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T5: Troll in the Toybox
Solved: The Children in the Jungle
T6: Treasury
Hello, I am trying to purchase a weekly reader book that was filled with nursery rhymes, poems, stories, fables, etc. I was in the first grade in the late fifties when I was given the book now I would like to purchase it for my grandchildren. It was red and quite thick and 8 1/2 by 11 inches. I believe it was called something Treasury but I could be wrong.

Perhaps the book is Storytime Tales-A Treasury of Favorite Stories Pictures by Corinne Malvern A Big Golden Book; 1950, Simon and Schuster I have this book and I was a child in the 50s. It's big and red. The
cover shows a boy and a girl sitting on a red chair looking at a book. A little dog is perched on the arm of the chair. Stories include Never Worked and Never Will by Margaret Wise Brown, several fables, animal stories, poems, songs and some "modern" stories (Carl Sandburg). I think your site is fascinating.
Pauline Rush Evans, The Family Treasury of Children's Stories. 1956. 'I had these books as a child in three grey volumes, but have since found the same books in two red volumes that are thicker. They contain many nursery rhymes, poems, short stories, fairly tales, and excerpts from books. Included are T.S. Eliot's Macavity, Thurber's "The Night the Bed Fell", Robert McCloskey's story about Homer and a doughnut machine, an excerpt from Tom Sawyer, My Friend Flicka, The Call of the Wild, and Kon Tiki, Custard the Cowardly Dragon by Ogden Nash, the story of the Seven Chinese Brothers and other Grim and Aesop fairy tales, and many more storys and poems. If this is it, you may have had only one of the two books in the set, so you may not have had all of these stories. The first book has a LOT of nursery rhymes. If you think this might be it, I can list more of the contents for you (when I found them after 30 years, I bought 6 sets--for all my brothers and sisters and my mom and an extra set for me just in case!).
Editor Augusta Baker, Best Loved Nursery Rhymes and Songs, 1963. Could it be BEST LOVED NURSERY RHYMES AND SONGS from Parents' Magazine Press? This book is about 250 pages long. I've been looking for a similar book and think this may be it (I'm waiting for it to arrive in the mail to be sure). My book had a very particular feature--I think it was a group of pages in the middle of the book that were of a different color, and may have been an ABC portion.

T15: Turtle shell cracks
Solved: The Cunning Turtle

T21: Train to Georgia
Solved: Summer at Buckhorn

T26: Three Mountains
I have thus far only browsed your site, but it seems to be a wonderful resource for answers to foggy memories... I have one of my own. All I remember is a cover with three mountains. The rest of the book has something to do with them...with fog, perhaps as hats and scarves, and perhaps snow or rain as well. I can't for the life of me remember a title or author. What I DO know is that I must have loved it, because the memory resonates deeply. Let me know if you can help!

Sounds a lot like the cover of The White Mountains by John Christopher, a post-apocalyptic novel.
Funny that you said hats and scarves; Christopher wrote a trilogy about tripods, and it has to do with people reaching a certain age and getting "caps," mandatory metal mind-control devices.
Actually, this sounds like a picture book. It would be nice to have a vague date and whether it was a picture or chapter book.
T26 The person didn't say whether the three mountains book is a picture book or intermediate fiction. If it is a picture book, then I have a long shot. There is a book titled THE THREE ROBBERS by Tomi Ungerer, 1962. The cover shows the large, hill-shaped hats that the three robbers are wearing, and their eyes. The hats do look like mountains. The robbers also live in the mountains. They rob people until one day they end up robbing a
stagecoach where there is nothing of value except a little girl. The girl helps them mend their ways, and they open up an orphanage. No scarves in the book, but the robbers all wear capes. Just a total shot in the dark. ~from a librarian
This sounds like one of my favorite books, The Catalog. Tiny picture book, simple line drawings. Three mountains order pets from a catalog, but when winter snows come they realize they are ill-equipped to take care of them. Final illustration shows the 3 mountains with giant hats on (ordered from the catalog) under which the animals can snuggle and stay warm.
Jasper Tompkins, The Catalog, 1981. Sorry I didn't give the author info yesterday. Also, the publisher is Green Tiger Press/Simon & Schuster.
Since you mention mountains and fog as hats/scarves, I'm wondering if it might be Joan Aiken's The Whispering Mountainwhich includes a poem/prophecy, "When the Whispering Mountain shall scream aloud/And Fig-Hat Ben shall wear a shroud..." (turns out to mean fog on the mountain).

T38: Twins, not Lotte and Lise
Solved: The Kellyhorns

T41: Time travel again!
So glad to find this site. I remember a book that I used to check out from the library over & over in the late 60's, early 70'. It was about two children & their father (I think), a widower, who live in an old victorian type house. The children discover they can go thru the door of the grandfather's clock & travel back 100 years to the same town & house. The father goes with them & falls in love with a woman & they eventually stay in the past. Thanks for any help!

This sounds like a combination of two time travel stories I've read: Tom's Midnight Garden by Phillipa Pearce, which has the old house and a grandfather clock as the key to the travel, and Ormondroyd's Time At the Top in which the time traveling girl's father stays in the past to marry a woman there -- but the time travel device in that book is the elevator in the modern family's apartment building.
I think the person is thinking of TIME AT THE TOP by Edward Ormondroyd. A girl who lives in NYC unknowingly helps a fairy in disguise and is granted "3". (If this part doesn't ring a bell, don't worry. It's a minor part right in the beginning) Turns out the "3" is three trips into the past. She takes the elevator in her building to the top, but when the door opens, she finds herself in a Victorian house in the past. The two children in the house (a brother and sister, I believe) take her in. They are worried their widowed mother is going to marry a slimy suitor. The girl returns to her own time, and brings back her widowed father, who ends up marrying the children's mother.

T44: Tooth fairy
a Golden Book from the 1970s about a little girl who looses her tooth and leaves it for the tooth fairy. If you have any clues that will help me, I would be thrilled! Thank you; this is a wonderful website.

#T44--don't know about the tooth fairy, but there's a Rand McNally Junior Elf Book on a lost tooth called Tommy's Tooth.

T46: Thistle-head
There was a book I remember reading when I was young (early sixties, however I think the book was my cousins and from the late 40's or early 50's. All I remember is that it had a few stories, black and white illustrations (maybe a couple colored pictures) and contained a character with a head that was a thistle (I think he had something to do with saving someone/something from a castle, but not sure) also the book contained a couple pages on things like how to fold a paper airplane. Hope someone can help, I'd like to purchase/trade but really would settle for knowing the title.

T46 - could this be Jonnesty? The little man's head is made of an honesty seedpod, but the rest sounds right - think author is Winifred Mantle
Thanks for reading my inquiry, but the book I am looking for is not Jonnesty.
Margaret Martignoni (editor), The Illustrated Treasury of Children's Literature, 1960. I don't know of any "Weekly Reader" connection but it seems to fit the description in other ways: big anthology for all ages, including nursery rhymes children's poems folk tales and excerpts from books ranging from "The Velveteen Rabbit" to "Penrod" to "Tom Sawyer" to "David Copperfield".
T46 thistle-head: this sounds as if it might have been a children's annual, since it contained more than one story and a crafts page. I don't recognise it, though, so that's not much help.

T48: Treasure Magazine
Solved: Treasure Magazine

T49: Thunder explained
For years I have though about a favorite book that I read around 1950. I was in the 5th or 6th grade. The only thing I remember was a child being told "when it thunders, God or the angels are cleaning house and moving the furniture around." Possibly the book was red. Because of where I visualize the book on the shelf, the authors last name possibly starts with a letter near the end of the alphabet. Any help would be most appreciated.

T51: Tune in tomorrow
Solved: Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway

T55: Teddy bear tea party
Solved: Ophelia's World

T58: Tiger, poor and hungry
Solved: two books! The Old Man and the Tiger and A Crocodile's Tale

T59: Thankfullness
[Boy am I glad to find this site! I've been wondering how to find out about this book for ages and ages!] I fondly remember a book from Sunday School. Probably published in 50's or early 60's. I believe the cover was blue. It was about a boy who got a new coat. He thanks his mother, and she says, "Don't thank me, thank the man at the store." The boy goes to the store and thanks the salesman, and he says, "Don't thank me, thank the woman who made it." He goes to her and she says, "Don't thank me, thank the weaver who made the cloth." The boy goes there, and the weaver says, "Don't thank me,
thank the sheep who grew the wool." He goes to the sheep, who says, "Don't thank me, thank our heavenly Father God who made me so I could produce the wool." So the boy looks heavenward and thanks God for his new coat. The story has wonderful color illustrations. This story really helped me see that God is the one who really provides for all our needs. I can remember that moment of insight
so clearly, though I must've been only 5 or 6. Hope you (or someone) knows of this book!!!

