Can You Help?   

These are books that, alas! Aunt Book has been unable to identify.  If you believe that you know the title or the author, or if you remember anything more about the book, please Tell Aunt Book.  

 
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Cowboys (only for Pigs)
     "It's a picture book, probably in the 4-8 year old category, and it's a cowboy theme, only instead of rustling up cattle, they rustle up pigs!  I believe the story starts with the cowboys (pigboys?) around a camp fire and 'Cookie' is asked to retell a story."  Tell Aunt Book  

 
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New Girl with a Barn
     "First, there was a book about a girl who moved with her family into a new neighborhood.  She met a neighbor girl who was overweight and they began to play together in the new girl's barn in back of the house.  The overweight girl began to be jealous of the new girl and at one point she took some possession of the new girl's, I think a painting, and hid it in the barn.  Later the barn caught on fire and the overweight girl risked her life to go into the barn and save the new girl's painting and she ended up burning her hands in the process.  In the end, the girls came to a new understanding and the book ended with their being friends."  Tell Aunt Book  

 
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Rain Cloud Follows Man
     "There was a story in one of my elementary school reading books about a man who had a rain cloud that followed him everywhere he went.  No matter where he went or what he did, the cloud rained on him.  This made him sad all the time.  Finally, he came to the realization that his cloud could be useful.  He traveled in a helicopter to all the drought-stricken areas of the world and used his cloud to give the people much-needed water."   Tell Aunt Book   


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Emerald Green Ballet Slipper
     "An orphan girl wants to be a dancer, is adopted by a kind couple who help her become a ballerina, is given an emerald green ballet slipper by a prima ballerina as a 'good luck charm,' and at some point ends up throwing it into the wings behind the stage for some reason or another.  I've been looking through all the 'ballet' books I know of and have never run across it again." Tell Aunt Book


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Mystery Puzzles Book
     "It was a collection of short mysteries a la Encyclopedia Brown, only there were some puzzles and more illustrations.  One puzzle was a drawing where you had to find a female suspect wearing a white hat and a dress with black spots, and carying a black umbrella, in a sea of women wearing similar outfits.  Another was a quick story about a bank robbery where a teller was kidnapped by the robbers.  She typed a message in code before being taken.  It turned out that she simply hit to the left of each key."   Tell Aunt Book   


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Little Boy With Flying Donkey
     "I can’t remember an author or title. but this is an Arabian Nights type fantasy children’s book which I read in the mid-1970s.  The main character is a small boy called Little Shireen or Shirin.  He has an old, bad-tempered flying donkey called Zanti or Xanti who has to run in circles to take flight and makes breathless ‘blooh blah’ noises as he does so. "  Tell Aunt Book   


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Boy in Germany During World War II
     "I read a book about 20 years ago where the main character was a boy who was living in Germany during World War II.  He survived in the wreckage of a building that was near the wall.  It told of how he kept alive during the cold, managed to eat with the use of a hot plate and went ice skating with a girl on the other side of the wall.  When they went skating, they drilled holes into their shoes to attach the skates."  Tell Aunt Book   


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Bear, Alligator, Chess
     "It's a book that features a bear and an alligator playing chess."  Tell Aunt Book

  
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Young Children on Maple Street
     "I remember a book about 40-45 years ago about some young kids who lived on Maple Street and in the end the house burns down.  If I remember correctly, the kids were about 8-9, and the house was in a small city, and one story.  It might have been called Big House on Maple Street. I can remember the last chapter talking about the pink hue of the sky, sunset (or maybe it was the fire)." Tell Aunt Book

  
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Shipwrecked on the Northern Coast of Australia
     "I read the book in the 1950's.  It was about a young man who was shipwrecked on a northern tropical coast in Australia.  It might have been called The Coral Strand or something similar.  It was a Robinson Crusoe-type survival story."  Tell Aunt Book   


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Rabbit Who Misses a Trip to his Grandparents' Because He Gets Sidetracked
     "I am looking for a children's story that involved a rabbit that was always too busy playing and missed an anticipated journey to his grandparents' home.  As I recall, he was told several times when and where to be ready for the family outing but got sidetracked playing and missed the event completely.  He was very distraught for having been left behind because of his own doings and resolved to be more aware the next time.  I remember this story having made a big impression on me as a child not to be such a slow poke and mindful of time and responsibility.  I probably read it in the '60's but don't recall how old a book it was.  I believe it is not a "Peter Rabbit" story."

