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Millie, Who Lives in a Small Town
"A historical fiction book of the Caddie
Woodlawn/Little House/Rebecca Caudill variety. A girl name
Camille, who goes by Millie, is an only child and I believe her mother
is dead, so it's just her and her father. They live in a small
town, I want to say in New York, and each chapter is about different
things that happen to her. She goes ice skating on a pond, and
there's a fire in the town. I think the author's last name starts
with a C." Tell
Aunt Book
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DiggDigg the Big Yellow Digger
A book "about a 'big, yellow digger called
DiggDigg.' The cover may have been yellow, and it MAY have been
called 'The Adventures of Digdig,' but I'm very very unsure. [It]
was minimally illustrated. I think there was only a small black
and white illustration on the top half of every chapter (though it may
have been more often) with what I remember to be around 10-12 point
font. I may be wrong here because I was always looking at the
cover and very rarely inside it (it was always read to me). I was
probably around five or six when I read it, so it would have been
around
13-14 years ago? Maybe earlier. I remember the DiggDigg
book to be around an A5 sized book, say only an inch or so thick, with
a (possibly mustard-y) yellow cover." Tell
Aunt Book
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Short Story About a Mud Doll Who
Teaches How to Make Fire
"It is a very, very old book. It is a
collection of short stories, one of them being about a mud doll (who
teaches a tribal boy how to make fire with sticks), another one being
about a child who collects fir cones, and the third one I remember
being
about a Russian stacking doll. There were more stories,
too. The cover was white, with a green foliage type border.
I think it also had a picture of a young child on it with
fir cones. The title was in large font. It may be from the
1950's/60's, but all I remember was that the pages were yellowed and it
didn't look like it was from the 1970's or later. It was probably
a UK publication, and it was a thick book, say around three inches
thick. I may have my proportions wrong, as I was very young, but
it was wider than A4, but shorter than A4 length-wise - it was quite a
square book. It had around 12 point font, it was quite easy to
read, and there was the occasional black and white illustration that I
remember." Tell
Aunt Book
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Son Looking for Missing Explorer in
Africa
"The book was about a guy traveling through
Africa in search of his missing dad, who was an explorer and was taken
by a tribe years before. He has to bribe his way through Congo,
gets stung by a scorpion (and trips out) and eventually finds his
father's body in a shrine, where the locals thought he was a god.
It was quite a thin book but was a great read! I read it in the
late 90's, after seeing it in a cheapy book shop like The Works.
It wasn't second hand, so I presume it was written sometime in the
'80's or '90's." Can you help? Tell
Aunt Book
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Researchers in a Submarine
"I vaguely remember that it is about a group
of researchers in a sub called something along the lines of 'Tortuga'
or something with a turtle. Along the way they are attacked by a
squid and meet these dolphins. It's kind of a child's book.
It's big and blue and on the inside cover are two dolphins that make a
circle. I can remember some pictures from it. They are in
the lab on computers; one is a girl on a couch looking through the
portal window into the ocean. At the end of the book it's a
sunset with squids and dolphins and a bunch of sea creatures. The
book is not 20,000 Leagues. I had it in the '90's. Tell
Aunt Book
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More Researchers in a Submarine
"I'm looking for a book I once read back in
fourth grade in the late '90's. The story is about a group of
scientists exploring the world's oceans with a new type of submarine.
