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The Forbidden Forest?
I’m looking for an illustrated children’s book (it was actually a series) about a very dirty scruffy dog and his adventures. What was very unique about these books, is that each page depicted the story, as well as hundreds of other tiny mini plots that unfolded in progression on each page. These included tiny people, animals, fairytale characters etc. I used to read them in my town’s library in the 2000s, and was probably published somewhere in those years. It’s not Harry the dirty dog. I’d really love to find these again!
In 2d or 3d grade (1966-68) I ordered a childrens’ mystery book via Scholastic Books or a similar service. (I recall very clearly choosing it from the brochure or flyer that the teachers distributed around the class a couple times a year.)
I can’t recall whether it’s first-person narration. At any rate the child protagonist[s] befriend a girl, who in the end, turns out to be a ghost. I believe she may have died in a mishap involving hitting her head, then falling unconscious into a stream or swimming hole. It may have been foul play – I just don’t recall. Made quite an impression on me at the time! I’m very grateful for any help identifying this book.
In the Seventies, I fell in love with a library book. Its about a family of mice, Father, Mother, Son, Daughter, who live in a public library. Their next door neighbor is a cranky cockroach. They (the mice) decide to research the history of mice and use the library to do it. It has pen and ink drawings as illustrations. I’d love to get a copy of this book.,It was shelved under Childrens Fiction.
We usually edit out any kind of reward or transactions…. but this is a great one! So I’m leaving it in…..Wonderful idea that would be meaningful to our expert book sleuths who give so much!! Thanks.
Some time in the late 80s or early 90s, my mom bought a picture book for me about a little boy building this tower (or city?) with his blocks. All of his toys get involved in the construction as his imagination grows with the structure. It ends with the “best part” of building something being knocking it down, as the little boy joyfully wrecks his creation. I can remember the beautiful illustrations, and the construction being isolated against a dark background. I will donate a copy to the library of your choice if you can help me find the title. This book was one of the best “I see you” gifts I ever got from my mother–I WAS that little boy–and I’d be so happy to pass it along to my son.
Hi, I’m looking for a book that I used to get from the library in the late 90s, early 2000s. The characters were all cats and if I remember correctly it was based off of the 12 dancing princesses. What I remember from it was that the daughters would sneak out and the dad was a king, but again, they were all cats. I want to say it started with a G or an R but I could be off. Thank you!
Hi,
I’m looking for a book I read in 2nd-6th grade roughly. (So approx 2002-2006, but it could’ve been published earlier since it was in my school’s library.) I don’t remember a lot but I think there was a girl who either moved into a house or lived in a house where boys threw rocks, bricks and stuff in the windows, tried to break in, etc. I believe someone was killed.. a carnival/fair worker or a bus-boy. It’s all really hazy.
I remember the cover being either purple or dark blue, and I think the girls face and eyes were the highlight. Like she was looking out of a door peep hole or window. Thanks!
I’m looking for a children’s book and I’m some way concerning question may have actually been self-published and therefore it wasn’t actually in circulation but here goes. It would have been written in the 80s or 90s it was extremely surreal and abstract with very very detailed trippy drawings in color I believe. If I recall it was primarily told from the point of view of an infant as they age I believe. Or could have just been from an infant entirely, not sure. At one point there’s a crazy instance where I believe an aunt or grandmother is right up in the narrator’s face doing the stereotypical pinching of babies cheeks and making baby talk noises, and another section there’s what I assume is a child or toddler in bed and somewhat unread the dogs Big bad Wolf walks through the room. I want to see the title or a main feature of the book is various instances saying hello there to the narrator but I’m not 100%. I really just hurting that no one has any idea with this book is but I thought I had to give it a shot thank you anyway provides any input! PS if my writing is convoluted or liking your grammar I apologize I’m using speech to text as I’m holding a wiggly 18 month old baby right now 😂
Hi! I’m looking for a book I read as a kid. It was one of those paperback, square books. I read it in the 1980’s, but I feel like the older couple who had it had had it since their kids were little, so maybe from many years before that(but I can’t be sure how much, I never met their kids, but they were grown and gone, and I was in elementary school.)
