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I read this book while in 1st or 2nd grade I don’t quite remember. I remember the illustrations of the book but not the name or author. It was a creepy book with three brothers who were statues then broke out and became hybrids ( half men , half goats) I believe that in one illustration one of the hybrid brothers was chasing a pig and then he bites the pig while it is alive. The brothers also looked evil/creepy from their faces. If anyone knows which book this might be please let me know. It is just bothering me that I cannot find it online and why is this a children’s book. Seemed pretty weird to me.
Looking for a book from the mid to late 80s. It was about a girl named Jamie who was spending the night with her grandma. She loved making pancakes and would get syrup in her hair. The book was a pinkish color and a horizontal rectangle shape. Any ideas?
Looking for a book from the mid to late 80s. Main character was a little girl named Jamie who was spending the night with her grandma. She loved eating pancakes at her grandmas house and always got syrup in her hair! I remember the book being a pinkish color and a horizontal rectangle shape. Any ideas?
Looking for a small book for teens. Vintage preteen book originally published by Harcourt and then Scholastic set in 1950’s or 1960’s England or Scotland? A brother and sister lose their parents and have to be separated and live with family. The sister who is practical goes to live with her eccentric artsy aunt who lives in a decrepit historic flat. The brother goes to live with his uptight aunt and uncle and annoying cousin. The brother is a gifted pianist. Both siblings feel they are living with the wrong family. However by the end the sister doesn’t want to leave her aunt and the brother runs away from his aunt and uncle to live with his sister and the eccentric aunt who really loves them and wants them both.
I remember the cover of book as being blueish grey and there is a picture of the sister on the cover with short brown hair and the ancient historic buildings are in the background.
The High House, by Honor Arundel.
Hey I am trying to find an illustrated children’s book about a white creature(?) of sorts and a businessman, I don’t remember much expect that there was a horror factor to the way the government was portrayed in it i believe. There is also a scene from it that shows black tendrils taking over the city
looking for a children’s book. Illustrated. Was available in the early 1960’s. The plot was a family of mice. the youngest was called “little bit”. My father called my youngest sister :little bit: after the young mouse. I do not know author, publisher, etc. not much to go on, but we all enjoyed the book. any help appreciated.
So Small by Ann Rand, illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky
“The story, by Ann Rand, is about a tiny mouse called Little Bit. Much smaller than his five siblings, Little Bit decides that it’s better to be brave than behave, and doesn’t heed his parent’s warnings about dangers in the world. He puts himself into peril and learns the hard way.”
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I’m trying to find a book from the early 2000s and the book had a pink cover and the cover was padded, the pages of the book were quite thick cardboard and the story was about dance, perhaps different stories. I think one of the stories was about a little girl who had old yellow ballet shoes and everyone else had pink so she was sad. Any help appreciated as it is for a storybook childhood module for my course at university.
Hello, I’m looking for a book I read in the 1970s but it could have been published earlier, it was in my elementary school library. It had a winter scene on the cover, and it was about a young girl in a snowy climate, Quebec maybe? She discovers a mystery involving a tall clock, a princess-like woman with long blond braids who has a sled that looks like swans. The woman was once in love with the little girl’s family member (uncle, maybe?) and at the end I think they are reunited. I think there is a scene where the little girl follows a trail of footprints (maybe to the clock?) and outside in the snowy woods, that lead to a tunnel or cave, or perhaps a castle? Sorry, my memory is very cloudy but I remember loving the book and not wanting to return it to the library, LOL. Thank you for any help you can provide!
I read this series when I was 7/8yo (2001-02). I found them in the library kids section close to the original Pony Pals/Trees House/Box Car series section in the library- about the same length (maybe a little shorter) but only 4-6ish books long/in the series because it was out of print & our library didn’t have the rest.
It was about a young girl who went to a scientist/inventor’s house after school- similar to the start of the ‘Back to the Future’ movie. She gets caught in a vortex and is transported to another world and is taken up by a group of woman warrior unicorn riders. She has to discard her modern garb & learn their ways, including unicorn riding to hide from an evil patriarchy, but she really just wants to go home…
The cover of the first book is a picture of her stuck in the vortex. The scientist is towards the left & the girl has long red/brown hair, a green/blue sweater, blue jeans, & a wrist watch on….
PLEASE has anyone heard of this or know what it’s called & know where to find it again???!
Swept Away by Josepha Sherman, book one of The Secret of the Unicorn Queen series.
“Sheila McCarthy feels she is an ordinary teenager until she is transported into a parallel world and captured by a band of young women warriors riding unicorns.”
The books in The Secret of the Unicorn Queen series are:
1: Swept Away by Josepha Sherman
2: Sun Blind by Gwen Hansen
3: The Final Test by Dory Perlman
4: Into the Dream by Suzanne Weyn
5: The Dark Gods by Josepha Sherman
6: Moonspell by Gwen Hansen
I’ve been searching for ages to find a story included in a reading textbook that I had in the mid 90s. The story featured an anthropomorphic walrus and penguin, of which one always had the better walking cane, pocket watch, etc. When the bully is explaining why his item was better, he would say, “Do you not agree, Waldo?” At the end, some jelly spills on our hero’s new vest and instead of being made fun of, he is told by his former nemesis, “A vest with pink spots is much better than my plain vest, do you not agree, Waldo?” There was a cute illustration of spooning jelly onto each other’s vests.
I’m looking for a book that I read in about 1958 but I believe it was an old book. It had the most beautiful pictures of people and could have been about fairies and trolls. The pictures were stunning and I remember the faces and eyes. I’d love to find it again.
A couple of possibilities:
The Giant Golden Book of Elves and Fairies (also published as The Big Golden Book of Elves and Fairies), by Jane Werner, illustrated by Garth Williams (1951).
The Fairy Tale Book (A Deluxe Golden Book), by Marie Ponsot, illustrated by Adrienne Segur (1958).
I already posted a couple of suggestions, but in case it wasn’t either of them, do you recall whether it was a picture book or a book of stories, with occasional pictures or color plates? There are a LOT of really wonderful artists who created beautiful, detailed illustrations for fairy tale books. Some – like Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac – were in the format of books with lots of text, occasional line drawings intermixed with the text – and then these beautiful color plates (usually only one or two per story). Others – like the Giant Golden Books, illustrated by Garth Williams and Adrienne Segur – had colorful illustrations on almost every page.
Do you recall the size of the book? Was it oversized? Was it really thick, with lots of pages, or just a few? Did it contain classic fairy tales or less common stories? Were they stories from all over, or tales from a specific land? (For example, trolls are common in books of Scandinavian folk tales or fairy tales.) Or was it more like an encyclopedia of fairy folk, describing and illustrating the different types, rather than containing just a collection of stories?
