OK, this is a long shot, but can anyone identify this book?
A lady my mom cleaned for gave me an old school textbook when I was a kid - it was a geography or social studies book aimed for the upper elementary grades and had six or seven stories about kids living in different places in the world, including:
Billy and Susan, two fresh-faced WASPy kids who lived in the Pacific Northwest
Joe Manygoats, a Navajo boy in the American Southwest
some kid in the Amazon rainforest
Chris, who lived in “Courage Cove” somewhere on the Atlantic coast
some kid who lived in the Sahara with his camel
a girl who lived in Nebraska
It was old and brimming with nasty stereotypes, but I had a lot of fun playing school with it as a kid. Does it ring a bell, anyone?
I sort of remember a book liike that from when I was in grade school, probably 4th grade or so. The part that is very familiar to me is the kids living in the Pacific Northwest. I think the book I remember actually had them firmly placed in Oregon. It made me want to visit Oregon.
from my remembrances of the WASPy-looking kids, I’d place its publishing date sometime during the early- to mid-Sixties. They had to comabt the influence of those damn long-haireds on the younger generation…
oh, and I remember the book had a brownish cover with a black and white compass design. That probably doesn’t help, though.
If it is the same book I’m thinking about it would have been in use in the 70s at my school. The cover you describe doesn’t ring a bell. This probably won’t help you either but this was a Lutheran grade school so it would have had to have been God friendly. Well it at least would have had to have not been too secular. I swear I remember those damn kids in Oregon though. I remember how cool it must be to run around in a big pine forrest.
I must have had that book in 4th grade - I am of a certain vintage! I swore to my parents that a student from the High School came to our class and talked about visiting Courage Cove in Maine - I am from western NY. Needless to say, I bugged my parents so much that we went to New England for our vacation that following summer, and we tried to find Courage Cove. We, of course, were not successful, since it was fictional (like Cabot Cove on Murder She Wrote), but had a great time and lots of lobster!
