When I was a little girl, A QUIET PLACE was one of my favorite books. I love it still.
One sunny day a child named Grace was looking for A QUIET PLACE.
She looked behind the violet in the hall, but that QUIET PLACE was very small.
She looked in the parlor behind the chair but the clock ticked too loud…and someone was there.
She looked upstairs under the bed but that QUIET PLACE was for rainy days instead.
So she took a sugar bun and a cup of tea and went behind the lilac tree. She sipped the tea and nibbled the bun…
And THE QUIET PLACE was filled with sun!
Suddenly she saw a face. She was not alone in THE QUIET PLACE. It was a boy…and boys will be boys…
THE QUIET PLACE was filled with noise! (I have three younger brothers…I always appreciated this page!)
So she broke the bun and gave him part…
and THE QUIET PLACE was in her heart.
The End.
Have a very Happy Friday and I hope you find your QUIET PLACE.
What a sweet book. I have a 3 year old girl with a noisy younger brother so I know she would LOVE this- I’ll have to scour Amazon for a copy!
I never saw this before! Thanks for sharing!
Hi – Just wanted to say thanks for putting this up. I’ve been looking for this book for about 4 years – since my mom died. She read it to us as kids and I recorded her reciting it, but couldn’t find a copy of the book to go with it. I wanted to my kids to have the book to go with grandma’s voice “reading” it to them. Now I can maybe I can sketch these pictures and bind it up for my kids. Thanks again!
Thank you for this! This was my favorite childhood book. I love that you have a photo of each page. It brings back so many memories (and reminds me that I still sometimes long for that “quiet place”).
I totally agree with every word!! I feel exactly the same! It warmed my heart and I can’t wait to show it to my mom who will probably cry when she sees the pictures of each page!!
This is my favorite childhood book and my copy is in the same condition as yours. Have you found a new copy anywhere? I have a 5 1/2 month old and I’d love her to grow up with it too.
Hi Lana – Like everyone else I’ve been trying to find this book (for 10 years). Amazon says they are out of stock – or do they mean out of print? Your above pictures do not carry copywright info nor the author’s name. Do I have to worry about printing your pictures, laminating and binding them for my grandchildren?
Hi Ned, I believe the book is out of print so the only way to find it is a used copy. I honestly don’t know if there is a problem with printing the pictures! I would think no since you can’t find it but I’m not sure.
Hi Lana — I’d also love to know who the author and publisher are and whether a print copy still exists. Thanks for posting this! Wonderful!
If I remember right, there is no author/publisher information listed in the book. (Our copy is in storage right now!) If I run across one, I’ll update here. Thanks!
Thanks, Lana! Much appreciated. Hard to believe there’s no author citation. If I’d written this, I’d want the recognition! 🙂
By Lynn wheeling. A Whitman book
Author is Lynn Wheeling
This was one of my favorite books when I was a little girl. I look for a copy whenever I am at a thrift shop but haven’t found one yet. Thanks for putting this online.
Many many years ago I worked in a Free School. One of the little pre-school-aged children who attended was a wild child who would tend to settle down when I read him this book. I must still have my copy but damned if I know where. Years later I would occasionally read it to my daughter, one among many favorite read-aloud books. And now I have a little baby grand-daughter and this book suddenly came to mind. On a wing and a prayer I googled in the first line. And there it is. Thank you so much. I think I’ll print it out and create a copy. I can’t find a copy listed on the main book selling sites. By the way, Lynn Wheeling is the author.
Thanks so much for posting this! It was my favorite book as a child and I have spent many years looking for it to no avail.
My four children are all in their 40s now. Today, for some reason, the first two pages of that book, which was one of my favorites to read to them in the 70’s, kept coming to my mind but I couldn’t remember any more of the precious book. I looked on my book shelves to see if I still have the copy but it was no where to be found. So I decided to GOOGLE what I could remember and to my surprise your page came up!!! I am an avid scrapbooker and will now be able to scrap pages which I know will bring back long-ago memories to my children . It wasn’t a famous book like THE CAT IN THE HAT but one that touched our hearts when they were little. I don’t remember having the book when my grandchildren were small but now I will be able to read it to my GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER who just turned 1 year old. Maybe the scrapbook page will bring back a memory or two for her someday.
Lauren, thanks so much for making an old lady’s day!!
Kay
I am also looking for a copy of this wonderful book. My “babies” are 46 and 41, but they can still quote it word-for-word. I now have a new grandniece named Grace who has 3 older brothers. I would love to find a copy for her.
My favorite, too, and my copy is in rough shape–including purple scribbles on the boy’s crying face, contributed by my little sister! I still love it and have been looking for a fresh copy since my first daughter was born 12 years ago! Any leads on how to find one would be greatly appreciated.
Lana, I have miraculously found this website!!! I have been looking for this book for YEARS!!! Where can I get a copy or two and surprise my girls with this for Christmas?? Please email me back!
Internationalmis@aol.com
Thank you,
Chaplain Tl Jackson
If you are looking for a copy, check eBay. I just listed a copy.
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My favorite book as a child.
I’ve been looking for this book for a long time. The one I read to my daughter was stolen when their house was burglarized. It was in her jewelry case and the burglars just dumped everything into a bag, including the book. Any ideas how I can find another one?
Thank you, thank you. This was one of my daughter Leslie’s favorite books and I have been looking for it forever. I just forwarded this to her to put a smile on her face.
I had that book! Loved it because I share a name with her.
It’s been many months since I came across this blog and the pictures of the book A Quiet Place. I wanted to comment long ago but a very active one and two-year-old kept me from doing so!
Prior to this I had been thinking about this book for a while, but couldn’t remember the title. I kept googling phrases from it, and finally your website popped up! Thank you so much for posting it. You can’t know what joy and nostalgia it has brought to me, and seemingly to many others. There seems to be a small following of grandmas and late 70s babies (I just turned 40) who adore this book.
I used to lay in my family’s small pop-up camper and read this book over and over, of course until I got hungry and then would lay underneath our lilac tree sipping hot tea (on a hot Wisconsin day)- with a bun in hand of course.
I nervously asked my sister one day, who is about eight years younger than me, if she had ever heard of the book. I knew she hadn’t, but to my surprise she said it was her favorite childhood book! Unfortunately, we both speculate that it got sold with our pop-up camper.
*Heartbroken*
A little more research shows that the book was published in 1969, and written by Lynn Wheeler who died in 2009. There is a spectacular obituary about her posted on wordpress.com. I have been keeping my eye on eBay and different websites. I know it’s doubtful that I will ever find this book, but I enjoyed seeing the pictures of it! I wish someday my almost three-year-old daughter Coralyn could read the book. Thanks again!
WHOOPS, in all my chatty excitement I forgot to say that the real reason why I love this book was because at age seven it taught me that it’s okay to be an introvert and to enjoy being alone. It was nice to learn this way before I even knew what the word introvert meant 🙂
Hi Lana
Lauren and Hope are beautiful!!
I have 2 boxes of family treasures
from your childhood and also the family tree of Parrs.
A large photo in which you look much as Lauren did at age 2.
Please let me know if you are interested in any of these.
Nancy L Ingle
This was one of my favorite books as a child!!! Thanks for sharing!
Read this book every day to my 2 year old. She’s now 49 and I just forwarded you gracious share. The message is as true today as 1972. Wish you would republish.