I am looking for\u00a0 a children’s book . . .<\/p>\n
Title:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (not sure)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Weiry Wax\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Alternate spellings: Wiery, Weary\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wacks<\/p>\n
Approx publication dates:\u00a0\u00a0 older! I read it sometime between 1945 and 1950. It could have been a 1930s publication. I’m born 1941. Been seeking this book for 60+ years, for my grandchildren, and myself. Contemporaneous with PING<\/em>, the Chinese duck and the junk boatman.\u00a0 I mean, I was reading these books at roughly same time. Also that Brownie book, of 1930s or ’40s.\u00a0 Barbar<\/em>\u2026.that era.<\/p>\n Description:\u00a0 children’s book, roughly that picture book format\/size, glossy cover, with the 30\u00a0 or so pages of text and\u00a0 art.<\/p>\n The main characters, I believe on the cover, were the Weiry Wax\u00a0 (or ___ Wacks, or Weary ___), but I think the spelling was like a ‘weir’ (low dam) They were roundish, something like a mummer meets a sea urchin. Black.\u00a0 A coal-black snowball, with spines.<\/p>\n I’m reminded of them whenever I see the soot sprites in Miyazaki’s TOTORO<\/em>–the little black dust balls. These guys were bigger than that, but not more than knee or waist high on a child.<\/p>\n I can’t remember the other characters\u2026.was there a human? don’t know. It’s just that the Weiry Wax themselves scared me mucho, but they weren’t too evil, I think, and I came to be fond of them. Wanted one for a pet.\u00a0 (They may have been dreadful: I was a weird kid, only child, active imagination.)\u00a0 Pretty sure they had eyes, like the Miyazaki sprites, and not much else.\u00a0 Stubby legs\/feet maybe. Like a Shmoo, but definitely in the dark part of any shmoo universe. I don’t think they were there to help.\u00a0 Guess they lived in a forest. They might have carried a staff or spear, ergo hands\/arms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am looking for\u00a0 a children’s book . . . Title:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (not sure)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Weiry Wax\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Alternate spellings: Wiery, Weary\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wacks Approx publication dates:\u00a0\u00a0 older! I read it sometime between 1945 and 1950. It could have been a 1930s publication. I’m born 1941. Been seeking this book for 60+ years, for my grandchildren, and myself. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8,26,3,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160"}],"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=4160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4161,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions\/4161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}