I’m looking for a series of children’s books I read in the 1970s maybe called ‘Ancient Peoples’ or ‘Ancient Civilizations’ …hardback, white, 9*12 . Series included The Celts, Vikings, Egyptians, Aztecs…maybe others.
Sister and brother escape bad man. Read this scary chapter book about 1970 in middle school. About a sister and brother, home alone who have to cleverly escape a bad man who is downstairs. Sister cuts her hair to disguise. About their adventure.
Dim memories, 30+-year-old book; very dark illustrations, about a young boy who lives with his uncle or grandfather and his tall and sort of shady assistant/mad scientist. They build a boat/ark, there is a huge storm, and they wind up shipwrecked in a zoo.
I am trying to find a kids book I used to read to my kids when they were young (15 years ago.. omg). I can’t remember the title, or the author, and all my searching and asking has led me nowhere. So I will ask here just on the outside chance someone knows.
It is the story of a Hedgehog that has awoken in string and is in a bad mood, he goes around talking to all the forest animals before finally feeling better. The refrain he says is “I am a prickly hedgehog, i have just awoken from a long sleep. I am sullen, angry, mean, and moody. Woe betide those who cross my path”
Any help here?
Looking for a children’s book about a lion who either got a haircut and was unhappy with it or for some reason his mane was cut off… don’t have a title… wish I could give you more to go on.
My 4th grade teacher in 1958-59 read us a chapter-a-day in a children’s book about a group of kids trying to solve a mystery. While trailing a bunch of crooks, the smell of the kids’ mosquito spray (quinine) gave them away. Calpurnia was the housekeeper.
This was a book I had when I was very young. The illustrations had children dressed in early 1900 clothing and it may have been published in that time frame. It was a compilation of stories and poems. One poem was about a little girl eating her first peach. I do remember a line from that poem “I’ve eaten it cloth and all Mama but what shall I do with the bone?” She was referring to the peach pit. Another story in the book was about a little girl who was picking blackberries and could not reach the best ones high in the branches. A gentlemen offers to bend over leaning, on his walking stick and let her stand on his back to reach the berries and she refuses saying she would be to heavy etc. The young man remarks that it would be rude to refuse a kindness and the little girl accepts his offer. There was a picture of this scene in the book of the little girl standing on his back and picking the berries.
Looking for a book I checked out several times from an elementary school library in the mid-80s (not sure how old the book was). It was NOT the Verne story but was about a group of people who walked across the bottom of the ocean between the continents. They had some sort of tanks that allowed them to eat and breathe underwater.
based (I think) in 1900 New England. I remember the cover was solid blue and I thought the title was just Phoebe. Read it when I was 12 or 13 .. chapter book. I believe the girl was an orphan and went on a train to live with a relative.
I’ve been trying forever to remember a book that I read when I was young. I think I was 10-13. Mid-80s. There was a girl who moved to New York City in the summer. Because she had no friends yet (I think), she spent a lot of time exploring the city by herself. She rode the bus by herself and she went to the movies by herself. She was really into fashion and talked a lot about the outfits she was putting together every day. I think that there was a department store that she loved and maybe fantasized about buying something there? I think she did a lot of window shopping.
I don’t remember her interacting with any other characters, so I have no idea what the plot was. I just remember thinking that it was so cool that she was getting around the city by herself, and that she was so fashionable.