Looking for a Childhood Book? Here’s How.
Looking for our antiquarian children’s bookstore?
Go to https://www.oldchildrensbooks.com
Looking for our antiquarian children’s bookstore?
Go to https://www.oldchildrensbooks.com
You are looking at a new website, same address, with all the features and more, right on this site! Thousands of queries and solutions from the last five years are all here.
The search below is an exciting addition: Search the Content: try Dragon, or Sister, or Christmas. Or click on the green bars, select Author and call up our experts like Mama Squirrel… or search your own contributions. You can also hide Replies for a quick visual search, follow Users, Edit using the Settings gear… and more!.
You can be notified of responses by signing in using your old Disqus password or you can establish a new one. “Subscribe” (upper left).
Many thanks to Kelvin Kathia of Journeybytes.com for figuring all this out very quickly.
Note: Children’s book queries only: all comments are moderated and thus take a few hours to appear here; ads, links to sales venues, and direct contact info will be deleted.
It will take Google a few weeks to connect with this new site since Disqus hasn’t functioned well since December. We welcome your comments now, but feel free to repost later in March. Suzanne
Hey hoping someone can help.
Recently saw the Treehouse books (by Andy Griffiths and illustrated by Terry Denton) and the premise / artwork reminded me of a book i believe i read in the 90s when i lived in the UK.
It was about a giant house (maybe more like a tower / mansion) and it was illustrated with all the floors. I feel like there may have been a sequel book with additional floors too? cant remember if it was a picture book or whether this was just the cover art.
I’ve searched for books with the word house, home, storey, floor in the title but no joy thus far. Does this ring a bell with anyone?
Long shot, but take a look at The Apartment Book by Leo Hartas (also published as This Old House: A Day in Five Stories).
Cross sections of a bustling, five-story apartment house at different times of the day appear in huge spreads that require readers to turn the book sideways. Something is constantly going on in each of the dozens of rooms in the house, in the cellar, and the sewer below it. The illustrations are cartoony but architecturally precise, and in the course of the day, hundreds of events unfold simultaneously: Robbers steal a painting; a scientist’s rocket explodes; a kitten is lost; apartments flood; and so on.
Wow! Chanda that is the book!! 😂
I must have had the “This old House” copy as I could remember it had some sort of house reference and I also remembered the “storey” part and i see its subtitled “A day in five storeys”
You are awesome.
Thanks for this. Going to buy a copy to reminisce over since my mother will have donated it to a charity long ago! <3
Please help. Looking for a children’s book I read in 1996 or so. It was blue with a pirate on the cover and a grey rock. That’s all I can remember and it was my favorite book. I was in first grade at the time. Thank you.
Hi! I’m looking for a book that was read to my class in the early 1980’s. It was over a number of lessons so it was a novel. I was around 9 or 10 years old.
It had a family with lots of children in it and I recall all the siblings names being mentioned every time they were mentioned. I think the names may have started with the same letter OR all rhymed or something like that.. I think there was an old car in it that they used to all pile into, and I’m pretty sure they grew vegetables….
Agh sorry so many maybe’s! I just remember our class loved gathering around for the daily reading of it to find out what was going to happen next. The book may have been older than 1980’s of course. We used to giggle every now and then. I’d love to find it and read it to my children.
Any ideas??
I wonder if it was Mr. Apple’s Family by Jean McDevitt, but the children were all named after apples: Delicious, Jonathan, etc.
That sounds like one of Sid Fleischman’s McBroom books. There were quite a few of them, all of them basically tall tales about a farmer named McBroom, his wife, Melissa, and their children: Will, Jill, Hester, Chester, Peter, Polly, Tim, Tom, Mary, Larry and little Clarinda. The kids’ names were always run together when McBroom would call them, like this: “willjillhesterchesterpeterpollytimtommarylarryandlittleclarinda!”
Books in the series include McBroom’s Wonderful One-Acre Farm, Here Comes McBroom, McBroom’s Zoo, McBroom’s Ghost, McBroom Tells a Lie, McBroom the Rainmaker, McBroom Tells the Truth, McBroom and the Great Race, McBroom’s Ear, McBroom and the Big Wind, McBroom and the Beanstalk, and McBroom’s Almanac.
