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Hi i am looking for a book that was read in school in the 80s about an orphan boy. I think rose is in the title…….
Possibly The Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt. While Georgie is not technically an orphan, he is sent to a boy’s home to escape an abusive home life.
“Abused by his mother and her boyfriend, Georgie Burgess learns to hide his hurt. He withdraws into a safe and secret world of beautiful gardens filled with roses—just like those in the library book he treasures.
When Georgie wins a small rosebush in a grocery store lottery he gives it all the love and caring he’s never had. Georgie’s life begins to open up for him when the courts send him to a home for boys where he will be safe. Slowly, and not without pain, Georgie learns to give—and to receive—love…”
Hi I’m trying to find a reading book from the 80s I believe, about a prince who finds a wildman, the wildman lives by a lake that turns things golden when touched. The prince hurts his finger and is told he can only use the golden lake 3 times. He uses it 3 times and the wildman takes him prisoner
That sounds like a version of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Iron John (also sometimes called Iron Hans):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_John
http://mythicspiral.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-hidden-meaning-of-iron-john.html
Various versions of the story can be found in a number of fairy tale collections, school readers, and stand-alone books.
I’m looking for a series of small, gold, hardback books that were in my school library in the 1970’s and were about India, China, tigers, lions and general Far East topics. I don’t remember the names or authors.
Hi! 1970s child lookin for a childrens novel. Australian based story about a wombat family thant finds some horrid irridesant goo. flying ants were a reoccuring theme. Any ideas guys?
Could it be Wombat Stew?
I read a large thin paperback book to my children to the point where we could all memorise much of it. Twenty five years later I would love to track copies of the book.
I think it was called ‘The Rainy Day’ and it starts with….”One Sunday afternoon the rain came down in great wet drops. Rain, rain, go away, come again another day said Emily.’
It goes on to describe how Emily and her younger brother (Michael) pick up on mum’s idea…”Why don’t you build a boat?” said mum”. Eventually they have pirate adventures and capture dad when he comes home from work “and they made him walk the plant before tea”.
Any ideas, anyone?
Our Boat, by A.J. Wood. The children are Emily and David.
Hi I’m trying to remember a short children’s book I recevied at school, UK, in the 90s..The plot revolved around a family? custard factory, where the custard made was disgusting, and they spent the time trying to either make it better or figure out a use for it; in the end it was a hit at painting the yellow lines on the roads. May have had simple watercolour illustrations. Much appreciated if you know it!
I am sorry but I don’t know
Hi, this is a very long shot but I’m looking for two books and haven’t been able to find them at all and I so badly want to read them again!
The first one I must’ve had in 2005-2008 it was quite a thin book and I can’t remember the title or author but I can remember a vague plot line. It was a love interest between two teenagers but the books format was written one chapter from the perspective of the girl and the next from the boy. I have a feeling there was multiple stories in the book maybe? All I can remember is that it had the diaryish format and I think the kids went to different schools?
The other one I very desperately want to find. It’s about a blue dragon named something like ‘carbello’ and he quit his job in an office and went to the town. He met a lady dragon there who was like a turquoise colour. They at some point went to a carnival and looked into the weird bendy mirrors?? It was a cartoon book and the artwork was absolutely stunning. I’ve not been able to find it anywhere.. it’s quite abstract.. any help is highly appreciated!!
I’m looking for a book and accompanying cassette tape that had to do with flying pigs. It was one of those sets at the library that came in a plastic bag with the book and cassette. I must have checked it out every time we went there in the late 80’s, early 90’s. I always remember the jist of the book but nothing more. I’d love to see it again! Thank you!
My sister and I are looking for a book we read when we were kids. The cover was completely blue, kind of worn, and it had an image of a boy wearing balloons on his back mowing the lawn. It was about a family who was looking for a place to stay when they stumbled upon an apartment complex with multiple tennants, including a boy who loved science experiments, an elderly couple, and a chimpanzee who I believe was named Blue Belle? I remember the chimpanzee ended up being the heiress of a large fortune and there was also a young woman living there and she couldn’t remember her identity or something but she worked at an ice cream shop and somebody was trying to send the monkey overseas haha if this sounds familiar to anybody please let me know!
You’re welcome. You helped me greatly. I have now been able to order the book for my grandson.
Hello, looking for an older book my mom used to read to me. I would take it out of the library weekly. It was called “The Best Mom In The World”. I remember yellow hardcopy, thin about 8×10. I remember the mom having to go back to work in it… not much else. Thanks for your help
hey! i’m looking for a children’s book i would read when i was young, circa early 2000’s, but the book could be older than that. i had thought it was a dr. seuss book but couldn’t find it as such… i remember it being about a boy and his sister, told from his perspective. after dinner, the sister would spend time in her room thinking up things in her head, and at some point, thinks of some monster-like being and it comes to life. they then have to put it back and it ends with her being more cautious of her thoughts or something along those lines. neither of my parents have any memory of it, but i’m certain i remember reading it to myself. any help would be great!!
That’s The Glunk That Got Thunk. It’s in the Dr. Seuss book I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories. The book also contains the title story, I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and King Louie Katz.
That sounds right. Thank you!
I’m glad! Thanks for writing back, Suzanne
I’m looking for a book I read when I was younger, probably early 2000’s. I remember it being a short story book and one particular story stands out to me that a young boy went to an old shop and bought this broken toy (I think was a skeleton) and went home to put it together. He ended up falling asleep with the project unfinished only to wake up to the toy sitting up in one piece in their hallway and it spoke to him.
That’s really all I can remember of it. But any help to what it might be would totally be appreciated.
Hi! I am trying to look for a type of illustrated funny/joke type of book I read in 2nd grade (1992-1993). I don’t remember the title or the author. All I remember is that it had a collection of funny puns, jokes, poems in it. Two poems I can remember in it was: “I scream you scream we all scream for ice cream.” And a poem like “now I lay me down to sleep, a bag of peanuts at my feet, if I die before I wake, I’ll have died from a tummy ache.” Or something on those lines. What I remember the most was the illustrations. a boy in bed with a bag of peanuts in his bed. I remember it was in color. I’ve tried all the phrases on google but have had no luck. Hoping someone else remembers this book.
