Book about an animal (I think he was a mouse, but he might have been a mole) who started a club for quiet people where they only drink tea and are quiet together. It’s a picture book, not a chapter book.
153F: Quiet Club (solved)
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152C: MYSTERIOUS FRIEND (solved)
Let me start off by saying the book I am looking for is not ‘The Secret Garden’ by Burnett, and is not ‘Secret Friend’ by Marilyn Sachs. I’ve also considered but tossed out ‘Mystery Back of the Mountain’by Mary C Jane, although I think that’s the closest I ever got to a eureka moment but I don’t recall a male companion in the story.
Read the book in 4th grade, 1982, it was about 1″ in thickness, it was a hard cover, fabric, pale sage green. It didn’t seem new.
I recall a “W” on the spine of the book. In the author’s name perhaps?
I do not recall pictures, but that doesn’t mean there were none, just that this was a children’s novel, not a little kid’s book.
The title included words like Secret, Friend, Mysterious Friend, Garden ?…
The main character was a young girl, 10-12 years old possibly.
The book has the dark English feel to it similar to The Secret Garden. I recall grassy hills, gardens, whispers, not modern.
The biggest memory in the book is the main girl character meeting a mysterious girl named Olivia (which makes finding this on Google impossible due to the pig of the same name) and becoming friends with her.
This is why I don’t think that it’s Mystery Back of the Moutain, because I don’t recall a male character tagging along in their friendship but I might be wrong.
My other last ditch guess is “THE HOUSE OF SECRETS” aka “The Secret Passage” by Nina Bawden. Is there an OLIVIA in that book? This book however, also contains a male child that I don’t recall.
Would love to find this so I can pass it on to my daughter 🙂
150J: jokes/quotes to escape from a shell, selecting future selves (solved)
Looking for a children’s book, brother and sister, a series of magical challenges. One requires that they escape from a conch shell with increasingly important quotes. They start with jokes/riddles and end up needing powerful quotes for the final sections of the shell.
Also there is a scene where the sister (Nora maybe? Ellie?) is faced with a series of doors, each in a set of two where she chooses one based on her reflection. At first she chooses more sophisticated versions, with fewer of her hated freckles, but ends up very uptight and opts to return and take another path.
150I: Nine ??? Dragons (solved)
Children’s book I read to my kids in the 80’s. I believe it was part of a collection, my daughter believes it may be from Sesame Street. Probably a learning book about numbers. “Dragons” was definitely in the title, probably with a descriptive word in the middle, such as “Nine Daring Dragons”.
150F:Little Country Sisters Ivy & Rose (solved)
Small book (approx 4 x 6) for young girls maybe ages 5 – 9. Its about two young sisters around also around this age. They live in the country or on a farm. The story is about how they spend time together and play. They have a tire swing in their barn.
150D: Children’s book about hunting/capturing dragons (solved)
I’m looking for a children’s picture book about capturing dragons. I believe it came out in the 1980s. Cover is a close-up of a dragons head, with large, light-colored scales. Each page had a different dragon illustration. One was a green dragon, smoking, with a “mom” heart tattoo. Please help.
150C: Boy turns into a dog for the summer (solved)
A spell is cast on a boy, and he is turned into a dog for the summer. Told from the boy’s/dog’s perspective. He leaves home and eats poisoned meat. He serves as a seeing-eye dog. Wakes back up as a boy. It was a chapter book for young readers, my wife Lori read it in 1978 or 1979.
150B: Mystery book with Clues in Illustrations (solved)
a gang of kid mystery solvers, with one kid having a pet squirrel. The book was arranged in such a way where the left page was words and the right facing page a black & white illustration which contained a clue, very detailed illustrations similar to Where’s Waldo. From the 80s I think.
149C: 70s young adult novel involving surfing, drugs, and an imaginary parrot (Solved!)
Set in California. There’s a character who has an imaginary parrot, and winds up overdosing on heroin. Plot involves surfing, bad parenting, drugs. First-person narrative.
I have been trying to find this book on and off for years.
Wish I could remember more of the plot, but oh well.
149B: Caroline and her Friends (solved)
I had a children’s (picture) book in the 60’s called something like “Caroline and her Friends.” Caroline was a little girl but her friends were all animals. They traveled around the world. I don’t remember much text, but the illustrations were marvelous and detailed, sometimes a 2-page spread, in which each animal friend was doing something that fit their nature: being scared or brave etc. There was a storyline of being castaway after their ship sank, they built a raft, ended up in India where they helped a prince regain his kingdom (he’s trapped in a pit with a tiger when they first find him, I think). There may have been two books in a series. At the end of one, they return to Caroline’s house and do spring cleaning. At the end of another, they are in a ski resort, one of the animals breaks a leg and has to stay inside. I may not actually have the name Caroline right. My mother threw this book away when it got moldy in the attic and I’ve longed to see it again for years.