This book is fiction, published in 1970s. Its about a young British male who captured and sold into slavery in Carthage. A Carthaginian noblewoman falls in love with him and keeps him alive (although she always has her sexual partners killed after one night!) but he falls in love with a Roman girl. Ends with Roman attack on Carthage and his escape with the Roman girl. The Carthaginian woman sacrifices herself for him.
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.
I can’t remember the title or the author of the book and only vaguely remember the story. However, I desperately want to read my little girl this book that my mother used to read to me as a child. It is about a little girl who wants to be a dancer, but than she either gets hurt, or has some problem with her fee and she has to wear special shoes, which are big and clunky. She thinks she won’t be able to dance in her recital anymore. But, instead of giving up she gets on stage and dances her heart out in her big clunky shoes and she has a great time and impresses everyone. My mother read it to me about 30 years ago. Please help me to find this.
This was my American history text for the school year 1958-1959. I remember only two things about it:
1. Among the illustrations was the usual Thomas Nast cartoon of the Tweed Ring, but what I really liked was the “Through History With J. Wesley Smith” cartoons by Burr Shafer.
2. It was the only textbook I’d come across that seemed to have been written by an actual person, with actual ideas, and maybe even a sense of humor!
Aside from that, I think it had a blue cover, and there were questions after the chapters. Not much to go one, but the Shafer cartoons were memorable.
Picture book, available in early ’70s. Illustrations in penciled sepia. A little boy enjoys a tree but grown-ups say it must be cut down. Eventually he is given a chair, his size, made from its wood, which soothes him, maybe with a spindled back. Not The Giving Tree.
I read a book in the 90s about a girl in the pioneer days who is becoming a witch or learning magic. She lives in a forest with her family and ends up having to gather herbs and set traps for animals for food. It seemed to be setting up a series. Also there was possibly a romantic element.
Looking for a book about learning to care for different things. Each time the child is given a new object to care for (kitten, cheese, etc.), she cares for the new item as she was taught to care for the previous item thereby ruining it. This is a children’s book I remember from 50+ years ago.
This is a book that my mom read to me when I was a little girl in the late 80’s, early 90’s. I think it was called something like “Mrs. ______’s Cake Shop” (or possible Bake Shop) although I’m not sure and haven’t found anything by searching with those keywords.
I remember that it was about a lady who had a cake shop with all different kinds of cakes. The illustrations were really cute and it talked about how she made big cakes, and little cakes, and short cakes, and tall cakes….The illustrations showed cakes of all colors and sizes sitting on different platters. Some cakes had frosting and were very fancy, others had no frosting. Some were little like cupcakes and had pink frosting (I think) with cherries on them.
I think the story continued with her boxing up a cake, or several cakes, that she was going to deliver somewhere. As she is walking along with her cakes, it starts to rain. I think she didn’t bring her umbrella with her because she was holding all the cakes, or there is something about her umbrella in the story, but I’m not sure if its a main part of the story or not.
And that’s all I can remember!
This was one of my favorite books as a little girl and I can still remember the illustrations of all the little cakes in my mind but I just can’t seem to remember the title or how the rest of the story goes.