Hello! Me and my older sister have been trying to find a book that we had from our childhood up until 2011. The hardcover was a worn-out green color but contained some weird and creepy short stories and poems. One of the stories was a child that drew on the walls and they found a creepy door and room, one of the other poems mentioned a farmer getting his wife a skinny bunny feeding it lots of honey and then the bunny getting fat. It also had drawings of a weird skinny woman with pointy glasses surrounded by hedgehogs and also a rendition of the birth of Venus but with the same woman still surrounded by hedgehogs. It looks like the illustrator and poetic author Shel Silverstein would’ve done but I’ve already looked up all of his works and nothing about this book. I believe gthis book was made from either 1970s-1990s because of the dated and worn-out cover, and how it never came with a dust jacket. Hoping someone else may have had the same copy! Like I said me and my older sister have been trying for years to find this peculiar children’s book.
Thank you :^)
I think it’s Lady Agrippa’s Unshuttable Caboodlebox.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7255735-lady-agrippa-s-unshuttable-caboodlebox.
Hi, I am looking for two books from my early teens in the 1970s. One was about a girl who was evacuated from London in World War 2. The grandfather of the family she stayed with had a Gallipoli scar, and they went out in a little boat to rescue soldiers from Dunkirk. The other is about two boys who see the earth move and a drummer boy from the 18th century comes out.
The second could be Earthfasts by William Mayne. From our notes: “At their feet was the drumming, like the thudding of invisible cold flames.” Keith and David were curious and terrified when the earth began to swell, but what emerged at last was simply a boy, like themselves?”
I’m looking for a children’s book I read in the 70’s. It was about a young person in a field under a tree who meets a magical being. They become friends but then the young person doesn’t come around anymore and something happens to the magical being.
Hey im looking for two books from the mid 2000s maybe early 2010s. The first one is a book about two sisters who move to a new town. One sister gets kiddnapped by fairies around Christmas time and the older sister has to rescue her. The second one is about three kids who move from living in the city to living in the country. Beside their house there is a big forest. In the middle of this forest there is a large tree that is an apartment for hundreds of creatures and there’s a slide from the top all the way to the bottom.
it’s not alot to go on but i can’t remember the names for the life of me.
*edit i found the second one its called “The Faraway Tree” *
The Changelings?
http://middlegrademinded.blogspot.com/2016/09/awesome-author-interview-christina.html
I am looking for a book that my mum read to me in the early 80’s. I have very little information regarding author etc all I can offer is the plot. Basically it was a small child (girl I think… though possibly a boy named Mikey) arguing with her Dad about some chore (washing dishes…?) Basically the conversation went ‘if you don’t do this then I will do this’ to a response of ‘well if you do that to me then I will do this to you’. The threats escalate to things like shrinking the other down to a miniature and putting them in a bottle. So yeah it all sounds very dark, but I do remember it as a favourite as I think it does end nicely. Good luck!!… and thanks.
I’m looking for a book for my dad. It’s a children’s book about a cat and a dog. One is named Lost the other is Home. The child is looking for pets and asks an officer. It’s a child version of “Who’s on First?”
A very long shot: Who Stole Home Plate?
My grandson is looking for a book that is a two part book where you read one story then turn it over and read another story. It is a different version of the prodigal son in westrn times with Apache indians. This was read to him as a child and he is now 26
Hello. I am looking for a chilldren’s illustrated book. The main character is a little boy (we think), A bear ends up in his room. He dresses the bear up in his sister’s clothes and possibly a dog collar? The mom doesn’t notice that the bear is there.. He feeds the bear in his room. At the end of the story, the bear crawls away, out of his bedroom window and he watches him crawl away toward the moonlit night.
Ok, I have almost literally no information about this one. I don’t know the author, title or illustrator but here is goes.
When I was a youngster in the early 70’s, I remember a picture book (maybe two) with safety advice… don’t play in construction sites, don’t run with a lollipop in your mouth… that sort of thing.
What make it stand out are the bizarre illustrations. The people all where egg-shaped with heads and bodies all together. Their arms and legs were like stick figures… just lines for legs, feet, arms and hands….
Anyone?
That sounds like Safety Can Be Fun by Munro Leaf. There are also other books, including Manners Can Be Fun, Science Can Be Fun, Health Can Be Fun, etc.
You are amazing!! That’s it!
I’ve been trying to remember the name of this book on and off for something like 30 years! I can’t believe you knew it from the “description” I tried to give.
THANK YOU!!!
Glad I could help! You gave a good description of the illustrations, which are pretty distinctive.
Thank you for taking the time to confirm that this was the book!
Looking for a children’s book I read in the 90’s and my youngest daughter brought home once a few years ago from school. I don’t remember if it was a total picture book or just had pictures scattered throughout. From what I remember it was yellow and pink hardcover with a purple Pegasus on the front. About the size of a ladybird book I thing. Possibly a girl on the Pegasus. I remember in the book there were other Pegasus’ in it red, yellow, pink, orange, green and so on. I think at one point there was a picture of a gumdrop field? And a palace in the sky? I’ve been searching for years. And scanned through thousands of books online for it and found nothing.
Could it be My Little Pony? http://mylittlewiki.org/wiki/G1_Books
Hello! I’m looking for my brothers favourite story book. It was a collection of short stories, hard cover, A4 size with lots of characters on the front cover. It contained a story about a gnome with a red nose, white beard who drove a red bubble car. I think it had some fairy stories in it and possibly Rumpled Stiltskin. He was born in 1984 but it may have been secondhand when we got it. Any info greatly appreciated. Thanks
Hi all. I’m looking for an illustrated children’s book from the 80s. Set in space. Wasn’t a long book, maybe 10-15 pages? It was about astronauts who were looking for the wreckage of a lost spaceship. They were cleaning up space junk, flying around in little yellow spaceships that looked like forklifts, with mechanical pincer arms. The cause of the lost spaceship was little space crystals that grew over equipment. And at the end, it turned out that the ship they were looking for was visible the whole time in the floating mass of space junk. Illustrations were bright and colorful. And around the edges of each image was, I think, a perimeter of numbers or letters and if some crystals were growing on a numeral or letter, that letter became part of a message you put together at the end of the book. The message told you which page the image of the lost ship was on. I read it in about 1986-1989 and is forgotten about it completely until about two weeks ago. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!
I’m looking for a book I read in grade school in the 70’s. From what I remember, there was a young girl (9-10?) who was walking home (from school?), when it started to snow. She put her head down against the storm as she’s hurrying down the sidewalk. Next thing she knows, she is startled by a horse and carriage that almost run her over, and she realizes she’s gone back in time. She is taken care of by a family, they have a child about her age, big house. Seems there was some kind of mystery involving the garden, the gardener, or the garden shed? Just as she is about to figure things out, she ends up back in her own time, much to her dismay. She then tries to find her way back to solve things. Any ideas?