The book itself was about a boy and his family. Probably had a picture of the whole house on the inside, and then each set of pages showed one room and one person in his family. (It reminded me a little of that book “The Curious Little Kitten” but this was about a human kid’s house.) I feel like the boy was named Zack or Josh or something short like that.
I also think I might remember that the book wasn’t square but was house shaped(but I may be wrong about that, maybe it just had a picture of the outside of the house on the front. It was a really stereotypical house shape from back then (door in the middle and dormers, maybe?) Maybe the boy was coming home from school?
I am looking for an illustrated book from the 70s or 80s about a boxing kangaroo that wears a dress and a bonnet as a disguise.
The Forbidden Forest by William Pène du Bois
Lady Adelaide, a boxing kangaroo, helps to defeat the German army, thus becoming a heroine of the “Great War.”
Hi, I’m looking for a late 90’s dinosaur book series. There was a teacher dinosaur and a bunch of kid dinos and it mainly took place in a school room setting. It had a audio cassette option also. The best lines I can remember are, “I have no friends, I’m all alone, Danielle is bad and I’m so mad.” and ” Danielle is my friend, My very best friend. I was sad and mad but now I’m really glad!” I unfortunately can’t remember anything else but I was hoping to find it.
Hi! Looking for a book with elements similar to the story of Eros and Psyche. I remember the illustrations were very warm, and were almost a Baroque style. The beginning of the story may have had something about a girl (a princess?) washing up on the shore of an island with a stormy castle on it. An old hag takes the girl in and there’s a beautiful man who is asleep in a room that the girl goes into at night and looks at him with an oil lamp. I think the hag is cruel to the girl and makes her do chores and is the mother of the man? Who eventually wakes up and sees the girl when she gets too close and spills a drop of oil onto him while he sleeps.
It was this book I had as a kid. It was a compilation of handwritten-drawn letters and pictures from kids about their dad. I remember one was about her dad telling her “two hairs past a freckle” which in her words was “soooo not funny it’s pathetic!” Then there was a letter about a dad going overboard when helping with homework and never doing it the way the teachers wanted it
Looking for a short horror story where its a family of a mother, son and daughter that go to a store and the boy picks cufflinks to buy and the girl picks a black snake brooch, when they get home, the snake from the brooch is gone and the mother wants to go back to the store the next day to return it and get a refund, but when she goes the store has disappeared without a trace, as if it was never there. The snake from the brooch is now under the girls skin.
Read this when I was in high-school so it would at least have come out in the 2010s, maybe late 2000s, it was part of a collection of other young teen horror stories.
The Chalk Box Kid, by Clyde Robert Bulla.
Solved on another board:
“Jane Carruth, Adventure in the Dark. Tippu the mouse gets lost in the dark after chasing Bully Shrew, who has taken his hula hoop. After a frightening night outside, a neighbor rabbit finds Tippu and shows him that scary-looking tree stumps aren’t so scary in the daytime.”
Glad I could help – and thank you for posting back!
Hi, looking for a book about a seaside hotel involving animals. The characters I remember are a mole who was writing a book and lost his manuscript due to mix up of bags, two rude geese who ended up stranded on the beach when the tide came in, driving a 2CV I think, and several others including a fox, squirrel and rabbit?
I found this one:
“On the Edge of the Sea” by Betty Paraskevas, Michael Paraskevas (Illustrator)
A boy dreams that he lives in a sand castle on the edge of the sea.
Once Upon a Time in the Meadow.
OHMYGOSH! I looked it up – that’s IT! Thank you so very much.
You’re welcome, and thanks for posting back!
alright, i’ve gotten more than a few people trying to find this book with me. it was brightly illustrated children’s book that probably came out around 2001, on paperback with a glossy cover, about a girl being left alone for the day and completely messing the house up. i think it might have been sorta poetry-esque with some rhymes, but i mostly remember illustrations of a giant pile of all the junk. i also think there was a page talking about meatball and spaghetti going into the mess. driving me crazy, thanks for any help!
A couple of possibilities:
Pet Store by M.T. Coffin (1996) – part of the Spinetinglers series
“You won’t find it on any map – but you’ll know when you get there. You’ll know you’re in Woofburg when they put you in a cage – and a dog takes you for a walk on a leash. The dogs are in charge of Woofburg and you are there to serve them. You may get a job as Mrs. Shepherd’s house pet, or Mr. Doberman’s guard pet. But don’t think you can run home – there are escaped humans roaming the land, and they’ve turned wild… and dangerous.”
