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Critics of the theory say the evidence is scant and that there is equal reason to believe a disease was the cause of her death. As Matthew Birkhold of Electric Lit points out, judges seem to have a bit of a preoccupation with the works of Austen. Birkhold found 27 instances of a judge's written ruling invoking the name or words of the author, joining a rather exclusive club of female writers who tend to pop up in judicial decisions.

Harper Lee and Mary Shelley round out the top three. According to Birkhold, jurists often use Austen as a kind of shorthand to explain matters involving relationships or class distinctions. Half of the decisions used the opening line from Pride and Prejudice: Others invoke characters like Fitzwilliam Darcy to compare or contrast the litigant's romantic situation.

In most cases, the intent is clear, with authors realizing that their readers consider Austen's name synonymous with literary—and hopefully judicial—wisdom. The Little Golden Books' original 12 titles were: Once Upon a Time In the beginning, Little Golden Books were either based on classic fairy tales or featured wholly original stories and characters. Subscribe to our Newsletter! Austen's dad did everything he could to help her succeed. Her works were published anonymously.

She backed out of a marriage of convenience. She took a decade off. She used straight pins to edit her manuscripts. She was an accomplished home brewer. Some believe Austen's death was a result of being poisoned. She's been cited in at least 27 written court decisions. Midcentury American writer Shirley Jackson has long been known for her spooky short story " The Lottery ," which caused widespread controversy when it came out in The New Yorker in and continues to appear in short story anthologies today.

Her equally haunted novels are less widely read. But now that her novel The Haunting of Hill House has been turned into a hit Netflix series, her work is on its way to a critical and popular revival more than 50 years after her death. A well-reviewed biography as well as new releases of some of her short stories and previously unpublished writings in the last few years have no doubt helped. Many modern writers cite her as an inspiration. Shirley Jackson has a number of fans among modern writers. Shirley Jackson was her family's chief breadwinner. A literary critic who taught literature at Bennington College, it was his job that brought the couple to the small Vermont city, where Jackson often chafed at being placed in the role of faculty wife.

She claimed to be a witch. In keeping with the haunted themes in her writing, Jackson studied the history of witchcraft and the occult, and often told people she was a witch—though that may have been in part a publicity tactic. A Rather Haunted Life: Knopf, with whom her husband was involved in a dispute.

Reviewers found those stories irresistible, extrapolating freely from her interest in witchcraft to her writing, which often takes a turn into the uncanny. She often joked with her editors about bringing about victories for her favorite baseball team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, through her magical abilities. Her interest was definitely real, though. She started studying witchcraft while writing a paper as a student at the University of Rochester, and later took up tarot reading.

She considered becoming a professional cartoonist. She loved to draw, and even considered becoming a professional cartoonist at one point, according to Franklin. While her favorite subjects were cats, she regularly made minimalist, humorous sketches of herself and the people around her particularly her husband , keeping a kind of cartoon diary of her life. She died before finishing her last novel. It was about a dog, a white west highland terrier I think , who got lost and ended up being taken in by a couple.

The illustrations were gorgeous and the dog was particularly endearing. There were a few books with the same dog, one in which the couple had a baby and another one in which he gets lost. In this one, an old woman on a motorcycle helps him to find his way home.

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He barks to indicate which way to turn on which streets. If anyone recognizes this book from my brief description I would really appreciate hearing from you. Does anyone remember a book about a boy who wants to go to a costume party but is too poor to buy a costume? And all the kids in the village give him a piece of their costume.

And he sews all the pieces together to make a beautiful multi-colored costume. I would appreciate if anyone could help me. Thanks to you and everyone who gave their list of favorites.

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I just started using Goodreads this year, mainly to keep track of the books we read together. Up to unique picture books for this year, but many of them are read again and again and again of course: How many times my daughter requests to read a book in the two weeks we have it from the library is part of the indicator of how much or little she enjoyed a book.

How else does everyone find great books to read? Anyone want to connect on Goodreads to share what they are reading? Does anyone walk around the book stores with their smart phone and photograph the covers of all the new releases and recommended reads? I am a desperate granny! Does anyone know a storybook about a little girl who wishes she could have a star of her own. She learns that to be beautiful she has to give it back to the night sky. I read it to my class of 5 year olds about six or seven years ago.

