My mom is looking for a book from her early childhood that was destroyed in a fire. She was born in 1952 in Ohio. So this book was probably from the 50s. She cannot remember the name of the book. It was probably an early/easy reader (and not a baby book or chapter book).
The story is about a young girl who befriends an otter. That’s all I know.
This is a fairly recent book, having had my hands on it sometime between 1996-1998. It was definitely a picture book. I can’t remember if the classroom copy was paperback or hardcover, but I don’t think the book was published any time before 1985 and it was more likely to have been put out after 1992.
My clearest memory is of a page showing a slim girl with cropped black hair who, as a thief, had a magical belt or girdle that made her invisible. The belt may have been silver. The story took place in an imaginary land or in the past; I think she was dressed in a very sort of medieval page way.
I am certain there were other girls with other specific talents and magical objects in the book, but I am unsure as to how many. Judging from trends in children’s literature it was probably 3 or 7.
Thank you so much!
The book was either published in the 1970-1980’s I believe, since late 1970’s was when I read it. It was a children’s story about Harum Scarum, an old man that was known by the children to be mean. Harum Scarum became nice and gave the children his candy. It was a beautiful short story about how the man was a good person, but just because the kids thought he was mean, they didn’t interact with him. They found out he was a nice person when he gifted them candy. If I’m not mistaken, the setting was a farm or the outskirts of town. The story was in a book that had several bedtime stories in it. I can’t find the title of the book or the name of the story. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I am looking for a children’s book that is a collection of biographies of heroes, both female and male, that was published before 1955. I believe it had a gold cover. Biographies included such people as Harriet Tubman, Father Damien, and many others, each about 4-6 or more pages long.
I’m looking for a picture book where a boy’s sister/friend is missing. It’s been winter for a long time and spring isn’t coming. He goes on a quest to find her. When he does, she’s asleep. When she wakes up, springtime comes back.
Thanks!
This is an elementary age paperback I read in the 1970’s. It is about a girl who had friends in school but they turned against her. She had to find new friends, and she made many different kinds of friends, like adult friends, that she never before paid attention to until she had to make new ones.
The book I’m looking for is definitely older. It is a large, aged, dull lime green or olive green hardcover. I can’t remember what’s in the front, but there is a picture of what may be a friendly green-faced (again, duller green) troll with a white wig and a red shirt doing a cartwheel on the back cover of the book, along with a short description below it.
It is about a foot tall, 8″ wide, and 3-4″ thick. It has 600+ pages, I think… definitely more than 300.
This book looked old to me back in the 90s, so I’m guessing it is from 1990 or earlier.
Looks like it might contain a collection of Aesop, The Brothers Grimm, and Hans Christian Andersen tales as well as some other stories.
Some of the stories definitely include (from memory):
– The Nightingale (Aesop)
– The Water of Life (Grimm, German)
– Sinbad the Sailor’s 4th Journey
– Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves
– The Tinderbox (Aesop)
– The Emperor’s New Suit / Clothes (Aesop)
– Stone Soup
– The Pied Piper
– The Twelve Dancing Princesses (Grimm)
– The fisherman and his wife
– The Golden Goose (Grimm)
– The Princess and the Pea
There are illustrations in the book with the stories and it is done in a very old-fashioned art style… I would think to date it to before 1980, but I’m not an expert.
I know this is pretty hard considering the lack of detail. I’ve been looking for this book for a long time. =(
The book I’m looking for is a beautifully illustrated oversized (aprox. 11 X 14) softcover picture book about a boy who wanders alone through what I think is his eccentric aunt’s house. Starting at the front gate he finds a note with a poem on it which leads him to the next place. This is repeated through the garden and by the pool and then into the house until he ends up in the kitchen where everyone jumps out and there is a big banner that says “Surprise!”
I hope someone knows the book I am asking about. I read the book to my daughter when she was young and she is now 15 years old. She is learning to read to children herself now and very much wants to find that book again which we lost in a move several years ago.
I am looking for a children’s Christmas book I read to my son in the 70’s. It is about children getting ready for Christmas. They are decorating and also baking Christmas cookies. I think the cover had a light blue background.
I was elementary-school-age in the 70’s, and I read a series of short stories with Christian morality themes. Each story was in its own book, each book had a white glossy paper cover, and featured the same family of four (I think): mom dad brother sister.