What's that book?

I feel I must apologize in advance for the time suck I am about to subject you to. Welcome to the Island of Lost Books. The above site helps people find books they dimly remember by descibing the book as best they can and then letting the internet do the rest. I think the children's book section is the best, mostly because I have read so many of them, but it makes sense that childhood books would be the ones that have drifted out of your memory. The post about the 1800 family is killing me now...