If you've stumbled upon this website, there's a good chance you have nagging memories of a book you read during your childhood. Your memories may be so vague that you're not certain you didn't just dream it up. Or you might remember vivid details about the book's plot and characters - virtually everything except that much-needed title or author.

Some books come up on discussion boards with such surprising frequency, you have to wonder how such a well-loved book could be out of print. And many of them are out of print. However, all hope is not lost.

Gathered together on this blog are some of the most often-requested and well-remembered children's picture and chapter books of the 20th century. Take a moment and browse the title list; maybe one of them will jump out at you. Or, use the search box at the top of the screen. Keywords are included with each book. If we can be of further assistance, please contact us at favoritechildrensbooks@gmail.com. We hope to help reunite you with your
Favorite Children's Books.

Monday, March 16, 2009

Twig

Twig
by Elizabeth Orton Jones, originally published in 1942.

Summary
Twig was just a plain, ordinary little girl who lived on the fourth floor of a "high sort of house" in the city. The back yard behind that house was Twig's little world. It was a bare little world, with nothing but a dandelion and a stream of drainpipe water to make it beautiful; with nobody but Old Boy, the ice-wagon horse, Old Girl, the cat, and the Sparrows, to keep Twig company.

But one day, out in the alley, Twig found an empty tomato can with pictures of bright red tomatoes all round it. When it was upside down, it looked like a house just the right size for a fairy! Twig stood it upside down, next to the dandelion, not far from the stream. And this is the story of what happened in and around that little house one Saturday afternoon.

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Keywords: Fairies

Character Names: Twig
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