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Hello! I was wondering if anyone could help me track down this book I had way back in the day? It was a hefty book that had a mini story (composed of a handful of short sentences) for each day of the year and showed the progression of the seasons through different events such as the first blue birds singing, the swallows flying off for winter, receiving the results of autumn's harvest, and so on. There were beautiful water colour paintings to go with them as well. This was a thick book, perhaps several decades old now.

Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance ^.^

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ragothlham

Hi all,

I saw a horror short today that sparked a memory of a book I read as a kid in the early 90's, but can't place for the life of me. What I remember was that it read as sort of a dark Goosebumps-type book, had a young, maybe teenage, girl as the protagonist, and the plot centered around a Christmas tree. I believe that it perhaps ate one of the family pets, but the climax revolved around it being a portal to another dimension that was accessed by going through its impossibly deep branches, or trying to reach the 'back' of the tree that always retreated? I think the parents, or at least the mom, was eaten and rescued by the end? IIRC, the tree was kind of sentient and could maybe hypnotize people?

If anyone has any ideas, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks!

fancifuldelights

2010 or earlier-This book takes place in winter and a young woman is hired to babysit a quiet boy and they bond. The boy’s parents (I assume) are dead (under suspicious circumstances) and he lives in an old castle with an old woman and other family members and now the young woman. She isn’t liked by the family (they’re very mysterious) and they try to poison her by giving her a (cherry?) pie slice with poison but she doesn’t eat it. She ends up falling in love with a young man (not sure how they meet but he visits often). The two are chased by an assailant with a gun (possible shootout and they hide behind some stone pillars?) but they get away. There’s also a great pond surrounding the castle, there’s a lot of fear surrounding it (I believe the boy is afraid/there was an incident on the ice/drowning?) and someone falls through/left on the ice as punishment and the boy plays ice hockey on it I think. The young woman warms the boy up after he falls through? Thank you for reading and for any titles you suggest!

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Entries tagged with cat: seasons - winter & holidays

Old water colour painted book with a story for each day of the year

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