scenes I remember:
One book was called something like ‘the lemonade bubble’ or ‘yellow soda bubble’, and was about producing lemonade in small scale at first, the production getting bigger and bigger with more profit and getting out of hand in the end, so that the market was drowned with too much yellow lemonade. Something like that.
The second book contained something about posters showing some face maybe (?), glued to every wall in the town. And in the end of the story they invented a dragon-machine-truck, that ripped the posters off the walls, mixing it with different colours and spraying the paint back on the wall, thus making the town colourful again. It could be about elections or something like that?
Of the third book I remember little, but I know it was about a dispute among the two guys, and how they each set up a frontier/border and patrolling it, spying each other and so on.
The special thing of these books were the illustrations on the inside of the hardcovers – they showed how the main figures (two boys or young men?) ‘came into and left’ the book. In one book they came with an hot-air balloon (getting stuck on a church steeple)and left the book again with some sort of flying steps (taking one step from the bottom and adding it to the top – and this way climbing higher and away), in the next book they arrived with these steps and left through some underground tunnel, chasing a yellow butterfly. In the next book coming through the tunnels and leaving by some other way . . . and so on.
I read these books during the late 90s/early 00s. I believe the title may have had something to do with the antagonist, the Sorcerer, but I’m not entirely sure. My school had the first book and one sequel, I don’t know if there were more.
The book was about a boy who I think had something that the evil Sorcerer wanted. The boy befriends a small dragon who I think was called Rose, she was pink in colour but was always sent into a rage and spit fire whenever someone referred to her as pink. The dragon also had a companion, a stone dog who I think was called Flint.
The Sorcerer has a minion, I can’t remember the name, it was described (and was illustrated in the books) as a large beast with matted black fur, and curved horns like a ram. He is able to kidnap the boy at some point and take him back to the cave that the Sorcerer lives in. The Sorcerer himself owned a magic book that refreshed itself every few days, he was waiting for a specific spell to come up that he needed the boy for. At some point in the story the boy manages to escape and take the book with him. He stays in the forest for a few nights, using spells in the book to shield himself, he writes some of the spells down on normal paper because they last longer than the magical book, but they still fade; he is unable to memorize them either.
A 70’s chapter book. Some children are staying in the Southwest US, or maybe California (I think) on a ranch (?) find an old diary/clue from a doomed explorer saying “gold in here”, meaning in a cave or underground cavern. Turns out be “cold” when the mystery is solved.
Gnome and his gardener go on journey to rescue Autumn, personified as a fairy, whom is kidnapped by a warlock. They rescue her, but not before the warlock opens a schism and the gardener falls through. Morning glories grow in the place where he fell through. Illustrated with green felt cover.
I’ve been trying to find a book that I read in elementary school for a long time now and haven’t had any luck. I don’t know the author or title of the book, which I know presents a huge problem. What I do know is this:
I read the book around 1982 — I think I was a 3rd grader
The book that I read was a paperback.
The illustrations were black and white drawings, not photos.
The basic story was about two kids, a boy and a girl, that I think were siblings that went to a beach house for the summer. I think the beach house was owned by their grandparents or an older uncle, etc. The kids find out that there is a large diamond hidden somewhere around the property. They find various clues to the location of the diamond throughout the book and eventually discover that the diamond is a rough cut diamond that is tied on to a fishing net. The fishing net is hanging in plain sight above the fireplace in the house and the diamond appears to just be a weight attached to the net.
One illustration I remember near the end of the book was of the fishing net hanging above the fireplace.
Another illustration I remember is of sand dunes near the ocean with a fence and grass
I’m sorry that that isn’t much to go on, but if you could help me out I’d really appreciate it.
Illustrated Book on Tree Houses
This is a black and white illustrated book on tree houses of almost impossible designs, of a Rube Goldberg or Dr. Seuss complexity, full of multiple levels, ropes, block and tackles, ladders, wooden shingles, stove pipes, etc. I remember the illustrations looked like Erik Blegvad’s style of crosshatching, but it may not be him. Very fun book I got from the church library when I was ten, so it would date from the 1960’s.