I remember having this book as a child, it was a picture book about a boy who turns into a wolf and becomes part of the pack for a season. At one point the pack travels close to his old home, and when he sees his family he remembers them and turns back into a human. I can’t for the life of me remember the title or the author, and at this point. I’m pretty desperate for any information. Thank you!
Here is the only remembrance I have. Misses Fluff tells her friend “Don’t eat so fast or you’ll lose half the taste”. In the early 60’s, I would read this same storybook to my daughter over and over. The memory lingers on.
I had cousins that used to read to me from a book during the years 1942-1945 that began something like:
Poor Susie Cruthers
Had no sisters
Had no brothers…
I don’t remember the rest but it went on to say things she liked to do.
Thank you for you willingness to search for the treasures of childhood.
This is a children’s book from the 1960’s, about a little girl, whose name I believe was Martha, who had matching initials (her last name also began with M). Because she had matching initials, she was able to go on amazing adventures with such characters as Timmy Turtle and Willie Whale, all around the world.
My husband is trying to find a book that his grandpa read to him when he was a child (husband was born in 1979). What he remembers: it was about a creature or monster, and there was a moon, and there were lots of funny sounds/noises in it. Sort of LIKE “Where the Wild Things Are” but it was a different book. Thank you!
This book was on the shelves of the library of my middle school in the early 60’s. I would find it by the cover, which I think showed a tree with a round door. Not unlike Hobbiton, the story was about small people and their society. They lived in hollow trees. The thing I remember best is that the individuals wore capes that matched the color of their front door.
I read this in the late 1970s. A 12ish year old boy living in a rural area of the US notices small lakes are disappearing in his area. He deduces that aliens are stealing the water to use for fuel and starts watching for their ship, which he boards when he sees it. The ship takes off while he is aboard and the rest of the book is his adventures in trying to return home. There are other abductees from other planets already on board who become his crew. It is a loose re-telling of Homer’s The Odyssey in that the boy travels from planet to planet aboard the ship and encounters people who are recognizably the Lotus-Eaters, the Cyclops, Circe, etc. Because it’s a children’s book, many of the details are toned down. For example, the Cyclops had poor vision and thus needed to wear a thick lens to see, which the adventurers broke to “blind” him. I remember very well there was a full-page painting of the boy in the Cyclops cave, which might have been the cover of the book.
This book was from my elementary school library, read around 1967. The book was older, 1950s or 1940s. A family that was either down on their luck, or through an inheritance, move to a house in the country that came with African-American servants. This might have been in the South and it seems as though there was an adjustment. I recall food scenes, such as how much the family enjoyed the fresh baked biscuits. This might have been their first encounter with them. In another scene, the mother twists her ankle while walking through the garden and sits alone until she was found because she was in too much pain to walk. What struck me was that this was the first book I read that was told from both an adult and a child’s viewpoint. There was a mystery involved too but I don’t recall whether the house was haunted.
I found this in a public library around 1971 and it was a contemporary book. I think it was set in a small New England or Eastern college town. The main character is a student there and becomes friends with students from the Middle East. In one scene she accompanies her friends as they look for apartments to rent and sees the discrimination they face. She falls in love with one of the students, who gives her a gold ring with a sapphire stone. She wears the ring on a gold chain around her neck. The book ends as he breaks her heart by telling her he plans to marry a girl in a marriage arranged by his and the girl’s family. She doesn’t understand why he would marry someone he doesn’t love and he can’t explain to her why he feels he must.
This book was most likely written in the early to mid 1960s. I found it in my junior high school library around 1970.
It might have been written first person.The main character was girl about 15 and I recall three distinct scenes.In one she stands looking out her back door at dusk or night and sees what she describes as “buttermilk skies.” She might say it came from the Hoagy Carmichael song. In another scene she stares at herself in the mirror before going out and thinks “When last seen she was wearing ….” like newscasters do in describing a missing person. The last I recall is that she crossed herself, even though she was not Catholic.