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I’m looking for a book from the early 00’s, about a girl mouse and a boy mouse, and the girl mouse is saying how she can do anything the boy mouse can do, I’ve looked up all the keywords and details I can remember, but nothing comes up
Hi. I’m looking for a book that I thought was titled the woodcutters daughters.
It was about a woodcutter with 3 daughters I believe. He marked trees with his axe so his daughters could bring him lunch. They got lost as the marks changed. The youngest one finally found a castle and asked for shelter and a Bear stated that she could stay all he asked was that she set out a pillow for him at her door. She set out both a pillow and blanket and due to her charity he transformed into a prince. Thank you for any help. I use to have an after school care giver read this to me.
Looking for a children’s book, I think it was from Scholastic Weekly in the late 80s. The book was about a bear who had a treasure map for his buried chestnuts (?). It was set in winter and he had help from one of his friends (a rabbit?) and they couldn’t find the treasure using the map but eventually found the buried nuts under the bear’s welcome mat at his house. I need help finding the title of this, TIA!
I’m looking for a kid’s book — a little girl enters a house. The rooms and furniture are strange and alive. She finds a little boy in bed and they play together. His parents come home — they are not pleased to see her. The illustrations are wonderful. I think it came out in late 70’s or early 80’s.
Looking for an old book of “parables.” One of the stories contained was the little boy whose face froze (after making mean, silly faces to his sister all the time). My grandmother used to have this book and unfortunately I couldn’t remember any of the other stories.
Looking for an illustrated chapter book about a mermaid that I read in the early 2000s, when I was in elementary school. The cover has a colored illustration of a mermaid caught in a fisherman’s net, along with a large 17th- or 18th- century wooden ship in the background. The mermaid gets caught in a fishing net and put in a barrel. At night, the mermaid sings, and one day, a boy working on the boat (I think his name is James) sets her free. I believe one of the illustrations in the book shows a creature that looks like a giant clam or oyster with two human arms coming out of it.
do any of yall know a childrens books where there was a cow who got abandoned by her owner because she used to eat different coloured flowers and give milk of the same colour? i remember the book mentioning she ate daffodils one day and gave yellow milk, ate roses another day and gave pink milk and ate bluebells one day and gave blue milk
i remember reading the illustrated book and there was a beautiful illustration of the cow lying down under a big tree as it rained. the book that i read came with 3 others stories, one was about a mouse who was eating corn and then carved a house out of a pumpkin to escape a cat who was chasing him and the third was about the girl listening to a few songbirds outside her window, i remember a thrush being one of them
I am looking for what I believe is a late 90s early 00s book about a little girl who gets ready for bed with the dragon who lives outside her window. If it all helpful, I remember the dragon being a light shade of greyish purple. This is a bedtime story that is picture heavy. Any help would be appreciated.
Or Moxie Day and Family, same author.
The book is Moxie Day the Prankster, by Robert Pottle.
The poem is “The Artist,” by Robert Pottle.
Looking for a children’s picture book I remember from the 1980s which had a brother and sister. he loved to garden and she loved to travel all over and then she would come home and they were both accepting of the other’s preferences.
Happy to have helped. Hope you enjoy re-reading them.
I remember a story about three magical jars, I think one had endless food, another had endless water, and maybe the other had endless gold. I cannot think of the name but it may have been some moral teaching.
Is anyone familiar with this? Kind thanks.
I’m looking for a book that has rymes or peoms in it I thought it was called moxie days but nothing pops up for that there was one peom in the book that g
oes (From drawing blue bananas my marker has gone dry I’ll use my tongue to moisten it and give another try my markers working better now and wow I love the taste its better then crayons tape or paste) that’s all I remember please help
Hi! I’m looking for a book about a group of kids who play outside. there’s this space with thorns and they play battle and kingdoms. Would have been around 1996?
Surviving the Applewhites?
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie Tolan.
Jake Semple is a scary kid. Word has it that he burned down his old school and then was kicked out of every other school in his home state. Only weeks into September, the middle school in Traybridge, North Carolina, has thrown him out, too.
