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Little Girl With Seven Names
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Dec 16, 2011 07:33PM
A childrens book, probably a chapter book, that I read in the 1970s in elementary school. A girl is born and her parents give her about fifteen names after various aunts and other relatives, and she wants a shorter name but doesn't want to offend anyone. It may have had a cover with a girl riding a horse?
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I would check the literature portion ofthis list, though I didn't see anything that really fit well. There was a lot of sci-fi/fantasy stuff and you didn't mention that aspect, but maybe it was that sort of book?
Warning, the above is a tv tropes link. (It's only polite.)No, it wasn't sci-fi, more generic medieval. I doubt there was any magic either. Probably at the Beverly Cleary reading level.
Sorry, good call: don't click unless you want to waste hours on that site!
I wonder if it could possibly be The Ordinary Princess by M.M. Kaye? The age range is correct and the princess in question had a horrifically long name (which she shortened to Princess Amy when she runs away from home). It's more along the lines of a fairy tale, though I don't particularly remember a horse... the copy I have has the princess in a purple dress slipping over a stone wall.
No, it definitely was before 1978; that one looks like it was from 1980. Thanks for trying, though.
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Trying this worldcat.org searchSearch results for 'ti:names' > '1950..1977' > 'Book' > 'Fiction' > 'English' > 'Juvenile'
Any possibilities?
Little girl with seven names
Author: Mabel Leigh Hunt; Grace Paull
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lippincott, ©1964, 1936.
A little Quaker girl gets twin sisters just in time to give them two of her seven names so that she will not be laughed at when she must recite her full name on the first day of school.
63 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Responsibility: by Mabel Leigh Hunt ; illustrated by Grace Paull.
AN AWFUL NAME TO LIVE UP TOBy Jessie Hosford
Only four names, so probably not that.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-re...
What about Pippi Longstocking? She had lots of names and a horse, and I could see her name being a product of her crazy family.
I think bkl has it! I saw an alternate cover that looks familiar. Thanks very much. It looks like I can get it through interlibrary loan.Little Girl With Seven Names
Hey great! It was found through the worldcat search.