Please help if you can. The little girl wants to hold onto the moon, but decides to give it back to the night sky as it starts disappearing little by little each day. I remember that book as well and was looking for it. It is not the one about the moon.. If anyone has info, I would love to find this book! The images of family life, reading, studying, chores, playground games, and neighborhood social events are rich and warmly drawn in a jazzy, impressionistic style.

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Eastman — taught generations of my family and friends to read. I almost cried when I read your comment. It was one of my very favorites. Thank you so much. My top 10 in no particular order except how they come into my head: More than 10, but we love them all! This is a great site! Here are a few favorites: What a pleasant present! Munsch and Michael Martchenko Not just for girls! A fun magic adventure in the Edgar Eager, E. Nesbit tradition The Enchanted Castle — E. Deserves a place right up there with the best christmassy snowy books. Absolutely beautiful, just check out the trailer: Who can read this and resist putting their opinion?

Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss—I can still recite the whole dang thing by heart. My youngest is Jamberry by Bruce Degen—beautiful, dancing rhyme 3. Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey—kerplink kerplank kerplunk 4. Barn Dance by Bill Martin jr. Shoes by Elizabeth Winthrop—rhyming, illustrated by William Joyce. Here, in no particular order, are ten books that we love in our home: Falling for Rapunzel by Leah Wilcox 8. Miss Suzy by Miriam Young 9. Thank you for the post. Mostly because of my son or students loving them, I guess. This is from memory so apologies for scratchy details or spelling errors.

Are You My Mother, P. Owl Babies, Martin Waddell 4. Where the Wild Things Are, Sendak 6. Feathers for Phoebe, Rod Clement 8. Mirror, Jeannie Baker For All Creatures, Millard and Cool. Thanks for sharing these, Susan! More on that later…. Beegu by Alexis Deacon 2. Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers 3.

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The Highway Rat by Julia Donaldson 4. Owl Babies by Martin Waddell 5. Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper 9. Kipper Nick Inkpen 5. Harry the Dirty Dog Gene Zion 7. Pumpkin Soup Helen Cooper 8. You have a few classics on your list. The kids and I enjoy Harry and the Dirty Dog. Please, feel free to re-mention! Those books and authors mentioned by more than one of you will get a bigger shout out in my December 1st post.

Oooo, tough to limit it to ten!!!! It is pretty much impossible to stick to Thanks for sharing your picks! Our current library lets us check out books at a time per library card — which is pretty amazing. So many to choose from! Thanks so much for sharing your picks! Great list and your web site is a wonderful resource! Many of your top 60 are my favorites as well. Really enjoyed you sharing all these — where has the year gone?! Thanks so much for sharing your favorite books! Seuss books on your list and that may be by design. But I love to read The Lorax to my children. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein is a beautiful love story and always makes me cry.

Some solid choices here! I absolutely did not exclude Dr. Amy, it was so great to meet you at the conference! I love so so many of the titles you have already put up. Yay for picture books! I look forward to seeing your list! I hope I have the opportunity to see you again at a future conference! Hi, I,m new and just reading all the posts and loving it. I love books and love to read. I have nine grandchildren and they all love books.

What conference are you making reference to? Is it a book cconference. Ihave many children books and are always looking for more great ones. Many of yours are our favorite also. Thank you for your recommendations! Caps for sale slodbodkina ox cart man Donald hall , stone soup? It took a lot of mulling and fiddling for me to narrow my list of great books down to 60…and still I try to avoid claiming that these are my favorite books. This is sort of like trying to choose a favorite children, but—Frog and Toad! But I have a sneaky feeling that one of those is behind the curtain. And probably something by Jon Agee and something by Steve Jenkins.

We need titles here, Liz! It is fun to take a look at your website and illustrations! It was tricky for me to decide which new and newish books to include on my list.

I wonder which ones will hold up over time. Ack, too many to think of but a great looking list so far. Good luck choosing the next 10! For all, fewer than 10 books is fine. We can work with that — esp. Excellent and much loved by my two anyway! I just finished reading George and Martha books to two of my kids before their naps. They are a staple at our house.

