I’m looking for a book that may very well be out of print that I read and loved when I was a little girl in the mid 1960’s. It was about a mommy camel and her child (I think a boy camel) and a special necklace she gave him to wear around his neck. He became lost in the desert and spent most of the book searching for his mommy. He learned many lessons along the way and finally found her at the end. I believe the necklace had significance, maybe to keep reminding him of her. I have looked everywhere for this beautiful children’s picture book but cannot find it. Any ideas? Thanks so much!

I have one or two pages of what’s left of a children’s book that belonged to my family growing up in the 1950’s and 1960’s. I’m hoping beyond all hope that a very experienced person with a keen eye might be able to identify the book these pages came from and, if so, how I might be able to locate a complete copy.

The pages are actually stiff, thick board – like “Pat the Bunny.” Each page has a cut out that you could peak through to see an image on the next page. The theme of the book, as best as I can remember, was “transportation.” Each page had a different theme; one page depicted a train station, another a bustling city with cars and trucks, another a farm with a tractor, another a lakeside scene with a speed boat, etc., and the cutout was in the shape of an image coming up on the next page.

I’m attaching a few scans of what is left of the book. I would GREATLY appreciate any help you can offer, including referrals to other experts and resources that might be able to identify the book.

Thank you very much. 🙂

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I’m looking for children’s book about a caribou or moose who agrees to help animal friends by giving them a lift in his antlers. As the journey progresses more and more animals join in, but disagreements begin. Does anyone remember the name to that book?

I remember a story as a child about a boy who creeps out of his house at night to find a willow the wisp. When he does find it I think it tries to lure him into a bog or swamp, he then goes running back home.

Any ideas?

I am looking for a children’s book I had in the early 80’s. It was illustrated beautifully in light colours. I think it was about a family who’s mom was going to have a baby/hospital/bringing new baby home. There was a little girl in the story, a mom and dad… I loved it. My mom didn’t realize my love for that book and gave it away when I was pre-teen. I’d love to find it, thank you for any help you can give. It may have been an older story even then.

In the 80s or 90s (we read it around ages 4-8 in the mid nineties) but I believe it was a board book, could have not been, but it was about a kitty and each page was the kitten getting into something curious & each page read “No No Kitty, that’s hot” when he was on the counter nearing the stove, etc etc. Very short young toddler/childrens book but each page had No No Kitty that’s _____. It was my little sisters most favorite book & as an adult I’ve tried to find it so hard to give her as a gift to put a smile on her face ever since she was diagnosed with cancer. Google & amazon always comes up with another book called “no no kitten” but that’s not the correct book. Please please if anyone else remembers this I would be eternally grateful! . Thanks so much everyone!

Hello! I have spent years looking for this one: it was a children storybook with funny and beautiful illustrations about a creature whose parents were killed by hunters. At first the creature looks like a green worm but the rest of the animals don’t know what kind of creature it is. They give a red ribbon and a leaf to the creature and it uses the leaf as a boat to go down the river. The next spring the animals go looking for the creature and they discover that it has grown and it is in fact a huge green snake. The snake goes to meet them rolling down the hill like a hoop (biting its own tail), still wearing the red ribbon, and they all remain friends. My mother used to read this book to me around 1995, in Spanish, but I suspect it was a translation. This story was very dear to me, so every help would be appreciated.

Mess Pets by Jill McElmurry

Hannah and Hilary are identical red-headed twins who share a bedroom, feuding because Hannah is neat and organized and Hilary is hopelessly messy and downright dirty, with heaps of junk on her side of the room that include pizza crusts and dirty socks. The trash piles mysteriously produce two unusual pets, a dog-like imaginary creature named Mr. Peel for Hilary and an extra-long-tailed cat named Tip-Top for Hannah. In the strongest part of the story, the girls and their “mess pets” descend into the underworld that exists beneath messy rooms, with several humorous spreads showing map-like illustrations of fantastical formations such as Hairy Hairbrush Lane, Spilled Milk Lagoon, and Dust Bunny Mountain (complete with sneezing rabbits). When Hannah and Hilary hear their own arguments replayed by their bickering pets, they realize that compromise is in order, and a group rapprochement is achieved with a wallow in a huge banana split.

Hello! I’m looking for a children’s picture book, that featured a red headed man in a pink suit. It has him climbing a ladder and eating a strawberry, and other mundane things of the sort. I believe it’s from the 60’s or 70’s, as it my mother was gifted a first edition as a young child. I know this isn’t much to go one, but I’m asking where I can, in case anyone has a clue what I’m talking about.

