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A378: Animal ‘dolls’ posed, Nursery Rhymes
Solved: A Puppet Treasure Book of Nursery Tales
This was the first book I remember from childhood, and I had it in the early ‘70’s. It was a large-format board book with a yellow padded cover. There was a hologram picture pasted on the front cover. Each board page inside had small animal ‘dolls’ posed with other miniature props to illustrate each nursery rhyme. My cousin had the same book and remembers that hers had “Puss in Boots” (with the same posable ‘dolls’) in the hologram on the front cover.

Izawa & Hijikata, A Puppet Treasure Book of Nursery Tales, 1971, approximate. I found this on a solved stumper, and I think this is the one that I remember. There are some on e-bay and the pictures of the pages look exactly like I remember -- and I was WRONG! There were animals, but the pictures were dolls (people).

A379: Asian boy uses a lantern to fly in the air
Solved: Tubby and the Lantern
This book is about an Asian boy that uses a lantern to fly. The book has really nice art work of pictures of the boy flying in the air looking down below at such scenes as boats on the river, etc. The book is at least 35-40 years old.

Kurt Wiese, Fish in the Air, 1948, copyright. I'm wondering if this might be Fish in the Air. It's actually a fish-shaped kite that carries Little Fish up into the air, but it does look something like a lantern. And the pictures are good enough that it was a Caldecott Honor Book.
Possibly Tubby and the Lantern (1971) by Al Perkins? "For his owner's birthday Tubby, the elephant, constructs a huge paper lantern which carries them on a long trip." They also have to escape pirates. It happens in China.
Thank you so much. After years of searching for this book you have helped me find it. The correct answer is "Tubby and the Lantern" (1971) by Al Perkins. Mystery Solved :) Once again -- Thanks and take care.

B634: Babysit
before 1975? childrens. An old man babysits several? kids. He has a pet dodo bird. Different faucets in the house run soda, ie bathtub faucet runs Root Beer, kitchen faucet runs orange soda, etc.

Ruth Christoffer Carlsen, Mr. Pudgins, 1951, copyright. A very popular request, again. See Loganberry solved mysteries M page.
This sounds to me like Mr. Pudgins by Ruth Carlsen!
Mr. Pudgins.
Ruth Christoffer Carlsen, Mr. Pudgins, 1950, approximate. Ah, the wonderful Mr. Pudgins! I do wonder why someone doesn't bring them back into print!

B635: Blond boy befriends shy bear
The book I'm looking for was probably published in the 1960's. It was about a young blond boy with a cork pop gun. He goes hunting only to befriend a large bear. He takes the shy bear home, for milk and cookies. I remember the bear was very shy, and spilled his milk, and was very embarrassed. The bear was scared that the little boys mother would be mad. She wasn't and that made the bear less scared. The boys mom helped to clean up and all was fine. Any help would be appreciated.

B636: Bee (or butterfly) gets stuck inside flower
1970's young child's book about two bees (or butterflies) named MITHA and MITHY. One of them gets stuck inside a flower. Lovely watercolor illustrations. Hardcover, white cover with watercolor image.

B637: Boy space ship magic button
1979?, childrens. A curious, perhaps naughty boy enters a space ship and pushes a button and starts the space ship / rocket ship. I think he goes into space.

Jay Williams, Danny Dunn and the anti-gravity paint, 1956, copyright. We have this book on our bookshelf. Loved that series. His mom works for a professor, has friends named Irene and Joe. Hope this is the one!

B638: bayou, Algernon
Children's book set in (on?) the bayou. Main character was a boy named Algernon. He lived in a house on stilts over the water and had to use a boat or raft to go anywhere. I think there was more than 1 book about him. I was in 2nd grade and found them in the school library - 1967? They were tall, very thin hardbacks. I recall the art on the cloth cover depicting a swamp - kind of dark-greenish. (I wasn't sure I believed anyone lived like that.) :)

Eleanor Frances Lattimore, Bayou Boy, 1946, approximate. Could this be the book? Green cloth cover of a black boy standing on what looks like a wood deck.
Most likely Augustus Goes South, by Le Grand, aka Le Grand Henderson. It happens in Louisiana and his friend is Albert. They encounter robbers on the lam. That book has an excerpt in the 1950s The Illustrated Treasury of Children's Literature. The series is here: Augustus And The River, 1939; Augustus Goes South, 1940; Augustus and the Mountains, 1941; Augustus Helps The Navy, 1942; Augustus Helps The Army, 1943; Augustus Helps The Marines, 1943; Augustus Drives A Jeep, 1944; Augustus Flies, 1944; Augustus Saves A Ship, 1945; Augustus Hits the Road, 1946; Augustus Rides the Border, 1947; Augustus and the Desert, 1948. Augustus is a Tom Sawyer type. They're all at the third-grade level or so. He has several multicultural companions - one per book. In Augustus and the Mountains, the book is explicitly anti-racist, but another book is clearly hostile to Asians, unfortunately, because of WWII. Le Grand wrote other stories too, many of them funny. You can read more about him here - it includes all(?) of his titles. http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv69787.
I don't think it's the book Bayou Boy, as the boy was not depicted as black... I'm not sure about the Augustus books either...I was really hung up over the name, and when Flowers for Algernon came to my attention, I thought about this book being the only other place I'd heard of that name. Also, I think any adventures were really low-key. I might need to see one to be sure. More recollections: I think another child lived in a nearby stilted house, and they had to use a boat or raft to even get together to go play. And I think I remember the family fishing off the porch of the house. Wish I recalled more! It's not that the book was so great; it's just one of the few non-horse books I read, and it came to mind during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The size of the book was about like one of the Billy and Blaze books by C. W. Anderson. In fact, it was near those books on the shelves, so the author's last name probably came early in the alphabet... Thanks for your help! :)
Zapf, Marjorie, The Mystery of the Great Swamp, 1966, approximate. It has been a long time since I have read this so I can't remember the boy's name. The date is right, and the cover sounds similar.

B639: Baby sister named Star
Chapter book probably published in the 1950's about a little girl who wants a baby sister. Her mother has a baby around Christmas, and the little girl names her Star.

