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.
This was an illustrated children’s book about a family of pigs whose parents left them with a terrible/villainous babysitter. They had to save each other. Does this ring any bells?
Sometime between 1970 and 1974 my parents purchased a nature book series for me that was mailed to our house once per month (or perhaps bi-monthly). It was for kids and contained different themes in each book. I think there might have been 10 or 12 books in the entire series (but I’m not sure).
I distinctly remember the first book’s title (or theme) was called: Tracks & Trails.
I’m trying to locate this book series (or at least this first book in the series.
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Rim Rat the Wease (Weaze? or Weese?) steals eggs (that would otherwise hatch to be chicks) and takes them to his diner to cook them. There is a monkey who climbs a telephone pole in the beginning of the book. The diner might be called the Sunny Side diner. . . or something like that. The biggest thing I remember is Rim Rat the Wease, who I’m guessing is a big weasel though in my head he looks like a giant rat, the diner, the eggs and the monkey. I think the Monkey and other animals have to go save the eggs so they don’t get cooked. Thank you!!
In elementary school, we read a book about a little girl with a Z name. I think it was Zelda. She was trying to figure out the Golden Rule. She searched the world. Of course any references online that I find always refer to The Legend of Zelda. Not what I’m looking for, obviously. This book may have been written in the 50s, 60s ,or 70s. No cover. The book itself was orange.
A contemporary fiction book in the published in the early 2000s, this book by a male author had a male main character. It centered around a special house, a beloved house, that the main character wanted to own or live in. At some point a leather-bound book was a major plot point and the leather-bound book was hidden in the house, or possibly the walls of the house, and later found. The novel had beautiful language, and was very tightly written.
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Plot – a young woman joins a good mercenary company, but after a while the company’s work gets too dark, she leaves and travels on a ship, gets off and travels with a half elf mage who tricks her into fighting in Elven ruins, they kill a lich, she continues over the mountains to a small town, joins semi-religious fighting order there, has another battle in ruins near the town, has misadventures, joins elven woodsmen, eventually becomes paladin, I believe, and finds royal family connections.