Just 1 book. Put simply, it was a book on transportation. All kinds. From semi-trucking to the first cars to the Paris Dakar rally to spaceships, a whole bunch. The book was entirely illustrated too, with pseudo-realistic drawings as the main focus of the page, and far more cartoonish drawings on the fun facts off to the sides of the page. I think the book would have been published around the late 90s to early 2000s (the early 2000s is when I read it). And the inlets (the first and last "pages" when you open a hardcover) were stark red with nothing on them.
I had a book that was basically like this but space! It was probably made in the 80s-early 90s. I wish I could find it to look up if it was part of a series.
Just 1 book. Put simply, it was a book on transportation. All kinds. From semi-trucking to the first cars to the Paris Dakar rally to spaceships, a whole bunch. The book was entirely illustrated too, with pseudo-realistic drawings as the main focus of the page, and far more cartoonish drawings on the fun facts off to the sides of the page. I think the book would have been published around the late 90s to early 2000s (the early 2000s is when I read it). And the inlets (the first and last "pages" when you open a hardcover) were stark red with nothing on them.
I had a book that was basically like this but space! It was probably made in the 80s-early 90s. I wish I could find it to look up if it was part of a series.
I remember briefly reading part of a book about two kids who are magically transported to a bizarre music-themed land after their band teacher explodes. You'd think I'd be able to find something on it with a premise that unique.
Post by spontaneoushc on May 15, 2024 19:16:27 GMT
there's a few I'd like to find but I don't have too much to go off for each of them:
1. Possibly science-fiction anthology book I read around 2002, only story from it I remember is one where an alien kidnaps a kid by offering them cube-shapes sweets and a ride in a globe/kinda gachapon style spacecraft? that's how kid-me pictured it, anyway. the kid makes a plan to escape but in doing so ends up trying to trick some alien kids to drive the craft for them by offering the cube shaped sweets 2. Yellow book about three animals (a cat, a dog, and a... third thing) going on an adventure/looking for something (their owner/grandmother's house?) together 3. 0 clue about this last one but it opens with a girl realising she and her mother are white trash. I didn't read any more of it but that part of the intro stuck with me
each of these would've been published before 2005 ish, I don't think I can narrow it down much further
Post by gabrielthetrashcat on May 23, 2024 1:12:31 GMT
anti drug psa book i read in mexico, i remember vividly it having a 'faus marvel'? style and one story beign about a older teenager dyong of an overdose
A kid's book about a white boy with a adopted sister (she had brown skin, maybe latina). I read the book in the 90s but it was probably from the 80s or 70s. It had a logo of a smiling sun. The illustrations were semi-realistic.
I found it!!!
It’s called “We’re a Family” and was published in 1986.
Post by surrealkangaroo on May 24, 2024 21:31:08 GMT
This randomly popped into my head: I read a young adult novel sometime in the early 2010’s about a girl who grew wings and her parents sent her away to a community for people with wings. I don’t really remember much beyond that, sadly. I’m thinking it was a relatively new book.
There's a few I remember that my class had to read for assignment in grade school whose names escape me.
a 14-year old kid ends up in a juvenile detention center and ends up escaping over the barbed wire fence(this one especially irks me because I did find out the name of it years ago but i've forgotten it again, I remember the author of this one wrote a bunch of other books revolving around nature and hiking and things like that).
A kid(or multiple kids can't remember)takes a shortcut through an underground tunnel to get home faster and have to avoid getting spotted by soldiers(I think it might've been set during WW2 or something like that, but it wasn't the book "Stones in Water" which was another one my class was assigned to read).
Also in like 2nd or third grade there was a series of illustrated picture books my class had that I would sometimes read during break time which featured a bunch of anthropomorphic animal characters. The one whose name I remember is a pig teacher named Mr Hogwash and I vaguely remember the plot of that one revolving around the main characters going to a concert or something like that.
Post by Etienne_LeLoupChien on May 27, 2024 3:55:17 GMT
I just remembered a series of books that were part of a collection, but there was one story that stood out the most to me. I read it around the fall of 1996 or spring 1997.
The story was about some animal friends with their own personalities who went to the same school. One of them was a brown bunny who liked to put on a costume to scare other people, including his classmates. He used to always jump and say "Gotcha!" One day it was Halloween and they all put on their own costumes and went to this creepy house. I remember the bunny character put on his scary costume to scare his other classmates. In that house he comes across a creepy old woman who was actually unusually friendly. Every time she mentioned about giving some tasty chocolate bars, for some reason she would always add the words "with almonds!", something his other friends was obsessed about.