Carolyn Haywood, Betsy's Little Star, 1950, copyright. Great book, but I think it might be out of print.
Haywood, Carolyn, Merry Christmas from Betsy. This is from one of the Betsy Books, not sure which one. But it is probably in this compilation of Betsy Christmas stories.
Carolyn Haywood, Betsy and Billy. Definitely the one.
Carolyn Haywood, Betsy's Little Star, 1940's. Haywood's popular character Betsy gets a little sister on Christmas whom she names Star.
Carolyn Haywood. Could this be one of Haywood's "Betsy" series?
Carolyn Haywood, Betsy and Billy. Just to note: Betsy's Little Star is NOT the book where Star is born; that's a book that turns the attention to Star herself. Betsy and Billy is the book about Star being born at Christmas.

C567: Cuthbert Train eating disorder
Solved: Bitter Ice
1980s?, nonfiction. A book about a man named Cuthbert (Cuff) Train who is a real estate agent on Mount Desert Island, Maine. The book was written by his ex-wife. It may have "fire" and "ice" in the title. Cuthbert has an eating disorder and possibly a sweat gland disorder, maybe also psychiatric or emotional issues. Mount Desert Island is a small town and it seems strange that an ex-wife would write a book about a husband like that so it may be out of print now.

Lawrence, Barbara Kent, Bitter Ice: a memoir of love, food and obsession, 1999, copyright. I just reread this book and it sounds like the one you're looking for although the man's name is Tom; it does take place in Maine. Fascinating read! This revealing but rather suffocating memoir chronicles Lawrence's horrendous 27-year marriage to Tom, a severely disturbed anorexic. Although both came from privileged homes, each of their childhoods was marked by a lack of parental love. Shortly after their marriage, Tom's daily rituals of jogging, followed by alternating ice baths and saunas, began to dominate their lives. His obsession with eating only foods he deemed healthful kept him painfully thin. He also made demands on Lawrence to eat less, even though she was pregnant with their first child. After the birth of their second child, Tom was briefly hospitalized for psychiatric problems, at which time a physician told him, in response to his inquiry, that only women could be anorexic. After his release, Tom's eating disorder became more noticeable, while Lawrence turned into a classic enabler: she isolated herself from family and friends, hid the severity of her husband's condition and did nothing to interfere with his self-destructive bent. Lawrence devotes a good deal of her account to detailing her husband's controlling nature and truly disgusting habits (he was observed spitting into the family's food, among other indecencies), which alienated his children as well as the people hired to work in the real estate office that Tom and she jointly ran. Lawrence's focus is on describing her own unhappiness and suffering, which was considerable, rather than on shedding any light on anorexia, other than highlighting the symptoms. She does, however, accept responsibility for her contribution to this destructive marriage that ended in divorce. Author tour. (Nov.) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Barbara Kent Lawrence, Bitter Ice, 1999, copyright. Sounds right.

C568: Children Make Best Bread
before 1980s?, childrens. Story about a family with a lot of children and hard working parents. The mother always makes the bread but one day she is busy so the children try. They use the different ages children's hands to try and equal their mother's hands for measuring out the ingredients. When they bake the bread in the oven it ends up overflowing and filling up the whole kitchen with bread. The father comes home from a hard day's work and is hungry for supper but the whole kitchen is filled with bread so no one can make supper. The father decides to have a piece of the bread and it turns out to be the most amazing bread he has ever tasted and has many flavors.

Roberta Duyff, The Bread That Grew, 1987, copyright. This may be a bit of a stretch... "When the bakers' children are baking bread, one of them adds a mysterious something that causes the dough to grow and grow."
Mary Ann Hoberman, The Seven Silly Eaters, 1997, copyright. This is also a bit of a stretch, but the children do end up making wonderful bread by accident. In The Seven Silly Eaters, the children are all very finicky, each one with his or her own quirks. On their mother's birthday they try to prepare their own meals...

C569: Cat turns into girl
Solved: Felicia
A book about a girl who has a cat, who turns into a real girl and is her best friend. At the end the girl turns back into the cat. I would have read this in the mid 1970's.

Anne Huston, The Girl Across the Way, 1970, copyright. Also published as "The Cat Across the Way." "Ten-year-old Lacey is unhappy in her dark city apartment, after moving from the country and leaving her beloved horse behind, until she sees a yellow cat on a neighboring rooftop." I have not actually read this, but came across it while searching online, so I don't know if the cat turns into a girl, or if Lacey befriends a little girl whom she meets because of the cat (possibly the cat's owner?) Anyway, I thought it was at least worth throwing out there as a possibility. Front cover shows Lacey (blonde girl with blonde hair, wearing a green jumper, white blouse, knee socks, and loafers) sitting on a wooden crate, with her chin on her hands. There is a chain-link fence in the background, and the yellow cat is approaching her.
Eleanor Frances Lattimore, Felicia. It's in the "Solved" section with a description, and it sounds like this book.
Eleanor Frances Lattimore, Felicia, 1964, copyright. Charlotte is a lonely little girl who wants a cat and can't have one because her brother is allergic. Another girl mysteriously appears and stays with her for a while. She hasn't any shoes, so Charlotte's mom buys her a pair of sneakers. Felicia is not really a girl but a cat from the general store. Charlotte knows this and has to keep other people from finding out. At the end Felicia turns back into a cat and all that is left are the sneakers sitting on top of the pickle barrel. Lattimore illustrated all her own books. She was best known for her stories about Chinese children -- the Little Pear stories, Peach Blossom, The Chinese Daughter, Journey of Ching Lai. I think I've seen this in Solved Mysteries E-F.
Hi and many thanks all, Felicia is definitely the book!

C570: Cereal, porridge
I enjoyed this little book as a child during the late 60's, early 70's - the copy I was read was about 6" x6" in size. The story is about two little boys who live next door to each other. They enjoy jumping from each other's back steps for visits. One morning, one of the little boys jumps across the alley and they share a day together, beginning with breakfast. They discover some little differences about themselves and their families right away - the first one being the word they use for their oatmeal - one says "cereal," the other says "porridge." They go on to find differences in the way they say pajamas, sofa, boots, and even friends. The mom always replies with a comparison of their words that goes like this,"Cereal, porridge, porridge, cereal -it all tastes just the same - good!" I believe the words boots and galoshes, friends and chums are mentioned. It is a delightful book and I have been looking for it for many years. Thanks for your help.

