1960s Novel about a British Orphan (Scholastic Book Club)
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1Will.Dockery
1960s Novel about a British Orphan
I'm having a difficult, almost impossible, time identifying this book, search keywords are bringing up nothing:
"1960s" "scholastic book" "orphan boy" "british"
That's basically it, a book I had for a while around 1967-1969, from the Scholastic Book Club.
The first section I remember most clearly, and identified with, a man taking the young boy from the (seems to have been British) orphanage, and the long ride to his new home. Very detailed and visual description of the ride, and the driver of the car, a stoic, silent cigarette smoker, as the boy stared through the tinted green window at the passing countryside.
That's about it, though... that may have been as far as I actually read, and sure would like to remember/find out ht happened.
Does it ring any bells out there?
I'm having a difficult, almost impossible, time identifying this book, search keywords are bringing up nothing:
"1960s" "scholastic book" "orphan boy" "british"
That's basically it, a book I had for a while around 1967-1969, from the Scholastic Book Club.
The first section I remember most clearly, and identified with, a man taking the young boy from the (seems to have been British) orphanage, and the long ride to his new home. Very detailed and visual description of the ride, and the driver of the car, a stoic, silent cigarette smoker, as the boy stared through the tinted green window at the passing countryside.
That's about it, though... that may have been as far as I actually read, and sure would like to remember/find out ht happened.
Does it ring any bells out there?
2Harry_Vincent
Perhaps Ready-Made Family by Frances Salomon Murphy?
3Keeline
For a long time the majority of books from the Scholastic Book Service or their TAB (Teen Age Book Club) were reprints of books published for libraries. The Scholastic editions were the mass-market editions that kids might actually own.
Scholastic would have catalogs and/or book fairs in the school and kids could get books at prices that were lower than the usual retail prices for similar items.
The publisher had books in several series. Usually there was a letter or two for the series code and a number as well. The letter codes indicated the age group and general content of the material. Many books that people recall are fiction novels / chapter books in the TX series. Collectors who find that they like some of these books sometimes wonder how many of the others they will like. This causes some to buy any Scholastic they see but don't already have. To facilitate this, it often helps to have a working list of the numbers in each series, authors, and titles and perhaps the years. However, complete lists are not yet available. I have a few thousand items in one spreadsheet list, compiled from many sources, but it is still not complete.
Making your request with years does help with the search. If you have candidate titles and want more information on one, let me know and I'll pull up information from my resources and research skills. In some cases I have PDFs of many Scholastic titles that I have collected over the years. This allows for full-text searches and the ability to grab the summary from the back of the book that can confirm if it is familiar. The cover images like the one above for Ready-Made Family also help since they kept the same illustrations for years until they modernized some of them for trade sales under the Apple imprint.
I'd like to get copies (even PDF scans) of the catalogs and sales lists over the years for Scholastic. I have only a few and most are just the front cover or very modern so not as interesting.
James
Scholastic would have catalogs and/or book fairs in the school and kids could get books at prices that were lower than the usual retail prices for similar items.
The publisher had books in several series. Usually there was a letter or two for the series code and a number as well. The letter codes indicated the age group and general content of the material. Many books that people recall are fiction novels / chapter books in the TX series. Collectors who find that they like some of these books sometimes wonder how many of the others they will like. This causes some to buy any Scholastic they see but don't already have. To facilitate this, it often helps to have a working list of the numbers in each series, authors, and titles and perhaps the years. However, complete lists are not yet available. I have a few thousand items in one spreadsheet list, compiled from many sources, but it is still not complete.
Making your request with years does help with the search. If you have candidate titles and want more information on one, let me know and I'll pull up information from my resources and research skills. In some cases I have PDFs of many Scholastic titles that I have collected over the years. This allows for full-text searches and the ability to grab the summary from the back of the book that can confirm if it is familiar. The cover images like the one above for Ready-Made Family also help since they kept the same illustrations for years until they modernized some of them for trade sales under the Apple imprint.
I'd like to get copies (even PDF scans) of the catalogs and sales lists over the years for Scholastic. I have only a few and most are just the front cover or very modern so not as interesting.
James
