He has only ever had to worry about stealing fish, hanging out with fellow cats and the love of his life, Graziella. One night however, he witnesses the kidnapping of a fellow cat. Suddenly, one by one all the black cats on the island begin mysteriously disappearing until there is only one black cat left. Eugene Trivizas has created a story that deals with discrimination as well as the power of illogical superstition seen from the perspective of a cat as the main protagonist.
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You both bring up a good point: The Mitten is an old Ukranian folk tale. A mitten was used in the original Ukranian story, but undoubtedly this is a variant. The best known modern ones are Jan Brett's and Alvin Tressault's. Rachev Illustrator and there is a recent version of this title rewritten with different pictures. I doubt if any of these have been anthologized, so we are no closer to finding your book! Incidentally, Goodreads has an excellent list of books in English, set in the Ukraine. I'm looking for the elementary school historical series available to me in the mid's.
The books had teal blue bindings and a black sillouette of the head of the historical figure. If there were any illustrations in the books they were in black sillouette. I remember books on presidents and some separate ones about their wives: Martha Washington, Dolly Madison, etc.
I believe the school library carried about 30 different volumes. The silhouette biographies, also called the Childhood of Famous Americans series. They were well written, by various authors, and are inexpensive in later editions, although they have collectible prices as firsts. Bobbs-Merrill was the publisher, at least in the beginning. They are currently in print as paperbacks published by Aladdin but I don't know if they have been "dumbed down", probably. Hard to find with a search engine, but try going to the abebooks Advanced Search http: You will have almost 4, results.
This book is prob from the s or s. It was about or so when I read this from my school library. I can't remember any key phrases but I know it had some crazy words in it and you had to turn the book in different directions because of how the book was written. It had a girl with red or brown hair in it??? This story was in a children's story book.
I can't remember any of the other stories in the book. Robert Munsch I hope that's the book your looking for. This book was hard cover and a little wider than average. The book had a bunch of different stories in it. I think one of the stories was about a girl who went out and found an injured cat in the rain. It was apart of a story but the dragon pictures always bothered me so I'd pass them while reading. If -anybody- remembers this book I am looking to rediscover an old book I enjoyed as a child It showed various seasons in which the horse was used to haul hay, for ice harvesting in the frozen lakes, and for harvest of maple being tapped I loved the book as a kid and cannot think of the name nor author Can you help me?
I think the time line was perhaps the 30's or 40's I seem to recall the people in it were rather stout looking and wore overalls a lot I've been trying to remember the name of a book I read when I was about 12, I dont remember much about the book but Ioved it.
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I wanna say it was named "silver" or "silvert" which I think was the last name of the main character, if I remember right it was about a girl about 12yrs old who just moved to a new place I think with her father and they lived in a trailer. Maybe silver was the name of a dog I really dont remember. I do remember the cover had a girl with blondish brown hair looking awfully sad on it. I know I'm no help. She does live with her father in a trailer park. I think they were new in town.
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I liked this book, the author's first. The front cover is blue and purplish with a black cat sat in a tree, and a castle in the back ground. I had a book seem to remember an orange binding about a boy who was either a page or a knight who was trying to hunt down a monster or dragon in the forest I was a 70's kid but my mother was known to have older era books 50's or 60's Anyone know what I am referring to? This sounds just like Bill Peet, but I can't find the one I am picturing!
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Anyway, go to amazon or google images and see if the illustration style is right. I am searching for a book that I think was called Harvey and the Amazing bubble gum machine. It was quite old. On the other side of the book was another book about monsters I think. So it was two books in one. It was a set of mythology books with each one pertaining to a different culture's mythology Greek, Roman, Norse, African, Egyptian, etc. The only other thing I know about them is that they were on the smaller side and either yellow or orange in color so probably more like those cloth-y type covers or something.
