I am looking for a childrens book where at the end a treasure chest was unlocked. The keys to unlocking the chest have shapes on them and they are colored different colors. Above the lock on the treasure i believe is the shape that will unlock it. I am unsure if the colored shapes are at the front or in back of the key.
A poor family (Appalachian?) gets their first hand-crank sewing machine. The father doesn’t like it, but in the end he uses it. It was probably published before 1970.
This was read to me 1968-70ish. Bigger than A4 sized beautifully illustrated hardcover book, with one “chapter” and picture per two pages. British published as I was in New Zealand. The stories of Helen of Troy, Paris, Achilles, and Ulysses were there.
Looking for the title of a wordless book about kids who lived in a city and collected things people threw away and transformed their little garage into a fun place to play.
Possibly written in the 60s or 70s?
Sorry, no clue about the author’s name.
A children’s picture book likely 1950-1970’s about a bunny who finds a magic egg. When he looks through the egg it allows him to see different parts of the world. Possibly Easter related.
A book my father used to read to me every night. It might have been called Almost Three. It was about a little girl and the things she could do at her age. There was a picture in it of the daddy picking the little girl up by her feet and putting her in bed.
I am looking for a book that was on the Elementary School Library shelf in 1960. A young girl lives in the woods by herself. She spends her time baking treats for all her woodland friends. I can only recall that she made honey cakes for the deer.
This book has stuck with me since my childhood. To this day, I am almost sure that it is my idea of a perfect existence.
Girl has always loved hanging upside down, manages to join circus and be trained as a trapeze artist. Her trainer (and later love-interest & husband) catches her flying with her eyes closed and after much convincing, they turn it into a blind-folded act with silver dollars against her eyes and then covered by a blindfold. One mayor of a small town does not believe they are really blindfolded and arranges an accident. One of them is sent off course and the other must hurtle himself into her at an angle that will bring her into the net rather than a deadly impact.
In looking for this book I wondered if my adolescent self could have misunderstood the gender and relationship but MZB’s the Catch Trap doesn’t seem familiar enough.
The book was near Heinlein’s The Puppet Masters in my small middle school library so I believe the author’s name likely started with either an H or a nearby letter.
I read this book probably in the mid 1970s, may be from the 1960s or a little earlier. I checked it out from the library in what was then the Children’s section, probably considered young adult today. I have no idea of title or author. The girl’s name may be Gail, not sure, about 15 or 16 years old. She is camping? with her family: mother, father and I think one younger sibling. She becomes separated someway and I believe she may be trying to get to a Ranger’s station or something. Some weird guy is following/stalking her. I don’t remember if he is just after her, a young girl, or if she saw something he did & is trying to stop her from getting help. That’s about it, not a lot to go on, but I remember the book and would like to read again if I can find it! I was probably 12 or 13 when I read it and it was very suspenseful to me at the time, different from Nancy Drew & Trixie Belden books I read.
This was a YA or middle-grade novel that I read in the late ’90s. It was a very loose Greek myth retelling that mashed together many familiar mythological elements into an original plot. Possible characters: Perseus, Medusa, Pan, Echo, Iphigenia. Some or all of it took place on an island which had a network of caves. One of the characters–maybe a plucky young girl–was stranded(?) on the island and encountered someone who became a friend/ally while exploring these caves. I also remember music magically wafting through the caves. Maybe that’s where Pan comes in?
The copy I had was paperback with some blue and purple on the cover. The physical book and style of writing didn’t strike me as “old-fashioned,” so I’m guessing it had been published in the ’80’s or ’90s…but I could be wrong about that.
I’m fairly certain the author was a woman.
Thanks so much for helping me solve this mystery! I remember absolutely loving this book.