Looks more general, but there's Thank-you Book by Francoise (Seignobosc), published Scribner 1947 "In simple text, the child says 'thank you' to the things and the creatures that help to make the world a happy place for him."
I have this book! I will have to find it, I think it is at my parents' house. I will send title asap.I am almost positive it is in a series of 3 books, and I believe I have all three.
there's a picture book with the title Thankfulness: What is It, by Janet McDonnell, illustrated by Linda Hohag, 32 pages, but it was published recently, and seems to be a collection of ideas, rather than a straight story. Same illustrator but different author is a companion book called Responsibility: What is It.
Carol Fernpheil, I Read About God's Love. Hi There, I was looking for the exact book that you were and stumbled across your urgent request....I searched under Thankfulness for hours on the internet with no luck...Little did I know, my older sister had the book the whole time. This is definitely the book you are looking for..don't thank me, thank the man.... It is actually a book with a few stories in it and this is just one of the stories. Hopefully, now you will be able to purchase it and read it to your children!

T61: Tall Ships
A wonderful wonderful tall book about living on board the sailing ships, the dangers and why they usually didn't take their children, and how they kept & cooked their food, and how on laundry day all the clothes and sheets were strung all over the ship's decks, and how they scrubbed the deck boards "until they were white". I think some of it was told as a first-person from a child's point of view, living on board, landing at ports, etc. (It was NOT A High Wind in Jamaica, I don't think it was really a
story book but sort of a non-fiction.)

T61 tall ship: maybe Aboard the Lizzie Ross, by Harriet Vaughan Davies, illustrated by Nancy Grossman, published Norton 1967, 221 pages? "Life aboard a sailing vessel in the last century. Ages 10 up." (HB Apr/67 p.147 pub ad) "the Lizzie Ross was a Canadian ship, and Captain Vaughan was a Canadian citizen. His fun-loving Yankee wife, Ann, came from Maine, and the three Vaughan children were born during different voyages: Chad, the oldest, in London; John Colin two years later off the coast of Maine; and Harriet, the youngest, during a tropical storm on a voyage to Argentina." No information on the shape of the book, though.
Caroline Tapley, John Come down the Backstar, 1974. Summary: In 1857 a 177-ton sailing ship, Fox, was equipped for a trip to search for Sir John Franklin and his men, who were lost in the Arctic since 1845. This is an account, told from the perspective of the youngest seasman aboard, as he might have written down his experiences in his diary. This is a Jr. Literary Guild selection, chosen as a outstanding book for older readers (C Group).
T61 tall ships: another possible is Clipper Ship, by Thomas P. Lewis, illustrated by Joan Sandin, published NY Harper 1978, reprinted 1992, 63 pages, 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" (if that counts as tall?), an I Can Read History Book. "Captain Murdock, on a clipper ship run from New York City to San Francisco, takes his wife and children along - fortunately, since his wife can take over when he becomes ill and the children can also help. Lively 3-color drawings." (Children's Books 1978 p.3) The cover of the reprint can be seen on Amazon.

T66: Thorndale
Thorndale. My grandfather, Alfred Otto Olsen, emigrated from Sweden to the United States in 1891. According to my mother and aunt, his daughters, on the ship he read a book with a character named Thorndale. When her arrived in the United States he changed his last name to Thorndale. I would like to find this book. According to my mother and my aunt, my aunt was named Thelma by her father after the book, Thelma, by Marie Corelli 1855-1924. I have read Thelma and all of the books by Marie
Corelli published before 1891 and there is no character Thorndale. Recently I found that in the 1900 U. S. Census my grandfather is listed as Alfred Thorthal. The birth date, the year of immigration and the town of residence are correct. Perhaps Thorthal is a misspelling of Thorndale or the possibility exists that my grandfather first changed his name to Thorthal and then to Thorndale. The only document I have that lists Thorthal is the 1900 U.S. Census. All later Census and all other documents I
have list Thorndale. I would be interested to know about any book that was published before 1891 and has a character Thorndale or Thorthal.

Smith, William, Thorndale : or The conflict of opinions, 1859. Classed as British fiction by LC.

T68: Tommy and the lion
I have memories of two books I cannot now find any trace of. The first may have been called "Tommy and the Lion", or another boys name. It was the story of a little boy who was afraid of the dark among other things, until along comes a lion who gives him the courage to stand up for himself. In the end he scares off some bullies who were frightening someone else. He thought it was the lion who helped him, but the lion had already left him, leaving him a note. The illustrations were simple with a few strong colours, and it was a hardback book with a shiny black cover. It was a great favourite when I was about five in the 1960's.

Drawing a blank on this one, but it keeps reminding me of Martha Alexander's Blackboard Bear which has a very similar storyline. The first book came out in 1969, though.
maybe too late again - Midway by Anne Barrett, illustrated by Margery Gill, published London, Collins 1967 "Mark, middle boy in a clever family, feels unable to compete with the witty assurance of the older two or the complacent assurance of the younger twins. Even at school he is unbearably teased. In his solitude, an imaginary friend appears - a tiger, mentor and guide (and voice of his own speculations?). With this helper, and his own instinctive 'sense' about people, Mark is able to save his father's precious notes from a sinister rival Doctor (about to fix his claim in a broadcast talk) and to find his own confident place as an individual." (Best Children's Books of 1967, Naomi Lewis)
Perhaps Andy and the Lion by James Daughtery? This was first published in 1938, but it's been reprinted often.. Andy helps a lion out by removing a thorn stuck in his paw, the lion is very grateful, and Andy gains great confidence in himself.
T68 Tommy and the lion: Could be Andrew the Lion Tamer by Donald Hall with pictures by Jane Miller, published in 1959, 56 pages, cute illustrations. "Great vintage children's story of a little boy named Andrew and what happens when he gets "lion" seeds and decides to grow his own lion!"
T68 tommy and the lion: just possibly Timmy and the Tiger, by Marjorie Paradis, illustrated by Marc Simont, published Harper 1952, 246 pages. "Although Timmy was ten years old, he was still - to his own disgust and
shame - secretly afraid of many things. His valiant attempts to conquer his fears make an important part of a rather unusual story. It comes to an exciting climax when a next-door neighbor actually brings home from a big-game hunting expedition the live tiger which gives the book its title." (HB Aug/52 p.241) It's a real tiger, though, not an imaginary animal.
Could this be The Thirsty Lion by Karine Forbes (Crowell-1950)?
Marek Veronica ( correctly Veronika), Tommy and the lion. (1964 approx) Hutchinson /London published it.
Tommy and the Lion. I remember this book as it was my favourite bedtime book. It was definately called Tommy and the Lion, not Andy, and it wasn't a tiger! I too would love to know how to get hold of a copy for my own daughter.

T69: Twilight tales
Solved: Peter Puckle and Other Fairy Tales

T70: Treehouse
Solved: Hollow Tree House

T71: Topsy Turvy
We had a book when I was a child of poetry about the different seasons, i.e. winter, summer, spring, and fall. It was illustrated with what I think was brownies. My sister swears that she thought the name of the book was Topsy Turvy, but I have had no luck looking under that name. It wasn't an old book at the time, but I think copyrighted in the late 50's-early 60's. Can you help?

I think the poem you are referring to might be Palmer Cox's Brownie's Year Book. Month by month, Cox details the sport
and activities of the brownies, told in rhyme. It is definitely found in The Illustrated Treasury of Children's Literature by Margaret Martignoni but I would guess it could be in other anthologies as well.

T72: Two little shoes
Solved: Two Little Shoes

T73: Tree, unhappy with self
Solved: Children's Stories selected by the Child Study Association

T74: Tiny the circus elephant moves to town
Solved: The Secret of Stone House Farm

T76: That's What I Do Best
Solved: The Lion's Bed

T77: Time Travel Norsement in America
3 children find a door in their fathers study that takes them back to a time when norsemen traveled up the great lakes (may be set in Minnisota) - Two girls, one boy - oldest girls name is Crystal. I read this while still in grade school (so pre 1964) and the book wasn't new then - it may have had a world war II sub-plot.

I'd suggest Return of the Viking by Eva-Lis Wuorio, illustrated by William Winter, published Toronto, Clarke Irwin 1955, 208 pages. It's not a perfect match, but close. Joan, Wendy and John visit the Royal Ontario
Museum on a rainy Saturday during WWII, and meet Thorvald, a young Norwegian refugee who points out the Viking sword exhibit as proof that Norwegians discovered Canada. In the reproduction of an English 16th c.
room, they try the "very ancient looking, thick, wooden door" and it opens, to reveal Lief the Lucky on the other side. He fell asleep almost 1000 years ago while exploring 'Vinland', woke up and couldn't find his sword -- which is of course, the one in the exhibit. Lief is invisible to adults, but ends up going for commando training because his homeland is in danger from the Nazis. At the end of the story the children read a news report
about a commando raid on a Nazi-held Norwegian seaport supported by a ghostly figure in a strange costume. This is actually only the first story of 4 in the book, all involving time-travel and Canadian history, and
the same children and their friends. Nobody named Crystal, though and the door is in a museum, not a study, and it takes place in Ontario, not Minnesota.

