Looking for an old children’s fairy tales book, pre1940s. Illustrated in color, not a first reader, 5th or 6th grade level. The key story I’m looking for is about a girl with small feet & wished for huge feet like everyone else….put her feet in a magic well.Used to read at my grandparents.
I read this book sometime between 6th and 8th grades, so between 1976 and 1979. It was not great literature but catered very much to pubescent and pre-pubescent girls. It was a mass-market paperback anthology of short stories, and I think they all dealt with romance and/or the characters’ first kisses. There might have been some that were just about the trials and tribulations of being that age, but if so, I don’t recall specifics. I do remember one of the stories mentioning chocolate pudding. In another -or maybe the same story- the protagonist went on her first date (possibly a school dance?), and when she and the boy walked home, he kissed her, and she said his lips tasted sweet like Coca-Cola.
I am looking for a book my Grandmother had when I was a child. It was a children’s chapter book published in the 80s or early 90s, and was likely something she got either through a book club or at a yard sale. It seemed like it was intended to be part of a series, though I don’t know if any other volumes were ever published. The book was about a pair of siblings (I believe it was a brother and sister, though it could have been two sisters), who were attending summer camp. They were either not getting along with each other, or not enjoying camp and were unhappy. In the middle of the night, another brother and sister appear and invite them to come with them to a magic carnival. They ride a canoe up a moonbeam to the carnival in the sky somewhere. There they see all sorts of incredible characters and shows. There is an octopus running a game booth. And at the end there is a dolphin race where the children ride the dolphins and one of the siblings wins (their earlier angst may have been a result of one of them losing a race at camp??). Over the course of their adventures, the siblings mend their differences and at the end are returned to camp ready to enjoy the rest of their summer. Something about the book, either a summary in the back or something on the back cover, implied that there would be other books where different kids who were having problems would be taken to the carnival to sort them out. I have been searching for info on this book for years and any help would be much appreciated!
Young adult chapter book that I read as a child in school (1990s) There are two witches I believe on an island, or maybe there is an underground lake. They are raising or taking care of a little girl (maybe orphaned?) and she finds an infant mermaid & there are other magical happenings
I read this in elementary school in the late 70s or early 80s. It’s a story about a family who travels around the western US, I think in a covered wagon, putting on a variety-type show in the small towns they pass through. It is mostly about the older daughter who wanted to be treated more as an adult and fought with her mom about whether she could wear a hairstyle that did or did not show her ears. At the end of the book she defied her mother and performed some kind of ballerina act with the adult hairstyle. The parents also let each kid pick one day a year where they could break all the rules and not be punished. There was also a part about them searching for a “man with a Bowie knife” who had committed a crime. It had some funny elements and a nice family dynamic.
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.
Mystery of the Hidden Brooch was a book I read in elementary school in early to mid 70’s. It was a mystery about a missing brooch. There was an old house with a brick wall or chimney upstairs, possibly covered by wallpaper. One of the bricks was a drawer, where I believe the brooch was found. The mystery was solved by a young girl, possibly other children also. I could be confusing a couple of books.
A hardback children’s book, published in the 1970s, about weather forecasting. The cover is light purple and on the inside of front and back cover are weather symbols. It is for kids around age 9. It was in our school library when I was in 4th grade in 1977.
I’m looking for a book that I read as a young boy but whose name now eludes me. I have no recollection of the title but can provide some detail regarding the story and the cover art (at least the version I had).
The story is about a young boy who moves with his family (father and mother) from a city to a country farm/ranch, despite his initial misgivings. One of the first thing he experiences is a hunt for a mountain lion which has been killing livestock in the area. He sees a mother mountain lion killed and then two cubs thrown to a pack of dogs. Later, he finds a female, runt cub in the mountain lions’ cave (she was too weak to come out and, therefore, escaped notice). He takes her home and secretly raises her. I am fairly certain that he calls her “Beauty” but I am not 100% certain. The book continues with the boy raising the cub to young adulthood, including teaching her how to hunt. Near the end of the book, the father is injured and the mother is somehow incapacitated so the boy (and his secret mountain lion companion) have to walk several miles to town to get a doctor/medicine. Finally, the boy needs to release the mountain lion back into the wild. The book ends with their separation.
I believe the book was published by Scholastic Reader and would have been published sometime in the 1970’s (I think). The cover has artwork that shows the young boy crouching up on a rock to feed or pet the mountain lion who is standing on the top of the rock.
I had a book when I was younger (pre-2000, book may be older, possibly published in the early 80s) that had a hard cover and housed a collection of children’s poems. All were by different authors and all were illustrated.