Looking for the Title of a book for the 1950’s/1960’s. A little girl and her family are going to go on a picnic and it rains. She is so disappointed and her family end of having the picnic in the attic.

I can’t remember a book with a little chick they hid on pages

Hello,

I’m searching for a Halloween-themed illustrated children’s book. I unfortunately am not sure when it was published. I read it in the early 2000s. It likely dates back to the 90s or 80s. It was a large square book, perhaps 10 square inches in size, with a blue, padded hardcover that had a witch on it. It’s not a full-on story book; the contents of the book did consist of various short stories and myths, like how the jack-o-lantern came to be. But it also had pages that humorously illustrated the lives and activities of witches and fairies and such. I think there was even an entire page dedicated to various types of witches’ brooms, one of which was some kind of Formula 1-esque racing broom.

There were also pages on Halloween activities, such as how to cut out a witch’s costume from paper, or party activities like searching for pieces of chocolate hidden in a pan full of flour (or sugar?).

I managed to find the book once on a forum years ago, but can’t find the website again. I hope you or someone else here can help.

Thank you.

Im looking for a children’s book from around the 2000s.. It about a girl that wanders around shops and comes across a shopkeeper of shadows. She tries on different shadows (such as a ballerina) but in return she must give up her own shadow. The book was a picture book.

In 1996 or 97, I think, I was 4 or 5, and I had this beautiful little, thin small,, white hardcover book. It had an oval shaped illustration on the front of a little girl. It was beautifully illustrated in like a sketchy kind of style with a pastel color scheme. All I really remember about the book itself was a girl on a swing, there was a mailbox in one of the photos, and autumn leaves in another.
I wish I could remember more, but I just can’t. P

Scholastic retitled it The Toy House Dolls.

I’m looking for children’s book from the 1980s. It had a red cover and was about a badly behaved princess, she would play marbles wirh the pearls in her crown, that discovers a fussy girl in the village that looks just like her. They switch, so the princess can play in the mud and climb trees and the village girl can wear a crown and play the harp. The story ends with them happy in their switches.

It was a short story/picture book.

I read it in Kindergarten in 1988.

Im looking for a book from probably the late 70’s or early 80’s about a little girl named Edie (spelling?) that never wanted to go to bed at night, so her parents took the her bed out of the house. She didn’t care until she got so tired and wanted the bed back so she could sleep.

In the late 80s or early 90s, I had or read a book that featured a mouse who got his tail broken or cut off, perhaps in a trap. I recall an illustration of him, sad, with his tail bandaged. Something jogged the memory recently and I can’t remember much else about the book. It’s driving me nuts!

I have 12 Stephan cosgrove illustrated by Robin James books for purchase. Excellent condition

You’re welcome, and thanks for posting back.

Bleed = ?

Thanks very much for writing back… people look at these answers. Suzanne

Don’t know it but it’s a great plot! Good luck.

I had a book – it looks like the same animals as the Little Fur Family by Margaret Wise Brown but the story is different – they ventured into town and wore logs on their feet in the city and got lost – had to rush home to the woods. I don’t see it under MWB books.

YES! That’s it! Thank you so much! 🙂

Hello,
Looking for a children’s book where the child visits a sick old lady and cheers her up. She repeats a sentence over and over again to everyone she meets? Can’t remember what she says over and over.

I am looking for a series I read as a child in 1961/62 which I think must have been some form of ‘Early Readers’ based around real animals. They were thin, a bit like pamphlets, and I remember them being blue and black on the outside and had black illustrations. One may have been about an Arab horse. They were in a class for about 8-11 year olds.

UK book I read as a child which would’ve been in the 90s about a little girl goes to a fairground with her mother, It must be in the autumn/winter as it’s dark and she’s wearing mittens. They go on the dodgems, she has a toffee apple and wins a goldfish in a bag. They leave to go home (I think on the bus) and when they come back to the park/field in the light of the next day, the fairground has completely gone and the field is empty, the only remnants of it being there at all is the rubbish/trash left behind.

I am looking for a children’s book possibly from the late ’60s, early 70s. I believe it was about a girl and her doll. One of them (cannot remember which) lost her bracelet while they were playing in a stream. You could see the bracelet through the water after it was lost. Possibly was a Golden Book since that seems to be what we had the most of…thanks for any ideas.