Now there’s only one place left that will take him — a home school run by the most outrageous, forgetful, chaotic, quarrelsome family you’ll ever meet. Each and every Applewhite is an artist through and through — except E.D., the smart, scruffy girl with a deep longing for order and predictability. E.D. and Jake, so nearly the same age, are quickly paired in the family’s first experiment in “cooperative education.”
The two clash immediately, of course. The only thing they have in common is the determination to survive the family’s eccentricities.
In Stephanie S. Tolan’s hilarious tale, a local production of The Sound of Music directed, stagecrafted, choreographed, and costumed by Apple-whites — brings the family together and shows E.D. and Jake the value of the special gifts they’ve had all along.
Sounds like We Were Tired of Living in a House.
That is it! Thanks
You’re welcome!
I’m looking for a book that was about a family of children who ran away form home and set houses in different places. A tree, a river, a cave…..It was a picture book. Illustrated in all sepia tone pen an dink drawings. While it sounds similar to Box Car Children it was not that. It was probably for 3-5yr olds.
Try ‘Mary Bravender’ by Olga Stringellow. Published in 1960 and set during the New Zealand wars. Novel about a newly married Scottish emigrant in New Zealand. Mary Bravender is only twenty-one when, in 1862, she comes to Wellington to marry Edward Grey, a man she hardly knows. On the voyage out, she met Chase Pendennis, a New Zealander, whose outspoken criticism of her fiance blinded her to his qualities as a man, and to his importance as a citizen. In the troubled times to come, Chase Pendennis, trusted equally by the Maori and the Government, plays a vital role in Mary’s life.
hey im looking for a book about a spikey red haired kid who gets sent to a farm because he set fire to his school and becomes friends with a girl trying to catch butterflies for a project. He acts in a movie or show at the end of the book.
I’m looking for a chapter book that I read in the 1970’s but it could have been written in the 1960’s. If I remember correctly the dark haired girl on the cover was wearing a mini skirt. It was about a girl, I think she was a teenager, whose family was really messy. Their yard was full of weeds. She decides to clear out the yard and builds a patio. Also, the other book I am looking for was about a couple of homeless kids, I think they were Mexican and I believe the boy’s name was Fernando. Fernando would fry up bananas for his sister. Ringing any bells?
Who Needs Her?, by Lorraine Hare.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5640033-who-needs-her
You are absolutely amazing! This has been bugging me for a long time! I had begun to think I was losing it and had made up the whole thing in my head. How did you find it so fast?!
Glad to help! I searched for children’s books “clothes run away.”
I’m looking for a scratch and sniff book that was about a dragon. I think it was red or orange. I remember him taking a shower in the book and there was like a curtain you could pull back to see him. I remember the dragon eating some kids lol if anyone could help that would be fantastic. I can’t find anything
For at least 7 years I’ve been trying to track down a children’s book I had in the early 80s.
The only thing I know is that it involved a magic necklace that turned things into sugar. The necklace was shaped like a shark tooth.
Ring a bell?
I am looking for a story about a girl whose clothes get fed up with her messy room and they run away. She then has to wear a paper bag to school and sandwich bags on her feet. She has kids from school become her friend and join her in her “new style” for a day or two but they get tired of it and go back to clothes. She then misses having friends. She sees a girl wearing her clothes and in the end they end up sharing her wardrobe because the new girl needed them too.
Hi, I’m looking for an old children’s book that I would have read in the ’90s. It was about fairies who lived in the forest and all wore a different colour dress that matched the colours of the rainbow. At the end of the rainbow, each of the colours had a tap. I’d love to find what it is. Thank you!
You’re welcome! Glad I could help – and thank you for posting back!
You’re welcome! Glad I could help. I remember it fondly from my own childhood – and even have a copy on my shelf.
Thanks for taking the time to post back!
Hello!
I’m feeling nostalgic and I was wondering if anyone knew the name of an old Boardbook I read when I was a little kid. I was born in 87 and I was about 4ish? It was about a bunny who lost his red toy airplane and he found it in a tree or something like that. I remember the book being bright primary colors. I’m just afraid that since I wasn’t really reading at the time that I made up some story for the pictures. I just know that that was the book I always gravitated towards as a child and I wish I could see it again.
