This is a hardback picture book we read in the 1980s from the library. One garden is transformed (I think topiary is involved), then gradually other gardens in the town. Drawings are like wonderful aerial maps of the transformation. I recall streets being very rectangular and regular in shape.
This was a hardback picture book we read in the library in the 1980s. Two or three children go to a fair. On the way to or at the fair they get some small items (possibly a gold star?), which are put in a ‘cornucopia’. I think this was pictured as a paper cone. On the way home through the forest, robbers steal their treasures. I think it had the line ‘what wicked robbers to steal such precious things’, the point being these are items of no commercial value, but things of wonder to the children.
I read this book in the early 1990s, but have no idea when it was published. The details I remember are that there is a girl who is for some reason befriended by fairies. She shrinks down and goes to visit them. Maybe she’s going to become their queen or something? For some reason she ends up with this necklace made of thorns that she can’t take off. The only other thing I remember is that the fairies would feed her nectar from a flower.
Looking for a children’s chapter book from the 1960s or early 70’s about a tree in the forest that has special powers. I recall that the vines were alive as was the tree – but I recall only a girl in the story could communicate with the tree and either visited or lived beneath the ground by the tree? For some reason I recall descriptions about being under the ground at times. I don’t think it was a scary tree. More like a friend and protector to the girl. Would love to track it down if possible.
No one can walk anymore. They only drive in large wheeled homes and mobile offices. They even have motorized vehicles in individual sizes for transporting themselves outside of these wheeled homes.
Everything has been paved over with roads, except a small area with a flower or a tree in it.
Fascinated by this unpaved area, the girl wheels over to it only to find her wheeled individual vehicle can’t go on the unpaved area. She is forced to get out of the vehicle and make her way across the green space without motorized assistance.
I am looking for a children’s book I read in 90s. I read it in the library of the language school.
A group of children find a gate that leads to another world, a world without any reflections (even when looked at surface of water). The gate itself is such that it does not pass any metals (coins burn red hot if attempted to be carried through). One of the children find out that their ancestors originate from this world, and that world is now under control by mean men. At the book first climax, a Locket Necklace worn by the child happened to contain small mirror, and it is used to distract and defeat the leader of the mean men.
This book was a children’s early reader book from 70s/80s with scenes from a park (which had a pond in it, I think, and possibly a duck in the pond), classroom, hospital room, etc. In the picture of the classroom, for instance, it said “paint” next to where the paints were, and “chair” next to the chair in the picture. No plot, just labels for items in the pictures. It is *not* a Richard Scarry book (which sometime label individual items as well).
1970s children’s sci-fi book series. It was about a small group of space explorers, one of which was a woman who had “supersight” and a small blob pet which communicated from a tiny ticker tape box on it.
1960s or 70s sci-fi children’s book series. It was about a space-faring duo patrolling the stars in a tiny two-man bubble-craft similar to the “Enterprise”, they encounter a ship called the “Pointspeed.”
I read a book which I think is called Humphrey. It was about a tortoise or turtle who lived 100 years and it is the story of his life. It had very large colored illustrations and was a picture book. I got it out of the UNH library as a child.