Looking for a book after which I was named.
Main character is an architect named Kimberly. He builds a bridge in Africa that no one else is able to do. Probably written in the 1950’s. My mother is 94 and can’t remember anything else.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Children’s, would’ve been in print by 1970’s.
A boy is facing the challenge of how to get to the top of a castle. There is some discussion that he cannot jump there in one go. He eventually solves the problem by climbing to the top of the castle, one step at a time.
A Children’s book bought in the early to mid 80’s, might be A Little Golden or Elf? These are the lines “Bossy eats grass and swishes her tail and gives us milk in a shiny pail. Skippy drives the cows and sheep and over the fence will lightly leap. Piggy Piggy eats all day he sleeps so much he will
HIstorical novel for children ABOUT HOW THE STRATFORD SKAKESPEARE FESTIVAL BEGAN. iT IS TOLD FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF A GIRL OF ABOUT 10 YRS OLD. Someone (TOM PATTERSON, I THINK) who was key in the beginning of this annual event was a boarder in her home, and she is very excited about the events
A baby is stolen and raised by pirates when they lure a boat to wreak onto shore. Later, when the boy learns his past, he escapes with a horse bought with his family’s stolen money and a small dog that was with him as a baby.
This small, illustrated children’s book features a group of kids who build various things out of a pile of wood and some nails, starting, I think, with a fort. For some reason they keep tearing down and rebuilding their constructions; at one point they have a ship with a flag on the mast. Pre-1986.
I’m looking for a children’s book (probably published in the 70s/80s) that included various plays on words, with each sentence having a double meaning. For example, the blue prince for the house, vs. the blueprints for the house.
Book was published in 1954 and is about a mouse with a name beginning with M who chooses to live at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and meets all the other animals who pride themselves on being antiquities. They refer to the mouse, disdainfully, as “contemporary”
I read a book in the mid-1970’s about a large family. The babies all came from a plant in the backyard which grew pods. When a pod would get ripe, there would be a human baby inside. I cannot remember if there was a science fiction element or not. Does anyone remember this story?
This is a book my boyfriend read when he was a young child in the early 1980s, he thinks it might be as old as the 1960s though. It was a picture book and it must have been a pretty easy reader. The parts he remembers are that there was a little boy (possibly named Sam) who was taking a bath. The tub overfilled and flooded the whole house, and while it did he rode the tub on the water throughout multiple stories of the house. He thinks there also might have been a parade at the end. I’m trying to find it for him as a present, so any help would be great. Thanks!