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322H: “Peter, Please, It’s Pancakes”

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I enjoyed this book beginning in about 1955 but had two older sisters (the oldest born in 1946) so it could have been purchased as early as that.  It was a hard-covered book and had stories for children of different ages.  Each story had, under its title, a number of asterisks (I think one through six) equal to the age of the child it was appropriate for.  For example, ******  was a story for a six year old.  The only title I remember from the book is “Peter, Please, It’s Pancakes”.  I would love it if you could identify this book!

322F: Town Loses Color

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I am looking for the name of a book, these the facts that I remember: 

Circulation early 1960s

Picture book

Subject- town loses color and becomes black and white due to bad behavior, color comes back when sun shines through the tear of a boy producing a rainbow.

Length was perhaps 20 pages

Detailed illustrations

Please let me know, I'd be so grateful.

321Z: Mother’s Rose Garden?

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I read this book when I was younger and think I had remembered it being this sort of title but considering I haven’t been able to find it I assume I’m wrong. The book is about a boy who is growing up with issues, having incestuous delusions of his mother, and at the same time her dealing with that and also trying to maintain some normalcy in life after her husband dies.
The story jumps with the boy now a young man but finding himself having mental issues and having numerous occasions with women where he becomes very sexually dark and it seems to always end badly. Throughout the story there are dead girls being found and the head of one of the girls is found in his mothers bushes at her house.
I think I remember at the end he accidentally killed the girl he was in love with and then there is a showdown where he falls off a cliff. Some of my memories are a bit blurry. Hope someone can help me figure out the book!

321U: Boy Finds Christmas Tree

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This story is about a boy who doesn’t have a tree on Christmas Eve. A man is driving around selling them in his truck but mom says they’re too expensive. So he sets out in the woods to cut down his own tree and ends up at a man and woman’s house where people are stealing trees off their property. One the people learn why the boy is out there and they give him a tree and bring him home via sled. I also remember him laying out Christmas lights at the beginning and someone telling him colored lights are not festive. 

321T: Generous Girl Receives Beautiful New Shoes

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I’m looking for a children’s book that I read as a child in 1995-1997. It’s about Christmas and it was set in an old village. There’s a girl who needs a pair of new shoes. There are beautiful ones in a cobbler’s shop. I think she learns about generosity or does something generous for someone else in the community. At the end of the book, she is gifted with the new shoes from the cobbler’s shop. I vaguely remember the plot being something along the lines of a cobbler making them for someone else but giving them to the girl instead, or maybe her brother/father save up to get these shoes.