As they travel, they stumble upon strange dolphin-like creatures with
crests on their heads; their flippers have webbed hands. They are able
to communicate like humans as well as echolocate and share their world
with the scientists to different regions of the oceans, which are all
detailed in painting-like pictures that are similar to the art in the
Dinotopia books. I remembered one part where the group was visiting an
underground cave filled with sick or injured sea animals that the
dolphin-creatures were taking care of, and a female scientist came next
to a giant squid, who seemed curious about her. She gently pets him
while the squid turns a bright pink and wraps a tentacle around her
wrist. One of the "doctor" dolphin-creatures was observing her and
says. "He likes that, please continue." I also remembered that
the cover was green with the group in a lagoon with one of the men
riding on the backs of two of the dolphin-creatures by their dorsal
fins." Tell
Aunt Book
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Frightened Old Lady With Lots of Cats
"I'm nearly 60 now and have been looking for a
book from my childhood for many years now. I thought the name of
the book was THE GHOST OF GARINA STREET. In fact, I've thought
that for years. But now I see on your site and on Loganberry's
site that a book with that title doesn't fit the plot description I
remember. I am looking for a book I read from the public library
in probably the late '50's or very early '60's. It's about a boy
(maybe he's a newspaper carrier) who passes a deserted spooky old house
every day. For whatever reason, one day he decides to explore and
meets an elderly poor frightened woman who cars for lots and lots of
cats in the house. He gets help for her and the cats. I
would love to read the book again, and am confounded that it must not
be THE GHOST OF GARINA STREET after all. But how in the world did
I make that up?!?" Tell
Aunt Book
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Picture Alphabet Book
"I've uploaded pages from an alphabet picture
book that my siblings and I loved growing up. The book is missing
half its pages and the cover, and there are no identifiable markings or
text for the title, author, publisher, or year. My sister, who is
the oldest, is 37 (born in 1970), and I think this was her book
originally. So it could've been published in the early '70's or
mid to late '60's. Did anyone have this book? Any info on
it, please? Thanks a bunch. I'm desperate here.
http://www.redcatcreative.com/alphabet/
http://www.redcatcreative.com/alphabet/images/store1.jpg
http://www.redcatcreative.com/alphabet/images/store2.jpg
Aunt Book thought this might perhaps be one of
Usborne's First Thousand Words series, but judging from the page
numbers the mystery book is far too long. Do you recognize
it? Tell
Aunt Book
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St. Petersburg Mystery
"I read this book in the 1970's, and no matter
how hard I cudgel my brain I can't really remember anything more than
that it was a mystery and that an important part of it was that there
is a St. Petersburg in Florida and one in Russia. I think that
the main characters were two teenaged boys, but that could be
wrong. I don't think it was a Hardy Boys book." Tell
Aunt Book
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Boy on a Journey Meets the North Wind
"I am trying to find the name of a children's
book published in the 1940's or earlier. It had a winter theme
and featured the north wind, with great illustrations. It was not
just about the North Wind, but was the story of a little boy on a
journey who meets various characters, including the North Wind, along
the way. It was a medium-sized picture book and I believe the
illustrations were in color." Tell
Aunt Book
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Depressed Girl, Mother Shops On TV
"I'm looking for a book about a teenage girl
who is dealing with depression and her mother's depression. I remember
that her mother used to buy loads of things from the TV, and the girl
had a little brother. One scene was her mom watching TV, or maybe she
was on a exercise machine. The mother kills herself and the young lady
has to deal with it plus her own problems. She has a best friend and it
goes to some scenes in her school. I could have sworn it had Please
God, Help Me as the title, but I'm not sure; it was so long ago -
around 11 or 12 years ago." Can you help? Tell
Aunt Book
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Quetzal and Rings of Power
"This book is about seven or ten rings of power, and the last quetzal
is in the last ring of power. A girl and boy sneak up there and I
think that there are singers or something to control the powers, and a
dark power is coming. The girl and boy help save the quetzal and
the other, but I can't remember any more. I know this isn't much
to go on. I checked it out from the library anywhere from 3-8
years ago [i.e. 1999-2004]. I just read the Echorium trilogy by
Katherine Roberts, and it reminded me so much of the other book, I was
wishing I could read it again. It was probably a young adult
book." Tell
Aunt Book
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A Magic Kettle
"The book was set in a land above the clouds (I think). A boy
finds a magic kettle that gives water to the old man (Boniface?) who is
dying of thirst, and waters a garden, and it seems never to run
dry. I grew up in the sixties and it was one of my favorite books
back then when I was a child. It was a picture book, and was not
from any particular culture that I can recall. The boy in the
story had blond, curly hair." Tell
Aunt Book
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Golden Book of Short Rhymes
"I am trying to relocate a favorite book I used to read as a child, so
I can share it with my children. Here is what I remember:
-It was a "Golden Book."
-It was a collection of short rhymes.
-One rhyme was about a troll with shoes that were too tight.
-There was a rhyme about deserts that involved a camel.
