FOUND: The Just-for-Fun Book (Britannica Discovery Library, 12) by Christine Timmons

[jinora_grace]

This is a repost from the old LiveJournal What Was That Book. Hopefully, with a little bit of new information, I'll be more successful than last year.

I am looking for a children's book with a title something along the lines of "Just for Fun". The copy I remember having circa late 90s-early 2000s was a library discard book. The cover was blue-grey, with the front illustration showing a bunch of kids reading and hanging all over an elaborate contraption where you set the ball rolling, and it causes a domino effect. The pictures were all limited palette colors. The first story was the 12 dancing princesses (in particular I always liked the ending of this version because the soldier acknowledges that the oldest princess is best choice age-wise, but chooses the youngest princess because of her sharp senses). I believe the center of the book contains some Dick and Jane type stories. Towards the back of the book, there is a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood where a grandfather keeps telling the story "wrong" by making his granddaughter the main character, and the granddaughter keeps correcting him. I recently identified the retelling as Little Green Riding Hood by Gianni Rodari.

Fantasy

[kisstheskittlez]

I read a book a very long time ago and can remember basically nothing about it but that I loved it. I know this is gonna be a long shot but I gotta try. It’s a book about a witch with read hair and emerald geeen eyes. I know it wasn’t set in modern times, it had more of medical times. It was definitely a romance novel that my young teen eyes new nothing about when I read it haha. So there was a sex scene I’m pretty sure in a cave and maybe on the cave ceiling? And I’m sure the cover of the book was a bluish green witha picture of a red headed girl on the cover. Those or the things I’m pretty sure of. There might have been like some sort of council or government like school she was going to? I honestly don’t remember. I read it thinking it was gonna be just a nice witch book I borrowed from my great Grandma but it ended up being more. And unfortunately when she passed the book was nowhere to be found.

Looking for Young Adult Fantasy

[jinora_grace]

Another repost from LiveJournal:

I think this book was published between Fall 2005 and Spring 2010, as I recall that the book was displayed prominently in the high school library; normally only new releases were displayed like this if I remember right. The main character's mother had escaped this pack of wolf-creatures (I think?) where she had been kept captive. The mother had been a captive for her whole remembered life before escaping, and it was a hellish memory for her. After escaping, she has to learn how to live in normal society, and she raises her daughter constantly on the move to avoid the pack recapturing them. The daughter was captured by that same pack as a teenager. I seem to recall there was a crumbling castle setting where the creatures lived, but it was a modern setting. In some sort of ritualistic thing, she had swirls painted on her skin, and one of the pack is supposed to take her as a mate. I distinctly remember a picture in the book depicting her with the swirls painted on her skin. I am pretty sure the pack's culture is declining, and they somehow "need" the girl in order to survive.  I think there was some kind of telepathy or empathy thing involved, too.

Looking for Board Book

[jinora_grace]

 A board book most likely published in the '90s.  A book of colors, using animals for each color (at least I think it was only animals?).  Each page had a picture that I'm wanting to say was in a style somewhat reminiscent of Eric Carle, in that the pictures were not solid colors, and a solid colored circle in the upper corner of the page.  Orange was definitely Orangutan, and there was either a page for Yellow Goldfish or Gold Fish (with a separate page for yellow). Leaning more toward Yellow Goldfish.  The book was smallish and square. I think the background of the cover and most or all of the pages was black.