Book about Glen Canyon before/just as it was flooded by a dam. There were two boys, teen/preteen, Anasazi ruins, mystery involving murder/looting of ruins/ecologists (?). Pre-1975 publication date, I seem to remember a green hard cover w/ gold or white print.
I was born in 1985 so I must have had the book in the late 80’s early 90s, My mother purchased it from ToysRUs and it was a hardcover book with what I believe was a blue and white dust jacket. It is not the blue book of fairytales or the Richard Scarry book. It included Henny Penny, The Princess and the Pea, I believe also Anasi the spider and a story about a jackal or fox. There were about twenty stories in it. Please help! Thanks!
A mid 20th century chapter book, I think. A girl discovers a red eft (juvenile newt) in the woods and houses it in a jar, which she fixes up with twigs and moss. She brings the eft to school. The eft may be named Reddy.
Meticulously illustrated, magazine sized kids book, possibly for ages 8 and up. Group of people travel the world by hot air balloon, train and dog-sled on an urgent adventure. Danger! Pistols!
1980s illustrated kids book about a rough-and-tumble girl, possibly even a raven, crow, or black swan turned into a girl, who grows up to be a conventionally-beautiful, but still willful princess. I read this around the same time as “The Balloon Tree”, in the early 80s.
I have to tell this story first – I found Stump the Bookseller around a decade ago when I was in grad school in Illinois, and you all helped me find some dear books. Then, my husband got his medical residency in Cleveland and someone told me about Loganberry Books, and I went, AND FELL IN LOVE. Then I made the connection, and it rocked my world. Another reason why I adore Cleveland: it has Loganberry. (When I was in grad school, it was just a theoretical cool bookstore, not a concrete reality!) Visit here if you can.
My stumper: my grandma had this series of square, paperback books, probably from the 50’s, that were like Dick and Jane but not – the same kind of easy-reading format, but the little kids had different names. There was a boy, and a brunette girl, and a blonde girl, I think. They did various things (the books had little stories per volume, I think); one of them involved the little blonde girl going shopping with her mom in town, and picking a bow for her hat. I don’t remember their names, but I do remember that they had a cute little brown dog named Gyp. My grandma is still around, but someone in the fam (understandably) took the books, and I so want to find them again.
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Looking for an old children’s book that has the words “you’re my (little) boy, my pride and joy” after each page or section.
My sister in law remembers her mom reading it every night to her little brother. Her mom passed away over 20 years ago, and the book is MIA. She always looks for it whenever she’s in thrift stores, or used book stores… we’ve searched for the keywords of the book on google and can’t find the title of it.
My SIL grew up in Northern British Columbia if that helps – might have been a small/remote publishing company?
A 1960’s-early 70’s color (I think) children’s picture book about a girl who is forced to share her bedroom with a sibling. She copes by drawing a line down the middle of the room to stake out her territory.
I’m looking for a book that I would have read no later than 1992. It was almost certainly published in the mid/late 80s or very early 90’s. A light, funny YA (possibly upper-middle grade or tween) book in the vein of Ellen Conford or Paula Danziger, although I don’t believe it was actually by either of them. The version I read was a hardcover, with an illustrated cover that was more cartoonish than realistic. I believe the cover features a girl in a dumpster or garbage can, although it’s possible that was just an episode in the book that I’m conflating with the cover in my memory.
It’s about a girl who wants to be an investigative reporter. She’s working for the school newspaper and begins to uncover some kind of light mystery. (Not a murder or anything like that.) The most specific thing that sticks out in my mind is that the girl and her friend use a lot of lingo and abbreviations in casual conversation, including the shorthand “L.L.A.” to mean “lifelong ambition.”
I believe the title has the girl’s name in it. I feel like the title might have a similar construction to Otherwise Known As Sheila the Great, although it’s obviously not that book. The book is also not Buffalo Brenda by Jill Pinkwater. Anyway, it’s driving me crazy. (I still think about my L.L.A.’s all the time.) Please help me put this to rest!
This one has been bugging me for years! I read this book in the late ’80s or early ’90s, and I don’t remember much about it other than these two things: (1) there was some sort of mystery with a lottery ticket, and I’m pretty sure what had happened was that the guy selling tickets at the store somehow knew the ticket was a winner and kept it for himself – I want to say the person who was trying to buy it was mentally challenged in some way perhaps, or there was some other reason why he thought the person wouldn’t appreciate the winning ticket; and (2) there’s a scene where the main character (a young girl) is in a body of water and trying to hide from a boat – I’m pretty sure it’s night and that she is floating in an inner tube, and to hide, she ducks her head inside the tube. Oh, and I think the cover was edged in a bright blue. Thanks!