But surely you must include at least one Babette Cole book?!! I just found your website. I, too, am an avid seeker of great picture books for my three kids. I have compiled a spreadsheet of about of our favorite picture books. I had a book that almost no one has ever heard of, but my dad located a old library copy for me— A Ghost in a Four Room Apartment by Ellen Raskin.

Of course, as an elementary school teacher I focused a lot on certain authors. We would do an author of the month. Some of these were- Eric Carle, Dr. Seuss, Tomi Depaola, Kevin Henkes…and more. I love your website. I have many other favorites, but those are my top three. My son and I are reading lots of books about U. What books would others put on their Top 60 booklists? What books do you think are still to come on this one? I have already chosen the 60 books, so you will not influence my choices.

You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Without further ado… 1. November 29, at 5: August 14, at 3: May 21, at 4: April 28, at 9: April 22, at 5: April 19, at February 27, at January 29, at 6: January 12, at November 21, at 8: November 13, at 7: Linda J Hall says: September 15, at 1: September 12, at 5: November 22, at May 7, at 3: June 14, at 7: June 6, at 4: May 3, at 2: March 25, at 8: Peggy Anne Puleo says: March 16, at Quality better quantity I have held onto that principle and would love to read this book to my grandchildren Can you help me or is it lost forever?

February 9, at December 2, at 2: November 17, at November 13, at October 20, at 2: October 5, at 4: September 30, at 6: September 17, at 5: September 1, at January 31, at 1: This sounds like a neat book on being quiet and mindful. Did you ever find out the name? April 25, at 1: August 24, at 5: Here are the few facts I remember: August 25, at 2: August 11, at 5: August 31, at 8: May 30, at 1: May 23, at 6: May 16, at 3: September 14, at I read that one as a child!

March 31, at 1: Thankyou very much, it was one of my favourite stories growing up: February 21, at 1: February 12, at Robert H Graham says: December 15, at 5: October 17, at 6: December 4, at 2: January 20, at 8: October 4, at November 26, at The few details I can remember are as follows: One of my favorites! I am quite sure this is the one you are looking for. Unfortunately, it's not the Isis series, which I read and loved at about the same time I read the stumper book. This one didn't have a Guardian taking care of the girl, and didn't get into the generations of recent-Earth folks settling into the planet.

But thanks for the Isis reference - I didn't know there was a third one! It sounds a little like one of H. Hoover's books, but I don't remember the plots well enough to pull the correct title out of my hat! It's this book; it takes place on the planet Xilan, and the main characters are Gareth the Xilan colonist and Lee one of the explorers. Try a web search of "puppet storybook" and see if any of those books look familiar. Some of them had a very distinctive 3-d cover made from vinyl and the rest of the book seems to match your description.

You are looking for the Golden Press books with the black covers! The illustrations are actual photos of posed dolls and the cover shows a holographic-like 3D image. I have a few of these books they were favorites of mine too! The Emperor's New Clothes was published in About that holographic cover We had Hansel and Gretel when I was a child, and my mother said that it could be played on a record player. I don't remember it ever working very well, but it would be interesting to check out the possibility if anyone has a copy and still owns a turntable.

These were by Golden Press, and had lenticular 3D pictures set into the covers. The illustrations were photographs of dolls in scenes and were done by Shiba Productions. Could it be Sing Down the Moon? It was about the Navajos being captured by the Spaniards, I think. Claude Aubry, Agouhanna , I'm sure this is the book you are looking for! Young Agouhanna, an Iroquois chief's son, does not enjoy hunting and running with the other boys. Little Doe, a female childhood playmate, and White Eagle, his best friend, try to encourage him as the time of his manhood trial draws near.

White Eagle remains near him in the forest and Little Doe demands to pass the ordeal test along with Agouhanna. I will definitely check out Agouhanna , but I don't think it's the one I'm looking for. I don't remember anything about a girl trying to pass the manhood challenge. One other thing I remembered that I'm pretty sure was from this book is that the boy was unusually close to his mother, past the time of normal childhood closeness.

She may have been the one who suggested that he hide the supplies in the woods, or might have helped him to gather them. Thanks for any suggestions! Archie the Boston Terrier and his owners move to a new neighborhood. Across the street lives a big dog. Afraid that the big dog will eat Archie, Archie's owners put up a fence. When the big dog comes running over, Archie jumps over the fence. The big dog chases Archie, and then the two dogs lie down and rest together and become friends.

