Glossy cover(?) w/ sawtooth edged circle logo on back. Langston Hughes “Thank you ma’am” (?) inside. Remember cool picture of Japanese climbing “cliff” built on skyscraper. “Queen Peavy” by Robert Burch may have been in. Story about kid solving swimming pool installation w melting blocks of ice
I’m looking for a book that I read as a young boy but whose name now eludes me. I have no recollection of the title but can provide some detail regarding the story and the cover art (at least the version I had).
The story is about a young boy who moves with his family (father and mother) from a city to a country farm/ranch, despite his initial misgivings. One of the first thing he experiences is a hunt for a mountain lion which has been killing livestock in the area. He sees a mother mountain lion killed and then two cubs thrown to a pack of dogs. Later, he finds a female, runt cub in the mountain lions’ cave (she was too weak to come out and, therefore, escaped notice). He takes her home and secretly raises her. I am fairly certain that he calls her “Beauty” but I am not 100% certain. The book continues with the boy raising the cub to young adulthood, including teaching her how to hunt. Near the end of the book, the father is injured and the mother is somehow incapacitated so the boy (and his secret mountain lion companion) have to walk several miles to town to get a doctor/medicine. Finally, the boy needs to release the mountain lion back into the wild. The book ends with their separation.
I believe the book was published by Scholastic Reader and would have been published sometime in the 1970’s (I think). The cover has artwork that shows the young boy crouching up on a rock to feed or pet the mountain lion who is standing on the top of the rock.
I am chasing the name of a children’s picture book that we borrowed from a library in the late 90’s. The book involved a girl who was in a room and was trying to decide on an outfit for the day. Each double page spread involved a different coloured outfit and the room transformed to contain multiple objects that matched the colour of the outfit. On each page was a chameleon to find as well. Finally the girl decides on a multi-coloured outfit.
Unfortunately I cannot recall the author’s name but recall that the title may have ended with the word “day”.
This was a rhyming book or poem from the 60s. It began, “My teddy bear was bad one day, I could not get him to obey” the child tries to scare the bear into behaving with a scary description of the boogeyman and I think it ends “I don’t believe it said my bear, and neither did I so we left it there.”
Small, thin, and round monster who turns invisible when sideways because he is so thin. Little boy keeps getting in trouble because of the monster, I think there was a toothpaste everywhere scene, and the mom catches the monster and kicks him out of the house.
It was in the very early 80’s
A children’s picture book I had when I was young. ( I was born in 1975) It was a heart-wrenching story about elephants.. It focused on the fact that elephants morn their dead. I believe the elephant heard was returning to a graveyard where one of their group had been been buried.
I had a book when I was younger (pre-2000, book may be older, possibly published in the early 80s) that had a hard cover and housed a collection of children’s poems. All were by different authors and all were illustrated.
Romance about a young girl that is tired of having suitors bother her so she decides to act crazy. She keeps pet chickens and takes them on walks with a maid walking in front feeding them. She ties ribbons on them to match her clothes supposed to be quite funny. Older book
My girlfriend is looking for a children’s picture book. She would have read it as a child, in the early 1990s, so if I had to guess, I’d target the publishing of the book in the 80s, but it could be anything pre-1995. She says it was about a young dog (she’s 99.9% sure it was a dog) being tucked in at night, and he asks his parents about where they live (she even thinks the title of the book may have been something like “Where do we live?”). His mom/dad told him about their street, then their city and planet. The artwork showed the other families in the book as anthropomorphic animals, and they all had unique houses (fish families had fish bowls, rabbit family had a hole in the ground, etc). The houses stood out to her, but may have only been artwork, may not have been noted specifically in the story. She believes the puppy may have been named Walter, or something similar. I know this isn’t a lot to go on!
I remember reading two books by the same author one summer when I was about 10 to 12 (I was born in 68.) I think there was a brother and a sister who may have been staying at an old house with a grandfather or uncle and they find some sort of magic item. There may have been a magic genie involved. Not sure. I do distinctly remember one scene from one of the books and the brother, I believe, is caught in a large bubble and travels either to another place (the desert maybe) or travels to another time. The other book by same author was similar but not sure if it contained the same characters. Seems like covers were similar but with slight variations. May have had a house on the front.