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That sounds like Fairy Dreams by Carol McLean-Carr.
“While Isobel sleeps, butterfly-winged fairies with pointed ears steal 12 treasures from her room, and readers are asked to find them. An opening poem lists the items (“Her ball, her fan, her pot for tea,/ The egg she found beside a tree,” etc.) but the order of the poem’s list does not correspond to the order of the items to be found in subsequent pages. Instead, a four-line rhyming stanza on each spread provides the clue for the lost item.”
“The fairies are having a ball, with mermaids, dragons, elves and unicorns. They take 12 treasures from a child’s bedroom as playthings for their ball, and replace them in the morning with new fairy gifts for the reader to find.”
There are multiple printings of the book, with different cover art.
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THAT’S IT!! Thank you so much! That’s why I kept thinking Shirley Barber, the cover reminded me of some of her books. The sad thing is that I think I still have the book, it’s just packed away in boxes that haven’t been opened in years and I have no idea which one or if it is still there, but now I can just buy another one! So thank you again 🙂
Hi, we’re looking for an anthology of stories and poems, for children, probably from the 1950s. The principle colour of the cover was olive green, embossed with gold, and was made from an unusual material – not softback, not hardback ! (padded vinyl maybe?), One of the stories was called ‘The Nose’, and there was a poem that went something like ‘how far does the road go from here? all the way there’. These are reminiscences from my mother-in-law, any suggestions gratefully received
The poem is “Uphill,” by Christina Rossetti.
Back in the late 1960s-very early 1970s, i was fascinated by a story book about a talking (?) doll (?) who went on adventures with a Wire Haired Fox Terrier (nonspeaking). It may have been a series. The doll was kid-sized and was treated as a real girl by the book’s characters. (That sounds insane to me now. ) the illustrations were lifelike.
At a guess, the book was from the early 1960s. It was written in American English for (probably) preteen girls.
The plot had something to do with taking a ferry boat ride. I always had the impression that she had a lot of money and had no adults with her.
If you need more detail or anything, please let me know.
I’m looking for a children’s/young adult book from either the late 90’s or early 2000’s. It’s a hidden item book about helping a young fairy search for lost items for the fairy ball that’s starting. The only items I remember are a hand held fan, a sheet of music and tiny blue shoes. Maybe also a crystal ball. The illustrations of the book remind me of Shirley Barber but I don’t think she is the author. Very beautiful, very detailed illustrations. Some of the places I remember in the book to search for the hidden items are the kitchen (I think), the ballroom, a room with an enchantress type fairy, a watery cave with a mermaid and a forest. I have used every keyword I could think of and even though they are very straight forward, absolutely nothing has come up. Would be fantastic if someone else was able to help me remember this bkkk.
It would be helpful to know the approximate year (decade?) of publication.
If you can find a book with the same cover you remember – but the story is different – is it possible that you’re combining the memories of two different books?
In addition to several books actually titled “Moose on the Loose,” the line appears in “I Don’t Care!” Said the Bear by Colin West, in which a little mouse follows a bear and warns him about all the other animals behind him, starting with just the moose, then adding another animal to the list with each page: “There’s a moose on the loose, and a bad-tempered goose, and a pig who is big, and a snake from the lake, and a wolf from the north!” said the teeny-weeny mouse. “I don’t care!” said the bear, with his nose in the air.
I’m looking for a book series I read as a child. I don’t have a lot to go on but remember it’s about wild horses and a girl forms a bond with a foal before she goes away, she called him by a special nickname “Zanzibar”
He possibly could have been a silvery white colour and remembers her when she comes back home. I really want to read them to my own children because they do have sentimentally to my childhood
Pirates in the Park by Thom Roberts?
“Jenny’s walnut-shell boat is an object of derision for the boys in the park, until her stuffed animals become pirates and the boat becomes a real ship.”
“When the boys at a pond won’t let her play along with their toy pirate ship, Jenny makes a ship out of a walnut shell and sails off into an imaginary adventure in a great ship of her own.”
http://themarlowebookshelf.blogspot.com/2011/05/pirates-in-park.html
I’m looking for a children’s book from possibly the early 2000’s. I was read it when I was about 4,5,6, and I was born in 2001. I don’t have many memories of the book just possible sporadic memories. It took place in town, such as in a market and other places through out town. There are a brother and sister in the book and they lose their dog, whose name I don’t know. The dog causes ruckus through out the town like knocking over a fruit stand in the market. I believe the color of the book is a dark blue and has red and yellow on the front cover. It may be claymation but may also be just regular animation. Any help appreciated!!
Book I love when I was a kid in the early to mid 1970’s. Boy put a walnut shell in a pond and it grew into a ship. His toys manned the boat and they fought a local bully who’s toy boat grew into a pirate ship. Anyone remember the title?
Ok – here’s a link to The Lost Farm: https://pdf.zlibcdn.com/dtoken/d0f8996e14d81191c66b256e41aeac52/The_Lost_Farm_by_Curry,_Jane_Louise)_1832766_(z-lib.org).pdf
It is a parallel story to Mindy’s Mysterious Miniature and includes the same shrunken town of Dopple – and its shrunken inhabitants, including Samantha Bostweiler and Britomart Umstott – but at the beginning of The Lost Farm, Samantha is still a little girl. In Mindy’s Mysterious Miniature, many years have passed and she has grown to be an old woman.
Pete first meets Samantha when the Professor has the town of Dopple stored in a barn while he repaints his wagon. She tells Pete her story – how the entire town was shrunk while most of the residents were away from home, visiting the County Fair – but she and a few others who had not gone to the fair were shrunk along with the houses. Samantha begs Pete to fetch the constable – but he is reluctant to do so, because his abusive, alcoholic father has a bit of a history with the law – and he doesn’t think he’ll be believed. But then Pete’s father – Trashbin MacCubbin – shows up with a stolen car from the miniature museum. He also admits that he stole the Professor’s gold watch. In revenge (and to prevent being found out for having stolen an entire town) Professor Kurtz shrinks Pete’s farm – and Pete, his father, his grandmother, and all the animals along with it – then leaves town to continue his tour, taking the miniature town and all the other little people with him.
