Happy Bear’s Happy Christmas.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2126716.Happy_Bear_s_Happy_Christmas

My husband claims his favourite book in grade 1 is of a purple platypus. He can’t remember what the story is about at all. It had some
Sort of blue cover. Can anyone assist ? He would have been in grade 1 in 91/92?

I remember reading this English children’s or young adult hardback in 2006-2010. About a girl in middle or high school whose a witch and not fully embracing her powers. She’s artistic and paints something to do with seasons. A strange girl shows up at her school with a colored stripe in her hair. This girl is sad and is looking for her brother lost in mud slides I think. I remember something about the strange girl’s family being hawk or falcon shape shifters. There’s a bully who shoves the main character and she hits her head. There’s a boy she has a crush on and he ends up being a witch too I think. She gets a cat familiar at the end. Her dad is always saying something about life being like a bus with no driver. Her mom isn’t so nice.

I am looking for a book I read and re-read as a preteen. It was about a boy who lived in a small town during a serious drought. The river has dried up and there is no rain. He has a pet racoon. He is trying to find himself amongst the drama of the town dealing with the drought. He ends up running away with his racoon. His journey leads him to a cave where he discovers an underground river! He calculates that with a little blasting they can bring this water to the town. He saves the town and becomes a hero.

I am looking for a children’s book full of animal stories one of wich involved ducklings on roller skates if I remember

I am hoping to locate a set of 4 children’s board books. One is Mimi Monkey. Another is Gena Giraffe. A third is about a lion and I can’t remember what the last books was. These books were small – approx 5 in. All books had a rhyming scheme to them. These were sold in our school system by a company called Books Are Fun.

I’m looking for a book about a bear who wants a red sled with runners for Christmas, but his dad gets a new job at the honeycomb and brush factory (I think that’s the name of it, if I remember right), and they move just before Christmas. The bear thinks Santa won’t be able to find their new house, so he tries to figure out a way to tell Santa that he moved

I’m looking for a book I had as a kid in the 70s. It was about a girl and tulips. I’m pretty sure it was Scandinavian. Sorry, not a lot of detail to go on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Five_Chinese_Brothers

Thank you!!!!

Mr. A. and Mr. P. Is by Margery Williams Bianco, and it’s included in these books:

Time to laugh : funny tales from here and there
by Phyllis R Fenner; Henry C Pitz;
Print book : Fiction : Juvenile audience
Publisher: New York, Knopf [1942]

Fun and fantasy
by Jeanne Hale; Nora E Beust;
Print book : Fiction : Juvenile audience
Publisher: Eau Claire, Wis. : Hale, 1958.

Laughing matter
by Helen R Smith; Kurt Wiese;
Print book : Fiction : Juvenile audience
Publisher: New York, Scribner’s Sons, 1949.

Favorite stories old and new
by Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg; Kurt Wiese;
Print book : Fiction : Juvenile audience
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1955.

You’re welcome. Glad to be of help.

“Jimmy and the White Lie” by Bartholomew?

Maybe this: Gregory, the Noisiest and Strongest Boy in Granger’s Grove, by Robert Bright.

Hello! I have been on the search for a book my dad used to read us in the 90’s. Hardback children’s storybook. It was very soft illustrations. About a kingdom of animals and the king was a lion (of course) and the zebra were like guards. Really rich colors but darker and like painted or color pencil cause it was very soft. I can’t remember what the story was about.

Hello,

I am looking for two childrens books from the 90s.

The first was by a former graphic designer. It was a book written by a little yellow creature with horns and a beard in a red cloak. The book details the history of the world he lives in, including the three main races, the currency systems, the geology and its punishment system, noting a notorious location known as the assizes.

The second was an illustrated book, in which a boy goes around helping fairy tale characters. At one point beauty and the beast argue, and the boy is chased by giants when trying to save Jack’s baby brother.

Hi, hope someone can help. My sister remembers a book that we can’t remember the title of – she says the cover was already missing when she inherited it. She says it was about a mouse who got lost from its family so it made a boat and house out of sticks and leaves and eventually at some point it finds its family again. She vaguely remembered that it had grown up by then and was happy to go ahead living on its own. I am guessing this is either a picture book or early chapter book that would have been published in the early 80’s, or more likely 60’s or 70’s. Does this ring any bells at all?? Thanks!

Hello! I’m looking for a children’s book about a tiny man and his pet crocodile. The book was landscape, and very dark/gothic style. Read it as a child in the late 80s very early 90s

I’m looking for a picture book I read in the 90s, a princess eats a delicious fruit as a child (looks like a mango/peach) and can never find the fruit vine again. When she grows up she only agrees to marry the one who can bring her the most delicious food. Many men bring famous cooks but she rejects them all. A poor (minstrel?) has only a crust of bread but he selflessly gives it to an old woman who shows him the vine, he plucks the fruit and climbs the princess tower and they share the fruit, etc Cover had a dark background from memory.

Hello. I am looking for a Childrens book i read as a child. It was about a boy who tamed a horse by feeding it apples. The horse was always standing on a rock ]

I’m looking for a book, part of a series, from at least the 70’s. It tells the escapades of a young girl, now living with her grandmother in an attic room. OVer time, they decorate the room with wallpaper with yellow roses.

Kingcup Cottage, by Racey Helps.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3275879-kingcup-cottage

I am looking for a book in print in the late 70s. It was landscape format, and the story featured a frog named Francesca who decided to have a birthday party, but the invitations got lost and nobody came. It had a central two-page spread featuring the laden birthday party table and a miserable frog trying to cheer herself up by putting on a party hat, with the text ‘but it just wasn’t the same’. Any ideas?

