I am trying to remember the name of a book published by scholastic probably between 1995 – 1998. The book is about a girl whose house fills up with water and she is paddling through the water on her bed. She decides to go to the fridge and opens the fridge door so she can freeze the water. She then ends up skating through the house on the frozen water.
I was born in 1982 and got the book before I was twelve, so it was definitely printed before 1994, probably earlier. This book was called something like Things to Do On a Rainy Day, Rainy Day Book, or Rainy Day Activities, but the cover wasn’t anything like what I saw on Google or Amazon. I am concerned that the book cover may have changed if it were reprinted, which would hinder me from recognizing it if it has been reprinted. The book was approximately 8. 5×11 inches and was paperback. The cover has a picture of two kids looking at a treasure chest which is glowing and shining light on their faces–the chest is facing away from the viewer so you can’t see what is in it. The book contains really great activities such as making a printer’s cap from a square piece of paper, some words from a tribal language where only string is used to communicate, a detailed guide on making friendship bracelets with varying widths (flat braiding), and many other things that I can’t remember. This was a really great book. I want to get it again and get another copy for a friend. It was the best rainy day activity book I’ve seen, but it may just be because of the nostalgia. I read it and did activities for hours on many occasions and showed it to all of my friends that visited my house.
My grandmother used to read us a story about Perry the Squirrel who lived with his siblings in a hole in the tree.Then a forest fire came. Circa 1950+1960
Hi! I’m secretly trying to find this book for my husband. He had it as a child and always talks about it. It is a children’s picture book about jobs that people do at night. However, the characters in the book are animals. I think he said there’s a squirrel that’s a garbage man? I could be off, though. I can’t really remember anything more than that. It goes through a handful of night jobs and describes what each of them does. He can’t remember a title or author. Thanks so much for your help!
Around 1960 I loved a children’s book that had an old man, a young boy, a cat, catnip and recipes.
I’d love it if you could find it.
I’m secretly trying to find this book for my husband.as a child and always talks about it. It is a children’s picture book about jobs that people do at night. However, the characters in the book are animals. I think he said there’s a squirrel that’s a garbage man?I could be off, though. I can’t really remember anything more than that. It goes through a handful of night jobs and describes what each of them does. He can’t remember a title or author.
The book I’m looking for would have been written before 1990. It would be fiction it would be about a prehistoric tribe that believes that although there were once other people (the lake people or the people across the lake) they are the only people left (they’re either ‘the people’ or the people of the forest, forest people, etc.). One of the main characters would be a girl named Zillah or a variant thereof. She has an overbearing father and at the end of the book she either dreams she sees or actually sees a person in a boat floating towards her on the lake.
The book I am looking for I believe was written in the late 70’s early 80’s. It had purple hard cover and I think it was about a witch on a hill? The images were mostly black silhouettes.
It’s from the first person point of view of a teenage girl. She has gone through some trauma; perhaps her dad has recently died? There’s some kind of new situation in her life. I think she’s living with her aunts? She was raised by New Age-y, witch-y types. It’s a realistic novel. Her immediate family are these flakey hippies, who have brought her up to be very superstitious. I think they read Tarot or some kind of divination for a living. She is beset with some problem; maybe she cuts herself? Over the course of the book, she learns to extricate herself from their superstition and magical thinking. They have a particular fixation on colors, with certain colors being good or bad luck. Yellow is very bad; it can’t be mixed with black. Purple is very significant & has to do with spirituality. The book ends with her on a therapist’s couch and she notices right away that it’s one of the “bad” colors, but then she reminds herself that that’s OK, that she’s going to dispense with this OCD-like fixation on the “right” color patterns & not be bound by her family’s backward ways.