Aunt Book thought this might be Hurry Up, Slowpoke, by Crosby Newell, but the animal in that book is a mouse and it is not the correct book.  Can you help?  Tell Aunt Book   



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Grumpy Hedgehog Poet
     "Author:  Sadly Unknown
     "Characters:   Main protagonist, a grumpy hedgehog; sheep; a farmer (maybe, I can’t remember); other spring forest animals
     "Plot:  Our protagonist awakens from his winter sleep and seeing the beautiful spring day decides to write some poetry. However, he needs a quiet place to find his muse. Queue the normal noises of a spring day in the forest and all the problems he has trying to find a place. Eventually he comes across a sheep field where the sheep have left some of their wool (handily) caught on a fence. The hedgehog gathers up enough wool and stuffs his ears blocking out all sound. However with the silence (and the handy woollen pillows) the urge to write was overtaken by the urge to sleep.   When he wakes he goes (angrily) again on his search for his perfect spot. On the way he spots some bluebells which he decides to smell; hah, not so easy! One gets stuck to his nose!   That is all I can remember (and bear in mind that the memories are almost 20 years old, so a little hazy) although he does find the perfect, quiet and beautiful spot in the end.
      "Illustration: This is what I really remember about this story, the illustration was beautiful! Comic-style characters but definitely drawn by a loving hand. They have stuck with me for two decades as the perfect cartoon woodland animals.)
     "There were other books in this series but I do not remember any details. "  Can you help?  Tell Aunt Book


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Disobedient Duckling Who Finds That Home's the Place for Him
     "This was my favorite book as a child but I cannot remember the title or author.  It was a Little Golden Book about a duckling that disobeys mother and heads down the stream out of the home pond.  He has scary adventures and is finally helped back to the pond by a swan, I think.  The last page says something like,  'This great big world is a wonderful place, but home's the place for me!'  That about sums up my life and I would love to find a copy of that book."  Tell Aunt Book  


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Maureen the Mink, who is not a Muppet
     "I hope someone can tell me the name of the book that has a character named Maureen the Mink.  Apparently there was also a character by that name on a Muppet Show episode or movie, but I heard about the book prior to that."  Tell Aunt Book   


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Penguin Stowaway
     "The book was read by my daughter in the early 1980's.  It came from a school library and was a picture book.  The story was about a penguin from the South Pole who steals aboard a ship; a stowaway.  He is discovered later and made to swab the deck.  I think he is found in a broom closet.  The word "swab" was a new word for my daughter, as I recall.   The book is not Mr. Popper's PenguinsTell Aunt Book  


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Which Pocketbook Should She Carry?
     "The book starts out with a girl deciding on what outfit to wear and specifically what pocketbook she is going to carry on the first day of school.  It is not The Luckiest Girl, but I believe it is a teen romance of some type.  Tell Aunt Book