-I believe there was a rhyme about a dragon and his birthday.
-The last rhyme in the book was about the little boy being a knight,
but he was dressed up in pots and pans (for some reason macaroni comes
to mind in this rhyme).
-I think that maybe the title or front illustration had something to do
with daydreaming." Tell
Aunt Book
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Christmas Stories Collection
"Hello, I'm looking for a story book that my
parents used to read to me every night when I was little [It was read
to me from around 1995 onwards if that is of any help!] The book
was quite large and had 12 to 15 different stories included each by
different authors. Some of these stories included - 'The Bear In
The Bathroom,' 'The Little Fir Tree,' 'The Magic Christmas Present,'
and 'The Little Match Girl.'
"I remember a couple of other stories of which
I don't know the titles. One was about a baby being born on Christmas
Day, and the little girl in the family was jealous, but in the end she
realised that having a baby brother was 'the best Christmas present
ever.' Another story I remember was about a girl who was taken into a
shop with her grandma to pick out a toy, and the grandma really like
the bear on the top shelf although the girl didn't want the bear at
all. She called it 'Annabell' [I think] and treated it very badly and
dragged it along the ground. I remember she threw it out of her window
one night and it landed in the pond but in the end she ended up loving
it.
"The book was bought in England."
Recognize it? Tell
Aunt Bookk
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Fidget the Kangaroo Rat?
"Looking for a children's book I used to read
back in 1997-1999. I don't remember the name or the author but the name
Fidget keeps popping up when I think about it. It is about a small
furry creature with a long tail (kangaroo rat?) that could jump really
high, and it was going around exploring and meeting new animals. One
part I remember: the creature was on the head of a giraffe, and
it mentioned something about the giraffe's long tongue. It had a
large drawing of the giraffe licking its nose with Fidget sitting close
to it. I think the cover was brown with a painting of the main
character, Fidget(?), taking up most of the center. I could be wrong
about the name but I am convinced that is what it was called..."
Recognize this book? Tell
Aunt Book
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Ladybird's Birthday Party in the Woods
"I'm looking for the name of a book i read as
a child. I can't remember the name, but I remember it was about a
group of animals in the woods. Each chapter was an individual
story. There was a birthday party for the ladybird, as well as
boy whose name was Alex, I think, who entered the world. I'm not
too sure about the name. The description probably sounds a little
like Winnie the Pooh but I guarantee that it is not. The
characters were slightly more like the Wind in the Willows
characters. The book was a hard cover, A4 in size." Tell
Aunt Book
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Girl with Putty Face
"I'm trying to find a book I read about 30
years ago when I was in elementary school. It was about a girl
who woke up one morning and found that when she pulled on her face it
stretched out like Silly Putty or something and didn't go back to
shape. She tried to stretch and pull and push it back but
couldn't make it look like her own face. Her mother didn't recognize
her and thought she was a stranger, and yelled at her and started to
call the police. The girl ran out of the house and eventually found
other people who had had the same thing happen to them and found out it
was something happening all over the planet. I don't remember
much else about the plot. I think it was for ages maybe 8-12."
Can you help? Tell
Aunt Book
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Cowboy, Casino With Flashing Sign
"A Scholastic children's book from the
mid-'60's. It had a medium-blue paperback cover with a picture of
a boy in cowboy gear in front of a mountain with a casino which had a
flashing yellow sign.
"The plot: A boy saves an
economically-dying mountain town by bringing a casino to town."
Sound familiar? Tell
Aunt Book
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Brother Kings Who Hate Each Other
"My favorite book when I was a kid was about
these two brothers who hated each other. Each was a king and they
would hurl things at each other from one kingdom to the next. The
fighting keeps escalating. They find these two elephant like creatures
to turn into war beasts and in the end of the books the two beasts
throw off the armor and embrace each other in the middle off the
battlefield." Tell
Aunt Book
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University Town, House With a Turret,
Football Game
"A book about some siblings (two sisters and a
brother?) who live in a university town in a big Victorian house with a
turret. It was probably written in the 1970's. There's a
part about all the people coming into town for a football game."
(Aunt Book has suggested that this might be Family Grandstand, by Carol
Ryrie Brink, but her Dear Niece says that it is not that book).