If Dogs Ruled the World by Faith McNulty (2002)
“If dogs ruled the world, they would keep people as pets. The dogs are taking us to the vet, giving us flea baths, and reading training books on how to teach us to sit and lie down. Children will love this silly story, with lively illustrations by Julie Durrell, about a topsy-turvy world.”
Thanks, Andrew! I really appreciate your help, but that is not the book. It would help, I know, if I could remember more specific details.
Hello! I’m looking for a picture book that was read to me in the 80’s. It was a group of little girls (sisters?) who lived in a house by themselves. In this story, they were prepping for a picnic. Thanks!
Hello!
I don’t remember too much of this book, but it was an older children’s novel about a non-swimming bird that envied the ducks in the pond of his farm and keeps trying to swim. The humans keep having to save him from drowning, until eventually they start doing things to help him like attaching a hot water bottle to help him float and making makeshift webbs for his feet. I feel like this was only the first half of the book, but I can’t remember much else. Anyone have any idea what I’m talking about?
Hi. Looking for a book but can’t remember the title from the 80s or possibly the 70s about a mouse that was lost and could not find his way home. As it got dark, the mouse walked through the woods and the trees and shadows scared the mouse. In most of the illustrations, the little mouse was always playing with/chasing a hula hoop with a stick. The image of the mouse with the hula hoop is possibly what is on the cover. I have been trying to find this book for years. I would love to read it to my children someday. Fingers crossed!
Hi, I’m looking for a book my daughter who’s now 19 loved in primary school. All she has told me is it was one of those books where there are two stories, you read it and then flip it over and read from the back too. She said it was hilarious and mentioned something about the mum stepping in dog poop on the walk to school?! I have tried to look in the internet and cannot find anything. Not much to go on but keeping everything crossed someone knows the book 🙂
I’m looking for a book that I loved reading as a child in the late 1970s. It was already old at the time, but it was about an animal (a bird, I think) who owned a shop where he tied ribbons and bows and packages. I recall that it was an illustrated chapter book. Any help would be appreciated.
I am trying to find my favorite book from when I was a child. It was about living in a sand castle and I had it in the late 90s.
I’m looking for a late 60s to early 70s era coloring book about American Indians. Specifically it was about a boy called (perhaps) Running Deer or something like that. The name of the book was “his name”, followed by “…Makes a Friend”. His friend was, I think, some other Indian kid.
I actually ran across it online, probably 20 years ago, in a fit of nostalgia. But then forgot where I found it.
I found the book online that I was trying to think of.
It is “All About Indians”, by Whitman Publishing. Apparently at least two versions were published, one in the 50s and the one I had in the early 70s, published in the late 60s.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1968-coloring-book-ALL-ABOUT-INDIANS-Whitman-AWESOME-OLD-ILLUSTRATIONS-/224241066736
I’m trying to recall a book where a young boy hangs out in the remnants of a factory building and plays around constantly with chalk on the walls.
Thanks.
I’m looking for a book i used to have in the early 2000s. It was a collection of a lot of short childrens stories, the only ones i can remember for sure are The Tortoise and the Hare and The Princess and the Pea. It had beautiful illustrations and I believe the cover was a deep purple color (hard cover) and the sides of the pages were gold.
Hi – I’m looking for a book I remember from around 1960. A brother and sister find a rock with a keyhole. They locate the key and are taken to another world full of little wood fairies? Not sure I have all those details right.
Looking for a book I read in the early 80’s (7th or 8th grade) about a girl who works in a stable. Another girl gas a beautiful horse that she shows. The main character wants a horse like hers. I seem to recall the girl gets sick or injured snd ends up in the hospital. Dad gets her a shaggy short horse which is a complete disappointment to the girl. Until she discovered how well trained the horse is snd how well it jumps despite it’s small stature. Anyone know what the title of this book is?
