What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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Gian Carlo Menotti's Help, help, the Globolinks
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SOLVED. Evil blobs: only defense is music [s]
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Can we bump threads here? Or do I have to create a new thread?
Lorna, Keep bumping. Bump as many times as you'd like. And don't lose hope. One of my books was finally found two and a half years after originally posting.
Just bumping this on the off chance. C&P from first post:Read this when I was a kid. Lot of illustrations: I think watercolors.
Generic small town is threatened by these floating, multicolored blobs. Everyone goes indoors to hide, but a school bus full of kids is still trying to get home. Someone figures out that music will chase the blobs away. And isn't it great that every kid on the bus is in band or orchestra! Except no one brought their instrument. (I clearly remember the driver asking them one by one, "Janey, do you have your flute?" "No." "Tommy, do you have your oboe?" "No.") Well, one girl has her violin. So she goes out into the darkness and plays the blobs away; gets overwhelmed but someone saves her at the last minute. Any clue?
I don't know what it is but I really want to read it now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It doesn't sound familiar to me, but it may help others pinpoint your book if you say approximately what year it was when you read it.
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I read it around 1976. It may have been new. It was that format like Chris Van Allsburg does (maybe he's the author?) where the book is very thin, and the pages are wide because the real focus is the art. Illustrations with text, rather than text with illustrations.
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Yes, I am still looking. (Sorry I didn't see this message earlier!)
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Read this when I was a kid. Lot of illustrations: I think watercolors. Generic small town is threatened by these floating, multicolored blobs. Everyone goes indoors to hide, but a school bus full of kids is still trying to get home. Someone figures out that music will chase the blobs away. And isn't it great that every kid on the bus is in band or orchestra! Except no one brought their instrument. (I clearly remember the driver asking them one by one, "Janey, do you have your flute?" "No." "Tommy, do you have your oboe?" "No.") Well, one girl has her violin. So she goes out into the darkness and plays the blobs away; gets overwhelmed but someone saves her at the last minute. Any clue?
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(PS, no idea on the book though)
No idea as to the book, but your description makes me want to read it!
Thank you! I was so afraid I'd open this to see "Lorna, will you give it up already?!" Glad you like the description.I'm thinking, if no one here can find this book, I'm going to write my own version and have my husband illustrate it. ;)
I read it around 1976. It may have been new then. It was that format like Chris Van Allsburg does (it is NOT Van Allsburg; I've checked everything he's done) where the book is very thin, and the pages are wide because the real focus is the art. Illustrations with text, rather than text with illustrations. Generic small town is threatened by these floating, multicolored blobs. Everyone goes indoors to hide, but a school bus full of kids is still trying to get home. Someone figures out that music will chase the blobs away. And isn't it great that every kid on the bus is in band or orchestra! Except no one brought their instrument. (I clearly remember the driver asking them one by one, "Janey, do you have your flute?" "No." "Tommy, do you have your oboe?" "No.") Well, one girl has her violin. So she goes out into the darkness and plays the blobs away; gets overwhelmed but someone saves her at the last minute. Any clue?
One more time...I read it around 1976. It may have been new then. It was that format like Chris Van Allsburg does (it is NOT Van Allsburg; I've checked everything he's done) where the book is very thin, and the pages are wide because the real focus is the art. Illustrations with text, rather than text with illustrations.
Generic small town is threatened by these floating, multicolored blobs. Everyone goes indoors to hide, but a school bus full of kids is still trying to get home. Someone figures out that music will chase the blobs away. And isn't it great that every kid on the bus is in band or orchestra! Except no one brought their instrument. (I clearly remember the driver asking them one by one, "Janey, do you have your flute?" "No." "Tommy, do you have your oboe?" "No.") Well, one girl has her violin. So she goes out into the darkness and plays the blobs away; gets overwhelmed but someone saves her at the last minute. Any clue?
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Are they referred to as "blobs" in the story?
Is this a standard picture book of about 32 (to 48) pages?
1. I don't believe there was an explanation. It was just some other-worldly, paranormal event. 2. Were they called "blobs"? Maybe; I don't remember that detail either.
3. Yes, standard picture-book length.
I think I may have found it: Gian Carlo Menotti's Help, help, the Globolinks by Leigh DeanFrom the "Wisconsin Library Bulletin": Based on the opera of the same title concerning the Globolinks who came to earth from outer space. Every person they touch turn into a Globolink and only music can rescue one before it happens.
A busload of children and teachers save the day when the Globolinks are trying to destroy the earth. Illustrations are in an "art nouveau" style.
Also, I came across this thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... accidentally, it is about the same book, isn't it?
Great find, Ayshe! Hope Lorna comes back to this thread. I found a copy on Etsy that has a few pictures of the inside of the book
https://www.etsy.com/listing/22799372...
Here is one of the pics below (hopefully, it shows)
The illustrator is Milton Glaser
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Thanks. Deleting, since that post is also by Lorna.
Ayshe, you are my hero!!! If we were in the same room, I'd genuflect! Yes, that's it! Gonna order it Monday. Don't y'all love that flooding-back feeling when someone gives the title and you *know* it's the right one? And then someone posts the link and you remember that cover from the first time you bought it or got it from the library? That last-piece-of-the-jigsaw-puzzle moment is what this forum is all about. Thanks, all!
Generic small town is threatened by these floating, multicolored blobs. Everyone goes indoors to hide, but a school bus full of kids is still trying to get home. Someone figures out that music will chase the blobs away. And isn't it great that every kid on the bus is in band or orchestra! Except no one brought their instrument. (I clearly remember the driver asking them one by one, "Janey, do you have your flute?" "No." "Tommy, do you have your oboe?" "No.") Well, one girl has her violin. So she goes out into the darkness and plays the blobs away; gets overwhelmed but someone saves her at the last minute. Any clue?