Do you know what the book is? Tell
Aunt Book
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Hierarchy Shown by Colored Bracelets
and Threads In Hair
"I believe this was a middle school/teen book
from the 90's (I read it in the 90's; could have been written earlier).
The protagonist is a young male (high school, I believe) who is part of
a "gang" or family that shows its hierarchy by color bracelets and
color threads in their hair. He lives with his mom and older brother, a
car mechanic. They do not participate in school, but one day he decides
to fill out a standardized test and the teachers discover the mute boy
is smart, he just can't write well. They move him to higher level
classes and get him a tutor (the main girl in the story). They start a
romance forbidden by both families. I think his color was yellow but I
could be wrong." Is this familiar? Tell
Aunt Book
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Boy’s Misadventures With Small Town’s
Criminals
Cover illustration: A red-white striped circus tent whose front flap is
opened revealing a young male child lifting a barbell overheard.
Onlooking is an astonished circus strongman. Plot: Series of the
boy's misadventures [and victories] with the small town's criminals and
hostile schoolmates. Aunt Book suspects that this is an Encyclopedia Brown book by Donald J. Sobol, specifically Encyclopedia Brown Solves Them All,
which has a picture of a strongman on the cover, but has received no
reply from the Dear Child who submitted the query. Are you that
child? Is this the book? Tell
Aunt Book
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Person Building Wall, Real and
Emotional
"I am looking for a book that was read to me
while I was in a psych hospital. I believe it was a children's book,
but am not totally sure. It was about a person who was building a wall.
It was a real wall but it was also an emotional wall to keep people
out. This person was so proud of the wall he had built, but when he was
done, he was upset because he was alone. That is about all I can
remember of it. It was a great book about emotional walls people put up
and I would really love to read it again.
"It was read to me about 2001-2002. I believe
it was a short book. Also the book had black and white illustrations,
kind of like the drawings in The Giving Tree." Recognize
it? Tell
Aunt Book
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Little Girl With Different Nicknames
"I’m looking for a children's book I saw in
2007 at Barnes & Noble, about a baby or a preschool aged girl who
was given different nicknames by all the different people in her
life. I seem to recall the real name of the girl as Ella, Bella,
or Stella - but I could be wrong. In the end the little girl
asserts herself and wants to be called her real name. It's a
picture book, but I don't think it was a board book." It has been suggested that this book is Many Names for Eileen,
by Peggy Sullivan, though it is an older book and it does not seem
likely that it would be in a Barnes & Noble store as recently as
2007. Alas, the e-mail address for the Dear Niece who submitted
this query is no longer valid, so Aunt Book cannot confirm that this is
the book (or is not). Did you submit the query?
Please Tell
Aunt Book
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Angry Carpet in Little Girl's Messy
Room
"It's about a little girl whose room is very
messy and she refuses to clean it up. Then she tries to pick
something up off her carpet to use it and it's stuck to the floor
because her carpet is mad at her for being so messy. It then
proceeds to teach her a lesson in tidiness. At the very end her
room is clean and she wakes up and leaves her nightgown on the
floor. Her carpet rustles under her feet and so she picks it up
and tucks it under her pillow.
"It's driving me crazy that I can't remember
the title, and I would like to give it as a gag gift to my
less-than-tidy sister. I don't remember when exactly I read this book
but I am pretty sure it was more than nine years ago (we moved and I
seem to remember reading it at my old house) but it would have been
less than twelve years ago because I read it on my own
(1997-1999)." Tell
Aunt Book
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Hot Dog Bun Canoes
"This book is about a boy who, I think, won't
eat his food. Parts of the book include him racing an Indian in hot dog
bun canoes, and later eating the hot dog bun and then drinking the lake
of milk." Tell
Aunt Book
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Mr. Onslaught and His Pet Pig
"The book I am looking for was a story about a
barrel maker - I remember his name as Mr. Onslaught - and his pet
pig. I believe the story took place in the log cabin village of
New Salem around the time of Abraham Lincoln." Can you identify
this book? Tell
Aunt Book
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Girl Watched By Possible Parents
"This book is about a girl who is being
watched by two people who think they might be her parents. The
cover has a girl in front of a car."
