Category Archives: Solved
309H: She’s obsessed with fashion (Solved)
309B: WWII era teen book (Solved)
I have been searching for a book(s) written during/after WW 2.
Main character: Kandy Cane/Kandy Kane
Boy friend: I believe was Peter
Author: I think started with an L(an). The books were in the middle of the stacks.
It was a series – followed a group of kids through young adult hood.
308X: A blue lion in the tree (Solved)
I’m trying to find a book from my childhood (1980s). It is basically a picture book about a kid in bed looking out a window and seeing different animals in a tree. I remember a snake and white owl on two of the pages. I don’t remember the rest, maybe a bear and a lion. Some of them were different colors too like blue. I believe it went something like “I look out the window to see a blue lion in the tree”.
Thank you for your help.
308T: A boy and a whale (Solved)
Here is the book I am looking for from my childhood. I was born in 1981 for reference.
Book is about a whale and boy. They travel down a river and as they go the whale changes colors from the surrounding areas. I know one page is a jungle with monkeys. The last page of the book is the whale with the boy on top of him swimming out to sea. All the colors have been washed off of him and the water behind him is colored like a rainbow but the whale is white/gray.
308R: Six little Robbins (Solved)
Six little Robbins (or Robins). Children’s chapter book about a family that moves into an old schoolhouse and refurbishes it. Probably 1940-1960s. Might have a subplot of the father not being around.
308L: Mole in the hole (Solved)
A mole is asleep in a hole but a bear (I think) thinks that he fell in and is hurt. He tries to get help but has to bargain with other animals e.g. horse has a rope but he wants a brush to swap, so bear goes to squirrel to get a brush but he wants nuts (I think) … eventually bear gets back to mole to find out he was only asleep
308C: Itty Bitty Bobbin Boo (Solved)
I’m looking for a book about a little bird trying to fly. Only thing we can remember is the line “itty bitty bobbin boo.”
307I: Boy and Agoraphobic Sister Orphaned in NYC (Solved)
I am looking for a fiction book I read as a child, probably in the 1970s, about a brother and sister living in New York City (possibly Soho?). They are left alone and their parents do not come home, so the brother learns to scrounge food on the streets. His sister is afraid to go outside. The boy meets a children’s book illustrator in another building, who begins using him in her drawings. She takes him to the beach (the Rockaways?) in her convertible, and I believe she eventually adopts the boy and girl.