What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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Parsifal Rides the Time Wave
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SOLVED. Children's chapter book in which a fanciful little man helps a boy whose dog died while saving the boy's life. Involves time travel. Fantasy, older book, possibly 50s/60s/70s? [s]
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No, but it sounds cute.
Was the little man a guardian angel, maybe?
Possible. I read this as a seven or eight year old in a hospital waiting room in the late 80s - it was just a random book in the room.
Tried looking for books involving dogs, death, hospitals, accidents, and guardian angels, but nada so far.Were you in the USA when you read it?
Far Morning maybe? I found this in Google Books:"Her new book Far Morning is a fantasy about birth and death and the nature of sorrow which will appeal to everyone who likes to have a good cry. A favourite dog has been run over and everybody is wondering how to break the news to his five-year-old master."
Books and Bookmen - Volume 8
Hmm. Let me look into this one further. (Pretty sure you found my other book, which has my mind a little blown at the moment...)
Can't tell from what I've seen, but maybe I'll find something more. (The cover looks sad, and I feel as if the book had a lighter feel than that.)"Tried looking for books involving dogs, death, hospitals, accidents, and guardian angels, but nada so far.
Were you in the USA when you read it?"
I was in the waiting room of an American base hospital in Panama, which I suppose would place my reading time around 1988 or '89. The book was older, though. English language, and I assume American, but I suppose it's possible it could have been a UK book.
I found this from rest of the review: "The stricken boy gets a fever and in his delirium dreams about a world in the clouds where the Chooldren live. Here his dog has found a happy home and the boy brings a new friend back to earth with him. 'Far Morning was written for children but my publishers seem to think adults will want to read it. We had a dog called Hamlet, as in the book, and he died.
You know, if the boy went to some fanciful place where his dog is now alive, that makes more sense in terms of why it would make him feel better (versus going back in time and witnessing the exploits of some other dog, which is how my brain remembered it.) I'm still remembering the mediation of some kind of little man. Are "Chooldren" are some kind of fanciful race in this story? Do you have a link to the whole review? I'm finding it in Google, but only snippet form (https://books.google.com/books?id=ibd...) What I could do is try ILL-ing the review. I'm not sure I want to buy the book itself (although I've actually gone ahead and ordered "Tommy and Julie" on the strength of my memories of that book in the other thread.)
Link: no, sorry, I got it from the same Google book searching for phrases. It looks like only one library in the US has it and it's not circulating, which probably means it's not available for ILL? I only glanced one mention of the Chooldren as invisible babies. By all means, don't buy it if you're not sure. I once suggested a book which turned out to be not the searched one and was expensive. Even though I didn't suggest her buying it I still feel guilty 😞
I noticed that too in Worldcat, but I'll bet I can get a photocopy of the review itself pretty easily. I get a lot of articles by ILL.
Can you cite the article/review you want? It might be available in one of the online research databases libraries have available to them. Faster than ILL, if so.
Really, the credit should go to Rosa for mentioning it on this thread....https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Huge thanks to Rainbowheart for never giving up on this, and to Judy and Rosa in the other thread. This is an absolute Nailed It. I don't know if I will try to get an actual copy of this book, but the cover was instantly recognizable despite my having no memory of it; details also like the little man's (Parsifal's) weird hat.I should add, Rainbowheart, that I saw your post back when it appeared on my phone and cackled with glee, but did not respond at the time. I use my computer to actually manage my Goodreads account, but I have had very little time to go online lately or even read due to the birth of twins some months ago. Your post was a lovely thing also for that reason: a nice reminder that the outside world and Goodreads still exist.
Marking this SOLVED.
Awesome, very glad to help out!And congrats on the birth of your new twins. :)
slauderdale wrote: " I don't know if I will try to get an actual copy of this book, but ..."It's available as a one-hour borrow in the Open Library.
SamSpayedPI wrote: "slauderdale wrote: " I don't know if I will try to get an actual copy of this book, but ..."It's available as a one-hour borrow in the Open Library."
Hey, I might try that.
What's the Name of That Book???
Books mentioned in this topic
Parsifal Rides the Time Wave (other topics)Far Morning (other topics)
The White Dog (other topics)
The fanciful little man takes the boy back in time, where he witnesses the exploits of a heroic dog of the same breed as his dead dog. Somehow this enables him to deal with what happened, and when he returns to the present he is more willing to accept having a new puppy, and the fanciful little man is praised by his peers/superiors for having achieved his mission. The little man might have some kind of number associated with him.
I would have read this book in the late eighties, but I feel like it was older: possibly 1950s/60s/70s. Illustrated, but I don't really remember the illustrations. May or may not have been a paperback.