Perhaps the Princess and the Goblin, by George MacDonald. The fist issue (1943) has the most beautiful bookplate illustrations.
Good idea! You are right, despite the title, there are multiple trolls or goblins in this book. What illustrator did you have? I think this is apt to be the Jessie Willcox Smith illustrations. https://www.google.com/search?q=princess+and+the+goblin+willcox&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiSzpXtkr_uAhUGHM0KHR8wBAcQ_AUoAXoECBQQAw&biw=1212&bih=1145
Here are some other illustrators, Maria Kirk might be another. https://onceonatyme.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/the-princess-and-the-goblin/ Frequently the publishers kept the original Arthur Hughes woodcuts and added more “modern” plates, like JWS or Kirk. We had a nice Bedford recently but that has fewer plates.
I’ve been trying to remember the title of 2 books from when I was a child (I’m 32 now) for a while with no success! I only vaguely remember the stories..
The first one was a story of a boy (or a boy elf or something) who didn’t want to have a shadow, so he cut it off, then gets sad and tries to get a shadow from somewhere.. maybe the story continues with him finding a naughty shadow that does naughty things? Something like that! I think in the end he gets his own shadow back.
The second one was about a group of kids who keep climbing over a mans garden wall to steal his salads that he grows. And it keeps happening, altercations ensue, and it ends with him having a salad party and invites the kids to come or something like that.
Any ideas??
For the first one, possibly The Adventures of Mr. Hero by Roberta Leigh?
“Mr Hero was originally the good shadow of naughty boy Nicky, but Nicky doesn’t like being told to be good so he cuts his shadow off into the sea. The undersea adventures include a starfish called Blinka the Winka, as he can ‘switch’ on and off very quickly.”
“A boy gets angry because his shadow follows him everywhere. The boy goes to the edge of the sea, where he cuts off his shadow. The shadow has adventures underwater, and the boy has mishaps and eventually realizes he needs his shadow. They are reunited.”
There are seven additional books in the series:
Mr Hero and the Raggler Children
Mr Hero and the Pearly Queen
Mr Hero and the Animal
Mr Hero in Bongo Island
Mr Hero and Puss the Octo
Mr Hero Helps a Family
Mr Hero in Iceland
Ok… for the second one, this is really a long shot – but possibly The Beast of Monsieur Racine by Tomi Ungerer? Monsieur Racine takes great pride in his pear tree and will not sell or share his pears – but someone (or something) has been sneaking into his garden and stealing the pears! He sets a trap to try to catch the thief, but when he finally does, he finds a bizarre, sock-eared creature. He decides to “tame” the creature with treats (including a picnic) and spends a great deal of time with it, becoming friends. Finally, he takes it to Paris to display before the Academy of Sciences – and then it all falls apart, and the “beast” is revealed to be two children in a costume. They all return home, and he shares his pears with the children.
You can see an animated version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSl1y1W8gYU
This is gonna be a tough one because I remember very few details, but worth a shot, maybe. It’s a book about a robot on a dark planet or moon of some sort. It was published probably in the late 90s— before 2002 at least. It was a large, thin, square book. The art style was unique- the illustrations were 3D and realistic—not very cartoonish— and the color palette was dark. I remember an image of the robot in a dark cavern full of amber-colored crystals. I think the robot was yellow but I am not positive. Unfortunately I have lost all memory of the content or the characters’ names…
I’m looking for a book I read in the early 60s, set near the turn of the century, about a girl named Kate and her friends. One girl, Tottie, gets to pick her own name on her birthday and chooses Marguerite. She becomes very snobbish, alienating her friends but when she comes around she changes her name to Margaret. It was a very sweet story, something like the Little House books.
This is Seatmates by Mary K. (Kate) Reely (1949), illustrated by Eloise Wilkin.
“Mary Katharine Reely’s Seatmates is an account of her life as a girl (“Kate”) in Spring Green, Wisconsin. One of the girls in her class is Tottie, “the girl who had no name.” The story went that Tottie’s parents had not been able to agree on a name for her, so they just used her baby-nickname Tottie, and they were going to let her choose her own name when she was fifteen. …everyone called her Tot her whole life, even though she eventually named herself Margaret.”
From the jacket flap:
Seatmates is a pleasant easy-to-read story about a long-ago little girl in a small midwestern town, but modern ilttle girls will read about Kate and Lily and Tottie with a cosy *today* sense of identification.
Kate was not sure that she would like living in town. She had been so happy on the farm, with all her animal friends and outdoor fun. A newcomer in town, Kate has to make all new friends. And it is worse to be coming into the town school in mid-term, for everybody already has a seatmate. Kate has to sit alone. But it all works out right for her, with plenty of things happening all the time. A quarrel which upsets the whole class works out well for Kate. She gets a seatmate and a warm friend, too.
Kate’s story took place fifty years ago, but in her small Wisconsin town she enjoyed many of the things many of the things that girls today find fun – May baskets and marbles, paper dolls and picnics, church Christmas trees, skipping rope, and driving out to the country with father. She plays a trick one day, she manages to hide a hurt about a birthday party, and she finally gets one of her dearest wishes–but that’s the best part of the story, so we can’t tell you.”
I have been trying to remember the name of a book for years and need help. I will be sitting and all of a sudden one part pops up in my mind. It would have been the 80’s early 90’s. Or anytime before, it was in our school library
The book was about a little girl that is at her grandmother’s very fancy house, she goes to the attic, there is a trunk and a rag doll. That’s it all I remember. Thanks for my help you my have
This may be too obvious… but any chance it was one of the Raggedy Ann books by Johnny Gruelle?
From the introduction of Raggedy Ann Stories:
“Marcella liked to play up in the attic at Grandma’s quaint old house, ‘way out in the country, for there were so many old forgotten things to find up there.
One day when Marcella was up in the attic and had played with the old spinning wheel until she had grown tired of it, she curled up on an old horse-hair sofa to rest.
“I wonder what is in that barrel, ‘way back in the corner?” she thought, as she jumped from the sofa and climbed over two dusty trunks to the barrel standing back under the eaves.
It was quite dark back there, so when Marcella had pulled a large bundle of things from the barrel she took them over to the dormer window where she could see better. There was a funny little bonnet with long white ribbons. Marcella put it on.
In an old leather bag she found a number of tin-types of queer looking men and women in old-fashioned clothes. And there was one picture of a very pretty little girl with long curls tied tightly back from her forehead and wearing a long dress and queer pantaloons which reached to her shoe-tops. And then out of the heap she pulled an old rag doll with only one shoe-button eye and a painted nose and a smiling mouth. Her dress was of soft material, blue with pretty little flowers and dots all over it.
