This book was a children’s book read in the 80s. It is about a young girl who has some kind of party (possibly a birthday party) on a yacht. The illustration of the boat has lots of strung lights and balloons. I originally thought that this was a Madeline book, as I remember it being similar, but have not come across anything like it.
I purchased this book in the 80’s from a major Australian book chain. I don’t remember the author or title of the book.
In the book, the protagonist is a young girl whose mother is a witch. She rules some sort of kingdom under the sea.
The novel ends in a battle between the protagonist and her mother, which the girl wins. I think they battled using thunderbolts. I remember a large thunderbolt striking the mother which ends the battle. The mother becomes good again and I think she reunites with the girl’s father.
The protagonist also has a brother in the novel but I can’t quite remember his role.
I can also recall a description of sand dunes.
A girl (dirty?), who carried a sock with some sort of animal (frog?) in it everywhere & maybe put more stuff in the sock along the way. I think the book itself was small in size? I’m pretty sure it’s not JunieBJones, Ramona, maybe Pippi but I don’t rem a monkey or horse. Please help!
Paperbacks with blue coloured illustrated covers read in the 1970s, probably target audience of 8 years plus. Underwater adventures with speaking sea creatures, including a king and an evil eel. A girl and her younger brother are in the book and one of them is crowned as king or queen.
A beautifully illustrated hard cover book of folk and fairy tales from around the world, including Peer Gynt, Tovik Tomte and the Trolls, a story about African wind, the Twelve Seasons, a blue-beard type story from China, an Australian story about the breadfruit flower/tree, a Scottish story about a black bull & an Irish story about a mermaid.
Wife’s description: Kid’s Christmas book, probably from the mid-80’s (or older). A family can’t finish decorating their cookies before bedtime(?) on Christmas Eve. During the night, elves (?? Wife is certain it wasn’t mice…) help finish the cookies for the family. That’s what we have — HELP!
Large format hardcover book. Between 1970-80.
Asian myth?
Little text, large illustrations cover each page.
Man had these magical sticks. I believe 7. I think called talents. carried on back.
Each had a unique oriental character.
When thrown did magical things.
had? Dragon, whirlpool, creation
This book was a short picture book that I read in the 1970’s. I am guessing it was published late 1960s to mid 1970s.
A girl visits her great aunt or similar relative, who is bedridden and lives in a room upstairs in a beautiful old house. When the clock strikes the old lady turns back into herself as a young girl and the two girls play together and have a great time. Then the clock strikes again and she turns back into an old lady. The girl is dressed in what children would have worn in the 1890’s or thereabouts and I remember she had long black hair with a ribbon tied in it.
Looking for old book about two kids who spend the summer on ranch learning to be cowboys. Book had an orange cover, light brown pages, brown print/illustrations. Kids learn all about cowboy clothes (cowboy cuffs, chaps, etc). Learn about riding, branding, horses, etc. Not Will James Uncle Bill.
The book I am searching for is a book my mother has looked for for years. She remembered it from her childhood so it would have been a book from the 30′s. It was a 3 little kittens book- possibly oversized and longer across the top than the length of the binding. The pictures she remembered were one of the cats in the snow with a lighted house in the background (maybe at night?) and picture of them playing with yarn balls, a picture of the kittens stepping in pie with juice squirting out, and picture that showed the kittens with just the legs of the adults showing. Since there are so many scores of books about the three little kittens, it may be hard to find, but I would like to surprise her with it if I could! She is 81 years old.