Does this sound familiar? Tell
Aunt Book
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Thurman and Thurl
"It is a novel with two twin male
characters named Thurman and Thurl. It is probably from the early
1900's." Tell
Aunt Book
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Bedridden Women Sew a Quilt
"I'm
trying to find a children's book I read probably about 20 years
ago. I found it in a library in Christchurch, New Zealand,
although I think it was probably American in origin.
"It was about 2 elderly bedridden women who top and
tailed in the same bed. They sewed a quilt or patchwork
blanket. There were illustrations, and if I recall correctly I
think at least one of the illustrations showed a cross-section image of
the two- or three-storied house and the women sewing in the bed on one
of the upper floors.
"I can't remember too much more about it
unfortunately as it was so long ago now that I saw it. I believe
there was a purpose to the sewing of the quilt." Tell
Aunt Book
Another request regarding what appears to be the same book:
"I read this book in the early
mid-1980's. There were two old ladies (possibly sisters) who
shared a bed and sat at opposite ends. They were sewing a quilt
together." Tell
Aunt Book
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Charlotte Who Thinks She Was Adopted
"The main character was a girl named
Charlotte (I'm about 97% sure of her name) who felt that she didn't fit
in with her family. She thought she might have been adopted
because she didn't look like the rest of her family. There was
something about genetics in her high school biology class - she was
worried about her green eyes when her parents both had blue eyes (or
something like that!). She had at least two other siblings.
It turned out she looked like one of her grandparents and she wasn't
adopted. There may have been something about a taffeta dress,
too. I think the date of publishing would be between 1940 and
1965." Tell
Aunt Book
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An Alliterative Alphabet
"I am
looking for a book that is an ABC book and has really vivid pictures of
animals. It uses alliteration like it is going out of
style. I remember something about extravagant word choices and
really great pictures. Also.. maybe the I is about
Iguanas?" Tell
Aunt Book
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Christian Book About Overcoming Bad
Habits
"I remember reading a Christian book about five or
ten years ago. It was designed like a child's book. It was
an over-sized board book, with large. full-color, glossy photos.
I believe that the cover had an eagle on it, and may have been orange
or yellow.
"The content of the book was on overcoming bad
habits, overcoming temptations, etc. It cited many Scripture
quotes, and I distinctly remember a story about an eagle getting baited
into a net by a trapper's fish." Tell
Aunt Book
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Turquoise Book of Short Stories
"I am looking for a children's story book with
various short stories in it. It had a hard cover which was
turquoise in colour and slightly smaller than A4. I think the
first story had pictures with the story written underneath each
picture.
"This is the first story that I remember
best: It was about a boy named Johnny. The gist of
the story is that his mother would call him for dinner by shouting
'Johnny, Johnny Come At Once' and the story would go 'but no Johnny
came.' When Johnny eventually went in he had bread and butter and
left over cold rice pudding. His mum called him the next day
because she had a box of chocolates for him but he didn't go when
called so she gave them to the little girl next door.
"The second story I remember: There was
another story about a boy and girl who had a pet reindeer. One
Christmas Eve they heard a noise outside and they found it was Father
Christmas and one of his reindeer was sick. So that all the
children could get their toys, Father Christmas used their pet reindeer
and save Christmas." Tell
Aunt Book
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Witch Steals Town's Laughs
"Looking for old children's book about a witch that
steals the town's laughs. I also remember there was a little girl
named Rowena." Sound familiar? Tell
Aunt Book
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Kiss On Nose Turns Black Panther Into
Prince
"One of my favorite childhood books had an Asian
princess that was kidnapped. When she befriended a black panther
and kissed his nose, he turned into a prince and saved her. I
checked this out many times from the library between 1955 and
1960." Tell
Aunt Book
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Bunny King Arthur
"I am looking for a book that is based on King
Arthur book but as a rabbit as the main character." Tell
Aunt Book
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Kidnapped Girl Rolls Out of Car
"I read it four years ago so it isn't new.
