I’m trying to find a children’s book from~1930’s. It was about a brother and sister that went on a magical journey. Each place they went taught a lesson of some kind about healthy eating, hygiene, the importance of a good night’s sleep, etc. There was one place made of candy. Color illustrations.
I used to read this as a kid so I’m assuming was published pre-1980. At the beginning the setting is of a boy and a man in the wilderness (in a cave?)(set in 1700s-1800s). Either as part of the initial story or as an event that already occurred the man is attacked by 2(?) other men and left to die. The boy makes it out alive to a town and initially recuperates in a feather bed (there was a lengthy description of the bed). He then returns to the house where he lives (step child or orphan?) and after going upstairs hears his mean stepfather(?) talking with the very men that were the attackers. They describe returning to the scene to recover some loot (maybe to finish the job or kill someone else?). The boy escapes to try to beat the men to the destination and provide a warning, cannot remember how it ends.
I´m looking for an english Children´s book, which my aunt used to read (in it´s german translation) before 1960. As long as she remembers is the story about an orphan child (female). This girl is sent to her uncle who lives in some kind of castle or gloomy manor house on an island. A janitor, who´s gatehouse lies at the end of a tunnel and wolves seem to play an importend role. A vicious man steals the hearts of the children in the village and turnes them into ravens / crows. The girl contracts a friendship to the son of the janitor and they rescue the children. The story brings in mind A. Lindgrens „Mio my son“ or J, Aiken „The Wolves of Willoughby Chase“ but it´s none of them.
My dad read this book in England in the late 40s or early 50s. It’s about a boy who is sick in the summer and he’s hot in bed (possibly in an attic bedroom). His grandmother keeps piling blankets on to him despite his being too hot. He eventually falls asleep, but when he wakes up, he’s not in his bed. He’s in a world that’s covered in a mattress (i.e. the ground is a mattress). He stabs a knife into the ground and feathers come streaming out. He has adventures in this magical place. My dad is the one who was delivering plot points, and that’s all he can remember about the book. Publication will not be later than the late 1950s.
I’m looking from a book that I think would have been published in the 80s, maybe very early 90s (I read it in a school library in 1994)
It’s a first-person narrative about a man who was experimentally frozen in modern times and then woken up in the future (100 years maybe). There’s an ostensibly benign non-elected government in charge now and society is divided into worker-classes. He’s a curiosity when he is un-frozen, so is assigned to the highest class of citizen.
Over the course of the book he begins a relationship with a woman and finds out that (surprise) the luxury lifestyles of the upper class are sustained only by terrible exploitation of the lower. He makes plans to escape the country (or maybe just city) but as they’re fleeing he finds out she’s been replaced by an android version of herself (this is how dissenters to the regime are removed). He knows it’s not her because when he holds her hand he can’t feel the scar on her finger.
The only concrete detail I can remember, beyond the scar on the finger, is at one point he is explaining how voting worked to the woman, and he says that even though people at the time complained about politicians, at least everyone had a part in the political process.
Cat is owned by a brother and sister. They constantly dress him up like baby, even putting him in a stroller. He decides that he’s had enough and he runs away. He goes somewhere cold (maybe Alaska, or somewhere similar). He then goes ice fishing and catches a fish. He has no one to be with. He realizes he misses the kids and goes home to them. At the end up the book he is all dressed up and says something about this not being so bad. It was made around the 90’s. The cat was either a tabby or grey.
Man in modern day is struck by lightning and transported 1000 years back in time to same spot. Survives animal attack but barely. Nursed and mentored by old ancient native american. Man communicates with present day wife through cave writing which is found by archaeologists in present. Archaeologists date writing and find it is authentic but still skeptical as writing is modern English. Man never gets home to present day. Starts new life in past with native american woman. Thank you!
The book I am searching for is a children’s picture book from the 1960s/1970s. It was about a big snow storm. Lots of people kept getting stuck in the snow storm, and they went to a cozy little house (I believe it was up on a hill) to wait it out. While they were there they ate biscuits and all became friendly together. This is all I remember!
I would love to read this book to my daughter.
Children’s picture book written in the 60s,70s or early 80s…I read it in the early 80s. A young African American girl has an imaginary lion. She is teased by her siblings and somehow in the end of the book the lion eats up her siblings.
Children’sChildren’s picture book. Takes place in Mexico. Written in 60s or 70s, maybe 80s… read in early 80s. Main character, Mexican boy, who interacts with a jaguar and a pyramid.