Pete tries to make it to town to fetch help, but is nearly killed by a hungry weasel that eats his horse. A good chunk of the book is then taken up with Pete and his grandmother’s efforts to maintain the farm and survive both the usual challenges of farm life – and the new challenges caused by their small size. (Trashbin is no help, taking to his bed with a cold – and eventually dying.) Years pass while Pete grows up and Granny grows older. Pete makes several more attempts to get to town, using the stolen car and a couple of rafts – but fails each time. Finally, Pete makes a travois and he and Granny set out for town one last time – but when Granny can’t bear to leave the old farm – with her rose bushes and lilacs – behind, fearing that she’ll never see it again, they turn back. Eventually, Granny dies at the age of 105 – and Pete has become an old man. Then, one day, Pete hears a group of people in the woods, including some children (one of whom is Mindy) and an old woman called Miss Bostweiler. Pete hides from them because he is afraid of what regular people might do to him. It is only later that Pete remembers little Samantha Bostweiler from the miniature town and wonders briefly if this is her, now grown old (like he has) and if the shrunken town of Dopple has finally been put right – but he dismisses it as a foolish notion. One of the children from the hiking expedition later comes back to Pete’s farm and catches the animals – and Pete himself – in an effort to rescue them from a group of people that will be coming up that way on Saturday, fearing that they will capture them and put them in cages. When Pete wakes up the next morning, Samantha is there, making breakfast – and he and his farm have been restored to normal size. He is also the sole heir to the professor’s family’s fortune – because the professor’s nephew had spitefully left his entire estate to “those Poor Souls among the victims of my Uncle who are now or are later found to be in Reduced Circumstances,” intending that no-one should collect the money (the citizens of Dopple being already well-off because of the MBM stock shares that Miss Umstott had inherited). Pete, however, was not a recipient of the Dopple fortune – and his farm is decidedly run-down and in bad shape after it was unshrunk, because any non-shrunken materials (such as normal-sized twigs) that Pete might have used to make repairs remained their original sizes when the farm was returned to its original size. Pete and Samantha are later married – and start their own business, Granny MacCubbin’s Cupboard – selling pickles, preserves, syrups, and other foods based on the recipes in Pete’s Grandmother’s cookbook.
An approximate year (decade?) of publication would be helpful. When were you a child? Was it new then, or an older book that might have belonged to your mother during her own childhood?
Oh yes of course sorry! Well my mum was born in the 1960s so it would have to be published before that (it was a well worn out copy by the time I came along in the 90’s). The first page had a black and white illustration of Red Riding Hood walking into the woods (my brother’s recollections since I posted this) and may have had the title “Big Book of Fairy Tales” – but it’s not the top option that comes up on Google when you type that heading. That one shows colour inside – this one was all black and white with teeny tiny illustrations.
In The Attic by Hiawyn Oram.
“Climbing up the rickety ladder of his toy fire truck, a young boy emerges into a marvelous secret world in the attic of his house. Anything may happen, he discovers, as he explores this new world. He finds an old flying machine and sails through the air above mysterious cities. He stops to help a friendly spider weave its web, and in an open field bathed in moonlight, he meets a talking tiger.”
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Thank you!!!!!! That’s it!!!!!!!
Glad I could help! Thanks for posting back!
Forgot to include the link to the online copy of Mindy’s Mysterious Miniature/The Mysterious Shrinking House/The Housenapper: https://pdf.zlibcdn.com/dtoken/7abc5106d46875a2f7568ca47c32543f/The_Mysterious_Shrinking_House_(The_Housenapper,_M_1834181_(z-lib.org).pdf
Also, here are some of the different covers:
Thank you. I kept getting a “bad token” message when I clicked on the link but I was able to find another archive.
Ok – just found a copy online, and Miss Britomart Umstott is one of the inhabitants of the Miniature Museum (formerly known as the town of Dopple) in Mindy’s Marvelous Miniature – as are Mr. Augustus Dopple, Mr. Herman Goff, Mr. Jack Crump, his wife, Sybilla Crump, Reverend Artemus Edwards, Mrs. Eada Morrissey – and “little” Samantha Bostweiler – who appears to be in her 50s.
There is also a fortune in negotiable securities in the First Bank of Dopple – which is how they are able to trick the professor into unshrinking the bank. Miss Britomart Umstott’s father had 10,000 shares of Indelible Typewriter Ribbon Company stocks in his safe deposit box – and while the company was long defunct, Mrs. Bright knew (because her own father had given her a few shares of the same company as a joke gift on her 12th birthday) that Indelible Typewriter was one of the parent companies of the current MBM (Mammoth Business Machines) – and worth a fortune. They “accidentally” dropped a tiny note about the securities where Professor Kurtz would find it. His first attempt to unshrink the bank failed – but he finally figured out that in order to unshrink it, he had to first return it to its original foundation where it had shrunk in the first place. The residents of Dopple waited in the bank and were unshrunk along with the building, then locked the professor in the vault, returned the other buildings to their foundations, and unshrunk the entire town. The proceeds from the stocks were used to help restore the town (beyond the obvious unshrinking).
Some elements of your story sound like Mindy’s Mysterious Miniature by Jane Louise Curry (see my other comment for description) – especially the main character being a girl – but Samantha is a major character in The Lost Farm (also by Jane Louise Curry). Both books feature Professor Lilliput’s reducer (the machine that shrinks the houses) and the Traveling Miniature Museum which is made up of shrunken houses – and their shrunken inhabitants. In both stories, the main character and an older woman (Peter’s grandmother and Mindy’s neighbor, Mrs. Bright) are shrunk. It is possible that Samantha appears in both stories, given that the Miniature Museum plays a major role in both stories.
In The Lost Farm, the main character is a boy – Peter.
“Another victim of Professor Lilliput’s reducer (introduced in Mindy’s Mysterious Miniature, 1970), Pete MacCubbin, twelve in 1922, first encounters the traveling Miniature Museum in an abandoned barn where Samantha, a girl his age but only five inches tall, tells him how the Professor had spitefully shrunk her village to make a road show, unknowingly reducing a few of its inhabitants in the process. Before Pete can figure out how to help Samantha, his own farm is miniaturized in retailation when his shiftless father Trashbin MacCubbin steals the Professor’s watch and a tiny car from his collection. How Pete and his Gram gradually realize what has happened and how they cope ingeniously with the problems of their new status while making various attempts to get to town for help is related with the realistic attention to detail that gives stories of small scale survival their fascination. Trashbin dies almost unnoticed that first winter and Pete and Gram plan to seek help again in spring, but time passes (too busily to be much regretted), Gram dies, and — counter to our expectations — it is 50 years before Pete is discovered by the recently deminiaturized Samantha (soon to be Mrs. MacCubbin) and restored to human size himself.”
