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The book I read app. 1965 featured a cast of maybe ten year-olds and a few teens as protagonists, with naturally supportive adults. The time was about 1850 and the wagon train set out from AFAIK St. Joseph, MO to head west. It sort of seems the group were Mormon, but I am unsure. What I'm sure of is that one little boy grew impatient to see a real prairie dog town and was deeply disappointed to find out the 'dogs' were rodents. He looked forward to teaching one to speak and sit up for treats!

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daisyporter

Looking for a book my husband read about 1980. He was sevenish, but the book could have been for older kids. Here's what he remembers:

It was a world with no adults. Kids formed different groups called "planets."

It had an urban setting. the "planets" were outdoors in alleys, etc. No one lived in houses.

Newer kids to the planets were taught the group rules by the other kids: this is how we do things in our planet, etc.

It may have featured all Black characters, but he may be confusing that with another book.

I've been going through lists of books where there aren't any adults, including The Girl Who Owned a City, but can't find any that refer to kids forming groups called planets.

seventiesgirl

Hi everyone! I just found this website today and if someone can help me solve this book mystery I would be so happy! I was born in the late seventies so I'm not sure if this book was written and illustrated before or after I was born. It seems to my recollection that my mystery book did not have many pages and I think the illustrations may have only been in black.and white or a couple other colors. But the story had to do with animals who for some reason build rounded dome like homes. It seems to me that a large animal like a hippo was used to shape them. I think they used cement or mud around the hippo and then let them dry. What I remember most are the illustrations where you could see the animals in their individual and maybe connected homes decorating them the way they wanted. As I grew up and would draw and doodle more amd.more I would draw homes of various shapes and I would then make rooms and decorate them. This mystery book inspired my imagination as did so many others. If you know any info on this story please help me solve this mystery. Thank you for your time!🙂👍🥰❤

lastharper

Please help — I’m looking for a hardback children’s illustrated book. I don’t believe there were any words. It followed a day in the life of a baby raccoon and his/her mother, and I think it included a trip to the seaside. I think a lot of the colors were in a blue spectrum, and the art was realistic (I mean, for raccoons wearing clothes that is).

My search game is pretty bad because I mostly pull up The Kissing Hand (which is great, but not the book I’m looking for). I say it was about 2008 because I saw it in a bookstore at the same time as “The New Bear at School” which was published in 2008, and I got the feeling they were both being featured as new books.

The story reminds me a lot of how much my mom loved me as a kid and how she showed that, so I’m looking for it now that she’s getting elderly because I want her to know how much I love her. I believe it’s out of print.

Thank you.

mistymoon

Hi everyone! I’m looking for a childrens book about fairies, it was NOT a novel, it was an informational book where the author was acting as a fairy from another realm, and there was lots of information on types of fairies, such as water, garden and the tooth fairy, and fairy houses and legends about changelings. There was also some “fairy recipes” which were basically just normal cupcake and milkshake recipes. I also remember that there were lift-up flaps that looked like flower petals, and in a pocket of the back cover there was a large pair of paper wings which you were meant to thread string through and wear. This book was given to me sometime between 2008 and 2012. I think the front cover was pink but i cant remember. I understand that no one here has probably read it but if anyone could help me find it that would be great! 💗🧚🏼‍♀️

gretarwyn

Ok I’ve been looking for this book for AGES. I read it when I was younger probably around 2012-2014 era, and I’m pretty sure it was a pretty new children’s novel back then.

I don’t quite remember the plot, but I remember som key details. The cover was mostly red with I think a black silhouette running or something on the cover. I know covers of course can change so I don’t know how helpful that will be.

The main character was a young girl who I think lived with her stepdad? It was set in the future in this really clean city where the dumpsters were all clear plastic and everything was very clean. I specifically remember the car horns we advertisements because her stepdad hit the horn in traffic and an ad would play (like a radio commercial coming out of the cars horn, every car was like this it was something futuristic I guess). This girl got really bad headaches all the time I remember, and here is the big part: she was being followed by some creature. This creature wasn’t harmful and it was almost like a human, but I’m pretty sure it was a golem which needed a slip of paper in its mouth to be able to come to life.

