Children’s book about a train. Published 1960-70s. Rhythmic/rhyming book with verse” Clickety clack, clickety clack…..train going (a)’roud the track” It is NOT the book by Amy and Rob Spence. It was definitely published before I was born in 1978.
Additional Details: Approximate number of pages are less than 15; the colors within the book are reds/yellows. The verses were very rhythmic…you could almost sing them. It is also NOT the “Little Engine That Could” book.
I remember a getting a book out from the school library in grades 4-6 (1967-1970), though it might have been an older book even then. Don’t remember much about it except it took place in the fall, I’m thinking around Thanksgiving? and it may have had a mix of humans and animal characters in it. The reason I say this is I distinctly remember on the last page that a little girl goes back to someone’s “ house” that may have been in a tree stump? and had coffee and pumpkin pie. Definitely not “Cranberry Thanksgiving”, but had the same cosy, New England, kind of feel to it.
Christian children’s book about a boy who finds a machine that lets him make a mini world and 2 beings. They have 4 arms each and one jumps off the edge of the world and the boy saves him. He shrinks himself to tell the being but they don’t believe him and throw him over thinking he will be saved to.
I am looking for a book with a story that my brother and I used to read in the 60s. We think it was called the Story of the Little Round Man. This funny round man lived in a ball-shaped house that could roll around very fast. In the story he saves some children wandering in the woods who find some beautiful shoes which, it seems, someone has left there for them to try. Tempted, they do try them on, but the shoes immediately force them to follow them all the way to a cave where a bad witch lives. They are her prisoners! The Little round man has to find a way to be directed to the witch’s lair. He puts on only one of the magic shoes, and, asking his rolling house to follow him, controls the shoe enough to discover where the witch lives, and can plan the escape of the children. The house is left outside the entrance and is spotted by the witch. Intrigued by the house, she steps inside, but the Little round Man jumps out from hiding, bangs the door shut, and orders the house to move as fast as possible with the witch inside (she’s all bones and angles), until she relents and accepts to save the children. I think the illustrations were black and white but can’t be sure.
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 is a picture book on what lies underneath a large metropolitan city, shown in cross-sectional drawings. I found this at a bookstore about four years ago, but it was a reproduction of a book originally published in the 1920’s or 30’s. All the cars on the street level were period automobiles with big scoop headlamps, like Packards and Pierce Arrows. All the illustrations were in color. Even though it is a contemporary publication, no bookseller I’ve talked to has a clue what I’m talking about. (And it’s not David Macaulay.)
A girl does plays in her home. either a dog or cat, lots of dress up clothes, i.e. scarves, hats, I think she uses a curtain and curtain rod as a setting for the stage. A lot of illustrations
I am looking for a YA sci-fi/fantasy book I read when I was a kid. I believe it came out in hardcover in the US in or around 1988. It was about 12 boys sent to a military/reform school, I think the school was called Kah Nagallah or something like that. I seem to remember that the story was told from the POV of a boy who was being sent to the school with his adopted brother, who was autistic. The faculty secretly trained the boys to go on a mission to a subterranean kingdom to retrieve a powerful object, I think it was called the Vroon. The boys started calling themselves ‘the Coyotes’ and their symbol was a nautilus shell with an arrow through it. The boys escape the control of the faculty and recover the Vroon for themselves and use it for good.
The book was long, over 300 pages I think. It had some b&w illustrations. The cover art was a drawing of the boys riding in a tracked vehicle with a dome through a cavern.