Forgetting everything else in the happiness of her find, Marcella caught up the rag doll and ran downstairs to show it to Grandma.
“Well! Well! Where did you find it?” Grandma cried. “It’s old Raggedy Ann!” she went on as she hugged the doll to her breast. “I had forgotten her. She has been in the attic for fifty years, I guess! Well! Well! Dear old Raggedy Ann! I will sew another button on her right away!” and Grandma went to the machine drawer and got her needle and thread.”
Another possibility: Magic Elizabeth by Norma Kassirer:
From an online review: “If it weren’t for the picture of the girl and her doll hanging over the fireplace in her pretty room, Sally would be miserable staying with Aunt Sarah. For everything in this strange old house tucked between tall apartment buildings is scary and mysterious. In the dark, rainy night the house seems almost a witch’s house, and Aunt Sarah herself, whom Sally has never seen before, is very old, a stooped figure with thin gray hair and gnarled fingers.
But the other Sally in the picture is smiling. She’s about Sally’s own age, and once, long ago, she lived in the big old house. In fact, her room was this very room. She’s wearing a yellow bonnet with ribbons, a long blue dress with layers of ruffles, and high-buttoned shoes; and she’s holding a rag doll on her lap, an adorable doll with eyes the pleasant shape of watermelon seeds, dressed exactly like her mistress except that her hands are tucked into a tiny white fur muff.
Sally soon finds the other Sally’s trunk in the dusty old attic. The yellow bonnet and the blue dress are there, even the other Sally’s diary. But not the rag doll, for Elizabeth mysteriously disappeared one snowy Christmas Eve long ago. The other Sally had thought Elizabeth might be magic, and maybe she was. For how else can you explain Sally’s magical adventure in time that follows?”
And another review: “Young Sally’s parents are away on a business trip, so she’s been staying with Mrs. Chipley, but now Mrs. Chipley has a family emergency to tend to. Mrs. Chipley’s daughter is ill, and Mrs. Chipley needs to go and help her with her children. While Mrs. Chipley is gone, there is only one other person for Sally to stay with: her Aunt Sarah, an elderly woman who Sally doesn’t really know. Aunt Sarah moved to California when Sally was just a baby, and the only reason why she has returned is that she has decided to sell her old house.
Sally is a rather shy girl. She’s uneasy around Aunt Sarah, who is obviously unaccustomed to spending time with children, and Aunt Sarah’s creepy cat, Shadow. The house is old, chilly, and filled with strange things. However, Sally is enchanted with the bedroom that Aunt Sarah gives her and the portrait of a girl and her doll that hangs on the wall. The girl looks very much like Sally herself, and Aunt Sarah tells her that the girl was also called Sally and lived in that bedroom as a child, many years ago.
Fascinated by this earlier Sally and her beautiful doll, modern Sally decides to try to find the doll. Although her aunt tells her that she shouldn’t go poking around in the attic, Sally can’t help herself. She finds a trunk with Sally’s name on it full of girls’ clothes, just the right size for modern Sally to wear. There is a doll in the trunk also, but it’s not the same doll as the one in the portrait. When Sally reads the diary in the old trunk she learns the reason why. The doll in the picture, Elizabeth, was lost many years ago, when the earlier Sally was still young. As modern Sally plays dress up with the earlier Sally’s old clothes and studies herself in the mirror, she finds herself taken back in time, seeing the house through earlier Sally’s eyes. It was a busy and happy household with parents, an elderly aunt, earlier Sally, Sally’s little brother, and Sally’s pet cats.
A short time later, Aunt Sarah wakes modern Sally on the floor of the attic, and they assume that it was all a dream, but this look into the past changes Sally’s feelings about the house and her aunt’s cat, who suddenly seems friendlier and reminds her of the mother cat she saw in the past. Aunt Sarah also seems a little less stern as they discuss earlier Sally and her lost doll. Aunt Sarah says that no one ever saw the doll again after it disappeared on Christmas Eve all those years ago. Earlier Sally had put the doll on top of the Christmas tree, like an angel, and after the family finished singing Christmas carols, the doll was gone. They could never figure out what happened to her. Modern Sally thinks that sounds very sad and wants to investigate the mystery of the missing doll, although Aunt Sarah isn’t very enthusiastic. She says that if the doll could be found, it would have been found long ago, and the earlier Sally has long since grown up and no longer needs it. Although, oddly, Aunt Sarah remarks that the earlier Sally had always thought that Elizabeth was “a little bit magic.”
Modern Sally continues to look for the doll anyway and also continues having moments when she sees the past as the earlier Sally did many years ago, especially when she looks into the mirror in the attic. One day, she invites a neighbor girl named Emily over, and while the two of them are looking around the attic, Emily finds Elizabeth’s old doll bonnet. The girls are excited because they now know for certain that Elizabeth is still in the house, waiting to be found. The girls are running out of time to find her. If Aunt Sarah agrees to sell the house, it will be torn down to build apartments. But, Sally falls ill with the flu, and it isn’t until Shadow gives her an important clue that Sally realizes where Elizabeth must be.
Adults reading this story will probably realize before the children do (spoiler) that Aunt Sarah herself was the earlier Sally, the one who lost her favorite doll many years ago. At first, modern Sally sees her stern aunt as being witch-like, all dressed in black and fussy, but gradually, the memories of the past, her new relationship with young Sally, and the finding of her slightly-magical doll soften her. There are hints of Aunt Sarah’s youth in the attic, although Sally at first dismisses thoughts that some of the lovely things there could have belonged to her cranky old aunt because she has trouble thinking of her aunt as once having been young, pretty, and sweet. However, part of the theme of the story is that everyone was young once. Aunt Sarah hasn’t been around children much for years, and part of her fussiness comes from forgetting what it was like to be young herself. Modern Sally, with her resemblance to her elderly aunt, and Elizabeth the doll both work their magic on her, reminding her what it was like to be a young girl and helping to revive a more youthful spirit in her.”
I’m looking for a children’s book anthology that I read in the early 90s. It was a hardbound edition, with a cream cover, and had a name that was something like Children’s Classics. It had a collection of various short stories and poems, and included a chapter from Anne of Green Gables – the one in which Gilbert called Anne “Carrots” and she broke the slate over his head.
There’s another picture book I want to track down, also from the early 90s. It was about a purple-robed wizard who was going to go out of town on a trip, I only remember very vague details – he had a cauldron and stars on his pointy hat. And the book was a very large and hardbound, with beautiful illustrations, and lovely rich colours.
