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Have you forgotten the title of your favorite children's book? This is a service to help solve your book mysteries.

Submit your memory here, and see if anyone else remembers your book memory, or better yet, knows the title and author! After all, it's easier to find the book when you know what it's called.

I'll post copies for sale when I have them, and am always glad to search for copies not currently in stock. Loganberry Books is a used bookshop after all, and this page is only a small sideline offered as a service to my customers.

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Book Stumpers should be submitted by clicking the "Book Stumper" link below. Stumpers cost $2 to submit, and will be posted alphabetically by Keycode until solved. New Stumpers will be on this page for at least four weeks, and are then moved to the archive pages. Once solved, the posting moves to the Solved Mysteries pages, alphabetical by title. New comments and stumpers are posted on Tuesdays, and whenever else time permits. The tallies do not reflect solutions made by simply browsing the archives or asking what we deem an "easy question" rather than a "stumper."

The 2003 Tally
1192 Stumpers posted; 744 (62%) Solved
The 2004 Tally
527 Stumpers posted; 395 (75%) Solved
The 2005 Tally
902 Stumpers posted; 499 (55%) Solved
The 2006 Tally
858 Stumpers posted; 401 (46%) Solved
The 2007 Tally
853 Stumpers posted; 409 (48%) Solved
The 2008 Tally
691 Stumpers posted; 229 Solved (33%) Solved
The 2010 Tally
355 Stumpers Posted, 259 Moved to Archives
The 2011 Tally
438 Stumpers Posted, 93 Solved

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The 2012 Tally
121 Stumpers Posted
23 Moved to Solved
165 Moved to Archives

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2/3/2012 solutions

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A466: Alphabet book
The entire book was light blue and white, including illustrations. I believe it was an alphabet book for children, and O was for Owl. I can't remember much else besides the coloring. Thanks!

A467:Arabrab an imaginary friend
Mid 1950's. A little girl named Barbara had an imaginary friend named Arabrab (Barbara spelled backwards.)

A468: Another Planet, Wreath Ring
I read this young adult book in the mid/late 90s. It takes place on another planet. 2 main characters 1 male and 1 female that are always fighting verbally. They both have a friend that they pass notes to - each other. The women sends her friend a ring with a wreath on it.

B801: Bird watches backhoe dig up the environment
This was an illustrated children's book from the late '70s or early '80s. I believe it was shown from the perspective of a bird in the wilderness watching heavy equipment tear up the Earth to build some kind of development??

Turner, Ann, Heron Street, 1989. From a SLJ review: a "story about the development of and changes in a marsh from the time of its settlement before the American Revolution through the present."'

B802: Big red book of stories
I'm looking for a Big Red book of stories from the early 90s. there were four stories, the fire engine Number 8, the big tree that fell, and I can't remember the other two.

B803: Baby in interminable state of sleep, surrealistic
Book came out about 5 years ago, 3 girls (and a baby?) in Victorian dress on the sepia-toned cover, author Katherine perhaps? Professor at USC or UCLA or some university in California (I think), the book was very surrealistic and fantastic, the baby was in an interminable state of sleep, there was a trio of circus-like odd people, a pedophile was in there, very strange book. Somehow connected to Alice in Wonderland.

SOLVED: It's "Madeline Is Sleeping" by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, who teaches at UC San Diego (close!). It was nominated for the National Book Award in 2004 (or maybe 2005). I did pretty well, all things considered!
You sure did! Thanks for your Stumper.

B804: Book about a squirrell
This is a book about a squirrell named 'chickory' and a blue jay that tries to steal his food.

Jean Craighead George, The Moon of the Chickarees, 1968. Any chance this might be it? The original book was illustrated by John Schoenherr. A revised edition was printed in 1992 with different illustrations (by Don Rodell) and slightly different text. The book tells about a mother red squirrel (chickaree) living and raising her babies in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana.
Chickaree the Fuzzy Wuzzy Squirrel, 1948. A Whitman Fuzzy Wuzzy book, with flocked pictures that felt fuzzy when touched.

B805: Boy and dog in rural america. Hunt for deer to feed family in winter. Dog killed saving boys life.
Adolescent boy's adventure book. Read in 1950's, not sure when published. 19th century (?) rural america. Boy must track down deer to feed family in winter. Boy and dog survive perils of weather and wolves. Dog is killed when saving boy's life. Boy waits at farm in spring, but dog never returns.

B806: Boys crash in Maine lake
Looking for a juvenile book published in the late 50's(?) about two boys who survive a crash in a northern Maine lake and have to survive on their own. They enventually build a birch canoe and float down river to civilization.

B807: Boy finds cave
This book is from the late 50's or early 60's. It was a picture book about a young boy who finds a cave on the side of a mountain. There is a small stream that runs right at the entrance to the cave and along the edge of a cliff. I can't remember if the boy was a runaway or simply exploring.

B808: Bloodhound Tracks Coyote