Unfortunately that’s all I remember, but I want to find this book again so badly! Thank you!

beggar_always

Hello! A friend of mine has been looking for a children's book that she would've read in the mid-to-late 1980s. My only guess was Richard Scarry-related but that's not it. Her clues:

There was a book I loved as a toddler. It featured a bunch of pigs illustrated in a comic book style (with panels). They were getting ready for the day. I specifically remember a page where they were all huddled around a mirror brushing their teeth and maybe a page where they were making pancakes. I think it might be British and with little to no words.

Any suggestions?

dabbler101

My brothers and I have fond memories of book our parents read us to us in the early 80's (that's why I'm guessing it may have been published in the 70's, but I'm not sure - it may have even been earlier). I don't think it was much longer than 20-30 pages. I believe it was a hard cover, and if my memory serves me there was an illustration of red barn on the cover, with a rolling farm landscape surrounding it. I believe the book introduced the reader to a number of animals that lived on the farm, maybe even shared some simple information about what they did / what they ate, etc. Maybe in the middle some place it became clear that a big thunder storm was approaching, I remember the dark ominous thunder clouds more than anything else really. The story then was about all of the animals heading to their respective safe places to take cover for the storm and I recall it being fairly tense: I remember wondering would all the animals be safe? Like many children's stories, in the end the storm passed, the sun had come back out, and the animals began to come out of their safe places... I've tried many internet searches for this book, using key words and such, but have not had any luck. My brother Ben is turning 40 soon, and I'd love to be able to find this book and give it to him so that he could read it with his two children. If it sounds familiar, or you think you have a lead for me to chase, please share!
Thank you!

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jamisnively

My sister swears she remembers me reading a book when I was late elementary school age, around 2001-2004ish, and she thought it was a Harry Potter book. But none of the Harry Potter book covers match her memory of the cover art of this particular book. I have vague memory of what she’s describing, a green hand that comes out from the bottom of the picture and you don’t really see any other part of the body the hand comes from. I don’t remember what the plot might be, but it would be a book written for children. Anyone have any idea?

kitewithfish

Hello, kind friends!

I am looking for a book that I read in hardcopy in my childhood (aka, the early 1990's) which was probably written 1990's or earlier. I have no recollections of the cover or the age of the book at the time.

Setting: American revolutionary war and preceding years, I think in New England.

Genre: historical fiction - probably aimed at older children, I think, but it might have just been from an older style of polite writing that did not mention sex or upsetting things in literature. (I read a lot of things as a child that I was probably not supposed to have read. :)

Main character: a young man who we follow from a poor childhood to adulthood. He's educated in a public (I think) single room schoolhouse with a single teacher. He's a mathematics and accounting genius from an early age, and at one point I believe there's a conflict with his schoolmaster who does not believe a student as dumb as him could be working out complicated mathematical problems without being instructed in how to do it. (He's not particularly un-intelligent, but he's Very Gifted in math and not much interested in other elements of education, and the character might be read as autistic to modern readers.)

Detailed scenes:
- conflict with his school master over math, but the boy's mathematical talents are later recognized and he's trained (apprenticed?) to someone in trade involving sailing ships or a port. The school room uses slate and, I think, lead pencils to write on them rather than chalk?

-at one point, a mentor he admires gives him a book to study on mathematics (Maaaybe Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica, not sure) and the boy is embarrassed bc he cannot read Latin, but when he confesses the mentor arranges for him to have lessons.

-scene on a ship in a battle where he has to hide in the gunpowder room and calmly reads a book until the battle is over, causing people to exclaim that, of course, he'd be reading completely calmly in the powder room of a ship under fire, of course. The ship might be smuggling goods, not sure.

-There's a scene when he's an adult where, at a dinner party, his host asks him to solve a complicated mathematical question regarding compound interest over time bc the host would like to make sure that he has not been cheated by a bank or business partner. The host lays the details out, but says, Don't worry about solving it now, enjoy your tea, I'll give you some time with it later. But the main character thinks about it and comes back with a detailed answer without using any writing materials in a very short amount of time.

