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I have been tying too track down a book I picked up in a scholastic book
fair sometime around the late 70s early 80s, it was a fun short story
and to the best i can remember the title was ‘My Life As A Teenage
Werewolf’ In the story a teen boy finds out he is a werewolf and some
typical things for such a story happen like hiding the news from family
and getting caught up in hijincks. One such case was the boy getting
stuck in a neighbors garage overnight because he was hiding from people
who he thought were after him. when his family does find out its the
mother and she reveals herself to be a werewolf herself, the reveal was
along the lines of the boy was being chased by this much larger wolf he
didnt know who was much larger and more powerful, which fit, the boy was
a kid and she was an adult.
I have run searches by the title and the closest i find are 2 totally
different era stories. 1 was actually a 50s era horror movie, or so its
billed, the other is a very recent story with no resemblance to that old
book beyond the title
I am searching for a chapter book I read in 4th or 5th grade. It was about a girl from centuries ago (I’m thinking Victorian era) who becomes very ill and feverish. She may have been a princess or from some wealthy family, but I’m not certain. She passes out and when she awakes, she is in modern times (1980’s). She is both baffled and delighted by the modern world. I don’t recall what all happens, but she does end up making it back to her original time period. Does this sound familiar to anyone? My daughter is really into time travel books, and I want to find this one for her!
Hello! I am looking for a picture book from maybe the late seventies or early eighties. It is a day in the life of a babysitter who is a man maybe in his twenties. He is babysitting two or three kids, one in a stroller. They are in a city, the home is an apartment. I feel like I was able to remember the title ten years ago, but have forgotten again. Thank you for any suggestions!
Hi all! I am looking for a book from my childhood. I was born in 1981, and I started reading at age 3. The first book I remember was about a boy who lived on a farm and found a horse, then the horse had to be sold. I don’t remember the title, but I remember it was a bigger book with a red cover (think text book size). It may have had a picture of the horse on the cover. And the pictures inside were real, not drawings. I would be thrilled if anyone is able to help!
C.W. Anderson’s books are illustrated in a very realistic style that could be remembered as photographs–could it be one of his?
My daughter is SEARCHING for a book she read over and over as a child (early 2000’s). She remembers vague details about the book. She remembers is was about a girl on an adventure to save…plants or family, beautiful blue & green illustrations, the girl starring out the window of a clay(ish) house, and an illustration of a gold river. Maybe someone can do better than me!
im looking for a book series that were about 3 boys who got in trouble alot somethings that did happen was the 3 boys made fake bear foot prints and you only hear the 2 boys name not the main characters name i read this book in 2-5 grade and i want to find it for my sister plz help
I’m trying to remember a short illustrated book, probably for 6-8 year olds (?) from the 70s or 80s about a musical tramp (sorry for not-so-PC word). The story ends with him playing the piano at a garden party with a mayor and lots of mice come out of the piano and everyone is horrified. Any help would be much appreciated as I’ve drawn a complete blank!
Try this one: Ramsbottom Rag, by Christopher Masters.
Yes! Oh thank you so much, I’d come to the conclusion that I’d imagined the whole thing. Thank you – you’ve made my day!
That’s great! Thanks for posting back.
Hello. This book is a kid’s/early reader fantasy similar to Harry Potter(ish) All I remember is the cover had this patchwork quilt on it – maybe leading up to a castle? My sister thinks the main male protagonist was named Will. I also think there was a wizard that the main protagonist needed to prove something to and eventually, he was given the castle.
I haven’t read it and it seems like a long-shot, but any chance this is The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop? It was published in 1984 and the protagonist is named William.
Is there any chance this is The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop? The protagonist is named William, he’s given the titular castle (but at the beginning of the book), and there’s a wizard for an antagonist.
Hi, I read a book to my sons in early 70’s. I remember the first line was A is for apples that grow on my bed and sometimes when I’m sleeping they fall on my head. I’m looking for a lead on replacing this book.
Birds in my Drawer by JoAnne Wood.
I am looking for a beautifully illustrated children’s book about two brothers. One with skin of silver and the other of gold. The one with silver skin represented the moon and the one with gold skin represented the sun. I have searched folktales and African folktales. American folktales. Nothing. My sister is pregnant and wanted to have this for her baby.
I’m looking for a book (series?) about a group of sisters (princesses?) and one befriends a dragon. The dragon has eggs and each of the sisters gets a baby dragon. It was a picture book i read in the 1980s and the illustrations were mostly green and white. I think they may have worn red or orange hats?
From UK here, So there was a book I always used to take out from the library which was a picture book about a girl growing up in a house and very page she would look older until finally she moved out as an adult. All these pictures where very photo realistic which stays with me but I just want to know what book it was. Thanks
I remember a book of short stories for children from the 1960’s and one of the stories was about 2 boys who I believe fell through the ice and found their way to an old woman’s home where she warmed them in a feather bed with old fashioned bed warmers under the mattress. I remember I loved it and read it repeatedly as a child, but now I can’t seem to find the title of this story?