McBroom’s Farm: When Josh McBroom learns that the eighty acres of Iowa farmland he’s purchased are all stacked up on top of each other at the bottom of a muddy little pond, he thinks he’s been bamboozled. But McBroom knows he’s got the better of the bargain when the pond dries up to reveal an acre of soil so rich that seeds spring up into full-grown plants in no time and even nickels grow into quarters.
McBroom’s Ghost: the affable farmer’s tales are as tall as ever when he gets to gabbing about the winter of the Big Freeze. That’s the year when snowmen go south for the winter, red barns turn blue with the cold, and the smoke takes to freezing in the chimney and has to be blasted with a shotgun three times a day. During periods of thaw the family is pestered by a spook who imitates the sounds of the family’s dead rooster, McBroom’s voice calling the children, and the piccolos from a favorite Sousa recording. To no avail McBroom consults Widow Witherbee, burns a pile of old shoes to exorcise the spirit, and buys a ghost-hunting mongrel dog. Then one early spring day, when wolf howls from nowhere frighten away villainous neighbor Jones’ invading hogs, “Glory be! It was clear to me now. There never had been a haunt lurking about! It was nothing but the weather playing pranks on us. . . . The sounds had frozen. And now all those sounds were thawing out!”
I think it is McBroom Tells a Lie by Sid Fleischman. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/366183.McBroom_Tells_a_Lie
I am looking for a picture book about seasons on a farm. I think it was called “A Year on the Farm.” Beautifully illustrated, size about 11 X 14″. One of the lines was about the horses who didn’t like being out in the rain because “it tickles”. I read this book to our daughters in the early 1980s.
The Year at Maple Hill Farm, by Alice and Martin Provenson. “Most animals don’t mind raindrops but the big bay horse is ticklish and doesn’t want to leave his stall.”
Hello, this is probably a shot in the dark, but I’m looking for a Czech children’s book that was given to me by my grandfather in the mid 1980’s or so. I thought it was Jak Zvirata Spi (How Animals Sleep) but the only two versions I find are from 2014 and 2018 and do not include the animals from the 1980’s book. I also searched Jak Zirata Sen (how animals dream) just in case but that didn’t produce any results. Grandpa did record a czech / english translation for me so I know that the short poems are of animals and how they sleep and how some dream. Unfortunately he didn’t say the title in the recording. The last I know the book was with my dads collection that got sent to some thrift store (I hope) in S. California when they moved to assisted living. The poems in order are 1) Rabbit, 2) Hedgehog 3) Bear 4) Fish 5) Stork 6) Trees 7) Owl 8) Bat 9) Butterfly 10) Centipede.
Here is another shot in the dark as a reply! Look at the work of Yevgeny Charushin, a wonderful animal artist who did many children’s books around that time. It would be difficult to confuse him with another artist, so at least you can cross one off! https://www.google.com/search?q=yevgeny+charushin&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwisnKadndPpAhXBFzQIHXNaDEoQ_AUoAnoECBUQBA&biw=793&bih=568 He is Russian, but his books were all translated into other languages, including Czech. I don’t know of a specific book, but yours is the kind of book he did.
Thanks, that’s more than I’ve got to go on right now so I’ll check it out.
🙂
can anyone help me find a old book. i cant remember the title or characters. all i can remember is a girl who has yellow cat like eyes, a lizards tail, and she is earing a pink cape. i remember dragons too. She also falls in love with a human boy. she sneaks outside of her cabin to see this boy. her father is like this scientist or something. Please this is like really important!!
I’m looking for an old book/record that I once encountered in the very early seventies. I say “book/record” because there was both a book of it and a record of it (with music). I believe it was illustrated by the famous children’s illustrator Georges Duplaix. It was various Bible stories – the cover of the record version I saw showed Noah’s ark in the process of being built; it was like half-finished. Does anyone know what it is? I’m interested in both the book version and the book’s record version.
Take a look at The Golden Bible Songs and Stories, illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky. See covers of book and record at imgur links below:
Yes, that’s the one! Thank you! Looks like I got my illustrators mixed up – I was thinking from looking books up that what I was finding was the other artist had done it (even though I succinctly remembered the author’s name being longer). But that’s just as well, as I was now able to correctly jot down both artists’ names for further searching! Thank you! 😉
Glad I could help!