Hello! My mother used to read me a story I dont remember much. I believe there was a little boy… maybe a bird that gets stuck. The book is in black and white and the cover has a very tall steeple. I was born in 93 and remember the book smelling old.. I can just picture my mom dabbing her finger on her tounge as she flipped the pages. And now its driving me nuts!! Please help!
Hi all, in the early 90s I had a beautiful book about a father and a daughter taking an early sunrise walk to a beach on a holiday. I’m nearly sure it was called Morning Sunrise? I remember them collecting pebbles? It was illustrated. Any ideas as to the book name and author??
Thanks!!
If it could be a boy, try this: Maxine Kumin, The Beach Before Breakfast.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6144577-the-beach-before-breakfast
About 2009-2012 I had a picture book about a little girl who’s mother makes her a fairy costume, and then I believe she became a fairy for the night and flew around with a few other fairies, and I cant remember enough to be able to find it on Google
Sounds like a great plot. I hope someone ids it!
Some time in the early 90’s (probably) I had a children’s book that I loved but can no longer recall the name of. It was a picture book about a man who was some kind of traveler, and while traveling through the woods he comes across a village of little people who just live outside in the forest. He shares some of his knowledge with them and teaches them to build houses, about which they become very enthusiastic and build a bunch of windowless houses, for the traveler neglected to mention that houses should have windows. They go to him for help with their dark houses, and he shows them how to build windows, about which they become very enthusiastic and they put so many windows into the walls of their houses that they can no longer maintain their housen-ess and so all of the little people end up back outside living in the forest, about which they become very enthusiastic, and our traveler leaves them to their merry ways. Or something like that…
I’m trying to locate a children’s book that I read in 1976. I think it was called something like” the best thing for babies to do.” “The mother fish said to the baby fish, the world is bright and swimmy, too big to swim it all, too big to eat it all, so the best thing for baby fish to do is sleep. The mama bear said to her baby bear, the world is dark & growly, caves and keeps and winter sleeps. the thing for little bears to do is curl up small and sleep. The mother said to her infant child, the world is big and wonderful, too big to see it all, so the thing for little babies to do is sleep. “Best children’s book I’ve ever read and I have two children and six grandkids please help me find it for them!
Curl Up Small, by Trina Schart Hyman.
Trying again: Curl Up Small!, by Trina Schart Hyman.
Hello! I’m looking for a book I read as a kid. I remember it was about some children who were bored (it might have been summer break) and they were wondering their neighborhood looking for adventures. I remember this found this mysterious garden/wall/maze and were really curious about it. I also remember when they finally got into the place there was a house that might have had magical things about it and there was a girl who may have been stuck up and spoiled? I have been racking my brains for this book!
Looking for a series of kids manners books I used to read to my kids in the mid 80s. I believe there were about a dozen or so books altogether and the covers all had a medium blue background.
Looking for a book my teacher used to read in school. Never got the title or to the end of the book. It’s about a boy who used to have lunch in a treehouse a distance from home. Then he discovered a hole in the hill, and as he peeked through, from the other side, staring back at him was another eye. If anyone can help me find this book, I would really appreciate the effort.
Sounds a bit like Harvey’s Hideout, if the characters could have been muskrats.
Unfortunately it was definitely a human boy.
There are at least three books called The Hole in the Hill. If your book concerns a ghost and a cave that was connected with the Underground Railroad, then it’s the one by Edwin Peeples.
Looking for a children’s picture book, it’s in search and find style. Probably late 90s-early 2000s. If I remember correctly it’s not very long. It’s about the adventure of a witch and two kids that she takes along with her on a quest to find ingredients for a potion that she has to make to prove that she is a good witch. On each page there are ingredients hidden in the illustration that you collect as you go along the story. It might just be my child memory, but I’m pretty sure the illustrations were very colourful and not detailed, but busy. I’m also pretty sure the drawings were in a cartoonish style. Also might be remembering incorrectly but I think somewhere, either in one of the drawings or on the cover, there is an image of the witch riding on a broom with the two children, a boy and a girl.
Looking for a book from my wife’s childhood 1970’s about a little girl who couldn’t walk but wanted to fly away with the Angel. The Angel told her that if she flew away with her, she couldn’t come back.
Looking for a children’s book my father had as a child, so probably published circa 1920. It was a large format book about make-believe animals, a bit in the style of Dr. Seuss’s characters I think. The pictures were in sepia and each animal had a silly name and a rhyme to go with it.
Looking for a children’s book probably published between 1980 and 1995 with a plot that has a young person first eating too much candy and then beginning to eat fruits and vegetables.
The first thing that came to mind was Gregory, The Terrible Eater by Mitchell Sharmat. Gregory is a goat, though…but it is a great book!
Gregory came to mind for me also.
Hoping someone can help me! I’m looking for a children’s anthology (probably from the 1960’s). There was a story about a boy and his pony called Paint and there was another story about a Mexican boy in the USA who brings taco or tamales to school for show and tell.
The book was similar to Magic Carpet, Adventure Lands, Enchanted Isles, etc. but I’ve looked through all of those and can’t find these stories.
Do these stories ring a bell for anyone?
Looking for a book from my 1970s childhood to appease my father’s curiosity…he (we!) can only remember that I loved the line “the Queen was both astonished and delighted”. Neither of us can remember more than that. I don’t THINK it’s Rumpelstiltskin, which is what my many Google searches have come up with…unless we are misremembering the quote (possible).
Looking for a book about a little girl wearing outfits that turned colors, I think. It was illustrated. She had different outfits, and stained each one every day with different things, like pink ice cream, grass stains, I think mustard maybe? Or maybe it was the same dress she stained over and over? Anyway, what she was wearing would either change colors, or she would imagine it would, when it got stained. I loved this book and can not remember the name! I would have read it in the 80s. Any help greatly appreciated!
That’s Marianna May and Nursey by Tomie dePaola.
“Marianna May and Nursey” is the story of a young girl who is the only child of a very wealthy, Victorian-era family. Because her parents are so very important and very busy, Marianna May is cared for by a prim, white-haired woman named Nursey.
True to the period and their socioeconomic class, Nursey, Marianna May and her parents wear white, all white, all of the time, especially during the summer. This wardrobe, unfortunately, doesn’t exactly suit Marianna May’s favorite activities.”
As a result, Marianna May is often relegated to the front porch swing and instructed to keep her white dress clean.