I’m looking for a children’s home from the 90’s/early 2000’s. It was the story of a little boy with a blue plaid stuffed puppy dog that he carried every where. He Swamy with it and dropped it in mud and spilled chocolate milk on it. One day it tore and his mother took him to get another one. I remember there was like almost two full pages of just weird looking stuffed animals. This has bugged me for years please please help me find this book so I can share it with my niece
Looking for a book from late 60’s or early 70’s. It was a book about a mom who wouldn’t let her son play football but agreed that he could be the punter. In a game, the punt is blocked and goes back to the kid and he runs and scores a touchdown. Matt Christopher has a book called Crackerjack Halfback (aka Halfback Attack) and I thought it was the same book but the plot is different (found Halfback Attack on AbeBooks). My first grandson was born a month ago and wanted to find it to give to him.
I’m looking for a book I read when I was younger (a sorta scary one) in it a new girl comes to the mcs school and has no friends and seems a little weird, the mc talks to her and ends up getting invited to a sleepover with just the two of them, when the mc (who is also female) gets there and goes into the girls room there’s dolls lining the room, the mother also acts almost scared of the girl, at night they talk a bit about what their favorite candys are etc. And the MC keeps thinking she’s hearing the dolls whispering, the MC goes to sleep and when’s she wakes up the girl has turned her into a doll, (there’s a part about the girl putting a blue mnm to the mcs lips like she’s feeding her I think?) Then the girl packs up all the dolls including the MC who were also people turned into dolls, and they move to another town.
That’s the most I can remember, please please help me find this book!!
Two suggestions from another board:
A Very Strange Doll’s House by Jennifer Dussling
Short story in the book Scary Stories for Sleepovers called “The Dollhouse”
I’m trying to remember a picture book about a world that goes from black and white to color. I think it was probably from the 1970s or 1980s and might have involved a hot air balloon.
Hello I am looking for two children’s books.
The first one is about a mommy and baby bunny and all I remember is that at the end the baby bunny puts his pink striped pajamas on and eats the cookies his mother made which have pink icing and they snuggle together.
The second book was about a bunch of animals who were following a treasure map to the blueberry pie hills or something and at the end they find the pie hills and they all have a tea party.
When my nephew was a little boy, he loved a poem about Gypsy Joe, it started off…. “Gypsy Joe was six foot tall and wore a moleskin coat, A spotted scarf as red as blood was tied around his throat ….. ” Does anyone know of this poem or who wrote it. This was mid 1970s
I vividly remember an early reader book or picture book (from the 80’s?) that involved a digger truck with a big claw mouth (or was it a dragon??) that ended up eating a bunch of pies. There was a character that was a knight who was funny and this might have been a series or standalone. Please let me know if that rings a bell for anyone!
Hello–I’m looking for a book that was read to me in the 80s. It was about some woodland creatures. They lived in a round house, and then in a triangle house. I believe one of the houses burned down. I can’t recall any other details except for the view of the inside of the two houses.
I immediately thought of The Faraway Tree, but I can barely remember that myself so I might be wrong.
I am looking for a children’s book I had as a child. Not sure when it was published but I was born in 1985. The book was about ponies who started building walls by piling up sticks thickly around each of their claimed grazing territories, and ended with the ponies realizing they were lonely and tearing down the walls. beautiful message and illustrations, i would die to track it down.
Mumkin! It’s a serendipity book by Stephen Cosgrove. One of my faves as a kid!
I remember this book! It’s called Mumkin by Stephen Cosgrove of the Serendipity series. Gorgeous illustrations by Robin James.
thank you so much!!!!
Hello, I’m looking for a children’s picture book from the 1980s / 1990s. I believe it was a book about squirrels (or other rodents) battling it out against rhinos (or some other type of animal), in very detailed pictures (like Where’s Waldo). Each set of pages presented a different scene. What I found really interesting about it was how intricate each scene was, how the animals were personified, and the fantastical human like structures.
Any help or suggestions on what the book might be called would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
Trouble for Trumpets?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/396809.Trouble_for_Trumpets
I am looking for a series of paperback or cloth small books printed in sepiatones that were all about the secret world of elves and fairies. They were lying in a pile in the windowsill of my elementary classroom in the early 1950’s. I was a fast reader and when I finished my seat work, my teacher would tell me to “go get an elf book”! I adored these books. They meant I would be left alone to read as much as I wanted AND the ink drawings about all of these creatures in their secret world, leaves serving as magical boats in the stream etc., kept my mind engaged! I can’t seem to find these well worn “booklets” anywhere. Any ideas?
Hi I am looking for a children’s book possibly British , published perhaps in the 1940’s or 50″s. The main characters were Towzle (a cat) Miranda (a maid or housekeeper) and a wizard (for whom Miranda kept house) I hazily remember two chapters 1. a day at the seaside and 2. they thwart a burglar. Not a great deal to go on but any suggestions would be appreciated!
Even the Cat Could Talk, by Muriel Holland.
That’s the book! I cannot thank you enough for your assistance. I have been trying to remember the title of the book for ages. Thank you!!
You’re very welcome!
I had a book when I was around 6 – 8 yrs. old, early to mid 1950’s. It was about a couple of kids who helped an elderly man straighten and organize his store. They put alphabet signs in the grass and organized items by letter. The title was something like The Store at Criss Cross Corner. I’ve searched for that title to no avail. Anyone recognize the story line….and title?
