Children's Book

March 19, 2006 11:12 PM

I am trying to find an old book from my childhood (the 1960s): it involved a (possibly magical) bedspread and Sirius (the Dog Star). I remember lots of blues and greens in the illustrations, but not much else. Does this ring a bell? Can you help me find the title?
posted by Carsey to grab bag (5 comments total)

Perhaps?
posted by bim at 4:05 AM on March 20, 2006

If you get nothing here on AskMeFi, you'll probably be able to get an answer for $2 at Loganberry books Stump the Bookseller. They solved 2 of these that were driving me nuts last year.
posted by chr1sb0y at 5:49 AM on March 20, 2006

I immediately thought of Diana Wynne Jones's Dogsbody, but it looks like that wasn't published till 1975.
posted by nonane at 7:03 AM on March 20, 2006

Can't help with the specific book, but can recommend the Fiction-L list as a better resource to start with than Stump the Bookseller. You get a host of librarians on an email list for free instead of one bookstore which takes money just to *submit* a question.

Looks like bim's book was published in 2002, so that can't be it.
posted by mediareport at 8:05 AM on March 20, 2006

Looks like bim's book was published in 2002, so that can't be it.

Dman good point! Obviously, nothing slips by me (LOL).
posted by bim at 5:59 PM on March 20, 2006