Help me find the title to this book from my childhood!?

Question

I think the central character was a male child. One of the main artifices of the story was the ability to travel from place to place by leaping into pools of water. I believe, obviously my memory is a bit hazy, okay a lot hazy, some of the pools of water were colored. The colors would allow you to know where you were traveling, otherwise it was just standard looking water.

The boy did not know about the teleporting pools of water until chapter one or two of the book, meaning the first time we see him travel he is very surprised. Anyone got any clues?

Answer 1

Post this question with alibris.com or bibliotec.com and see if they can come up with the answer for which you are looking. Otherwise the only other thing I can think of is to ask this question of the librarian at the largest library in the world the Library of Congress' website: www.loc.gov. If it was written and your question is pertinent to the story in any way, they will give you a title, author and brief synopsis of the story. Good Luck!

Answer 2

Started to sound like Dr. Dolittle, but I continued reading and it sounds like the author may have wrote this in the sixties, while living on Haight Ashbury street. Just kidding. There are lots of silly kids stories though. Did they rhyme at all like Dr. Suess or was it apart of a series? were there any other books like this and where did the book come from if you know? I always thought it was weird that dogs could drive cars in my books, as a kid.

Answer 3

Could it be "The Magician's Nephew" by C.S. Lewis?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magician's_Nephew

Answer 4

check it out on ebay, s/o may be selling it

Answer 5

could it be 'aquaman'? not sure about this.