T78: Time Travel Meezan Cavemen
Solved: Saturday the Twelfth of October
T79: Tuesday & February?
Solved: February's Road
T80: Talisman
Solved: Seven Day Magic

T81: Tales of Terror
Solved: Horror Tales: Spirits, Spells and the Unknown

T82: Tiny dog
All I can remember about this book is a picture of a persons fingers holding a tiny black dog and a key to compare the sizes. It may have been a book of short stories. Sorry I can't remember anything else.

Philippa Pearce, A Dog So Small, 1960s? The picture on the dw of this is a tiny dog on the palm of a hand.
Most likely is - A Dog so Small, by Phillipa Pearce, about a boy who imagines a tiny black chihuahua as his pet. Less likely would be - No Flying in the House, which does involve a tiny mechanical dog, but I'm not sure whether he needs a key. Longest shot is - Aggie, Maggie and Tish, by Betty K. Erwin, which does feature a tiny black bulldog held in a girl's hand. On another track entirely, perhaps - Peanut, by Ruth and Latrobe Carroll,
published Oxford Univ Pr 1951, 48 pages "Peanut is a tiny puppy who lives in a teapot and eats out of a bottle cap, until a Great Dane becomes a pet in the same family. Poor Peanut decides to run away. His adventures are illustrated in soft two-color pictures." (Horn Book Dec/51 p.380 pub ad) The review, p.406 says that he sits on a spool of thread and plays under a geranium in a plant pot, and that there are 'fine pictures on almost every page.'
Another, somewhat less likely is The Smallest Dog on Earth, by Rosemary Weir, illustrated by Charles Pickard, published London, Abelard-Schuman 1963 "This is a delightful story about a chihuahua pupy and the transformation of her character as a result of exciting experiences with several owners - film star, riverside outcast, and the little girl she really loved." illustration shows a black chihuahua standing. (Junior Bookshelf Oct/63 pub ad)
another possible is Little Peewee Or Now Open The Box, by Dorothy Kunhardt, pictures by J.P. Miller, published Simon and Schuster Little Golden Books 1948, 42 pages "This is the story of Little Peewee the
teeniest weeniest dog in the world. He performs in a circus, but one day he starts to grow and grow and grow. He can no longer work in the circus with all his friends. Now what will poor Little Peewee do?" Peewee is a tiny
dalmatian, and the cover shows a circus scene.
I submitted the Stump the Bookseller for the Tiny Dog. I was looking a copy of Water Babies by Charles Kingsly and there was an illustration of a boy a dog and a giant. I know I had a copy of this book as a child but the illustrations were different. I am now thinking that maybe this is where I saw the picture. The dog is not tiny, he is being held by a giant. I would love to know if there is such an illustration in Water Babies and who is the illustrator.
Not sure if I understood T82's question right, but I had an illustrated copy of Charles Kingley's Water Babies, and my recollection of the giant was that he lived on an island where everyone ran backwards (and Tom, the protagonist, had to travel backwards as well at this point in the story). As I remember the illustration of the giant, he was a sad-looking fellow in glasses, who had crowds of people fleeing from him. I do not recall him holding Tom's dog, or anything about a key. Hope this helps.
In an old school Ginn reader, Ten Times Round, there is The Rice Bowl Pet. Ah Jim lives in a small apartment in Chinatown. He is told he can only have a little pet, one that will fit in a rice bowl. Rest of the story involves Ah Jim's hunt for a petite pet. Finally he finds a very tiny puppy (from China). While the puppy is golden it is pictured in a dark rice bowl as he carries it homeward.

T83: Tammy
I do not have a author or title but just a description. It is the story of a sandy haired, brown eyed girl named Tammy who lived with her family near the beach. She had secret, mysterious fantasies by the water and she would hide away from everything in a cove with an echo. The person who read this book grew up in Vancouver, BC. I think it possibly came out in the early 70's or eighties. I would appreciate any help you could give me in locating this book. Thanks in advance for your time.

Lionel Davidson, Under Plum Lake, 1983. May not be the one but I thought it was worth a try ! If you're lucky enough to get your hands on a copy it's well worth reading .

T84: Two by two
Solved: Three by Three

T85: Train thru fictional places
Solved: Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver

T86: Time travel mansion and sisters
Solved: Wicked Pigeon Ladies in the Garden

T87: Twixt Swilly and Lough Foyle
Solved: Twixt Foyle and Swilly
T88: Time Travel, Young Adult
Solved: Mirror of Danger
T89: Tooth Fairy
Solved: The Tooth Fairy
T90: Two kids stranded on island
Two girls? find a "secret place", a little shack or shed on a island of dirt. There is only a trickle of water that goes around their island. One day, without telling anyonwe where they are goin, the go to the island and it starts to rain and the stream turns into a river, possibly of mud and they are stranded. At some point, earwigs get the food that they leave in the shed. Somehow they get home but I don't remember how.

Could this be Dangerous Island by Helen Mather-Smith Mindlin? Three kids, Frank, Dorothy and Pug, are stranded on an island, which eventually disappears. The island has gold on it or something.
Maybe Two On an Island, by Bianca Bradbury, illustrated by Robert Maclean, published Houghton 1965, 139 pages. "On an uninhabited Maine island from which their rowboat has drifted away, nine-year-old Trudy and twelve-year-old Jeff endure a three-day trial of survival. The plausible framework for this unusual test of endurance has more than mere detail of hunger, sunburn, and nighttime cold. Miss Bradbury skillfully develops the heightened class of different personalities - Trudy with a more generous nature, so willingly sharing the tiny bit of food with their great dog; Jeff, a lone-wolf kind of boy with an aggressive habit of scolding and bossing - through a gradual change from bickering to affection. Later, Jeff knew there was 'so much he and Trudy hadn't told and might never tell.'" (Horn Book Aug/65 p.386)
Possibly September Island, by Rosalie Fry, illustrated by Margery Gill, published Dent/Dutton 1965, 112 pages. "A trailer camp holiday turns into a great adventure when three children are stranded on a storm-created sandbar island." Martin and Linda are on a caravan holiday when a terrible storm floods the river. When a girl is washed away clinging to a tree, they take a boat out to rescue her and all three are washed up onto a new sandbank thrown up by the flood. With the tree and some flowers that are washed up this is just like a small desert island, and as they had some shopping with them they are able to spend a very pleasant day and night, and are rescued before danger can spoil the adventure. (Junior Bookshelf Jun/65 p.146)
Given how we tend to mix up details and even different books on occasion, is it possible you're thinking of
Two on an Island by Bianca Bradbury, 1965? The boys 12, the girl is 9, they head out to an island with their German Shepherd and as the tide comes in, the girl carelessly lets the boat drift off. Since they've always fought constantly, they have to learn to overcome this over the next four days (they know no one will miss them until that point) while they figure out how to survive with minimal food and water - and how to protect it against the rats on the island. Not to be confused with the Elmer Rice play of the same name.
could it be An Island for Two, by Ludek Pesek, translated from the German by Anthea Bell, published Bradbury 1975, 166 pages? "Desert island dreams come true. Traces the development of a relationship between two young social misfits who find through each other a new maturity."
T90 two stranded: another possible is Summer Adventure, by Finn Havrevold, illustrated by E. Wallenta, published Abelard 1961, 127 pages. "Tine Tron, a 14 year-old girl on holiday with her parents and small brother is unhappy because she has no friends of her own age with her, except Jan, who knows nothing about sailing. Defiantly she decides to go by boat to the shop, though she has been forbidden to sail alone. Jan and Peik the dog go with her, but a squall arises and they are marooned on a bare island. Jan proves himself more useful on shore than afloat but the difficulties of existence for even two days have a sobering effect on Tine." (JB Dec/61 p.348)
Lindbergh, Anne, Worry Week. NY, Harcourt 1985. It's not a perfect match, as the island seems to have always been an island, but worth checking out. "Left alone for a week in their family's summer house on a Maine island, Allegra and her two sisters scrounge for food andsearch for the treasure supposedly hidden somewhere on the premises."