   
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American Politician's Son and Daughter of an Asian Prime Minister Explore America
     "I am trying to find a young adult novel from the early '80's, perhaps even the late '70's.  The story is about a young man in Washington D.C. who is the son of a politician and is all rebellious and Kerouac-y.  He meets the daughter of an Asian president or Prime Minister.  I think she is from China, but it could be
Korea.  Anyway, they go on the road to see the "real America".  They take a cab out of town and try to pay for the fare with her designer dress and there is a little aside about how the cabbie's wife was mad becuase it was obviouly too small for her.  Anyway - of course they have all kind of adventures in poverty and fall in love but in the end she goes back to her country and he stays in his... for now.  It is Roman Holiday meets Sullivan's Travels.  The book came out in 1984 or before.  The Smithtown Public Library had it in
the young adult section.  The author's last name was probably near the end of the alphabet because it was in the last bookcase of the section.  It had, if memory serves, a red cover.  And the title was two words and it was political sounding like 'Domestic Affairs' or 'Cultural Detente' but not those..."  Tell Aunt Book   


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Mother Bear Delivering Sticky Buns
     "I am looking desperately for a book I had when I was a child, perhaps published between 1984 and 1990.
I have no idea of the title, but here's a quick synopsis:   It's about a mother bear (possibly) who bakes some sticky buns and puts them in a basket on her back. She has to walk through the forest to deliver them and stops half way for a rest and falls asleep. While she's sleeping a cheeky bear eats all of her sticky buns and climbs into the basket himself. The mother wakes up and struggles on her journey, not realising it's a bear in her basket and not sticky buns. The only other thing I remember is it being illustrated in brown and orangey colours, a little like the 'Rosie's walk' picture books.   If you can shed any light on this I would be so grateful, I'm driving myself mad trying to remember!"  Tell Aunt Book   


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Little Boy With an Imaginary Friend
    "I have been trying to find this book for about 10 years now.  It's not the most pleasant book to describe, but it was really a good scare. 
    "It is about a little boy who has an imaginary friend.  This friend starts to be very protective of the boy and starts to hurt and kill people for him.  The friend is kind of living - in the sense that he is always in the shadows - the boy's mother thinks she sees the shadows moving?  I want to say that the 'imaginary friend' maybe had a pet dog as well?"  Tell Aunt Book   


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Gray Cat That Eats Lasagna
     "...a book about a gray cat who would eat lasagna.  His owner gets sick."  Tell Aunt Book

  
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Bear Who Lights Street Lamps
"I think it was from the 1980's.  Book is about a bear that lights street lamps at night.  I remember he was also flying a kite in the book and in bed dreaming at the end of the book.  It was about a day in the life of this bear.  The main part I remember is the lighting of the street lamps.  Tell Aunt Book   


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Decorating a Mother's Hat
"It is a children's book about decorating a mother's hat, possibly for Easter Sunday, and it becomes a collection of lace, photographs, flowers, etc., possibly delivered by birds.  Tell Aunt Book   


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Count On Ants?
     "Scholastic children's book from the mid-'60's.  Yellow paperback cover with a number of enlarged ants, realistic but not scientifically so.  This was not a science book, but rather has a plot about ants.  It might be a counting book."  Recognize it?  Tell Aunt Book


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Neilsen-like TV Family
     "Scholastic children's book from the mid-'60's.  The book is about the children in a family that is like the Neilsen TV ratings family but the company has a different name."  Can you help?  Tell Aunt Book


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Adventures of a Camel
     "This book had an orange cover with a drawing of a camel.  It told the adventures of a camel in desert country."  Tell Aunt Book


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Origins of Phrases
     "This book was published by Pocket Books.  It was a paperback with 9-12 squares of different colors.  It was written by a rabbi in simple language, and explained the origins of language items; for example, why 13 is unlucky, etc."  Tell Aunt Book


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Garage Monkey
     "The title of this book is something like Grease Monkey, or Monkey Shines.  It tells about a boy who is hired to work in a car garage.  Tell Aunt Book


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Horse on a Ranch
     "The author's name is something like Gates.  The story is about a horse on a ranch, and the title is something like Stallion at Green Gates Ranch."  Tell Aunt Book   


