I am looking for a children’s book titled Some Fun. I do not know the author or illustrator. On the cover, a father is picking up his toddler. I think the book is about having a fun day with your father.
296H: Some Fun
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296G: Gypsy lady animal healer cottage forest
Children’s Book: for ages 6-12
Beautifully illustrated with heaps of flowers and animals Cloth cover, possibly purple or brown in colour.
1cm thick
Roughly 25cm by 18cm
Written Before 1994
Story is about an old lady who lives in the middle of a forest in a cottage, she is like a gypsy who heals the animals with different herbs and concoctions.
2 children visit her to find out she is not as crazy as the village people say she is.
The pictures show her in front of her cottage.
In front of a fire healing the animals.
Putting a herbal Pulse on an animal
296F: Teen Overeats on Holiday Vacation Due to Parents’ Divorce
I read this young adult novel in the early 1990s at my local library. It seemed like it was relatively recently published at the time. I believe that it was a first person story, about a teenage girl who is either on Thanksgiving or Christmas break from school. Her parents tell her they are getting divorced, and she starts secretly overeating all of the leftovers from either the Thanksgiving or Christmas meal. She is writing in her journal, feeling isolated, and having some weighty conversations with her parents–particularly her dad, if I remember correctly–all while developing an unhealthy relationship to food. The book ends with her swearing off of the overeating, and taking walks in the snow to lose all of the weight she gained over the holiday vacation.
296D: The Great Dane…
Looking to obtain/locate a copy of a children’s book which MAY have been titled “The Great Dane, the Koala, and the Guri Guri Bird.” Likely Australian in origin; child borrowed it from a library in Kentucky in the 1980’s; has watercolor illustrations.
296C: An English village and an American cousin
Sometime around 1956 when I was in the Millville School District 2nd or 3rd grade, maybe the 4th we had a hard-bound reading book with a dark blue cover that was page by page beautifully, color illustrated with 1930s era style artwork not unlike the covers of Jacqueline Winspear books.
The story lines, at least one, involved an English boy about 3rd or 4th grade age living in an English village and his having an American cousin, similar aged, visiting and he showing him around his village.
I do not recollect a title nor publisher, but have been searching for such a book for the last three or so decades. That book and old geography books still in use in our school, circa 1926, contributed to my Anglophilia.
296B: A secret note or message or clue
I have no idea what the title is but the book would appeal to a 8-10 year old girl. It was in my grade school library. I remember that the girl was orphaned or sent to live with a relative, possibly a grandmother or aunt. I’m leaning toward aunt. The place is mysterious and there is a mystery of sorts. The key part I remember is the young girl protagonist finds a secret note or message or clue on paper under a loose brick, I believe around the pool or on the patio, but I’m 99% sure it was around the pool. This would have been around 1978-80, although the book may have been slightly older.
295Z: Grand Old House in nondescript new neighborhood
Children’s picture book I read before 1995 (not sure when it was published though) about an old mansion. The mansion stood alone in a field until a suburban neighborhood packed with little nearly-identical houses sprang up. The mansion may or may not have been sentient. The house felt more and more out of place and eventually it/the owner decided to replace the old house with a new one just like all the others. All the neighbors couldn’t find their own houses anymore because they used to use the old mansion as a reference point. Eventually they convinced the old house/owner that its uniqueness was important to the neighborhood and somehow restored it.
295W: Good Morning Mr. Sun
Here is a direct passage from the book that I cannot find: “Good morning Mr. Sun. Time to rise and shine. I must get dressed. The day looks fine. Muffins for breakfast with strawberries and cream. I eat it all up and brush my teeth clean. Some of my friends come over to play. We run and climb and tumble all day. Off to the garden to rake and plant seeds. Water the ground and pull out the weeds. Time to eat dinner then off to my room. All tucked into bed. Goodnight Mr. Moon. ” The book is yellow/orange in color with a bear on the front.
295T: Too Awake-Too Asleep Picture Book
I’m trying to find a children’s book, likely from the 1950s, about the size of and with illustrations similar to a Little Golden Book. It includes two complementary stories, each beginning at one of the covers. The first reads toward the middle of the book. Turned over, the book includes a second story that reads to the middle of the book. The stories are small morality tale, one of a boy or girl (I can’t remember which) who refuses to go to sleep and is allowed to discover how boring the house is when its quiet at night. The other story is of a girl (or boy?) who doesn’t want to get up in the morning and is allowed to sleep and find out what goes on while he/she sleeps through the day. In both cases, these tales are part of a strategy to get each child to wake up or to go to sleep. The illustrations are similar in style to those of Little Golden Books.
295S: The Holy Island of Lindisfarne
I’m looking for a children’s or YA novel about St. Cuthbert, the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, some children, and possibly a selkie (mythological creature). The story, as I remember, was somewhat mystical and had to do with St. Cuthbert. I would have read it in the late1960s— it’s not The Wind Eye by Robert Westell (1977), which was published too late to have been the book I read. I remember the cover being illustrated in shades of gray and white. It may have shown some birds flying around the island, which has a distinctively shaped profile.