Thanks. I’d figured that out and posted a reply to the other person who responded but my comments are taking a long time to get approved… I had forgotten about the dog, Horace. Now I remember Mindy called him “Horse.”
That sounds like Mindy’s Mysterious Miniature (also published as The Mysterious Shrinking House and The Housenapper) by Jane Louise Curry.
“Mindy found the miniature house hidden in the attic of the old barn. It was so perfect it looked like a real house – that had somehow shrunk. But she never guessed its terrible secret – or that she herself would be trapped inside!”
“Mindy Hallam knew from the moment she saw it that there was something special– something too good to be true– about the dollhouse she had found in an old barn. When L. L. Putt,a suspicious-looking “TV repair” man comes nosing around her mother’s antique shop looking for miniature furniture, and then their next-door neighbor, old Mrs. Bright, recognizes the house as a replica of her own family home– which had mysteriously disappeared in 1915– Mindy is sure she was right. But as she and Mrs. Bright begin to investigate, there comes a frightful shock, a ringing in their ears, a whoosh of an explosion…
—and the long-gone Bright house is back!
But not for long. All too soon the house rocks with an earthquake-like lurch and, as they pick themselves up, Mindy and Mrs. Bright find themselves trapped inside the house– suddenly dolls’ house size again– and jolting off in the back of dastardly Mr. Putt’s van to an unknown destination.
Plopped down into the middle of a bizarre adventure, full of excitement, danger, new friends and hairsbreadth escapes, how can they escape? Will Mindy’s quick wits and Mrs. Bright’s good sense save the day? Is Horace, the Hallams’ Great Dane, still following their trail? How CAN the tiny secret inhabitants of “Professor Lilliput’s Marvelous Museum of Miniatures” trap a full-size villain on their own?”
I’m looking for a moose on the loose where he says oh no not a goose. There are other animals in it, a mouse I think. Can find the book with the same cover as my daughters childhood one but the story inside is different. Would love to get this book to read to my granddaughter.
It sounds as though you may be combining the details of several different fairy tales. Most of it sounds like one of the variations of the fairy tales Catskin, Tattercoat, Many Furs, Donkeyskin, All Fur, All-kinds-of-fur, Princess Furball, etc.
The princess – seeking to avoid an undesirable marriage (in some cases, to her own father, in others – such as Princess Furball, to an ogre) demands three dresses – one golden as the sun, one silvery as the moon, and one as glittering as the stars – and a coat made from a thousand types of fur. When the seemingly-impossible dresses are provided, rather than go through with the marriage, she runs away, taking with her the dresses, the coat, and three gifts – a golden ring, thimble, and miniature spinning wheel which – at least in some versions – had belonged to her mother.
She gets a job working in the kitchens of a neighboring kingdom and wears the three dresses to three balls, winning the heart of the king. She drops the golden items into the king’s (or prince’s) soup on three successive days after the balls – and while he fails to recognize the beautiful princess from the ball as the “furball” he has working in his kitchens, he slips the ring onto her finger at the third ball – and she is still wearing it when he brings her from the kitchens to inquire about the spinning wheel in his soup. Of course, they marry and live happily ever after.
In some versions of the story (including the Charlotte Huck version), the girl/princess packs the dresses and/or golden treasures in nutshells when she runs away.
The “meat loves salt” bit is from Shakespeare’s King Lear, and also from a Jewish version of the Cinderella Story (there is a version published as The Way Meat Loves Salt by Nina Jaffe), the fairy tale Cap O’Rushes (also a variation of the Cinderella story), and the fairy tale The Goose Girl at the Well (in which king drove out his youngest daughter (a beautiful girl whose tears were jewels and pearls) after she said she loved him as meat loves salt. She was taken in by an old woman/witch who kept her as her daughter – but in disguise as an ugly girl – until a handsome young count came and helped the old woman carry a heavy load. As a reward, he was given a box cut from an emerald that contained one of the girl’s pearl tears – which was recognized by her mother when he reached the neighboring kingdom. Of course, the king and queen – regretting the decision to drive their daughter out – were reunited with their daughter, she was restored to her beautiful self, the count fell in love with her, and everyone lived happily ever after.)
I’m not sure about the old woman in the woods bit, but in Charlotte Huck’s Princess Furball, the princess is lonely (her mother has died and her father is uninterested in her – until he decides to marry her off to an ogre in exchange for 50 wagons of silver) – so she spends most of her time in the kitchens with the cook, a kindly woman who teaches her to be an excellent cook – a useful skill when she is winning the king’s heart because her soup is so much better than that made by his regular cook.
The old woman in the woods features prominently in the fairy tales Diamonds and Toads/Mother Hulda/Mother Holle (and related stories) where a kind girl helps the mysterious old woman and is rewarded with gifts such as a shower of gold or having diamonds fall out of her mouth every time she speaks – but an unkind sister/stepsister is lazy and rude to the old woman and is punished – such as with a shower of hot pitch or having snakes and toads fall out of her mouth every time she speaks.
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The story is Cap o’Rushes, and I had the meat loves salt/nutshell version in a book of Grimms’ Fairy Tales; however, it was first published in “English Fairy Tales” by Joseph Jacobs.
Edit: Now that i think about it, I think it might have been in a set called Collier’s Junior Classics (1940s/1950s era). My grandparents had a set that I think they got for free when they purchased encyclopedias. There were at least 8 books in the set, broken down into different categories: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1004051252/the-junior-classics-vintage-books?gpla=1&gao=1&&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_us_d-books_movies_and_music-books-literature_and_fiction-literary_fiction&utm_custom1=_k_CjwKCAjwsNiIBhBdEiwAJK4khtjC5RTkCXpu5ImE7ZLEY_AO7iWSGyC0nFAgoReWhzmUceG3uUEkLBoCSYYQAvD_BwE_k_&utm_content=go_1843970638_75209203092_346429113044_pla-316241130904_c__1004051252_111365553&utm_custom2=1843970638&gclid=CjwKCAjwsNiIBhBdEiwAJK4khtjC5RTkCXpu5ImE7ZLEY_AO7iWSGyC0nFAgoReWhzmUceG3uUEkLBoCSYYQAvD_BwE
The Lost Farm, by Jane Louise Curry.