T91: Time Elevator/Elevator to Eternity?
Solved: Time Gate
T92: The Toad
Solved: Mrs. Coverlet
T93: Talking doll
Solved: Benjamin Brownie and the Talking Doll
T94: Teddy bear tea party
I have been searching for a children's book for years. As near as I can remember, it was published about 1957 or earlier. I was told by and about teddy bears. Maybe only one teddy bear. Teddy Bear(s) dressed up and I thought either had a picnic or a tea party...Most likely a tea party, the book was a children's school library book, that I read when I was in grade school in Iowa. The book was a large skinny book, I think about 81/2 by 11 inches of possibly 11 by 14 inches. I have no idea of title nor of the author. Can you help? Thank you

T55 teddy bear tea party sounds like T94 teddy bear tea party. The described size is similar and the mention of a picnic or tea party (Teddy Bear's Picnic?)
Jimmy Kennedy, Teddy Bears' Picnic, 1947. T94 The song 'Teddy Bears Picnic' by Jimmy Kennedy published in 1947, and performed by a myriad of artists, spawned innumerable book versions. "If you go down to the woods today, you're
in for a big surprise... Picnic Time for Teddy Bears! The little teddy bears are having a lovely time today..." Hope you find your special book!

T95: The Thing in Delores's Piano
Solved: The Thing in Delores' Piano

T96: Two Girls and an Ice Truck...
I'm looking for an American History textbook at the high school level because of one picture I saw in it that has stuck with me over the years. In the photo, two girls in overalls are hauling ice in an ice truck. One of them is wearing a cap, sort of like a train engineer's hat. They are working because it was either during one of the World Wars or during the Depression. The book itself has a red cover (I think) and was probably produced by Houghtin Mifflin, Macmillan, or Little Brown and Co. I hope someone out there is a textbook collector or has seen this photo somewhere else. I would love to get a copy. Thanks in advance for the help! :-)

Have you tried searching at photo stock agency websites like Corbis? A lot of textbook photos come from stock agencies, and many now have on-line catalogs you can search.

T97: Teenager With Lupus
Solved: 13 is Too Young to Die

T98: Talisman
Solved: The Talisman

T99: Treasure Mystery, Cup/Goblet, Tree and Graveyard
Solved: Secret of the Witch's Stairway
T100: Tiger, nice kitty
I am looking for a story which my father read to me in the 1950s. It's about an old lady who can't see very well. A tiger escapes from a zoo or circus and comes to her house. Since she can't see very well, she thinks it is this nice little kitty. They get along well...that is all I remember...the book had lots of pictures....

Tworkov/Duvoisin, Tigers Don't Bite,1956? Just a guess, I can't find any description of the story.
This is Mrs. Welladay's New Tabby Cat by Kathryn and Bryon Jackson. I found it in the old school reader-Treat Shop by Eleanor Johnson and Leland Jacobs. Perhaps it is a stand alone book as well.

T101: Time travelling in aunt's house
Solved: Magic Elizabeth

T102: time travel is called "flivering"
In this book, to travel across space or time is referred to as Flivering.

People travel through space by flivvering in Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination. I think it's in print. The protag is named Gully Foyle.
It's definitely not The Star My Destination. In that book instantaneous travel through space was called "jaunting" NOT "flivering".
T102 time travel: I'm pretty sure that in The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester, teleportation (space, not time) is called 'jaunting', not flivvering. What do they call teleportation in Zenna Henderson's The People stories?
T102 just a comment: In Zenna Henderson'sThe People, it is called lifting.
Madeleine L'Engle, Wind in the Door. I thought I would just drop a note that "kything" is the word L'Engle
uses for time/space continuum travel in her "Wrinkle in Time" trilogy. I know you said "flivering," but sometimes I am amazed at how my memory twists things!
just a further note. In Madeleine L'Engle's books, the ability to move across time and space is called "tessering". The previous contributor's word "kything" is, in Madeleine L'Engle's books, the ability to connect mentally and more important emotionally with a person who is not with you (separated by time and space.) The tessering concept she got from scientific principles the kything from Celtic religion, I think.
Actually, I think Madeleine L'Engle's "kything" is the blending of one's soul with another's-- specifically for the purpose of combating evil. "Tessering" is using tesseracts or "wrinkles in time" to move about the universe.
"flivvering" - Aldous Huxley's Brave New World uses this term, I think both as noun ("a flivver") and verb ("flivvering"). But there's no time travel...
Flivver, the Heroic Horse by Lee Kingman and illustrated by Erik Blegvad, 1958. I don't know if Flivver is in involved in time travel, but I couldn't resist adding this namesake to the Flivver discussion. The story of an adventurous horse who is used to hauling a Boston fruit cart, but who becomes involved in other activities in a Massachusetts fishing town called "Smuggler's Cove".
I know that there are vehicles in the Star Trek novels that are called Flivvers, and the books do occasionally incorporate some type of time travel. Perhaps you read one of these?

T103: Thunderbird with little boy story
Solved: Childcraft

T104: trip to island character dodie
Solved: Magic Island

T105: Two siblings travel with magician
Solved: The Magic Hat of Mortimer Wintergreen

T106: Toy Soldier
Solved: The Return of the Twelves
T107: tuttle dexter ashurbanipal
Solved: Wonderful World of Aunt Tuddy
T108: Teen ESP story
Solved: And This is Laura

T109: tiger the cat's life
Solved: Cat's Eyes
T110: Teddy Bears photographed
Solved: The Lonely Doll

T111: Teeeny Tiny Family
Solved: A Tiny Family

T112: Tiny dog is girl's best friend
Solved: No Flying in the House
T113: Tom Tit Tot, NOT Evelynn Ness
Solved: Silver Curlew

T114: two girls solved mysteries
Solved: Ginnie and the Mystery Doll

T115: Time Travel and "Wicked, Wicked" Girls
Solved: Wicked Pigeon Ladies in the Garden
T116: Three mice that live in a tree trunk with their mother
Solved: Minnikin, Midgie, and Moppet: A Mouse Story

T117: Tomboy
Solved: Tomboy
T118: Translation
Solved: Thinner

T119: Teen falls for London pianist/delivery guy
Solved: The Beethoven Medal

T120: Time travel - remote past, recent past, future
I am looking for a collection of science fiction stories about time travel that was divided into three sections -- remote past, recent past, and future. (The editor's introduction discussed the paradoxes of time travel, and separated remote from recent past because of the additional complexities of possibly meeting oneself.) I read this book in the 1950's or perhaps the 1960's. Searches using "Groff Conklin" have failed me. Title, editor, and availability?

Possibly Elsewhere and Elsewhen, ed. by Groff Conklin, Berkley Pub. Corp., 1968. Contents: Introduction / Groff Conklin -- Elsewhen: Shortstack / Walt and Leigh Richmond. How allied / Mark Clifton. The wrong world / J.T. McIntosh. World in a bottle / Allen Kim Lang -- Elsewhere: Think blue, count two / Cordwainer Smith. Turning point / Poul Anderson. The book / Michael Shaara. Trouble tide / James H. Schmits. The Earthman's burden / Donald E. Westlake. Originally published in two volumes: Science Fiction Elsewhen (London: Rapp & Whiting, 1968) and Science Fiction Elsewhere (London: Rapp & Whiting, 1968).
Conklin, Groff, editor, Crossroads in Time, 1953. Maybe this one. Sixteen stories and two novellas. The publication date looks like a plausible match
This sounds like something I have read, but I have no idea who edited it. The poster of this book stumper could look up Roger Elwood or Martin Greenberg in hopes of seeing if their anthologies sound familiar.
Perhaps memory is conflating two Groff Conklin anthologies? Conklin's 1952 anthology INVADERS OF EARTH is divided into sections that sound like what's wanted (The Distant Past, The Immediate Past, The Immediate Future, The Distant Future). However, it is not an anthology of time travel stories, but of alien invasion stories. Conklin did do a time travel anthology, CROSSROADS IN TIME, but it is not arranged in that manner. In any case, content information for all English-language sf anthologies and single-author collections published prior to 1984 can be searched on this website, so questionner could see list of contents of each and determine if they sound familiar (or if any other of the 3,900 books indexed there do. . . .)
The answer to T120 is not, I regret, Elsewhere and Elsewhen. This is one of my favorite S.F. anthologies. It's a great collection, very wide-ranging in theme, but not including time-travel. Good hunting!

T121: typhoonigator
This is a children's manners book with different monsters, including a typhoonigator and a kibitzer:"If that hand were mine, I'd throw in the nine. My goodness, you'd be lost without me." My son thinks it's by Mercer Mayer.