I’m trying to remember the title of a children’s rhyme book. It had a green cover with moon and stars on it. all of the poems had a little bot in them and his name was like Gilbert of something. There was a poem about the circus and one about his birthday. help please…
Hi, looking for a book from around 1960’s to 1995 YA I believe more towards middleschool to highschool fantasy. A girl and a boy fall into or somehow travel to a land of Unicorns or a Land where there are flying horses. It is a series.
I am looking for a book that was a collection of modern children’s folklore – rhymes, silly camp songs, finger games, etc. I remember the title was pretty long, and I would have first read it in the early to mid 1970s.
I clearly remember it having a section of alternate song lyrics to “Glory Glory, Hallelujah” along the lines of “Gory Gory something something…”
Help. Not a book but a comic character from the 60s. Does anyone remember a girl whose mother had died and she had to become mayoress along with her father, the mayor?
I still have this one from my childhood:
“Nine Rabbits and Another” by Miriam Clark Potter
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20335438-nine-rabbits-and-another
Molly Moves Out, by Susan Pearson.
Take a look on Google Images at My Father’s Dragon (Elmer and the Dragon) by Ruth Gannett, an older book frequently republished with different covers, although I’m not so sure about the lessons, examples maybe.
Hi looking for a book that was read to me in the 90s but not sure if it was older. all I remember is it is about a child’s parents going out and she was upset to be left with a baby sitter. then when her mum and dad came back she was so happy and there was a picture of them having a cuddle.
Thanks
For years, I have been desperately trying to remember my favorite book as a little girl. I picked it out at my elementary school library, and would check it out every chance I got, until I had to read chapter books.
I can’t remember if the book was cloth, but it was definitely hard cover. The style of art is similar to Beatrice Potter’s books. The story is about a family of rabbits, and the main character is a girl rabbit (I think), and she ends up feeling not very special (I think)
Something along the lines of wanting to run away from home because she can’t fit in.
She gets tired of her life, and leaves to live in the woods alone. At first she loves her solitude, and I remember she made herself soup/stew. Eventually she missed her siblings and decided to return home.
Oh how I hope someone will be able to help me find this story. It would bring tears to my eyes. It is emotional. Because I realize as a young woman, how deeply this book spoke to me as a child and why. The idea of not feeling accepted at home, wanting to run away, and the journey to belonging. It would bring so much healing if I can find this book.
Thank you for reading. Crossing my fingers.
Looking for a book that was a series – I think there was about four in the series. The book covers were pastel coloured: think the first was light blue, then there was another that was lilac. I think it was do with being on a ship, there was a captain and think he had an albatross as his right-hand man. It has a magical story-line, I’m sure. Sorry I can’t give more detail…. I’m sure it will all come flooding back when I know the title. Wondering if there was ‘witches’ or ‘witching’ in the title – but that could be a red herron.
Hi! I’m looking for a probably 4”x4” purple board book I believe called “Daddy”. It shows things “dad” does around the house I.e. clean the windows. I would presume from the 1990s.
I think that’s how things work. I read it too, but I can’t remember the author for the life of me
I’m looking for a book that I read about a woman who said she wouldn’t find her soulmate unless he was in the rain with jasmine blossoms in his hair. she loses her cat, and a man finds it in the rain with jasmine blossoms in his hair.
For the Love of Autumn by Patricia Polacco sounds like a match.
Hello. I’m looking for an old book of short children’s bedtime stories from 1970s – 1980’s but it could be older. There’s a story with an animal called Bilger and he let’s a mouse or other mammal stay with him after he ate all his winter food! There was also a story about an old red fire engine. It had no dust cover and was grey on cover. I’d love to know what it was called or even better locate a copy. Thanks for any info…
In the early 90s I read a young children’s book series about a boy and his pet dragon. Each story taught a lesson. Looking for official title and the author. Thank you for your assistance.
I’m looking for a book from the 1950s. In the story a girl chooses a birthday gift of wax for her mom because she wanted the pretty green jar for herself. Her mom used the wax which resulted in the jar no longer being the pretty green
Trying to recall a vintage book from the late 80s to early to mid 1990s. It was a short book but potentially had chapters. Black and white pen & ink type illustrations and possibly a red or fuchsia cover. As I recall it was about a girl going on a summer vacation/trip to the beach with her family. I think it was a mystery, potentially about missing sandwiches? At the end she watches fireworks.
