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Showing posts with label Children's literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Children's literature. Show all posts
22 March 2025

Tumbling Towards Mystery

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The Stone Cottage Mystery Joyce Boyle Toronto: Macmillan, 1961 151 pages A big city girl made unhappy by her family's move to a small to...
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25 February 2025

The Case of the Queer Antiques Dealer

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The Mystery of Cabin Island Franklin W. Dixon [Leslie McFarlane] New York: Grosset & Dunlop [c. 1960] 214 pages If you ever happen to vi...
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25 March 2024

Here's to Absent Chums

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The Missing Chums Franklin W. Dixon [Leslie McFarlane] New York: Grosset & Dunlop, [ c. 1960] 214 pages The fourth Hardy Boys book, I r...
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17 October 2023

Adults Without a Clue

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The Clue of the Dead Duck Scott Young Toronto: Little, Brown, 1962 159 pages Morgan Perdue and Albert "Young Ab" Magee are up to n...
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03 October 2023

One Woman's Boy's Own Adventure

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Gold in Mosquito Creek Dickson Reynolds [Helen Dickson Reyonds] London: Museum Press, [1952] 192 pages Strapping fifteen-year-old Randy Pier...
01 June 2021

Little Willie, Willie Won't Go Home

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Willie the Squowse Ted Allan Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1977 57 pages What I admire most about Ted Allan was his ability to take an ...
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30 January 2021

Erring on The Terror of the Tar Sands

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A 1968 children's book, one of the most obscure novels I've read since beginning the Dusty Bookcase, The Terror of the Tar Sands ca...
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