T121 Sounds like it might be LITTLE MONSTER'S BEDTIME BOOK by Mercer Mayer, 1978 (one source said it was a Little Golden Look-Look Book, but other sources listed it as a publication of Merrigold Press). It also looks like it was republished in 1991, but is now out of print. ~from a librarian
I think this person has two books confused. Mercer Mayer does indeed have a book with a Wild-'n-Windy Typhoonigator in it, as well as a Paper-Munching Yalapappus, a Stamp-Collecting Trollusk, and a Letter-Eating Bombanat. It's called One Monster After Another and they're all trying to get Sally Ann's letter before it reaches her friend Lucy Jane. But it's not about manners and there's no Kibitzer in the book. There are several books about monsters & manners (Monster Manners by Joanna Cole, Magic Monsters Learn About Manners by Jane Belk Moncure, Monster Manners by Bethany Roberts, Modern Manners for Little Monsters by Wilson Rogers) but I didn't see a Kibitzer in any of those, either.
Looked up TYPHOONIGATOR on Google and found one guy'e poem using it, and then one ref to a Mercer Meyer book, One Monster After Another, but it doesn't seem to be about manners.
Mercer Mayer, Little Monster's Bedtime Book. It's the Baby Great Glern of the Sea and the poem goes, "The Baby Great Glern of the Sea, gives annoying advice constantly, now if that hand were mine, id play the nine, my goodness, you'd lose without me." then the picture by his head says "kibits, kibits, kibits" i can recite all the poems.

T122: Time travel comedy
Solved: Corrupting Dr. Nice

T123: Treehouse and two girls
Solved: Best Friends

T124: Treehouse Mysteries
Solved: Case of the Hungry Stranger

T125: Too deep, too deep !
Solved: Streets and Roads

T126: The Thingamajigs
Solved: The Thingumajig book of manners

T127: turtle
Solved: The Westing Game

T128: Teddy Roosevelt
Solved: Brighty of the Grand Canyon

T129: Tugboat that got lost
1957-1959 There was a little tugboat that was in the harbor with a lot of big boats and somehow it drifted out and was lost. Later it was found.

Hardie Gramatky's Little Toot is definately a small boat in a harbor with huge boats, but her claim to fame is rescuing an ocean liner during a storm.
Gertrude Crampton, Scuffy the tugboat Scuffy was a toy tugboat, but the rest of the details sound right.
T129 Of all my little toot type things, this title sounds like the best-- Hogner, Nils The lost tugboat illus by NIls Hogner Abelard Press 1952. tugboats; New York City - juvenile fiction
T129 if it helps any, all the illus are red and green in Hogner. The tug's name is Betty Ann. The skipper loses his way in the fog and they end up near a big ship which needs the help of a tug.
Date-1964. Could this be Little Toot on the Thames?? Tug gets towed across the Atlantic by accident and gets lost in the London Fog!

T130: two girls switch places during WWII
Solved: Searching for Shona

T131: Time and Space Mercenary gets Tortured
This is an old science fiction book that I bought at a used bookstore in about 1986 and it looked very old then. The title had something like "time" or "space" in it. The story was about a mercenary trying to track down some information and one of the "laws of the land" was that if someone tortured you for a day, they would have to tell you anything you wanted. He was going through the torture at about the time I lost the book. (This wasn't a very good book as far as I remember, but I hate the idea of never finding out what happened!)

Jack London, The Star Rover. Possibly?
Bradley, Marion Zimmer. I think that this might be one of the Darkover books. There are lots of them. Take a look at this website.

T132: Tea in Tree
Solved: The Fig Tree

T133: Twins make new wife miserable
Solved: The Winter People

T134: Trilogy/maps in book
Solved: The Wizard of Earthsea

T135: Tomatoes, cowboys, aliens
Solved: The Moon Colony
Moon Colony.'Is it possible that the book in question is Reinhard Goll's The Visitors From Planet Veta? Published in 1959 the story dealt with (among other things) extraterrestrial children who lived in a giant tomato tree in a suburban backyard.

T136: Three children visit beekeeping warlock uncle
Solved: Linnets and Valerians

T137: Trees with glass leaves
I remember only the beautiful drawings of the trees with glass leaves, and I can still hear them today! c. 1940

Any possibility this illustration could be associated with the fairy tale The Twelve Dancing Princesses? The princesses travel to a wondrous underground land each night to dance the huntsman following them in his invisiibility cape is fascinated by the trees with leaves of silver and gold, but maybe in some versions the leaves are crystal or glass.
The 12 Dancing Princesses. This could be one of the many, many versions of the fairytale "The 12 Dancing Princesses" where the girls have to sneak out because their father won't let them "date." They go (usually) through a tunnel in their bedroom floor through wondrous places to a ball where they dance all night. Their dancing slippers are always worn out every morning and the father cannot figure out why, since he locks them in their room at night. Anyhow, most versions have them going through areas full of trees with glass leaves, golden leaves, jewelled leaves, etc. to get to the ball. So this might be it, the challenge would be in finding the version that you remember the pictures from!
Henry Van Dyke, The Foolish Fir Tree. 1911. Alternatively, this poem (and variants I've seen online) also talk about a tree with glass leaves. "A Presbyterian Minister, Henry Van Dyke is perhaps best known for The Story of the Other Wise Man and for the Hymn of Joy ("Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee, ..."). He was also a prolific poet, and the above poem can be found in: Van Dyke, Henry. The Poems of Henry Van Dyke. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911."
T137 This woldn't be Coleno again, would it?
See also T157.
Watson, J. W., Twelve Dancing Princesses. Try this Golden Book it may be the one. The old soldier who follows the princesses through a jeweled forest snaps one of the leaves off, scaring the youngest princess. He ended up marrying the eldest. The illustrations are lovely.
J. W. Watson, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. It could be this -- a beautifully illustrated version, Golden Book.
Sounds like the Foolish Fir Tree to me, I do remember the various pictures of the tree with its various leaves. The glass ones got broken by rain, gold ones were stolen by a passerby, there may have been some kind of red leaf that also got ruined. Don't know if it was a poem or a story.

T138: Tirpy or Terpy (dogname)
Solved: The Hobyahs

T139: Transcendentalist parents disappear and their children find them
Solved: The Diamond in the Window

T140: Toby, young boy/magical friends
Solved: The Children of Greene Knowe

T141: Trolls with Hard Heads/ Soft Feet
Solved: The Princess and the Goblin

T142: Three boys in a Tree
Solved: Three Boys in a Tree

T143: time travel ancient ireland
Solved: The Wizard Children of Finn

T144: tank tread house
early to mid 50's. It's about a family that lives in a house on tank treads in a very cold place. They travel around and have adventures but the best thing was the house they lived and traveled in., it was like a RV but better. I don't remember much color, it was mostly black and white drawings I think.

T145: two siamese cats' adventures
A story of two slightly naughty Siamese cats...the illustrations are just beautiful, and accurate. 1940s?

Clare Newberry, Babette. Or possibly another of her cat books though I think this is one that definitely features Siamese cats. Alternatively, if the book in question is an illustrated book for adults/ older children, rather than a picture book, then it could be one of Doreen Tovey's series beginning Cats in the Belfry or possibly Irene Holdsworth's Little Masks.

T146: teardrop shaped necklace
Solved: A Necklace of Raindrops and Other Stories

T147: The Two Little Miners
Solved: Two Little Miners

T148: Tree Toad
Solved: Tree Toad

T149: Tapir Riding a Velocoped
Over the years my wife has talked fondly about a book she read as a child. It's about a tapir who rides a velocoped. She loved the illustrations. She has forgotten the title and author. I am guessing the book is from the late 1950s or early 1960s. I would love to find a copy of this book and surprise her on her birthday! (What a wonderful service this is!)

Same as H67.
Roberta Moynihan, Futility the Tapir, 1959. Might not be the right book, can't find a copy or a description anywhere online.
I found this description of Futility, the Tapir: A quietly hilarious picture book about a tapir who, upon awakening, begins the struggle to force his ungainly body to stand, and who at day's end exclaims, "What an exhausting day! I really must get some rest. After all, tomorrow I may succeed." Nicely humorous illustrations by the author.

T150: Toothfairy book
Solved: Tooth Fairy

T151: Teenage girl plane crash in wilderness
Solved: Walking Out: A Novel of Survival

T152: two fairies jump out of the radio, Just Now
two fairies jump out of the radio and into the lives of the children of one family. whenever anyone asks them the time, they say "Just Now". One is short and chubby, one is tall and thinner. both have antennae. possibly 1920's or 1930's. children may be Bailey children. birds make them down filled beds.

There's a book titled Queen Titania's Radio Fairies by Oliver Garrison Pirie, Bower & Pirie, 1924, 116 pgs. (alt. title is Radio Fairies). Sorry, no description.