Towards the end the old lady gives a good scare to the bunny character, before "she" revealed herself to be his classmates standing on top of each other to scare him as payback and to teach him a lesson. His classmate who was obsessed with chocolate bars with almonds was among them. I've been trying to locate the title of the book and also the other books in the series. They were all written by different people with different stories. I think the back of the book cover talked about the other books and had photos of each different author. I think one included a story written by a young boy of 6 or 7 about a snowman.
A furry with eclectic tastes who loves the 80s and 90s. Mostly 1984-1992.
Post by sadeltriraidersfan on May 28, 2024 3:46:29 GMT
There's this one Irish novel published in the late 2000s to early 2010s about a kid's adventures in Celtic Tiger era Ireland. Yeah, not very descriptive. It had a slight Catcher in the Rye vibe to it and it was basically a cynical high school teenager's adventures in his Dublin neighborhood. A few of the characters were West African/Nigerian immigrants, so it was definitely around the Celtic Tiger era.
I read it back in 2013-14 and haven't read it since, which sucks because I never finished it.
A book I read in first grade about a little boy who doesn't remember which bathroom to go to. It was like 6 pages and I can't seem to find it.
A book about a kid who has a magic marker that makes him invisible or something, this one I don't hardly remember at all.
Was the magic marker one called Things Not Seen? I vividly remember reading that book in late elementary school and I know the premise was about a kid who spends the entire book invisible. I'm not sure if it's explained why he turns invisible though, maybe the marker is a false memory.
A book I read in first grade about a little boy who doesn't remember which bathroom to go to. It was like 6 pages and I can't seem to find it.
A book about a kid who has a magic marker that makes him invisible or something, this one I don't hardly remember at all.
Was the magic marker one called Things Not Seen? I vividly remember reading that book in late elementary school and I know the premise was about a kid who spends the entire book invisible. I'm not sure if it's explained why he turns invisible though, maybe the marker is a false memory.
1. This one I remember more about, as I just read it about 2 years ago. It was like an edgy retelling of Red Riding Hood where she gets visions of people getting imprisoned and it all revolves around some sort of apple with spikes in it. The apple was on the cover. The princess gets kidnapped by whatever dark evil force was taking all these people, and then Red Riding Hood's grandma gets taken by it, and she has to team up with Jack from Jack and the beanstalk. He's some sort of outlaw. I try to search it up every once in a while but when you look up edgy Red Riding Hood retellings, all you get is those adult novels, and that's not it. The book I read was more like, YA fantasy. The kind of book you could find in a middle school library. I wouldn't place the publication earlier than 2010. I never finished reading it because I got bored with it and took it back to the library I borrowed it from.
2. This one I remember less. It was maybe a goosebumps-length book, maybe 200 pages tops. It must have been from the mid to late 90s based on the cover art, condition of the book, and setting. I know the main character was named Stephen or something like that, and he's the leader of his friend group who all ride bikes. It had something to do with a malevolent magical abandoned house in their town. I remember the parents in the book weren't happy that the kids were exploring it. There may have been a mild romantic subplot, I'm not sure. The cover art had Stephen standing next to his bike, I think. The house may have been in the background. I seem to remember him wearing a yellow button-up on the cover, but I could be wrong. I think it was part of a series, but it wasn't Goosebumps. It had a similar creepy factor though.
This randomly popped into my head: I read a young adult novel sometime in the early 2010’s about a girl who grew wings and her parents sent her away to a community for people with wings. I don’t really remember much beyond that, sadly. I’m thinking it was a relatively new book.
Was it Maximum Ride? Sounds pretty similar to that. It's from 2005.
My mom got me a book when I was in high school that was sort of surreal fantasy? I know it involved two, maybe three, young kids (ranging from about 5 to 10 years old?) and an entity/God called Shivers that I believe had antlers made of hands? I don't remember if they were malevolent or just scary, but it was a metaphor for something. It was like Bridge to Terabithia for older teens/young adults.
There was another book, again in high school, again in YA fantasy, but all I can remember is it involved a high-ranking woman, a sword, and her transwoman guard? I remember some vague transphobia about how "[x] has a prick" but I can't remember her name. I do believe it either had a single sequel or was involved in a trilogy.