Almost right: The Store at Criss Cross Corners, by Marjorie Medary.
The book starts with an animal painter who can’t think of what to paint so he adds a fat line to the canvas. Another animal comes along and paints a thinner line within the first. This goes on for a few colors until the canvas is finished and it ends up displayed in an art gallery.
I’m looking for a nursery rhyme book. It was small like 8×6 maybe. The inside pages had illustrations that were black and white with yellow and red accents. I was reading it in 86 and it was worn a good bit. So it could be much older than the 80s. Please help!
Fingers crossed!
Hello I’m looking for the title of a children’s book from the 90s or early 00s I think. It was about a little boy or girl (can’t remember) and they wanted to invite different monsters to their party (a ghost, Frankenstein, Dracula etc), each page had a little flap door that u opened with a monster behind it. The end page was a huge party for the little child with all the monsters there. I cant for the life of me think what it was called or who the author was
Im searching far and wide for this right now and I cant remember anything but each monster had a customized letter or invitation you could open and read and it was themed to the monster. I must know what it is. Someone help!
Yes! I absolutely loved this book when I was a kid, I would love to find it for my son now, please someone help!
Hello, I’ve been looking for a children’s book, an anthology, of short stories all of about women heroines. One of the stories involved the hawaiin tale of the women in the moon. It was VIVIDLY illustrated. Another story was about a caribbean woman who found precious stones inside a fish. help! (please note, it is NOT “The woman in the moon and other tales of forgotten heroines”)
Help with name of a children’s book about animals beginning with each letter of the alphabet
Trying to buy my daughter the same book I read when I was a kid 80s-90s. It had in alphabetical order animals and a name for each animal with a short story for each. Any help or suggestions. The animal for n might have been newt.
Hello, I am looking for a book that I had when I was about 9/10 years old I carried this book every where with me and I believed it was published in the late 80’s/ early 90s. But from what I can remember from it there were a lot of different animals, some in like a glass house, some in the forest with gold. And the art was so beautiful and vibrant as vague as this description is that’s all I can remember.
My daughter was talking about a book she read in the first grade. Something about a dog who somehow runs away from his owner who is a farmer. The farmer becomes depressed, trying to fill the place of the dog with several other animals, a pig in particular. Anywise he can’t find anyone to fill the place, rationalizing that the dog cannot be replaced. He is reunited with the dog. My daughter says the book might have had a light blue cover. Any help is greatly appreciated.
I am looking for the name of a picture book about a woman who has too much stuff so she decides to organize everything alphabetically. Anything that starts with “A” goes in the “A” room, etc. Thank you!
Hey there, does it happen to be this?
A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
Book by Judith Flanders
The Perfectly Orderly H-O-U-S-E, by Ellen Kindt McKenzie.
That’s it!! Thank you!
You’re welcome!
Looking for a children’s book about a cat who wanted to be a tiger, so a witch or someone turns him into one. He tries to jump on the counter but knocks things over, he doesn’t fit through the cat flap. When he wants to be a cat again he goes through the town looking for help but everyone is afraid of him. Eventually he ends up in the zoo. Someone changes him back at the end.
I’m looking for a book I read as a kid. Think 70s, maybe 80s. Part of the name is “Is That you, …? ” I can’t remember the kids name, but it’s about a lazy kid who is plump, who wishes he was like the athletic cool kid in his class. In a “Freaky Friday” situation, he wakes up the next morning and on the outside, he is that athletic cool kid, but still his lazy self inside. All throughout the day, the adults, the teachers, the parents are asking, “Is that you,…?” Towards the end, he’s looking forward to the race at the end of the day, because he’s sure he’ll win in the cool kids body. But it’s the cool kid in HIS body that wins, because he pushed himself to win.
I am looking for a children’s book where the child (boy I believe) repeatedly asks his mother when his birthday is and the mother replies “when the apple tree blossoms.”
I’m looking for a book that was read to me in the 1960s about a fish that always swam the other way from his school. I can’t remember the title or author. Thank you!
Perhaps Swimmy by Leo Leonni? It was a 1964 Caldecott Honor Book.
“Deep in the sea lives a happy school of fish. Their watery world is full of wonders, but there is also danger, and the little fish are afraid to come out of hiding . . . until Swimmy comes along. Swimmy shows his friends how—with ingenuity and team work—they can overcome any danger.”
It was a graphic novel read in 2006-2010. The pages were white with green ink. It was an original fantasy world, with a giant ?beanstalk? in the center? Or maybe the characters themselves were beans? Below the world there were these nerd worms. I’ve been trying to grind this series forever, so any help is appreciated.
How about this one?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3284582-jack-and-the-beanstalk
Possibly the Beanworld series by Larry Marder?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_the_Beanworld
http://www.rdrop.com/~half/BeanWeb/Introduction.html
http://cbldf.org/2015/05/using-graphic-novels-in-education-beanworld/
It was a school kids book about two twins where one of them – I think her name was Martha or Bella uses blonde hair dye to pretend to be her sister and go to a concert because im pretty sure her twin was like a celebrity. Would really appreciate if anyone could tell me the title although im positive that it’s unheard of.
