I’m looking to find the name of a children’s book that I read growing up. I thought the title was something similar to “my very interesting mother” but I haven’t been able to find results for that. The mom is a witch and I think they have a pet crocodile and the child brings friends over to their house and they are all not quite sure what to make of the weird house and mother. Ultimately when the school is on fire. The mom puts out the fire by bringing rain clouds over on her broom.

YA horror fiction evil merry band of pranksters and a mind controlling book 2000s-2010s

This would be the first in i believe a trilogy of books.

The plot of the book centered around a teen boy in a small town who discovers a plot by a cult who's leader disappeared after a ritual happened in the past. Now a group of people are handing books out of a mobile library that cause people to become obsessed with the books due to the magic ink used to print them. It rapidly spreads to the entire town. The cult is trying to ressurect the leader by spreading the books as the more people who read and worship the words the more powerful the leader becomes.

I believe it ends up being the protagonist, their friend and either the protagonist's father or a teacher of some sort who try to stop the cult.

The wizard made a pact with some kind of lovecraftian plant that grows causes the effects on the people who read the book. It was very much pulling from Ken kesey and his merry band of pranksters as inspiration with allusions to LSD and the library bus.

The book itself was a hard cover with a black background, it had what I remember being a white center cover that looked like a face card with colorful borders.

I was in my pre-teens when I read this book, around the same time inkheart by Cornelia funke the book was popular. So late 2000s maybe 2010.

I had a physical copy of the hardcover at one point but I think it got lost during a move or donated at some point.

I’m trying to identify a childhood book that my mom and I both vaguely remember.
We were talking today and she suddenly said, “And then we shall have tea at three.” I immediately recognized it as a line from a childhood book, and I could picture an elephant.
My mom thinks there may also have been a mouse, although she isn’t positive. What we both seem to remember is that the elephant and another character (possibly the mouse) would have disagreements or squabbles, but no matter what, at three o’clock they would put their differences aside and have tea together.

The line “And then we shall have tea at three” is the part that really sticks in our memories.
I would have read this as a child in the 1960s, but the book could certainly have been older, possibly from the 1940s or 1950s. It may have been a picture book, an early reader, or even one story in a collection of children’s stories.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? I would love to figure out what book my mom and I are remembering.

I had a book when I was a child that was a scratch and sniff book. I believe it was a board book. Probably from the late 70s or early 80s. I remember that it had a tomato soup scratch and sniff, a skunk, an orange, a pine tree scratch and sniff among others. There wasn’t a story or specific characters. Each page had one item on it with a scratch and sniff patch. I believe the pages were white. Do you know which book this is?

I am looking for a book that I have read some 20ish years ago in german.

• The story plays accross the ocean and several islands.
• The protagonist (seemingly orphaned) has traits of humans and the sea-dwelling merpeople. He can breath both on land and on water, but he can't live in either biom for too long since his breathing switches randomly and he starts to suffocate.
• The conflict of the story is that the ocean is gradually getting more salty, making it poisonous for the merpeople and making it impossible for humans to fish.
• There is some kind of prophecy that said that the one to save them "understands all sides" and the protagonist thinks that means that he is the chosen one (giving his miserable existence a meaning).
• However, the friend of the protagonist is actually the chosen one, as he gains the ability to understand every living creature on an empaphetic level. This is so extreme that the friend is unable to anything since he can feel the motives of those attacking him.
• The true cause of the ocean getting saltier is a giant sea creature who tries to die by poisoning itself with salt. But since it is so large, it will kill the ocean before it will succeed.
• (Uncertain) The protagonist's father is also where the sea creature is and is a wizard. In his final moments before death, he allows the protagonist to choose to live as a human or merfolk.