Category Archives: Solved

102L, solved: Large Pine Tree

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Circa 1960: Children’s book about a large pine tree in a forest which all the animals and birds seek shelter in, especially during the winter in the snow. The illustration in the snow with all the birds on the branches and the animals sheltered at the bottom of the tree was amazing. I seem to remember a little girl having to take shelter in it too, along with the animals. Then something happens to the tree…it falls down during a storm or something like that. The birds and animals are sad and worried. Then someone plants a new smaller tree which will grow and take its place. The illustrations are beautiful (I realize that doesn’t help) – maybe a German or European author/illustrator? Definitely German or Scandinavian in style. Something tells me the title was “The ____ Tree” but not The Giving Tree, and I’ve searched until I’m desperate.

102K, Solved: Bunnies Moving to a New Home

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I don’t know the title, but it’s about a Mom and Child (I think it was a daughter) bunnies who needed to move out of their home (I think because it was too small) they go looking for a new home and but nothing is quite right until they find the perfect one (my sister and I can’t agree on what the final home was, if it was a stump or a large mushroom). I think there’s a picture at the end of them hanging checkered curtains and sweeping the front stoop.

The book would’ve been published before 1987. It had beautiful detailed illustrations, with lots of oranges and browns (so I’m thinking 1970’s).

Any help would be great. My sister has been wanting to buy this book for her children, since it was one of her favorites, but not knowing anything other than the plot has made it impossible to find.

Thanks!

 

102H, solved: Animal Tea Party

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My boyfriend recalls this book as a child dated back ~1970s time frame. The main summary involved animals in a rainforest or forest having a tea party, but every time it rained the tea got diluted.The cover may contain vivid color animals. Please help me find this childhood memory for him.

He said it is not The Animals’ Tea Party by Helen Wing.

Thank you

101A, solved: Portuguese brooch lost in Cape Cod Cranberry bog

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I read this book one summer in the late 1950’s or early 1960’s?  I believe my grandmother took it out of the Harwichport or Harwich Massachusetts libraries for me, as I was about 10 years old.  It is set on Cape Cod and is about a Portuguese Family.  The grandmother has a brooch she brought from the “old country” which is very dear to her.  And her granddaughter “borrows” the brooch without permission and goes skating on the cranberry bogs, where as I assume you can guess, the brooch is lost.  Grandmother turns this into a teaching moment and there is tremendous remorse, etc., etc. Magically, in the spring when the little girl is walking across the bog (or playing there or working there?), she sees the brooch encased in the ice and brings it home to her grandmother.

I do not know why this book is so memorable to me, except that I stayed on Cape Cod with my grandmother most summers and I guess it hit a chord.

I do not remember the actual title or the author (hey it was 50 years ago!), only that the book was about an inch thick and had a yellow cover with sketches of the Portuguese grandmother.  I do believe the entire book was illustrated throughout , as I remember seeing a sketch of the brooch in the ice.

Anyway, not much to go on I know – any information would be much appreciated!