It's about a girl. She is kidnapped and she gets away by rolling
out of a car or something. The kidnapper kept her in a house in
the woods. After she escapes, he tries to run her over with a car
when he finds her again. I think she is a high school
student. I'm pretty sure the guy was crazy and thought the girl
looked like his sister or girlfriend who may or may not have
died. It's just a short novel, I believe. Maybe a little
bigger than a Goosebumps book. I read the book in Canada and
would classify it as a mystery book. There were no illustrations.
I'm pretty sure the title was one word like Kidnapped or something
along those lines." Tell
Aunt Book
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An Orange Mouse Named Mason
"As
a child I read a book about a mouse named Mason. He was an orange
mouse." Can you help? Tell
Aunt Book
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Teasingly Creepy Nursery Rhymes
"I'm really desperate to find this nursery book that
I've been looking for since my departure from primary school. It
is green, the front
and back. The illustrations are quite crude; in fact, all the
nursery rhymes are quite creepy and teasing in a way. The first
time I read this book was around 2004-5, so it's not actually that long
ago.
I was so young back then that I didn't write down
the name of the book or its author. There are some very famous
creepy rhymes in the book, including 'Sticks and stones can break my
bones.'" Tell
Aunt Book
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Kitten With Pink Ears
"I
have been trying to remember the title of a book from my childhood
about a precious little white kitten with pink ears or something
similar. Does this description ring a bell? It is not a
long story." Tell
Aunt Book
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Twin Boy and Girl Help Parents
"I'm trying to help someone find the title of a book
he owned in the earlier 1970's; a Little Golden Book or similar type of
storybook. The plot involves a set of twins, a boy and a
girl. The boy goes outside to help Dad with his chores, and the
girl goes in the house to help Mom with her activities. They have
a birthday party and both of them receive bicycles as birthday
gifts. I have seen a Rand-McNally Elf Book titled The Happy Twins. I don't
know the plot, however. Is that the right one, or do you know of
another storybook this could be?" Tell
Aunt Book
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Little Jewish Girl and Family Visit
Coney Island
"It was about a little Jewish girl and her family; I
believe she had a little sister, too. I think they were going to
Coney Island, or a parade. The cover was white with, like, a
crowd. Grandmother came to visit. The little girl had
pigtails." Tell
Aunt Book
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Girl and Teddy Bear In Bed By Open
Window
"I think it was in the late '60's or early- to
mid-'70's. My sister remembers only one picture in the book;
maybe the last page. The picture was of a little girl in bed
under the covers with a teddy bear. The window was open and the
curtains were blowing in the breeze you could see the moon and stars in
night sky. She thinks it was a Little Golden Book. We have
checked out the book Good Night
but
that wasn't it."
Tell
Aunt Book
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Short Stories, Including Girl With
Magic Skirt
"I also had a book of short stories. I have no
idea of title or author but one story was about a girl named
Roseline. When she stretched out her skirt she had some kind of
magic powers." Tell
Aunt Book
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Girl Goes On Adventures In Brightly
Painted Carriage
"The book that I am looking for I read in the '90's,
and in English. I am not certain how old it is. If I am
remembering correctly there were several adventures of a young
girl contained in it.
"The first adventure was about the girl traveling
from town to town in a brightly painted carriage that she had painted
herself with birds and flowers. She had fixed up the carriage
herself too by fixing an axle, etc. She would often sing in the
town square and also as she traveled, something about 'a gypsy going a
wandering.' She had a little dog as a companion that would run
betwixt the wheels of her carriage as she rode. I believe she
befriended a dragon who was lonely and would terrify a village with his
roars.
"The second adventure involved three princesses who
had been kidnapped by a dragon. For some reason or another the
knights who loved these princesses were unwilling or unable to help
rescue them and so the young girl devised a manner in which to save
them all. I don't remember many of the particulars of this
adventure.
"The third adventure involved the young girl being
seduced by a woodland changeling prince of sorts who saw her as she was
traveling through the forest. He tried to tempt her into marrying
him but she consistently refused. She also refused to eat or
drink anything that he tried to give her because she was aware that if
she did she would be unable to leave the forest. I forget
how she managed to escape him.
