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good afternoon all im looking a book called Buzzy Will Not Go i have looked high and low for this book my son read as a kid its sort of a early birthday present so he can read it to his kids can anyone help me
Is Buzzy a person, an animal, or something else?
Good Evening
I am looking for a book I had when I was a kid. It could be from the 70’s 80′ or even 90’s. It was a hard cover book that hippo with it mouth open and a monkey was inside riding a unicycle. It was a collection of short stories, poems and songs. I am looking to get this for my daughter. Thank you
Hi I am looking for a fairy book. Not a book of poems but a story about the fairies who have rose petals for dresses and wipe the dew from the roses. The boy fairies are blue and tend the blueberries. The little girl can see and talk to the fairies and there is a moral to each story. It is driving me crazy hunting for this book. Thanks for your help!
Peter in Blueberry Land, by Elsa Beskow? Just throwing that one out.
I’m trying to look for my childhood book
Hi, I’ve been looking for a children’s book for a long time that has stuck in my mind.
The book is about climate change, at least that’s what I think? I remember from the book that there were only cars that ate some oil balls, the cars were hairy and they had mouths and eyes. As far as I remember, there were no people in the book, there were only cars, and I remember that the pictures in the book had those hairy cars And it was a really deserted area.
I’m looking for a book that my mother in laws father read to her when she was a child, probably the 1950s. She doesn’t remember the name but said it was about bunnies, chipmunks, or some type of little critter eating all the fruit off a tree and then they hung more fruit on the tree with a string. Can anyone help with this?
Bedtime Stories, by Miriam Clark Potter.
Thank you so much!
You’re welcome. I loved that little book when I was small.
I’ve been fruitlessly searching for a kids book of poems from the 80s or very early 90s that definitely included ‘Fuzzy Wuzzy was a Bear’, ‘I eat my peas with honey’, and ‘The boy stood on the burning deck’ and other famous kids poems. ‘The boy stood on the burning deck’ was a funny version that ended with ‘…and so he wore his sister’s!’ With a picture of a boy with skinny legs and pink girly underwear. I cannot for the life of me find it and nothing ever comes up on google images or any online booksellers. I feel like the colourful illustrations were vaguely similar to the style of Babette Cole. I tried looking for anthology books by Spike Milligan or Ogden Nash but nothing I could find matched. It’s also definitely not The Random House Book of Poetry for Children by Jack Prelutsky, or the Puffin Book of Utterly Brilliant Poems, and I don’t believe it’s a Michael Rosen book either.
I’m looking for a book from around the 1980s about a boy who went to a school costume party dressed as a “hero” or something like that. He ended up defending a classmate from a bully called “Zoogy” (I think he wanted to steal her purse). This book was part of a series about an elementary school teacher and her class; years later, I found another book in which the teacher took the class to the beach at the end of the school year and they reminisced about the school year; the incident with Zoogy was also mentioned.
Tough Jim, by Miriam Cohen.
The beach story is See You In Second Grade!
I am looking for an old paperback children’s softcover book from the 1970’s. Must not have been copyrighted? The title was “It’s a Topsy Turvey World! The cover was a colorful urban scene. Each page had a bright illustration of a typical part of a city, with a few things completely bizarre, like a bird flying upside down or a dog operating a bulldozer. It was funny, innocent, and silly and I read this with my son and nieces many times. In my old age, I wanted to look at it again, especially from the perspective of the “modern” world!
Try the spelling as “Topsy Turvy World” (with no e) and put that on abebooks.com. About 80 possibles including repeats of the same title, but fairly easy to look through.
am looking for a book from the early 90s about a rabbit that got 10 gifts for their birthday, and one of the pages was about buttons, it was a cardboard book and it was purple but I cannot think of the name on it …
Looking for a young adult fantasy I read in the early/mod 90s and it’s been plaguing me for years. It had a shiny cover, metallic like. It was green or teal (probably closer to teal) and I’m fairly certain it had a girl on the cover in a dark pink or light red dress. I only remember small details in the plot…a young girl goes on a mission (some adventure) and meets either a unicorn or a horse. I feel like the uni/horse either talked or could read her mind. Any chance someone has a clue??