I have a vague recollection of reading a book when I was in school (early 1970s maybe) about a boy who went to live with a family member for some reason and a miniature dog helped the boy solve a mystery. The dog could do all sorts of tricks and in the end of the book it was somehow turned into a clockwork dog with rhinestone eyes and it could do all but one of the tricks the live dog could do (backwards somersault into a glass of water, which would rust its mechanism). Does this sound familiar to anyone or was it just a fever dream?
If it was a girl (Annabel Tippens) rather than a boy, it sounds like it could be from No Flying in the House by Betsy Brock. At the beginning the magical dog Gloria demonstrates 367 tricks for Mrs. Vancourt, who agrees to take Annabel in. At the end when Gloria is turned into a mechanical dog in her china cabinet, Mrs V sadly comments that “She does the same tricks Gloria did when you wind her up … except the quadruple roll of the mangel into a bowl of water. I suppose that would eventually make her insides rust.”
There’s a book I had as a boy (1960s) that I’d love to find again. It’s maybe 10″ x 8″ and I don’t recall it having a dust jacket, but the cover itself was grey fabric. Not more than 1/4″ thick. It was text and drawings (fine line pen & ink, possibly some with watercolor) about a man taking a walk in the woods when he came across a funny little creature that thought it was a bird because there was a feather stuck to its “head” but actually looked very much like a camera on wheels. The man and creature argued about what it was, IIRC. In the end they possibly parted as friends or maybe went home together.
I am looking for a kids picture book about a guy who has slept through his alarm and is woken by a telephone call from someone saying he’s late. He jumps out of bed and ends up taking various forms of transportation to get to his destination and after many delays gets there and it’s a space shuttle that he’s supposed to fly.
This book was or included the story of a stranger rabbit who passes by a house filled with baby bunnies and a mother and father. He asks if he can sleep in their yard, and they agree. It gets cold, and the bunny children ask their parents to give the stranger a blanket. Then, it starts to rain, and the bunny children convince their parents to let the stranger come inside to get warm and dry by the fire. I think they see he has holes in his clothes and the father gives him something new from his closet. Everyone goes to sleep and when they wake the next morning, the stranger is gone but he has left baskets of candy and treats for each bunny child. I think it could be a Little Golden Book, and thought it might be one of the rabbit stories Richard Scarry wrote, but I can’t find a single pictures that I recall from the story to confirm it. Any help in nailing down title and author would be appreciated.
hello, I need a help, please. I have an elderly library patron who can’t remember a book title. She thinks she saw this book about two decades ago (so not a recently published book), it was a children’s book (but not a picture book for a young one, I think either older kids or even teenage fiction), title similar to Dog World (but not “Dog world” that comes up in quick search). This book is about the world where dogs are like humans, and they have humans as pets. This is all she can tell me. Does anyone know this book? I tried to search in various ways but no success. Thank you everyone! Minori
Looking for a book where a a boy becomes a ghost after he is hit by a car or train while skateboarding. He helps a group of kids solve mysteries.
Except that he gets a deck of cards rather than a wine bottle, that sounds like The Devils Who Learned to Be Good by Michael McCurdy.
“An old Russian soldier sets off for home thinking about the merry celebration in his village upon his return. In separate instances, he meets two beggars and because of his kindness to them is rewarded. These rewards are a tattered deck of cards that never loses and an old sack that captures whatever its owner wants. With the help of these items, the soldier tame the devils who haunt a palace. The soldier puts them to work; he sends them looking for the poor to enrich with food, clothes and a warm home.”
This is based on a Russian folktale “The Soldier and Death”: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Russian_Folk-Tales/The_Soldier_and_Death
Shadow Castle by Marion Cockrell.
In the middle of a deep forest is an enchanted valley and a castle where only shadows live, shadows of kings and queens who have waited for hundreds of years for the spell cast upon them to be broken. One day, a girl named Lucy follows a little dog through a tunnel into the valley and meets the mysterious red-haired Michael, who takes her into the shadow world to meet Prince Mika and his mortal wife Gloria, their children and their children’s children, and to learn the magic that will lift the spell.
The first part of that sounds like Rumpty Dudget’s Tower by Julian Hawthorne. (There is also a re-told version with different illustrations by Diane Goode.)