Looking for a book about a horse named Locket. The horse was named that because of a small patch on its chest that resembled a locket.

Could be Lutie by Margot Austin, 1944, (of the Churchmouse books) It had several printings then, but has not been reprinted lately and therefore you’ll find is pretty expensive even in not so good condition. From our listing: New York: E. P. Dutton and Company Inc., 1944, stated 1st; green boards with Lutie and his horse, dogs, and cat friends peeking around a barn door, illustrated endpapers, in jacket identical to boards; 8.8×10″; np. A wildly funny little mountain boy refuses to go to school, then changes his mind, then encounters a huge storm. He and his three animal friends finally have just the school they want.

Looking for a book titled “Mystery in Ward X.”

Hello there, so I’m looking for a book about a boy who can make it rain. I don’t remember most of the story. Long time ago! I remember that people said the boy smelled like rain. He gets a bad headache when he brings the rain down. I remember the end it said whenever it rains here now you’ll find him somewhere with a headache. i think the town was going through drought. Sorry it’s not much, but I have been trying find this book for years. i read it in the early 90’s. Thanks much!

I’m trying to remember a book i read as a kid in the early 2000s. All I remember is this gets set to live with a relative in another town. The people in this new town keep acting very weird and when he tries to leave on his bike he can’t. Then at the end theres people around a fire with some sort of witchcraft going on. I know this is very vague but its all i can remember

I’m looking for a children’s book. It’s about a son who goes on a journey looking for his mom’s paradise after she died/disappeared. If I remember correctly they were either squirrels or mice and I believe a hot air ballon is on the cover. This is a book I read when I was about 8 so I don’t have many details.

One of the Faber & Faber editions (1982 or 1987) of Sara & Stephen Corrin’s “Stories for seven-year-olds and other young readers” appears to have a light blue cover with small illustration (on the cloth boards, under the dust wrapper.)

It was first published in 1964 and has had a few editions – it’s illustrated by Shirley Hughes who has a fairly distincting style so that may trigger some memories.

Stories included in this book are: The Tinder box — Rumpelstiltskin — The Twelve dancing princessess — Lazy John — The Princess on the pea — The Husband who was to mind the house — The Giant with the three golden hairs — The Sneezing donkey, the magic tablecloth and the stick — The Three Sillies — East of the sun and West of the moon — The Emperor’s new clothes — Spindle, shuttle and needle — The Wolf and the seven little kids — The Ugly duckling — The Hare and the hedgehog — The Grateful beasts — Little One-Eye, Little Two-Eyes, and Little Three-Eyes — The Three dogs — Baba Yaga and the little girl with the kind heart — The Golden goose — The Flying postman — The Fantastic tale of the plucky sailor and the postage stamp — The Elephant’s child — Persephone — The Golden touch.

This may be it, though it differs a bit from your description. The boy does destroy it all in the end. It’s from a famous poem by Robert Louis Stevenson. There are numerous covers, but you can look at all editions to see which one you recognize. Here’s the link to the 1992 version. The original is 1988.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4824495-block-city

And here is a video of someone reading the book:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp7kPXRllu0

I’m looking for a book from the 50s. The characters were animals, possibly bears. The little boy bear was always late. His mother told him to come straight home and not dillydally because they were going to go visit grandma on another mountain. Well, the little boy got home late and his mother was already gone and the boy’s aunt was there and told him he missed the visit.

Mama Don’t Allow, by Thacher Hurd.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/968600.Mama_Don_t_Allow

I’m looking for a book of short horror stories I read a few years ago but I can’t really remember much from it. In one of the stories, a girl bought(or stole idk) something from a garage sale and after she touches it, everything she sees that leaves her line of sight will disappear. That story ended with the phone ringing in another room so her mom left to go pick it up and ended up disappearing. There was another story in the book where a girl was babysitting a kid and took him to the park and inside the slide was a creature that turned kids into insect-like creatures. That story ended with all the little insect kids pushing the babysitter down the slide so that she could become one of them. In one more story, a boy caught a fairy and kept it in a jar. He fed it insects and he was unsettled by the way it ripped off their heads when feeding. It told the boy that it could turn coal into diamonds so the boy decided he wouldn’t set it free. When it showed the boy the diamond it had made, the boy was disappointed by the size of the diamond so he went to bed. However the next day he found out that the fairy had used the small diamond shard to cut through the glass jar and it escaped. It ends with the boy not being able to sleep at night anymore because he fears the fairy will come back for him. There are a lot more stories but I can’t remember them clearly- one story might have had something to do with a lawnmower, in another someone’s worst nightmare was a person turned inside out, in another a boy’s room was overrun with caterpilars. I’ve been trying to remember the name of this book for about two months now cause I really want to read it again and it’s driving me crazy- please help.

Hello. I’m looking for a fairy tale book that my grandmother gave my sister and I when we were children. I’m pretty sure it was light blue with a two square inch design in the center. The book was filled with fairy tales. The only one we can remember is Little One Eye, Little Two Eyes, Little Three Eyes. Does anyone know the name of it?

Hi! I’m looking for a children’s picture books that might be from the 60a or 70s, it is a story that features counting maybe, or colors, but it’s told all in photographs of children’ picking berries, and I think at least one page has a photograph of those green cardboard supermarket cartons fill of red and blue berries. The author did other books all with photographs of the same kids depicting very simple things for young kids involving animals and colors and counting. Help!

It sounds like The Ghost of Fossil Glen by DeFelice.