T153: Tutankamun
Solved: The Boy Pharaoh, Tutankhamen

T154: train - illustrations drawn by kids
mid-1930's. I remember brightly colored pictures of a little train with several cars that looked as if children had drawn them. It was a child's short story that printed an image on my young brain. No recollection of the story except that it had a happy ending (of course!)

T155: telegraph operator, midwest, brothers, WWI
Solved: The Human Comedy

T156: Thanksgiving present
Solved: The Thanksgiving Treasure

T157: tree asked for glass leaves
Solved: The Foolish Fir Tree

T158: truckdriver elected president
Searching for fictional work about 18-wheeler truck driver being elected USA President.

T159: treasure or island
before 1965. a family of eight children on a picnic to a coastal island (off California, I think) are stranded by the guy driving the boat and survive for years and figure out how to sustain themselves alone. They find a donkey, figure out how to make cement for a house, etc. This is a thick book.

T160: twins hair styles
I'm looking for a book about twin girls that I read between the ages of 6 to 12, which would've been 1962 to 1968. The girls get tired of looking alike, so someone (their mom?) suggests they get different hair cuts. What stands out to me most is that the last couple of pages in the book show all the different hairstyles they can choose from. Unfortunately, I don' remember the girls' names, the title of the book or the author, but think I'd recognize them if I saw them. Thanks!

Ruth and Harold Shane, The Twins, The Story of Two Little Girls Who Look Alike. This is a Little Golden Book, with illustrations by Eloise Wilkin.

T161: tomato people
Solved: The Visitors from Planet Veta

T162: Timothy Ticklefeather
Solved: Timothy Ticklefeather
Timothy Ticklefeather, 1940. I believe it's a poem Timothy Ticklefeather, LLd/Lives in the top of a very tall tree// His shoes are brown and his beard is gray / And sits and he talks to the birds all day.

There's a Little Golden Book called, Lucky Mrs. Ticklefeather, but I haven't read it so I don't know if there's a Tommy in it. Good luck!
Negative on Lucky Mrs. Ticklefeather. But for more info on her, see the Most Requested pages.
Mother used to read Timothy Ticklefeather to us when we were kids on the farm. For the past 20 years we have been searching for a copy of this poem. I was so pleased and surprised to see it spring partially into view when I put the title on the web.
Adolph Soens,It was written by my grandfather in the early 20th century in colorado along with other peoms catagorized as "Humor and Whimsey"

T163: Tapestry traps girl
Magic Mountain - maybe? A collection of stories involving magic. The cover may be a boy and a girl climbing a mountain. It is a hard cover, thick book. The last story is a picture of a tapestry, with a girl lying in the bed beneath. All the figures in the tapestry come alive, and the girl can get into the tapestry, but she must be out by first light, or she will be frozen into the tapestry forever.

Regarding the tapestry story, a similar one appeared in Children's Digest Magazine, probably between 1971 and 1974, of a princess or lord's daughter about to be forced to marry against her will. An expert needleworker, she tried to drown her sorrows while waiting for the inevitable marriage by working on an enormous tapestry. Upon stitching a likeness of her dog into the tapestry, her dog disappeared, the likeness being so perfect he couldn't exist in two places at once. Realizing what
had happened, the girl stitched herself into the tapestry to escape the unwanted marriage. This isn't Andre Norton's Through a Needle's Eye, about a girl crippled by polio who meets an old woman with similar needleworking abilities.
Mrs. Molesworth, The Tapestry Room, 1879, copyright. Possibly this is the story of Hugh and Jeanne, two small children who find a way into the great tapestry via various means little rubber attachments on the feet or by wings. Try this link
These are not the correct books. The title I am looking for is The Magic Mountain. It is a collection of short stories. The first story in the book is also The Magic Mountain. The last story in the book is The Tapestry.
Neither of the two suggestions fit the book I'm inquiring about. I believe the cover of the book shows the two children climbing a mountain, but I no longer believe the name of the book to be The Magic Mountain. It may be Children's Stories. The tapestry story still holds.

T164: Tower by the sea, man with no tongue
Solved: The Master

T165: Twenty-first of May
Solved: Twenty-fourth of June

T166: Toy Soldiers Come To Life
Solved: The Return of the Twelves

T167: Teenage dancer, lives in a city
Published before 1994, probably after the 60s. A teenager lives in a city, possibly by the water (New York or San Francisco?). Her parents are rich, but are always away, so she ends up living by herself in a luxury house or apartment. There may be a maid or housekeeper who is supposed to look after her. Her nickname may be Rat. She studies modern dance (she used to study ballet) and she is talented. I think she also choreographs. She spends all of her money on dance, so she doens't have anything left over for clothes, leotards, etc. The book is about her relationship with an African American woman, the sister of a fellow dancer. They become friends. There may be a third member of their friendship, and he may be male. He might (if he exists) be young and a romantic interest for Rat? Scenes: Rat? dances while a sidewalk busker plays an instrument. She increases his take. She suggests he use the extra money to take some lessons. (Maybe after he refuses to give her a share?) The African American woman gives Rat some of her sister's used leotards, and promises to alter them to fit her. Sorry about the vagueness of this description. I don't remember the book well (obviously!) Thanks for your help.

T168: Twinkle and Boo
Two kittens, Twinkle and Boo (one black, the other grey tiger striped) get into one kind of trouble after another - getting tangled up in yarn from someone's knitting, knocking things over - then curl up and go to sleep at the end. It was a large sized picture book for beginning readers.

I, too, have sought for a book about 'Twinkle and Boo', two kittens who get into michief. I actually had memorized the poem-story in about 1st or 2nd grade. (opening stanza) "There were two little kittens with eyes of blue, One was named Twinkle, one was named Boo They tried to be good and do what was right But they got into mischief from morning till night!" I too checked all variations of Twinkle and Boo book names! BUT....I didn't have the right title! The answer is............. The Kitten Twins by Helen Wing I sure hope I make somebody's day happier by having this title and author!
Your web site says Under entry T168 - the name of the book is The Kitten Twins - This is NOT the same book - Can you help?

T169: Teenage Girl Gets Epilepsy
Solved: Child of the Morning

T170: teenagers left at camp to die
Solved: Grounding of Group 6

T171: talking cat
Solved: The Wishing Tree

T172: toys come to life
Solved: The Water Horse

T173: time machine and dinosaurs
Solved: Tunnel Through Time

T174: two children, boy and girl visit fairyland
A boy and girl go to a circle of ancient stones and find themselves in the house of mother figure (Ceres ?), girl is given a comb and the boy a knife and they board a ship for the trip to fairyland. Mermaids steal the girl's comb for a time, and the boy finds himself kept prisoner by a beautiful witch, the children stay the night in the castle of a nobleman, who is tormented by nightmares and a succubus. I read this book sometime in the mid-1930s. It was illustrated by one of the famous illustrators of the time.
T175: time travel to King Arthur's time
Solved: Tales of Magic series

T176: tiny pin
Solved: Tiny Pin

T177: Teenage Girl (1950's Comic)
Solved: Tizzy comics

T178: Toothy Perkins: The Dog Who Made the Sun Come Up
Solved: The Puppy Who Chased the Sun

T179: Train Yards, Rainy Nights
This is a standard-size book with a blue cover, perhaps not intended primarily for children. There were many pictures with little text. As a child, I was impressed by the misty, rainy pictures of train yards at night.SOme in black and white, some in color. I remember particularly the red and green lights in the train yard. SOmething about the pictures makes me think "water- color", but they were probably photographs. I read it in the late forties, possibly early 50s.

T180: teen crank call scares receiver
Solved: Out of the Dark

T181: Teenage Witch
Solved: Girl on a Broomstick

T182: True? Ghost stories and mysteries
Solved: Strangely Enough

T183: Terrifying pig?
This is (I think) a collection of stories. What really stands out for me is the artwork: in at least one of the stories there is a pig (maybe more) who is truly terrifying -- demonic, really, with frightening eyes. I think there were some other pigs in the story who were scared of this one, and rightfully so. The book gave me nightmares as a child. There is a chance that what I am remembering as a demonic pig really was a monster of some kind (cat???) that the pigs were afraid of. (Somehow I doubt that it was a wolf -- I think this was an original story, not that other, classic tale.) I seem to recall the pigs were in two stories, but the scary one was only in the second one, which came near the end of the book. Another story is about a dalmatian who is the mascot at a firehouse, and they go to fight a fire. Another story may involve black and white sheep (?) I had this book in the 70's, but I believe it was a hand-me-down from the 40's or 50's. The fire engine looked old-fashioned", even then. The book was on the small side.