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Colonial (Probably) Girl, Rich Old Man, Scarf or Cord
     "The book was published before 1995.  I'm pretty sure it was set in colonial America, but not 100%.  The main character was a girl.  I think she started out pretty young, but by the end was old enough to engage in a romance.  The girl was quite clumsy.  I think the book started off with her in bed because she'd hurt herself and then she tried to get up to do something and ended up breaking the rod that held the cooking pot.  And I seem to remember a goose around this part.
     "The girl lived with her mother and they boarded the male school teacher. 
     "There was a boy.  He was an outcast.  I don't remember if it was because he was part Native American or had been raised by Native Americans, or if it was because his parents were dead or some combination of all three or something else altogether.
     "Boy and Girl were friends.  Boy went away (I think for a long time).  When he came back, Girl fed him blueberries.
     "At one point, Girl is running through a storm and falls, hurting her knee.  She is saved or helped by a rich old man of whom she is terrified, because when he was young he killed or accidentally killed another girl.  But he turns out not to be a bad guy, and Girl starts going to see him and helping him.  The old man's punishment had been deferred until he was older, and the night that it was supposed to be carried out, Girl is with him, waiting.  When the appointed time passes and no one comes for the old man, they both realize that everybody had forgotten.  Girl takes from around his neck the silk scarf or cord that the old man has worn in remembrance of his crime and punishment, and takes to wearing it in her hair.
     "I'm pretty sure that at the end of the book Girl and Boy become involved, but not 100% sure."  Does this sound familiar?  Tell Aunt Book  


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The King Family Takes a Trailer Trip (Social Studies Book)
     "When I was in third grade (I'm pretty sure it was third grade), in 1970-71, the social studies textbook was about a family named King.  The father was an engineer or something like that, and he was going to build something like a dam on the west coast.  So the whole family traveled west in a trailer, and on the way they (and the students who read the book) studied the geography and history of the places they visited.  I can't remember the title of the book, or the publisher."  Does someone out there know which textbook this is?  Tell Aunt Book 

 
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Alien with Talk Stalks Who Ate Mottos
     "I need the title for a science fiction book read in the 1960's.  It might be for older juveniles or possibly young adults.  It told the story of an alien from another planet who decided to give up his alien ways to live like a human on earth.  He had antennae called "talk stalks" and ate little squares that had sayings on them, called "mottos."  One of the characters was called Twylip, or something close to that."  Tell Aunt Book   


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Little Girl In an Old Schoolhouse
     "The main character was a little girl and, from what I remember, most of the activity in the book involved her school and her classmates.  The book binding was red cloth and I think it had a black drawing of the little schoolhouse and the children playing outside.  I'm not sure, but it seems like the picture of the children playing was sort of like the painting called "Crack the Whip."  The time frame of the story was late 1800's to early 1900's; maybe a little later than that, but no later than the 1940's.  Oh, I do wish I could remember more about the book.  The only thing I can remember is that it's about a little girl who goes to a very small school somewhere in the long-ago USA.  It seems that there was a bad little boy who caused some sort of mischief in the school, but that's all I can remember. Tell Aunt Book   


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Dreamlike Book, Water
     "The cover was dark blue and had some sort of white flower on it, I think. The girl was poor and her name was short and weird like Abel or something. It was really dreamy-like and there was some sort of  water, I think a flood, and she floated past a house and her mom or something.   I think she was underwater at some point, too."  Recognize it?   Tell Aunt Book   


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World That Doesn't Spin But Has Vampires
    "The story is about a world that has stopped spinning and there is one side that is always light and the other is always dark. On the dark side live vampires and on the light side live normal people and every solar eclipse the vampires come attack the humans and take them to the dark side."  Sound familiar?  Tell Aunt Book