It’s not quite a match – but it might be worth taking a look at Fog Magic by Julia Sauer. Greta travels through time while walking through fog, not snow – but when she goes back in time, she does encounter a woman driving a surrey, she meets a girl her own age and befriends the girl and her mother, and when she approaches her 12th birthday, she is unable to travel back and forth in time anymore.
Not it, but sounds delightful. Thanks. 😊
Sounds a bit like Edward Eager’s books but I don’t recall quite that story so maybe not.
“the wicked pigeon ladies in the garden” or alternate title “the wicked, wicked ladies in the haunted house” by mary chase. this one is asked for a lot!
My mother is looking for a book from the 1950s. It would have been in a Catholic School book. The story is about a little girl who lives in a cabin and has a magical ring that pricks her finger when she doesn’t do the right thing. That is all she can remember.
It sounds like it may be a variation on the fairy tale “Prince Darling” (also sometimes called “Prince Cherry”) – but in that one, it is a prince who has the magic ring.
You can read a version of it here: https://www.storyberries.com/fairy-tales-prince-darling-english-fairy-tales/ or here: http://talesoffaerie.blogspot.com/2010/09/prince-cherry.html
I am looking for a children’s book that I would have received as a gift around 1970 in England. It was a fictional story about a boy who found an old carousel horse in a shed. He then restored the horse and had adventures with it. My recollection is that the horse or the boy were called Rafferty. I have searched that name and carousel horse books in general and can’t find it! Any ideas? Thank you I would love to find this book, I have thought of it often …. for decades!
I don’t think this is the book you’re looking for as details don’t quite match up but there’s a book called Raffan and Jeremy by Sheila and Charles Front published in 1969 by The Bodley Head. It’s about a carousel horse rescued from a junk shop window.
Hi. I’m looking for a book about this mother who had a lot of kids. each one was quirky and had a weird habit. The first kid, a son, only drank milk if it was warm. and another kid only drank cold water. They tried baking a cake for their hard-working mother, but failed, and made a mess.
Hello. I have very little to go on. My father used to get books from the library for me when I was growing up in London. A series that I was particularly fond of was about a group of children living in Wigan. I feel that their name was Poppin or Poppet. These books were readily available in the London library system in the 1960s
I think the “hat and glasses” detail matches Bella and Gertie better.
Yeah, it does – although the missing animals are chickens, not goats or sheep – but that would be consistent with a fox being the culprit.
Hi, I’m looking for a picture book from my childhood. It features a little girl with short black hair. It is a story about the girl’s relationship with her grandfather, who ends up dying. In one part, they eat tomato soup together.
I don’t think so but which book were you thinking of? Her artwork doesn’t seem quite right but I’m more than willing to pick one up to check.
Hi, I’m looking for a book that was already old in the 1970’s. It was a cloth hardcover book, green (or maybe blue) and the title was a girl’s name that began with the letter “C”. I remember I had never heard the name before, and I had a hard time pronouncing it. It was stored on a shelf in my 3rd grade classroom with a lot of other similar sized cloth covered children’s books. In the book, the girl goes to live on a farm. She gets in trouble at the beginning of the book for sweeping the dust under the carpet instead of emptying it properly. There is also a scene at the beginning of the book that describes her waking up in her new room, on an upper level floor, and at the time the house was quiet–I think everyone was already up, and she got up later than everybody else. I remember the book disappearing from the classroom and asking the teacher for it, but the teacher couldn’t remember it—she said she thought it was Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, but it’s not that book. I think the school was cleaning out their old books at that time: I remember I requested and received an old copy of “Silver Pennies” from the school at about the same time.
Except for the C and the rug, I would have said Understood Betsy.
Hi I’m searching for a book that use to be my absolute favorite as a kid but pretty much in the story there’s two cows one has a hat and the other one has glasses and they find out the sheep or goat are missing so they start being detectives and go look for who stole them so they go investigating and they find paw prints and stuff and finally during the night they see that the fox has them so they get them back from the fox and then they are saved. If you know what I’m talking about please tell me what the name is thank you.
Possibly Bella & Gertie: World-Famous Private Detectives by Geraldine Taylor?
Bella and Gertie is the story of two cow Private Detectives who live on a farm. The farm hens have gone missing and it is up to Bella and Gertie to find them.
Minnie and Moo and the Musk of Zorro.
Now I’ve seen everything.
Wow, two books about cow detectives? Stranger all the time.
OKAY SO i’ve been trying to look up this book for hours now. It was a field guide type book about unicorns: what kind of unicorns there were, what they ate, there was like a poem/song that supposedly they understood. it had “samples” and stuff inside to prove that they were real. i read it when i was about 7/8/maybe 9 so that would be back in like 2006 – 2010. It was set up a bit like the ology books, like dragonology for example, but that’s not what it was. am i crazy? did this book exist?
Hi! I am searching for a couple of books from my childhood. The first was a juvenile fiction mystery from the 1970s, but could have been earlier. It could have been The Dana Girls, Nancy Drew, or The Hardy Boys. It could also have been one of the Scholastic book fair paperbacks from the ’70s. All I can remember from the plot was there were either 3 or 4 people in a room with wainscot paneling and they all had to go around the room pressing on the panels to find a hidden spring. The other detail I recall which could possibly be a separate detail from another mystery is that the “treasure” was a manuscript that might have had something to do with a famous author from the 18th century.
The other book would have been a children’s picture book that had something to do with the girl being too small to help her mom. Toward the end, she helps her mom make pudding or something. I had thought that perhaps the illustrations were by Eloise Wilkins from The Golden Books, but no. The only illustration I can recall is the girl poking her head over the edge of the table waiting for the pudding. The illustrations were slightly more realistic, similar to Jerry Pinkney .and Paul O. Zelinsky.
For your second book have you looked at The Very Little Girl by Phyllis Krasilovsky? The earlier illustrations by Ninnon show the little girl (when she gets bigger) with a mixing bowl.so I’m assurming there’s a matching illustration for when she’s too small to help? There’s also a reprinted version illustrated by Karen Gundersheimer. The illustration below is by Ninnon
It
was a picture book from either the 80s or 90s, Can’t remember too much
but one particular section had a scene where a boy was on a date with a
poodle, I read this book way back many years ago in the 3rd or 4th
grade & remember finding it hilarious.
What was this book called?
