children’s book from the mid to late 70’s about a sea turtle that is rescued by a child. The child names the turtle nicky due to knicks on it’s fins or shell, nurses the turtle to health and helps it back to the sea.
I am looking for a book I bought at school thru the Scholastic Book Club, 1982-1986.
The author was 18 and had written a short story that won a contest. The book I bought was the longer version of that story written after the contest, althou it was only around 120 pages I believe.
The story was about a misfit high school boy who made models of gargoyle-like creatures that were about 3 feet tall and for some reason they came to life. The cover was of the boy in his living room and in the background on the stairs was a set of gargoyle legs coming to get him.
I called Scholastic a few years ago to ask about contest winners as I thought it would be the
easiest way to find a name but they referred me to their Canadian office and they never got back to me.
I am looking for a children’s book that I read in primary school, and I’m afraid I have no recollection whatsoever of the title. One of the main characters is a toymaker whose workshop is in a mountain: his character is definitely ambiguous, sometimes actively malevolent. There are children, perhaps siblings, who are other characters who have to deal with him. The toys may come to life?
Other hints: my recollection is that there may be more than one book in the series; the setting is in Austria, or Switzerland or some similar mountainous European locale, and the feeling was definitely of fantasy.
Maybe the strongest marker would be the date of publication. I think it would have been published in the 60s or 70s, certainly no later. I was born in 1965 and was reading it at ages 7-12 or 13.
I have already searched Loganberry Books Solved Mysteries, and not found it; nor has a preliminary search on Google produced anything.
Thank you VERY much for whatever help you can give
From what I remember as a ten year-old: the book was for tweens, probably published in the seventies, mid to late. It is a chapter book, contemporary, about a father and son visiting a quiet (English? New England?) village that has a secret. The people in the town are all secretive and distrustful of outsiders, but the boy strikes up a romantic friendship with a girl from the town. The mystery of the town centers around a Stonehenge-type ruin. The climax of the book involves a cyclical resetting of the people of the town and their memories.
Children’s, would’ve been in print by 1970’s.
A boy is facing the challenge of how to get to the top of a castle. There is some discussion that he cannot jump there in one go. He eventually solves the problem by climbing to the top of the castle, one step at a time.
HIstorical novel for children ABOUT HOW THE STRATFORD SKAKESPEARE FESTIVAL BEGAN. iT IS TOLD FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF A GIRL OF ABOUT 10 YRS OLD. Someone (TOM PATTERSON, I THINK) who was key in the beginning of this annual event was a boarder in her home, and she is very excited about the events
This small, illustrated children’s book features a group of kids who build various things out of a pile of wood and some nails, starting, I think, with a fort. For some reason they keep tearing down and rebuilding their constructions; at one point they have a ship with a flag on the mast. Pre-1986.
I’m looking for a children’s book (probably published in the 70s/80s) that included various plays on words, with each sentence having a double meaning. For example, the blue prince for the house, vs. the blueprints for the house.
A children’s book about a bear who works for/meets Santa Claus. The end of the book involves the bear somehow (accidentally?) breaking a rainbow, which falls in pieces on top of a Christmas tree thus creating ornaments.
I am trying to locate a book for a friend. The title is not known and it was probably published in the late1940’s or early 1950’s. Some Disney friends went looking for gold in the Yukon and ran into Peg-Leg Pete. While trying to escape him one of the friends shook hands with a totem pole and a trap door opened up to save them from Peg-Leg.