Thanks but after some more searching, I realized that it’s actually a prequel to that book, Mindy’s Mysterious Miniature from 1970, (retitled The Mysterious Shrinking House for the 1973 paperback).
This children’s book has been in my mind since around 1969. The story: Rain is coming so duckling asks mom for an umbrella. She tells him, he doesn’t need one. He goes to the next farm animal and asks for and umbrella and is told no, he doesn’t need one. He goes around the farm, getting the same results. But then one animal(Goose I think) gives him an umbrella. He turns it upside down, lets it fill with rain and then swims in circles around the handle.
Im looking for a book. I forgot the title but I remember it being about 2 boys that get teleported to a different universe and meet a little pirate girl that turns into a pink monster to fight off a seamonster that was trying to attack them. I also remember a part where they went to a fast food restaurant that served ratburgers. And also the last part when they were trying to get home they ended up getting sent to a universe where everything is made of fruit
I’m trying to find a book that was in my school library when I was in elementary school around the years 1993-1995. It was a fairy tale retelling, and it was illustrated, but I wouldn’t call it a picture book.
The main things I remember about the book are as follows:
1. The main character tells her father she loves him “like meat loves salt” and is thrown out of the house.
2. She meets an old woman in the woods and helps with some housework, and as a result is given several items, including three dresses that fit inside nutshells and three miniature items made of gold. (One was a thimble, and I think one was a miniature spindle or spinning wheel?)
3. She goes to work in the kitchens of a neighboring prince and wears the three dresses on three nights of a ball, where the prince falls in love with her.
4. I had thought there was a coat of a thousand furs involved as well, but it’s possible I am getting stories mixed up in my head.
I know this is a common fairy tale, with a version of it in Andrew Lang’s Green Fairy Book, but I have never been able to find a version that has both the “meat loves salt” part and the three dresses in nutshells part. (And most versions with the three dresses don’t have the woman in the woods either.)
Hello- I am looking for a children’s book that was likely written in the 80s (but I read it in the 90s) that was about these little creatures (possibly light bugs) that were a family and lived in a little house (maybe a dollhouse) and they slept in a matchbox. All I can remember is that it was nighttime at one point and they were afraid because there was a cat or a dog that would walk by and they were trying to hide or something in their little bed. It might have not been bugs but that is what I remember
I’m looking for a book that I probably read in the late ’70s. It may not have been new then.
One day there was an event or celebration that everyone in the town (or village or maybe just a certain neighborhood) was expected to attend. While they were off, doing so, a man shrunk several houses in the town down to doll house size and took them away. He travelled around, using them as some sort of display or attraction. What he never realized was that a few people had actually stayed home and been shrunken, along with their houses. They managed to stay hidden from him for years. Meanwhile, no one back in the town ever knew what had happened to the missing houses or residents.
Several decades later, the man returns to the same town. A little girl is staying with an old woman (a neighbor, I think) and they somehow get shrunken (possibly along with the house they were staying in) and end up in the guy’s collection. They meet the other little people, who are now mostly elderly. There’s a woman, named Samantha, who had been a young child when they were taken. She’s now middle-aged but the others still talk to and treat her like a child. She doesn’t mind because she figures that it makes them feel younger. Samantha does most of the foraging for food, since she’s the spryest, and they eat things like cookies made out of grass. There’s another woman named Britomart Umstott (you’d think I could find something online, with a name like that, but no!) who comes from a very wealthy family.
In the end, everyone is somehow returned to their original size. Some stocks that Miss Umstott had been given as a child or young woman turn out to be worth a fortune and she restores the town.
I need help finding a picture book from my childhood. I can remember the plot pretty well but not the title. It was part of a compendium of really choice books. The visuals were kind of Heironymus Bosch-y, but brighter. It was about a kid with a white face (literally white, kind of rectangular,) and a red and black striped shirt. He’s cleaning up in his house before dinner. He gets distracted and starts playing with the toys he’s supposed to be cleaning. I think he may have been in trouble with his mom in the beginning of the book? There’s a window that wasn’t there before with a friendly tiger on the other side, and the boy (his name might have been Max but don’t quote me on that,) finds his toy firetruck and extends the ladder up into the attic. He finds some stuff but all I can remember is the massive spider web he relaxes on. He comes back downstairs to reality all happy. I remember really nice drawings. Can anyone help me with this? (I would have read this in the 90s)
Hi I’m looking for a book, I remember reading it in the early 90s but I’m not sure when it was published. There was a boy who had a pet cat and gerbil and he told people the gerbil was special like a kangaroo mouse or something. That’s about all I’ve got. Any help is appreciated!
For the first one, possibly Edie Changes Her Mind by by Johanna Johnston (1964)? The book is illustrated in black-and-white line drawings with some added color.
Edie does not like bedtime. She fusses and hollers and generally acts like a brat when the subject of bedtime arises. No matter what Edie’s mother did to ease her into bed, Edie threw a fit. So one night after her fit, her mother said “We’ll forget about the bed for good.” And they took Edie’s bed completely apart and carried it away.
Oh joy, hooray! No bed to be forced into! But then, her mommy and daddy went to bed. Edie thought they were crazy, going to bed with no one telling them to. Without her parents, the house was dark. And quiet. She tried to get her kitty to play, but he wanted to sleep, not play. She played with her toys, but soon ran out of ideas and even her toys weren’t much fun late at night. She sat in the big space where her bed used to be. Just to feel what it was like to not have a bed in her room. She yawned, but she wasn’t actually tired. She tried talking, to cheer herself up a little, but her voice sounded too loud. She sat in the living room and fell asleep for a bit. The clock woke her up.
“I never knew the night was THIS long. It’s too long for anything.” So she tried to go to sleep. But she couldn’t get comfy. Finally, finally things start waking up. “Well,” her mother said, “good morning! Isn’t it a lovely morning?”
Edie did not think it was so lovely. All at once she thought the thing that made morning so nice was getting up out of bed and seeing it like a surprise. This morning and this day were not nice. Everything was old and drab and boring. There wasn’t ANYTHING she felt like doing. She moped around, even refusing treats like going to the park.
What did she want? She didn’t know. Then all at once, she KNEW! “I want to take a nap. I want my bed back. I want it back for good!” “Well,” said Mother. “Well,” said Daddy. And they brought her bed back. Oh the delight of a bed after a sleepless night!
