Help me find a book from my childhood

When I was in elementary school, our teacher read a book to us that I have been trying to find. This would have been about 1971 or so. It was about 2 neighbor children. One of them tells the other that she is a witch and they have several adventures gathering ingredients for a flying potion. The distinction between an ointment/salve/potion figures in to one of the chapters. The "witch" child writes a series of letters to the other in old script (where the letter s appears to be a f). That's really about all I recall of the book, other than it was so charming at the time that I'm searching for it after nearly 40 years! Sound familiar to anyone?

If you have more "clues" to this book, it will be much helpful to search and locate at least the author's name, and the name of author will lead you to a full list of book titles written by the author. From the list, maybe you can recall the book title, but for a short story's title is a little bit of problem. Try "BookSleuth", place a forum , maybe the BS members will be abled to help you.
Can you remember the following details:
(1) the main characters' names - two children names who are neighbours.
(2) at least the picture or pictures on the book jacket.(for hand bound version)
(3) the author's initials or the book publisher's name.
(4) any other book characters' names will be useful.

Try to search the children's book publishers websites, if the book is very popular, it will be reprinted.
"Puffins" is one of the children's book series.

Ha! I just re-read this. It's Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and me, Elizabeth by E. L Konigsburg.

It was a favorite as a little girl.

Thanks. I'm sure that was it.

I am having a book from this basic era I'm hoping to identify, I will be making a post about that shortly.

So I'm searching the internet with no luck. When I was young (80s) I read a book about a witch who I think was named Twelve, maybe Six. She had a friend that was an old dragon called the Mester Stoor Worm. He had gotten small as he aged and was lap sized. I cannot find it anywhere.

Hi and welcome to Librarything! You'll probably find the answer you seek in our Name That Book! group, where they specialize in finding lost titles:
https://www.librarything.com/groups/namethatbook

Please be sure to read the group's header for instructions on posting your request, and click the Post New Topic directly below this header.

Hi everyone,
I have been looking for a book from my childhood. It’s a memory I and my cousin share dearly to our heart and it’s something that will help us bring those memories back, especially with our physical distance.
* It’s a children’s English book.
* It’s a hardcover book with mostly blue cover and maybe a train track kinda image in the front cover.
* It’s like a story and game book about a big family.
* One of the pages is of a doll house structure with a ghost in the attic.
* Another is one like find Waldo theme, like finding this hat or that book.
* It was probably published in between 1990 to 2010.
* One of the pages had some jokes and word games with answer in the last few pages of the book including for the find the item.
* Maybe a maze game at the end
* A big dinning table with lots of food
* The title might start as a “A big …” in huge letter on the cover but it might not be right

Thanks for your help in advance 😊

>8 lostmemories:, it is often best to make a fresh post in the name that book group.

This sounds like a British annual with all of the variety of content. There are so many of these that it can be hard to narrow it down.

James

I'm desperately looking for a book from my youth!
The original cover design was a soft gradient background, there was a gate with some parrots.

The story involved inheriting an abandonned mansion with a magical garden. In said garden there was a bronze mask in the tree.

any help is v appreciated, I vaguely recall the author having a unique name which has made finding it so hard haha

>10 jenniebeany:, basic information required for any children's book inquiry:

* U.S. or U.K./Commonwealth?

* Owned or read in a library?

* Picture book or novel (or nonfiction)?

* When was the book seen?

Some of these help to determine what sort of publishers and references books and databases to consult.

Even if you make a fresh post in "name that book" the above information will help those who would like to help you. In the 1990s I played the game a lot when I was manager of an antiquarian bookstore in San Diego that specialized in old children's books. I got to be pretty good at it.

The information often volunteered such as the color of the book or the size are harder to search for.

This sounds like a fantasy story so I suppose it may be a chapter book and possibly the sort of thing that was mainly available in libraries, even if there was also a trade paperback. I could see it being U.S. or U.K. Such books were popular in the 1950s and 1960s but also later as well.

James

I’m looking for a story that was in a children’s book that my mother had when she was young. She was born in 1940 so this would have been a book from the 40’s or 50’s. It was a Cinderella type story where all the girls in the village were invited to the prince’s ball so that he could choose a wife. They all had to make their own ball gowns. The main character was poor and didn’t have many to buy material so she ended up making her ball gown from scrapes and leftovers from the other girls dresses. The prince was impressed with her thriftiness and chose her as his bride. I’d like to read the story again as it was a favorite growing up but we lost the book many years ago.