Read in late 70’s, may have been dated at the time. Cover was blue & grey or white. Girl sent on holiday & adjusting to a new life in a relatives home (w/ cousins?). Slips through time/reality via window or monument of some kind. Empowerment, magic, maybe Arthurian. Something about a door in the sky
I’m looking for a kids book from my childhood. The protagonist is a little girl, possibly named Elizabeth, who has a new baby in her family and is having trouble adjusting. Elizabeth wears black and white striped tights with Mary-Jane shoes. Can you help?
This book is probably Christian fiction/romance. My mom read this circa 2009, but that’s not necessarily the date of publication. The book is the last in a series of 3 or 4 books, and the main character of this volume, Mercy, plays only a minor role in the first two books. It takes place in the late 1800s, she thinks. This is how my mother summarized the plot:
Mercy is the lone daughter in a family of about 6 brothers and her father, who make her do all the housework and they are ungrateful. (Her mother is deceased.) The men get their meals cooked, their clothes washed, their house cleaned by their sister and NEVER give a thought to the miserable life she leads. She never complains because she figures it’s her lot in life.
Then one day she discovers a new neighbor down the road, a man with a little boy. She worms her way into the house, starts making meals, playing with the little kid, etc., even though the guy shows no interest. The best part is the end, where the guy finds out where she lives, and he goes over to talk to her. He finds her outside in the freezing cold, hanging wash, while the dad and brothers are all relaxing inside the warm house. He goes in, tells the men what he thinks of them for
sitting around while she’s out working in the cold, and he goes outside and takes her home with him, right then.
Even if you have just a vague sense of a title or author, I’ll gratefully accept any possible leads you can provide. Thank you for your help.
I’m searching for a children’s book about a mother cat giving birth to kittens. The title was Sunshine’s Kittens or Sunshine has Kittens. Definitely the name Sunshine. It was around in the early 70s – not sure of the publication date.
My grandparents had a children’s book about a kitten that was always on the wrong side of the door – the title may have been something like that. It was a small book, maybe 4″ x 6″ inches, with a light blue cover and an oval in the center with a picture of a little girl and/or the kitten on a front step. I think the kitten was black and white. It would have been in the early ’70s that they had it, but I have no idea how old it was. I don’t remember it looking too old at that time.
A book probably from the 80s or even late 70s.Beautifully illustrated with diagram-like illustrations; one I remember in particular was a diagram of Baba Yaga’s house. Story about two girls and a hound dog solving spooky mysteries; definitely involve Baba Yaga at some point.
:Pre-1970 children’s book about a black boy, possibly named Johnny (johnny-o?). Illustrated in a caricature style, light colors on black background. Almost abstract and dream-like.
The subject matter of the book had to do with food, possibly pancakes. I vaguely recall someone or something ‘rolling’
This is a story of, I believe, three animals.
There is a crow, and two others whom I cannot remember. These three animals live in a tree that they share. They are trying to survive, and much of the story surrounds their attempts to Cook good meals. They may make stone soup. The book has chapters and it has some illustrations. It focuses on animals staying warm and staying well fed. For example, They eat biscuits. I would LOVE to know the title of this book. Help?
My Mom gave me the book in the 3rd grade.
hi there. i’m looking for a book that i read when i was a child (early 90’s) and my sister recomended this site.
from what i (think) can remember of the book a boy goes to bed angry (not where the wild things are!) and subsequently his foul mood starts to make the world break. first his room cracks and then later on the world becomes flooded and there is a picture of him sat on the roof of his house, leaning agains the chimney with his arms crossed as he watches things float past (at one point i think he hangs onto his bedroom door as it floats). i think the book ends with the whole world (reality) having been destroyed.
i think that the book used the colour blue a lot and my mother says that she remembers that it wasn’t very inundated with language- mostly pictures
I used to read a book in grade school in the library about Greek Mythology. I remember one of the stories was Theseus & the Minotaur. I believe the book was grey in color with black writing & black scenes & the name of it was Greek Myths. Can you help please?