Try this one: Why Not Join the Giraffes?, by Hope Campbell.
That’s it! Wow, so fast! Thanks! 🙂
You’re welcome! Thanks for posting back.
Jan and the Wonderful Mouth-Organ is one from that time. Also Jan, the Dutch Barge Dog.
Was Jan a human or an animal? Any other clues? There are some different possibilities, but a little more would help.
It would be nice to have a description of the book so we’d know what to look for. There were two books by that name published in the ’50s that I could find.
https://www.amazon.com/Jan-Dutch-Barge-Dog-Barrington/dp/B000QBFE7W
https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-us/rare-books/stella-morton/jan/1629139789DPB
Try looking at David the Gnome books. They were popular at that time.
I had a tattered old paperback in childhood that I believe was from the 70s. It was about a kid in New York. As kids do I reread it several times but I can’t remember the name. I think it may have had ‘Giraffe’ in the title. It was sort of similar to a Judy Blume book and was written in the first person female. Does that ring any bells for anyone? I think it was a bit obscure even at the time but may have been published by Scholastic.
Hi all! I’m looking for a beautiful book that was a collection of french fairy tales. The book had a white, slightly satiny cover that was slightly cushiony (ie you could press on it and it gave a little). There was a simple, outline illustration in gold on the front of a princess (I think it was her head only or torso and above, with long hair and crown). And I think the edges of the pages of the book when closed were also shiny gold. It contained a collection of several french fairy tales. I had it in 1976. I would love to track it down again-any help appreciated!
Hi. I’m looking for a book written about a red haired Scottish (?) colonial woman living in NZ , who fell in love with a Maori, and got caught up in the Maori wars. It could possibly be a young adult book, that I read around 1978.
Hi all, looking for a book I read as a child, I was born in the late 80s so I think it could be from around that time. The basic premise is the main character is lost in the city and tries to get home. It gets dark and the terrace houses look scary, like faces. Somehow they find their way back to the safety of their house.
I’m looking for a book about twin sisters (or sisters that at least looked somewhat alike). One was skilled at everything and the other tried her best but never seemed to do anything at the same level as her sister. They tried gardening, painting, baking, etc., and the skilled sister always outshined her sister. The illustrations must have been watercolor because they were muted but still colorful. I’ve been looking for this book for several years and no one seems to remember it.
Hello. I’m looking for a book I used to have in the early 90s, though it may have been published earlier. It was printed in large format and depicted the lives of forest creatures. I recall a tree house where gnomes or dwarves lived and how different parts functioned. It’s not Gnomes by Wil Huygen.
Hi! Im looking for an illustrated book that featured a boy who was living in a jungle, a humid swampy sort of climate. He builds various treehouses to live in but stuff happens like the rain washes it away, so he has to find solutions such as building on stilts. The pictures were a series of his building process. Early 2000’s I think. Thanks! 🙂
I’m looking for a book I used to read in 1st or 2nd grade around the mid 50’s. I believe the title of the book was Jan. Trying to find it for my granddaughter.
Try this one: Ready, Set, Read!
Try one of Marilyn Sachs’ books about Amy and Laura, starting with Amy Moves In.
A Witch’s Garden by Miriam Young.
“Jenny’s twelfth summer turned out to be the most eventful one she’d ever had. Until then, Clover Lake had seemed a perfect place to live. Now Jenny wasn’t sure. It was a “club,” for members only, and the Membership Committee was narrow-minded and bigoted. Jenny’s best friend had just moved away with her family because of this, and, in a fit of anger and frustration at their stupidity, Jenny put a childish curse on the committee. Then a new family arrived. Jenny found young Mrs. Matthews as strange as she was interesting and friendly. She kept a rat for a pet and filled her garden with hemlock, wolfbane, and other poisonous plants. And no sooner did she learn of Jenny’s dislike for the Membership Committee than little mishaps began to plague its members – amusing at first, then growing more serious until Jenny was frightened. What if Mrs. Matthews was a witch? Should Jenny try to exorcise her?”
One of the Matthews children is named Niobe (9 years old) and the other is Pookie (4 years old). Their mother’s name is Meeghan.
That’s it! Thank you so much!!