-This was a book I read on my own, from my school or classroom library, not something that was assigned

jat

One story was about pigeons that give birth to a griffin.
Another was about children that discover a monster in a well that eats anything which is thrown down.

Presumably from the 80s or early 90s.

The cover depicted a child (a girl?) lying in bed surrounded by monsters from the stories. A red griffin perched at the foot of the bed.

azrael_nephilim

Hello all,

When I was in single digits as a child (which was a LONG time ago as I am 35), I read a book in my school library which was about a hero on another planet (I believe it may have been Mars but I can't be certain). I can not remember this hero's name. He was a martial artist and I believe he had some sort of an animal companion.

I believe he was human, but was hiding from (and often getting into fights with) alien soldiers. It was a central detail that the main thing this character had going for him was his super human abilities with martial arts (but a made up/alien variety). Somewhere amongst the early chapters of the book, there were a few fight scenes in underground tunnels.

On the old copy of the book I was reading there was an illustration of some sort of hollow Iron Suit; maybe some sort of armor. I believe the name of the book was even some sort of reference to an iron suit, iron man, red suit, martian suit, hollow man etc. Problem is that whenever I search anything similar I just find 100's of Marvel references, to which this book was unconnected.

I would love to find out what this book was called as I loved it as a child and would even quite like to pass it on to my kids, if only I could remember what is was called. Any help would be much appreciated!

In summary:
About 30 years ago.
Childrens SciFi,
Strong emphasis on Martial Arts (but made up),
Another planet,
Underground Tunnels
Possibly Aliens, an alien army or alien soldiers,
References to some sort of suit of armor, possibly made of Iron.

Many thanks!

ma_ya_12

Don't remember much but it was about a girl who was a spy/secret agent and she had recently moved to a new neighbourhood maybe?

One thing I remember in particular was her mum was a widower, and she recently started started seeing this guy that the main character didn't like, and one time they were in the car together and he played Stevie Wonder's 'Isn't She Lovely', and she thought it was the dude trying to be romantic with her mother but it turns out the guy was her Dad, and he was playing the song for her. He had faked his death to keep his family safe because he was also a spy/secret agent (I think).

Other than that, my memory is pretty spotty. I think she carried out like one main mission during the book, she was trying to solve a mystery of some sort. There was no magic, so it's not a fantasy book, but she did have gadgets. It may have also been part of a series, I think I was wanting to read the sequel but never got around to it.

Read while I was still in school I think, 7 to 12 years ago, but I found it in the school library and I don't have access to that database unfortunately :/

Any tips would be great! Thanks for reading :)

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sholio

I was talking to a friend about this book today and realized that I am now dying to know the title/author, but I can't remember that part at all, even though I remember the book very well.

I read this book as a kid in the 80s, but I think it used to be my mother's book when she was a kid, so it was probably published somewhere in the 1950s or 60s, no later than the early 70s. It's middle-grade reading level.

The plot (which I remember in surprising detail; I really liked this book and read it a lot) was about a suburban housewife, stressed and overwhelmed with kids/husband/generally being a 1950s housewife, who snaps one day and just stops giving a damn. Her new lightness of mood makes her start floating. Her family freaks out, but she's actually pretty happy about it (mostly because she just doesn't care anymore, about them or anything else). A screwball comedy ensues in which her frantic family tries to keep her from floating away, the media shows up, etc. Eventually they do actually lose their grip on her outside, and she floats away like a runaway balloon, at which point an all-out rescue effort ensues, because she's going to eventually float high enough that she'll either asphyxiate or freeze to death. However, the book's style is still a light comedy style even when they're scrambling to try to save her life.

This is an incredibly weird book because of the style/content mismatch; I mean it's basically a funny book aimed at kids that's about a family trying to save their suicidally depressed mom. Which is one reason why I want to find it again and find out if it's actually as bizarre as I remember.

Other things I remember about the book:

- There were cute little illustrations in a cartoony lineart style. I think the cover might've been a cartoony drawing of the mom falling or floating while everyone tries to catch her.

