Looking for a vintage children’s book that has a blue shoe or boot on the cover. The story is based on the “There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe” nursery rhyme. However, in this version the woman is nice and gives the children supper stew, not broth without bread. It was published before 1980 but the exact date is unknown. Please help identify this book! Thanks!
Category Archives: Unsolved
357T: Three Interwoven Rings
Would you please help me find this book?
The main character (could have been a girl) and a father who traveled to far off places or jungles a lot brought home a wooden crate and inside was a seraph. And it was in the attic or the main character played in the attic. Maybe someone was sick or dying in the hospital throughout the book. At the end something about three interconnected or interwoven rings.
I checked it out from a middle school library in the 1980s. It would’ve been a newer looking book at the time. That’s all I can remember.
357S: NOT “Iron Duke”
Around 1952–54, I read just about every John R. Tunis baseball book I could find. Then, having exhausted Mr. Tunis’s baseball output, I checked a football book out of the library. All these years, I have thought Tunis wrote it, and that its title was Iron Duke. Now I suspect both memories are wrong because …
357R: Girl’s Uncombed Hair Becomes Nest for Many Creatures
Looking for a vintage book (read it to my daughter in the 80's) about a girl named Katerina (Caterina?) (Princess?) who wouldn't comb her hair - had many creatures living in it. She finally got help brushing it from a hedgehog. Book had lovely soft watercolor line drawing illustrations.
357Q: Sci-fi book including “Men of Harlech”
357P: Schizophrenic Lady M.D.
Book written in 1950’s, 60’s I think. But remotely possible published as late as 70’s, 80’s. Autobiography (?) by woman (maybe named “Diane”, not sure…?) who suffered schizophrenia (I think, or some sort of mental illness) and became an M.D. despite this.
Probably a U.S. book, but not sure. English language, anyway.
357N: Boy Commits Suicide Because Of Parent’s Abuse After Getting Best Girl Friend Pregnant
357M: Ordinary Man Caught Up In Biker Gang
Around 30 years ago I read a book about an ordinary man that gets caught up with a violent biker gang. The leader was beefy and wore a black leather vest over his bare torso; he ends up murdered and is buried with his hog.
357L: Girl endures US occupation by Japanese after WW2
Read in the 1980s – 90s. Book follows a young girl in the US after WW2 where US loses the war. The Japanese take over the US and we follow this girl as she is forced to live under Japanese rule.