Melissa Dow Funk, Pals, MCMLXVI, copyright. This was a book about 2 litle boys whose back steps met. My copy is A Little Storyland Book published by Rainbow Works. The two little boys are Jeremy-Joe and Tommy. While Jeremy is at Tommy's house his mother keeps calling things different words then Jeremy's family uses (like porridge instead of cereal). Everytime he comments on it Tommy's mother says This-that, that-this, "It's all the same."
Melissa Dow Funk, Pals. Thank you very much! This is definitely the book my mother read to me as a child! I remember the little boy's names - especially "Jeremy Joe!" How fun it will be to track it down and share it with my own children.

C571: Colorful book features dragons/monsters
I would date this book from the late 70s to the mid 80s. I recall it was a larger book, possibly hardbound. There were several creatures, but my brain keeps conjuring a blue dragon or similar. Color was integral to the book. I remember something about the sky, maybe a pink cliff, and vines. Possibly involved paint or art. There were children involved. I remember it was "trippy" and whimsical. I think maybe it was supposed to be touting diversity, but I could be wrong.

Beverly Cleary, Beezus and Ramona, 1955, copyright. This sounds irresistably like the opening chapter of Beezus and Ramona. In the opening chapter, Beezus is in a summer school art class. She says she hasn't got much imagination, but when Ramona says she can't paint a picture of her imaginary pet lizard because he's invisible, Beezus tries to do a picture of him and it ends up as a psychedelic lollipop dragon. Anyway, if this isn't your book, you might like to read it anyway.
Unfortunately, that isn't it. This was definitely a heavily illustrated book. The colors and style of the pictures were really what drew me in. I'm beginning to wonder if it isn't something along the vein of the Serendipity books.
Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are, 1963. The boy in this story, Max, gets sent to his room without supper. In his room, a mysterious wilderness grows, full of strange, wild creatures. Some of th characters are blue and have lizardy looks. Also there is a pink ske in one scene and in another, Max and the creatures are swinging on vines/branches through the jungle.
Thanks once more, but this is also not it. I keep wondering if this was not associated with a toy, cartoon, or other franchise, but none of the "obvious" ones. It definitely had a "Sid & Marty Krofft" flavor, but softer, more in line with the Serendipity series. It isn't The Reluctant Dragon either. This involved several creatures or one that changed color (perhaps also shape). It was a tallish book, in the size range of Tony Wolf's oeuvre, another series I loved as a kid. One of the creatures might have had head fins or dainty horns. I can't remember the cover, but I think it might have been torn off or otherwise damaged. I think the kids in the story might have been chasing this beast or communicating with it in a light-hearted manner. I remember thinking it wasn't like the other books I had and loving the swirly, trippy style of the illustrations. I'm sorry I have so few details to share. I'd really love to see this book again, so I know I didn't dream it up. :)

C572: Cat wearing slippers
Childrens book, possibly recent, and maybe by a female. All i have to go on is a picture of a cat wearing a pair of slippers.
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a94/xhatecruex/Cat.jpg

Alter, Anna, Estelle and Lucy, 2001, copyright. Talk about coincidence. I looked at the picture online last night and this morning I was weeding the A's, opened the book to check the condition and thought this looks familiar. This is it.

C573: Colt that is a little different
Children's Illustrated book about a colt that is a little different going to a birthday party and finding horses of different colors dancing around a maypole.

Sounds like Unsolved Stumper H127. Not a solution, but there might be some clues there.

C574: Cat's eyes change color
I'm trying to find the title of a book I had as a child. It was a very simple, PB story book about a cat whose eyes would change colors depending where it stood. For example, when it was in the grass, its eyes were green. The next page, it is in like a bunch of blueberries, and its eyes are blue. Finally at the last, its eyes are blue and it puts on pink glasses, and now they look purple? Or something like that! :)

C575: Colorful creatures, series of books
This was an obscure series of picture books, each with the same structure and same ending. They were extremely colorful. Each was, I think, based around a colored creature, and at the end the creature went to the magical fantasy land. Very strange, probably, in retrospect, diversity-oriented. Published most likely between 1973-77.

Children of Wonder, 1987?, approximate. This is a long shot, but would it be the Children of Wonder series? There were four books, Helping the Sun, the Night, the Plants, and the Animals. The structure was simple enough: a child and his or her special animal friend would go through nature (animals, the sky, etc) and help set things up as needed. The books were quite colorful and meant for very young children, they may have been cardboard books. Hope this helps.

C576: cricket magazine dead friend 1970s
This is driving me crazy. It was a serialized set of beautiful stories published in Cricket magazine, for many issues, and the time period had to have been between 1973 and 1978. It was about a boy who had a dead friend who followed him and talked to him. I have no idea if it was ever published as a book. My mother chucked out all my old Cricket magazines. Alas. I would be eternally grateful if you have any idea. I wish Cricket would publish some archived stuff.

D290: Death leads to other worlds
Solved: The Brothers Lionheart
This book was read to me in 1980/81 by my 5th grade teacher. There were 2 brothers(?) and multiple worlds that you progressed into when you died. At one point one character was injured and dying, he jumped out window to die and progress into the next world. There was a lot of fighting, peril and suspense.

Astrid Lindgren, The Brothers Lionheart, 1973, approximate. Two brothers, original last name Lion. The younger brother is very ill and is dying. To comfort him his older brother makes up a story about a land called Nangijala which people journey to when they die. There is a fire and the older brother tries to save the younger one by jumping out a window with him. The older brother dies and tells the younger one that he will see him in Nangijala.
Astrid Lindgren, The Brothers Lionheart. Almost certainly this one. Carl is ill. His brother Jonathan helps him accept he will die by telling him stories of the other land. Then Jonathan dies first rescuing Carl from a fire. When Carl dies, he joins Jonathan in that other land.
Astrid Lindgren, The Brothers Lionheart.
Astrid Lindgren, The Brothers Lionheart, 1975, approximate. The Brothers Lionheart...by the author of Pippi Longstocking. The Library summary is "Two brothers share many adventures after their death when they are reunited in Nangiyala, the land where sagas come from." I think one of the brothers was somehow handicapped in real life, but not in 'death'.
Astrid Lindgren, The Brothers Lionheart. WOW, you are all amazing and fast. For years I have wondered what the title was for this book. I cannot wait to acquire it and refresh my memory of this perilous story. It was read to me by my 5th grade teacher Mrs Wiganosky 28 years ago. What an amazing impact a teacher can have on a student. And to think all along it was the same author as one of my very favorite childhood books--Pippi Longstocking. Thank you.

