A book about a part-raccoon (maybe fox) brother and sister who lived together in the wild and were hiding from a hunter. Published sometime in the early 1990s. The author and illustrator (they may have been husband and wife) would come to the school libraries and sign books and draw custom doodles.
Short story book read in UK aprox 1965. Think was thick cover & thick pages-each story had black and white line drawing at top. 1 story=Gnomes/ goblins knocking on doors asking for jobs- phrase used by goblins was “why to be sure”. Lady asked for hedges cut but they cut into shape of toadstools.
A children’s book with stories about witches & wizards from the late 80s/early 90s.
The book had colourful illustrations; one witch had striped leggings & funky punk clothing/ hair.
One story was about witch baking special muffins that turned a girl into a goblin to make friends.
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I think I mixed up a couple of stories from that book I had wanted to be found… I believe the good witch in that particular children’s book actually gives her neighbour-girl a hat that turns her into monster to make friends with the other little monsters that also live around the area… I hope you can find this book… I’ve been trying to search for it for many years.
I had an anthology of fairy tales, which I thought was called East of the Sun, West of the Moon. Whilst the format is very similar (girl traveling looking for something, told stories by the four winds), none of the versions I can find online match, so I may have the title wrong.
It definitely included the stories of:
The illustrations were beautiful but simple, maybe watercolour over ink lines. The characters were generally lithe with long, very straight hair.
It was a large book, with a picture on the front with a deep red/brown border around it. I would’ve been given it new somewhere between 1975-1985, in the UK.
Really hope you can help!
This was a collection of tales that had been published originally in Readers Digest. Included was a story about a family being slowly poisoned by the lead in a decorative pitcher they drank from every day. There was also one in which a car breaks down in the desert and the children coat their lips with the mother’s lipstick to avoid them drying out. (At one point they get so hungry they eat the lipstick, I think)
Little book from early 70′ / late 60’s about a boy that wants to fly, has animals with him, at the end I remember him in a helicopter. The book was thin, hard backed and cartoon type pictures on every page. I remember another page of him on a hill with the animals. Book was probably 5″h x 4″w
This was a paperback available in the 50’s. Not the one on an island that was made into a movie or the one by David Lyall.
In this story, the protagonist trains in many disciplines necessary to win a competition, then goes to Mongolia to compete.
The books were regular sized, approximately 8.5 x 11″ and were numbered. Maybe 8 to 12 of them? Illustrations were art deco or art nouveau (I get them confused). Not lots of vivid colors. Heavy black lines/white/gray/yellow/rose colors. Each book had stories and poems. I am not positive that they came with a set of encyclopedias, but that is my general recollection. I could have been World Book or Encyclopaedia Britannica, since we acquired both around the same time. Any ideas?
I am looking for a children’s book written between 1940 and 1965, for ages 10-12 years old. It is the story of a family that moves from a house to an apartment, I believe in New York City, and the children find a hidden room in the apartment behind a blue or pink chest. It may had a few illustrations in it. Also, the mother sews their clothes and makes matching outfits for the boy and girl. I read this book just when I moved to a new school, in 1967, and really hope to find it!
Hi! I’m looking for a children’s book – LIkely from mid to late 80’s. It was hard cover with beautiful full page illustrations. It was something about a boy who built a spaceship out of garbage – I remember a barrel being the fusalage – there was also a monster that was built out of garbage.