"It seems that in all the situations her wit some
how turned things to her advantage in making the antagonist promise
something if she could do something that seemed to be rather impossible
from their vantage point." Tell
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Useless Tricks Featuring Dave Coulier
"I'm looking for the name of a book I read in the
early to mid '90's. It's about totally useless stuff or
tricks. It features or was co-written or had input from Dave
Coulier, the guy who played Joey on Full House. It's a kids'
book. The book tells you how to balance a spoon on your nose and
do other stupid stuff. I live in the USA and the book was in
English." Tell
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Baking a Cake, With Clock On Book
"I'm looking for a children's book about baking a
cake. It was from when my cousin and I were little and she is
going to be 20. It has a clock on the top where you can change
the times as you progress through the story." Tell
Aunt Book
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Rowena and a Witch
"I can't remember much, but the main character was
a little girl named Rowena. There was an old house with a
witch. There was something about a cat and maybe a fox, and also
about Rowena's running away from the witch and hiding in a thorn
bush." Tell
Aunt Book
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Bear Learns Different Tasks
"This book's main character was a bear that I think
learned different tasks throughout the book. He was a little
bear. If my memory is correct, he learned to tie his shoes and
put on a rain coat, and he baked cookies. It was brought for my
son as a gift from his aunt. My son is 25 now but I still would
like to know the name of it. I don't think it was Paddington Bear
because I looked online and the pictures are just pencil drawings, and
this book had nice pictures with bright colors. I think the bear
was asleep at the end. She brought it in South Carolina in
1984."
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Aunt Book
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Child Witch Lives in Tent
"The book is about a child around eleven who is a
witch. The title of the book is her name. I think her name
starts with an M. She lives with her two parents in a tent
outside of a small town. Her parents are nice and help the people
in town repair things. They choose her name by dancing around a
fire." Can you help? Tell
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Children Walk Several Hundred Miles
Home
"My 6th grade teacher - in 1966 - read this book to
us out loud. It involved the very exciting adventure of siblings
who are somehow separated from their parents while on vacation in
another state (California?). The children decide to walk home -
several hundred miles (north?) - and the story follows their journey as
they fend for themselves, and try to avoid capture by authorities who
they believe will try to prevent them from reuniting with their
parents. I've always thought the title was something like 'The
Long Journey' but no search under that name ever brings me close to
this particular story." Tell
Aunt Book
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Selection of Stories from Around the
World
"I’m trying to find a book from which my little
sister and I used to have stories read to us when we were small.
The book would have been published in the early 1980’s and it contained
a selection of stories from around the world. They were all folk tales
or fables, I think; they included 'The Little Red Hen,' 'The Emperor
and the Nightingale,' 'The Elephant and the Bad Baby,' 'The Patchwork
Quilt,' 'The Emperor's New Clothes,' 'The Tale of Brer Rabbit,' 'Nail
Soup,' 'Hercules and the Minotaur,' 'The Elves and the Shoemaker,' 'Pix
Pax Pox,' and 'Hansel and Gretel.' Those are the stories whose
names I can remember, but there were others; one about an angry giant
who lived in a garden and used to scare children, who eventually became
their friend and died under a blossom tree I think? Also one
about a hippo that lived in a pond at the bottom of a garden, an alien
called Wotzit who drank milkshakes and another story about a little
piglet who wanted to be different so he grew a trunk, only to find how
difficult it was to forage for food.
"It had a green hard cover with a collage of
illustrations from the book. The book was beautifully illustrated
in both colour and black and white. I think the contents page
gave the origin of the story as well as its title.
"I’m after this book as I am now expecting my first
child and would love to be able to read them the same stories that held
me and my sister captive when we were younger." Can you
help? Tell
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Sidney's In a Dreadful State
"I'm after the title of a children's
book. I don't know the author or title, but the book starts
off: 'Sidney's in a dreadful state, unless he hurries, he'll be
late, he's off to visit cousin Joe, there's so much to remember
though.'" Tell
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New Boy in Town With Strange Neighbors
"I'm looking for a children's book about a new boy
in town with strange neighbors like werewolves, ghosts, and vampires.
"When I was younger my mom bought me this book about
a new boy who moved into town. His neighbors lived in this big
spooky house, maybe a castle, but when he went in the neighbors all
gave him a gift. The werewolf gave him a fish, the vampire gave
him a bat, and the ghost gave him a dog, I believe. I got when I
was seven, so that was 1994 or 1995. It was a flip book were you
lift the images to reveal another."