Hi! I am looking for a children’s picture book (pre-1990) featuring two animal roommates living together in a town. One animal is very large (maybe an elephant?) while the other is very small (maybe a mouse?) so they each have their separately sized beds, sinks, etc. The book begins in the morning of a normal day, and they are getting ready for work and follows them throughout the day to their jobs. The book was physically on the large side as I initially remembered it as a book in the Richard Scarry Busy Busy series but realized it probably just appeared similar. Thanks!
Hi. I’m 48 years old and am looking for the name of a series of paperback books I read as a child. They were scary stories. They were each 100-200 pages long and used to take me a day or two to read cover to cover. (Never came out in hardcover). I believe there were over 30 in the series. I also think they were written by different authors. They were numbered, even though each story was different. I remember checking Walden books in the mall every time I went with my mom and buying the next in the series. Seems like they relaxed one or two a month. I have searched and searched but don’t / can’t remember the name of the series. It was long before Goosebumps. I thought the series was called Nightmares but the more I search the more I realize the series must have been called something else. They were scary when I was a kid. Not sure if each one was a ghost story or if they were monster stories I do remember that for me they were like potatoe chops and I just couldn’t stop. Just thought for a moment it was a series called Chillers but realized that’s not it either. They must have been published between 1978-1983. Again. No real drawings inside. Maybe small drawings at the beginning of each chapter, but nothing major like the Scary Stories series. The front and back of the paperbacks were color illustrations almost like the hardy boy or Nancy drew covers, but not that old fashioned looking. Anyone have any clue what I am talking about? Thanks, Mike
I am looking for the title of a book that I read as a kid, the book might be from the 60s, 70s or 80s. Here is what I remember. It was about little boy who sees a flying saucer and the alien gives the boy this small orb or bauble. The orb allowed the boy to do magical things. Anyone have an idea of the book? Thanks
That sounds like The Magic Ball From Mars by Carl L. Biemiller (1953).
“What magic happens one lazy summer night when a “stranger” visits earth and discovers a small boy catching fireflies in the gathering dusk? Perhaps this child reminds him of another, a child many light years away … And so a “gift” is bestowed, with the best of intentions, and thus begins the adventure of “The Magic Ball From Mars.”
You can read The Magic Ball From Mars here: http://www.biemiller.com/bchapt1.htm
There is also a sequel called Starboy.
Oh wow, you are amazing and yes this is the book. Thank you so much.
Glad I could help! Thanks for taking the time to respond!
I’ve found Book Trails on eBay and AbeBooks, and the volumes are too thin. The books I’m thinking of were probably twice as thick. It looks like The Book House series may be about the same as Book Trails.
I don’t know that we had the whole series- my mom shopped a lot of second-hand stores when we were growing up, so it easily could’ve come from a place that could’ve sold part of a set, especially as I really don’t think they were numbered. Thank you, tho!!
I’m trying to find a set of children’s books I had when I was little, but my online searches keep trying to give me other titles that *contain* the words.
The titles are:
“Who”
“What”
“Where”
etc.
I remember one of the things taught in one of the books is how chocolate is made, and another is where dust in the air comes from; but other than the titles, that’s all I remember.
I think the books might be “A Question Book Series” by Discovery Toys:
Hello! I’m desperate to find a book my brother and I used to read as children. I want to get him a copy for his birthday coming up. It was a book we read in the early 90s, but could have been published in the 80s. It was about dinosaurs, it was very colourful and every page had intricate pop up sections. I remember hardly any text on the pages. Thanks!
There’s Dinosaurs: A Troll Pop-Up Book or Or Creatures of Long Ago: Dinosaurs (A National Geographic Action Book):
Hello! I am looking for a large board book with illustrations that I recall from my childhood. It was published for sure before 1990s. I don’t remember anything specific about the author or publisher but I have this old photo of me taken in November 1991
Does anyone have any idea of what this book can be? Or how to look for it/find it?
Thanks in advance!
Hello, I was wondering if anyone here could help me on this.
When I was in primary school, I used to be obsessed with this kids book that I have not seen since I went there…
I’m not exactly sure what year it came out, but it was a rather obscure book where it was about a boy exploring the objects around him, but the objects were replaced with animal parts for example and that’s all I remember about it.
Bamboozled?
My step daughter is looking for a book that she read as a child. This is what she knows.
It starts off – One Dark night I’m in the jungle…. then lists all the animals sitting around a campfire. I don’t know the exact order but it’s like there was a hippo, a giraffe, an elephant ect ect… and they are telling a scary story …
Then in the end it’s funny.
It’s a short children’s book.
If anyone knows the book she is talking about it would be greatly appreciated.
Hi im looking for a childrens book printed in the late 90’s about a boy who loses his tabby cat in the grass. it was double sided so when you flipped the book over, there was another story on the back told from cats perspective about losing her boy. the illustration on the front was very realistic and detailed for a childrens book and i recall reading it as a 5 year old so there weren’t many pages to it. i thought it was called ‘ive lost my cat/ ive lost my boy’ but i’m not sure. if anyone has heard of such a book please let me know! it had a lot of sentimental value to me as a child.
That sounds so much like Little Lost Fox Cub/On the Trail of Little Fox by Louis Espinassous – except, of course, that the two stories are about a lost fox cub looking for his mother – and the mother’s hunt for her cub. The format is the same, with one story reading front-to-back, and then you flip the book over and read the other story back-to-front.
Thank you so much, that was the exact book I was talking about! A decades long quest is finally resolved!
I’m looking for an old children’s book about an old blue (?) truck. I remember the illustration being really nice. I remember one page that was autumn with a long road and the truck driving away. I thought it was called the old blue truck or something like that, but I’m not having any luck!
There’s Eloise and the Old Blue Truck by Kennon Graham, illustrated by Florence Sarah Winship. When the old cow, Eloise, grows too old to give milk, the farmer decides to take her to town and sell her – but the old blue truck has other ideas!
Another possibility might be Rackety-Boom by Betty Ren Wright, which is about an old blue truck.
I am looking for a book that I read to my boys when they were between ages 2-6 in 1992-1998 but no idea when the book was actually written. It was not a very popular book but my boys loved it. I believe it was a softcover book, easy to read type with only a few words on each page, maybe 12-15 pages. I can not recall the author or even the cover. I remember that characters (may have been animals but may have been people) were building a house and each day they worked on this house. At the end of the book they have completed the house and step back and look, and think they have messed up because the house is so tall. The new owners show up to move in and they are giraffes. The builders realize they didn’t make a mistake and the giraffes love their new house.