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Lotty Wants To Run Away
    "I'm trying to find a children's book that I used to take out of the library as a child (in Hertfordshire, UK).  I was probably 6-7.  I'm 26 now.  The book itself may have been from the 1960's or 1970's.  The cover was yellow, and it was a paperback.  It had some illustrations but I think they were just sketches; they were not coloured in.  I think the central character was called Lotty - the book may have been called Lotty but I can't be certain.  It was about a little girl who, I think, wanted to run away.  I remember a part where there is a wicker basket being lowered out of a window (but I have absolutely no idea why!); there was a sketch for this.  I think she may have had a cat.  Also, I think she lived with her grandmother.  In one of the pictures she is getting dressed wearing a vest and pants, and putting on her socks."  Can you help?  Tell Aunt Book


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Avoiding a Nursing Home
This book is about an elderly man or woman who doesn't want to go to the nursing home so he buys a house and takes in the elderly.   Tell Aunt Book


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Man Riding Pegasus
    "This is going to be rather vague since I can't remember much about the book because I read it a long time ago.  I think it was the last(?) book in a series.  The cover was blue, and on it there was a Pegasus with a man on its back, and the man was holding something.  I think the plot had something to do with finding pieces of something, and I read it in Australia.   Tell Aunt Book


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Fantasy and Horror Short Stories Compilation
    "Over 30 years ago, I read a book which was a compilation of fantasy / horror short stories (it could be classified under juvenile fiction) wherein these tales were told:
    "1) a story about a woman very proud of her 'green thumb.'  One day she accidentally cuts off the tip of her thumb and on a whim decides to plant it in her garden.  Result: it grows into a clone and, I believe, kills her...or at least, the story led the reader to believe that the clone did this.
    "2) a story about an antique mirror, given to a young girl.  The girl sees several scenes in this mirror involving another young girl from long ago.  The scenes play out to the eventual murder of the historical young girl (by her father), and the modern young girl is inextricably drawn in.
    "3) a story about a young girl vacationing at a lake with her family.  One night she walks to the lake and discovers lights flickering beneath the surface.  There was once a town which was flooded, and the ghosts still haunt the lake.  The young girl interacts with a ghostly young man and eventually decides to join him beneath the lake.  I remember quite vividly how the writer described the young girl entering the water and becoming colder and colder, even as her family called out for her in vain.
    "4) a story about a boy who finds a strange mummified bird-like creature, and decides to bring it home.  I don't recall much about this one other than the creature comes back to life and eats the boy's puppy.
    "5) a story about a witch cat (grey, I think?).  I believe a fisherman was involved; somehow he killed the cat and then discovered that it was a witch (his wife, perhaps?) - sorry, I'm very vague on this one."  Tell Aunt Book


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Two Boys Living in a NY Apartment Building
    "I am looking for a book from my wife's childhood about 25 years ago.  It was the first book she ever read.  In the story, there are two little boys living in a NY apartment building.  I know that one of them is named Jamie and he has a sister named Aurora.  She was named Aurora because she was born at dawn."  Tell Aunt Book


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Flower Story, Possibly by Poe
    "Once I read a short story about a flower falling in to a river and floating under a bridge.  I believe it was written by Edgar Allan Poe but it might have been by someone associated with him."  Tell Aunt Book


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Colorful, Sparkly, Musical Mushrooms
    "It's a book that I read when I was very young.  All I can remember about it is that it was about a group of bright, colorful, and sparkly mushrooms who would play intruments, and when the evil witch would come about they would bring out their mushroom tops and cover themselves.  Also, I think they found a land that was covered in a crystal dome to protect them forever.  This could be incorrect but I am also thinking that they might be called kindles, or kendalls, or something of that sort.  I think the cover of the book was yellow."  Tell Aunt Book


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Girl in the Scottish Isles, Americans Set Up Camp
    "I'm looking for a book I read in maybe the 5th or 6th grade (about 13 years ago) in California.  It takes place in the Scottish Isles, or the Western
Hebrides, or Outer Hebrides.  There's a girl that lives in a village.  Americans (I think) set up camp on the other side of the island.  She can see them from a cliff. I think she has a brother, also.  That's about all I can remember.  I believe there was a war going on?  I'm not sure."  Tell Aunt Book


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