Baby book, maybe bath book, has just a few words on each page: Splish Fish, Quick Quick, Safe Home. Those are all I remember.
311I: Splish Fish
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311G: Jacobites and Second Sight
Hello. I’m looking for a children’s/ young adult novel I found in a school library in 1977. I thought of it then as an “older book,” so I’m guessing the publication date to be between 1945 and 1965. It’s historical fiction that takes place during Scotland in the Jacobite period. The main character is a teen girl who sometimes has visions via the “second sight,” a gift that allows her to help save the prince at the end. It’s not a Sally Watson book.
311E: An Old Abbot’s House
The book I am thinking about would have been published before 1968 I believe because i read it when I was about eight or nine in 1967. I live in England. I believe i borrowed it from the library or the school library.
The book was about a group of children staying in an old Abbot’s house or at least close to an old monastery. Virtually all I can remember of the plot was the finding of an old map in a settle in the house, which led them to find treasure in the monastery garden.I seem to remember the treasure was actually from the church and it was important for some reason that it had been found.
311D: Similar to Nancy Drew
Looking for a mystery series similar to Nancy Drew but with two girls and a tag along little brother.
311C: Peter Pan Is Alive
This book starts off with the facts that all the superheroes are dead but Peter Pan is alive and so is the unknown hero of the book. I think the book was out in the 70’s or 80’s. It was a comedy. Is there any idea the name of it?
311B: Emotionless Creature
Hey, guys! I’m trying to find the name of a book for my husband. He’s been searching for it for a really long time. He remembers it as a young adult novel.
So, from what I understand, it’s about a creature (possibly child shaped and most likely male) who lives alone in the wild and scorns humans for their emotional attachments. The creature can see everyone’s emotional attachments as tendrils of light coming out of them. At some point, this creature gets taken in by an old woman and begins to develop his own attachments to certain people and it distresses him.
311A: Married To An Abusive Older Man
The book is adult fiction. Set in Australia, or somewhere near there, in the early 1900s?? A young woman is married to an abusive older man. She murders him, hides his body in their basement, and then burns down the house. She then goes on the lam, and at one point, meets up with a group of cattle thieves. She tags along with them/works with them. Eventually, the authorities catch up to her, but she runs away again.
310Z:The Princess Who Was Trapped In A Rainbow
Hardcover book. I was in love with this book as a very young child in the mid-80s (figure around 1986 or1987?)
Took it out from a library/would look at it in school – in Springfield, MA, (just in case location helps).
The book was about a beautiful young girl who was stuck (?) kidnapped (?) Lost (?) in a rainbow. I think she was a princess and each kingdom she ran to/went to as she tried to get home was a different color. I remember loving the illustrations. I want to say it was either watercolor or more detailed hand drawn. Not computer illustrated.
Probably not more than 50 pages.
I remember it being slightly oversized (but I was probably about 7 so take that with a grain of salt). *MIGHT* have been a scholastic book as we had book fairs at school and kids use to buy books from those Scholastic book flyers all the time.
Princess’s name might have started with an A.
310Y: The Alphabet book
BC alphabet book from the 1980's. Soft cover, probably a burgundy colour. Place names from British Columbia, e. g. : Annie from Abbotsford, and then a little story about that. Bought for my son who was born 1982 so could've been published in the 70's? I believe he received it when he was 4 or 5 years old.
310W:It Was His Home
Looking for the title of an illustrated children’s picture book published in the mid-1950s to 1960 or so. It was about a dog (possibly named George, possibly a poodle?). My husband’s family recalls nothing about the story except the refrain, repeated throughout the book, “(But) It was his home, and he liked it there.