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Alina posted in the Children's Books group; she wants to find a book about a boy with a tail:I have been racking my brain for years now: I seem to remember a book I used to love as a child. It’s about a (alien?) boy who is wearing a big blue coat to school and he doesn’t want to take it off, so no one sees the big tail he has. I remember the whole mood to be quite lonely and dark but perhaps that was just me. I think there was a UFO on one of the last pages. HELP!
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2nd grade teacher read us this book in 1977, only a few details recalled. Storm mountain, or thunder mountain, circus animals were the the main characters??
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May have been published early 70s or 60s. Sorry, scant on details: seem to recall a the plot involving entering a mountain (storm or thunder mountain?) through some caves or tunnels. I think the main protagonist was a horse or donkey sherif-type with a 6-shooter. It’s a long shot. Ring any bells for anyone?
"What's the Name of that Book?!" is probably a group everyone here is already familar with. It's a useful crowd-sourcing service, and a fun rabbit hole to fall down, too.
Every so often, there are threads that I think members of this group might be particularly powered to help with, and so I thought I'd list some here.
Forgotten, Forgotten Vintage Children's Lit.:
Kiri's book (pre-1977) about a young white girl and a young native American (Indian) girl, with a split brown and white cover, two figures facing each other: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Joan's book (pre-1970s, prob. earlier) about a portal fantasy in an attic room of a castle: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Alan's dystopian space colony growing corn with petty crimes reported ca '70s-80s: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Alan's other whopper of a thread, another sci-fi, same era, futuristic space station, maze continually increases in difficulty: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Karl's boy's coming of age with inherited jack/pocketknife and missing (murdered long ago?) male relative in mountain cave, ca. 1992: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Lee Anne's mom's bog body book (young girl) which retells life of child bride(?) in dark ages or stone age from prior to 1972:
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There are others, and please feel free to add links to threads here if they are of yesterday's forgotten children's books. :)
I'll keep adding as relevant ones emerge - these are a few of the more stubborn ones.