Am desperate to remember this kids book. I can’t remember correctly but one of the chapters was “A name of boy, the Train and the Broken Lantern ..it think it was something like that. It was a book with pictures .There was also a picture of a guy with a gun with a boy hiding behind him and chapter called “the Feud” something like that. If anybody knows this book you have no idea how much you will have helped me. It meant so much to me when I was young. I was born in 1994 and am sure it was there before I was born. So it’s probably released before the 90’s
Wow. I agree these look a lot like Bodenheim’s work, though I see nothing posted that comes near to matching the ones in my blurry photo. I will ask my friend what he thinks. I don’t find that her work was published in English, am I right? I will ask him if he could have had a dutch book.
I’m so glad I could help!
Y’all I’m in desperate need of help! I can remember the cover of this book so vividly it had a green floral (ish) border and 4 distinct illustrated stories on the cover. It was sort of older. One of the stories was about a boy/ elf/ invisible boy? who lived in the attic and came out when the owner of the house was away and liked to cause mischief. Stealing socks etc. it was a collection of stories and I want to say was more European but I can’t be positive. I think one of the other stories was about a fairy garden party? I can’t be sure. I know the ghost one for sure.
Please help me! It was a very colorful children’s book with thick pages. The back page had a protruding yellow sun, and all the other pages flipped over it (they had a hole for the sun). The cover showed the sun in the top corner, and had many colors. Then, each page was a different colored world (green, yellow, pink etc.) It started with “Imagine a world…”
I don’t remember if it had a plot, mostly was for learning colors.
There was an all white page/world, and I think the last page was rainbow.
Please help! No one in my family can remember.
Children’s book, pre-K. An early reading book. I Thought for sure it was called “the Rabbit Ran!” It was illustrated. This was about 1982 and it was probably from before that, I would say 1970’s?
There was a group of children, and the rabbit. They would each do some type of action, and it would name each of them. “Ned sat, Ted sat, Jen Sat…” etc.
At the end it was … “and the rabbit ran!”
I thought the book may have been green but not sure. I don’t think it was very big maybe six or 8 inches? Hard cover, but thin.
Looking for a children/young adult book – possibly from the 60s/reprinted in 80s/90s about a family that moves to Arizona from the East coast as the father is given an opportunity to become the mayor of a newly developed city out there. So the family moves out there and travels via an Airstream trailer and once in AZ, the family gets to build their own house and it shows the blueprints of the new house (and the prints were blue … not white like they are now). The book is illustrated in a 1960s / Mid-century modern style drawings.
I’m trying to find a book I read in the 90s as an elementary age kid. It is about a girl who opens a lemonade stand on the top of a hill, but a second girl decides to open one too, selling pink lemonade. Also in the book is something about a bike repair day at her school.
A little white dog has gotten dirty and the children in the house want to make him wait again. They find a blue laundry detergent their mom uses to whiten clothes and bathe the dog in it. The dog turns blue. I believe the book was published in the late 50s or early 60s.
If it could have been a kitten, try Peppermint.
If it was a short story in a collection of stories, there is a story in These Are Our Neighbors by Sister M. Marguerite (from the Faith and Freedom series of Catholic school readers) called “A Blue Dog” where the children accidentally turn their dog blue by using bluing while washing him.
The book was first published in 1942, but has been reprinted several times with different covers.
Some of the other stories in the book include: Pretty Patches, The Twins Birthday Surprise, The Boy Who Could Not Forget, The Wise Little Owl, How Mary Saved Her Father, The Little Soldier, The Old Woman and the New Bird, Mrs. Goose and the Rain, Little Half-Chick, Bobby Squirrel’s Funny Tail, Uncle Tom’s Surprise, The Little Fir Tree, The Soldier Saint, The Story of Saint Bernadette, Saint Francis and the Birds, and Christ Our King.
U figured it out! Thank u SO SO much. Not only is it sentimental to my mom but it reminds my sis, 2 cousins, & I of our grandma. This is such a great site! I was trying to think of this book for months.
In about 1955 I read a story in a multiple story children’s book. The binding was green and seemingly had gold or yellow writing on the front. I had memorized the following quote one morning David jumped out of bed, he ran to the window to see if the sun was shining. There was a sun shining right down at David. Oh what a good day to play he thought…
This is VERY helpful! Thank u so much!! My mom remembered the name “David” too.
It’s an Alice and Jerry reader by Mabel O’Donnell. I’m not sure of the book title, but it appears to be the First Reader. The story is “Two, Four, Six.”
Anything Can Happen is green, so you might try that one.
I am looking for a 1970s era book about a boy named Stephen who may be a ghost as he cannot cross a river to help his mother who is about to be targeted by a con artist. He enlists the help of another boy to help his mother. Anyone?
