I am looking for a book that I believe was called The Dragon Under the Lilac Bush. It was filled with pull-tabs and pop-ups. This book was a favorite of a dear friend when she was a young child, and she’s in her mid-50’s now. So the book probably came out in the late 50’s or early 60’s. It may have been a San Francisco Bay area regional publication, as I have not been able to find any reference to the book anywhere.
Anyway the book I am looking for was a collection of children’s stories, possibly different authors and I think English and 1940s 1950s.
One story is about two children who help a dog and cat who have been enchanted and are the figureheads on a boat they find when the meadow at the end of their garden turns into a magical lake.
Hope you can help :0
This paperback (actually more of a pamphlet) was available in the 1960s. It contained several short stories. I believe it was blue and white. One of the stories involved a lost dog (I think it was a large black dog).
Another of the stories involved woodland creatures and lanterns in the woods. I believe there were characters named Happy & Hoppy.
The title is 1960s blue stories pamphlet
I am looking for a picture book, probably published in the 40s. It was about a horse who would get its tail braided for parades. I don’t think it was a golden book, perhaps an Elf book.
Looking for a children’s picture book about a wand and fairy (both golden) who become lost. The reader is challenged to find both wand and fairy in real life. Rich and vibrant pictures in a large sized picture book. Read in 70s or very early 80s.
For my mother in law in UK. She was born in 1938 and recalls a pink book which had a drawing of a dog on a bed and another one stretching, trying to get on the bed. This would have been between 1938 - 1949
I am hopeful you can help me in my search for a book I had as a child.
Unfortunately I do not remember the title.
I believe it was about using your imagination and starred two children (boy and girl) and possibly their family.
The entire book had simplistic pen and ink illustrations in black and white with washes of pink and blue ink as the only colors in the book.
One of the main illustrations I remember was of the children eating clouds, they had plates of clouds and were eating them like spaghetti, wrapping them around forks and having a grand feast.
Date range: I had this book as a child between 1975-80, but the book could easily be from the 60’s-70’s.
If I remember correctly, the book was a paperback in horizontal format, approx 9 or 10” wide by 5 or 6” tall.
I had this book of fairy tales in the early ’60s. I has a white horse on the cover, with a man on the horse and a woman standing on the ground. I sure hope you can find it. Thank you.
I read a YA fantasy or sci fi book in the mid to late 70s. I was 10 to 13 years old. I checked the book out at the same time as Enchantress of the Stars. The protagonist was a young boy or teen who thought his world was unfair. One of the rules was that no one was to drink stream water. The world was ruled by judges. The protagonist thought this was an unfair system. He drank the water, turns out he shouldn’t have. Also, because he questioned authority (spoiler alert) he became a judge. Thanks!
I believe the authors last name began with an A or B. I reread it a few times as a kid and seem to remember finding it before Baum (I read all of his Oz books), alphabetically.
In the early 80s, I read almost every book in a juvenile fiction series of adventure stories. Covers we’re likely library hardbacks so probably not helpful but were green with line drawings of multiple kinds of adventures. Books includes some line illustrations. I think the series may have had multiple authors, possibly different kinds of adventures, but I most remember the diving ones. Young adults learning how to dive, learning about the bends, exploring, mostly ocean research, I think, but maybe combating poachers or sea criminals?!? I think of a combination of “Flipper” and the Frank Crisp books. Series seems like it was probably from 60s or 70s.