I’m seeking a children’s book I once owned, probably purchased in the late ’80’s or early 90’s, about a girl in an oldstyle London apartment who befriends a mouse. They are both threatened by an alleycat, who grows larger and larger when the girl runs, but shrinks when she turns to face him.
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.
Folding children’s train book, published 1955-1963.
Size about 4″ x 6″ folded up accordion-style with flap on top.
Each book panel is a different kind of train car with a pocket containing a small booklet with a story, puzzles or games.
Final panels contained coloring paper & box of crayons.
Story revolves around two brown otters, one of them is trying to find the moon that is making the reflection in the water. Published sometime prior to 1990. Cover was dark blue and depicted one otter on a cliff near the top of the book the other in the water below the cliff.
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.
This was a small hardback, maybe 3 by 5 inches, printed in colour, with a history of kites and then a long section on how to make them. The spine may have been red in colour. Single clear memory: in the opening chapter there was a panel from the TinTin story showing Tibetan monks flying kites.
Glossy cover(?) w/ sawtooth edged circle logo on back. Langston Hughes “Thank you ma’am” (?) inside. Remember cool picture of Japanese climbing “cliff” built on skyscraper. “Queen Peavy” by Robert Burch may have been in. Story about kid solving swimming pool installation w melting blocks of ice
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 am chasing the name of a children’s picture book that we borrowed from a library in the late 90’s. The book involved a girl who was in a room and was trying to decide on an outfit for the day. Each double page spread involved a different coloured outfit and the room transformed to contain multiple objects that matched the colour of the outfit. On each page was a chameleon to find as well. Finally the girl decides on a multi-coloured outfit.
Unfortunately I cannot recall the author’s name but recall that the title may have ended with the word “day”.