My Double Life?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6658565-my-double-life
I had a book when I was a kid, it was an abc pop-up book. I vaguely remember some of the animals in the book there was the acrobatapillers, the fluffalo, and the mistletoad. There was also an opera singing t-rex. I’ve found the book once and I cant ever find it again when I search.
Curious Critters: A Pop-Up Menagerie, by Alan Benjamin.
Hi There! I’m in search of a children’s book late 1980s to mid 1990s. It was portrait/vertical format. There are all these animals and a giraffe that get together to make different foods for a carnival or bizarre for the town and there is this image of a huge tower of food that’s stacked high with tarts and all these culinary delicacies. I remember really loving the images, too bad my mom ditched all my childhood books. Any leads would be appreciated as I’d love to find a used copy for my child.
I am trying to remember the name of this book I had as a kid. It’s about a grumpy elf/gnome (not sure which) that has some kind of craftsman occupation- makes shoes maybe?- and lives in a cute cottage, maybe inside a tree. He has no friends except his pet snail. When his pet snail dies he’s super sad but then he gets a new snail. Sounds uneventful but I loved this book as a kid!
Elmer the Grump, by Elizabeth Haidle.
Thank you, MamaSquirrel!! You’re absolutely right. Heading to AbeBooks to purchase now 🙂
Great! Enjoy your book.
Oh, that looks promising! Thank you!
Great! Thanks for posting back.
I’m looking for a book that is SO near and dear to my heart. I had it memorized as a toddler I loved it so much! It was about a child going to a bakery and helping Grandma Raccoon bake cookies for children that are in the hospital. They may have been Christmas cookies? I thought it was called Grandmother Raccoon’s Bakery but I haven’t been able to find it in google. I just had my first baby and I’m hoping to find it so I can share it with her. Thank you so much for your time!!
The Christmas Cookies, by Andy Rector.
https://beccahorgan.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/the-christmas-cookies/
I am absolutely speechless and in tears just seeing it! From the bottom of my heart thank you so much!!
You’re welcome, glad I could help.
I have a few shards of memory of a book that I enjoyed as a child. It was a thrilling adventure set in Holland or Germany, I think. There was a boy and a girl who I think were siblings. They had worked out a code which stood them in good stead when one or both of them were kidnapped. I remember that one of them was trapped in a wall or in a closet and couldn’t make a noise, but somehow used the code?
This book is from before the 70s, I’m pretty sure. Thanks for any help!
Try this one: The Mysterious Schoolmaster, by Karin Anckarsvard.
Adding a picture of the cover of The Black Horse:
Possibly The Black Horse by Marianna Mayer?
“A poor Irish prince wins the love of the Princess of the Mountians after helping her to escape the wicked Sea King with magical aid of a mysterious black horse.”
“Creditors evict Prince Tim from the family castle following the death of his father, but being unrealistically optimistic, he sets out to make his fortune with nothing but an old nag. Suddenly, a mysterious stranger on a spirited black stallion rides up and offers to trade horses with Tim. Tim agrees, and since he has no real plans, he tells the horse to take him wherever the horse would like. The Black Horse takes him to the bottom of the ocean where Tim is immediately placed under spell of the evil Sea King who commands him to abduct a beautiful princess to be his bride.
Having gotten Tim into this mess, the Black Horse agrees to help him. Tim kidnaps the princess as instructed and returns with her to the bottom of the ocean. But she then sets three impossible tasks to try to avoid marrying the Sea King. Of course, Tim is ordered to perform these tasks because villains always delegate the dirty work. Once the princess realizes Tim is under a spell and not in league with the evil Sea King, she does feel a bit bad about sending him to almost certain death, but a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do, and she’s not going to marrying the Sea King to spare a handsome toady. With the help of the Black Horse, Tim succeeds in each of the tasks, and then the princess outwits the evil Sea King, which frees up Tim, the princess, and the Black Horse to live happily ever after.”
Possibly The Churkendoose by Ben Ross Berenberg? It was published as a Wonder Book in 1946 and reprinted in 1974. There is also a 2003 version by Lynda Bulla with different illustrations
“In the story, the strange Churkendoose is hatched on a farm. The merry but odd creature is driven away by the other animals, but is welcomed back after saving them from a fox.”
The Churkendoose is not a chicken. Not a turkey. Not a duck. And not a goose.
I found this one:
https://www.cambridge.org/us/education/subject/reading-series/rainbow-reading/water-words-water-paperback?isbn=9780521756440&format=PB
https://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/56440/excerpt/9780521756440_excerpt.pdf
It would be helpful to know the year of publication, or at least the year you read it. I found this one, but it is a retriever, not a setter.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1641757.Sally_s_Snow_Adventure
It would have been from the early 80’s
I’m not sure I can provide much more, in terms of context, but I’ll try. I grew up in Brentwood, a neighborhood in West Los Angeles, California. The book belonged to my older siblings, who were born in 1956, 1958 and 1961, so I imagine the book was purchased somewhere in that time period.