Im trying to locate a book from my mothers childhood. She says she remembers an angel making snowflakes of different shapes and sizes from sugar? It was a hard back book with red paper cover possibly with an angel with brown hair. Not the littlest angel. I read a book about 35 years ago. It was about a girl who went shopping I believe for a dress and goes out to lunch. I think she eats fried chicken not sure but I know she eats chocolate cake.
She may have had her dog with her, but I'm unsure. The drawings were not too elaborate. It was a wonderful book and I would like to read it to my daughter. Thank you for any help you might give. We don't have one in stock to check for chocolate. I was about 14 or 15, a freshman in high school, circa Years later I asked her about it but she had gotten rid of alot of her 'kiddie' books. The paperback cover was yellow or gold with blue letters for the title.
I think it might have shown two teen girls on the cover.
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The story was about two girls who are sick and need heart transplants. One comes from a wealthy country family and has red curly hair. The other is regular city middle class girl with dark straight hair and has a boyfriend. Dark haired girl thinks red haired girl's brother is cute. I remember the brother's description reminded me of Leonardo Dicapiro back then except the character wore a cowboy hat. Well rich girl dies towards the end of the book while dark haired girl gets the heart.
Dead girl leaves a goodbye video for her best friend, dark haired girl to watch. I also remember a scene of a cross in the ground that someone hangs a necklace around. Might have been at the end also. Does this sound familiar to anyone??? I remember reading this book when I was younger I think called "Penny Penny". The front of the book she has blonde hair and is kind of skipping. She sort of resembles doll like features because her eyes were beady, she had no fingers just straight rounded off "hands" and "feet".
That she wore black mary jane looking shoes and a dress. I believe she even had her dog on the front of the book as well, but I do remember the dog being in the story itself. I know the girl's name was Penny, and that the title on the front of the book had two words in it with the second one being her name.
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Both words either rhymed or were the same. Hi my name is Marlaina and I'm trying to help my mother find a book from her childhood. It's probably from the 50s or 60s it's a collection of short stories of the fairly tale genre. Billy goats gruff was one story included in it but the story she really remembers is of a brown mouse who didn't want to do her house work because she wanted to dance around in her red shoes.
Please let me know if you have any information. Im looking for a book probably from around the 80's. Each one had a moral, a few questions to follow and then a prayer. I believe it was soft covered. I dont remember the cover nor the illustrations. I don't think the illustrations were in color. Hi, I have been looking for a children's book on pirates that I had when I was little.
I remember very little, but the illustrations were incredible. The general plot of the book was a boy that got stuck on a pirate ship and it followed him around the book. The illustrations covered the entire page and were very detailed in a cluttered manner. I remember one page with a net that had a bunch of pirates and fish in it I know it's not much to go, but I would love to have it for my children. Margaret Mahy wrote quite a few pirate books, and some of her artists had kind of cluttered illustrations. Here's the Google images page. You could also look on Amazon and see if any of them were familiar.
My husband mentioned an old book from his childhood tonight he was born in and I am trying to figure out a title. He said it was about the night the moon fell from the sky. He mentioned the moon rolled around into a barn, etc.
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He remembers the moon was returned to the sky by falling over the edge of a waterfall. He also said the illustrations were really cool because the moon was about twelve feet tall when compared to the young boy in the story. Anything about this sound familiar? I think it might be Teaser and the Firecat by Cat Stevens. Go to the Google images page for this book, scroll down, and you'll see the moon going over a waterfall! I'm looking for this children's book and I don't remember much about it. It was about 1" to 1.
It was filled with a lot of short children's stories. I think one was the kittens that lost their mittens. Another was a papa bear and a baby bear and something about bedtime and cake. In one picture the baby bear is on the papa bears shoulders. On the front and back cover it showed the characters from several if not all of the stories in the book. I know it's not much to go on, I just really remember that I loved this book as a child and would love to share it with my kids.
He also illustrated a version of The Three little Kittens. So I think you should try looking for a Richard Scarry anthology. Trying to remember what books I read in Elementary school maybe in like 1st or 2nd grade. I remember we had a red book, green book and a yellow book all compilations by the same author last name or first name with the letter G.