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Looking for a book about a boy whose mother who works sends him to an older babysitter and neither are thrilled about it. Turns out she has a magic book and they start to do magic together been making a chocolate monster to make chocolate bars for his class with the kids names written on them. It’s a story I remember well and Google and my tiny library has been of no help. The story would have been published before 1998 though I can’t say how much before. Please help me find this book so I can introduce it to my children and know that I did not imagine this wonderful story. I have searched and searched and cannot find the book.
Supernova, by Catherine Hapka.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/625829
This is a picture book which may be from the early 1980s, or may be older. A boy wakes up at night and finds a gigantic box in his front yard. He climbs into it and finds a huge room in which a couple of animals are hot-air ballooning, and also a smaller (but still very big) box. He enters that box as well, continuing through a series of ever-smaller boxes, each containing a strange scene (I remember a parrot, someone taking a shower, and a quarreling couple eating spaghetti) and the next smaller box, until he reaches the middle. Eventually he turns around (possibly being chased by something from the final box?) and climbs backs out of all the boxes and goes back to bed.
There’s a scary children’s book I read 10-12 years ago but might’ve been older since I found it in my house’s library. It was an illustrated book about a mexican (I think) legend of a guy who goes out into the desert riding a donkey despite being warned that it was dangerous; in the night he sets up a hammock on a tree to sleep but a monster appears and he hides by climbing the tree.
The monster was like a blanket filled with sand and a scary face (I remember it being similar to the way kids put a blanket over themselves to look like ghosts but bigger and actually scary).
The monster asks the donkey where his owner is and the donkey replies that he has no owner to which the monster obviously refutes that he has a saddle and supplies and all that jazz. Eventually after discussing a little the monster attacks and the donkey kicks the monster making sand fly out of him but apparently he isn’t hirt in the slightest.
The fight goes on until dawn where the monster leaves and shortly afterwards the donkey collapses and dies. I don’t really remember what happened after that, maybe I got scared and stopped reading.
Hi everyone! This is such a wonderful platform! Mine is a bit obscure but looking for a childhood favourite. My family just called it ‘The big red book’. It was a beautifully bound red book (I think all black and white illustrations) with rhymes in the first half, and stories in the next. Unfortunately that’s all I remember – it had stories like little red riding hood with tiny illustrations. Was a massive book though. Hope this jolts someone’s memory as I’m trying to put together a “nostalgia” bundle for my mum’s milestone birthday and this is the only missing piece!
Long shot… but it might be worth taking a look at The Illustrated Treasury of Children’s Literature by Margaret Martignoni. It’s been reprinted a number of times over the years, and several of the printings have red covers. The first part of the book contains rhymes, while the remainder contains stories and fables. Some of the stories are illustrated with black line drawings, others with single-color line drawings or line drawings plus a bit of color, while others have full-color illustrations (at least in some of the editions). The book does contain Red Riding Hood.
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Sorry for my absence but OHMYGOSH THOSE ARE THE PICTURES!! Thank you so so much Chanda – you’re a true a miracle worker!! She’s going to be so thrilled 😭
You’re welcome! Glad I could help – and thanks for taking the time to post back!
I’ve even found a copy to purchase!! The red cover was throwing me off as a lot of the editions don’t have it but the inside is exactly right with the yellow and black illustrations. Thank you so much again!! Don’t know how you did it!
Possibly PUMPKINS by Mary Lynn Ray? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2108984.Pumpkins
Lovely! And sounds like a book I would also love. Good luck!
Yes, one of my favorites: THE LITTLE HOUSE by Virginia Lee Burton, but from an earlier decade. Although you describe a little old lady and a farm, so perhaps not? I’d have to look at our copy if I can find it. But do you recall the colored watercolors and the images all being in a kind of circle, and in different seasons? If so, that’s the book.
Gosh…although that’s not “the one”…. it IS very similar. Im so appreciative. The one I am thinking of had a “lady” as the key character…not the house. The illustrations weren’t circular. Very big thanks for the help so far
Two requests, both from the 1960s (or late 50s? I was born in 1962) and both illustrated children’s books (black and white drawings, perhaps with a bit of color?). The first was about a little girl or boy who would not go to sleep and wanted to stay up late. Finally, the parents just let him or her stay up every night in a row for as long as they wanted until they were BEGGING to go to bed. The other was about parents introducing an older child to the reality of baby on the way, although it may have been twins. I remember my mother taking that one out of the library a lot as she was going to have my twin brothers and was probably trying to prepare me at 3 1/2. Thank you!
Hello,
I’m looking for a children’s book could have been published late 70s most probably 80’s.
It’s about a boy who is afraid of when the lights go out in his room he sees monsters.
E.g His dressing gown on the back of his door turns into a bat like monster.
It is quite simple in colour just black and blue possible some yellow
Hi! I am looking for a children’s book from my childhood.
-Possibly from late 80’s early 90’s
-About a boy walking in the dark mistaking shadows for monsters
-Had a button that made eyes light up and played a spooky sound
Thanks to anyone who recognizes this book
I’m looking for a children’s book for the 80s or 90s about a family who goes on vacation. I am pretty sure they pack up their camper and maybe go to a beach. They make friends there, maybe with some kids who are staying in a tent? Any ideas what it could be? I’ve searched online all day.
I’m looking for a book, that I believe was around in the 1990’s, specifically christmas time. I believe it was about a toy maker who had a very old train that was falling apart, so he got a new, purple train (I think) to go around the tracks. I’ve asked my family but none of them seem to remember!
Thanks for your help in advance!
This is ‘A word to the wise’ by Alison Cragin Herzig. Published by Scholastic in 1982. The book they steal is a thesaurus.
Willie and his friends in O Reading Group are sick of baby books. That’s all Miss Dillworth lets them read. They feel like dummies, dropouts, losers – until the day Willie finds a big, thick, mysterious book on their table. It’s been left by mistake, and Miss Dillworth tries to snatch it away. “You’re not ready for this treasure yet, class,” she says. But Willie decides that they are – and he and Thelma steal the book.
The Little House?
my mom’s favorite childhood book was about a cat and had b/w drawings, too, but she says no turtle. Timid Timothy. any chance it could be your missing book? he is scared by a lion, a bear, an elephant and a rabbit at the zoo, then encounters them at the toy shop and scares them.
https://www.amazon.com/Timid-Timothy-Gweneira-Williams/dp/0201093731
https://www.amazon.com/Michael-by-Tony-Bradman-1990-10-25/dp/B01K93TBDO
Thank you, thank you, thank you! Too bad I’m not going to pay $866 for it on Amazon, but you did put me out of my misery.