When Prince Henry chases a ball through the hedge that separates his kingdom from the land of Rumpty Dudget, an evil dwarf, the dwarf abducts him. His brother and sister, Prince Frank and Princess Hilda, must go after him and rescue him.
You can read the story here:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/62408/62408-h/62408-h.htm
But the second part sounds like Shadow Castle by Marian Cockrell.
“In the middle of a deep forest is an enchanted valley and a castle where only shadows live, shadows of kings and queens who have waited for hundreds of years for the spell cast upon them to be broken. One day, a girl named Lucy follows a little dog through a tunnel into the valley and meets the mysterious red-haired Michael, who takes her into the shadow world to meet Prince Mika and his mortal wife Gloria, their children and their children’s children, and learn the magic that will lift the spell.”
This book has the ring that contains goblin dust (which helps to defeat the goblins). There is also a fairy ball for Princess Bluebell, after she has been rescued. (Bluebell had been enchanted into a mute purple maidservant by an evil swamp fairy who – together with the goblins – was trying to take over the realm. The fairy made herself look like Bluebell so she could take her place.)
Im looking for a children story book about two greedy monkeys fighting over an orange. Mother monkey eventually cuts the orange in half and shares it, A lesson in sharing
The story is Silly Will by Lucy Sprague Mitchell. You can find it in The Golden Book of Nursery Tales (a Big Golden Book), edited by Elsa Jane Werner and illustrated by Tibor Gergely. The boy claims that he doesn’t need other living things – so over two or three successive nights, the animals take back the food they provide (milk, eggs, meat), the sheep take back their wool, the cows take back their hides, and the geese take back their feathers, and finally the trees take back their wood, leaving him naked, hungry, and shivering in the night.
The book was first printed in 1948, but was reprinted in 1957 and 1963.
Perhaps this one?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7008184-the-bears-picnic
Not weasels, but an otter and water rats:
“Badger’s Wood” by Elleston Trevor
The small animals of Deep Wood band together to fight Black Otter and
the two Water-Rats who have been pirating their property. Grades 5-6.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2968299-badger-s-wood
Answering my own question, since my mom helped me find it. I am remembering The Provensen Book of Fairy Tales (specifically The Lost Half Hour), which will actually be re-released in November.
Thanks for writing back with the solution. Very helpful, Suzanne
Looking for a small, maybe 5″ x 5″ paperback children’s book with a cuddly black cat with a white chest, and pumpkins on the front. It had a Halloween theme. That is all I remember about it.
I am looking for a book from the late 1950s about weasels and rats being pirates and sailing up creeks
This is the house of Baba Yaga the witch, and there were many books which included this image. Is there anything else that you remember besides the 1960? Maybe someone remembers the most common reproduction of Russian fairy tales in that period. Also look at google images to describe the style of the illustrations, or included a link. https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Baba_Yaga
I am looking for a book from the early 2000s, I think it was a scholastic book. It was a picture book, horizontal and oversized. I just remember little snippets like there was one that said do you have to pick up your room and there was an image a child hold a room up in his hand. There were also references adult cereal, overbearing grandmas, and long chore lists. I can’t for the life of me remember the title!
Help me find this obscure story
When I was little (early 1980s)I had a storybook with unusual fairy tales. The only one I can remember is a story of brothers/princes. There were either 12 or 24 brothers, but the jist of it was that one of the brothers rode his horse through the land for each of the 24 hours of the day, using a white horse during the daytime hours and a black horse during nighttime hours.
The story had a guest/stranger of some kind that would help them with various things. The one example I remember is that one of the brothers “lost his temper” and this stranger found it (it was a spikey-looking object he found lost in a ditch).
It was such a weird story and storybook. I would love to find it again and rediscover the other stories that were included.
Looking for a book in which an officer returning home from war finds an endless bottle of wine and a magic sack that he can wish food into it. He comes against 14 devil’s and tricks the King of devil’s (and them all) into the sack.
Hi, I’m looking for a children’s book published in the 1960s or 1970s. It featured a fairy or princess standing by a lake where the key to the tower had been hidden. Thank you.