- The book was surprisingly educational about different kinds of clouds, layers of atmosphere, and so forth. The mom was either some kind of scientist before she quit to have kids, or she was just really into it as a hobby, but she named all her kids after different kinds of clouds, and a lot of her narration as she's floating has to do with the layers of atmosphere that she's passing through and that kind of thing. This was the book that first introduced me to the jetstream (because she gets caught up in it).

- I vaguely recall that the title is one of those "does what it says on the tin" titles like you typically got with kids' books in that era, but (in keeping with the rest of the book) there may have been some sort of weird twist to it. I think it may have included "Mother" or "Mom" in the title (something like "Runaway Mom" or "The Flying Mother" except not actually either of those), but I'm not completely sure about that.

morivoveso

I remember one christmas in the mid to late 90s asking for Animorphs books and nothing else. I ended up getting books about kids who could turn into things instead of animals. I ended up throwing them out, but recently remembered this event, but not the name of the books. I never read them as I was so disappointed, so I don't havea lot to go on, and google has been no help.

noorhanosh

I don't remember much but I read it when I was about 8 and have been trying to remember since! It was about a girl who found a dollhouse with her guy friend. They went inside the doll house and every room they entered was a whole new adventure, often in a different time era. At one point, the guy had a bento box.

Don't think it's Time Windows by Reiss.

jaecheondaesong

Im not quite sure if im mixing up two different books together, but i remember this one scene, where an older lady (an elite) is pretending to be good but is in fact evil, she puts these bracelets on the mc girl which forces the girl to do exactly as she is told against her will. As a demonstration of this power she forces the girl to lick the feet/sandal of her son(s?). Otherwise she leaves the girl to work with her servants.
Im fairly certain the girl is friends with a dragon, a young one who cannot fly very far or cannot carry her far.
I think she met the evil lady in a secluded or secret area where she was being taught magic before she was enslaved.
I believe the girl is part of a prophecy including the dragon friend.
Unfortunately this is all I can remember due to how i remember questioning the slavery part in what im sure was otherwise a children's book. (just seemed a bit more explicit than i was expecting)

jaecheondaesong

I can't remember too much detail except that magic was involved and it was centered around children, at least 3. One of the antagonist was a man who got caught up in the magic (he may have been trying to steal or exploit) and ended up getting the face of a rat which he later attempted to correct using plastic surgery. However, this is all i can remember, which is unhelpful i know.. :(

moosie_123

Help please! I'm looking for a book I for the life of me cannot remember the name of. I only remember bits and pieces about the plot, but I think the main character was a young girl named Meghan. She was I think middle school aged and she had missed a month (or more) of school from a sickness (something like mono or something...) and she had an embarrassing incident that had to do with underwear in her class. There was also something else with her making friends with mean, popular girls but I honestly can't remember anything else and it's been driving me crazy! I think it was from sometime between the early and mid 2000s, but it was definitely a chapter book meant for young readers because I must have read this when I was either in elementary or early middle school.

rissabby

A few years ago my grandson was reading a book about a very smart boy who was going to take some mysterious kind of test. When he's near the test center, he meets a girl who has lost her only pencil down a storm drain. I think getting it out is part of the test.

I didn't get any farther into the story, but I'd like to read the rest of it. I think it was closer to a kid's book than a young adult book.

Any ideas?

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Entries tagged with genre: children's fiction

Heading West On The Oregon or Mormon Trail YA Book

read about 1980: world with no adults, so kids form groups they call "planets"

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Solved! Children’s picture book — circa 2008

childrens fairy information-type book🧚🏼‍♀️

Children’s Novel About Golem Creature and Headache Girl

Comic book-style with pigs

circa 1970 Children's Book - farm animals preparing for storm

Book with a green hand on the cover

Children's historical fiction - American Revolutionary war, mathematics, savant

Children's anthology audiobook about monsters.

Childrens SciFi, Mars, Martial Arts, Tunnels, Aliens and an Iron Suit.

Looking for children's book

Looking for a kids' book from the 1950s/60s

Sci-fi, YA, Animorphs knock-off, 90s

Help please!

Young girl + dragon

Children's Book- Magic involved

Middle School Aged Book For Girls

Kid's book about smart kids

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