Watty Piper, The Road in Storyland, The story about an old woman who is transformed into a woodpecker for refusing to give a beggar a piece of pie made quite an impression on me too when I read it about 50 years ago, and was the subject of a previously solved book stumper. Platt and Munk seems to have cornered the market on this one!! On this site- in archives, it is cited in three of their books. In this last one it is called The Woodpecker, if memory serves me. I have the book-somewhere! Can't locate it right now. I am sure your solution is one of these last two books. Given the Hauman's woodcut type pictures, I think the second title might be your best bet!!

Stumpers R and W seem to be looking for the same volume. Thankyou for the tips but I know that the name of the book is Aesop's Fables and it a collection of fables, the one about the woodpecker is just one of many. The children are awoken by the dream boat that takes them off to the magical land of Lazibonia! Through the pyramid of rice pudding to the only place where roast chickens fly straight into your mouth, cheeses are scattered like stones and gingerbread cottages really exist so that the residents can simply lie around.

Cooked fish swim in the milk river, honey roast hams run around ready to be carved for lunch. Fountains abound to deliver your favourite drink on a whim. Need to loosen your belt? Clothes grow on trees and the grass is made of every imaginable colour of hair ribbon. Activity of any kind is frowned upon but if you want to learn you can start at the top and work your way down to kindergarten where you can just have fun all day!

Sounds like the Mushroom Planet books. Most of the activity takes place on their planet, but one alien did come to Earth--Mr. Bass--and he manages to get two boys to build a spaceship and take a hen along to save his homeworld. Egg yolks fill in some missing piece in their diet and the population is saved.

Zena Henderson, The Anything Box. This is an anthology of stories I read a few years ago from the library so I can't check the details but I think it had a story in it similar to what you're seeking. The story I recall had aliens landing on earth and living in a refugee-type camp while negotiations were ongoing among the officials. A young boy made friends with a young alien, the mothers got to know one another as well, and the humans accidentally discovered that the aliens required something in their diet to survive that was no longer available on their home planet- it may have been salt they were using on a hard-boiled egg at a picnic.

The other book that comes to mind is Eleanor Cameron's Mushroom Planet series- in those books the boys travel to the Mushroom Planet and leave behind a chicken as the people of the planet are dying from lack of sulfur and need the eggs to survive. They need salt water, not only to live but to be able to reproduce. To me, it is one of Henderson's best stories. Henderson's other collection of short stories is called Holding Wonder.

Her "People" stories were anthologized as InGathering about ten years ago. It's awfully similar, though among other differences, the beginning and ending have shooting stars, not fireworks. One amateur reviewer said it helped expand his idea of masculinity greatly, too. Bernard waber, Lyle, Lyle Crocodile , I remember those books, they were grand. There are a series of them, just in case you were only exposed to one of them.

I'm suggesting this only because his name is Al. Enright, W J Pat. Al Alligator and how he learned to play the banjo. Mircea Vasiliu, Where is Alfred? This book is about a girl named Susan who lives in a city and has a pet alligator named Alfred that loves to eat dog biscuits. One day he falls out of his high-rise window into a treetop. Susan looks all over for him and eventually discovers him in the tree, but all attempts to rescue Alfred fail until Susan has the idea to tie dog biscuits to balloons which are then tied to the end of a fishing pole and extended out of a window.

Alfred leans out to take a bite and when he does, he floats gently down to the ground. Susan makes Alfred a roof garden and soon neighbors with a pet turtle and another alligator move in and Alfred makes new friends. Sure sounds like the Tweedlebugs from Sesame Street - not sure of the book's title, though. This sounds like the children's poem "Southbound on the Freeway" by May Swenson. Perhaps her poem was expanded on in another book? The aliens are not named in this poem The poem can be found in the anthology Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle , which is still in print.

Herbert Kenny, Dear Dolphin, The author name doesn't match what the requester remembers, but I''m fairly certain this is the book. It's an Alice in Wonderland sort of story with a young girl, Ann e , who follows a dolphin into the sea and runs into a pirate who lives in a sunken shipwreck. I loved this book when I was a child, and got to re-read it again when I visited my parents' house last year. Not exactly a solution, but the story about the diamond necklace sounds suspiciously similar to an old radio play from " The Unexpected " series, called " The Winfield Diamond.