A Soup Opera? https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/6006548
Hi! I’m looking for a children’s book that my Grandma was read as a little girl. So maybe 1950’s. From what she remembers, it’s about a Mama and Papa Bear with a little bear who went for a picnic but forgot the honey. The small bear had new red overalls on. He went home to get the honey but got lost in the woods. He saw a squirrel and asked where his house was but the squirrel couldn’t answer because his mouth was too full of nuts. He saw an owl who also couldn’t help him. He was lost and scared. Eventually Mama and Papa Bear find him and they go home and have pancakes with honey, because bears can’t eat without honey!
This was our Grandma’s favorite childhood book so I’d love to track it down for her. Thanks very much for any help!!
Looking for a children’s book with a bear wearing pjs holding a candle in a red room with an oval rug on the cover. Throughout the book there are little flaps that have things underneath that the bear of saying goodnight to
I’m trying to find an old children’s book for a friend. Hope the collective brain can locate it for me.
It’s about a little kid who has an attitude. He says he doesn’t need anything and that night all these animals appear and take things back. For example, the chickens take back eggs, sheep appear and take back clothes, cows take back milk ect. He thinks at the end everything in the house disappeared. He also thinks it’s from the sixties.
Thanks for trying to locate.
I literally just read this story from my childhood copy of Merry-Go-Round by Merril Books, Inc. to my children. My mother purchased for twenty-five cents at a garage sale when I was very little. Thinking about this collection caused me to think about another book from my childhood, which I am unsure of what happened to it and the title. Anyway, that brought me here and when I saw your post I was shocked, considering this book is open to that page on my lap. Lol I looked it up and it looks like Etsy and Amazon may have a couple copies to purchase. God bless!
Hi I’m looking for a children’s picture book about a man who sits in a restaurant/ diner, might have torn gloves or clothing, the weather is cold and might be snowing, it is located in a city and I remember him eating something warm like tomato soup, the illustration is very human like, and the colors are really warm. I have searched everywhere for it but I cant seem to find it, I hope I am not mixing up two different books.
Hi all,
Hamster/Guinea Pig/Rodent Children’s Book (available at scholastic book fair sometime between 1999-2003)
My girlfriend and I are looking for this book from her childhood scholastic fair. She was in elementary school, which puts this around 1999-2003 when the book was available for purchase. Here are the facts that she remembers. If someone could help me find this book I would so greatly appreciate it.
* Hardback cover
* In landscape rather than portrait
* Realistic looking hamster (says it could’ve been a guinea pig or something similar though…) on cover
* She remembers a basket on the cover, too
* States the book was mostly illustrations with a sentence or two on each page
Hi, I’m looking for a picture book from the 90s. It was about a kid – i think a girl – that dressed up as a cat burglar in the night and ran across powerlines and rooftops
I’m looking for a book I had as a kid (90s) where you had to search for hidden ghouls. I specifically remember them using the word ghouls instead of ghosts. It was cute and fun rather than scary. I felt like it included characters from series I would be reading otherwise but I could be wrong and it may have been a standalone thing. I recall the ghouls hiding amongst many different settings on different pages. That’s all I’ve got! I’ve scoured the internet and landed here.
I’m looking for a book from the seventies (ish). Was a green paperback book with about 20 pages, featuring a victorian or possibly Edwardian woman going on a steam train with a boy and a parrot in a very tall cage. I think it was called All Aboard but I can’t be certain. I think the front had a picture of a Red Engine on.
Hi. I’m looking for a 1980’s richly illustrated book about how your house works. It was big and thick and gorgeous. Turned my daughter into an architect. We want to give it to her daughter now but can’t remember the author or title. Thank you.
This book covers other topics besides houses, but any chance it’s Joe Kaufman’s Big Book About How Things Work (published 1987)? A version called Joe Kaufman’s What Makes It Go? What Makes It Work? What Makes It Fly? What Makes It Float? was also published in 1971.
