I’m a reference librarian who is answering a patron’s request to find a book about a young boy who is caught stealing ten cents and that is all I know about it.

The books would have been out by the early 80’s, the patron read it in 1983.

Thanks for your help.

I’m looking for a book I read while in elementary school in Canada between 1972-1978.

It was a book about pilots (2?) who are trapped in the Florida keys (or Caribbean?) with a big storm (hurricane?) coming and who decide to escape flying a damaged airplane (DC3?) with limited elevator control. They have to fly using trim mostly. If it was in high school this would have been from 1978 – 1983.  Really hope to find this again for my son to read.

Illustrated book about a father and son mouse (might be a different animal, might be grandfather mouse) looking for a home in the woods. I think they try a bunch of different homes and find them occupied. As they visit each home, the residents give them something to take with them. In the end, they put those gifts in their home. In one scene, they visit a bird’s nest with a gold roof full of shiny things, and the birds give them gold beads. In another they visit dragonflies? playing tennis using nets strung between blades of grass, or possibly hammocks strung between blades of grass. They visit a lizard family and the mother is making sandwiches using fly/gnat jam on bread. The lizards have long fingers. They get marshmallows from one house, and in the final scene they roast them over their stove in their new home.

The little boy mouse has a bedroom up high that he reaches using a ladder. I must have read it in the early 2000s, and the book I read was a fairly large, maybe half inch thick book with soft covers. It seemed fairly new, not a vintage book. I know it isn’t Brambly Hedge. The illustrations were more whimsical than realistic, and the animals wore clothes. The illustrations vaguely remind me of those in Need A House, Call Ms. Mouse, but only slightly.