Hi. I’m looking for a children’s book with a main character named Hazel set in New York in the 60’s. I think the title might even be Hazel but I can’t find a thing close to that.

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Hi, hopefully this book finds its way to me. I am not sure what year it was published or the author of title…. all I remember are the illustrations. The storyline follows a kid speaking to angelic beings representing each color of the chakra, these beings were dressed in robes or gowns to represent their chakra and I believe the indigo one had a bald head and pointy ears.
Oh and also if you remember a book involving Cassandra the cat I’d be floored too. I think the author of the cat book had a series and one of the other book’s was about a unicorn named Morgan.. probably from early eighties/nineties … my google does not want to help me out. These were special books and hopefully this sparks in someone out there!😊

Did you ever find it? The giant Golden Book of Elves and Fairies.

OMG Thank you! So much!

Maybe the grandmother had two Munro Leaf’s books. I can picture the goat!

I’ve been searching for a book from my childhood because the illustrations are so fabulous, but I don’t have enough info to find it myself. I believe the title has the word “boy” in it. It’s about a boy who is either mean or doesn’t like animals. I seem to recall him running through a forest. Birds pull his hair. The trees might talk. Once he gets home, there’s a talking teapot who might be smoking a pipe. The boys ends up sitting in a huge yellow wing backed chair. The illustrations would be best described as very rich, vibrant pastels. Don’t recall the moral of the story but there is one. It would have been published at some point before 1970.

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I have been searching hours for this particular book but no such luck…
It was a childrens/young adult book that I read in school about a young boy called Todd who had a bad family life. He meets a magical doll called ‘Mimm’ I think it was on bonfire night and they go on a mission together to find the ‘green door.’ I can’t really remember any other details apart from the doll shouting phrases out like ‘A Penny for the Guy’ and speaking in riddles.
Please help!

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I’m looking for a book I read in the third grade so it would have been published before 1986. If I remember correctly it had a light lavender cover with a picture of a girl and a horse and I believe she had a lantern in her hand. The book itself was about a girl who had just relocated with her family to a new town/state. Her parent encourages her to make friends. Eventually she finds her way onto a large estate where she meets a lonely rich girl whom she befriends over tea parties. She meets with this girl many times. The twist at the end of the story is that the girl she met was a ghost. Anyone recognize this story, I’ve been trying for decades to find it. Thanks for any and all help!!

Any help would be great. I am looking for a children’s book probably from the late 80’s early 90’s. It is hard bound and oblong. It has a tree on the front. It is about a little boy that runs away from home. Along his way he starts to learn things that show him that home isn’t so bad after all. It seems like I remember maybe his grandfather was in it and that there was some kind of weird named monster also. It was my son’s favorite book and he is now 34 years old. I would love to find it and gift it to him. Thanks in advance. THANKS AGAIN! (You’ll be notified through Disqus if some one knows your book, Suzanne)

I’m looking for a children’s counting book about a group of monsters that keep leaving one by one till there’s just one left, he then goes to find them and they are having a surprise party for them. One of them is little and red with wings (I think) and another one is tall and yellow and looks kind of like Mike Wizowski. There are more monsters, but those are the the only ones I remember.

Is anyone familiar with a story about a boy who meets a magical horse which flies him up into the sky/space and he is able to bring a star and piece of the moon back to earth? Think they also visit a rainbow as well. Super grateful for any info

I am looking for an old bedtime nursery rhyme board book (for 5 years and younger) I owned when I was a child in the 1990s. The book may have been published in the 70, 80s early 90s. It’s a small board book illustrated with toddlers of different ethnicity in PJs. Each rhyme had a different child illustrated on the page. It contained rhymes such as twinkle twinkle little star, hush little baby and so on (bedtime related). I’ve tried googling it and checking the public library but no luck. If anyone has an inlinking of the book please let me know. Thanks.

I am looking for an old nursery rhyme book that I owned when I was a child (born 1968) It has been in existence since at least 1953–I actually found a picture from it that someone posted as a meme, but a google image/lens search comes up empty. I remember “Johnny’s so long at the fair,” “Who Killed Cock Robin,” and “There Was a Crooked Man.” The picture I found is from “Cock Robin.” If anyone knows anything about this book, please let me know. I hope to see it again in my lifetime, thanks!

Children’s Nursey Rhymes book, about 10×8 inches. Glorious colour illustrations in the text, not on plates. Book only relatively thin – maybe 50 pages or so. Large print, but not clumsily so. Published sometime between 1923 – when my dad was born; it may have been his before mine – and 1955 – when I was born, and shortly before I recall being entranced by it. The piece de resistance being a full (possibly double) page illustration of the rhyme “Hark! Hark! The dogs do bark”, with the rag-tag motley crew of beggars dressed as described and looking very jolly, given that their approach was being announced probably in order to warn people to shun them. I’d love to buy myself a copy – it’s long lost to me but I still think of it kindly. Any clues anyone?

Only thing I can remember about the book I’m looking for is that there is a bathtub on the cover and it’s about a girl next door to this boy she becomes friends with and you find out later on her fathers in jail

This is a huge long shot, but I am looking for a children’s book that I read in either the late 80’s or early 90’s that I read. I don’t remember much about the story or plot, but vaguely remember a room or a house at night. The cover was dark blue/navy with gold/yellow font. The illustrations were scratch board and black and white with pops of yellow. As mentioned, all I remember is room at night and a bed with light coming through from either the outside moon or hallway lights but that’s really all. I would love to find the book but my many attempts at googling it come up with nothing.