Fortunately for Marianna May, her unhappiness does not go unnoticed. One afternoon, Mr Talbot, the ice deliveryman, sees the dejected look on her face and sets out to consult with the house staff, determined to remedy the situation. Spurred by Mr. Talbot’s brilliant idea, Nanny, the cook, the cook’s helper and the laundress work all day to transform Marianna May’s white frocks into something more appropriate for a playful, young girl.
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Would you believe, it’s actually called The Sorcerer’s Apprentice? This version is by Ted Dewan (1998).
“How can the Sorcerer, a brilliant inventor, possibly clean up after himself when he spends all of his time working? His solution — he invents a robot Apprentice to solve his clutter problem! But when the Apprentice is left to clean up the workshop, he comes up with an idea of his own. What if the Apprentice invented his own helper? In this electric retelling of the classic Sorcerer’s Apprentice story, you will find a cautionary tale about leaping before you look!”
“In this technological remake of “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” Dewan tells of an inventor who hates cleaning his workshop so much that he creates a robot, the Apprentice, to do the job. Left alone, the Apprentice uses the inventor’s plans to make a duplicate of himself, then goes off to watch television. Soon the duplicate makes another robot, who makes another, until the Apprentice discovers an army of robots, all wielding vacuum cleaners and threatening to tear him apart. The sorcerer returns, blows all robots except the Apprentice to bits, and offers his little buddy “a nice cup of hot oil.”
Looking for an older kids poetry/rhyme/verse book from the 90’s. It had odd little illustrations in it and I specifically remember one of the poems in it that went like this:
‘Simple Simon met a pie man going to the fair’
‘Said simple Simon to the pie man, can I have an ice cream please’.
I think there was also a fish with mans legs in there.
Please help, I’ve searched for hours!
Try this one: Colin McNaughton. Who’s Been Sleeping in my Porridge?
That’s it, thank you!!! My some will love these!
I’m looking for a childrens book about a small robot which gets into difficulties when left alone by his creator in the workshop. It is clearly based on The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Basically a picture book, published probably between 1990 and 2000. I’d love to be able to find this so that I can share it with my seven year old grandson. Thanks.
Hi can anyone help with this childrens book. A young boy is put to bed and he has night terrors. As the lights go out he sees objects around the room turn into monsters. Items like a pile of clothes become frightening to him. Anyone any idea what this book was called
Sounds like A Little Cowboy’s Christmas.
Oh my land! That’s it!! Thank you SO much MamaSquirrel. I would have never thought that was the title. Thanks again! Blessings on your day. Nancy
You’re welcome, and thanks for posting back!
Omg yes it’s baby boat! I just looked it up! Thank you so much for finding this for me! Now I just to find somewhere that sells it 🙂
I’m glad I could help! And thank you for taking the time to let us know it was the correct book. I hope you can find a copy!
How Little Mole Got His Trousers (Jak krtek ke kalhotkám přišel) by Zdenek Miler, based on a short animated Czech film of the same name.
You can see the film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t2M-egOzA8
“The first half of the film is Krtek wanting to have a pair of trousers with big pockets for his things. Then you’ll meet various creatures that will in some way will later be able to help. Krtek is sad that he cannot make his trousers until a flax plant speaks to him and tells Krtek how to look after the plant until it’s ready for harvesting. Then you meet the creatures again but this time they help him. So this story from 1957 showed the process of growing plants, taking care of them, the harvesting of plants, how they are then turned into raw material and eventually a finished clothing product.”
Thank you chanda. That looks like it. I viewed the animated cartoon to see some of the illustrations and parts of it were very familiar. Other parts were less so. It would be nice to be able to see the actual illustrations in the book to be sure. My book deifinetely was in English.
Yeah, the book was printed in English. I attached a picture of the front/back covers of the English language version of the book in my previous comment, but here are a few more pictures from the book:
Another possibility might be Baby Island by Carol Ryrie Brink (author of the Caddie Woodlawn books).
“The book begins with the Wallace sisters, twelve-year-old Mary and ten-year-old Jean, traveling alone on a ship to meet their father in Australia. The girls often babysit young children: at home, they had enjoyed “borrowing” the babies of neighbors.”
“Their ship is disabled in a storm, and the two girls are set adrift in a lifeboat with four babies, the children of fellow passengers. The craft eventually drifts to a tropical island, and in a Robinson Crusoe-like scenario, they must learn to build shelter and survive on wild foodstuffs. They do this with great success, while raising the babies through various developmental milestones and adopting a baby monkey who they raise alongside the babies.”
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Those are the Bugg books by Stephen Cosgrove (also known for the Serendipity book series). They were printed as Topsy-Turvy books, where you would read one story, then flip the book over/backward to read the other story.
Titles include: Button Bugg/Little Buggaroo, Barley Bugg/Betterfly, Fibberbugg/Shrugg, Flea Flicker/Bubble Bugg, Brush Buggs/Hugga Bugg, The Merry Widow/Fly Baby Fly, Chubba Bugg/Firefly, Flitter Fly/Fuss E. Bugg, Bubba Bugg/Mizz Buggly, Buzz/Melody Moth, Bugg Off/Skeeter, Lord & Lady Bugg/Doodlebugg, just to name a few.
I’m looking for a book that I think is from the 90s, about a town where a kid has gone missing in the woods a while back. The cover has an illustrated field and then woods, and I believe it was bright green.
It also involves a fridge and a skeleton found in it. It was a mystery book I think, kind of dark. But it was definitely a kids book, middle grade or juvenile fiction. Chapters. Not very long.
The Clearing by Dorothy Reynolds Miller?
Thank you!
The Clearing by Dorothy Reynolds Miller
Thank you 🙂
Illustrated children’s book I read in the mid 80s. Animals (I remember some of them being elephants) are on a Hawaiian cruise. They stop at one of the volcanoes (I think Kilauea, but don’t remember if the name was used), and get off the ship to explore. They start hiking up the mountain, through the forest, and at least one of them uses a giant leaf as an umbrella. They get up towards the top, and fog/mist/smoke starts moving in, so they head back down, but one of them gets separated and has to find his way down on his own. As he going down, the mountain starts to erupt, and he sees the goddess Pele in the lava, streaming down towards the sea.
Hello Everyone! I am searching for a picture book my mom read to me as a child in the mid-1950’s. The premise is a son’s biggest wish for Christmas is a particular rocking horse, and his dad is supposed to pick one up to be under the tree Christmas Day. I think the dad gets hung up at work or maybe forgets he is to shop for the horse on Christmas Eve, and when he finally sets out in the hunt a horrible snowstorm begins, which causes him to get lost. He luckily finds a lovely little house, lit brightly with holiday lights, and stops for help. A friendly large, bearded man answers the door and invites the dad in. The very upset dad explains his dire situation, and “what to his wondering eyes should he see”…but the exact rocking horse in this man’s house, which he is given to take home for his son. That’s all I remember, but I loved this book/story and would love to find out the title. If anyone would have suggestions, I’d be so grateful. Thank you!