Three stray guesses: Julian, Lee, Fire Dog, Lewis, Frank, Kerry the Fire-Engine Dog or Browning, James, Sparky the Fire Dog

T184: Tiny Family lives in a Dollhouse
Solved: King of the Dollhouse

T185: Tom Thumb's size
Solved: The Fabulous Flight

T186: Tutu's
this is to find a book i've been looking for. i donot remember title or author.it has a bunch of little girls wearing i think tutu's or leotards, but i do know they had dancing shoes, and all there outfits were diffrent colors.there's little animals all through the book also wearing dancing/ballerina clothing . they show them doing stretches in alittle girls locker room together.there's probably 6-10 little girls. the drawing were a cross between, hugga bunch and precious moments (i think).they had short curly hair.thank you for your help. the book's cover, if i remember correctly was either a light green or blue color. also, it wasn't a long book, it didn't have alot of words, so i think it pertained to the ages of 3-8. thank you so much for your time!

Dorothy Grider, The Little Ballerina, 1959. Might this be The Little Ballerina? Check out more on the Solved Mysteries pages.
i did see your results, and that was not the book i'm looking for. but if i could see a picture of the cover, it would help.
Here's the picture of The Little Ballerina posted on the Solved Mysteries page.

T187: train mystery; teenager bound, left in woods
i wonder if some kind loganberry soul can help me? i would like to find a young adult fiction book i read while in high school (late 60's, early 70's). i don't remember much about it, except this - 1) the main character was a young teen boy; 2) somehow, there's a train, or railroad, in the story: either the wrong-doing/mystery had to do with a train, or took place on a railroad, or a railroad was central to the story/town; my key memory of the book is ... 3) this main character/teen boy found out the badguys' plan, and tracked them down to some woods outside of town, near railroad tracks, but he was discovered by the badguys, and was tied up ~stark naked~ and left in the woods. he escaped his ropes, but in order to save the day, he has to go into the town to rat out the badguys, which of course he does ... but not without considerable embarrasment, because all he can find to cover himself is some leaves on branches he has pulled of some trees. does this ring a bell to anyone; can anyone tell me what this book is??? thanks for any help i may receive!

Meader, Stephen, Long Trains Roll,Randy MacDougal and his family, in Pennsylvania during WWII, are heavily involved with the world of trains, from his father, an engineer, to his brothers, serving in the armed forces in India and Africa. Randy, a high schooler working on the railroads in the summer, finds himself tutoring a newcomer. After breaking in newcomer Lew Burns, Burns disapppears, having lost a mysterious notebook, which Randy finds. Randy begins to suspect Burns of being a German spy. Randy finds himself saving the railroad from a dynamite explosion, apparantly set by Burns and some compatriots, and ends up defending the railroad in a fig leaf "kilt", because he was jumped, and left clothes-less. Stephen Meader is a very skilled writer of boys'' adventure book. it has been surprising not to see his name listed here more often.

T188: twin cats
Solved: Inky And Pinky

T189: Teenage Romance Anthology
Solved: A batch of the best: stories for girls

T190: Trundle Bed
I'm trying to find the correct title of this book as well as a copy of it for my sister. It was a favorite of hers from childhood and she thought the title was something like: "Peter's Bed". The story was about a little boy (who she thinks was named, Peter) who either couldn't fit in his bed anymore, or had to share a bed with his brothers and there wasn't room. So, his parents or someone built him a trundle bed that would slide under the other bed, but it was all his own.

Gladys Baker Bond, Patrick Will Grow, 1966, llustrated by David K. Stone, Western Publishing/Whitman, Racine. from the book: Two beds were in the living room. Grandpa, Grandma, and Patrick's tallest sisters slept there. In the back bedroom a bed sat between Grandma's trunk and Mother's cedar chest. Patrick slept in the middle of that bed between Mike and Tim. "I'm glad Patrick is small," Mother said. "I don't know where we cold put another bed." "Patrick will grow," Grandma said wisely....Patrick's new bed was delivered and put in the back bedroom. But, oh, my! Mother could not walk between the beds. Grandma could not open her trunk. "What'll we do?" they cried. Grandpa knew what to do. He cut the legs of the cot in half. Then he slid Patrick's cot under the bed which now belonged to MIke and Tim. When night came, Grandpa pulled it out again..."

T191: Tanglewood
This book must have been written in '20s or '30s and has the word "Tanglewood" in the title. Tanglewood is a large shabby house to which a young teenage girl's family is forced to move after her wealthy father loses his fortune. It's the story of their adjustment and how they find happiness.

Patricia St John, The Tanglewoods Secret. There's a book called The Tanglewoods Secret by Patricia St John, first published 1948. I've just given my copy away so can't check details but it's a Christian tale, set in England, where the girl who narrates it and her brother, Philip, live with their Aunt Margaret. She's naughty and rebellious till she finds God and peace.
NOT the Tanglewoods Secret.While The Tanglewoods Secret (1948) is a wonderful story, it is nothing like the description given in this query. In this story, it is a (British?) brother and sister who move in with their maiden aunt while their parents go off to India as missionaries, but when WWII breaks out, the parents are unable to come home for years. The girl struggles with rebelling against her aunt's child-rearing while her brother is a real saint. They befriend a gypsy boy and his mother, there is a terrible accident, and the results lead all the characters to learn about what it means to love others as God loves them/us.

T192: Tobias the cat
Solved: Tim and the Hidden People

T193: Twin Fairy Tale Books
Solved: Storytime Treasury

T194: tiny princess makes a perfect shirt for a prince
Solved: The Doll Princess

T195: timmy the tooth
Solved: Big Mouth Gulch

T196: Tunisian Princess pregnant in Paris
A princess in the country of Tunisia (a Muslim country in North Africa adjacent to Algeria) has an affair. Since she was a member of the ruler's family and Muslim women are closely supervised, even having an affair was extraordinary. To complicate matters, the affair results in the princess getting pregnant, a severe breach of Muslim religious law. Somehow, she escapes to Paris, France, where she gives birth to her baby. She stays in France for the rest of her life, living in very impoverished conditions. I am not sure whether this was a novel or a biography. This book is written in French, and presumably published in France, so I do not know if this American service will be able to help. But I look forward to your comments and suggestions.

Kenize Mourad, Regards from the Dead Princess: Novel of a Life
Someone has suggested Regards from the Dead Princess: Novel of a Life, by Kenize Mourad. Thank you. But sorry, that is NOT the solution. Mourad's book is about a TURKISH Princess (not Tunisian) who went to Libya and India before winding up in Paris. That story is somewhat parallel to the story about the Tunisian Princess but it's not the same. (Funny thing is that I first learned about Kenize Mourad just this past January when I was in Paris.) Anyone have any other suggestions?

T197: Tree pirates ultravioletcatastrophy!
Solved: Ultra Violet Catastrophe: or The Unexpected Adventures of a Walk With Great Uncle Magnus

T198: Tiny underground people waging wars
Solved: Trouble for Trumpets & Trumpets in Grumpetland

T199: TELL TIME BOOK-MOVABLE HANDS BOYS ADVENTURE
Solved: My Tell-Time Book

T200: Three brothers stand side by side and look like steps
Solved: All-of-a-Kind Family

T201: Trip to Southern France
Solved: Madamoiselle Misfortune

T202: trip to England
The story is about a girl who is in a big family and who has bad luck on her birthday. Then she writes an essay for a contest about English gardens and wins a trip to England. She goes by ship with a bunch of other kids and solves a mystery about a missing necklace on the ship. While on the ship the kids all get exposed to chicken pocks and end up quarantined at a house that has castle runes on the premises and she finds out that the castle runes is the place her ancestors were because of a poem that goes "when eight and four make eleven and six and five make twelve, don't look up to heaven but take a shovel and delve." The kids find the spot and dig and find an underground passage and eventually, with adult help, find the treasure. I read the book in the ‘60s but I couldn't grantee it was new then.

T203: troll on the cover
This is a book I used to check out from the elementary school library circa (1987-1989 unsure of the exact year.) It was a gorgeously illustrated book of fairy tales/ stories but they were a bit darker than typical stories. i used to have to fight with 2 boys in my class about who got to check it out next! I vaguely remember there being a troll thingy descending into a well on the cover of the book and grinning maliciously. I'm 75% certain that it was hard back. I can only remember two of the stories inside; one was the story of a baby that is stolen and replaced by a particularly ugly fairy baby that cries all the time. The other story was of a man who sees a young woman/mermaid type and convinces her to marry him which she agrees to as long as he never hits her with leather, iron and his fist or she'll go back to the water forever. Thanks for your help!

Edith Unnerstad, Twilight Tales. A collection of Swedish fairy tales at least one was about a troll. I haven't read the book since my own childhood, so can't remember whether it fits the description in other ways.
i've read a story about a baby stolen and replaced by an ugly fairy. I think the ugly fairy was called a changeling, although I don't remember the name of the book. I hope it helps spark a memory.

