Trying to remember the name of a book. Basically it’s a fantasy book with teenage boy protagonist. His aunt has lied to him his whole life, learns who can control all the elements and starts a romance with a female vampire who also passed the test he did. Two sets of vamps.
may be scary book. Inside back cover a map of the town. A Mr. Foxy’s house (gloomy) a dump and store at the top w/ “Gone Fishing” on door. story of animals & clam bake. Halloween poem goes “witches & goblins prowling about on this shivery, hween night. A monster jumps out from a tree w/a shout”
Read a children’s book in the 1980s; it may be older. I remember two or three children, boys and girls (siblings?), maybe in London, England, who encounter coven of witches. I think there is at least one chapter involving the kids shrinking in size. At least one scene of Broomstick flight.
A friend is looking for a pop-up book from her childhood that I’d like to surprise her with. She said it was a pop-up book about a family that goes to the zoo and everyone but the little boy gets eaten by the animals. She said the tag line was like “If you hunt for me, I will hunt for you”
Read in 1960s, aged 7/8.Set in the then present and Victorian UK. Mustard & white hardback cover with black line drawings of an ornate mantel clock with dolphins/town house. A boy and girl found/bought the clock in the summer holidays and traveled by it to live with a family in Victorian times.
Addition: When I was 7 or 8 in the 1960s my dad read me a hardback library book which neither of us has forgotten and which we mention fondly now and again. My dad is 90 on 13 June and I want to find the book as a gift for him. I do not know the title or author. I remember a pale brown//yellow and white cover with a line drawing in black of a gilt clock and perhaps children. It was a book about children of the time (i.e.60s), a boy and a girl I think (I imagined them to be the same age as I was), who were given/bought a mantelpiece clock with ornate dolphins adorning it from a junk shop. It was the summer holidays. Through the clock they were transported to Victorian times where they lived as part of a Victorian family and had adventures. They found the Victorian clothes, etc. very strange.
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.