Maybe this one?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4287444-a-cake-all-for-me
How about this one? It says library binding, so I assume it’s a book of some sort, but it also appears to be a game.
https://www.amazon.com/Monster-MASH-Mimi-Maxwell/dp/0613902815
Hi there,
I’m trying to find a picture book from my childhood. What I can remember is a little girl finding a boat full of babies that have washed to shore to an island/lighthouse who escaped from their mothers picnicking. She makes the babies bowls and bowls of noodles/pasta. I also remember the phrase “purple starfish with pink spots, and pink starfish with purple spots” when describing starfish on the shore. I know this is a long shot but I have searched high and low on google and can’t find it. I read it in the 90s if that helps.
Thanks! 🙂
Possibly Baby Boat by Betty Waterton?
“A boatload of cuddly babies visits the lighthouse of Mrs. Figg and her husband, where the mischievous tots wreck the kitchen, set off the foghorn, and cause general havoc”
Looking for a children’s picture book series from the 90s. They were hardback double sided books, where you’d flip the book upside down and around and there was a second story. I believe the story featured some bug like/ant characters. I remember my mom reading them to us when we were 5/6/7. So 1995-1997. There had to be at least 10 books if not more in the series.
I am looking for a bedtime storybook (I read it about 20-25 years ago) about a little boy whose parents put him to bed at night. He then hears sounds in the dark which he investigates such as a tick tock tick tock it ends up being the clock. Then he hears a meow meow behind the curtain and its the cat. At the end he hears a squeak squeak and its a mouse in the biscuit tin. Does this sound familiar to anyone?? Would truly appreciate it!
Hello all. I’m looking for a children’s book from the late 1980s or early 90s. The reader travels through a castle, haunted house or laboratory of sorts, and on each lavishly illustrated page (aka each “room” of the house), there is a monster hiding. The reader has to find it as well as other items in the room. On the last page, the reader is informed they have no more than 30 minutes to find the monster or they’ll be eaten. In style, the pictures look a lot like the hidden room games we can find online today. It was quite scary at the time. Thanks for any help you can provide!
That’s The Great Brain Does it Again by John D. Fitzgerald – part of his Great Brain book series. I loved these books when I was a kid! They’re set in Utah in the late 1800’s and mostly revolve around Tom’s efforts to make money – often by cheating or swindling his friends: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Brain
Chapter 3 of The Great Brain Does it Again is “The Horse Race.” In this chapter, Tom (a.k.a. The Great Brain) bets that his mustang (Dusty) can beat Parley’s quarter horse (Blaze) in a mile-long race. After Tom wins, the other boys acknowledge that a mustang is better in a longer race – then Tom turns around and bets them that if he is riding Blaze, he can beat Dusty in a mile-long race. By allowing Blaze to get out to a big lead, then letting him walk for a bit to rest each lap (until Dusty catches up) then surging ahead again, Tom is able to beat Parley. When the other boys accuse Tom of cheating because he didn’t run Blaze flat-out the entire race, he points out that the bet was just that each horse would run a distance of a mile – and that Blaze would finish first. Tom’s long-suffering little brother J.D. complains about falling for another of Tom’s schemes, and Tom points out that J.D. should be grateful for all the times Tom keeps winning bets from him – because that way, when he’s grown, he won’t become a gambling man because he’ll never want to bet or gamble again.
Chapter 5 is “The Chute-the-Chute.” In this chapter, Tom builds a roller coaster and charges his friends to ride it. When another boy (Pete) forgets to unhook a rope on the cart and gets pulled off the barn roof and breaks his leg, Tom is forced to give all the money he earned from operating the chute-the-chute to Pete’s family, to help with the medical bills, and has to tear down the coaster.
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That’s it – thank you!!! My son will love these!
Glad I could help! You should get him the whole set – they’re great stories! And the illustrations by Mercer Mayer are fabulous!
I’m thinking about Moira’s Birthday, by Robert Munsch, where she orders a ton of food for her ridiculously big party. Did your character want to eat the food, or do something else with it?
Possibly Pantaloon by Kathryn Jackson? (It’s about a dog, not a pig.)
“Pantaloon wants desperately to work in a bakery, and he finally gets his wish.”
Does anyone remember a children’s illustrated book about making linen from flax. I had this when I was a child in the late 50s/60s. I remember a mole that collected flax plants, brought them down to a river to wash and comb and then weave into linen.
Looking for a kids chapter book I read in early
90s. Took place in late 1800s or early 1900s. About a boy who was very clever/mischievous. One chapter had he built a loop de loop roller coaster and charged the neighborhood kids to ride. Another chapter was about a horse race and he got his opponent to use a distance horse for a quarter horse race.
It may be The Great Brain Does it Again- part of The Great Brain Series by John Fitzgerald. See link: https://stephaniesmetana.wordpress.com/2013/08/20/the-books-in-the-great-brain-series/
I am looking for a book that I remember reading in the late 70s to possibly very early 80s. I know I checked it out from our local library (in Oklahoma City). I really think the title had something to do with Seven Little Words (or maybe Six Little Words), but I can’t say for sure. It was a little girl who was determined to be a doctor when she grew up (I think that was the thing with the title, because she said something like “I want to be a doctor” or “I am going to be a doctor”.) I don’t remember the exact setting but it was sort of a little town on the prairie feel to it, and I also remember one scene where there was a Copperhead snake that she had to rescue someone else from, and she knew to hit them on the head in the “diamond” patterned spot on the head. I don’t know why it stuck with me all these years, because I certainly didn’t dream of being a doctor when I grew up, but I really enjoyed it and probably would have kept it if it was one we’d bought instead of checked out.
Caroline and the Seven Little Words by Miriam E. Mason.
“Armed with seven little words instead of her kettle named Maud, Caroline Gray again confounds her five uncles and their masculine mystique. “”I am going to be a doctor,”” she declares to their snickers and taunts. She sets out to achieve her goal by conquering the feminine fears of snakes and spooks and by acquiring the virtues of bravery and patience. The Michigan frontier provides plentiful opportunities for Caroline to demonstrate her determination, including an inordinate number of not-so-sturdy pioneers who require her nursing skill. The book contains a clear moral–goals help people overcome their problems–and a mystifying conclusion–all is forgiven when goals are attained.”
Looks like we were looking at the same time.
Yep, sure looks that way!