Hello. I am trying to find a children’s book from the late 1960s or 1970s….about a girl who lived alone in a large house, who had a bear as a friend. She might have had magical powers. The cover was white with black drawings, with some orange or red highlights. The girl might have had a bad temper, and the bear was a wild bear that became friends.
I read a YA book in the mid 1970’s. I think it had two or three kids in the story but I believe it was told from the two girls’ (sisters) perspective. They were going to meet their mother who was late then they discovered she was hit by a car trying to cross an icy street. She was in the hospital for a while but eventually recovered. Thanks for any help you may offer.
Hi I’m looking for a children’s book I use to read in the early 2000’s. It was about a little girl who baked pies. She would leave them on her window sill to cool down and a cute little monster hiding in the bushes would eat them on her. Does anyone know the name of this book?
I’m looking for a YA or kids chapter book that would have been from the 1960s or 1970s – it was about a girl who lived in a gated community & an unusual neighbor moved in – her name was Niobe & some of the kids thought she was a witch. Prejudice was a strong theme. Thanks in advance for any help – I’ve been looking for awhile!
I’m looking for an easy reader book from the 90s. It was a collection of short stories in one book that started with very easy to read stories from dr. Seuss and worked it’s way to more advanced stories like little bear going outside to play in the snow and another story about frog and toad getting ice cream that eventually melts. It may have been apart of the “I CAN READ!” series and the book was blue and like I said, it had multiple short stories in it starting out with “hop on pop”
Hi I’m looking for a children’s book. I use to read in the early 2000s. From what I remember the cover had a lining of teal blue with a girl in a window sill with lies cooling off. I remember she bakes pies and cools them off in her window sill and they eaten by a cute little monster. Does anyone know the name of this book? It was my favorite and it’s killing me that I cannot remember the name or the author
You’re welcome! I’m glad I could help! And thank you for taking the time to post back.
Possibly Elephant Twins by Inez Hogan?
“The story of two baby elephant twins, Tommie and Toby, who ran away from home but were found and reunited.”
That’s it!!! Thank you so much. The top one is the exact cover. I’m amazed.
You’re welcome! Glad I could help – and thank you for posting back!
What The Wind Told by Betty Boegehold.
When a little girl (Tossy) is sick in bed, the wind comes to visit her each day and tells her stories about the windows across the way. In addition to the woman whose floor becomes a pond each day, there are a pair of monsters named Drool and Gool who are terrified of everything, the Plant Family, The Dirters, a dog who sits at a typewriter all day, and behind the final window is Darkness, so she has a place to go during the daytime.
Oh my gosh, this is it!!! In a million years I never would have pulled that title from the back of my brain, but your descriptions brings back vivid memories of these characters – YES!!! Thank you so much!
You are a genius
Doesn’t match exactly, but have you looked at How Fletcher was Hatched?
Owl at Home!
Hello, I’m looking for a children’s book which was read to me in the late 1950s or early 1960s. It took place in a jungle and there was a character named Toby and there was a flamingo who I think was named Sam and possibly elephant twins. Thanks for any help.
Looking for a book/story about a woman who leans on a cushion in her window because the floor turns to a pond every day. Remember reading it as a child in the 1970s, but no idea if that’s when it was published.
Trying to find an old children’s book about some sort trouble making gremlin would cause huge messes and then would turn sideways and disappear. I remember the gremlin put something like peanut butter on an old telephone receiver, destroyed the kitchen and then disappear under a rug. At the end, he is caught and I believed kicked to the sky where he turns into a star. The end is something like, “and when the star turned sideways it would be like nothing was there at all”.
I am searching for a children’s book where an owl is in his bed and he sees bumps under the covers. It scares him but when he gets out of bed the bumps are gone. It was his won feet of course.
Hello, I’m looking for a children’s book. Possibly from the 1980’s I believe it was Easter themed. The end of the book a child was encased in different color Easter egg shells while his sibling or siblings keep trying to break him free. Sounds creepy, but its something ive been trying to figure out for years. thanks
One year for Christmas back around 2000-2001 I was given this book set with maybe about 15 books in it. Each one was about a baby animal. The only 2 animals I really remember are the baby snowy owl and the one about the baby dolphin.