Thank you for your help. 🙂
Looking from a children’s book from the 80’s. It was about a dog and cat who had birthdays and the cat gave the dog a bone wrapped up and the dog gave the cat a fish toy. I can’t recall if it was a golden book but it was similar in size. This has escaped me my entire life but sticks out as a childhood book I loved.
I am looking for a book that I think I got from the Scholastic book sales at my school in Texas. Would have been around 1973 to 1977. It was about young people who raced bicycles.
Bicycles North: A Mystery on Wheels, was a Whitman book (hardcover) that was popular around that time. But there may have been Scholastic paperbacks more about racing–I’m just not sure of the titles. Maybe something by Matt Christopher?
That might be it! I remember that it had a weird color scheme and this definitely fits the bill!
I’m looking for a children’s book about a carpenter or sawmill worker turning an old woman into wood to heal her. The sawmill worker turns her into wood and trims her up and then turns her back into a person. There is an apprentice involved that doesn’t follow the rules and isn’t successful. My 26 y/o nephew remembers the book from childhood but can’t remember the title.
Adding a couple of pictures for The Boy Who Fooled the Giant:
https://imgur.com/a/oGwpDFz
Maybe take a look at Jenny and the Cat Club by Esther Averill? It’s about a little black orphan cat, Jenny Linsky, who is adopted by Captain Tinker. She is very timid, but watches the Cat Club singing outside. When Captain Tinker decides she should spend some time outdoors in the garden, she hides under a rose bush and watches the Cat Club – but is afraid to come out and join them. When two of the cats, Romulus and Remus, discover her under the rose bush, they invite her to join them – but at the last minute, she panics and runs home. She hides in the cellar on a soap box and won’t answer when the other cats come to her window. After that, she stays indoors. In the winter, the captain floods his garden. The water freezes, creating a skating pond for the children – and Jenny decides that she would like to skate. The captain surprises her with a pair of tiny ice skates for Christmas, and she goes out on the ice. When the other cats see her, they are astonished and ask her to join them – and this time she accepts.
The Boy Who Fooled the Giant by Tamara Kitt.
There was a 9 year old boy named Billy who was too little to do anything, like ride his father’s horse or shoot his bow and arrow, but he said “Maybe I am little, but I can do big things. One day I will show them.” Not far away lived a giant who ate 100 cows for supper every day and 100 eggs for breakfast every day. He was eating all the cows and eggs, drinking all the water in the river, and even smashing houses just for fun. He was a magic giant, who could turn himself into anything – like a tiger, an elephant, or even a dragon. The king offered a great reward to whoever could get rid of the giant. Billy set out to get rid of the giant. Billy went to see the giant and said that he was stronger than the giant. The giant laughed at him and offered him gold if he could prove he was stronger, but Billy told him that he did not want gold – he wanted the giant to go far, far away. Billy gave the giant a white stone and challenged the giant to squeeze water from it – while he squeezed water out of a cheese that just looked like a stone. He then gave the giant a small brown ball and challenged him to throw it higher into the air than he could. The giant threw his ball and it was a long time before it came back down – but then Billy threw a little brown bird into the air, and of course it went very, very high – and did not come down at all. The giant refused to accept that Billy was stronger and showed him that he could turn into a tiger, an elephant, and a dragon. Billy told him that it was easy to turn into a large animal, since the giant was already large – but asked if he could turn into something small, like a cat or a mouse (which the giant did) – or even a fly. When the giant turned into the fly to prove Billy wrong, Billy swatted him with a flyswatter – and that was the end of the giant.
Sounds like Jack and the Beanstalk!
Hello! I am looking for a book I read in elementary school; late 70s early 80s. A new girl comes to town and she may have been black. She teaches a small group of kids to fly. An old lady in the neighborhood catches them and wants to fly too, but the girl has to tell her she can’t because she grew up. Ringing any bells? Thanks!
The Summer Birds, by Penelope Farmer.
I’m looking for the name of an illustrated children’s book that has a giant who ate 1000 eggs per day and 500 cows.. something like that
Hey Guys im really having a hard time finding this one. Its a book i used to read when I was pretty young. It was a book about Irish setter named Sally that I think gets lost and then finds her way home. I thought it was called Sally the setter. But I cannot find anything on this at all. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Me and my sisters have been trying to find this book for years. It’s about dinosaurs or maybe alligators or something along those lines.. And theyre all doing people activities. One is putting on pants. One is washing a car. Another one is eating pizza. I’m pretty sure they’re all wearing clothes and they look very 90s?
I am looking for a short novel that might have been called Wolf. The novel debunks many myths about wolves, and features a group of actors who devise a play about them, using masks.
I am also looking for a short novel in Medieval England (I believe) in which the baker’s daughter has to take over the bakery and run it while her father is away. The book references lots of old fashioned festival breads and pastries. Most of the bakers cannot read and she has to read them the recipes, they recite them back, and then go and bake.