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Lindgren, Astrid. The Brothers Lionheart. Illustrated by Ilon Wikland. Translated by Jill Morgan. Purple House Press, 1973, 2004. New DJ hardback. $17.95

D291: Dragon escapes
I am looking for a book i found as a child. Its about a dragon. It was set in the 1920s. All I remember is that the dragon escapes and a team try and find him. I remember the dragon being in a gold cage and the people tracking him by hot air balloon. Also I remember one of the illustrations being of the dragon flying through a cave and in the picture there is a black panther with yellow eyes for spots. There are lots of illustrations and they were really well done. Oh and I believe the book was written sometime before 1990 and is not too old.

An outside possibility could be My Father's Dragon, and the two sequels Elmer & the Dragon and The Dragons of Blueland by Ruth Stiles Gannett. They have an escaped dragon, a cave and a 1920s feel to them, but don'\''t recall a gold cage or a hot air balloon. They are still in print (I think) but were published in between 1948 and 1951.

D292: dragon hit with candy apples
1980, childrens. Illustrated hardback of short stories, about 10" x 13". Snippets of three individual stories I remember are as follows, and may be based on the actual story or are created by my memory of the illustrations that went along with them:
- a town center fair is disrupted by a fire-breathing dragon. A boy throws his candy apple at the dragon and hits him in the eye. Others throw their candy apples in a full-fledged attack, effectively taming the dragon which then gives the children flying rides as a replacement for the carousel and ferris wheel which it previously destroyed.
- a doctor with an old-fashioned black doctor's satchel. A wish is involved and I think that wish is to have pistachio ice cream fall from the sky. Which it does, and the streets are filled with mounds of green ice cream snow. A castle interior might be involved, with a stone staircase adjacent to two walls.
- A giant young man or boy dressed in a striped old-fashioned one piece bathing suit meanders his way through New York City and settles himself in the water at the beach to cool off.
Each of these was accompanied by very evocative drawings. It had a bit of a Sendak-quality to it, in terms of the quality of the drawings, the fancifulness of the overall book, and the overall "feel" (the book was fun to read but not "cheery" by any means -- it was strange and a bit "dark" at points).

D293: dog loves garbage, cat, horse, cow chews cud
I'm looking for a book that has several short stories or possibly just chapters about animals. I know for sure there is a chapter called "The Dog." The dog goes on and on about how he loves to eat garbage, and describes coffee grounds and eggshells for sure. Other known chapters are "The Cat" "The Horse" "The Cow." I think the cow talks of chewing her cud, but I'm not sure. I read it in the early 80s, but I was pretty young. I hope this was enough information. Thanks!

E133: enclave men roam controlled
Solved: The Shore of Women
PLEASE FIND ME THE TITLE OF THIS BOOK. Teen fantasy/ romance. Published before 2000. Some kind of alternate history or post apocalypse. Women live in communities (enclaves) civilized society with advanced tech and flying machines. Men roam outside in bands/groups/tribes and survive as they can. Women call men using 'temples' where men go to pray to the 'goddess' who summons them and gives them 'visions' of pleasure. When the men go to the enclave they are allowed in a small chamber and are sedated and treated medically. Semen is gathered for artificial insemination while they are unaware. Male children are given to a wandering group – preferably containing the biological father. One girl falls in love and leaves the enclave, becomes pregnant. Dangerous realisation of the lack of divinity of women. Growing understanding of biological responsibility.

Tepper, Sheri S., The Gate to Women's Country, 1988, copyright. Although the details don't match up exactly, Tepper's The Gate to Women's Country has some of your topics. The two sexes are divided, and the only men allowed in the women's country are non-violent. The main character in the story, a young girl, learns that her father was a different person than the man her mother told her he was.
Sheri S. Tepper, The Gate to Women's Country, 1988, copyright.
Pamela Sargent , The Shore of Women. This is Pamela Sargent's "The Shore of Women". You may also enjoy Sheri S. Tepper's "The Gate to Women's Country".
Tepper, Sherri, The Gate to Women's Country. This could be what the requester is looking for. In Tepper's book, women live in enclaves, while most of the men live in military camps outside the enclaves. The men are not permitted to enter the enclaves, except special areas where they have sex with the women. When boys are born to the women in the enclaves, they spend their first 10 or so years with their mothers, but at the end of that period, they must live with their fathers and be trained as soldiers for another 10 or so years. At the end of this period, they must decide whether they want to live with their mothers or with their fathers. In truth, the women who become pregnant are artificially inseminated with sperm from the men who have chosen to live in the enclaves.
Thank you, I have been looking for this book for a very long time now, and you seem to have found it amazingly quickly. I think it is Pamela Sargent's The Shore of Women.

E134: English children traveling in a canal boat
Solved: The Big Six
I think I read this book in the late '50's. It was an English adventure book about a group of children traveling in a canal boat. A Thief attempted to implicate them by dropping jewelry down the chimney of the boat, however by chance they had repainted the chimney and the crook left his hand-print in the wet paint. I think the cover showed the thief feeling the chimney.

Arthur Ransome, The Big Six, 1940. You might be thinking of Arthur Ransome's book "the Big Six" - it is set on the Norfolk Broads and involved a group of children - there is no stolen jewellery but there is a plotline about a theft (from a boatyard/boatbuilder) and plots involving a newly painted chinmey and photgraphs taken at night.
Arthur Ransome, The Big Six. Thank you so very much. Yes, I think that "The Big Six" sounds about right. I have ordered a copy from the library and am waiting anxiously! In browsing the Web, I find that Arthur Ransome's novel "Pigeon Post", was another important book to me. The references to Gold Prospecting and testing with Aqua Regia remain vividly in my memory. Thank you again.

F307: Fairy Tale Anthology, Genie Cover
An Illustrated book of fairy tales and nursery rhymes, possibly a Readers Digest anthology. It had a huge painted Genie on the Hardback Cover. The illustrations inside were monochromatic, reds, blues, and browns mostly. Included "Beauty and the Beast," "Puss in Boots," "Aladdin" "Why the Sea is Salt," and a weird little poem about a wicked dwarf or gnome that ends up chewing his beard. Had to have been published before 1985.

Collection, Fifty Famous Fairy Tales, 1965, copyright. Illustrated by Robert J. Lee, part of THE WHITMAN CLASSIC LIBRARY, Whitman Publishing Company. I have this book and the cover is orange with a large genie (one of the included stories is "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp"). Additionally, most of the illustrations are in the colors you describe (though there five or six that are full color).
Fifty Famous Fairy Tales, 1965. I got so excited when I saw this suggestion, but after tracking down a table of contents and cover art from Fifty Famous Fairy Tales, I realized it is not the right book. The one I'm looking for had a reddish cover, the Genie on it is bare-chested, and bald but with a top-knot. It includes Pinnochio and parts of Alice in Wonderland as stories.