Liggett, the butler, who offers her the position of secretary to the elderly Mr. She is later given the location and combination to the safe by Mr. Winfield, with instructions to remove the diamond and ship it to a buyer. She removes the diamond, intending to steal it, but is caught by the butler and ordered to return the diamond and leave the house immediately.

Then, of course, the "unexpected" twist - on her way home, she hears a news broadcast that the diamond has been stolen by an international jewel thief, Light-Fingered Liggett, with the aid of a female accomplice posing as the old man's secretary. She ends up in prison, while Liggett gets away with the diamond.

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Of course, the genders are switched from the story you recall, but perhaps it is some variation of this one? It has a jingly eye on the last page, and each animal is placed to have this jiggle eye as its own eye. There is a bird, a fish, a dog, an owl, a lamb, a duck and a squirrel. Holling, The Book of Indians , , copyright. This book contains four chapters about the home life of Indians from various regions of the country, and eight chapters relating the adventures of specific Indian children.

The book includes six color plates, plus line drawings by H. The cover features a stylized drawing of a thunderbird or eagle below the title. Some editions have a blue cloth cover with either orange or black print, others have red cloth with black print. The dust jacket shows a full-color picture of an Indian Chief in feather headdress riding a horse. Inside the front and back covers are maps, showing where the various tribes lived. I've never seen a full color version of this, only one with black and white illustrations by the author, but the text is definitely Edward Lear! This is one of Edward Lear 's alphabet poems.

I am sure there are many published versions of this set of limericks. The alphabet limericks were written by Edward Lear. Lear Edward, Edward Lear's A nonsense alphabet , , reprint. There is a version of Lear's alphabet illustrated by Richard Scarry , published by Doubleday in Peter Dickinson, The Weathermonger , , copyright. Could you be thinking of The Weathermonger? Its one of a trilogy the other two being Heartsease and The Devils Children - in it the UK has returned to a pre-technological way of life - technology and machines are seen as evil there is a scene in which lightening attacks a car which the protagonists are trying to use The source of the anti-tech is not an alien, but Merlin, who has awoken but is kept drugged, but several of the other details, and the publicaton date all fit so I thought it was worth suggesting.

Louise Lawrence, The Power of stars. This is a long shot, but the book may be one I posted as a stumper myself, and this was the solution. The Louise Lawrence book sounds like it might be the book I'm thinking of--I've ordered an old copy and will let you know once I review it. In the meantime, many thanks for your tip! I have made an interlibrary loan request for one but would really like to purchase the book. An Abstract 'Me' Solved: Will You Come to My Party.

The story I remember concerned a witch chasing children - the witch got hurt and returned to her home to put cobwebs on her wounds. Can't recall any other details sorry. What could Go Wrong? It was a book about a little girl named Dana? The book had photographs instead of hand illustrations. The Land of Green Ginger. Don't think this is the one, but your description reminded me of a chapter in a Christian children's book about tales from Africa. The stories had a Biblical slant, but were often upbeat.

This sounds like a telling of an African folktale - all the animals are white or grey, then there's a cave where they all go to get new coats. Zebra is eating so doesn't go until it's too late - there's only pieces of black left. He makes a coat, but when he puts it on it bursts at the seams because he has eaten so much. Thus he is white striped with black. For one retelling see Greedy Zebra by Hadithi , though that's late enough that it's not the one this requester is looking for. Doubt this is it, but it does remind me of a Peanuts strip where Sally is setting up a fish tank, telling her brother Charlie Brown her reasons is that "This is the Age of Aquariums"!

It's still a cute bit. Childrens literature text book from late 60s. Radko Doone, Nuvat the Brave: An Eskimo Robinson Crusoe , , copyright. The tale of a crippled Eskimo boy who becomes trapped on an ice floe while seal hunting. He is carried to an uninhabited island where he must survive alone for two years before being rescued. An excerpt from the book that I found online talks about how the dogs liked him because he was gentle with them, and how they all obeyed his voice. Sounds like it might be the book you are looking for. A children's lit textbook from the s has this description for Nuvat: Despised and disheartened, Nuvat is carried off on a floe.