GI am looking for a children’s book about a boy cleaning his room. He had 2 boxes, one for throwing out and a “ to keep box”. He ends up finding a use for everything and it all goes into the “to keep box”.

Hello I’m looking for a book. We thinks it was called baby’s first birthday. It was was read in the early 1980s. Trying to find it for my mom and grandmother

I’m trying to remember a book I was given in the 90s, it was landscape A5ish size and the story was about a man who didn’t want to be seen by the world so wore a heavy coat covering his face all year. He finally got so hot he took it off and was pleasantly surprised at how much everyone welcomed him. It turned out he was then a representation of the author of the book. The illustrations were rough outlines and caricatures, not dissimilar to Quentin Blake. Even at the time I felt it was an obscure book!

I am looking for a children’s book. I believe it was maybe a series of books about a family of penguins. The only thing I really remember about is that the baby of the family was named “hot stuff” or at least they kept calling her that.

Hi, I’m looking for a book my parents read to me as a little girl. I can’t remember the name but was about farm yard animals who would sing ‘moo, snort, quark, cluck, baa, bleed, meow’ Sounds ridiculous writing that down but I can hear my mum singing it even now. I was born in 1986 so it could have been made in 80/90s. Any help would be great!!

Hello, I am looking for an older (1970s – 1980s) children’s book that is a collection of stories that occur on different holidays. I believe the cover was primarily orange in color. One of the stories was about a witch and her cat (Stay-at-home and Fly-by-Night?). The witch likes to stay at home and the cat likes to go out and finally talks the witch into going out where they run into another witch/cat duo with opposite personalities. The 4 realize this and swap partners so the stay at home bodies go home and the others go out for Halloween fun. Another story is about April Fool’s and a little boy (egg) goes to get a haircut from a sheepdog and the boy plans to play an April Fool’s day prank on the barber but he falls asleep in the chair and the sheepdog barber pranks him instead. Another story is about Valentine’s Day – a couple of children are making Valentine’s cards for school and when they leave the Valentine’s to dry, a rat, who lives in a whole in the wall, can’t resist the delicious smell of the glue/paste and chews all around the edges of the Valentines making them look even better in the process. Can anyone else remember this book??

Hello! I’m looking for a children’s book that features a young girl, her grandfather, and his home library. I think I read it around 1968 and it was an “old” book I checked out of my local library as a 3rd grader. I don’t remember anything about the plot, but I was enchanted by the description of the home library. I think there was also a grand staircase in the grandfather’s home. I think the writing must have focused on beautiful surroundings and evoking a feeling of welcoming mystery, delighting in quiet exploration. (Isn’t it magnificent a child’s book could do all this!)
Thx for any leads!
~ML, young at heart

Hi,

I’m looking for a children’s book I read in the early 2000s. I remember there being maybe 2 kids who travelled with a whale, and I think the main gist of it was the whale showing the kids how big the world is. It came with an audio CD, and each line in the book was a different colour to signify a different character speaking, so you could follow along with the CD. It may have been a Christian book, because I do remember mentions of God at the end of it. Any help would be appreciated!

Looking for a youth novel that I read about 7ish years ago, I can’t remember the title or much about it except for a very specific scene where our main character who is a boy is speaking with an agent or detective in his doorway (?) and notices that the detective/agent has shoes that look handmade and gets suspicious .. that is all I remember. Any help is welcome!!! It is not the mysterious Benedict society but has a similar feel

Hello!

I hope someone can help me find this book series. It was published sometime between 1920-1960, I can’t remember exactly. They were my parents’ and I remember reading them over and over. It was a collection of short stories for kids, moralistic themes, with a narrator that spoke directly to the reader throughout. All ‘modern’ stories, no fairy tales. I can only clearly recall one story, where a mother is feeling ill and the doctor discovers that it’s because she’s serving the father and the kids dinner before herself and only eating the scraps of what’s left. The narrator then tells the reader how sad those children were when they found out and how much we need to look after our own mothers, etc.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? I have come up empty on every search I’ve tried. Thank you!!