F308: Father with wooden leg
In the 60's, I was in the 4th or 5th grade when I read a book about a girl whose father had a wooden leg that was one of the funniest books I had ever read. One part I remember was when her father had removed his wooden leg to take a shower, but as he started to hop to the shower, she had left jacks all over the bathroom floor which of couse he was hopping on. I used to read a lot of Beverly Clearly books so it may be one of hers but I am not able to find it. There was another author that wrote the same types of books but I can't remember that authors names. I do remember character names like Ramona, Betsy and Henry. I thought the book was just Ramona and her Father. Please help me find this one. Thanks in advance for helping me with one of my childhood memories.

It sounds like two different books. I've read the one book you're talking about, the one-legged father hopping and landing on his daughter's jacks. (Ouch!) Unfortunately that's all I really remember too; it was basically dealing with the challenges of raising a family. One other cute bit is that his kids loving playing with his old wooden legs, making their friends jealous because thier fathers only had "real" legs. The other part sounds like Beverly Cleary's Henry Huggins-Ramona Quimby series, no wooden legs there.
Tom Buck, But Daddy! : The Hilarious True Story of How Pat and Tom Buck Raised 11 Children - and Survived!, 1967, approximate. Definitely this book. One of my favorites!
Buck, Tom, But Daddy!, 1967, copyright. This is definitely the correct book. This is the true story of a Catholic family with 11 children written in first person by the father. The older children's names are Dempsey, Kern, Mackey, and Rinker. I just opened it to check the date and the details and I am laughing so hard I have tears in my eyes.

F309: Friends share dolls, write story
I think that this book would be appropriate for 10-12 year old girls. It is about two girls who are friends who somehow acquire a pair (one boy and one girl) of dolls. They are quite small dolls and the girls decide that they will share them in turns and write a story about the dolls between the two of them. The one with the dolls writes the "chapter" then hands them off to the other to write the next bit. Title may include the word "friends" and was probably written in the 60s or 70s. Hope someone else has heard of this!

Carol Ryrie Brink, Two are better than one. I think this is Carol Ryrie Brink - Two are better than one. The two girls are called Cordy and Chrystal, and the dolls are Lester and Lynette.

F310: forest path gate little people on the otherside
In the 4th grade my teacher read to us a book about a kid, I think boy who was living in a village that had a forest near by. The forest was dangerous and the villagers didn't wonder into it. The kid did though and found a path that lead to a big stone gate, on the otherside of the gate are little monsters or aggressive mini people. In the story I think the kid has to stop the aggressive people from attacking the village. I think that's how the story goes. I remember the cover of the book it had a forest with a gate on the otherside from where you were standing, like you were looking out from the village. It's been driving me crazy that I can't figure out what the book is. All last year I spent most of my time in book stores browsing to see if I could find it, but I haven't come accross it yet. Help.

T. H. White, Mistress Masham's Repose, 1946, copyright. Possibly? The main character is a girl, and the little people aren't aggressive until she is endangered and they come to rescue her, but she does discover them by looking through a stone opening. It takes her a while to realize that they aren't playthings or pets, and at one point they banish her, but eventually they come to an understanding.

F311: Futuristic girl who doesn't speak
Science fiction, probably young adult - read this book in the 1990s. The world uses advanced bioengineering, but socially it's a harsh place. The main character, a teenage girl, does not speak - chooses to be mute. Her father is convicted of being a government dissident along with several others and transformed into a bush at the beginning. Somehow she loses her mother and brother and becomes a refugee looking for them. She wears a silver coat with pictures of her family. Near the end I think she finds them. She's able to create little toys that are not mechanical, but biologically alive. I remember this book vividly but have been able to find the title or author.

F312: Fish species seek new planet
Solved: The Watch Below
The first page describes a space ship leaving a planet that's being drawn towards the sun and all the water is drying up and it's only on page 2 or 3 that the reader realizes the astronauts are "fish like" and not human. I think the book has dual plots with the second plot a shipwreck with survivors living in an air bubble for generations, having children and growing enough plant food to provide oxygen. I seem to recall the space ship plunges into the ocean and presumably the fish species and the underwater humans then interact - it's way into the future. I'm sure it's an old book since I recall reading it when I lived in Nairobi and I left Kenya in 1976. I've been looking for this book since then. My grandmother thought the author was Spurgeon but I've been unsuccesful finding it.

Theodore Sturgeon. I don't the book you're talking about, but a well-known science fiction writer was Theodore Sturgeon who wrote during that time period.
James White, The Watch Below, 1966. This is your book - an excellent story with some plausible details (although a bit of coincidence that the ship was carrying so may lightbulbs...) It is considered his best work, but check out his "Sector General" stories too.
James Blish, The Seedling Stars, 1957, copyright. This is a long shot, but your description reminds me a bit of the short story "Surface Tension" which I read ages ago in some anthology or other. This story is actually the third of four related stories in "The Seedling Stars". The other parts are: (1) Seeding Program, (2) The Thing in the Attic, and (4) Watershed. Both Surface Tension and Watershed sound similar to what you remember, so you could even be combining elements of both. In Surface Tension, a starship crashes on an ocean world. With no hope for rescue, the few survivors modify their own genetic material to seed tiny aquatic "humans" into the lakes and puddles of the world and leave them a message engraved in tiny metal plates. The story then tells how over many seasons, the adapted human newcomers explore their aquatic environment, make alliances, invent tools, fight wars with hostile beings and finally gain dominance over the sentient beings of their world. They develop new technologies and manage to decipher some of the message on the metal plates. Finally they build a wooden "space ship" (which turns out to be two inches long) to overcome the surface tension and travel to "other worlds" - the next puddle - in search of their ancestry, as they have come to realize that they are not native to their world. Watershed takes a look at the more distant future. A starship crewed by "standard" humans is enroute to some unimportant backwater planet to deliver a team of "adapted" humans (resembling seals). Due to racial prejudices, tension mounts between the crew and passengers. When the captain decides to restrict the passengers to their cabins to prevent the situation from escalating, the leader of the adapted humans informs him that the planet ahead is Earth, where the "normal" human form once developed. He challenges the "normal" humans to follow him onto the surface of their ancestral home planet and prove that they are superior to the "adapted" seal people who will now be seeded there - or admit that they were beaten on their own grounds. The story concludes as the captain and his lieutenant silently ponder the possibility that they, being "standard" humans, are just a minority, and an obsolete species.
James White, The Watch Below. YES, this IS the book - good heavens, after more than 30 years of looking you've solved it. Thank you so much!