That’s it! I was searching for “plane” to find it, which is why it wasn’t coming up. Thank you so much! I’ve ordered a used copy from Amazon.
Great!
I’m looking for a book I read as a child, late 90s-very early 2000s around the theme of ‘what happens during the night’, or ‘whilst we sleep’. Was a cutesy type picture book, and I remember one of the pages showing a scene with a baker having it’s flour delivered and there was flour in the air. Possibly another page showing a ‘cat burglar’. Characters possibly depicted as animals like cats or bears
in the night kitchen?
Hello! I’m looking for a children’s book that was published prior to the early 1980’s (when I read it as a child) that involved robber mice sneaking around at a party – I remember that the other mice at the party were dressed in Victorian clothing in the illustrations. It might have been a Weekly Reader book since my mother had a subscription to that book club when I was a kid, but I haven’t had any luck identifying it with lists of those books that are available online.
Maybe “Bernard of Scotland Yard” by Berniece Freschet (1979). A sequel to Bernard sees the world. Bernard helps his cousin Foster catch a gang of diamond thieves. The thieves steal diamonds at Lady Thistlethwaite’s masked ball.
try Bernard of Scotland Yard by Berneice Freschet. Bernard the mouse goes to help his cousin in England and finds the thieves who stole diamonds from lady Thistlethwaite’s masked ball. The mice are wearing Victorian style clothes.
Hi – I am looking for a book from late 70s/early 80s. It has several nursery rhymes and short stories some of which had Disney characters. One I recall was Mickey and Minnie Mouse as Jack & Jill. I feel like the cover was light blue and white.
The little Golden Book Walt Disney’s Mother Goose has Jack & Jill as Mickey. Originally published in 1949 it’s been republished a few times with different covers. Here’s a 1980s cover which is light blue and white. The Golden book number for this edition is 106-61
I’m looking for a book that is probably from the late 50s to early 60s. It’s title is The boy with the upside down glasses……its an oversized maybe, 12×8. and about 1/2 inch thick children’s book with drawn pictures. It had a brightly colored cover . I think yellow., with a Boy wearing large glasses.
Try this one: The Boy in Glasses, by Hertha von Gebhardt
I’m 43 years old, as a kid of an age that books were read to me, I remember getting a book from the library that was about a little kid who was bored and decided to build a plane. He took apart the family’s lawn mower for a motor, took the sheets off the clothes line to cover the wings, etc. and made himself a plane that he flies around in, then has to disassemble it and put things back the way they are. The book was in color, there were illustrations. My mom can picture the little boy but doesn’t remember beyond that. I’ve looked online for the book title but can’t find it. I went to the library’s search catalog and tried to find it, but given the age, it may not be in the catalog anymore.
Have you ruled out Bored–Nothing to Do, by Peter Spier?
Hi!
I’m looking for a children’s picture book from the90s or before about a – what I remember as – pig/hog whose birthday it was and his mum only got him crayons instead. It was a beautifully drawn book with everything very ‘piggy’ focused. Very cute book and would love to gift it!
Many, many thanks in advance to anyone who can help!!!
In the 70s there was a short series of sound-enhanced picture books for kids.
The front of the inch-and-a-half thick book had a handful of pages with some simple text and crude full-color illustrations.
The back of the book contained one single-sided record of the story in question enclosed within a small self-enclosed acoustic phonograph that the child would then spin a large white dial with finger holes like a telephone in order to hear it.
The records were vertically-modulated like a doll record and had a 45-size hole in them but spun at 66 RPM (half speed mastered at 33) as (according to research) 45 was too slow for a child to be able to spin constantly, but 78 was too fast.
The pages i find online that mention it don’t give the name of the toy or it’s manufacturer or date – just the info reproduced here and no picture.
Maybe somebody knows.
I wasn’t going to ask, because I don’t have a ton to go on, but you all seem to really know what you’re talking about!
There’s a “collection” of books I read as a child, all with red hard covers. I tried a little bit to find them when I was a little older, (but that still predated Google as we know it, so didn’t have any luck) and think the title may have just been The Big Red Book or something like that. The actual books were very plain, bound in an old style, without dust jackets, and no words on the front but MAYBE a title on the top third of the spine. I think all of the books were all short stories and poems- there was something like 6 books in all, and probably many different authors, but I don’t remember them being credited to anyone, so maybe it did have one author. I don’t think they were numbered, and there was no need to read them in any kind of order. They were largish- I haven’t read them since I was a kid, so scale may be wrong… but it seems like maybe 9 or 10×12?
The books are long gone, but they were old when I read them, in the late 80’s. I remember a couple of stories, but not well, so here goes…
One was about white horses (teeth) on a red hill (maybe?) (tongue) and the boy eats animal crackers. When he takes care of the “horses” they do well, but it seems like they get grumpy and maybe one has to be pulled when he doesn’t brush his teeth like he should. I don’t think it’s told in any kind of preachy way- just very pragmatic about what happens when he doesn’t take care of them.
The other one is about a little girl who needs entertained, so she goes out in the garden and gets flowers and makes an entire party out of them. For example, she uses Queen Anne’s Lace for the ball gowns, pansies for the faces, etc.
I don’t remember any of the other stories, but it seems like the pictures were pretty good. I think some of the stories got a whole page picture, like the horse one, but most just got an illustration or two on the same page as the story, like above the title. I think the flower one was like that? There was no color- all was black and white.
I know the collection part makes it hard to trace- I hope someone can help! I haven’t had luck with searches.
There are a number of sets of red children’s books with poems, nursery rhymes, and short stories. One possibility might be the “Child Craft” series. That’s the only one I’ve found so far that does not have any text on the covers. A few other possibilities: The “My Book House” series did have a red edition – but those did have writing (and a color plate) on the front cover. The red “Book Trails” collection had the titles on the spine and embossed covers. (The title was also on the cover, but was embossed rather than inked/gilt so didn’t show up as well.) “The Children’s Hour” also came in red – but again had titles on the covers. See links below for covers of the various sets.
The one about the horses could be found in a volume of nursery rhymes. One version reads “Twenty-four horses upon a red hill. Now we rub. Now we scrub. Now we clean with a will.”
Do you know where I might get more information on The Book House and Book Trails? Book Trails is at least definitely a possibility, and those two don’t have a link. I know it isn’t child craft- at one point I had two entire sets of that. Children’s Hour is also unlikely- I’ve had sets that looked very similar to that as well.