There are 17 copies on abebooks.com, although the ones below $10 are the “may contain marks….” kind of sellers and you have to take your chances. Anyway it looks easy to find.
Amazon is just ridiculous. We took all our books off it last week. Suzanne
You’re welcome. Hope you find a good inexpensive one.
https://books.google.com/books/about/Michael.html?id=TjTqNwAACAAJ&source=kp_cover
There are two books about the same character. Maybe it is one of these.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10804739-karoleena
https://www.amazon.com/Karoleenas-Red-Coat-Charlotte-Steiner/dp/B002092EOE
I’m looking for a book series children where the main character was a teen pop star who’s parents died or vanished on a boat. Her name was Star.
I’m looking for a book I received in/around 1980 about a group of elementary kids (4th-5th grade) who were in remedial reading and wanted to read a dictionary, only to be told they weren’t smart enough so they stole it and passed it around their group. The cover had some kids looking over the book; one of the kids had a red shirt on. Any ideas?
Maybe Plop, the Owl who was afraid of the dark?
Looking for a book from the 1960s. Probably later 60s. A young, probably elementary age girl wants a red coat, but her family can’t afford it. I think she goes to live with her aunt in New York City. This book made me want a red coat. This is all I remember.
Blue soft cover children’s book titled “Michael” from the ‘90’s that ends with the line
“I always knew that boy would go far.”
Please help me find it!
Can anyone else recall a kids (picture) book from the early 1970’s featured a little “old” lady who had a cute little farm house on a farm, surrounded by animals, fruit trees etc. Each successive page showed the impact of progress with diggers and excavators chewing away at the farm land surrounding her home. The end picture showed her cute little house surrounded by a city and tall skyscrapers, and her on her front porch. It was good book to show what price progress.?
Perhaps The Corn Dolly by Margaret Elliot? I can’t find a lot of information on this book, but it does involve a rescued corn dolly – and the doll (Harvest) can talk. I don’t know if she makes demands or sits too close to a fire – but she does survive a fire or lightning strike or something of the sort (see pg. 116 below).
“Susie retrieved the Corn dolly from the river-bank where she was being attacked by a group of crows. With the help of her brother, Jack, she fished the doll out and took her back to Granny Cuddon’s house. Their Gran told them that the doll had been a good luck charm who ensured a successful harvest for her owner – and she mentioned that farmer Barham had once had a very similar doll. Farmer Barham had employed the children’s father but bad luck had struck his farm and he was almost bankrupt now.”
“It seemed to Susie, and even to Jack, that ever since they had found the doll they had been followed by the attacking crows. And both children felt obscurely threatening forces closing in on them. In fact, finding the Corn dolly was to catapult them into a sinister adventure, connected with the evil powers that were trying to destroy Farmer Barham’s Highfield. But they discovered the Corn dolly, too, had powers – powers for good, which were tested to the utmost when the enemy struck.”
My wife is trying to find a childhood book she read in the 1960’s that had a story about monkeys who played when the weather was nice instead of building a home, then when it rained they were wet and miserable. This may have been a story that was part of a collection of stories (?). Any help with this would be appreciated…I have struck out trying to Google it.
I’m trying to find a book I read in the late 80’s or early 90’s. It was a fairly simple story but beautifully illustrated, where the characters were all sorts of strange animal hybrids. The protagonist was like, a fish-rabbit or something, and it was lost or lonely (maybe the last or only of its kind?) and it’s trying to find companionship. All of the other animals are jerks about it. The climax occurs at a party hosted by ostrich-snakes, who reveal they’re going to eat everyone, and the book ends with the protagonist escaping and serendipitously finding another of its kind hiding under the same bush. Thanks for reading through all this!
Possibly some of the Bob Books? They featured a variety of geometrically-shaped characters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Books
My daughter is trying to remember a book she read where the main character drew a face on a potato, and then got carried away making a lot of “potato friends” (and selling them?). Probably post-2000, possibly part of a series.
Did she meet a lady dying of consumption? And did she find their yard/house through a gap in the fence that was covered in vines? This sounds very familiar but I can’t put my finger on it.
i’m looking for a book i read as a child, i don’t know when it was published but i’d guess 2005-2009 and i can only remember that the cover was orange. it might also have black on it as well as a pair of eyes but i am unsure. please help
Do you recognise a probably mid century or 70s mouse story book with instructions on the fly pages how to make a mouse from a hankerchief. Might have an orange cover. Thank you.
Looking fora children’s story about a corn dolly rescued from the field and brought into a home. The corn dolly became more and more demanding always saying it’s because she’s just a doll made of corn. Eventually wanting to be near the fire like the person but she catches fire sitting too close. Would love to find this again!
Ok… total long shot here, but the first thing to spring to mind is What the Wind Told by Betty Boegehold. The wind is pictured on the cover, and Darkness is pictured inside wearing a black cloak covered with stars.
When a little girl, Tossy, is sick in bed, the wind comes to visit her each day, telling her stories about the unusual “people” who live behind the windows in the building across the way. There’s The Old Woman’s Window, where the woman leans on a cushion on her window sill to keep dry because her floor turns into a pond every day at 10:00, The Five Plant Window, where the potted plants in the window sill are the children of plant people (Mr. and Mrs. Plant, Grandmother Plant, Aunt Eudora Cactus, and Uncle Runner Bean) who live in the apartment, The Dirter’s Window, where the people who go out at night and dirty of the city live. They spend their days practicing by dirtying up their apartment. There’s also The Old Dog’s Window, where an old dog spends his days and nights at a typewriter, making up names for everything. When he is hungry, the dog types out the words for his favorite foods – and eats the words. There’s The Scary Window, behind which live two monsters (Drool and Gool) who are terrified of everyone and everything – especially children. Finally, there is The Empty Window, which belongs to Darkness, so she has a place to go in the daytime. On the seventh day, the wind does not blow – but Tossy is well and no longer has to stay in bed.
Found these two about apple pie, but that’s all I know.
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24603792M/Apple_pie_for_Lewis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35300534-puppy-pie
thanks! i had found Puppy Pie and thought it couldn’t be the one, but thanks to your lead i then turned up a google-docs preview of it, which includes a page with “twingelly!” — so now i’m thinking this is probably it. checking with her. much obliged for the help.
