I’m pretty certain it was published before 90’s. As I remember each page spread was devoted to a wacky nonsense invention with rhyming description(I believe they were tongue twisters as well) and was illustrated showing the invention. I think there was an invention for each letter.
I remember reading a book in about 7th grade (1982) about a girl traveling with her archeologist father to either a jungle or rain forest. Something happens at the excavation site killing her father and leaving her alone to fend for herself. The story follows her journey back to civilization.
The book is about a little girl with tap shoes. At one point in the story she bakes a chicken. The book possibly has a red cover.
I’m seeking a children’s book I once owned, probably purchased in the late ’80’s or early 90’s, about a girl in an oldstyle London apartment who befriends a mouse. They are both threatened by an alleycat, who grows larger and larger when the girl runs, but shrinks when she turns to face him.
I am looking for a middle reader or young adult book published late 1980s to early 90s. It involved (I believe) a boy who had these sugar cube type things (or possibly seeds) that when he ate them gave him magic or granted a wish that he spoke.
Mystery of the Hidden Brooch was a book I read in elementary school in early to mid 70’s. It was a mystery about a missing brooch. There was an old house with a brick wall or chimney upstairs, possibly covered by wallpaper. One of the bricks was a drawer, where I believe the brooch was found. The mystery was solved by a young girl, possibly other children also. I could be confusing a couple of books.
Folding children’s train book, published 1955-1963.
Size about 4″ x 6″ folded up accordion-style with flap on top.
Each book panel is a different kind of train car with a pocket containing a small booklet with a story, puzzles or games.
Final panels contained coloring paper & box of crayons.
Story revolves around two brown otters, one of them is trying to find the moon that is making the reflection in the water. Published sometime prior to 1990. Cover was dark blue and depicted one otter on a cliff near the top of the book the other in the water below the cliff.
A hardback children’s book, published in the 1970s, about weather forecasting. The cover is light purple and on the inside of front and back cover are weather symbols. It is for kids around age 9. It was in our school library when I was in 4th grade in 1977.
This was a small hardback, maybe 3 by 5 inches, printed in colour, with a history of kites and then a long section on how to make them. The spine may have been red in colour. Single clear memory: in the opening chapter there was a panel from the TinTin story showing Tibetan monks flying kites.