The story about the horses was an entire story, I’m sure. I’ve seen that rhyme and similar ones before, but the story was at least an entire page, with a picture opposite.
Thank you!
I really doubt if it is the Book House, as these were definitely graded and the later ones in the numbered set had long stories on historical figures, mythology etc. The red set exists but is not common. So Book Trails?
I think there’s a very good chance that it was embossed, and if it had had gilt, it had rubbed off, at least for the most part. It seems like the books were really very old. I don’t think it’s any of these sets, but Book Trails seems the closest- the pages look very similar to what the pages of the book looked like. I think those volumes are too thin, but maybe an earlier edition just had thicker pages? Nothing like a board book, of course, but I think the pages were pretty heavy paper, which of course would’ve made the book thick.
O well… I’ll just have to keep looking. Thank you!!
Looking for the title of a childrens book from the 1950’s about a weatherman who looked out his window to tell the weather and a bee that caused lots of trouble
I am looking for the name of a book that would have been from the 80’s or early 90’s. It was a book on tape and when it was time to flip the page it was a cat meow. It was about a kid who always walked to school with their best friend but one day the friend got sick. They used to walk silly ways to school (like walking backwards or sideways). When the friend gets sick the kids cat walks with him to school. I think the cats name might have been something like PBJ (Peanut Butter Jelly) or something like that. I’ve been trying to search for years.
what was that book about a little girl who cut off her friend’s hair bc there was gum in it and then eventually cuts her own hair bc she felt bad?
Hi! I’ve been searching for a book series that I believe is from the 90’s but the only aspect that I remember about them is that they were based around the holidays. One book was related to someone traveling through a Christmas tree to save a member of their family, and another book was similar style but they traveled through a pumpkin. Any ideas?
I figured it out.. finally! It is The Christmas Tree that Ate My Mother by Dean Marney
Hello! I am 43 years old and have been looking forever for the book I remember vaguely being read to me by my mother. All I remember is it had illustrations of a lamb or sheep in what looked like a garden and there was a crystal/glass looking pyramid? My mom had a love of old antique books as well so it could’ve been old. It might’ve been poetry I can’t remember I just remember a crystal pyramid a a lamb/sheep illustration that was in all soft greens and black(vintage looking).
In the 1980’s I used to read my kids a series of picture books that I got from the public library in Maryland. There was an older girl who got into mischief – getting stuck and having to go to school in a highchair once. I think her name might have been Bella. Anyway, we loved them. Anyone familiar with them?
The highchair story seems to be A Throne for Sesame, by Helen Young.
Thank you SO SO much! I had pretty much given up ever finding that. After looking, I think some of the other books I remember might have been by Shirley Hughes, the illustrator. Such darling pictures! Thanks again for taking the time to reply
Hello! I’m looking for a children’s picture book I read in the early, mid 1970s about a blue jay.
That’s a little vague – but maybe The Acorn Tree by Valenti Angelo?
I’m looking for a story from my childhood and I believe it came in one of ten volumes of children’s literature that accompanied my parents’ Colliers Encyclopedias in the 1960’s. There is a dragon who eats people. A little boy solves the problem by making him dragon snacks so he will have something else to eat and he won’t eat people anymore. I want to say the snacks were called domdills, but it was 50 years ago so I’m not sure.
The story about the dragon is The Funny Thing by Wanda Gag. The snacks were called jum-jills. The “funny thing” (which did look very much like a dragon) ate dolls, making the children cry, so the old man on the mountain, who fed all the animals, invented the jum-jills for it to eat – until eventually its tail grew so long that it could no longer leave the mountain to steal and eat dolls. The series is the Collier’s Junior Classics – The Young Folks Shelf of Books. There are several different editions of this set, so look online for the covers that match the ones you remember. The story The Funny Thing is in the first volume of the set, A-B-C Go!
I edited the contraction of he will because Disqus considers it a Restricted Word!! Who knew?
In I believe the late ’90s (maybe 1997, 1998), I remember reading some books about some kind of Easter Bunny character who would send the series’ grumpy, female child protagonist on weird adventures to learn lessons. The whole thing felt super trippy, and the stories had a really weird sense of humor to them that I found hilarious as a kid. I don’t remember if the bunny character was exactly good or evil. I believe the protagonist in the story was the only person who could see the bunny, but she didn’t like him, and her perception was that he was constantly causing trouble for her. The bunny was giant and I think he was pink. The little girl was extremely negative and sarcastic about everything in a way that felt unusual for a children’s book, and she was always very resistant to the lessons and adventures the bunny provided. The story was told from her perspective, with her narrating. There might’ve been alternate realities or time travel involved, and it’s possible the books revolved around holidays (Valentine’s Day comes to mind, for some reason). The books were probably the length and reading level of Louis Sachar’s “Wayside School” novels. I feel like I read two of these books, but there may have been more.
Could it be the Guardians by William Joyce? Probably too late for your series, though.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/70839-the-guardians
Thank you for the suggestion but that isn’t the book I was looking for.
My grandmother and I are trying to remember the name of a book from her childhood that I also read as a child. Some children get lost beneath the ground (could have been in a park?) and find a large treasure? We feel there may have been a waterfall underground? I would guess it would have been published between 1930-1950?
It sounds like the sort of thing that Enid Blyton might have written. Take a look at The River of Adventure – it does involve children, an underground waterfall, an underground temple filled with treasure – and plenty of adventure! (It was published in 1955 though, so might be just a smidge late – depending on how firm your estimated timeline is.)
https://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/book-details.php?id=171
You could also try The Valley of Adventure – which also involves children, a waterfall, and an underground treasure. This one is a bit earlier (1947).
https://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/book-details.php?id=166&title=The+Valley+of+Adventure
HI, looking for the name of a children’s book, probably from the 60’s or early 70’s about a young girl who either lives next to six older women who are sisters or sees them in paintings; they are enchanged. I think they turn into birds and at night or something like that. Most of the sisters are ugly but the youngest one is pretty. Written for about the 9-11 year old audience I would say.
The Wicked Pigeon Ladies in the Garden by Mary Chase, Knopf 1968, but Scholastic published it as The Wicked Wicked Ladies in the Haunted House in paperback.