I’m looking for a book my nana always would read me when I was little and all I can remember is crackle crackle went the fire bubble bubble went the kettle
I’m looking for a book about a cat who is afraid to come out from under the dining table. A cat from the neighboring apartment (?) comes through the window and coaxes the scared cat out into the wider world. It had pen and ink illustrations, in a similar style to Edward Gorey but with skewed visual perspective (ie. square things were not square).
i’ve been trying to remember/find the same book from when i was a kid for YEARS and every time i google the description, i get nowhere. so here’s my last hope. it sucks because i can literally see the book in my mind but i can’t remember the title or anything so here goes nothing. it’s an old kids book with illustrations of nature and bugs and you have to find a number (i’m pretty sure it was the page number). there’s one specific page i remember it was a tree with the number within the leaves or branch i think number 7 or 3 idk. and there’s like rollie pollies on one page and stuff like that. this has been killing me for YEARS pls help!
I am looking for a book my 2nd grade teacher read to us in 1967 or 1968. It was about an elephant family (mom, dad, and baby) a mischievous monkey and a little boy named TomTom.
Possibly Sonny Elephant by Madge Bigham.
“Story takes place in India and is about the adventures of Sonny Elephant, a baby elephant, and his mother Mumsy and his daddy Papsy.”
“This book is about domesticating wild elephants to become the workhorses for men. It describes the world from the point of view of a family of elephants, for the most part, and also from a human family, particularly a father and son, Tom Tom.”
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A friend has been trying for years to find a book with characters who were American Indians and they were best friends. The names were something like Yachalani or Yatchalani and Catcha. He thinks he was in Jr High when he read the book, He’s 79 now. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
I am looking for a book i read as a child so it could be a late 70’s or early 80’s book probably. From what i remember, it was about a young boy who made a yellow dragon kite and then i think he came alive. I think it was a paperback book and mainly blue on the front with a picture of the dragon kite on the front and the boy maybe. Anyone know this book?
I’m looking for a children’s book of poetry. I remember having it in the early 2000s. I believe it had a white cover and I believe there was a poem that had to deal with a dragon maybe?
Maybe one of Shel Silverstein’s books of poetry? There are a couple with white covers. Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, and Falling Up are his popular compilations of children poetry. I am sure there are probably dragon poems in each one.
Hi! I am looking for a childhood book in which the main character was a little girl with I want to say brown hair and bangs, wearing blue Jean overalls and Pink
High top converses. Through the book I remember she talked about wanting to be a grown up and how when she would be grown up she would tie her shoes by herself, catch fireflies and get food by herself? I think. Please all suggestions welcome I have been non stop thinking of this book
I’m looking for a childhood book. I’m not sure when it was published but it would have been late 90s-early 2000s. It was a picture book and had great rhymes, so I had it memorized. The only details I remember are that it was about transportation- planes, trains, automobiles, and I think I remember Timbuktu being mentioned in the book.
So I have recently unlocked a memory about a book similar to I Spy but I don’t think it was an I Spy book because I have been checking, and none of them are it. Basically I specifically remember a photography similar to Walter Wick’s based find and seek book with random objects turned into the landscapes. For example, one page I remember a house and inside the house was a living room with chairs made of scalloped biscuit cookies, and a scene of the kitchen and then I remember the last page being a farm/landscape with a train made of other objects. Does anyone know what this books?
I’m going to go out on a limb and say it was the Big Big Storybook, which does have Pitapat but which has Hucklebones rather than Clip Clop (stories I think you could mix up easily). Look for the 1955 edition.
Thank you so very much ! I believe you are correct.Now I have a way to search for it.Thank you !!!!
I’m looking for a short book I read to my son 35 yrs ago. All we can remember is the phrase “It’s not a goose” which made him laugh with delight. Anyone able to help ?
I’m looking for a children’s book. It was read to me as a child in about 2000. It’s about a man who I remember looked dirty or homeless, and he comes into this nice looking quiet town and somehow disturbs it. I think he steals a lovely old motor car, either that or he owned it. But in the end he is asked to leave or booted out of the town. I can’t remember the name but I feel it has Mr or Motor car in the title
I grew up in America, but I’m looking for a book I had as a child, with short stories from around the world. Now, it’s dated for sure, but I remember stories about a bush baby animal from Dahomey, and the reason why the snow is different colours sometimes on Mt. Fuji, and so on. I think it was something like 365 Bedtime Stories from Around the World, it had a blue cover with a colourful illustration on it, but any books I’ve found with similar titles aren’t it at all. This would have been the very early 1970’s, or maybe late 1960’s, as I think the book belonged to my older brother.
I’m looking for a children’s book from the 90s, my version was a purple hard cover printed landscape. It was a collection of kids stories and poems including but not limited to: the wolf and the seven young kids, the boy and the moon, one two buckle my shoe, billy goats gruff, the crow and the fox and quite a few more. Any help would be amazing!
I’m looking for a book from the 90s it was purple and had a collection of kids stories and poems including but not limited to: the wolf and the seven young kids, the boy and the moon, three billy goats gruff, one two buckle my shoe, the fox and the crow and quite a few more all in one book. If anyone could help me with a title that would be amazing!!
I’m trying to find a children’s search and find book from the 90’s (similar to Where’s Wally). You helped a grey/black and white dog find his lost bone which is wrapped in purple ribbon. You search for it on each double page which has different themes like a park, village and one is a museum as I recall the dog running off with a dinosaur bone. I feel like the dog is called Digby or Gizmo but really can’t be sure.
