A 1950’s or 60’s children’s christmas book – a drawing of snow , a small bridge over a stream, a house in the back ground – a rocking horse in the window. I think it was about the rocking horse for Christmas. Almost looked like a hard cover Little golden book.
This was a large picture book, made up of multiple stories. The main story and cover art featured a young blonde girl, she traveled with fairies, they would ride large bugs, like ladybugs. Also a story about gnomes, they had homes made of ice cream. I believe there was a mermaid/pearl story.
A haughty girl is sent to a farm where she learns modesty and discipline.
Alphabet book that was read in the early 90’s- possibly an international book- maybe from England. The first few lines went something like, “A is for apple, so red and good to eat. So Archie, Daisy, Don and Flo fill their baskets for a treat. B is for ball. The mice are having fun…”
Children’s novel I read in the 90s about two kids who get lost in the woods or “brush”, they find a large abandoned Victorian-looking house beside a lake to take shelter in. They survive off the overgrown garden with rhubarb and raspberries, and fishing from the lake. Their large black shaggy dog, always has hair falling in their eyes (possibly named Sadie?) ends up finding them and returning them to safety.
The book’s cover was yellow/beige, had an oval frame with the shaggy dog’s head extending out like a photograph. Many many thanks for your help!!
Hi, I’m desperate to locate an old children’s book for a friend and all he can remember is that it was a story about a man who wore a top hat, and traveled along a river meeting various people and animals and taught a group of frogs to sing and used a tuning fork. Purple cover (?) UK, Please help!
Another ghost story. The “ghost” is also from the Revolutionary War. The ghost was murdered for some reason and his body hidden (in a well, I think). He befriends a human modern-day boy and together they solve the mystery of the ghost’s demise.
The first book is about a modern day boy who lives in New England. Every time the fog rolls in, a mysterious village of Revolutionary War era appears in the woods. The boy develops a relationship with the villagers and eventually realizes that his own father also had a similar experience. Either the boy or his father was gifted a pocketknife by the ghost villagers.
In the mid-80’s I bought a collection of tiny picture books for my nephew which featured anthropomorphized animals who lived on Cobblestone Lane. I bought them because the first book feature a character (a cat) named Tim, like my nephew. I am looking for these books again as Tim now has a son and would like him to have a set. Can you clue me in as to what they were?
I am looking for a book I bought at school thru the Scholastic Book Club, 1982-1986.
The author was 18 and had written a short story that won a contest. The book I bought was the longer version of that story written after the contest, althou it was only around 120 pages I believe.
The story was about a misfit high school boy who made models of gargoyle-like creatures that were about 3 feet tall and for some reason they came to life. The cover was of the boy in his living room and in the background on the stairs was a set of gargoyle legs coming to get him.
I called Scholastic a few years ago to ask about contest winners as I thought it would be the
easiest way to find a name but they referred me to their Canadian office and they never got back to me.