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Hi I’m looking for a children’s book from the 1980s or even before. It is about a cowboy child and an Indian child that wears a red feather and his name is “red feather” . The cowboy child has a gun and the gun falls into a fountain that make it be golden. In the end of the story it appears that the child is acythe grandfather that tells his grandchildren about his childhood.
I am trying to find the title of a picture book from the 80s or 90s. The plot follows a young witch who lives with her warlock father. She struggles in school because the other kids know she’s different. The warlock father goes to the school to talk to the teacher about the other kids taunting his daughter. The teacher and the warlock fall in love and the final scene in the book is the dad marrying the teacher at the Dead Sea and they throw something into the sea
hi. don’t know whether this’ll yield any results but i’ve already tried google and (begrudgingly) chat gpt so i’m basically out of options. i’m trying to find a german children’s book (don’t know whether it was originally german or translated from a different language but i presume it to be european in origin) about an anthropomorphic bear that is sick with a fever. i have no idea how old the book is, but my best guess 80s-90s. i unfortunately don’t remember a lot of details since i was very young when i read it. it had as far as i remember a lot of illustrations in this sort of semi-realistic art style. the bear has hallucinations and at some point there’s an illustration showing this demonic creature standing in the woods and there’s fire surrounding it (shitty sketch of what i remember attached for reference), i remember that specifically scaring the shit out of me when i was little and it’s basically the reason i’m searching for it in the first place. the bear also notably has one of those old, racist golliwogg dolls, and at some point there’s an illustration of him laying in bed holding it. the appearance of this doll is partially why i’m suspecting it to have been older, or at least a newer printing of an old book since even though i must’ve read in sometime in the 2000s i doubt such a detail would be included in a more modern book. the closest comparison i can find style-and-tone-wise is “a bad case of stripes” by david shannon.
Hi! I’m looking for a book that chat gpt couldn’t find. It’s animated about 2 friends, one blonde with curly hair, and one with a short dark bob and a big nose. One of them has gay dads and another has a sister who I believe is named Melanie?? Anyways melanie is super goth and goes to guatemala to help build houses for people and in one book they go on a road trip and the dads sing American Pie over and over. I swear I’m not making this book up. I think there were stripes on the edge of the cover too. Please help i’m going insane.
Hello–I’m looking for a picture book about a girl who lives with or visits her grandpa in Greece. The main detail I remember is that they go to the store to buy ripe black olives. I read this book in 1984 or 1985 for the first time. I can’t think of the title for the life of me.
Hi, looking for a book I read as a child. I asked chat gpt got no where. I know this book exists. It’s about a boy who was mean and there was a portrait of him that got uglier the meaner he was. I don’t remember the name of it obviously, I remember the cover of it was maybe black, purple, overall a dark cover.
I’m looking for a late 80s or early 90s book. The characters were animals, the basic plot was that old things cast into the sea were returned new, specifically old tools, until the main character realized they would trade all the shiny new things for their old worn originals.
Hello I am looking for a book written in early 90s perhaps, about two animal friends that have a sleepover and stay up all night to get ready for a picnic. They bring their muffins and carrot juice to see the sunrise, one animal falls asleep as they are watching it.
thank you!!
i am 37 now, when i was in primary school i found a book in the library, this book had a very colouful cover and the book dealt with 2 kids dealing with hunger, a revolution and the fact that there was a war going on this book is old and had pictures like a graphic novel, in the book the children are so hungry that the desire a chocalate in a shop window but when they finally get to it then it turns out to be just cardboard i cant find the name of the book
I keep trying to remember a book from my childhood and the image that’s lasered into my skull is a 2-page picture of a ton of bread loaves and baked goods. It was a thin square-ish book and I think the scene is a palace kitchen. I had the book in the 90s so I’m assuming it was published around then or earlier.
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??