F313: first love, summer
1970's. Told in the first person by a male a story of his first love. He lived in a shore town with his father and brothers. Met a girl who came to live with them. The girl was a "free spirit" and apparently she got pregnant by the boy's father and had an abortion. He felt betrayed by his brothers and father and I think, moved on at the end. The title may have had the word "summer" in it. Probably the reason I didn't remember the title or author was because it was so sad.

G468: Girls uses dolls to send messages
I'm looking for a book for a patron possibly set during World War 2. It was read to her as a child. It is about two girls who are friends and they use dolls to send messages.

Carol Ryrie Brink, Two are better than one. Could this one be the same as F309? There is less information given, but the girls, Cordy and Chrystal, do send their dolls to each other with the next chapter of the story they are writing. Wouldn't have thought of it if I hadn't just answered F309!

G469: Girl tries to save baby owls
I think this book was published in the late 60's or the 70's. I believe the girl, and possibly her brother, were visiting their grandparents. They find a nest of owls. Unsure why, maybe logging, but the owls are in danger and the kids decide to move them. The mother owl attacks the girl when she is taking the owlets out of the tree. Thank you for your help.

Bertha Crow, Hootlet Home, 1964, copyright. A long shot, but might be worth a look. A little owlet falls from the nest and is found by a little girl named Pansey. As it grows up she finds the best place for her pet is back in the wild where it came from. Lovely pictures of owlets and the grown horned owls.
A.C. Stewart, Ossian House, 1974, copyright. This isn't an exact match, but in Ossian House, John visits his grandfather in the highlands of Scotland and meets his cousins and a local girl, Catriona. There is an owl's nest that the other children are protecting, but John takes one egg out before he realizes the situation, and then climbs the tall tree again to put it back. The owl shows up and seems to be attacking him (he falls out of the tree). After that he and Catriona keep an eye out to see if the eggs will all hatch, and climb nearby trees to look into the nest. The story also contains a lot of historical information about the 17th-century Covenanters, who fought religious wars in Scotland.
Jean Craighead George, There's An Owl in the Shower, 1995, copyright. I haven't read this since I was in elementary school myself, but it seems like it fits: the children live in a logging community, and know that the owlets face danger from logging, and try to save them. I don't know if the mother attacks them in this book, but the author has written about birds of prey in other books, and it's happened there (in My Side of the Mountain, for instance, a boy steals a young falcon and his mother attacks him), so I wouldn't be surprised if it happened in this book, too.

G470: Girl loses doll, eventually finds her in jar of jelly
My mom talks about this book being read to her as a little girl in the 1950s. She remembers the cover was a pinkish color.

Phyllis Mc Ginley, Helen Stone (illus), The Most Wonderful Doll in the World, 1950, copyright. I don't know about the jar of jelly, but when I search on "lost doll" books from the fifties, this one keeps popping up, and there is an edition with a reddish/pinkish cover. There is also an edition with a green cover, and there is a dust jacket with a full-color picture surrounded by a green border. "The classic tale about imaginative Dulcy and her beloved doll Angela, who Dulcy loses soon after she get her. When Dulcy finds Angela, she's not at all like the doll Dulcy remembers, but that won't stop Dulcy from hoping to find the doll of her dreams." Cover illustration is the little girl (in a 40's-style polka-dot dress, complete with pinafore and big hair bow) taking a doll out of a box, with two additional dolls lying on the floor in front of her.
Johanna Johnston, Sugarplum. This is most definitely "Sugarplum". The doll getting lost in the jar of jelly is a classic part of this book. It is remembered fondly by many and somewhat pricy because of this. There is a sequel, "Sugarplum and Snowball".
Johanna Johnston, Sugarplum. I'm pretty sure the book where the doll is locked in a jelly jar is Sugarplum. Brace yourself; it's expensive!
Johanna Johnson, Sugarplum. Might be the one, see solved stumpers...
Sugarplum. The cover has her peering out of the jelly jar.

G471: Girl raised by aunt after mother dies
Solved: Up a Road Slowly
My book has a girl whose mother has died. Her aunt is going to raise her, and is a very strict, very proper teacher whom the girl doesn't really like. The one scene I remember vividly is the day of the funeral, the girl hides in an under-stair coat closet to cry and the aunt comes in there with her and cries, too. The girl ends up learning to love her aunt and becomes very much like her.

Irene Hunt, Up a Road Slowly. An excellent book!
Irene Hunt, Up A Road Slowly, 1966, copyright. This also won the Newbery Award - Great book - one of my favorites!!
Irene Hunt, Up a Road Slowly, 1967, copyright. The scene you described sounds familiar. This book is definitely about a strict, spinster aunt raising her niece. The scene I remember was the niece visiting relatives and being so shocked when the dirty dishes were left overnight. Such sloth!! It is a great read even if it's not the one you were looking for. Hope this helps.
Irene Hunt, Up a Road Slowly.
Irene Hunt, Up A Road Slowly, 1966, copyright. When Julia's mother dies, she goes to live in the country with her Aunt Cordelia, who teaches in a one room school. Chapter 1 ends: "We sat in the dark closet together for a long time; then when there were no more tears left, we crawled out and began our decade together." I loved this book.
Hunt, Irene, Up a Road Slowly, 1966. This ranks up there with Blue Castle and The Ghost of Opalina as one of my all time favorite childhood books. After the death of Julie's mother, she goes to live with Aunt Cordelia, a spinster school teacher, in the country until she graduates from high school. It is a very poignant story of life's lessons that is not without a great deal a humor. I cry every time I read it. Oh, I'm positive this is the correct book.
Irene Hunt, Up a Road Slowly. I think this is the right book. The main character is Julie; her real name is Julia, and her aunt insists on calling her that even though nobody else does. It takes her from a child to college age.
Up a Road Slowly. Thanks a million to all - the minute I read the name I remembered it. Thank goodness for others whose brains haven't "fritzed" yet!!!!

