Norma Kassirer, Miracle E
Book is pink and narrow with blue bubbleletters on cover. Has 4 stories I recall, One is about the bremen musicians, the next one is about a magician that gets shrunk by his own mice, the third one about a butterfly girl that gets adopted by flies living in lamppost. last is about possums in woods S716: Sally, shed doll, great-aunt Looking for a children’s book I read mid ’70’s grade 4-5 about a girl named Sally who was sent to live with her great aunt. It turned out that the doll belonged to her great aunt Sarah, called Sally as a child. Sally had been given a set of books that she took to her aunts. During a rainstorm/flooding, she read to a group of schoolchildren to keep them calm. (I’m pretty sure that was part of this same book.) She was able to find the doll when she noticed that her cat had been playing in a corner of the attic and had a piece of doll hair stuck in its claws.
She is actually seeking to solve a secret away from a lost toy owned by a new girl titled Sally
The reading-aloud-in-storm scence is not in this book, but the rest of the details match. The book is Magic Elizabeth, but the part about reading to children in a rainstorm isn’t part of it. Definitely the book. Magic Elizabeth, without a doubt! Bet you get lots of answers on this one . Nancy Kassirer, Magic Elizabeth, 1966. I’m pretty sure this is the book you are looking for. Sally looks for the doll in a picture in her Great Aunt’s spooky house she goes back in time and eventually figures out that the little girl in the picture is her aunt a cat does help her find the doll hidden in a crevice in the attic. S717: Science-fiction/dystopian novel Science fiction/dystopian novel for teens read in 1985 or so.
There is a book called Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults by Carrie Hintz , and it’s possible she covers your book in there. Robert O’Brien, Z for Zachariah. One of many possibilities. Others include Lois Lowry’s The Giver, Rosemary Harris’ A Quest for Orion or perhaps even John Wyndham’s The Chrysalids. S718: Santa once Xmas I am looking for an illustrated children’s book about Santa coming home after delivering presents. He was alone & opened presents, got socks from Mrs. Claus, which he seemed grumpy about, opened a package that had a bottle in it, smiled and thought “Jack.” Published pre-1980. Small, squarish, color. Briggs, Father getbride.org bloglink Christmas, 1973. Sounds like Raymond Briggs’ Father Christmas. S719: Small horror tales Young adult’s book of short horror stories with a girl who tries to find her grandmother’s purse, a boy who plays a trick on a witch and gets transported to the dark ages, a boy who thinks his girlfriend’s family is vampires but are actually werewolves, a girl who works on a haunted hayride, etc. S720: Space order center Omaha, NE (YA collection) There’s a series of YA books, early chapter-book level, with pictures. They’re SF, on Earth in the future, and mostly on space ships, I think. There’s a command center operating out of Omaha, NE. I read them from the library, and they were hardcovers of about 6″ x 8″ . this was in 1985-7ish. S721: Statues Turn on A children’s book published in the early 90’s about a loner girl who befriends a boy and he takes her to a garden with statues that come to life. It is not “Stonewalkers” or “Court of the Stone Children”. The statues may have been real people who were turned to stone. Not sure.