Hi, I’m looking for a specific book from my childhood as research for a story I’m writing. I was born in ’98, from the uk. However a lot of the books I read were my mums and were much older. We had this large hardback book that I was obsessed with. It was a story book, mainly pictures but with some words I think. It was about this building of flats, in each flat there was a different family or person. It was quite diverse. I remember it had quite an old cartoony style. The front of the building looked almost as if it was sliced off and you could see inside the building and into each flat. I remember the stories being about the sort of everydayness of the peoples lives. People would go to school and work and it would show the building at different points of the day. One moment I remember is a families flat leaking into another families and water dripping down. Unfortunately I don’t remember much more! I remember the visuals and I know I loved it but I’ve searched the internet high and low and what with me not having much to go on, I haven’t found it.
If anyone remembers this even slightly could they let me know? Thanks so much! 🙂
Perhaps The Apartment Book by Richard Platt?
An elegant townhouse divided into five apartments is the setting for this visual round of visits. Readers turn the book sideways for an introduction to the apartments, the parts of the building, and the people who live and work there, all seen through cutaway watercolor art. Sidebars provide closeups of the continuing stories. The drama begins at 7:00 a.m. and ends at 1:00 a.m. Within these hours, one family moves in, one family loses a cat, an eccentric scientist blows up his experiment, and the people on the first floor hold a huge party. The famous movie star on the fourth floor suffers water damage, the alligator in the sewer underneath the building is finally caught, and the burglars who walk off with a Picasso return to the scene of the crime to make the party scene.
This book is definitely it.
Looking for 1960s-ish Christmas story about a boy who helps decorate a department store with birds. Thanks.
The Christmas Bower, by Polly Redford.
there is an easter children’s book where what appears to be a homeless rabbit that stays overnight with a family of rabbits..in the morning it turns out he must have been the Easter Rabbit when they find baskets above the fireplace. I don’t think it had the word Easter in the title..and may have had the word stranger in title..
You’re welcome! Thank you for taking the time to respond and confirm!
I am looking for Little Women. It is my favorite book and I had a paperback copy in the 1990’s. It was small and square. I want to say it was like pocket sized (like 4×4 inches). I think it had a white cover.
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Hello, I’m looking for a book I adored when I was a kid, pre 2007 minimum. It was an illustrated book with short stories but was mostly an art book with stunning illustrations. It had stories about different types of fairies, I remember baby snow fairies being carried through a blizzard by older fairies to meet the snow queen and baby rain fairies being jealous of older fairies wings and they were shown how to dip their wings in a puddle and let them be dried off by a kingfisher.
This is very vague, I know but I’m so stuck. The only reference I’ve found to it is an old reddit post from years ago. Any help would be much appreciated!
This could possibly be a book by Shirley Barber?
Your description of the illustrations makes me think it’s by Arthur Rackham.
Or Cicely Mary Barker (https://www.pinterest.com/joyjardin/cecily-barker-fairies/)
Hello, I’m looking for a book I adored when I was a kid, pre 2007 minimum. It was an illustrated book with short stories but was mostly an art book with stunning illustrations. It had stories about different types of fairies, I remember baby snow fairies being carried through a blizzard by older fairies to meet the snow queen and baby rain fairies being jealous of older fairies wings and they were shown how to dip their wings in a puddle and let them be dried off by a kingfisher.
This is very vague, I know but I’m so stuck. The only reference I’ve found to it is an old reddit post from years ago. Any help would be much appreciated!
My mom, born 1936, had a storybook anthology that had a story in it about a girl and a delicious baked potato. if i remember correctly, she was poor and lived in the forest in a cabin. The potato ran around and I think had to be caught. Does anyone remember this story?
There’s a story about a little girl and a runaway potato called ‘Potato potato” in a book called “The Wonder Garden” by Frances Jenkins Olcott published in 1919. It starts “Once there was a little girl. She lived all alone with her mother in a wee house in the wood” so it sounds promising.
Hi, I’m hoping you can help me find a particular book that I have been trying to find for a long time now. I am guessing that it was published either during the 60s or the 70s. I also got the idea back when I read it during grade school that it might have been translated from French. I remember it extremely well. It was a horizontal storybook, and all the pictures in it were actual black-and-white photographs. It took place in a city that looked like it might have been Paris, and it was about a dark-haired young gradeschool boy wearing a thick black jacket who the book said had no home and no family. He plays and wanders cheerfully all over the city, and at one point he buys a loaf of French bread and sits down on a park bench to eat it. At that point, the next picture is of a photographer with a camera taking a picture, who says “I’ve captured you!” And when the boy asks who he is, and you turn the page, you see the boy sitting on the bench with a bewildered look on his face while the photographer tells him, “An artist!” The man explains that he never puts his camera down. The next picture shows the boy holding up his own loaf of bread and looking back at the photographer through the hole in it while saying, “But you must put it down sometime, to eat, to sleep, at least to change your film!” The photographer explains that he no long puts film in it, saying that the world is more beautiful through it and that “I have chosen to see life through my camera, to live it only through my camera!” The book then says that at that point a whole flock of pigeons took off around the boy, and the photographer exclaimed, “What a delightful picture that was! I shall call it… the… the… The Bird With The Long Feathers.” And the photographer goes on his way excitedly, and the book then says of the boy, “And The Bird With The Long Feathers thought about his new name and liked it very much.” The boy then continues to wander through the city and also gets to ride a carousel, and at one point finds a tree with a horse poster thumbtacked to its trunk as the book says, “And when he came to the horse that lived in the tree…” Finally after a while, what appears to be a nun arrives and leads him away, saying, “Come, Stefan, the day is over… it’s time to come home…” And we see in the final photo a closeup of a photograph that the boy had been carrying around ik his pocket which had dropped to the ground. I have been to several libraries and webpages telling this exact same story hoping to find out out what the book is called and who did it, but so far I have had no luck. Do you think you can help me?
The Forgotten Forest by Laurence Anholt?
I read this book a long time ago in school so the details are iffy, but I’ll do my best to describe it. The only thing I remember it’s the plot. A boy was in a museum of some sort, and found a phone booth. As he put the phone to his ear, he heard a voice and fell into a deep sleep, where he dreamt about some sort of small Italian(?) village by the sea. I don’t remember the rest, but I do recall him waking and realizing the whole day had passed and he was still in the phone booth. (2nd time posting the comment as the first had typos)
It sounds just a little like The First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha, but in that case it was a bucket of water instead of a phone booth.
Just in case:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Two_Lives_of_Lukas-Kasha
I’m trying to remember the name of a book my mom read me all the time. I think it’s called I can’t sleep but all I really remember from it is these two kids who can’t sleep, ask their grandpa to tell them a story and in the story the grandpa says he lifts a walrus that weighs about 4000 pounds. That’s really all I remember but I’d love to be able to find the book. thanks!!
