Looking for a book for my Dad, possibly from 1950s/1960s. He only recalls an illustration of children dredging a river in a boat (I think) and the bucket of the dredging boat either had gold ingots painted on it and/or was full of gold too.
I am looking for a book I read back in the early 70s – the book could be from the 60s. It was about a young woman who takes a job as a “nanny” on a cattle farm East of San Francisco, for two young girls who lost their parents. An old woman with a broken leg lives in the house, there are two Aunts to the young girls living there, one is named “Beryl.” There are two hired men who work the cattle farm. There is something suspicious about the old woman and the hired men, as if they are plotting to take over the farm. There is a “maid” who is not very good at her job and this “nanny” title role character ends up taking over the cooking duties as well. She ends up falling in love with one of the hired men and the old woman and the other hired man are arrested for crimes, and the “nanny” and the “good” hired man take over the farm and raise the two young girls at the end. The plot takes place in the Summer as the book always talked about how hot it was. I remember the old woman, along with the two young girls, originally picked the “nanny” up in San Francisco and they ate a meal on Fisherman’s Wharf before departing for the ling car trip to the farm.
Probably 1950’s or earlier, a book with actual wood for front and back covers, like shingles, about life in a logging camp, with black and white drawings of the narrow-gauge railroad used, etc. I remember it as being from a child’s perspective, who was sent to or visiting the camp, and I seem to remember the cookshack and mealtimes as important.
My mom remembers a book that she read to me as a child and she has wondered what the title was ever since. I was a kid in the 80s, and the book was bought used, so: pre-1989 for sure.
The picture book is about a mother and daughter who hang sheets on a clothesline. Something about smelling the freshly washed sheets and then a storm coming.
Thank you for your help! It would be so cool to locate this for my mom.
Gnome and his gardener go on journey to rescue Autumn, personified as a fairy, whom is kidnapped by a warlock. They rescue her, but not before the warlock opens a schism and the gardener falls through. Morning glories grow in the place where he fell through. Illustrated with green felt cover.
I can’t remember the title or the author of the book and only vaguely remember the story. However, I desperately want to read my little girl this book that my mother used to read to me as a child. It is about a little girl who wants to be a dancer, but than she either gets hurt, or has some problem with her fee and she has to wear special shoes, which are big and clunky. She thinks she won’t be able to dance in her recital anymore. But, instead of giving up she gets on stage and dances her heart out in her big clunky shoes and she has a great time and impresses everyone. My mother read it to me about 30 years ago. Please help me to find this.
This was my American history text for the school year 1958-1959. I remember only two things about it:
1. Among the illustrations was the usual Thomas Nast cartoon of the Tweed Ring, but what I really liked was the “Through History With J. Wesley Smith” cartoons by Burr Shafer.
2. It was the only textbook I’d come across that seemed to have been written by an actual person, with actual ideas, and maybe even a sense of humor!
Aside from that, I think it had a blue cover, and there were questions after the chapters. Not much to go one, but the Shafer cartoons were memorable.
Picture book, available in early ’70s. Illustrations in penciled sepia. A little boy enjoys a tree but grown-ups say it must be cut down. Eventually he is given a chair, his size, made from its wood, which soothes him, maybe with a spindled back. Not The Giving Tree.
I read a book in the 90s about a girl in the pioneer days who is becoming a witch or learning magic. She lives in a forest with her family and ends up having to gather herbs and set traps for animals for food. It seemed to be setting up a series. Also there was possibly a romantic element.
This is a book that my mom read to me when I was a little girl in the late 80’s, early 90’s. I think it was called something like “Mrs. ______’s Cake Shop” (or possible Bake Shop) although I’m not sure and haven’t found anything by searching with those keywords.
I remember that it was about a lady who had a cake shop with all different kinds of cakes. The illustrations were really cute and it talked about how she made big cakes, and little cakes, and short cakes, and tall cakes….The illustrations showed cakes of all colors and sizes sitting on different platters. Some cakes had frosting and were very fancy, others had no frosting. Some were little like cupcakes and had pink frosting (I think) with cherries on them.
I think the story continued with her boxing up a cake, or several cakes, that she was going to deliver somewhere. As she is walking along with her cakes, it starts to rain. I think she didn’t bring her umbrella with her because she was holding all the cakes, or there is something about her umbrella in the story, but I’m not sure if its a main part of the story or not.
And that’s all I can remember!
This was one of my favorite books as a little girl and I can still remember the illustrations of all the little cakes in my mind but I just can’t seem to remember the title or how the rest of the story goes.