A group of wild children live in jungle. They each have special qualities (one who talks to crocodiles, one who lives with tigers, etc.) and the MC is a boy who sits on clouds and rides them around. Adults come and adopt all the kids but cloud boy, who remains wild.
Children’s book from prob 1981-1984. It’s about mythical creatures, including cyclops, sirens, griffin, loch ness, bigfoot, minotaur. The cover was possibly sky blue, and some illustrations were cyclops w/lightning bolt, bigfoot with skulls. Ordered from scholastic fair, can’t remember title/author.
My mom read a book about reincarnation in 1964, and she thinks it’s called “Through a Glass Darkly.” All she can remember of the plot was: Two girls were in a swimming pool, and one of the girls saved the other from drowning, but then drowned herself. She was then reincarnated as a Nurse in a hospital. Somehow she eventually recalls that she had rescued the girl(or kid) in a previous life. (and that’s all my mom remembers) Any thoughts? We’ve seen two of the other books called “Through a Glass Darkly,” and neither one is the one she’s looking for. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I remember my Grandmother reading us this book in the late 70’s, though the book looked much older. I really think it was called ‘The Spiderman’ but it was written way before the Marvel comic book character, and was actually about a man who could turn himself into a little spider. I remember it had black and white illustrations, which showed him as a tiny black spider with a strange man’s face. The pictures were actually pretty comical, but I don’t think that was the intention.
Our teacher showed us this book in 1993; it had full-page pencil drawings with unusual captions. I remember one of the drawings was of a young boy sleeping and the caption said something like “Archie (don’t remember last name). A small voice said ‘he’s the one.'” I think another picture was of a room or staircase, and there was a tiny, maybe six-inch high door built into the wall. I want to say our teacher mentioned that the illustrator had dropped off the illustrations and captions at a publishers, said he would return the next day, but never showed. So the pictures were published into this book but no one knows who actually drew them.
I read this library book in the 1960s but it could have been published earlier. A young girl is chosen to represent her village by becoming a handmaiden to the temple where the Princess Medea serves. This girl is chosen because she has some special mystical power even though she is very shy. She loves Medea and makes friends with others there. And she tells the story of Jason and the Golden Fleece from her point of view. The book ends with Jason leaving Medea and Medea, in her grief, killing their children. There are many references to the Maiden the Mother and the Crone in the book.
Hi, I’m looking for a series of children’s books or it might’ve been a series of stories one the one book that I read in the 1970′s and the protagonist was a little boy named Otis who always got into trouble. There was also a donut shop or some kind of elaborate donut maker in most of the books.(or stories) He has all kinds of adventures but usually finds his way out of them in some unusual way. There’s one story where a woman’s diamond ring gets fried into a donut and adventure ensues as they try to find it. I can’t remember the author. Also, they were paperbacks. Thanks very much.
Young adult book about a teenage girl who lives maybe in London/England in a townhouse. She removes the bricks between her house and the adjoining one next door. I don’t recall why. But she does end up using that exit. There is a fire in her house and she helps her parents escape through that wall.
This is a tricky one, I had it as a kid. It was a cross-section of a hotel, across each double page. Each page was like 30 seconds after the one before. The detail was brilliant, I would spend hours picking a storyline in the pictures and following it through to it’s conclusion. I recall a flood, a rat infestation, an underground car park, a lady having a bath, loads and loads of things happened in that book. It was a hardback, with maybe 20 or so pages. It was quite large, maybe A4 or slightly bigger as I recall. Sorry I do not know more details about the book, I was young (somewhere around 10 year old, making it 1987) and my parents don”t even remember it. Hope you can help, my kids want to see this book too 🙂
Children’s book about a little cookie girl who I think was separated from her mother or was adopted or something but was identified by a raisin behind her knee. She looks like a little gingerbread girl with blond hair I think. It is not The Little Cookie Girl book-I checked.