fictional story of a young man who is hired to help carve horses for a carousel, his model turns out to be a pony/horse stolen from a circus, pony might have been grey. The circus people recognize the pony from the carvings and threaten to destroy the carousel. I read it in the 1960’s, but it was not a new book.
young child book about horse farm, one colt is orphaned and does not have a mother, all the other horses are paired up (mother and baby) ….finally the farmer brings a mother horse and she and colt make a family. all the mother and baby horses look each other including the orphaned colt and his new mother….book was from my childhood probably late 1960’s (1968 or so) thank you
My query is a bit different than the usual… I own 6 original illustrations from a children’s story but do not know the book title, author or illustrator. I am seeking information on the book title. Description – A little princess is in her bedroom and the Queen bursts in holding a clock that is set at 9:45 she wants her to go to sleep. The Princess acquires magical powers, can fly above the castle balance
d on the courtiers and animals and causes the King + Queen to grow so big that they can no longer fit in the house. Now huge, they stare through the kitchen window while she enjoys herself with the chef. Girl wears purple, has a shaggy dog and a Knight and Wizard also seems to be part of the story line. Based on the illustration style and details I would date this edition to the 1967 -1971.
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Three books in a series; time travelers from England arrive on bleak ocean shore, conch shell (speaking?) plays a role; more adult than Narnia; some quest of right and wrong played out; overall somewhat sad and full of loss as story unfolds.
Little girl is a house-guest in her own family’s home. Children’s chapter book. Read in the 1960’s. Plot: a little girl wants to be a house-guest in her own family’s house – to sleep in the guest room and have special cookies made for her. Her parents go along with the little girl’s request. She packs a suitcase so that she can walk up to the door and be admitted as a guest. Also, the little girl has an aunt: The aunt does fun things when she visits, such as getting the whole town to play leap-frog. Many thanks!
Read in 80s, age 9-11. Young girl in a hotel for vacation & befriends monster living in lake who is very grumpy. They develop a deep friendship. Turns out he is an alien & fellow aliens come back to see if he’s learned to love. When they take him he cries a tear that turns into a clear stone for her
I am looking for a book with children’s stories. I don’t know the title. When my grandmother was a child, around 1910, one of her teachers gave her a book and my grandmother was given the task to recite one of the stories. The story was about 2 sisters on a dock and one of the sisters failed to save her sister when she fell into the swirling waters. I didn’t see the book, but grandmother provided the above information before she died. Thirty years later I saw the story in a museum in an open book that was locked under a glass counter. There wasn’t anyone manning the counter and I wasn’t able to inquire about it to get the name of the book. The book wasn’t large, perhaps 40-50 pages thick and perhaps it had a black cover. My sister thinks the name of one of the girls was Maggie. I would love to purchase this book if anyone knows of it.
There’s a girl and she’s tired of going to school and doing chores. She sees an ad in a magazine for an institute that can solve her problem by providing a copy of her that will do all the things she hates. She contacts them and they make her clone. Everyday they switch places and she goes to the institute where she can do what she wants while the clone lives her life. Then one day she decides she wants to go back to her life. She sneaks out the institute and she goes home where she sees the clone interacting with her parents. She tells the clone she’s done with her but the clone says they like me better. Then she realizes there’s a switch to turn her off on the back of her neck — and she realizes her best friend has the same switch.
I do know the book I am seeking is not the Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, but it does have a similar premise. I read it in the 50’s. It is illustrated with black and white pencil illustrations. The basic story is some children build a wooden spaceship and in the process one of them finds a flexible silvery disc that is nailed to the nose of the wooden vessel. The children discover that it can actually fly and they also discover the alien the disk belongs to, it is his own ship.
During their adventures they go to a variety of planets, one with giant jelly plants and another with bubbles, one that traps the alien who has to be rescued by the children with the very same fingernails he was so critical of earlier.
Henry is holding dogs — and cats — for his friend while she paints their pictures…he and the friend are trying to earn money to each buy a puppy…the friend gets paid for painting the portraits and she gives Henry a holder’s fee for helping her…black cocker spaniel with blue; marmalade cat…