Maybe same book as raneacres
I am trying to find a children’s book ages 12 or so..about two kids in England visiting a relative playing ball outside. The ball goes behind a hedge. They go through the hedge into elf or fairy land and come across a boy who shows them somehow with a ring or looking glass a whole bunch of goblins. Eventually they are in the elf or fairy castle getting ready for a ball. Princess has a ring with dust in it if a goblin gets dusted they die i don’t remember the rest
Hello! So I remember in kindergarten/first grade going to the library for the first time and checking out my very first book. It was an older book, earlier than the 90’s. It was a blue hardcover. It was a children’s story book about this mans house that could walk. I just remember the mans house following him to work and I thought that was so funny. This is definitely a shot in the dark but I hope it wasn’t just a fever dream! 😆
I vaguely remember reading a collection of Russian Fairy stories sometimes in the 1960s which featured a house on chicken legs- does that ring a bell?
Hello, I’m looking for an older children’s book about a girl who goes to live with her grandmother or aunt for the summer in an old house. She finds a secret trapdoor/crawl space that leads to outside and other rooms. I remember that she’s a redhead.
So I’m eating some canned peaches, and it reminds me of this book I read as a child that had these children working in this really crazy factory, some wonderful imagery about crazy colors they used for dyeing, I think it was on an island and at one point one of the children almost drowns off the end of a dock. Something about a terrible dad if I remember correctly. Later in the book I believe a bunch of kids escape and end up hiding, eating a bunch of various canned goods to survive. One of which was delicious-sounding canned peaches. Anyone who reads this has my eternal appreciation!!
I’m looking for an old children’s book about a series of people being carried away by a red balloon. there’s not much of a plot other than more and more people being carried away, and they all fall down at the end. I distinctly remember a nurse being carried away from a window, a few kids being carried away from the top of a slide, and a small baby girl being carried away from her crib because the string was tickling her. it’s illustrated in a kind of soft, realistic watercolor style if I remember correctly.
I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT BUT IDK WHAT IT IS EITHER!!!!
Hi Everyone! I am looking for a book for my boyfriend that is very near and dear to him but he can’t remember the name of. The book is a children’s poetry book that is illustrated in oils and has an old man as the shopkeeper, the book is about the various patrons buying things from a shop, a shop that sells items of sadness(possibly loneliness?unhappiness?despair?or just unwanted). The cover he believes is blue, grey, black and the title he believes maybe something along the lines of “the shop of saddness”. My boyfriend read it in Vancouver, Canada in elementary school around the year 2009, but he says it predates 2005. thank you
I hadn’t read the second book suggested but I did really like what i saw of it online! Thank you for posting both suggestions
Maybe The Case of the Silver Egg—Desmond Skirrow
http://childrensbookshop.com/book-107716.html
Hi! I’m looking for a chapter book from the 1980’s in which a boy (only child, possibly named Oscar) wanted a cat very badly and ended up getting a kitten. The kitten then did lots of mischievous things. Thanks!
I’m trying to remember the name of a young adult book I read as a kid in the late 90s to early 2000s. I’m hazy on most of the details but it was written from the perspective of a kid living in the desert. There was a pack of coyotes near his home and I don’t remember if they were causing trouble or bad guys were trying to poach them but there were traps set for the coyotes. The kid had a doofy dog that lost his leg in a bear trap set for them and eventually the coyotes were found living in a ravine or canyon nearby the kid’s property. That’s about all I can remember and it’s nagging me! Thanks!
Margaret’s Moves, by Berniece Rabe.
I’m looking for a book where a girl and her dog are visiting/living with grandparents maybe and she and dog go for a walk and dog finds hidden cave behind vines. It’s actually a tunnel thru the mountain, and when she comes out at the other end it’s a hidden kingdom and she’s the princess? She’s about 10-12 and there’s a boy and she has to save the kingdom
I`m looking for an illustrated childrens book. Late 70`s to early 80`s about a boy/elf/ who ties two black, witches cats tails together as they sleep on a wall. The tails then come off and take on a life of their own and the boy has to struggle, carrying them on his shoulder – a presume to get forgiveness? I can`t remember the ending.
A children’s book with just pictures in it and tiny poems from the late 90s-early2000s Australian, it was about gnome fairies. And I remember that most of the time they were illustrated without clothes not sexual or anything usually just playing out in the wilderness or near a creak, then another page shows a ship, another shows them at a party showing the party room and the entrance to the kitchen, then another page shows fairies or elves sneaking near a sleeping dragon on top of gold and jewels with windows over looking a harbour, then another page shows a wicked wizard standing on top of a winding staircase holding some power source that was either purple or green.