Two kids during the summer solve a mystery that involves an “Indian red” stone that native Americans used for paint, but they can’t find this “Indian red paint stone” until late summer when the river level goes lower because the stone was under water. Thanks for any leads!

Vintage children’s book about seasons. No idea of title or author. I was a child in the 80s so the book is most likely vintage, assuming it’s still in print at all. I do not believe it is a Richard Scarry book because i googled his works and this book did not seem to be in that list.

I remember a poem about “30 days hath September” that was in it. And a little couplet: “hocus pocus comes the crocus”. There was another scene were a family of mice (bears? Rabbits?) Who were getting ready for an Easter parade. The mom was sewing cabbage roses into her bonnet and her daughter wanted to dress as a ballerina, all in pink. And for some reason she was told she couldnt, and so it made her very sad and she started to cry.

There was also a Christmas scene in the book with all the woodland animals decorating this tree, as woodland animals do at Christmas 😉 A large bear, dressed as Santa Paws, helped to decorate.

Any help shedding light on this would be most appreciated 🙂

I am looking for a book published before 1950 which included several stories including ‘Mr Beetle’s Corn’ and the tale of a girl who was unhappy because every time she washed the windows, it rained. I think the happy ending was to find employment with a farmer who needed the rain. No idea of any useful details.

I’m searching for a book from my childhood, published pre-1995. The main character is a princess with wild curly hair who throws tantrums whenever anyone tries to brush it. She ends up with broken combs and maybe even a bird nest stuck in her hair. My mom remembers all the combs and brushes being banned from the kingdom. I remember the illustrations being very detailed and bright, but can’t remember the title. Google brings up much newer books that are definitely not the right one. HELP!!!

Tatsinda, by Elizabeth Enright. (Priscilla points out that there are inexpensive copies available online)

Hi Im looking for a children’s book. I had it in the very early 70’s. About a little girl and her dreams ( who lived in the clouds above her house). I remember there were nightmares, which were black horses. Soft back almost horizontal A4 size. Purchased in Australia

when I grow up, what will I be? Let me close my eyes and see. A little girl imagines being a ballerina, a nurse. Hardcover. read this to my children in the 70’s.

There was a book a read in middle school that a teacher lent me for a little while and all I seem to remember is that it had a little girl that didn’t have a home to go to and a little boy that met her and they become friends, the little girl meets his family and his older sister would wear an apron and have a small kitten in one of the pockets. I don’t remember how but a fire starts in the town and starts spreading quickly, the little boy tried looking for the girl but couldn’t find her and him and his family get what they can and start leaving. The little girl comes across the boys house and finds it to be burning but hears the kitten crying, she finds the apron and wears it trying to keep the kitten safe. At one point she’s where the town/city determined was safe and meets a women that gives water to her and the kitten and watches over her while she sleeps. I don’t quite remember anything after for it’s been 7 years now, but still find myself think about this book and how much I loved it

Hoping to find a picture book where every page was very detailed and beautiful scenes of fairies and small creatures. I believe the book prompted you to find things among the illustration.
I read it as a child so I believe it was published before 2000. It’s illustrations were of the style that many fairy illustrators used in the early 20th century, but I think this book was probably first published later than that. More like late 80s to 90s since my mother would have bought it then.
It was a very thin book. Every two pages were used to show the entire “scene” and there were between 5-10 scenes, so maybe 12-22 pages. It was hard covered and quite tall. I’d say about 15 inches tall, 8 inches wide to give an estimate.
I think the cover illustration was also fairies with a brownish tan thick border.
As far as plot goes, it followed fairies going about a fanciful night, I think at one point there is a scene of what is occuring outside of a ball, but it ends back in the room of a child.
The illustrations remind me of the works of Cicely Mary Barker and Margaret Tarrant though even more detailed. There was a lot going on in the illustrations.

I’m also looking for a picture book about a case that a famous (probably mythical) judge presided over in ancient China (I think the book had the judge’s name in the title, but I don’t remember what it was). The story was about two childhood friends who took an entrance exam; one passed and went on to be a rich man, the other failed and became poor. They made a pact that their children would marry, but the rich one didn’t want to uphold it anymore. The rich man’s daughter meets and falls in love with the poor man’s son anyway (I think they first meet in a garden?), but the poor man’s son gets framed for stealing treasure from her father’s house and taken to trial. The real culprit turns out to be a witness who has a key around his neck that unlocks a chest full of the stolen treasure. He gets sentenced by the judge and the judge attends the wedding of the rich man’s daughter and poor man’s son in the end.
The other main thing that I remember is that the illustrations looked a lot like traditional Chinese art.

Trying to find a children’s fantasy book/alternate world. It was a history and guide to the culture of some kind of elves/trolls/goblins and I’m fairly sure it was narrated by a member of the culture. There were descriptions of the history, holidays, and members/classes of the culture. I’m pretty sure there was a golden apple involved in the lore of the culture. It was hardcover blue and yellow and had a ribbon marker with a language key attached. And the end pages were maps of the world. Very fun and imaginative I’m guessing published in the 90s or early 2000s

I’m looking for a children’s book from either the late 70’s/early 80’s- it could possibly be short stories, the main story was about an evil little girl who maybe was a vampire? Her eyes would glow and maybe she killed her little brother? I have no idea who wrote it or the title.