Hey guys … I’m looking for a book that I always checked out in elementary school, which was about 1980-1986. All I have to go on is what was on the cover, which was a robot, a knight (maybe) and either a huntsman, woodsman or Robin Hood. It might have been about time travel? Thanks!
This is an old (perhaps 1950’s?) children’s chapter book about a young girl living in a small Maine coastal lobster town, where her father is a lobsterman. I don’t specifically remember her mother being in the story… The main story line is that someone is stealing lobsters from traps in the town and somehow her father becomes a suspect – I think related in some way to a red sash from one of her dresses that he has in his pocket, that people think is the mask that the thieves were using. Somehow, his innocence is confirmed and I think she has something to do with it….
There are other pieces to the story as well, about her daily life, and I remember a part where she talks about listening to the rain pattering on the tin roof of their house.
Unfortunately, I do not remember any other specifics. Any help would be sincerely appreciated!
A picture book that I checked out repeatedly from my elementary school library. No idea of title. I was checking it out 1986-1988ish, and I remember it being newer, so I’d guess printing would be late ’70s-early ’80s. The girl plants different things on one page, and then when you flip the page, the tree has grown from those “seeds.” I specifically remember her planting diamonds/gems and getting a tree covered in necklaces (I remember that tree as a shimmery blue-white). I feel like there was also a hat tree that grew. There were definitely several different ones. I also feel like there was an old man/grandfather character. I think the ending was some moral about planting love and getting a family, but I’m least certain about that.
Would love to get this book for my daughters. Many thanks for your help!
My query is on a book I read in the mid 1960’s, however I don’t know when it was published. It was a child’s book about a young student (I believe a girl) whose parents worked in a restaurant. Because of that, she “had” to bring lovely, delicious restaurant leftovers for her school lunches. I vividly remember the descriptions of her covering her desk with a checked cloth, and taking out all this elegant, gourmet food. The twist was that she was ashamed of her lunches, for being different. I hope you can help!
I so enjoyed reading this book in grade school (mid to late 1960’s). It was about a young girl whose mother or grandmother had a large boardinghouse with many renters. The story’s timeline may have been in the 1940’s or 1950’s (it could have been during WWII). I don’t think it was based on a true story.
There was either an elderly gentleman or an elderly woman who the little girl was fond of. Naturally, she interacted with many of the boarders. I remember thinking that this house was quite large with many rooms and as a child, I wished my house was that big. I believed she had a friend that she walked to school with. Her mother may have been a WWII widow, as I don’t recall her having a father.
I don’t know what it was that drew me into this story as much as it did, if it was the story-line or the many characters or if it was the girl herself, I’m not sure. What I do know is that fifty years have passed and even now, at age 57, I still think about this little girl and her boarders. It must have been a wonderful tale for me to still think about it after all these years and more importantly, to ask for help – to help me solve this mystery, as it is.
Thank you in advance!
Read this book in the late 1970s, but think it was written maybe in the 50s. It was set after WWII, about an ex Navy LTJG who was salvage diving, came across a young stowaway and put the boy to work for him on his boat. It was an adventure story, with a run-in with an octopus, storms and bad guys, but in the end they found the treasure. Ring any bells?
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This was a children’s story about Dot, a little girl, around 7 years old, and her day-to-day life and small adventures with her friends. I believe the book was the first in a series, for example, the next book might have been titled, “Dot Goes to the Beach”. The books themselves were hardcover – I don’t believe they were ever released in paperback – and the stories were written for 7 year old girls. I can only guess that they were written in the 1950s or 1960s.
One story had Dot and her friends going on a field trip. Dot’s mother had given her a box that advertised salt water taffy. When the children arrived at their destination, the box of taffy everyone now eagerly anticipated, turned out to be a box that had *once* held taffy, but now had Dot’s lunch (or something else mundane).
This is a kids book I read in the 1970’s – paperback. It is about two families and one family with two children move away. The second family’s children are very sad. Suddenly, mysterious clues start appearing around and the old family has to decipher the clues. It leads them somewhere, like through the woods, to where the new family had moved to.
A chapter book (possibly), with green binding, printed pre-1950s I’d say. Suitable for the 8-12 group, I think. It’s about a girl who is home (possibly sick), and goes outside. The garden is described beautifully with winding stone or brick pathways, and as she walks down them, she finds fairies among the plantings.
Looking for kids’ fiction book between 1965-1976 that is about a quetzalcoatl. I remember that it was scary. I got it in my elementary school library so it was about 3rd-5th grade level. Children conjured up a quetzalcoatl by accident and it turned out to be evil and dangerous? Possibly turned an old feather boa into a quetzalcoatl using some magic dust they may have found in an old jewelry box.