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Hunt, Irene. Up a Road Slowly. Follett Publishing Co, 1966. DJ hardback. F/F. $15.

G472: Ghost helps girl hide underground from fiance
Young girl on family land hiding from her fiance who is working on the land, she goes into some underground tunnels and ends up getting locked in. In complete darkness she lives down there for a long time with the aid of a ghost "Jackie" (i think that's the name) who may be some friend of the family who passed on. Later she gets out to find out her fiance married her sister and she cons him into going underground where he meets his demise...?

G473: Greedy pig gets stuck in hole of sty
A big, thick, yellow with green dots book. A collection of children's stories, one of which was about a greedy pig who kept sneaking out a hole in the back of his sty to eat acorns. One day he ate so many that he couldn't fit back through the hole and got stuck. The farmer found him hanging out the hole. The illustration on the front of the book was on a white background and was of the greedy pig's rear end sticking out the hole in the sty. I believe there was also a story about a green cat in it too. It was during the 80's that I owned this book, so I imagine it was published in the 70's, but not sure.

G474: Girl, YA, ranch, horse, actor, film movie
Solved: The Luck of Texas McCoy
I'm looking for a book that I read between 1984 and 1990 (got it from the school library). It seemed to be a fairly recent book (back then). It was a YA type book. It's about a teenage girl who lives on a ranch or farm, someplace with horses. The family is poor. A teen actor (movie star?) comes and I think that he and the girl at first didn't get along. For some reason I'm thinking that the movie people rented the ranch next to the girl's ranch. The girl gives riding lessons to him. And then they filmed the movie at the ranch/farm and the family gets money for it and it helps keep the place afloat. Either that or they used the girl, or her horse, in the movie. Anyway, somehow it seems to fix all their money problems. Also, I'm remembering initials in the title (the girl's name, maybe). It was always one of my favorites and I would love to read it again. Thanks for any help you can give me.

Carolyn Meyer, The Luck of Texas McCoy, 1984. I put this question up and I finally found the book on the internet. Thanks so much for your help. I'll definitely put more books on here.

G475: Girl finds spellbook in attic
I'm looking for a book published in the 1970's about a young girl who finds an old spellbook in a turret / round attic room. I think she has or finds a bird (a crow?) and a black cat as well. She reads the spellbook and starts learning the spells secretly in this attic room. I loved this book as a child and would love to get my hands on a copy. Based on the descriptions I read on your site, I don't think it's the Little Witch book.

E. W. Hildik, Active Enzyme Lemon-Freshened Junior High School Witch. Allison finds an old book of spells, and teaches herself witchcraft. At some point she pulls in her sister and tries to form a coven.
E. W. Hildick, The Active-Enzyme, Lemon-Freshened Junior High School Witch. This might be the book. Allison does find an old spell book, and I'm remembering an attic. The title comes from the fact that Allison has a tendency to substitute ingredients for the spells.

G476: Girl never gets older
I’m looking for a book that I read when I was a kid, but I can’t remember the title or author of it, and I was wondering if anyone could help me. I’m sure I read it before the year 2000, so it had to have been published before then, but I suspect it was published at least a decade or two earlier. Here’s what I remember of it, although the details are a bit fuzzy. The book begins with a girl and her mom. I believe that the dad was not present in the story. I think that he had died, although it could have been a divorce. The girl and her mom are driving around on a snowy day and run into another girl. They end up bringing her home with them. Throughout the course of the story, they find out that this girl saw her family die when her house burned down many, many years ago. Since that time, she has never gotten any older, and she still has a burn on her leg from the fire, as fresh as the day she got it. She can go back and relive those memories of the fire, and I believe that she somehow takes the girl she’s staying with and possibly the girl’s boyfriend back into the memories with her. I don’t remember the ending well but I believe she has to work through these memories somehow.

This sounds a little like a Lois Duncan book...but searching through the descriptions of her titles, I can't find the right one. Maybe this will help though.
Lois Duncan, Lost in Time, 1986. This sounded familiar to me when I read the stumper although it is a long time since I read the book and I don't have a copy to verify the details - I recall that the book was about a girl whose father had remarried - his new wife has 2 children (girl & boy) - I seem to rememebr that it was they who did not age, and there was something to do with their home having been burned down years before. I think it was set in Louisiana, if that helps!
Locked in Time isn't it, and I can't find another Lois Duncan book that seems right. Thanks for your help though! I think the book I'm looking for would be for slightly younger readers. It would have been perfectly acceptable for a 5th or 6th grader to read. Here are a few other random scenes I remember in case they help anyone remember. In one, the girl who never gets older talks about having to move from place to place every few years so no one will start to question why a young girl never appears to age. She has to change the style of her clothing the way she acts, etc. as she stays the same but everything around her changes. The other scene I remember is really random, but I'll put it out there just in case it jogs any memories. The normal girl and her boyfriend are getting ready to go back into the memory, and the (relatively new) boyfriend is giving her a back massage to try to relax her, and she is very embarrassed about the fact that he might feel her bra strap through the back of her shirt. And the book might begin with the girl looking out her bedroom window on a snowy day. I don't know why I remember that, but I would really love to find this book, so anything that might help...

G477: Girl makes friends with witch who was left by family turns into turtle
A girl becomes friends with a witch who was left in a deserted house nearby. Goes home with the girl, takes the form of maybe a turtle? Goes to school with her and helps with her daily struggles (mean kids, test). Maybe the witch/turtle name is Merlin?? It maybe also could be Max??? Not sure though. In the end the witch's family comes back and takes her with them. Read this back in early 80's. Have googled nonstop!! Can't find the name of it!! It is a small chapter book, probbaly considered juvenile. Thanks for any help!!

G478: girls who are friends - one rips the dress of the other
I think this is a book from the 40's or 50's, about two little girls who are good friends with each other. At some point they decide to dress like twins so each asks her mother to make her a dress out of the same material - a print of monkeys swinging from palm trees - but while one mother is a good seamstress, the other one isn't and her dress looks terrible. The girls get into a fight and the one with the terrible dress rips the pocket of the one with the good dress. They make up later.