I’m trying to find a book I read as a kid about two cats. I can’t remember for sure but I believe one or both were strays living in a room and slept in drawers in an apartment. Then the person moves and one of the cats is taken in the moving truck and the other tries to find it. They ending up finding each other at the end. I know it had pictures in it as well.
Fantastic! I’m sure your mom will love such a thoughtful gift!
Thank you so much for this! I went ahead and ordered the Mount St Helens book. I’m now wondering if the Oklahoma City Bombing was another book and not from this series or possibly it was actually the World Trade Center bombing in the 90s! Thank you again!!
There’s the ‘Read it to believe it’ a Bullseye Nonfiction series in the mid 1990s. Titles I could find include:
Adventure in Alaska : an amazing true story of the world’s longest, toughest dog sled race (Sydelle Kramer, 1993).
Head for the Hills: The Amazing True Story of the Johnstown Flood (Paul Robert Walker, 1993).
Terror in the towers : amazing stories from the World Trade Center disaster (Adrian Kerson, 1993).
The silent hero : a true escape story from World War II (George Shea, 1994(
They survived Mt St helens: the amazing story of America’s deadliest volcano. (Megan Stine, 1994)
Houdini’s last trick: the amazing story of the world’s greatest magician (EA Hass, 1995)
Dog detectives and other amazing canines (Dean Hughes, 1994)
I thought I already responded but I’m not seeing it! Thank you so much for this! I believe this is what I was trying to find! I think that I was thinking it was the OKC bombing but it was actually the WTC. I have already ordered both the of those and look forward to seeing if they are in fact the books. Thank you again for your time on this matter!! I have no clue how you did what you did but thank you!!!!
I am looking for a series of children’s books that I remember reading in the mid 90s. They were true accounts of American disasters. I specifically remember Mount St. Helens and The Oklahoma City Bombing. I also vaguely remember one about a US flood. I have done image searches and nothing is ringing a bell that is coming up and any promising leads weren’t published early enough for me to have read that many years ago. Thank you for your help!
Hi there! I’m looking for a book that I read in the early 90’s. It was kinda like Nancy drew but it wasn’t. It had a few illustrations throughout. It starts with two teen girls driving in the car on their way to a vacation at a lake…they were either cousins or sisters. The older one had curly frizzy hair and was average. The younger one, I think her name was, Amy, is really beautiful and smart. There is a mysterious island in the middle of the lake. At one point, the younger girl hides under a boat as two men on the boat discuss the mystery the two girls are trying to solve. This has been driving me crazy for years trying to find it! Any help would be appreciated!
Hello , I am searching for a book my mom use to read my when I was little . This was probably about 13/14 years ago and it was about these little rats or mice I believe .. one was pink and one was blue and there may have been more but I can’t remember but they were in a forest and they would say “ if you think I’m big you should see my older brother” (or something along those lines) and the biggest mouse was all the colors of the little ones.
I’m looking for a book I had, and loaned to someone, or somehow misplaced. It had masters of pages to print/color, and make your own books for circle time for preschoolers. It had new words to familiar songs/stories. Such as a sandwich story, similar text structure to Brown Bear, and a color fish bowl similar to Where is Thumbkin. Can anyone help me with the title of this book? And, even better where I could find a copy.
Sounds like this one:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2114940.Little_Star
Hi, so this a kids book that I read in my secondary (high school).
It basically is about a boy (forgot his name) who after an encounter with a strange girl(heads up shes from the past) ends up getting forgotten in reality. His mom, school, friends all forget who he is except his sister.
He joins the girl and their friend, an old time person who have to stop this evil man from taking over the world (through time fabric)
I’m sorry If im scattering
Hello. I am looking for a book that my mother read to me as a child. It was about a mother and daughter who had a special day together. They got ice cream and went to the beach. The beach looked the a Maine/New England type of beach. The illustrations from what I can remember were pastel in nature, possibly watercolor. I *think* it was called something along the lines of the perfect day or day at the shore or something but I cannot find it. I would have been reading it in the 80s/90s and it was not new then. Thank you!
