[PW] Trying to remember old kids book

[Anne]

At 12:09 PM 22/06/2007, you wrote:
>This from a coworker trying to help a patron:
>
>"A patron came in and remembers a book his 4th grade teacher read 
>him in 1953.  What he remembers is it took place somewhere in the 
>South Pacific, the main character is a boy around 10 or 11 years 
>old.  There is a storm, a flying fish and he bites an octopus on a 
>nodule to release ink. He thinks the boy might have an older brother 
>in the story.

Sounds like one of the "Adventure" series by Willard Price. Brothers 
(13 & 17 yrs old approx) travel the world collecting animals for 
their father's zoo. Hal Hunt is older and the "responsible one", 
Roger Hunt is younger and tends to get into more trouble. Three 
possibilities for the specific book are: Underwater Adventure, South 
Sea Adventure, Diving Adventure ...

Anne Vespry (who also got turned onto this series by a 4th grade 
teacher, though several years after 1953)