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Charlotte
Looking for a 1960’s Scholastic Tab book. Cover had colors of orange, yellow, and brown. A girl in a plaid mini-skirt. High school setting. A new boy comes to the school; his name is Geoffrey, and he is from England. Sure would love to find this book!
I’m trying to find a children’s book series that I grew up with in the 90’s. It was about a group of kids who rode on a special, futuristic train named ‘ALEC’. They would travel around the world and help solve mysteries. It was amazing, and I want to try and find actual books of it. I haven’t been able to find them anywhere. It has nothing to do with Thomas the Tank Engine (which always shows up when I look). I don’t remember the name or the author. Just that the train could talk.
I remember in one book, they meet a man in the wilderness. He puts on some new clothing, and he exclaims, “It’s as soft as a baby’s bottom!” which makes all the kids in the book laugh. It’s the only scene I remember.
I had a book when I was young that I don’t remember the title or author of, but it was about this magical black horse that carried a man wherever he asked him to go, and eventually they go to the bottom of the sea to get something from a sea witch and then the man gets married and the sea witch tries to come up the well? And then at the end the horse transforms into a man I think. It was super super beautifully and intricately illustrated in color.
I am looking for a beautifully illustrated children’s book that I read as a child in the 1980’s that may have been set in Africa, about two little boys: one represented the sun, and I think was gold, and the other the moon, and was silver. It feels like it was recounting a folktale, but I don’t recall the storyline. Sound familiar?
I’m looking for a book I read in the 90s. Its a childrens reading textbook, the kind they have in schools. It had a bunch of stories and tales, poems etc. The ones I can remember are the great big enormous turnip, specifically the one the illustrator Helen oxenbury. It also had the gunnywolf, with illustrations by A. Delaney. I know it also had the queen of hearts poem, about her being picky about tarts. The cover had a scribble style ladybug I believe on a leaf. I’ve been able to find these stories individually, but I’d love to even have a name for this textbook compilation of authors and illustrators. I’ve been looking for it for years.
Hello, I am looking for a book that I read as a child, but that belonged to one of my aunts or uncles when they were kids, so dating back to the 60s or maybe early 70s. I’ve asked them, and they don’t remember the book.
It was about a young boy who went grocery shopping with his mother but got separated from her. He wanders around lost, and eventually finds another child (I believe a black boy?) who is also separated from his parents. They have misadventure, including building a hidden fortress out of canned goods. I think I remember in one of the illustrations, there is a signboard advertising a product: “DOOF: It’s ‘Food’ backwards!”.
I have been trying to find this book for probably fifteen years at least. I have found nothing. Does anyone here have any clue of what I’m talking about?
Thank you!
Hello Henry.
I remember a picture book inread back in elementary school (2000-2006) about a boy that goes to a park and is very popular there. He grows old and his life becomes joyless and then one day hes walking home he sees a bush and he falls through it and is a kid again at the park.
Hi, I am looking for a book I had as a child in 1980s, which introduced me to the love of reading. It is a hardbound book with red cover and contains a compilation of children’s stories/fairytales. It’s got beautiful and colorful illustrations on every page. It had stories such as “I Think I Could”(about a train who never gave up). Another story in it was I think about a mouse with red beautiful shoes, then this baker/witch who lives in a forest and who bakes yummy pies and so many other wonderful stories in it. I wish I could find a copy of that book again. I believe it is from the U.S. and somehow got to my country (Philippines) via donation. Thank you.
Possibly More Friends and Neighbors, in which case the story about the mouse with red shoes is Little Mouse Dances by Elizabeth Upham, and the story about the train would be The Little Engine by Mabel C. Bragg.
The stories Little Mouse Dances and The Little Engine are also included in a later edition titled The New More Friends and Neighbors – but that one doesn’t have a red cover.
My mum use to read me a book or a series of books about an owl called hoot or hooty and as a result of this my family nickname is actually hooty because of this book!! Now none of us can remember the title or if it was filled hoot or the owl in it was just called hoot and it’s incredibly frustrating! I was born in 1990 so I would think it would have been first published in the early or mid 90s .
Thank you so much!
I’m looking for a book about a little girl with six dolls, one for each day of the week. She finds a doll maker to make her a Sunday doll. It’s from the 1950/60s and may be a Golden Book. Any help will be appreciated
The Surprise Doll by Morrell Gipson.
“Mary’s father was a sea captain who took long trips across the ocean, bringing back a doll from each journey. Soon Mary had six dolls and wished for a seventh one to become her “Sunday” doll. But Mary’s father said six dolls was enough for any girl, so she set off to visit the Dollmaker, and, oh, was she in for a surprise!”
I’m looking for a book about a little girl with six dolls, one for each day of the week. She finds a doll maker to make her a Sunday doll. It’s from the 1950/60s and may be a Golden Book. Any help will be appreciated.
The Surprise Doll by Morrell Gipson.