He maintains life for two years, completely alone except for his dogs. Cave, Two Were Lef t. Radko Doone, Nuvat the Brave. Cave, Two Were Left , , copyright. This is Cave's "Two Were Left. Cave published something like a thousand stories in his 94 years of life, and this short piece may be his best-known one. I don't know for sure if he has the dog with him on the ice floe, but he did have a dog a big, black dog named Kakk. Even Nuvat's father had to admit that he was the best trainer of puppies in the village - but he had no dog team of his own, because, as a cripple, he was not allowed to hunt with the men.

I've submitted this twice before, but it hasn't shown up in either of the last two updates, so here's hoping third time's a charm! My mother had a copy that got destroyed when her home was flooded. I sent a query to the Library of Congress and they suggested you. Published by Grosset and Dunlap. Front cover is white, featuring a 3D image on a lenticular plate. Picture is of a large letter "A" in yellow, with red and white scalloped borders in front of a little house, with a little boy leaning out through the triangular part at the top, as through a window, and a little girl in front of him, pulling a wagon that contains a red-and-white striped beach ball.

There is also another printing as a "Winker Puppet Storybook" that has a pink cover with a 3D lenticular plate of the boy flying in a little airplane. Amos the Duck Can't Talk There was a book that my mom used to read to me in the '60's that I can't find. In the book all the other ducks kept saying, "Amos can't talk, Amos can't talk. Sound like an ugly duckling story but not sure.

Any help out there? Bradbury, Bianca, Amos Learns to Talk: The Story of a Little Duck , The Story of a Little Duck ,, reprint. A Rand McNally Elf Book about a little duckling Amos who goes around visiting the other animals on the farm to find out how they talk, because he thinks the quacking of his brothers and sisters sounds funny. When he gets lost, he discovers just how wonderful his mother's "Quack Quack" sounds. Val Teal, Angel Child, It's the story of a boy and girl who find an angel baby dangling from a tree.

They take care of the angel baby until one day they push him on the swing. His wings unfold and he flies away. They are sad to lose their angel child, but they go into the house to discover that their mother has just had a baby, an angel child of their own. The publication date is older than you suggested, but I was given this book in the 70's, so I suspect my copy is a later reprint that only shows the original date. Mike Wilks, The Ultimate Alphabet. If your book had very realistic detailed oil paintings that were a bit surreal, this may be your book.

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Go to the author's website to see reproduction of the cover and some pages to be sure. Graeme Base, Animalia, This is a strong possibility. Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a complex painting containing many objects beginning with that letter, plus a short verse describing the animal beginning with the corresponding letter. B is for Butterfly, of course.

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Base, Graeme, Animalia, Animalia would be a distinct possibility. There are gorgeous, elaborate illustrations for every letter in the alphabet Graeme Base, Animalia. There are probably several books that fit this description, but Animalia is my favorite Mike Wilks, The Ultimate Alphabet, If there were literally hundreds of items in each picture, it could well be The Ultimate Alphabet. The paintings are landscape-format, and each one faces a page with a paragraph or so listing some of the items to be found in it.

In total, the book contains 7, namable items in the 26 pictures, ranging from 30 X to 1, S. The pictures are very crisply painted, and of course tremendously detailed. This book has a blue cover and stories for each of the seasons. I know you said it wasn't The Golden Book, but there are several editions. I have this one with pictures by Richard Scarry and it matches your description perfectly, including the cover description. You can see it at http: Animal with sweet tooth, series There was a book series I think it was a series that I read as a child in the 80's. The characters were animals and I think it was a Berenstein Bears type series.

The one I remember in particular was about an animal dealing with a sweet tooth problem and it may have caused him bad dreams. All the cover images can be viewed at http: A visit to Doc Grizzly results in an explanation of how the body works - complete with diagrams of the nervous, circulatory, digestive, muscular, and skeletal systems - and the proper foods to fuel it. Doc Grizzly prescribes an exercise program and Mama replaces the junk food with healthy snacks.

There isn't anything about bad dreams, but there is another book in the series - The Berenstain Bears and the Bad Dream - that does. That one doesn't have anything to do with sweets, though - it's more an explanation of how dreams are made up of bits of things you remember from earlier in the day. Richard Hefter, various titles. Could this maybe be the Sweet Pickles series? They're less of a story than the Berenstain Bears, but like those books, they have a moral at the end.