Beverly Cleary, Ellen Tebbits. details match exactly.
Cleary, Beverly, Ellen Tebbits, 1955, approximate. This is it without a doubt. I'm sure you'll get a lot of comments on this one.
Beverly Cleary, Ellen Tebbits, Morrow, 1951, copyright. This is definitely the book you're looking for. Ellen lives in Portland, Oregon, the only child of a single mom who is a Donna Reed, 50s tv-mom type, everything perfect. She has no close friends until Austine Allen moves to Portland from California. The girls become very close and want to do everything together, including start the fourth grade looking like (fraternal) twins, and that's what leads to the episode you remember. Austine's mother can't sew and Ellen's mom of course makes a picture-perfect dress so Austine gets jealous. There is another book solely about Otis, the Dennis-the-Menace / Penrod-like boy who teases the girls.
Beverly Cleary, Ellen Tebbits, 1951, copyright. Lots of details about this book can be found in the "solved pages", including this part about the matching dresses of Ellen and her best friend Austine. This book is a classic and you will have lots of responses, I'm sure.
Beverly Cleary, Ellen Tebbits, 1951, copyright. Definitely the book. The monkey-patterned dresses seems to be a very strong memory for readers of this book. Look in Solved Stumpers.
Cleary, Beverly, Ellen Tebbits, 1951, copyright. This is from Ellen Tebbits - Ellen and Austine want to wear the same dress for the first day of school, but Austine's mum can't sew as well as Ellen's. Austine and Ellen fall out because Austine keeps tugging at the sash on Ellen's dress. The ripping incident doesn't happen until a later moment in the book -when Ellen rips Austine's sash when they are dusting erasers together. The incident leads to them restoring their friendship.
Beverly Cleary, Ellen Tebbits. You'll get a lot of responses to this one - everyone remembers those monkey dresses! See solved mysteries for more descriptions.
Beverly Cleary, Ellen Tebbits. This is definitely the book. It's in Solved Mysteries, too.
Beverly Cleary, Ellen Tebbits. I remember this scene so well because I longed to have a mom who sewed, but sympathized more with the girl whose mother couldn't sew her dress properly! The book includes illustrations of the print the girls used for their dresses, complete with monkeys swinging from palm trees.
Beverly Cleary, Ellen Tebbits, 1951, copyright. Definitely this one! Look under Solved Mysteries for additional details.
Beverly Cleary, Ellen Tebbits, 1951, approximate. I'm sure this one is Ellen Tebbits--my favorite Cleary book. The friend is Austine Allen and they meet over the shared dilemma of long underwear at dance class. I still own my paperback copy from 35 years ago. Thank goodness for the Scholastic Book Club!

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Cleary, Beverly. Ellen Tebbits. Illustrated by Louis Darling. Dell Yearling, 1951, 1979. Used paperback. G. $4.

G479: girl in 1930's or 1940's living with aunts - book concerns a dress
Book from the 1980's, I think, concerning a girl who goes to stay with her aunt/s. They are very austere and dress her plainly, but she has a cousin or second cousin who is very pretty with blonde curly hair and lots of nice clothes. The girl is jealous of her cousin. She somehow ends up with a "couture" dress, which doesn't really suit her (although the cousin says it's a pretty dress), and at the end of the book she has a dress made by her aunt which really suits her (I remember the cousin said something like "you look pretty" rather than "the dress is pretty" and that was significant). The main character may be called Adelaide or something like that.

G480: Ghost story
Solved: Jane-Emily
The second book was a slimmish paperback book read during the same time. It was a ghost story. The cover showed a Victorian house with a girl, in a nightgown or that type of dress, I believe. At some point in the story there was the mention of pneumonia, or a girl becoming very ill from being dunked in water and then standing in a window and catching a chill. I remember the book being "just the right amount" of scary. Not too much, not too little.

Clapp, Patricia, Jane-Emily. See Solved Mysteries.
Patricia Clapp, Jane-Emily, 1969. Isn't this Jane-Emily? There's a lot about it on the Solved I-J page, also Stumpers E-F -- check there and see if the descriptions match up.
Patricia Clapp, Jane-Emily, 1969, copyright. This sounds like Jane-Emily. It's on the solved mysteries J page.
Clapp, Patricia, Jane-Emily. This sounds a lot like Jane-Emily. Its on the solved mystery pages.
This could be Jane-Emily, by Patricia Clapp again. Check the solved mysteries!
Jane-Emily. Yes! It is Jane-Emily! The minute I saw the title I remembered it. Thank you!

G481: Girl moves to farmhouse, aunt's house changes number
I remember only a few details about this book. It was read to my class in elementary school in 1968-69. I believe it was by a Tennessee author, set in the 1920s to 1950s. All I remember is that it was about a young girl who moved to an old farmhouse with her family. She picked a bunch of daffodils for the kitchen table. Her bedroom was in an attic-like space with a chimney rising up from floor to ceiling. In this chimney she discovered a loose brick which she was able to remove and use the space inside to hide her personal treasures. In addition, I remember a later part of the book where the girl must go to the city and stay with an aunt. For some reason, the aunt's house number must be changed from 112 to 113. This causes major trauma. These are the only details I remember. Thanks for your help.

H235: Halloween, death, kids, lone ranger, witch, tonto
I'm looking to find a children's book I read sometime during elementary school, which would have been between 1984 and 1993. The book was about a group of small children who go out to investigate a supposedly haunted house on Halloween. There is an old lady who the kids think is a witch. One of the kids is dressed up as the Lone Ranger, and one as Tonto. They sneak around the house for a bit, but then the Lone Ranger falls off a balcony or something and ends up dying. I think I remember an image of the kid Tonto and the old lady holding the kid Lone Ranger with a touch of blood at the corner of his mouth. It is a very somber book with great artwork. The book is probably a short one and should be paperback if I recall correctly.

H236: Handlettered Q & A children's book
I had this in the late 70s/early 80s. For ages 7-12 I'd say. 9x12-ish, white cover (I think). Paperback. It was a Q&A book for kids covering lots of subjects. Each section (subject) had colored pages. e.g. one section had all red pages, another had all blue pages, etc. The text was handlettered with handdrawn illustrations. One question I can remember is "what would happen if a irresistable force met an immovable object?"

H237: Hunting guide become the prey
A young man is a hunting guide for big horn sheep in the deserts of the southwestern United States. When his customer "accidentally" shoots an old hermit the young man becomes the hunters next prey. The young man must navigate through the desert back into town while being stalked and hunted. The young man is eventually able to overcome the hunter with just a slingshot. Young Adult Fiction. Please help.

Robb White, Deathwatch. This is definitely your book! I haven't read it since I was in junior high, but the writing was so strong and suspenseful that I've never forgotten it.