(I’m combining your two posts, Good luck… Suzanne ) Looking for a book from my childhood. It was about a boy who meets a strange boy who asks him to help expose a con artist who exploits old women. He is insistent about the boy helping this particular woman. The boy finds out that his new friend is a ghost who cannot cross the river. All I remember about it.
Hi, I’m looking for an illustrated children’s book of a little girl and her Siamese cat. The cat gets stuck in a hole and the little girl helps free it. Might be from the 50’s or 60’s. Thanks for any leads.
I am looking for a childrens book that a friend had as a child in the late 1940s (but of course it may have been much older than that. All i have is a blurry photo
Anyone have any clues? Thank you for reading this post.
These look a lot like the Dutch silhouettes by Nelly Bodenheim. She illustrated many books, reprinted multiple times form the preWWI originals, and translated. It seems as if you took the images from another photo so I can’t tell.. Bodenheim’s silhouette work is very fine. https://www.google.com/search?q=nelly+bodenheim&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiGo6qcxMXpAhWQvZ4KHVMaB5YQ_AUoAXoECBIQAw&biw=1727&bih=934#imgrc=au_1K9KSfIQw0M
If you think this is correct, I have a few reproductions I could look through to identify the actual book, as the pictures look familiar to me. However these could also be northern European paper cuts, SCHERENSCHNITTE, laid on a background. These are often incredibly fine work too, but I don’t think that is it.
I know this is a shot in the total dark. Looking for a book that my grandmother had, not sure if this book was purchased for me which would have been sometime between 1986-1990. It is a picture book about a older woman who lives in the woods. She bakes a gigantic cake to bring to someone and all the animals are drawn to the smell of the cake. There are moose and raccoons in the book. I want to say her name is Ms Maffet but I could be combining stories from childhood. I can vivdly see the railing to the stairs of her forest home and I can see the way the cakes were illustrated to show the sweet smell following her as she took the cake to somewhere. More and more animals start to follow her. The cake is several stacks and it looks like it is in hat boxes stacked on top of each other.
I am looking for a paperback book that I read around 1987-1990. It is the story of a boy about 13 or 14 searching for his father in the jungle. His father was searching for a lost civilization and had been missing for a few months. After a long journey on the river and many perils the boy is captured by natives and taken to a city. The very city his father had searched for. There he is put in a prison cell where her can hear tapping that he realizes is Morse Code. The tapping turns out to be his father, who is also imprisoned. Together they use Morse Code to hatch a plan and escape.
The cover was a jungle scene and was very green.
Hi, I’m looking for a book that I believe I originally read in 1999 or 2000 or 2001. I think it was written in something like old English, but I ran across a modern English version many years later. It’s about a boy who goes to live in castle (maybe a relative’s), trains to become a knight, grows up and almost dies from a sword wound at the end of a joust. I believe at one point he climbs a tower somewhat secretly, and I think he falls in love but it’s not a huge part of the story.
Sounds somewhat like Ivanhoe.
Hello, I am trying to find a childrens book that I had , back in the 1960’s. i am not sure of the title, but it was 1 book with a bunch of short stories, one of which was ,,scat scat go away little cat,,, there were others,, but that was my favorite story in it. it was a hard back, with a brown cover, gosh I wish I could remember more… maybe had a Dick and Jane story in it as well….. it was illestrated but very little
I don’t know which story book you had, but the story is Scat, Scat by Francis. Perhaps they used these older illustrations, but I see that there are more recent ones: https://www.google.com/search?q=scat,+scat+francis&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=G-dAkCYHc6QP1M%253A%252Cn2cFiHLrRpivnM%252C%252Fg%252F1n36vtp5t&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kS2XPKYN1Cof1-bWgawkDuDz3OsYQ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjqkNnhjMDpAhXQGDQIHWk9DVQQ_B16BAgTEBA&biw=1502&bih=956#imgrc=G-dAkCYHc6QP1M:
thanks for commenting.. i have looked and everytime i put it in,, i just get the book of scat scat.. the one i had ,, had several little short stories in it… i have even googled book of short stories including scat… and nothing… just the one scat book is what i get… i will keep hunting.. thanks for your help
Thanks for writing back right away. Hope you find it!
Possibly The Here and Now Storybook by Lucy Sprague Mitchell. (Originally published in 1921, with later reprints. There are several different covers from the various printings.)