We Can’t Sleep, by James Stevenson. One of the Grandpa, Mary Ann, and Louie series.
http://nearwesthomeschoolers.org/we-cant-sleep-by-james-stevensen/
Thank you!!!!
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There was a children’s picture book I saw around 1975 simply called “Cat”. It was a collection of rhymes illustrated with a combination of actual cat photographs and needlepoint. I remember quite a bit of it. One had a photo of a smoke persian surrounded by needlepoint work of a galleon at sea that read, “I’m a tough old seagoing cat. They call me Captain Jack. I’ve been to (lists two countries) and Singapore and back. I’ve captained many sturdy a ship, and guided many a crew. Tomorrow I sail for Zanzibar (I like to pretend, don’t you?).” Another showed photos of a Siamese with needlepoint of a bee, that said, “Hello, ho hum, and how do you do, I’m just a cat with nothing to do. Wait… what’s that I see whizzing and whirring all around me? It dodges and turns with a zip and a zing, I’ll just reach up and catch that thing. Meeoewrrr! Did you see what happened to me? I just got stung by a bumblebee.” Another showed a calico cat saying. “Some cats are brown, all up and down. Some cats are black from front to back. Some cats are white, and that is alright. But as for me, I have all three. I’m calico.” There’s much more I remember, but anyway, I don’t remember the author. Anyone know who the author is?
The full title is “Tell Me, Cat” by Ellen Fisher.
Thank you 🙂
Hi I am looking for a book I read early 90s. It’s about a baby/toddler who is at a picnic with mud pies and worms etc. Similar illustrations to Shirley Hughes but none are about a picnic. I think he wore a nappy and had a mop of blond hair.
Grateful if anyone can help 🙂 thanks
Thank you! I checked it out and it wasn’t the one, illustrations were definitely more cartoonish. I’m starting to wonder if it was a mouse at all because the only mouse I see with a wizards hat and cape is Mickey Mouse in the Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Nothing turned to stone, even in Fantasia.
I’m looking for a children’s picture book that I believe was old by the time my grandmother read it to me (maybe around 1985), so I’d put it in the 60’s or 70’s decade. It was about kids who would go to bed at night, wake up, and find their backyard toys all bent and broken. They finally figured out (I think) that it was monsters or creatures coming to play with their toys at night. The pictures were dark, mostly night-time illustrations. I LOVED IT as a kid and would love to read it to my own children. Thanks for any help.
Those Terrible Toy Breakers by David McPhail.
Bernie has convinced Walter than a lion, a tiger, and an elephant are breaking the toys he leaves outside at night. When Bernie helps Walter set a trap to capture the culprits, the reader will get a surprise!
I CAN’T THANK YOU ENOUGH!!! This is it!
You’re welcome! Thank you for taking the time to post back and confirm!
Looking for the name of this children’s story. preteen, young teen, strange one word title. The children find out their teachers are aliens. They go to a teachers house and find a bracelet with numbers/symbols on. Main character is a boy, think his sister hasa boyfriend with a motorbike.
Could be Gridzbi Spudvetch, later retitled Boom!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom!_(novel)
I’m looking for an old children’s book that’s been around since at least the mid-70s. It was drawn in a style similar to the original Clifford books – it was about a boy who was wearing some sort of (bear?) outfit, and while outside, a (brown, I think) bear mistakes him for a bear he/she knows and takes hime home. When the boy finally manages to sneak away, a second (black, I think) bear sees him and almost does the same thing, but this time I believe the boy gets away. Anyone know what it is?
Not This Bear, by Bernice Myers.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25060022-not-this-bear
Thank you
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I’m searching for a children’s picture book seemingly from the 60ss or 70s. It was an Easter book about a rabbit who made fantastically exquisite decorated eggs, and perhaps put wheels on some of them? Very classical looking drawings, reminds me of Barbara Mcclintock
Perhaps The Easter Egg Artists by Adrienne Adams?
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Hello! I’m looking for a children’s book from the late 1990’s up to possibly 2014 that had a mouse that was wearing a wizard or sorcerer’s hat and robe and had a wand. In it the mouse changes an animal (possibly an elephant?) into stone. Book was being sold at Christmas Tree Shoppe at the time about 2010-2014. Thank you!
There’s The Wizard’s Mouse (2011l, if that fits.
Children’s counting book, you count the animals in the different habitats. There is a jungle page, a swamp page, an arctic page, a dinosaur page, an ocean page, etc. The art is more realistic. The cover is white and has a snowy owl and an arctic background. The animals and the numbers of them would be listed in the margins all around the picture in a two-page spread.
This sounds like Imagine, by Alison Lester?
Children’s picture book, color photographs, little boy learns about going to a restaurant to eat, possibly italian food, published before 1990. His name could be Benji, in a blue or white shirt, could totally not be his name.
I think you want Benjy Goes to a Restaurant, by Jill Krementz.
Thanks! I’m certain that’s the one! We bought it when we were stationed overseas and our daughter was quite young; we hoped it would help her learn how to act in a restaurant for dinner rather than at home, and it did. She was along me about it not too long ago; in her 30s now!
Looking for an author from the early to mid 90’s that wrote children’s stories about animals. I remember one I think about an opossum with a broken leg. There was more than one book a different animal in each one. The author came to our school when I was in like 3 or 4 grade.
looking for a book in which a brother or cousin of a girl gets turned into a fish or tadpole by some angry witch and the girl has to do things to change him back. I read this in the 90’s.
Possibly The Stream that Stood Still by Beverley Nichols? (It’s the second book in the Magic Woodland Trilogy; the other two books are The Tree that Sat Down and The Mountain of Magic.)
“A little prince is turned into a fish by an evil witch. His sister has to make a magic mask that allows her to live underwater and rescue him. Truly good vs. evil. The witch is really nasty and cruel. The princess makes friends with the fish, frogs and beavers, who help her.”
“When Jill’s brother, Jack, is kidnapped by the wicked witch, Mrs. Smith, and turned into a fish, it is up to Jill to save him – before he becomes trapped as a fish forever. Jill is able to survive underwater with the help of a breathing mask made from water lilies.”
Hi, I am looking for a children’s book. The main character was moonlight, I think. He was on a journey to meet the king. I think he had a friend that died along the way I think. He completes his journey and sees his friend again. I can remember the name. It’s a religious book I read in the from the 80’s I think.
His name was Moonlight?
Bingo-! thank you so much (smiley face emoji)(!)
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