(Part 2) Top products from r/tipofmytongue
We found 84 product mentions on r/tipofmytongue. We ranked the 5,664 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
21. Illustrated Book of Myths
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 4
Used Book in Good Condition
24. Look-Alikes: The More You Look, the More You See!
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 4
25. Mysteries of the Unexplained
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 4
A comprehensive list of accounts of of strange, uncanny and incredible mysteries and experiences.
29. The Double Disappearance of Walter Fozbek
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 4
31. Encyclopedia of Things That Never Were: Creatures, Places, and People
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 4
32. The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear (Child's Play Library)
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 4
34. The Great Blueness and Other Predicaments
Sentiment score: 3
Number of reviews: 4
35. The Woodland Folk in Dragonland
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 4
Used Book in Good Condition
Possibly the Look-Alikes books by Joan Steiner?
"Come along! Jump aboard! Grab hold of my hand. / We're crossing the border into Look-Alike Land." So invites the opening lines of Joan Steiner's Look-Alikes, a three-dimensional miniature metropolis that's meticulously, ingeniously crafted out of everyday objects from mousetraps to milk bones. At first glance, a fancy hotel lobby seems just that, but take a closer look and you'll see a sofa made of gloves. In a sunny street scene, a building façade is laden with crackers, crayons form fence posts, and the tree is shaded by a stalk of broccoli. Children and adults alike will love poring over each picture, most of which contain more than 100 objects cleverly arranged to delight and deceive. Kids will easily identify many household objects, and the ones they may not recognize--a hosiery garter or flour sifter, for example--they'll learn from either the guide in the back or from a helpful parent."
"Joan Steiner's "Look-Alikes" is endlessly interesting for kids and adults alike. This self-taught artist employs everyday items--tea bags, Fig Newtons, miniature hair combs, matches, tissues, strips of licorice, graham crackers, torn-up sponges, pencils, and so much more--to create the most astonishingly lifelike scenes.
You can see everything from a port city with boats arriving to a soda shop to a candy store to a classroom, each filled to brimming with trinkets and everyday articles of every kind, each employed as something other than what it really is "
https://www.amazon.com/Look-Alikes-More-You-Look-See/dp/0316713481
https://www.amazon.com/Look-Alikes-Christmas-More-You-Look/dp/0316811874/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=ZJ8EGQ4WSTVWA1SZ7GPX
https://www.amazon.com/Look-Alikes-Seek-Search-Puzzles-Steiner/dp/0316074071/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511323926&sr=1-3&keywords=joan+alikes+joan+steiner
https://www.amazon.com/Look-Alikes-Jr-Everyday-Objects-Hardcover/dp/B01070ZMH8/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511323926&sr=1-5&keywords=joan+alikes+joan+steiner
I had that one, but can't find the name, sorry. I'm sure my parents still have it somewhere.
Loved it, btw.
EDIT: got it! I'm pretty sure you're refering to this (in french).
EDIT2: The Great Blueness and Other Predicaments
Could it have been A Time of Darkness by Sherryl Jordan?
>Stranded among gentle cave dwellers, a modern teen-ager finds love, wisdom, and a way to save his own world
Solved!
YES! THIS WAS IT!
The cover was this variation that I remembered.
Thank you!
Sounds a bit like Mysteries of the Unexplained, although I'm pretty sure that was a single book and not multiple volumes.
I think I found it:
I typed "young adult novel sci fi underground" into Google. Second link was
to this
page,
which led to This Time of
Darkness, and I'm 95% sure this is it.
Edit: Now I'm 100% sure. Google books has it online. Here's the page about the rats
CBS Storybreak did an animated adaptation of Steve Senn's book The Double Disappearance of Walter Fozbek. Basically, the kid protagonist jumped to a parallel universe with dinosaurs instead of humans. I don't remember if he switched places with a dinosaur version of himself, or if it was just a dinosaur with a similar family whose house occupied the same geographic location.
Good luck finding a video of it, though.
Was it definitely dinosaurs, or could it have been dragons, as in The Woodland Folk in Dragonland? It looks like that one is also part of a larger series of stories about the Woodland Folk.
The Great Blueness and Other Predicaments
http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Blueness-Other-Predicaments/dp/0064433161
The Great Blueness and Other Predicaments https://www.amazon.com/Great-Blueness-Other-Predicaments/dp/0064433161 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KA7z7RX4T0
Killobyte by Piers Anthony? It's a book, but isn't very long and reads like a series of short stories, from what I remember.
amazon.com/Killobyte-Piers-Anthony/dp/0441444253
This is definitely The Green Book by Jill Paton Walsh. I read it in school also!
1. The Great Blueness and Other Predicaments by Arnold Lobel? Here's an example of a full colour page at the end.
3. Midnight for Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo? It's from 2002, but it has wizard ancestry, and a cover with a ginger Charlie and 3 cats.
The time is right, could it be Gemini Game? That's what the cover looked like too.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0816742715?pc_redir=1404711594&robot_redir=1
Update! I think I found it. CBS Storybreak. Sounds like this is the episode.
edit: And here is the book it's based on
This isn't an A, it's an F - but this is from a series, so maybe there was an A character too?
http://www.amazon.com/Find-Freddie-Where-Are-They/dp/094202513X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1370704847&sr=1-1&keywords=where+are+they+tony+tallarico
I remember there also being a 'Where's Wendy?' and a 'Look for Lisa' though amazon doesn't seem to list anyone with an A....