Caroline and the Seven Little Words, by Miriam E. Mason.
I am looking for a book my son had about 22 years ago. I believe the title is “The Monster Ball” but could have been slightly different. It was about a bunch of monsters who got all dressed up and gathered for a ball. The book had two Big Round ball shapped wiggly eyes about the size of a ping pong ball that showed up as you turned each page of the book. Does anyone have any information on this book. I’d really love to find it. It is an over sized hard back book. The two google eyes were not removable but each page had a hold in it to accomodate the eyes so they did show on each page.
I am looking for a book about when a little girl befriends some angels, I think they were named Edwina and Edward?? It was a chapter book. that’s about all I remember.
Possibly this one. Altoona Baboona (1999) by Janie Bynum. Altoona Baboona flies off in her hot air balloon in search of adventure and, with the help of a lost Loon-a and a jazzy Raccoon-a, discovers that friendship is the greatest adventure of all, in a wacky rhyming tale.
Steve, I can’t thank you enough for taking the time to respond and give me such useful information. Yes, I remember now, it was in rhyme! It was a wonderful book and I’m hoping I can track down a copy. Thanks Again!!!! 🙂
There was a picture book from my childhood (90s). It was about an animal (I think it was a pig) that was like a baker or went to a bakery. I think the cover was him carrying a cake and I just remember a picture in the book of like a dessert case that had like all these beautiful cakes in it. I haven’t been able to find anything about this online need to know the name.
Here are a few more images from Pantaloon. It’s been reprinted several times, with different covers:
https://imgur.com/a/hWqAkfy
https://imgur.com/a/2ifkaDD
https://imgur.com/a/7qWs9FL
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LYvkhpBgSnM/STPZp4m5N9I/AAAAAAAAEp8/SgoYWN8gv4M/s1600/Pan18.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LYvkhpBgSnM/STPZpba08wI/AAAAAAAAEp0/WrhIUCJA4ew/s1600/Pan19.jpg
Hello! I’m looking for a children’s book I remember enjoying as a child. I don’t have much to go on sadly. I believe it was a rectangular book with whimsical & colorful illustrations, one having a picture of a sliding board that was shaped like an elephant (maybe blue in color). Lots of animals (maybe stuffed animals) & kids, too, I think, in the illustrations. Thanks for any possible leads!
That’s Bogwoppit by Ursula Moray Williams
I think that’s Bogwoppit, by Ursula Moray Williams!
Hi. I read this chapter young adult’s book when I was in… third grade. I’m almost positive the book cover was a hard cover and it was light pink. It was about this girl who had a wizard uncle or dad and one day, her house floods(?) but the dad or uncle is dry and acting like the house is a jungle and having fun. The only other thing I remember is that her best friend (whose name MIGHT be kate) could sleep with her eyes open, and the main character had to wipe drool from the friend’s face while the girl slept in class. I don’t really remember anything else about the plot, but these are all the details I remember.
I’m looking for a book that had a line it that said “I like a (thousand or million) hamburger please”
Hi Heather, I remember this book. It was called ‘Five little kittens’ and was from the Ladybird publishers in the UK. As with many of these books it was written in rhyme and started “Mrs Tibbets going shopping, wasn’t pleased enough to purr, kittens please she said quite crossly, how can mummy brush her fur?”, I can’t remember much more except that all the kittens wanted something – Patch wanted an engine, someone else wanted a flag! And in the end, despite making a right mess, they get what they asked for. Just done a quick search and, you’re right it was first published in 1955 by Ladybird – author W. Perring. Hope this helps. Steve.
Hi, I’m looking for an old children’s book, which was fully illustrated and about an enormous transatlantic-type ship. Every page shows the same ship, but with subtle changes as it slowly sinks and disaster overtakes it. It had no text whatsoever. It was large.
Time Cat?
I am looking for a hardcover children’s illustrated book that was published sometime 1965-1975. I don’t recall all the details except that the main premise was about a large family and the middle or eldest son who kept growing and growing. Splitting out his overalls and shoes and even fell out of bed because of his growing size. He shared a bed with his brothers and they kept getting whacked and bruised in their sleep because he was just too big for the bed anymore. He even busted a kitchen chair after sitting down to a meal due to his growth spurt. And the grandparents lived with the family. I’ve been searching keywords and ideas for actual title or author with no luck. Thanks in advance!
I’m looking for a book that I probably read in the early 1970’s. It’s about a young girl visiting a relative in New England for the summer I believe. She is walking along a fenced yard and meets a talking cat. Any ideas?
i´m looking for a children book
I grow up in the 90´s. It was about a mouse who travels around the world with a rope.
It was so colorfull and I think it has a friend, or was looking for a friend around the world.
I’m not quite clear about the rope: does it help him travel?
Could it possibly be Do You Want to Be My Friend?, by Eric Carle?
Ooh, thank you so much for your investigations on my behalf. I’ll check the links you have sent. Cheers. Carole
You’re welcome. I hope one of them is the one you seek.
Sounds like Benjamin’s Book by Alan Baker. (Benjamin is a hamster, not a mouse.) “A hamster’s efforts to remove his paw print from a blank page of a book prove unsuccessful.”
There are also other books in the series, including Benjamin’s Portrait, Benjamin’s Balloon, Benjamin and the Box, and Benjamin Bounces Back.
Oh my goodness yes. Thank you so much Chanda. That has made my day. Going to seek out a copy.
Glad I could help! Thanks for taking the time to let us know that was the correct book!
That sounds like Benjamin’s Book by Alan Baker. (Benjamin is a hamster, not a mouse.) “A hamster’s efforts to remove his paw print from a blank page of a book prove unsuccessful.” There are also other books in the series, including Benjamin’s Portrait, Benjamin’s Balloon, Benjamin and the Box, and Benjamin Bounces Back.
hey, i’m actually not sure how old this book is, i would have read it around 2006 but i think it’s a lot older than that. I dont remember much other than the main premise being a sad and lonely animal of some kind (monster?) being ignored by all the other animals and flowers as they thought he was scary. In the end they just wanted to sing together. It’s not a lot to go on and it’s been bugging me for ages so any ideas would be great.
It might be worth taking a look at Creole by Stephen Cosgrove (one of the Serendipity books).
“Creole is a unique creature who lives alone in the swamp. She lives alone because the other creatures that live there are frightened by her looks. Looks can be deceiving and so can judging a book by its cover.”
Conrad’s War, by Andrew Davies.
It’s one of the Morton and Warton Toad series: Warton and the Castaways.
https://orangemarmaladebooks.com/2013/08/12/summertime-book-of-the-week-a-toad-ally-orange-and-purple-adventure/
Thanks for writing back… can’t find your post but I saw it. what funny books!