You’re welcome. Hope it’s the correct one.
yes! she confirms it’s the right one. 😀🙏🏻🌺
I love reading these posts, with their dreamlike descriptions of story plots!
Love your description. Hope you find your book.. Suzanne
A friend has been unable to track a favorite vintage picture book that she read in the 60s. She’s guessing it was published in the 50s? Story about a birthday pie, with a rhyme something like “twingly wingly, apple pie, I know I love it, I don’t know why.” Illustrations were line drawings, and she thinks they were printed with one or two added colors like the early Dr Seuss books.
Hello! I am trying to find a book for my mother that she recalls from her childhood. She was born in 1940. The book had a red cover. It was a collection of stories. One she remembers from it is Little Black Sambo. She also recalls a story about a little girl who was supposed to be napping and she cut the flowers out of her curtains. Any help finding this would be greatly appreciated.
Searching for a children’s book about a class of children left in school while the rest of the school are on a trip. They have recently won a collage competition and have had their trip. Two escaped convicts break into the school but are folied by two of the children who are in the cloakroom pretending to be ill.
I love reading these posts, with their dreamlike descriptions of story plots! I’m looking for a children’s book from the 1960’s or earlier, about a windstorm or big gust of wind that blows a bunch of farm animals off their respective farms and onto other farms. Each farm has its own color, for example, Farmer Brown’s animals are all brown. Farmer White’s animals are all white. Farmer Black’s animals are all black. I think there was one more color, but I can’t remember what it was. When each farmer comes outside to look at his animals, and sees that they’re a different color from what he had before, he has to track down their correct farm so he can return them. I think the cover was black, and the beautiful illustrations were in solid, mostly primary colors. The book is horizontally oriented (wider than it is tall), and mine was hardcover.
I am looking for a children’s pop up (lift the flap) book which was probably from the 1980s. It was about a child who imagines all the normal things in the backyard are creatures in a jungle, such as the lawnmower being a giant beetle, a hose being a snake, and many other things. I believe she was trying to make her way through this jungle, and then at the end realizes they are all just normal backyard items.
Hello, we are trying to remember the title of a book from the 80s. It’s about a sandman and we think the title might be something like 7 dreams for 7 nights. We think the cover had a picture of a sandman with a wizard type cape with stars and a wand or something… any ideas would be so appreciated, thank you 😊
Remember a book set in Sydney, late 60’s possibly early 70’s, young boy made his own diving gear. It was a young teens adventure book as the main character ended up locked in an old fridge in a scrapyard & left to suffocate after seeing something he shouldn’t have, dont remember much more but would like to find a copy!
Thank you so much Chanda. You absolutely solved the mystery 🙂 Loved the simplicity and sweetness of this book and feeling that everyone can be creative and included no matter how small they may seem.
Glad I could help – and thank you for taking the time to post back!
There was this book my dad read to me as a kid in the early 2000’s that was about this lady with a bird’s nest hair walking through some period town (maybe medieval?). I remember a part of the book where a bird lands in her hair because it thinks it’s a nest. I’m having trouble finding it though because there’s a modern book called “the girl with the bird’s nest hair.” If anyone knows the book I’d be so grateful thank you so much!
There’s Little Eddie Goes to Town by Caroline Haywood (excerpted from her book Little Eddie, about a seven-year-old boy who loves collecting “valuable property” (a.k.a. junk) and finding homes for stray cats.
In Little Eddie Goes to Town, Eddie’s mother sends him on the bus to the drug store to buy her some cold cream. He does not write it down because he’s sure he’ll remember what he needs if he just thinks of milk. However – between trying to remember which buses and stops he needs, accidentally sitting on a broken watermelon and getting his pants soaked and sticky (and getting to eat a large chunk of the aforementioned melon), misplacing his bus transfer slip – and having to dig through the assorted contents of his pockets, including rusty keys, bottle tops, marbles, screws, nuts and bolts, chalk, broken crayons, a small flashlight, a ball of string, a quarter, and a handful of cornflakes he was saving for later, to find it – by the time he gets to the drug store, Eddie has completely forgotten what he was supposed to buy. When trying to remember, he thinks he has gone to purchase milk – but Mr. Potter (the owner of the drug store) says he didn’t think it was milk, that not being the sort of thing one buys at a drug store. They run through a process of elimination, suggesting a variety of milk-related items, including milk of magnesia, shoe milk (for cleaning white shoes), malted milk, buttermilk soap, and milkweed lotion. Mr. Potter puts all of the possibilities in a bag for Eddie to take home, telling him that his mother can return the incorrect items. He directs Eddie to the bus stop to catch the bus home – but just as he is about to board the bus, Eddie thinks of milk again while looking at the green traffic signal – and remembers that he was supposed to buy cold cream, so he runs back into the store to get the correct item. He proudly tells Mr. Potter that he knows that cold cream is the correct item “‘Cause I kept remembering milk.”
This story can be found in Favorite Stories Old and New (which was printed with a blue cover and dust jacket). There are also other versions of the book with different colored covers.
Norman the Doorman?
Yes thank you MamaSquirrel! Chanda solved too and really brought me back. Cheers
Norman the Doorman by Don Freeman.
“Norman is the doorman at the well-hidden hole around in the back of the Majestic Museum of Art. He greets all the creatures who come to see the treasures kept in the basement of the museum. He springs all the traps and explains the paintings and sculptures to the guests.
When he’s not busy guiding guests through the museum basement, Norman creates his own art in his home inside the visor of the knight’s armored helmet and keeps himself hidden from the upstairs guard who comes to the basement to set mouse traps.
One day, Norman learns of a contest for sculptors big and small and thinks about entering his tiny sculpture in the contest. Can Norman find a way to enter the contest without revealing himself to the upstairs guard? And if Norman’s sculpture wins the contest, will he get his secret wish?”
“A tall tale about a cultured mouse. Norman was the doorman (mouse entrance) at the Majestic Museum of Art where he happily admitted all his art-loving relatives. Norman was himself something of an artist and he secretly entered a composition in the sculpture contest-a mouse on a trapeze, made of mousetrap wire. Norman won the contest, was found and acclaimed, and was given as a prize (at his request) a tour of the museum by the very guard who had formerly tried to trap him.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uneKPVBLWzw
If if might have been a boy rather than a girl, perhaps A Fish Story by Keith Faulkner (also printed as A Fisherman’s Tale)?
