{"id":3320,"date":"2016-02-22T14:31:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T19:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=3320"},"modified":"2016-02-23T12:52:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T17:52:14","slug":"254b-witch-whose-hair-floats-above-shoulders-and-beds-become-boats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/254b-witch-whose-hair-floats-above-shoulders-and-beds-become-boats\/","title":{"rendered":"254B: Witch whose hair floats above shoulders and beds become boats (Solved)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am looking for a children&#8217;s book, published in the 1970s or earlier (I was born in 1975, read this sometime between the ages of 7 and 12, and recall the book itself physically feeling &#8220;old&#8221; at the time). Most probably published in the 50s or 60s.<\/p>\n<p>Two children were the main characters, I think they were a girl and a boy. I don&#8217;t remember any names of characters, unfortunately. They lived next door to a witch whose property included a walled and gated yard. When the witch did magic, her hair &#8220;floated above her shoulders&#8221; or something like that. I remember that rowan trees figured heavily in the story line; either they were searching for them or there was something about them the witch needed.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the adventure part of the story line, the children&#8217;s beds turned into boats and they were magically transported to a river or creek while they were asleep &#8211; one of the children wakes up because they become aware that their hand or the bed linens are trailing in the water.<\/p>\n<p>I loved this book &#8211; hope someone can help me find it.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am looking for a children&#8217;s book, published in the 1970s or earlier (I was born in 1975, read this sometime between the ages of 7 and 12, and recall the book itself physically feeling &#8220;old&#8221; at the time). Most probably published in the 50s or 60s. Two children were the main characters, I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,10,11,26,4,18],"tags":[172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3324,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions\/3324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}