The book I am looking for is NOT: Lovely Summer, The by Marc Simont (Mar 1, 1992). The book is about two rabbits Gladys and Tyrone, Globby the Woodchuck, two vacationing humans with a cocker spaniel, and a conflicts in use of a garden. Pub. in 50s or 60s (?)
b & w illustrations, blue cloth cover
I’m looking for a book of childhood stories that contains the story about a colony of rabbits and a bobcat. The story was illustrated with a bobcat wearing overalls with suspenders. To avoid being eaten, the rabbits would hide in Mr. Bobcat’s house at night while the bobcat searched for a rabbit
I probably read this book between 1972 and 1975, but I got it from the library so there is no telling how old it was.
The only thing I remember is that the heroine started the book as a poor relation. She had dyed the dress she was wearing for dinner and was embarrassed about it. In the middle of the family meal the hero showed up, asked her to marry him and took her off into the west with him.
I used to think it was an Edna Ferber book, but I’ve read through every Ferber book I can think of. It is also definitely not Michener’s _Centennial_ which has a similar scene involving Levi and Ellie Zendt.
This was a hardback book, with a picture of a beautiful blonde girl on the front with a well and green hills in the background, and I recollect it being blue? But that could be wrong.
It was a compilation of different fairy tales and except for the ‘seven brothers into seven crows’ tale, none of them I have ever come across since.
The tales included stories about;
A little girl who lied a lot and then got given a ring and the ring squeezed her finger and went bright red when she lied.
A little elf who went to a house with blue flowers in the garden and somehow he was invisible and he went inside the house where the other elves were baking and tried to steal toffee but got caught.
A wicked magician who had a cloak made out of enchanted beads and somehow moths got to it and it disintegrated and beads spilled everywhere and the villagers took them.
And , the one I remember most clearly was a tale about a wicked mother who had two daughters, one beautiful and one plain – she went away and told the girls to cook clean etc. but the ugly sister wouldn’t do it and so the pretty one did everything but when the mother returned the ugly sister lied and said she did everything so the pretty sister ran into the woods. In the woods she found the house where an old woman lived and so she asked to stay, she made the woman delicious apple pie and cleaned her whole house and so the woman said pick a brooch and a cloak. She picked a ratty old cloak and a plain lark pin, even though the woman had many fine ones. When she left the house the sun shone on the cloak and it was rich velvet with precious jewels all over it. When she got home her mother and sister were so mean she went out to the well and cried but when she sobbed it came out sounding beautiful and a passing prince wanted to marry her. Her sister was jealous and so went into the woods and found the old woman but she did nothing and made the woman cook for her and then demanded a cloak and brooch. She took the fanciest cloak and a emerald toad pin. When she went outside the cloak turned into a motheaten piece of cloth and when she got home and went to the well and cried but it came out sounding like a toad croak.
There were more tales but I can’t remember them. I specifically want the compilation, rather than individual adoptions of the tales. If anyone knows about this it would make me so happy as my mum accidentally gave this book away and it was my childhood favorite.
I read a book in the mid 1980’s about two teenagers who had conversations with God. One was named Denise Meyer (my maiden name in real life) and the other was a boy. I don’t know his name. Also I believe they wrote letters or got phone calls. Can you help?
Unsure when published. Around 20 pgs. Children’s short stories/poems. Included 3 Billy Goats Gruff, a story of a man who walked on his hands & planted a garden. Last story about boy who hated a perfect girl in class (focused on her name). Many others. Each story 1-2 pgs. No color pics, just drawings
I have been trying for decades to find a book from my childhood. I would have been about 6 or 7 when I got it, so it would seem to be late 1970’s/early 1980’s. It was a hardcover book, about 8.5 x 11 size, with illustrations on each page that had the reader solve a mystery. I cannot remember the title though I seem to think it was a set of two, and perhaps the main character had “professor” in his name somehow. I also seem to recall one or both mysteries being set on a dock and/or boat. The illustrations were brightly colored with dark outlines; a graphic style more so than a detailed realistic illustration. Any help would be appreciated!
I read a book in the late 60s or early 70s about a young girl that went to live with someone (perhaps aunts). She went out for a walk and to a house down the street where she met a family that had children near her age. She visited them and but came to find out they were actually from the past
I’m looking for a Christmas book that’s a sort of modern day nativity story. It’s one that my husband grew up with and he talks about it a lot, but hasn’t been able to find it. In the end, there the baby is born in a station wagon outside a truck stop…
This was about a teen (18?) from Colorado who moves to Florida to be the live-in nanny for a young boy with rich parents. The boy is very intelligent and begins killing people using his inventions. Eventually he’s eaten by an alligator while trying to kill the girl in a swamp.