“A tiny gray fish is taken home in a jar by a young fisherman. Soon the gray fish grows bigger and bigger! Too big for the jar, then much too huge for the fish tank–then so immense, he can’t even fit in the tub! So the boy sets his pal free in the ocean where he can be happy. Ingenious lift-flaps grow larger as the fish gets bigger, so in the end the book becomes a double gatefold to show a giant whale.”
Henry the Lion Goes Exploring?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6662658-henry-the-lion-goes-exploring
The Doll Hospital, by James Duffy.
Where Can Daniel Be?, by Leah Komaiko.
Thank you! I have been trying to find this book because I want to show it to the girl I babysit for been when I asked my mother what this book was she said that she didn’t remember it.
Was it a picture book or chapter book? The Scandinavian/tulips connection makes me think of Aurora in Holland, part of the Aurora Series by Norwegian author Anne-Cath Vestly. They were early reader level chapter books with black line drawings by Vestly’s husband. Aurora’s mother works outside the home and her dad looks after her and her brother Socrates. I read them in the 70swhen I was about 6 so am hazy on the details for Aurora in Holland, but her mum’s job takes her to the Hague in the Netherlands and the family go with her. The cover shows the family in the car driving past tulip fields
Vague recollections of a sweet kids storybook read perhaps in early 80s about a mouse (perhaps?) who I think uses mouse traps set for it and instead turns them into beautiful wire sculptures and I think a flying trapeze? Thank you!
This was a children’s book that I read in the 90s, I believe it was a little girl who found a small fish and brings it home. The fish keeps growing out of the fish bowl, bathtub and then she takes it to the roof of the apartment building and realizes it’s a whale and it has to be brought back to the ocean.
Looking for a children’s picture book from my childhood that would have been published in 2002 or anytime before then. I don’t remember much except it took place during autumn. Towards the start of the book there was a page of a boy (might have been two boys) walking with a pumpkin in a wheelbarrow and the text talked about the leaves “scattering” all around. I remember that part specifically because that was the first time I read something without struggle due to my dyslexia. I remember the art was very well done for a children’s book. I really hope you can help me find it.
I’m looking for a book of fables for children. I owned this book in the 1980s but the book could have been published in the 1920s or 1930s. It was hardback, dark mahogany or deep burgundy in color, possibly bound in leather or a leather-like material. It was illustrated with elaborate color drawings. The only story I can recall was about a giant American Indian warrior who could turn invisible. He would go off hunting while he left his normal-sized wife at their home. I think the warrior represented the sun or something in nature. I know this isn’t a lot to go on, but I’m hoping it sparks a memory!
I’m looking for an early reader I read in the early 2000’s. It was small and red, there was a large set of them. I would find them in my local library in a small tub all jumbled together. They were about a little shape boy. I think his head was a circle and his body a triangle. That’s all I remember about it.
Hi, I’m looking for a book that my mom had as a kid and then she passed it on to me when I started to learn how to read. I was hoping to buy her a copy as a gift but I don’t remember the book’s title. It was a large collection of short stories, and it had a dark blue cover. The only story I remember in it was one about a boy whose mother sent him to the store to buy milk, but by the time he got there he forgot what he was supposed to buy. My mom was born in. The 1950s so the book may be from around then? Sorry I know that isn’t a lot to go on but any help would be much appreciated!
I’m looking for a book from when I was younger where the girl lost her baby brother Daniel and while she was looking for him she would say “Daniel is my baby brother and he’s not even three.” Then she would go over all the things that would happen to her if she didn’t find him and in the end she found him in the closet eating chocolate ice cream. Does anyone know what this is called?
Looking for a book for an oldler friend. It was her favourite book as a child it was calked Little lion called Henry. It was a paperback. Thank you
Hello, I’m looking for a children’s book I read in the 90s about a sick girl who imagines up an animal hospital with her stuffed toys while she stays at home. I thought it was called something like “the animal hospital” or “the toy hospital” but searching for it has been a challenge! One of her stuffed toys was called Boodles, and I think he was a dog.
I’m looking for a children’s book, a chapter book, that was published prior to 1955. It was, according to my cousin, green with red embossing on the cover, and it was about the adventures of a family of 10: she thinks 8 kids and their parents, or ten kids plus parents. She particularly remembers them picking blackberries together. It kind of sounds like he Five Little Peppers?
Book on tape. Quilted patchwork doll. Heart patch of gold? probably 1994-2000. Honestly not sure I was born in 1990.
I’m looking for a book that was in a 2nd grade classroom- would be a 70’s or 80’s book- and there was a character named Nina.
Please help me find one of my favorite books from my childhood. I was an 80’s kid, but the book could have been published in any year, really…40s, 50s…all the way to the 80s. The defining features…
1. farm animals in a barn
2. Artwork was 4 colors: white, red, black, and just a bit of yellow, I think
3. At some point a black wolf, drawn jagged, was threatening to come in and eat them. I believe they saw his shadow on the barn wall.
That’s all I got…not too much to go on, I know.
The story was terrifying, but one of my favorites.
Thank you all so much…this is a great site!
Looking for a children’s book about a woman and her son and daughter, whose husband was killed in a fight, and she takes her kids to live with the man who was in the fight with her husband. Boy gets a horse and it goes through a snowstorm to get a Christmas gift for the daughter and gets frosted lung.
I’m looking for a book from my childhood. Probably around the mid 80s pretty sure it came from the scholastic book fair, it had something to do with an owl, and all I can remember was the last page the owl said “who me?”
I’m look for a book with possibly a green cover about a girl who meets another girl and her father. I think there is some sort of deceased lady involved somehow and also something about vines/moss/gardens? It might have been a middle grade books I’m starting to believe I dreamed it.
Okay this one is gonna be a little difficult, I’ve been searching for this childhood book for like two hours now. I don’t remember the name or the year it was released. All I can remember is that it has a pair of brunette siblings (twins maybe?) a brother and a sister who constantly pick on one another. The coloring for the pictures was mainly white, I recall the art style looking like it was sketched out and added with water color afterwards. Usually the only thing water colored was there blotchy red cheeks and noses. I recall on of the pictures is the sister brushing her long stringy hair and looking shocked with a brush in her hand with her brother behind her pulling at a strand while licking an ice lollie. I remember reading this around 2006 it’s a pretty short book but I remember always loving the art style.