“Mary’s father was a sea captain who took long trips across the ocean, bringing back a doll from each journey. Soon Mary had six dolls and wished for a seventh one to become her “Sunday” doll. But Mary’s father said six dolls was enough for any girl, so she set off to visit the Dollmaker, and, oh, was she in for a surprise!”
Hi! I’ve been looking for a book and the main character is an older African American woman who lives in a treehouse and always makes hats for this annual competition at church. She is friends with a pigeon who breaks something and can’t fly south for the winter so he stays with her and inspires her to make a hat with a bird’s nest on top that ends up winning the competition at church. I think her name is Mabel or Mabelle.
Maebelle’s Suitcase by Tricia Tusa.
“One-hundred-and-eight-year-old Maebelle has a lot of hats. And every year she makes a hat for the town’s annual hat contest. One-hundred-and-eight-year-old Maebelle has a lot of friends. And every year her friends fly south for the winter. But this year, one of her friends is left behind. Young Binkle is afraid to leave home without his beloved possessions. So he packs his things into one of Maebelle’s suitcases. But he can’t fly with it. It is too heavy.
Maebelle has worked hard on her hat entry. She is very pleased with her work. But her friend Binkle needs help. She must persuade him to leave his things behind.”
“Maebelle sets aside the hat she has created for the local contest in order to ease a neighbor (bird’s) transition down south.”
Hello,
I’m looking for a book that I loved in the seventies about a group of animal friends who found a reason to keep their Christmas tree up all year (the reasons being birthdays, Easter, other holidays). Can anyone help?
The Tree That Stayed Up Until Next Christmas by Robert Kraus?
“Three toy friends decide to leave their Christmas tree up for Valentine’s Day–and the next holiday, and the next–until suddenly it’s Christmas again!”
That’s it! Thank you so much – I’ll be tracking a copy down.
Glad I could help! Thanks for posting back.
I’m trying to find a book I read as a child in the 90’s. You helped a dog find his lost bone on each page (like Where’s Wally) The bone had a purple ribbon wrapped around it and I believe the dog was black/grey and white (possibly called Digby but I can’t be sure of this) I recall when looking on pages the dog itself being up to mischief for example one page the dog was stealing a dinosaur bone instead as he couldn’t find his.
I’m looking for two children’s books from my childhood. The first is a version of ALADDIN (not anything to do with Disney’s Aladdin) that came out, probably, in the early 1980s. All I can remember about it was that it was hardcover, had an overall tan color to the cover, and included the stories of the genie of the ring and the genie of the lamp. The second book I’m looking for is a picture book (maybe a pop-up book?) about two children who explore a haunted house. It probably was published sometime in the 1990s. I vividly remember the end, where a creature in the haunted house puts a spell on the girl, and she slowly transforms into a hideous monster right behind her unsuspecting brother. Please help if you can. Thank you!
I’m looking for a book that my brother loved in the 1970’s. I want to say the story was French, but I don’t know for sure. If I recall correctly, the pictures were pen and ink with splashes of red here and there. The story involved little boys and a town’s centennial celebration. The boys found a tunnel under the town, and in the tunnel they found a cache of wine or brandy that had been stored away and forgotten, and finding it was a big deal for the town. They were rewarded with cream puffs from the bakery.
This sounds a lot like the book I’m trying to locate, although I don’t remember the details about the centennial. Does any of this sound familiar to you, Jessica? I borrowed this picture book from the children’s section of the Elmhurst branch of the Queens (New York) Public Library many times from the late 1960s to the mid 1970s. There were two children–boys I think–who were exploring a secret passageway they had found in an old mansion or castle. I think they had just moved there but my memory is unclear. One of the illustrations I remember best showed an interior view slice of the whole house, including the secret passageway winding its way through the multi-leveled dwelling, with the two boys visible with their flashlight somewhere on a lower level. The boys follow the passageway a long way underground to a door. The door opens out into a bakery in the town or village. There’s another illustration of a surprised baker at his oven as the small door opens out from mid-wall and the equally surprised boys tumble into his bakery. For some reason I think the baker is French, but again details remain elusive. At the end the baker serves them cream puffs or eclairs. If anyone can help, I’d really appreciate it!
I’m looking to find a book with this quote “BAHHHH said farmer Jones! Peep said the sheep”
Please help! Was around at least in 1990
Right’s Animal Farm. (Solved on another board)
I am looking for a book I had as a child in the early 1970s. It was on how to make shadow boxes. You took a shoe box and made cut paper animals and cut a hole to look through one end to see it. My mom made a lion in a jungle shadow box with me. I now have a child and want to make one of these with her. I have looked for several years and kind find anything like this book. We made the shadow box around 1974 and it looked like a book of that time.
If it had other simple things to make as well, try Simply Fun! Things to Make and Do, by James Razzi. (One we had at that time, funky-looking cover.)
Thank you for the suggestion, but no, it was only about making shadow boxes and the cut paper animals were so cool.
Thank you! I just looked at the Razzi cover. These cut paper figures were more sophisticated.
Another possibility: Harry Helfman, Making Pictures Movr.
Move, not movr.
Thanks, but no. This book was only about how to make shadow boxes. And we made one with a cut-out lion. Thanks though for your suggestions.