Would it have been anything like this? The Illustrated Book of Myths
Sounds like The Eleventh Hour by Graeme Base. He also wrote Animalia.
Sounds like The Little Mouse, the Red Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear by Don and Audrey Wood. But it wasn't a series.
This sounds a lot like a book I had, called Mysteries of the Unexplained. I probably read that thing twenty times as a kid.
http://www.amazon.com/Virtual-War-Gloria-Skurzynski/dp/0689813740 Solved!
I loved Time Cat as a kid. It doesn't sound like the right match, but who knows.
Kind of a longshot as the book was quite big but maybe the Encyclopedia of Things That Never Were?
Found it! The word "woodland" jumped to my mind and amazon found it quickly after that: The Woodland Folk in Dragonland :D
Found it immediately after posting, after wracking my brain for hours. Will leave this here for anyone else.
It's the "Search and Find" books by Tony Tallarico. My crude drawing was Freddie from the Find Freddie book.
God I feel better now.
I think you're thinking of Westlandia.
Is it Weslandia, by Paul Fleischman?
https://www.amazon.com/Weslandia-Paul-Fleischman/dp/0763610526
Weslandia
Perhaps This Time of Darkness?
Based on your description of the cover it could be this one: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL82643W/Virtual_War
edit: There's a plot description on the book's Amazon page. Sounds about right?
Is it This Time of Darkness
This one?
https://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Book-Myths-Neil-Philip/dp/0789402025
The Illustrated Book of Myths?
Are you thinking of "The Big Book Of..." series by DK Publishing? and the illustrated book of myths https://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Book-Myths-Neil-Philip/dp/0789402025 by the same publisher
Gemini Game by Michael Scott
I remember two of her other books: The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear
and Quick as a Cricket.
Is it this one
Could it be The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0859536599?pc_redir=1413680278&robot_redir=1
A couple of possibilities:
https://www.amazon.com/Mysteries-Unexplained-Carroll-C-Calkins/dp/0895771462/ref=sr_1_1
https://www.amazon.com/Strangely-Hair-Raising-Fascinate-Intrigue-Imagined/dp/0806939184/ref=pd_sbs_14_1/144-5838674-3508957?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0806939184&pd_rd_r=06edcda8-719e-11e9-ad11-c3d8451968d7&pd_rd_w=dJL62&pd_rd_wg=SeY2c&pf_rd_p=588939de-d3f8-42f1-a3d8-d556eae5797d&pf_rd_r=1A5TBJPMX7TXSA46JJ9X&psc=1&refRID=1A5TBJPMX7TXSA46JJ9X
http://www.amazon.com/Green-Book-Sunburst/dp/0374428026
The Green Book? Was it young adult sci-fi?
Is it time life's The Encyclopedia of things that never were?
http://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Things-That-Never-Were/dp/0140100083 ?
The Encyclopedia of Things that Never Were
Singularity maybe?
Singularity
Maybe Time Cat?
EDIT: Probably not, because I just read the blurb and Time Cat goes into the past, not the future, but I still had to suggest it just because the title fits so well :)
Could it be The Eleventh Hour by Graeme Base?
Perhaps The Eleventh Hour or one of the other Animalia books?
Look Alikes maybe?
Is it Joan Steiner's Look-Alike books?
This is Killobyte, by Piers Anthony
http://www.amazon.com/Killobyte-Piers-Anthony/dp/0441444253
Killobyte? I haven't read it in a while, but it seems similar to what you're asking. There's a tower, a boy, a video game, and some bow and arrows. Also a girl, though not the boy's sister.
I have a few options:
https://www.amazon.com/Killobyte-Piers-Anthony/dp/0441444253
https://g.co/kgs/j3n3E8
What about illustrator Tony Wolf,
https://www.amazon.com/Woodland-Folk-Dragonland-Tony-Wolf/dp/0528825666
The Woodland Folk in Dragonland by Tony Wolf I think.
The Green Book by Jill Paton Walsh
http://www.amazon.com/The-Forgotten-Door-Apple-Paperbacks/dp/0590431307
Rocco aka A Time of Darkness by Sherryl Jordan. Rocco dreams of wolves attacking.
https://www.amazon.com/Time-Darkness-Sherryl-Jordan/dp/0590433628
My sister has a book in her room that I believe goes along these lines, I'll go look when she wakes up.
Edit: Looks like i'm wrong, but Time Cat
The Forgotten Door by Alexander Key
Is this the book you're looking for:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140375988/adamcadreac
Singularity:
Harry and Barry are twins. Their parents have gone on a trip and sent them to an isolated farm out on the prairie. (Missing parents!) Barry's the dominant twin, so much so that even though they're identical, people remark that Harry acts like he's the little brother. When they meet a girl, Harry isn't the one she goes for.
Out on the farm is a shed. One day Barry steps inside and the door slams behind him. Harry immediately opens the door again to find Barry asleep and in need of a shave. He thinks he's been locked in overnight. It turns out that inside the shed is a singularity which distorts time. For every second that goes by outside the shed, an hour goes by inside.
Could it be the Virtual War Chronologs series? It was required reading in 6th grade which I skimmed. It is a trilogy, and your description sounds vaguely familiar.
Amazon Description of First Book