It contains the story How Spot Found a Home about a cat looking for a home. When Spot (the cat) entered a warm kitchen, she was thrown out by a cross, cross woman who said “Scat, scat! You old street cat! Scat, scat! And never come back!” She later found another home – with a little boy and girl – where she was welcomed.
Interestingly, different versions of the book appear to contain slightly different versions of the story. In the one on Project Gutenberg (an older edition) the cross woman “threw her out of the door, screaming” the “Scat, Scat!” bit, while in the later version posted on Google Books, the old woman “put her out of the door, saying crossly” the “Scat, scat!” part. I guess the older version was considered too harsh for children.
You can read the book online at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/27075/27075-h/27075-h.htm
Here is a version of the cover in dark brown:
The story How Spot Found a Home by Lucy Sprague Mitchell is also included in the book Stories to Read to the Very Young by Aurelius Battaglia.
Other stories in the book include: The Polite Little Polar Bear by Margaret Wise Brown, The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt, The Little Old Woman Who Used Her Head and How She Got a Feather Bed by Hope Newell, The Teeny Tiny Omelet by Rose Dobbs, and The Kind Dog Catcher by Jane Thayer.
And here’s another one – the Read-To-Me Storybook, illustrated by Lois Lenski.
Stories include How Spot Found a Home by Lucy Sprague Mitchell (“Scat, scat! You old street cat! Scat, scat! And never come back!”), The Wonderful Day by Margaret Wise Brown , The Lights in Georgie’s House by Kathleen Bernath, Pitter Patter by Dorothy W. Baruch, Mrs. Goose’s Rubbers by Miriam Clark Potter, The Wind by Lois Lenski, The Tale of the Wee Little Old Woman by Elsa Beskow, Muddy Mouse by Helen and Alf Evers, Christopher by Marjorie Flack, What Does Little Birdie Say? by Alfred Tennyson, Bill and his Steamshovel by Ruth Dennis, The Terrible Tigerrr by Margaret Wise Brown, Why Do the Bells of Christmas Ring? by Eugene Field, The Duck Umbrella by Lois Lenski, Susie’s Sleepy-time by Corinna Marsh, and more.
I am looking for an older Children’s book possibly from the 1940’s (?) and I thought the title was something like “The She Mouse”. It is a story of the friendship between a mother mouse and a caged bird (dove?) In the end the mouse unhooks the door and lets the bird go.
I wonder if this is Rumer Godden’s book, The Mousewife. (1951) Yours would have had William Pene du Bois illustrations. From our notes: Once there was a little mousewife who somehow wanted more. From a caged dove she learned of the world beyond the window. “The mousewife could only think as a mouse but she could feel as the dove could feel.” Beautiful book. Ours are always sold, but inexpensive ones are possible to find. If you don’t mind reprints, the New York Times children’s book collection copies are very well done.. Check abebooks.com
Definitely The Mousewife.
I am looking for a children’s chapter book that I read in the 90’s/ very early 2000’s. I remember that the cover had a a black border or a lot of black on it. Also on the cover there was possibly a child and some creatures all lined up peeking around a wall. There was maybe a row boat and water behind them. I think it was about a little girl in a fantasy land but could’ve been a boy or just the creatures. I saw it again a few years ago briefly in a school library but when I had more time and went to check again I could not locate it.
Thank you so very much, Chanda! That’s the book. I am so grateful to you. I found it online for $7 and will be reading this to my new granddaughter one day.
Fantastic! I’m glad I could help.
Hi!
I’m looking for a children’s picture book from the 90s or before about a pig/hog whose birthday it was and his mum only got him crayons instead. The story ended with the pig liking the crayons more after he drew a picture with them
It was a beautifully drawn book with everything very ‘piggy’ focused. The mother pig would visit a bakery with ‘pig-themed’ cakes as well as a toy store with most toys having a distinct ‘pig’ishness’ to them.
Very cute book and would love to gift it!
Many, many thanks in advance to anyone who can help!!!
I’m searching for a book from the 1970s. It was a paperback book. There was a young girl who was taking care of a horse behind a stone wall. I can’t remember if she had hidden this horse in a carriage house or if she found the horse there. She went there daily to feed and care for the horse. There were many vines and shrubs she had to walk through to get to the horse. I believe this carriage house was in a secluded area of what was once a mansion. It might’ve been abandoned. My memory is faint, but I’m wondering if the family returned to the mansion and might’ve discovered her hidden, secret horse on their property. Thanks for any help you can give me. This book was a favorite and began my love of reading.
