Looking for a 1960s or 1970s Children's picture book. Boy and his parents celebrate Christmas. Father may be a lumberjack but forest life involved.
321W: Forest Family Celebrates Christmas
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321U: Boy Finds Christmas Tree
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
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.
321S: Seeking Author Of “Queer Company”
Looking for a children’s/teen book from when my mom was growing up (1955-1970ish) called Queer Company. I don’t know a lot about the story except it’s about restoring someone or something. Really looking to at least find out the author. Thanks!
321Q: Girl Types As River Floods
My book is a chapter book that concerns a river flooding and a girl in the attic, typing on a typewriter. Probably the Mississippi or similar river. Probably took place in the early 1900s. Thanks for any ideas!
321P: Boys Communicate By Flashlight
2 boys, best friends, who live next door to one another, communicate with one another at or near bed time by writing messages on window shades and shining their flashlights up onto the shade. One of the boys may have been named Andrew. Early chapter book and it was a small series of books. The last one our teacher read to us, one of the boys was moving away at the end. This was read to my class in the 2nd grade (1989-1990), don’t know if it was newly published or something the teacher had been reading to her classes for some time.
321O: Kid Learns Not Everybody Is Good At Everything
Here’s the book my daughter is interested in. The book was about a little kid and all the things the member of his family were good at, and the kid tries each of those things and fails. It was all about how some people are good at certain things and that doesn’t mean you’re terrible if you’re not as good at those same things. The cover, as she recalls, had a picture of the kid with a dog balancing a bone on his nose.
321N: Boy Dreams Of Playing Triangle In Orchestra
I was born in 1950 and remember the decade of the 50’s as a time when my mom read to us every day. There was one particular book that I recall enjoying but have not seen since I was a child. Whenever I made the weekly trips to the library with my three (now adult) sons, I would look for that book but never saw it.
This is what I do and do not remember. I do not remember the title, author or even what the book looked like. In fact, I can’t remember how it ended! What I do remember is that it was the story of a young child (boy I think) whose great aspiration was to play the triangle in the orchestra. This required him traveling a distance to get to the orchestra in some distant town. His mother packed his suitcase for him and filled it with sandwiches! Of course I’m relying on a memory from 60 years ago so who knows! Funny but I can’t remember if he ever achieved his dream!
321M: Boy Goes To Outer Space
I read this in the 1990s in elementary school – a little boy named Bobby or Boo goes to outer space or imagines he goes to outer space, cute cartoon illustrations of Bobby with a round face but not super colorful – maybe just a couple colors. I remember a scene in his kitchen.
321K: Adventures Of A Blue Scotty Dog
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Cover: Hardback, Vanilla colored, with a blue Scotty plush dog on it.
The book is illustrated with pictures of stuffed toys.
Book Company: Unknown
Description: I am looking for an old Children’s/Nursery book that I had when I was 7. Memory is fuzzy, but it was a larger, hardback book, maybe 14 pages, off-white in color with a little blue stuffed dog on the cover. It had a French sounding theme/name to it. It was about a little stuffed dog, a knight, that went and saved a damsel (little stuffed girl dog) from a castle and they lived happily ever after. I have searched online for it, with no success. Maybe I don’t know enough about it to be found. Thanks so very much!!!