I am trying to find this book for my Dad, who remembers it from when he was a kid. It would have been published in the late 1960s at the very latest. It was a hard-cover children’s book with colour illustrations. He thinks it was called, “The Day that Winter Went Away,” but we haven’t been able to find anything by searching that up, so I am guessing it is not quite the right title. The plot is that there are a some woodland animals (rabbits, squirrels, birds, maybe others) grousing about the start of winter. One of the animals says something like “I wish winter would go away and never come back. ” Winter (which kind of looks like a head blowing cold wind) hears this and decides to leave. This causes a lot of ecological problems. The rabbits turn white but there is no snow, so they can’t hide. The trees don’t leaf out properly in spring, so the birds building nests have no shelter. etc. So the animals have to go on a journey to find Winter, apologize, and ask him to come back. It would be amazing if you were able to find this book. Thank you for looking!

I read a book in seventh grade in about 1973 about the revolutionary war. I honestly don’t remember if it was fiction or nonfiction. It was not the last of the Mohicans. It was a huge book 500 or 600 pages if not more, huge by my seventh grade standard. My dad had read the book when he was in Jr High school probably about 1940. My dad is passed away and this mystery has plagued me for a couple of years.

When I read the book it was on my seventh grade reading list in history. It was my first introduction to Tories and many things relative to the revolutionary war.

Childrens book. An overweight boy, who gets teased and bullied, finds an amulet. He makes friends with a ghost? has one female friend. Out of print. I thought it was ‘the ghost in the shadow’, but can’t find under that title.

The book was a children’s book about an escaped pet bird who befriends a shabby zoo lion.  There may or may not have been the word “moon” in the title, or as part of a word in the title.  Unfortunately that’s all I can remember.  Thank you.

Anyway, I am trying to locate a book for my mother-in-law.  The book was most likely published before 1980. She would read it to my husband when he was a child and it contained the phrase “supper stew”.  She thinks it was about a mouse or mice and was possibly based on the story about the old woman that lived in a shoe.  For years she has tried to find the book but to no avail.  Unfortunately, this is all the information she can remember and my searches based on the info have come up empty.  Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated!  It has been driving her nuts for years and now it is driving me nuts!  Thanks!

Cinderella book probably published 1975-1985. The twist is that she’s not exactly pretty. She’s tall, has big feet, etc. I don’t remember how it ends. I don’t remember much color on the pages. My local librarian couldn’t find it. Thank you!

Set in England, a single mother has two children older girl and young boy. She is approached by a man (a lawyer) who asks the mom to apply for a job as a caretaker of larger estate. The mom goes to the law office, and sees the man’s picture on the wall, who has been dead for many years, but looks like the current lawyer (blah blah blah the 3rd). Anyways, she gets the job, and the family gets to move in.

In the garden, the two children see ghosts, a boy (maybe George? maybe Samuel? ) and a girl (Sarah) from the past.  Tom was the gardener’s boy Sarah was in love with when she lived. They ask for help as they were murdered (drugged and then the house burned).  The lawyer (the ghost who approached the present day mom) was their uncle who had ignored their pleas that their guardians were going to do them harm.

They make a potion and go back and time and help.  The present day kids don’t know if they did save them , until the present day lawyers visit the mom. Turns out, her young son is the direct heir to the estate!  The ghosts did survive, Sarah married Tom and their decedents were the kids they asked for help! The little boy from the past never approved of the marriage, moved to America, and never had any kids. I believe ‘garden’, ‘ghosts’, or ‘time’ in title.