I remember being fairly obsessed with this book from the middle school
library that I attended in Wayne, NJ in the 70's. For the amount of
times I read it, I cannot remember much about it but I would love to
share it with my son. It was a rather sad book, a sort of melancholy
tone, and I can vaguely recall is that it was about children either on
a journey home or children who were lost and had to a make a long
journey home through a land (this is my faulty memory here) possibly
made of candy-they might have even been on an island, or going thru
forests, or jungles. It was a fairly heavy big thick book, so
spectacularly, beautifully illustrated in color, hardcover, and it had
a color papercover sealed in that crinkly plastic. It was already an
older book when I was reading it in the 70's (thats why I partly had
an obsession-the fact that it seemed from another time intrigued me),
so it may have been from the 40's, 50's? maybe earlier-the 30's or
40's. I am desperate and have searched the net for the last few
years, but I believe that the sketchy details in my mind are hampering
the location of this book. I hope someone can assist and that reading
this may jog someone's memory! I would be eternally grateful. I
thought I had found it once, I found a copy of a book called "Candy
Land" but that wasn't it. I also thought it could be "Floating
Island" by Anne Parrish, but her illustrations are in black and white,
unless it was reprinted in color. Also, one distinct image in my
memory is an color illustration of a girl holding a staff/stick
walking as if she is on a journey/trek on a right hand page of the
book. If I saw it I would know it on the spot! Its not a Christmas
themed book (nutcracker), its not Hansel and Gretel, its not one of
the Oz books. Thank you! |