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Aunt Book
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Girl Whose Family Owns Cranberry Bogs
"Back in the late 1950’s or early 1960’s, I read a
book about a little girl whose family owned cranberry bogs in
Wisconsin. This little girl was quite adventurous. I
believe that there was only one book written, perhaps two. The
reading level was comparable to the early 'Little House' and
'Betsy-Tacy' books. I wonder sometimes if I dreamed up this book
since I have been unable to locate it." Was she dreaming?
If not, please Tell
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Dinosaur Book With Full-Color Pictures
"I'm looking for a dinosaur book from the late
'70's, hardcover, large format, full colour cover to cover (that should
narrow it down). The interior paintings were exceptionally
rendered and facing pages were composed of a large vista on one side,
with animal descriptions and small pictures on the opposite page.
I particularly remember a Mosasaur-type sea creature eating a very
large fish, and the elasmosaur and pterosaur sea paintings were
brilliant. Also, birds of that era were well
represented." Tell
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Music Book With Macabre Illustrations
"A music book, about novel sized but landscape
aspect. The songs I can't remember, but all the lyrics and notes
were transcribed
within, and it had these strange macabre illustrations of a devil-like
character with horns and goat legs wooing a lady, with various scenes
of haunting stunted trees, in black and white." Tell
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Onion-Like Pod in Forest
"The book was a children's novel; softcover,
probably
about 100 pages. All I remember is that on the cover
(blue-tinted, I think) there was a drawing of a large, strange-looking, onion-like pod in the middle
of a forest." Tell
Aunt Book
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Monster Munches Aunt's Bones
"When I was little (between 10 and 15 years ago), my
sister had a book from our library (in Washington State, USA) that was
a collection of short stories, I believe. In it was a short
children's horror story. The story started with a small black and
white sketch-looking picture of a monster with horns and a toothy grin
(looking similar to one of the creatures in Where the Wild Things Are) sitting
on top of a house at night.
"The plot of the story went as follows:
There were two parents who had two boys. The parents were going
out for the evening and had their aunt coming over to house sit.
The parents left and the monster killed the aunt and put on her dress
and the boys believed it was the aunt. The boys had to go to bed
and heard crunching in the other room. The monster said (as the
aunt) that it was eating chestnuts, but it was really eating the aunt's
bones.
"I don't remember the rest very well, but I think at
one point one boy got up and stepped in blood, and at the end of the
story I think the monster was pushed into the well.
"Ring any bells???" Tell
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Girl Bathes in the Moon
"There is a children's book I have been
desperately searching for. The main plot is a young girl who is
locked in a tower because of her beauty. The captor is infuriated
time and time again when the girl's beauty does not fade. She
bathes in the moon every night somehow (magically). She has white
hair and big blue eyes, the cover is dark and is her in the tower with
the moonlight shining down on her. I read this in the United
States at an elementary school in Mississippi. It would have been
published before 1989 since that is the year I read it."
Tell
Aunt Book
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Parents Give All Their Children the
Same Name
"What's the name of a kids' book about two parents
who treat their children the same and name them all Ralph?
"I'm pretty sure it's a picture book. I heard
it in 3rd grade in the United States, nearly 18 years ago. The
parents decide that they should treat all their children equally and so
since the first one was named Ralph, they named the second and third
ones Ralph too. Then the kids grow up and decide that they would
be perfectly happy making their own choices and being named something
different, so they choose their own names. One of them decides to stay
as Ralph.
"I think they were all named Ralph. I might
have that detail wrong. They may all have been named a different name,
but it was definitely the same name for all the children until the end
of the book." Tell
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Man Creates New Drug
"It's about this guy who creates a new drug, and it
details a story about him and his kid. They use the word 'Twank'
in it to mean someone who has changed his physical appearance.
The whole last chapter involves the Statue of Liberty. I think
the title of the book might have been a date, like 2041 or 2105 or
something like that. They would use the phrase 'let's get
twisted' to mean they were taking drugs." Recognize this?
Tell
Aunt Book
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