I’m looking forward help identifying a book that I read multiple times in the 90s. It is about a family that move into a new house occupied by a family of ghosts. My main memory is the little boy ghost trying to pass through the window and getting stuck between the new sheets of double glazing. The little boy ghost and the girl who move in become friends, I think they go to the beach at one point,
Is it “My America”?
Okay so im looking for a book that my cousin had when i was like 5. it was about this little native american girl and she took care of a baby horse. I remember it came with a beaded necklace and the title had something to do with a star
I’m looking for a book that was true animal stories that included the 1st seeing eye dog and Shep (from Montana). I read the stories late 60s, early 70s
I remember very little about this children’s chapter book other than this: The main characters were a brother and sister around age 12, and they had an uncle who was only about 2 years old who they pulled around in a wagon.
Try this: Ginger Pye, by Eleanor Estes, or its sequel, Pinky Pye. The three-year-old uncle is Uncle Bennie.
Hi! I’m currently looking for a book about a girl who (I’m almost sure) moves to a new town and the people at her new school think she’s weird because the house she moved into they think it’s haunted? I don’t really remember the plot too much but one of the parents is a sculptor and they have a room where they sculpt I remember that. I remember one part where she kisses a boy in this tree house. As for the cover I’m sure it had like an old looking photograph on it. OH I remember now (sorry so much remembering) she writes a poem in class that no one liked and it was about something (I think a statue or a fountain) being dark and black and her teacher didn’t like it. The author of the book also wrote another one I loved but I remember slim to none about it except there’s an old lady with a garden that the main girl talks to and the cover has a bike and fence. I remember sort of that both books were about finding out an old mystery. Sorry if this is all over the place Hope everyone has a lovely day 🙂
Hello! My daughter recalls reading a book in about 2013. She thinks it was a graphic novel. She remembers the girl’s mother leaving her a basket that had red and blue pills that gave her powers to control fire and ice. Google has been failing me so far. Thanks for any help.
I am looking for a boxed set of books for young kids that had animals of the alphabet I believe for N it was a nightingale in the series and A was for an alligator character. It came in a set A_Z for animals as my family gave it away to the relatives when they had young kids back in the 2000s. I cannot remember what it was called.
Is it one of the books from the Griffin and Sabine series? Egypt is definetly referenced. It is a correspondence between two people with a heavy focus on the illustrations. The Golden Mean has a green cover. I read them when I was a kid so I don’t remember much more, but they weren’t childrens books.
No unfortunately it isn’t that series. Although, that series has cropped up quite a few times in my search for the book too so I can definitely see why it would have come up for you too >.< Also have some updates to the post: I have found a few other titles that often crop up and I have been able to confirm that they aren't the one I was looking for, I'll write them here so it helps to narrow it down: - Regarding the trees - PS Longer letter later - any books by Pseudonymous Bosch, Secret Series (although the art style seems quite similar in some ways, so might be a good reference point) Anyway thank you so much for trying! Really appreciate the effort 😀
I actually had a look at this book before too. Unfortunately it’s not the one I’ve been looking for ;( I think the book I read wasn’t really an adventure action type of book it was more of two penpals describing their lives to each other and going off on tangents about cats and other stuff. Still thank you so much for your help! I really appreciate your response 😀
I’m trying to find an anthology of world folktales for children that I borrowed numerous times from a US library in the very early 1970s. It seemed like a book targeted to libraries or teachers because it was so huge and heavy and oversized it wasn’t easy for a child to read by themselves. Hundreds of pages in hardback. Lots of classic fairy tales with many about the humble poor hero who overcomes a set of challenges to win the hand of the princess. I remember East of the Sun and West of the Moon was one of the stories. And possibly Dick Whittington and his Cat? And maybe the Six Servants. It wasn’t just a Grimm’s anthology. It had a word in the title like Compendium of Children’s Stories because I didn’t know that word,
Hello! I’m looking for a book I read in 2006.. It was a large chapter book with I believe a green hard cover. It was about a girl (sally or Susie or something with an s) who tried to do things as odd as possible, and I distinctly remembering she wore a bunch of mismatched clothes and backwards clothes to school. It’s been driving me mad not knowing! Thank you! There were illustrations, but only on every few pages.
