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209A: Finding Noah’s Ark

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Hello…In 1971-72, I owned a paperback of horror stories with perhaps ten short tales. I seem to think the book was connected to a TV series like Night Gallery or some other series of that time. I am not totally sure about that. I bought the paperback at a supermarket. In it was a short fiction story of a man’s account of finding Noah’s ark and the terrors of his adventure. Something tells me many years ago, in the 1990’s, someone asked the same question and you found the book.

208D: a sort of Little House on the Prairie-light set

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The book I’m looking for was actually a series of Juvenile books I read in the mid 1980’s. I remember 4 or 5 of them. They were a sort of Little House on the Prairie-light. Set in mid western prairie state, but in a town. During or around a big influenza epidemic. The publisher may have been a Christian publishing house. The protagnist was a red head, who was 10-12ish, prone to eavesdropping and misunderstanding. There was a sort of mystery to be solved in each book by the children, that was always just a misunderstanding. One of the books revolved around Valentine’s Day. Can’t for the life of me remember the name or the author, nor can the friends who read them with me at the time.
They were short trade papers, with illustrations on a few pages, but not “illustrated.”
Don’t know if that is even remotely enough helpful information to track them down 🙂

208A: Children’s Book Published Before 1968

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I am a librarian in need of HELP. A patron has asked for a children’s book published before 1968. The only thing they can remember it’s about a man delivering or selling milk with a donkey cart. The donkey gets hurt in the story. I have tried everything looking for this book. If you can help me it would be gratefully appreciated. It is a birthday gift for a patron’s sister

207H: Children’s book about being afraid of the dinosaurs at the museum?

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I am searching for a children’s book I enjoyed as a kid. I believe it would have been available by the late 70’s/early 80’s.

I don’t remember the title, but I remember it had to do with a kid who thought he/she wanted to go to the museum, but then when they got there, was scared of the giant brontosaurus. I remember an image of her pulling on her mom’s hand to get away from the dinosaur. I don’t really remember what else happened, but the book might have been about saying no to things, or getting over fears. The images were quite simple, I think.

207D: Dell Yearling paperback from the 80s

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I am looking for a blue paperback yearling book that was published between 1980 and 1984. The book is about a girl (possibly named Adelaide) who lives with her spinster aunts in a big old house. She and the house girl go up in the attic and find a trunk belonging to the girl’s dead mother and there they unravel the mysteries of the mother’s past. Throughout the book, the main character has memories or possibly fantasies about her mother’s life.

The cover was blue with a picture of two girls in an attic. One girl was caucasian with black hair and a dress. The other girl was African American and and had some type of kerchief in her hair.