T204: Threshold dimension traveler science fiction
Solved: The Universe Between

T205: Time machine buried in cliff
Solved: Flight of Time

T206: Teen Girl New to Town/School
Solved: Trudy Phillips, New Girl

T207: Three children and rocking horse
This book was one I had in the 1950s. I don't know the author. I thought Eloise Wilkins did the artwork, but maybe not. The story was about three children who went to the park with their father and they rode the carousel horses and one of them broke. The father took it home and made a rocking horse out of it. My book was yellow and I think it was a type of linen. Good Luck!

No answer yet, but this stumper sounds similar to stumper C346.

T208: teacher is rescued by troubled student named bobby shafto
Solved: Bobby Shafto

T209: travel set
Solved: Family Treasury of Children's Stories

T210: Train, Half Buried Clocks & Peacocks
I don't even the story line of this book but it has been the illustrations that have stood out in my mind over the years. I think that each double page was one illustration and the book was a hardback, landscape A4 (ish) size. The pictures were surreal line drawings coloured with muted watercolours, if I remember correctly in shades of purple, pink and grey. They were fairly detailed but not overly realistic. If there was any writing it would have been one or two lines at the bottom of each page. Each picture had a small steam engine pulling a few carriages and it wove it's way through a surreal countryside as the book progressed. I remember half buried clocks were a prominent feature of the illustrations which were rather Dali-like, and in one of the pictures there was a garden area sectioned off by a rought iron fence. Within the garden were bedraggled looking peacocks some of whom had lost a few tail feathers and these lay on the ground nearby. I have seen a similar description of this 'garden' under 'P' in your archive but the book mentioned was not the one. I would have had this book in the early 1970's but it could have been published much earlier. my grandmother was always buying me old books!!

T211: Train, Half Buried Clocks & Peacocks
I don't even the story line of this book but it has been the illustrations that have stood out in my mind over the years. I think that each double page was one illustration and the book was a hardback, landscape A4 (ish) size. The pictures were surreal line drawings coloured with muted watercolours, if I remember correctly in shades of purple, pink and grey. They were fairly detailed but not overly realistic. If there was any writing it would have been one or two lines at the bottom of each page. Each picture had a small steam engine pulling a few carriages and it wove it's way through a surreal countryside as the book progressed. I remember half buried clocks were a prominent feature of the illustrations which were rather Dali-like, and in one of the pictures there was a garden area sectioned off by a rought iron fence. Within the garden were bedraggled looking peacocks some of whom had lost a few tail feathers and these lay on the ground nearby. I have seen a similar description of this 'garden' under 'P' in your archive but the book mentioned was not the one. I would have had this book in the early 1970's but it could have been published much earlier. my grandmother was always buying me old books!!

T212: Treasure
Solved: Famous Five series

T213: Tidal Wave
looking for book about several children trapped in tidal wave; cover of book shows girl in pink dress burning through her braid trying to jam a window shut-- any suggestions? Thanks!

Lyon, Elinor, Rider's Rock. Chicago, Follett 1958. Not a lot of information to go on, but perhaps this one "Since a tidal wave covered it years before, a seaside village has remained buried and intact beneath the sand. Then four children discover how to tunnel into the buildings and are exploring when another wave hits, with revealing results." No description of the cover, unfortunately.
William Mayne's Low Tide (1994) has 3 New Zealand children trapped by a tidal wave, but they are lured out by a low tide to see a shipwreck, not any place with windows.
Elinor Lyon, Rider's Rock,1958. The cover you describe definitely belongs to this book The children are trapped in the house they have uncovered when another tidal wave hits and she saws her plait off to secure the window. This was a favourite of mine when I was about 8 .
Lyon, Elinor, Rider's Rock, Follett 1968, copyright. I've seen the cover of this book <http://pictures.abebooks.com/LEMMAYJ/854406976.jpg> and it's exactly as described in the query.

T214: two little kittens
Twinkle and Boo, circa 1974. There were two little kittens, with eyes of blue / One was named Twinkle and one was named Boo. / They tried to be good and do what was right, / But they got into mischief from morning to night. Entire book is rhymed. used to read it to my kids. Want it now for grandchild!

Helen Wind, Kitten Twins. Rand McNally, 1960. Found this on your Solved page.
Your web site says Under entry T168 - the name of the book is The Kitten Twins - This is NOT the same book - Can you help?

T215: talisman series
Solved: The Fear Street Saga

T216: twins
Solved: Jennifer

T217: Tomato soup and chocolate cake
Solved: What's for Lunch, Charley?

T218: Too big to put hand in the pickle jar
Solved: The Little Girl Story

T219: Time travel with witches
Solved: Wicked Pigeon Ladies in the Garden

T220: Treasure Hunt
Solved: Minnow on the Say

T221: Teenage Santa Buys Toy Train
I'm looking for a short story for young adults, probably written in the 1960s. This teenage boy gets a job as Santa at the local hardware or department store. Then, this sad sack of a little kid comes by every day to stare at the fancy train set in the window of the store. The teenage Santa tries to let the kid down easy that he's not going to be seeing the train set come Christmas. In the end, the teenager takes his paycheck on Christmas Eve, buys the train from his boss with the check, and takes it over to the kid's house.

T222: TWICE-REMOVED
Looking for a book I read as a child in the 1950's. I think it took place in England. I remember a young girl who would walk along the hedgerows - she had a pet hedgehog and would go into a nearby woods. In the woods was a pond and one day a man came out of the pond. he told her he was her uncle(?) twice-removed. Twice removered because he'd gone into the pond to a fairy(?) kingdom twice. It's not much to go on but that's all I remember.

Palmer Brown, The Silver Nutmeg
The Silver Nutmeg: the Story of Anna Lavinia and Toby by Palmer Brown ; with pictures by the author. New York : Harper, 1956. Here's the only plot description I could find: "The protagonist of The Silver Nutmeg is a child who loves nature and learns an understated lesson about love."

T223: Thumbelina
Solved: Shiba Productions

T224: Troll Story Flip Book
I am looking for a book from my childhood that has two troll stories in it. One is The Three Billy Goats Gruff when you flip the book over there is another Norwegian folk tale we believe to be called “The Friendly Bear.” This story is about a group of trolls that come from the mountains on Christmas and eat farmer Neiles Dinner. The trolls think that a bear is a cat and the bear scars them away and they will never come back to steel the farmers dinner. Does anyone know how to find this book??

Not a complete answer, but maybe it will contain some clues to help you. The title A Friendly Bear (or The Friendly Bear) turned up, by Robert Bright, BUT the description says that a boy goes to visit his grandfather to have him read a book, but there's a friendly bear there instead. So this may be throwing your search off. The Norwegian tale about a bear and trolls sounds like CAT ON THE DOVREFELL (the trolls think the bear is a giant white cat and are scared off). I also found a variation of the story by Jeannette Winter called THE CHRISTMAS VISITORS. It seems like CAT ON THE DOVREFELL is the more familiar title, but I couldn't find a flip book that contained it.~from a librarian

T225: The Town That Santa Claus Forgot
I'm looking for a Christmas book. I think the title was The town that Santa Clause forgot. Or something like that. It was illustrated in color, one illustraion was a ring of mountains with a town in the center. I recieved it sometime in the mid 80's and it came with an audio cassette. Any help would be appreciated, thanks

Diana Kimpton, The Bear that Santa Claus Forgot. A bear, not a town, but could be the one!

T226: Treehouses, Horses and First Love
Solved: Double Standards

T227: Twins with ESP
Solved: Time for the Stars

T228: Texas Tornado
Solved: A Head On Her Shoulders

T229: Train traveling through night
Solved: The Magic Spectacles

T230: Treehouse for young girl
I read this book often in the late 70's, I was probably in the 3rd or 4th grade. It involved a young girl that had her own fancy treehouse. She had older sisters, I think quite a few, that were jealous of her treehouse and thought that she was spoiled. I think this book is from the 50's or 60's because I remember that it looked old, and the illustrations showed and older style of dress.

T231: Trials for a king/prince
Solved: The King with Six Friends

T232: tea and scones
Solved: Yummers!

T233: Time travel
Solved: The Time Keeper

T234: Tin mine
Solved: Mine of Lost Days

T235: Tons of Tulips
Child's short book about boy who takes walk in city park with mother and sees hundreds of flowers in bloom; book has watercolor illustrations of park scene with masses of what appear to be tulips, in red, pink, and yellow. Likely published betw. 1950 and 1961.

Marjory Schwalje, I Walk to the Park. Published by Whitman in 1966--a possibility? I think the opening was something like "I walk to the park, and what do I see?--something, something, da dum, dee dee (you get the idea)." It was written in rhyme.

T236: Trees and tunnels