unknown illustrated childrens book title

The book I'm looking for was about a ship wreck off of Africa. The two survivors were a rich, spoiled boy and a huge black sailor. The story revolves around the boy's prejudice and how his life is saved by the sailor sacrificing his own life to save the boy. I bought the book in the early 60s but I...

I read a book about a year ago, and I cannot remember what it was. I will try to remember as much detail as I can about it. It was a sci-fi/fantasy style of book. There was a big city, and its inhabitants had access to all sorts of magic and wondrous things, and were essentially gods as they...

I am trying to find a book that I read when I was younger. It's about a girl who "grows" a monster out of some kind of stimy substance that she takes from her brothers room. She puts it in a petri dish and leaves in on her window sill. The slime grows and eventually turns into a monster and the...

My request may sound somewhat obscure, but some 40 years ago, I remember a teacher reading a story to us about some children whose parents were killed (? In an air crash) the children raised themselves. One thing I do remember what that people in th village cooked things for the children, these...