Thanks for the help, but it's not the sweet pickles series and not the berenstein bears. It was not as juvenile as the sweet pickles appears- it seemed more like the berenstein bears type illustration. I read them through my school's scholastic book fair sales I think. The year had to be around Like I said, similar in size and illustration to the berensteins, just not the berensteins. Maybe a little edgier, if that is possible. I'm thinking like bears or raccoons or some other smallish, furry animal.

A brother and a sister? Brown, Marc, Arthur series, various titles. Russell Hoban, Harvey's Hideout. I'm just throwing Harvey's Hideout here because it's a bit "edgier" than similar small-animal stories Nope- not any of those. I am beginning to think I am delusional, ha! Thanks for all your trying, I really appreciate it. I guess I'll be taking this one to the grave with me. Lillian Hoban, Arthur series. Arthur and Violet, chimpanzees. Lots of sweets in these books. It is one of the Little Critter series. Here's a plot summary: Turning himself into a scary, disagreeable monster who won't go to school or take a bath or eat anything but fudge pops and pizza, Little Critter discovers that his family has decided to go away and leave him alone.

Trapped in a lonely dream, Little Critter has to make a choice. N ope, still none of those all though the little critter one seems closer to what I remember, just not exactly. You can see examples of her illustrations and summaries of all the books on the author's website here: Published by Lutterworth in , 95 pages. It could just be a real-life farm story, because I couldn't find a plot description.

It's also not quite old enough, but just in case. I'm not certain of the title and I can't remember the author, but she wrote all the stories in the collection. Story line goes something like this: Young widowed mother has to work and must leave her three year old daughter home alone each day. Guess things were different then. Nice rich man comes by and little girl is boiling water in a pot because she believes she can extract the gold from them. She does and they boil them up -- girl doesn't seem him slip gold coins into the pot.

She calls the buttercups "Cuppity-buts. How exciting to have a real clue for this! I couldn't find a title similar to One-minute Bedtime Stories from the right time period, though, so these are the best possibilities I found on first search: You might want to check this one out as well -- I can't find a description, but the date works, and the title is promising as well. Well, if they were brothers, this would look like a decent bet: Sounds very much to me like the Hardy Boys Detective stories.

Robert Arthur , The Three Investigators series , I recently read a book in this series the stories are about three friends, one of whom is named Jupiter Jones. They have a base they've built in a junkyard and they solve mysteries. No mention of a pellet-gun, or 'performances B37, here's a possible: Hardbound picture cover, no dust jacket, pages. Illustrated by Lilian Obligado. She had no one to play with and was lonely until Philip Vane, a little boy about her own age, came to live next door.

Then when some gypsies left a little orphan girl as a present for Susan, her joy was complete. She was a most extraordinary character, this aunt, and so were the orphans Myrtle and Merton. There were many more chances for a tomboy to collide with authority than there are now. Susan at ten didn't see why she shouldn't have as much fun as the boys she did, as a matter of fact or why being a lady was necessary yet.

Not exactly firetrucks but Everyone else in his class has pictures on their lunch boxes. So rabbit wishes on a star several nights in a row for a new lunch box. There's no answer at first, but rabbit reminds himself how far away the stars are. After three nights and after his mother overhears him , he gets a new lunch box with "trucks on it -- a dump truck, a garbage truck, a tow truck -- more than ten different trucks! It's by Carla Stevens, with pictures by Robert J. It's a boy, not a rabbit, but stories about lunchboxes are thin on the ground.

The cover shows a green lunchbox with a bee-type hornet, not the TV character. This sounds similar, though, not exact. This poem was written for Stanley Holloway and has the line "Beware, take care of the green-eyed dragon with the 13 tails". As I have seen several versions of this poem, it's possible that someone may have thrown in a line about the dragon being from Delaware. Here's the link for the text. Nathan's most persistent dream was that he could earn money enough from his various selling ventures to supply his parent's dark house with glass windows.

He tries to catch sunlight in a pan and carry it into his house. At last, a decent clue! This could be the book, but the match is not exact. The boy's parents call him Silly Billy because he does things like planting popcorn and giving the hens hot water to produce boiled eggs.

