This was an illustrated children’s book I had as a child in the mid sixties about a young boy who goes sailing with his father and looses his favorite marble in the cabin below. Years later as a young man, and with a child of his own, he discovers a shipwreck and finds his marble then restores boat
This is a picture book on what lies underneath a large metropolitan city, shown in cross-sectional drawings. I found this at a bookstore about four years ago, but it was a reproduction of a book originally published in the 1920’s or 30’s. All the cars on the street level were period automobiles with big scoop headlamps, like Packards and Pierce Arrows. All the illustrations were in color. Even though it is a contemporary publication, no bookseller I’ve talked to has a clue what I’m talking about. (And it’s not David Macaulay.)
A girl does plays in her home. either a dog or cat, lots of dress up clothes, i.e. scarves, hats, I think she uses a curtain and curtain rod as a setting for the stage. A lot of illustrations
1960’s/1970’s storybook- This was a short, very colorful story within a book of many stories. It was about a gnome/ old bearded man who scented and colored the flowers. One day he was carrying his glass bottles filled with his potions and they fell into the stream. Some fish tried to help him and there was a young girl/ fairy type character who was with him. Her named could have been Melinda or Belinda. There also may have been a part to the story about some matches getting wet.. It was written in a comic book strip style ( at least that is what my mother recalls.) I feel like the book was red and white and don’t remember the other stories.
I am looking for a set\series of children’s books that have either an orange or red binding with a gold\yellow diamond on each binder. The pages of each book are white glossy with very intricate color pictures(engraved?) of various children stories like Aesops Fables. time 1960s-70s.
I’m looking for a series of books I loved. They were all biographies for
about a 4th/5th grade level. They all had a green cover. There varied in subject
from Helen Keller to Peter Stuyvesant.
This book is likely 25 years old or more, written by a man who got kicked out of Marine boot camp, and had to wear a pink suit of some sort in front of his former class of recruits. That was one of his low points. I saw an interview of him on television after he had made good in life. It is his story of redemption.
This book was probably printed in the late 1960s or early ’70s and probably took place at the same time. I remember it as one of those very inexpensive quarter of a normal sized books, with a dark olive background and a fluffy white bluish cat with a pink ribbon and candy behind it.
A little girl has just started a new school or just generally goes unnoticed. I think she is extremely shy and lacks self-confidence, and her family may also have less money that the other children. I’m not sure about that. Her school is having a cat show which seems unlikely, but that’s what I remember. The owner of a nearby candy store has a litter of kittens and all of the other children rush in and claim the beautiful and lively kittens. Our main character hangs back, but the kindly store owner gives her what is obviously the runt, a bedraggled white kitten to take home. I think the girl may have named it Peppermint.
Her mother comforts her and gives it bath and adds bluing to the water. The cat turns out to be a beautiful long-haired kitten and wins first prize.
I loved the picture of the light blue cat with the pink bow around it’s neck, especially since my grandmother told me about doing the same thing to her white poodle during the Depression. You took your fun wherever you could get it back then. I’ve despaired of ever finding a copy of this book because it was in such a “throw-away” format. Thanks in advance if you can help!
From the ‘70s or early ‘80s. A girl goes by herself to live with a relative (grandma or aunt) but when she arrives, the relative isn’t there for some reason, and nothing was communicated to the girl’s mother, so she decides to stay in the relative’s house and do things on her own. She cooks, cleans, does grocery shopping, etc., and tells the people of the town that her relative is at home and the girl is just doing all the errands. It’s NOT Charley or The Girl Who Ran Away.
A group of teenage outcasts believe they are being sent by their parents to an OutWard Bound type boarding school. They come to realize that their parents have decided they would rather have them dead and the “teachers” are out to get them. Coming together, they attempt to cope with this fact and escape their fate.