Looking for a picture book about a girl going to witch school. Maybe her first day? Something about riding a broom? Cover was dark purple or blue with stars and girl doing lots of different things. Read to me no later than 1994. Would have been a book nook title for K-3 age kids.
This is a book that I started reading in 5th grade, but never finished. It must have been published in 1972 or earlier. It was wildly popular in my school library.
It was set in the Middle Ages, I think. One of the main characters was a court jester. The setting was very pastoral. Many scenes take place in a forest. There was also a situation in which several people were dreaming the same dream.
This has been haunting me for a long time. Would love to find and finish this book. Thank you!
I’m trying to track down a book I read a lot as a kid.
It was a large picture book, maybe 8×10 inches. Probably hardcover. Full-page color illustrations. Not very long, if I remember correctly.
It was choose-your-own-adventure style. You were an astronaut/space explorer who landed (or crash-landed?) on an alien planet.
There were mild role-playing game elements to it. For example, you selected a couple pieces of equipment at the beginning of your adventure, and there was a part where you turned to the back and studied a xenobiology index for exactly 2 minutes and then weren’t allowed to reference it again.
You navigated the dangerous alien planet and tried to avoid toxic atmosphere, poisonous plants, and dangerous creatures.
I would have read it (from my school’s library) sometime between ’91 and ’96. I’m guessing it was published in the 80s, but it technically could have been the early 90s or maybe even the 70s? Just feels like an 80s thing.
Would love to track this down. It had a big impact on my imagination and creative inspiration over the years, I’m sure.
Thanks!
The book is about a young woman who is sent to an old mansion/school and travels back in time. She falls in love. There is a school legend about a woman who cries for her lost love, and it turns out to be her. She and the love interest fight evil people, and he gets pulled into the present with her. It is similar but is NOT the one where an old vinyl record is unearthed that was written for a time traveling girl.
My search is for a children’s book, probably in the 1970-1997 time frame. The book was a time traveling mystery involving a shy, loner-type girl who escapes to sit in a nearby very old tree. On rare occasions, while in the tree, the girl time travels back to colonial times where she meets two girl friends in the tree. At this point, the tree is much younger. The colonial friends remark about the traveler’s shoes and how different they are. The shoes are modern sneakers. On a subsequent meet up, the time traveler brings an alphabet book which shows a picture of a giraffe listed for the letter “G.” The colonials have never seen a giraffe. At some point, the time traveling stops and the loner girl wonders what became of her colonial friends. On a library day, the loner looks up colonial samplers. She finds the sampler her colonial friends made when they couldn’t find her in the tree anymore. The antique sampler is of the alphabet with a giraffe for the “G” letter and a stitched picture of the modern girl with her sneakers! The title of this book is not known to me and i remember it had nothing to do with the possible subject matter of the book; therefore, not colonial samplers, mystery, time travel, etc. The author was a woman, but I don’t know the name. Please help locate the title and author of this book. I am sure my two grand daughters would love this book, which my daughter read years ago in Virginia. Thank you!
Seeking children’s picture book, pre-1999 but probably after 1980. Round brothers and sister with straw hats (maybe sailor outfits too) find a hole in a hedge. They get all dirty in a mud puddle and find a magical world with a very geometric castle on the other side of the hedge. One of them might get lost/want to stay. Found in a library in 90s. Driving me insane.
I’m looking for a science fiction novel I read years ago, in the mid 1970’s. Unfortunately, I know neither the title or the author! I have no idea whether it was a new novel at the time I read it – I got it out of the library. I would love to find it again. If anyone has any ideas of what it might have been from the following description, I’d appreciate any help.
Overview: The novel was about a spaceship which landed (crashed?) on a planet that was run by “gods.” The “gods” were actually computers, and they set about trying to kill the ship’s crew as heretics. Each chapter was headlined by a different quote concerning religion – the whole book seemed to be a diatribe about the pitfalls of organized religion.
Various specifics: I remember that the ship’s captain was female. Early in the book, the captain and crew realized that the flowers in the field they were making their way through were actually microphones, relaying their conversation to the planet-controlling computers. At one point, they traveled through a system of caves, the only place they could escape the computer’s sensors. In the cave they all found it necessary (I don’t remember why) to strip, but as it was dark, mixed-sex modesty wasn’t an issue (figures that scene would stick in the memory of an adolescent boy.) The indigenous life on the planet resembled teddy bears.
Book edition specifics: It was a hardcover (and, as mentioned, a library book.) I believe the dust jacket was yellow, and pictured one of the teddy bear-like planet inhabitants.
I know that’s not a lot to go on, but if anyone has any ideas, I’d appreciate hearing them.
I’m looking for a book I read in the 80s (I think) about a world in which the typical magic was to be able to create things, but one boy is able to unmake things and everybody either wants to use him or kill him. It’s possible this boy is actually a girl, but I’m leaning toward it being a boy.
When I was somewhere between 9 and 11, I checked out a book from a library in northern California that was a picture book that came with a cassette tape. It was a science fiction story about a kid that went in a robot spaceship that traveled the universe and back. Along their journey they visited multiple space phenomenons, including visiting Alpha Centauri, almost getting sucked into a black hole, and searching for life in deep space by looking for radio waves/signals that may be nearby. They actually found a radio signal, but when they tuned in, it turned out that the radio broadcast of “Howdy Doody” from 50 years or so prior had made it out that far and that was what they were picking up. The whole story was geared toward education of different types of stars, galaxies, space phenomenon, etc., for a child, and most of this “tour” through space was narrated by the robot/spaceship that the child was a passenger in. It was VERY entertaining, with great pictures and I’m surprised that I couldn’t find it with a quick google search!