I’m looking for a book I remember from my childhood growing up in the 70’s. I believe the book was from the UK and written maybe in the 50s-60s. It’s a picture book about a Mother Cat who leaves her little kittens at home while she goes shopping. She instructs her kittens to be good while she’s gone. They decide to clean the house but encounter all sorts of mishaps and the house ends up a mess. They are so worried Mummy will be mad when she returns but she’s not and gives them each a present from her shopping trip. Hope someone has any info about this book! Thank-you!
Hi all. I wonder if you can help me identify a children’s book, the title of which I haven’t been able to remember for years!
I’m 37 so guessing it’s from the 1980s. From what I can remember it tells the story of a girl who’s sent to stay with an aunt because her brother has an illness that requires her to quarantine. The aunt is fastidious about order and is a keen gardener. The girl is lonely and bored and begins to fantasize about an imaginary shiny white house and a kitten. Eventually she’s taken away to stay instead with a modern young aunt in jeans who does stay in a white house with shells in the garden.
That’s as much as I can recall and it may not be accurate but it’s been doing my head in for years and I’d be really grateful if anyone has any ideas! TIA.
Hi there, I’m looking for a book for my brother. He says he remembers it being quite large in size. He remembers reading it as a child, so late 80’s to mid-90’s. He said its possible there was a group of kids who were looking for keys (possibly skeleton keys) and a lion may also be involved. He specifically remembers that it was very well illustrated on every page in color. Each page had a lot of text on it, not just a few lines.
I’m looking for a kids’ novel, early ‘80s or late ‘70s. Silly. Cute creatures (possibly venomous) that were like penguin/platypus and lived in the sewers. Discovered by a girl I think. Paperback novel that was small and cheap. The creatures name started with F.
i’m looking for a book that my mom used to have then gave to me as a young child. there were maybe three books and they had little drawings on the pages. some things i remember about them were one of the covers was purple, the little cartoon people where in black and white and had round, big heads, and two things i remember in that book was about multiple people smelling something and someone getting seasick. it was more or less short stories not a continuous story. that’s all i can remember
maybe one of the teenie weenie books?
I’ve searched & searched for this Children’s book but I cannot for the life of me remember the title. It came out, I believe, in the 90’s or maybe early 2000’s. It’s about a girl baboon/monkey who adventures in a hot air balloon. I know the title rhymed & I think I remember her name starting with either a Z or S. It’s on the tip of my tongue but not even Google knows. Please help!
I’m looking for a children’s novel that I would have read in school about siblings (brother and sister) who visit their aunt on a farm for a summer who has a sheep dog. I’m almost 100% certain the words “Puli dog” are in the title. I wish I had more to go off of but I’m drawing blanks. I also read this novel between the years 2002-2003. Any info would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
I’m looking for a children’s book, a fictional work, that I read in the late 80s, but which may be a couple decades older. In it, a boy begins having visions of WWII and he sees marching German soldiers. He hears the phrase “Links, links, links, rechts, links” multiple times throughout the book, and he finds that they aren’t just visions, but that physical things about his world change every time he comes back from a journey to this past time. If I recall, the boy’s uncle knows something about the experiences he’s having.
Thanks for any help, I know the details are minimal but I’ve been wracking my brain for several days about this
I cannot remember what book it was that I thought was hilarious when I was in elementary school.
It would have been published before 1988, it was a children’s book that had a cassette tape to read-along. I don’t remember much about what the book looks like because I primarily listened to it.
It might have been about manners, and the author had multiple choice answers. The wrong answers were funny; I remember one line was
“Broccoli makes me want to throw up.” Another part said, “Do you want a knuckle sandwich?”
For some reason I think this might have been from a Scholastic book order.
My best guess would be Do I Have to Say Hello?, by Delia Ephron, since it is written in that multiple choice format.
I’m looking for a story published before 1974 about a girl who (I think) was ill and was visited at night by a boy and his herd of oddly-colored horses that might have resembled a collection of crystal horses. The boys and the horses stop visiting when she gets better, but he leaves a horse-hair token behind. It would have been at least 3rd grade reading level or above.
Marianne Dreams?
I am looking for a children’s book for my husband – all he can remember is it was about a goose and stockings. He remembers it was read to him in the 1950s but that is all. Can anyone make any suggestions as to its title or author please?
I found two popular book series about geese during the ’50s.
Petunia Series
https://www.goodreads.com/series/92048
Mrs. Goose Series
https://www.goodreads.com/series/228512-mrs-goose
Looking for a children’s book, it is about a mouse that goes to the moon to find cheese, then gets taken by aliens, then finds a cheese plant and gets back to earth and never eats cheese again.
My kids are looking for a book from their childhood 25-30 years ago. There are good illustrations on all pages. They seem to remember kids searching for Skelton type keys with red ribbons on the keys
I’m looking for a book about a little white duck that lived in a farmyard. It’s a counting book – the duck says ‘good morning’ to all the animals in turn. Very similar cover to The Little White Book by Jean Marshall – but it’s not that book. This would be published about 1965 or so.
I looking for a children’s book about a little boy who gets a gold star at school and sticks it to his forehead. He refuses to wash around it and when it falls off there is an outline of the star on his forehead.
I am looking for a children’s book from the 70s-early 80s that involved a little tiny magical man with an umbrella coming to the window of a girl in her house. I want to see there was a tree outside of her window, but not certain about that.
Hello! I am looking for a children’s book I remember borrowing from the library in the mid-to-late 90s. I don’t remember everything exactly, but here’s what I recall:
1) It is about a family that wants to go out to eat at a restaurant, but to afford it they first have to go through all the rooms in the house gathering loose change and dollar amounts. I don’t remember if they are human or anthropomorphic animals.
2) I remember lavish, brightly colored illustrations. I think they were maybe Southwestern or Mexican style, big lettering and architecture to match.
I may be conflating details from several books, but I’m really hoping someone out there knows what I’m looking for!
When I was a child in the 1950s, I had a great book which told of children who find a dog who crashes into an orchestral rehearsal. One of the players plays an extract from Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegel (a musical joke for the players). Thus the dog is named Till Eulenspiegel. A fabulous story. I re-found a copy in a second hand book shop…but that was lost years ago…and now I’ve forgotten the title of the book. Can anyone help?
I’m looking for a book from the 60s or early 70s about a little boy leaning on a brick wall. Everyone who passes him asks him what he’s doing. He says he’s holding the wall up. They laugh. His mother insists he comes home for supper. He walks away. The wall collapses
Bennett Cerf’s Book of Laughs.