Bears in the Night, by Stan and Jan Berenstain.
The Doll of Lilac Valley, by Cora Cheney.
Hello 🙂 Im looking for a book from the 1980’s and it told the story of a magic ball that made a tinkling sound. The illustrations were of a boy and friends and they looked like puppets (which makes me wonder if it was derived from a children’s tv show). The boy received the ball as a gift in a box, I think. I would love to find this book. Many thanks 🙂
I’m trying to find what I believe is a children’s short story Christmas book. The little match girl was in it and a one about mice who come a across an injured bird (a swan?) And help it and the swan leaves behind some of it’s feathers and the mice use them to keep their burrow warm. Their were others in their but I can’t remember them very vividly. The only other short story in the book I can remember the tiniest bit is when a little boy breaks his sister’s Christmas angel and she gets rather upset… that’s all I can remember though.
Hi l’m looking for an illustrated book I remember as a child (1980s, UK), I think it was about a clock spring that escaped from a clock, very surreal, beautiful escher-like illustrations but can’t remember the complete story (I think it was very simple the spring had to get back to the clock before a certain time??). There was also a clockwork (?) crocodile or lizard (maybe that’s why I make the Escher connection). Made a very strong impression on me but can’t remember what it was called!! Any thoughts appreciated on what this might be…
im looking for a book about rabbits, mice, frogs, living deep in the woods. I dont really remember what happened. the illustrations were very detailed and realistic, old British style, I believe it rains at one point
There was a very common series for younger children in the 40s or 50s, frequently reprinted, the Childhood of Famous Americans Series (Silhouette biographies), which was republished as Young Patriots ten or fifteen years ago. The early ones had a silhouette on the cover and silhouette pictures inside although I don’t know if they continued that with the reprints. Many were written by Augusta Stevenson, but not all. . Bobbs Merrill, (1961)
LibraryThing has a list of 211 in this series, with the authors, so you can find an older ones by using the author and publication date. Note that the orange silhouette ones are not pictured. People collect them and they can be hard to find, especially in jacket. . https://www.librarything.com/nseries/1769/Childhood-of-Famous-Americans
It’s easier to fine the older ones by sorting most to lease expensive, unfortunately. Here are some examples of the older ones: https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?bi=0&bx=off&ds=30&kn=childhood+of+famous+americans+silhouette&pics=on&recentlyadded=all&sortby=1&cm_sp=pan-_-srp-_-pics
I’m looking for a chiodrensn book that Iloved as a child in the 60’s. It was about a young girl who was orphaned nand traveled by train to live with a woman…I think an aunt. She had a doll and accidentally left it on thre train. At some point the doll was mailed to the girl I dont remember by who or how. Please help. My mother took me to the library 3 times to check this story out.
hi I’m looking for a book that I loved as a child in the 60’s. It was about a young girl who I believe was orphaned. She traveled by train to live with her aunt…I think. She had a doll that she accidentally left on the train. Some time later the doll was found and mailed to the little girl.. I dont remember by who or how. Please help!!
I’m trying to find a childrens/YA novel I read somewhere around 2008. Its about two orphans, a boy and a girl, or at the least children that don’t have parents, that go on a journey around this fictional country. Its set in the past. At one point the boy joins this sort of street gang I think. I believe at the end someone adopts them who may or may not be related to one of the kids. They start out in the country and wind their way into a city. I cannot remember any other details.
Hello, I am searching for a children’s picture book that tells of the Bunny/Rabbit family who are preparing their home for a special guest. I remember windows getting washed, rugs getting cleaned, yard getting tidied. The special guest turns out to be a new baby. Does it ring a bell? Thanks!
Big Brother by Charlotte Zolotow.
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None of those I’m afraid…thanks though!
hi im looking for a children bedtime story book I had when I was little. Early 2000s. It had a red cover and was about lots of animals, primarily farm yard animals. One of the stories was about a horse who got a new bike and it got pained lots of different colours to please all his mates, a story about a sheep sneaking some chocolate cake and her cousin finds out she snuck it because she had crumbs on her mouth and another story of a lamb who was obsessed with being pretty but in pursuit of the perfect flower she falls in some mud.