Looking for a book my mum read when she was younger (so poss. publishing date 1950-70 although could be earlier) which was a fairy pop up book about a fairy who wants to go to a party but can’t as she had nothing to wear and at the end she does go to the party dressed in seaweed or river reeds.
I’m pretty sure that I would have used this book in the 1960s and 1970s. I thought the background on the cover (hardback book) was predominantly red / orange with buildings that looked Russian. My memory that it was “Once Upon a Time Fairy Tales,” or “Around the World…” could have been fairy tales or folk tales.
I do know the stories were from many countries. The pictures were in color and I thought maybe the editor / collector was a Russian name. I can see the cover in my mind’s eye.
Included in the book: Twelve Dancing Princesses, The Three Sillies, The Bunyip (Austrlia), tale about an elephant and a tortoise, Egyptian story in which an arm is cut off, The Three Fates, a Nordic (?) tale about a woman and a witch with a stone boat, a tropic story called “The Bones…,” Why the Sea Has Lost it’s Salt, a story about a leprechaun that plants gold in a field and marks the spot many times to trick someone, The Frog Prince, a story about a young Eskimo(?) princess in which someone becomes a wolf.
Hope this leads to something. Thank you for your help.
In late 50′s my grandmother read to me many times a book checked out from our local public library. It was about a little girl who broke her leg. Someone would carry her outside every day and she spent the summer in a hammock beside a brook. She made friends with the small animals. She mesmerized them with her soothing voice. Maybe that’s where the brook comes in – her voice was like a flowing brook. I don’t remember the little girl’s name or any other details. I have had several librarians through the years be on the lookout for the book, but no one has identified it yet.
Been searching for this romance/comedy for 8 years. Hapless down on her luck gal loses job, & also has bad guys after her. Meets a guy she describes as a lazy, good for nothing slackass (or slob or slacker) who wants nothing to do w/ her or her problems, but eventually helps her out. Paperback.
I just wanted to add that the title of the book will be something very funny/catchy/clever. I am not a romance novel reader, but I remember when I saw this book while standing in line at the grocery store that I didn’t want to reach for it because it was clearly a romance novel, but the title finally won me over & forced me to reach for it. Also, the cover did NOT sport your typical “bodice ripping” sort of a pic, it might possibly have been a more cartoon-ish image, & possibly w/ a fun type of font. I didn’t have enough $$ to purchase it, & when I finally went back it was but a distant memory. I hope this helps, my fingers are double crossed, & good luck! THANK YOU!!
I think it was in 1978, while in 2nd grade, I read a mystery book about a boy visiting a castle (I think in Scotland) and there were ghosts trying to tell him something. I think I remember something about the ocean and maybe characters who names were like those in Macbeth or another Shakespeare book
I was in second grade around 1963 or 1964 in Los Angeles Unified School District. I remember in the school library there was a book on a book stand. It was hardcover, green, with gold etching, about half or three quarters inch thick, a bit over-sized. I desperately wanted to take home that book but couldn’t. Now I think I dreamed it up. The words “sea” and “star” and “world” sometimes flit before me. (It’s not Sea Star by Marguerite Henry or the Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson.) It was not heavy on text. I had another epiphany with Holling Clancy Holling (Paddle to the Sea?), but I’ve looked at all of his titles and it’s none of them. It’s size and feel were definitely Holling — green library binding — but not so wordy. I can’t get any farther than this, but I MUST find that book!! It is a true needle in a haystack with no author or title. I have searched thousands of images of vintage books and can’t find this.
All I remember about this one was an animal was baking a cake for a party but got eggshells in it and it came out terribly. They called it “eggshell cake.”
old man has a talking dog, trades with an old woman for her poodle because the dog talked too much and he wanted quiet. The old man liked to go sit by the ocean and watch the waves but he couldn’t concentrate because his dog wouldn’t shut up.
I am trying to find a book I started to read in middle school, but it is hard for me to remember all of the details because I didn’t finish reading it. It was a novel, I think from the 70s, with a strong environmentalist message, “save the trees” etc. It was about high school students (?), and had intermittent poems throughout the text, including one that went something like “acid rain, like a single tear drop, rolls down the flower”.
It appeared old and worn to me when I was in middle school in 1998, a small hardcover book with blue binding. I think the latest date of publication would be 1980, as it was about environmentalism and the messages were similar to the messages of the 1970s. Sorry I don’t have more details, but let me know if this jogs anyone’s memory.
Thank you!
At some point during my childhood, early grade school I would guess though I can’t pinpoint further (so circa 20 years ago?), my older brother brought a book home from the college book store at his college, Harvey-Mudd in California.
It was mainly an art book, depicting various Indiana Jones-esque archaeological adventures. The one I most vividly remember was a battle on a rope bridge, with unfortunate explorers tumbling over the side into some great chasm. There was also an introductory page depicting the top of a desk or table, strewn with artifacts obtained from the scenes on the later pages. But beyond that, it was a sort of puzzle book: the pictures were overlaid with what looked like torn-up pieces of a journal or memoir. When pieced together, they provided… something. The backstory of the pictures and artifacts? Clues to some further puzzle or objective you needed to find by hunting for clues in the pictures? I don’t remember ever attempting what was needed to put them together; you’d have to either photocopy and cut up the pages, or trace the fragments with paper and pencil.
Via my own research I’ve discovered there was also a pulp space adventure in the same series. Both had a sort of “many explorers left on this perilous voyage; only I survived” feel to them, so it had to have been aimed at young adults at least.