He leaves home to find someone sillier, and solves the problems of a man trying to carry water in a sieve, ten men who can't count themselves, and lastly a rich man who sends his servants out with pans to catch sunlight and bring it into his windowless house. When he returns home with the gifts the grateful men have given him, he tells his parents to call him Wise William from now on. Not really enough information, but maybe Sandy and the Seventeen Balloons by Jane Thayer , illustrated by Meg Wohlberg, published by William Morrow, "Food for the imagination in this story of a little boy who loved balloons, but got more than he could handle.

Gilbert, Illustrated by Krisvoy, Juel. The Southwestern Company, This wide, decorative cloth hardcover illustrated story about children travelling around the world with their red balloon telling all the children of the earth about Jesus depicts a fantasy trip in a hot air balloon featuring animals and characters from around the world in charming color. This book seeks to build early thoughts about missions in the mind of your child.

It helps him to think of others who need to know about Jesus--and what they need to know. It talks about children around the world, and those in our own back yard. The illustrations are shiny and colorful and show children of different parts of the earth. The boy is dark-haired and travels in a basket beneath a single red balloon not a bunch tied together and the illustrations have a very "It's a Small World" look and feel. The narrative is in rhyme. An educational book that teaches geography, ethnic culture, sociology, Christian missionary work, and God's teaching all around the world.

The pages are unpaginated but appear to be Do you have the "17 baloons" title? That could be it! It is NOT the christian based poetry book! I am the person that submitted this question originally. Thank you for the suggestion, but "Sandy Still hoping someone out there can find this book! The copy I had was a small hard cover that was in a set of three.

I am not sure if this is the right book, but this is all I can find when I google it! It certainly ends up at Niagara where he or his parents, not sure which, go over the Falls in a barrel. I just can't remember the title at the moment - most infuriating!! Hi everyone - I'm the original poster and I can't tell you how excited I am that someone knows this book! Thank you all so much! Thanks for your email - some ladies from Alibris and I have been desperately tracking down Roald Dahl to no avail.

The info in this post is spot on! It rings even more bells for me and I'm dying for them to repost with the title!!! Possibly Goldenrod by Jim Slater , illustrated by C. Chamberlain, published by Cape in , pages. I haven't been able to get a decent plot description but it seems to be about William Rod, a boy blind since birth, who is bionically enhanced in some way to give him improved hearing and super sight.

His companions are an Indian mystic and a guide dog. After he uses his 'super-powers' he is drained for a while. There's something about the hijacking of a trans-continental airplane as well. I've looked at all the info on Roald Dahl I can find but can't identify a title. Beginning to wonder if it's someone else after all - but can't think who else writes in this vein Illustrations almost certainly Quentin Blake - who did most of Dahl's books - spiky line drawings, sometimes with colour, but not, I think, in this one.

Have tried looking at list of stuff QB has illustrated in case I can find it that way to no avail so far. I've not read them but the description of possible cover seems vaguely familiar to me from one of those volumes. Worth a look, maybe. Jan Needle, Wagstaffe, the Wind-up Boy , , copyright. A search for the phrase "pee through his finger" brings up a theatrical adaptation of this book: According to the summary on the theatre website: Wagstaffe is a boy so awful his parents run away from home and join the circus.

For a while he lives in a teenage bliss of slobbing about. Then he meets the articulated lorry Well what would you expect if you amuse yourself by throwing eggs at the windscreens of passing motorists on the motorway? Almost by chance, and thanks to a good doctor, Wagstaffe survives. He is rebuilt with the most bizarre modifications including a key to wind him up and he has to pee through his finger. He has inadvertently become the most unlikely superhero with the most ridiculous powers. Life is one big accident for Wagstaffe and he unwittingly uncovers a dastardly plot to send his missing parents over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

How bad is Wagstaffe? Will he try to save them? Can he possibly conquer the most impossible odds? Will there be a happy ending? There is a Blyton book like this, but no idea if it has the 3 children or whether it was part of a series: In the same simple conversational style she introduces small boys and girls to the fascinating story of the Bible that will lead them on to a fuller understanding and enjoyment of the Book of Books. The eps make up a full colour scene of children at play.