Looking for a childrens/YA fiction novel, not sure when it might have been written. About a boy who has moved to a new town with his father (who might have been a minister?). I vividly remember him taking piano lessons with/visiting an elderly lady who was notorious across town for obsessing over her death and last words. She had a passionate dislike for Psalms 23 (“the lord is my shepherd”) and would practice giving long monologues whenever she thought she was dying, asking the boy to write it down to relate at her funeral. After one of these monologues, she asks the boy to go get her a beer, and then dies. At her funeral, everyone is waiting to hear her last words, but when the boy’s father learns what they were, he reads Psalms 23 instead. I remember the story having a “Because of Winn-Dixie” feel to it, if that helps.

I am looking for a book that I used to read in the late 90s early 2000s. The book is about a girl who teaches her dog to act like a human. The dog becomes really good at many different human things and becomes extremely popular. In the end, the dog decides that she does not want to be a human, but likes being a dog. Does anyone know anything about this book?

I’m trying to find the title to a children’s book my daughter remembers fondly (she was born early 1980’s). It was about a girl growing up through the years and even her marriage, plus the family relationships through the years. She remembers being entranced by the illustrations.

I am looking for a children’s book from the 1970s about an elephant being painted with dots and stripes, and looking in a mirror. Thank you

Hello I am trying to find i think a YA book about a girl she had sticks for hair or bled sap she started out in a small cabin in a village with a man healing then runs away and finds out she can control summer i think she was called summer girl by the end.

I’m looking for a childrens book read back in the 90s. Its about a pioneer girl and a wagon with a butter churn. every page stated clip clop because the wagon traveled on a brick road, at the end of the story the cream turned to butter. the book is short and in pioneer time.

I’m posting for a neighbor. She asks ” I’m looking for a book read by my nephew 25 years ago. He took this book out over and over again from school. This all I know of the book. Bigger than the “our new friends” book, cover might be red with picture of wagon and characters on the front. Story is about a man with a wagon containing a churn. They traveled down a brick road. On every page were the words klippity klop or klip klop. The child was dressed as a pioneer. When the story ends, the cream in the churn turned to butter.”

The Four-Legged Ghosts, by Mary Hoffman.

I am trying to find the name of a childhood book I absolutely loved. It was about angels and the story showed what angels did for every day of the week. It had the most wonderful illustrations. The angels looked more like children or babies? This book was lost decades ago and in all these many years of searching for it every time I’m in an antique store , garage sale, estate sale, or vintage book store I have never run across it. Would have been a 50’s book. Anyone ever remember seeing or owning this book? I do not remember the title. It was either a Little Golden Book, Wonder Book or similar size and style book. I do know the cover to that book did not survive its life with me so I’m thinking it was not a Golden Book because those book covers and bindings tended to hold up better than the other book publishers in that time frame. Fingers crossed someone here knows this book and where to get a copy! This has become a bucket list item!

i am looking for a children’s book about a tall girl and a short boy who become friends. it’s a chapter book with illustrations, i don’t really remember how anything looks but one part of the book that i vividly remember is when the short boy was dared into eating a worm but he tricked everyone by using a gummy worm. this book has been stuck in my mind and i’ve been trying to find it everywhere but i’ve had no such luck. thank you!

I am looking for a book from the late 80s/90s. It was an illustrated picture book, about a man who came to a dinner party (I think?) wearing a shirt that had tiny pictures of chickens all over the shirt. One of the chickens on the shirt came to life and jumped out of the shirt and caused all sorts of mayhem (I seem to remember something about laying an egg in someone’s soup)? I think the child in the book couldn’t tell anyone, or no one would listen to them, or something. At the end of the night the chicken jumps back onto the shirt, and I believe the owner of the chicken shirt gives a little wink to the child.

Please help! Thank you! 🙂

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Hi there. I was hoping the community could help me remember the title and author/editor of a collection of Halloween poems from my childhood. I remember having the book as a young child in the late 1980s/early 1990s, and it was already a little worn by then, so publication date could be from the 1970s. It had a blue cover with a yellow full moon and a silhouette of a castle, or creepy old house, possibly with the title also in yellow.

Unfortunately I can only remember one poem that told of a witch who went to help a local village during a plague and never returned, leaving her cat waiting in their home. The line ‘cat’s eyes, cat’s eyes, green as glass, tens of scores of years have passed’ is the only concrete sentence I can recall.

If anyone has any ideas or advice, it would be greatly appreciated.

There was a children’s book about household items that turned into birds at night. Shoes, spoons, umbrellas. It was illustrated. It was written in the 70’s, when I was a child. I have no idea what the title might be. Any help would be appreciated.