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i think i saw a similar query that ended up getting solved. some sort of animorphs-esque thing but with inanimate objects and vehicles instead of animals. try checking that!
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I can't find that solved query... what was it titled?
i forgot, but it mentioned the car/bus thing.
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Oh.
Do you remember any specific words/phrases that query used? Approximately how long ago was it made? Was it tagged with "literature", left untagged, or tagged with something else?
Unfortunately, I have no clue sRAMrelevrat, but if you have not tried Reedit's Tip of my Tongue forum, the people on there are usually very helpful as well already, you should. These queries seem interesting and if anyone has any ideas please let me know as well, thanks.
The fourth one might be this book I'd once searched for myself.
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The poetry book about bad kids meeting bad ends may be
https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Kids-Book-Poems-Cautionary-ebook/dp/B00K02LN2C
The Bad Kids Book of Poems: Cautionary Verse For Morals, Manners, and Not Being Stupid
Number 2 about girl who drinks petrol/gasoline and becomes a car is possibly this anime video:
"Gasoline Guzzling High School Girl Turns Into Panty Flashing Sports Car In 2nd Henkei Shojo Short (Video)" By Tony Vega Posted on June 19, 2017 5 min
DLE has released a second video for its anime project Henkei Shojo (変形少女, Transformation Girls) and this one stars a Japanese high school girl who loves drinking other people’s gasoline and transforming into a pink sports car with a sexy undercarriage.
This latest installment in this perplexing video series introduces viewers to Rin, a 16-year-old girl, who is part of her school’s tennis club, is 148 cm tall and has a 75 cm bust. Also, much like Haru, the star of the first video, she can transform into a ‘sexy’ vehicle.’
The video opens up with Rin hurredly making her way along a road when all of a sudden she becomes very excited at the sight of a gas station.
After spotting the gas station she heads over to it, takes one of the gas pump nozzles, sticks it in her mouth and begins to very happily drink/steal some of the station’s refreshing and delicious gasoline.
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1. That doesn't appear to be it. I can't find the arcade poem listed in the book.
2. Wow XD. Looks like someone remembered Turbo Teen (or possibly Revolutionary Girl Utena)
Ok. These poems about bad kids go back to 19th century Germany, so there are a lot to choose from. Maurice Stendak, author of "Where the Wild Things Are" did a similar book in the 70s, I think. Don't recall if an arcade game is mentioned, but the time era might be right.
There is a book about a boy and his best friend, a talking school bus. It is called "I Am Your Bus", and the cover features a bus with a face (think "Cars"-style). Probably not scary enough.
The new letter for the English alphabet one was difficult because apparently a few years ago there was real discussion about adding a new 27th letter. No luck on fictional kids' books that match the concept about a living letter.
@PCD I realized that they probably meant a book where the girl transformed, but even though Henkei Shojo isn't the "right answer" I still enjoy finding out about crazy stuff like it.
@sRAMrelerat, the video may have been adapted from a book or magna, I think. The article mentioned "Transformation Girls."
Sendak's book of poems about a naughty boy was just called "Pierre", I finally recalled. I saw it in the library where I worked. Pretty funny.
"Pierre" does not appear to be it.
So, I was browsing online and I found a bunch of comments of people talking about books they couldn't remember the names of. Here are the ones that really intrigued me:
1. "...a book about a boy turning into a yellow bus. The cover really disturbed me as a kid"
2. Edit: They probably meant a book. "...a story where a girl drank petrol and turned herself into a car."
3.“Some kid discovered a "new letter" for the alphabet. The letter was this white-skinned, living and sentient creature. For some reason the kid has to keep the letter away from people who are searching for it. At the end, I'm pretty sure the letter is taken away or killed”
4. EDIT: Removed for being too vague.
5. "children's book... a kid or teenager who was always on their cellphone being transformed into a cellphone with human features at the end." (Edit: I am not the only person searching for this https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/query.php?parent_id=89671&type=ykts
)
Does anyone know what these are?
Edit: One more. "I definitely remember, in a similar fashion, a Kafkaesque version of 'I'm a Little Teapot' which has a child grotesquely morphing into a teapot and having relinquished all that made him human by the final illustration...which is just a dainty teapot sitting on a table surrounded by teacups, saucers, and dishes of lemon slices and sugar cubes."
2nd Edit: I found another one "Reminds me of a story of a boy becoming a tree and gets cut down and turned into a cabinet iirc. Gave me nightmares and got paranoid about the furniture watching me." [The second sentence implies that the story said the boy was still aware as a cabinet]
3rd Edit: "An older cousin had a book about a private school and each poem was about a kid enrolled and how they were actually awful (and how they met their end). This sounds like it could have been one of the chapters... But what I'm seeing in the comments is that there were a lot of books like that, apparently. (The poems I remember were about a kid getting eaten by a living arcade machine with a terrifying illustration and an end line something like "BURP! Pac-Man had an early lunch" and a kid who would torment a dog every day, until one day the dog was loose, unbeknownst to them." I only care about the arcade machine one, and NO, it isn't "Cabinet Man"
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