Here is what I’m trying to find: A children’s picture book, I believe mostly black and white line drawings, of a boy who wakes up to find a box in his backyard, which he climbs into using a ladder. Inside the box is another box that he also climbs into, and so on and so forth.
Trying to remember a wonderful novel set in the 1950’s or 1960’s. I believe the main characters’ names were Anne and Neil. She was from a poor family, but would make fashionable outfits for herself to catch Neil’s eye. After they married, he went into politics. She tried hard to make Neil eat meals with all four food groups. They had a couple children. In the end of the book, it’s terribly hot in the city and Anne is lying down trying to nap, and Neil comes home and tells her he has been nominated to run for President.
I would be so grateful if you could find my favorite chapter book as a child! It’s about a friendship between two girls, perhaps a summertime friendship. They spend time in a tree house together. The paperback cover painting was in browns and greens of the girls in the tree house. Likely, I bought it through Scholastic Books when they had those mini-catalogs sent to schools. It came out in paper sometime in the mid 1960s.
I’m looking for a book that I have only heard a colleague speak very briefly about. He is a teacher and remembers reading a short story within a book of a collection of short stories, when he was studying at Uni, which would have been approx. 1998-2002. But it could have been published much before that. He said the story was about a boy who caught the measles/mumps/chickenpox. He found this other planet/dimension/bubble??? (sorry) where everyone that lived there were basically superhumans. They hadn’t been ill at all. Then this boy entered their “world” and all of these superhumans died because they had been so protected from diseases that they had no immune system, so contact with the measles/mumps/chickenpox killed them. That is all I know. I’m guessing the moral of the story was to do with the benefits/detriments of vaccinations. I have tried searching everywhere with no luck. I searched this site and found one called “Brave New World” but that doesn’t sound like it. I would love to find this book – my colleague said he is so fond of it but doesn’t remember the title or book it was in.
Thank you for your help.
This book is about two young sisters in England during WW2. They have a father, who lets them ride a giant rocking horse out in a shed at one point (there’s an illustration of it), but not necessarily a mother. They are forced to share their Xmas gifts with an orphaned boy their age; they choose plasticine and the boy turns out to be talented. One of the sisters learns to paint a doorknob to look gold, like the old lady artist they befriend. The book is meant for children probably between 8 and 12.
Thanks in advance for your help.
More or less a Santa Claus story for Jewish children celebrating Hanukkah
A Jewish children’s book in which a man (the Hanukkah Murray) flew from one child’s fire escape to the next child’s fire escape in the Bronx, NY (possibly Brooklyn too) on a flying dreidel (bringing gifts?).
*NOTE correct spelling Hanukkah is not known–I guessed at this version for no particular reason
My grandfather read this book to me over and over, probably around the early 1950s, so it may have been published as early as the 1930s. It was a children’s picture book, and all I can remember is the last page read, “And The Sun Came Up.” That phrase was most probably used throughout the book. I loved it and have looked for it all these years, at antiques stores, rummage sales, etc. I would love to know the title and see if it is still around somewhere, so I can read it to my own grandchildren.
I have no idea about the title of this book. It is one I read (and owned) in my childhood. I think it was sent as part of my subscription to a children’s book club–perhaps Children’s Literary Guild. Probably I encountered it between 1940 and 1946. Plot was about a child–I think a boy–living rural, who went to a visiting circus. There he encountered animals who he could somehow make small and take home with him.
I do not remember the title, it is a novel about 30-40 years old by a popular writer.
The story is that a Jewish doctor is called to treat the Pope who has a heart problem and in the first 20 pages or so follows a full and complete description about the treatment and how the Pope will feel and react following the procedure.
I read this children’s book in the 1950’s so it’s publishing date was long ago. The story involves a group of cats in a city. The illustrations that I remember were of apartment buildings with fire escapes. One of the cats is the hero, defending the other cats. He has a swashbuckling persona complete with sword and boots. This is the part of the story that is most memorable- this dashing and sword fighting cat. The title escapes me; in fact,there is nothing else I can tell you. But, I would appreciate whatever you can find. Good luck and thank you in advance.