Possibly The Secret Horse by Marion Holland? The book was originally published in 1959, but was reprinted several times in the 1970’s and 1980’s.
“When Nickie and Gail discover a half-starved, unwanted horse at the animal shelter, the two girls become determined to rescue him even if it means stealing him and hiding him in the deserted stables near Nickie’s house.”
Hi, I’m looking for a children’s book I had in the 70s/80s. I can’t remember everything that was in the book, but there was one particular story in it that talked about a little boy that lived in Spain or the Mediterranean and described how the houses were white and it was always warm there. Not sure if it was a book about different children around the world or whether it was about something else. I remember the pictures had lots of light blue and white in them.
I have been looking for a book for many years. Possibly from the 1920’s … the son of circus owners send him to boarding school. One quote I remember in the book is when the mother takes him to a shoeshop for his first pair of new shoes. She tells the shop keper that ‘the best pair of boots in the shop are not necessarily the most expensive’. The boy has a made up name … possibly Barrington Bevis. The snobbish schoolboy villain who finds out about the boys antecedents turns out to be the son of a black pudding maker for (first world) war supplies. At some point in the plot, the hero is taken in by a gypsy who offers to sell him a small monkey which inevitably is trained to find its way back to it’s gypsy master. That’s all I can recall …
Hey, I’m looking for a book from the late 2000s or 2010s. I don’t remember too much but there was a girl who had a black dog and she lives in a house and her dad may have died recently. There may have been an uncle and a hot air balloon and a fox. Probably fantast/magical realism. I remember the cover was maybe light blue with sort of pastel detailed drawings on it. Definitely a chapter book, might have been about an inch and a half thick. I remember being really into it so please let me know with any ideas!
Ok, so this is really a long shot – but maybe The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge?
“In 1842, newly orphaned Maria Merryweather, her governess, and dog arrive at her ancestral home in an enchanted village in England’s West Country where the people’s bliss is marred by a dark shadow.”
The is no fox – but in addition to Maria’s dog (Wiggins), there is another “dog” (Wrolf) who is actually a lion, a black cat (Zachariah), and a unicorn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_White_Horse
https://www.elizabethgoudge.org/index.php/2016/07/16/the-little-white-horse/
There have been a number of different covers for this book through the years, but this one seems the most like the one you described:
Hi, I am looking for a book that may have been published from 1920 to 1950 (my guess).
It is a book about a dragon with some illustrations. The story tells how this dragon was born the runt of the litter, so he leaves his family due to ill treatment.He travels through the forst and meets the king, who is a snake, and who gives him a precious snake skin scarf. He then goes to the beach where he meets a mermaid and her horrible side kick, the sea slug. The mermaid seduces a human man, the sea slug harasses our dragon. He ends up living in the castle with the princessas a pet and at the end he shows his worth by protecting her.
Thats an abridged version of the plot so I hope someone remembers this!
I’m looking for a children book that had multiple stories. In it were about stories from all around the world. One of them was based in Africa in which these boys have a treehouse and their father tells them not to let strangers up in the tree house. One day a witch hears the father say a password to the boys and decides to kidnap the boys. She says the password to the boys and they let her in and she kidnaps them. The father finds out and goes to the witch( I don’t remember what happened between them) but he gets his kids back and that’s it. Its something that I’ve been meaning to find. I also think one of the other stories in the book was puss in boots.
I can’t help with the anthology, but the folk tale about the children in the baobab tree being kidnapped by the witch can be found as a stand-alone book.
There’s The Baobab Children by Margaret H. Tredgold: “A Zimbabwean folk tale. The story of three young children whose father, determined to protect them from danger, while he is out hunting, builds a house for them at the top of a mighty baobab tree. Instructed only to let down the ladder when their Baba appears, and sings a special song – “Kithengee, Kithengee, / Throw the ladder to me / And your supper you’ll see” – the children are safe for a time, until a local witch, determined to gain them for her own, consults her n’anga (a traditional healer amongst the Shona people), and, disguising her voice, tricks them into lowering the ladder for her. Taken to the witch’s settlement by the river, the children are now prisoners – can their father (with the help of his own n’anga) get them back…?”
Also, The Treehouse Children by Carolyn White: ” A fisherman goes off to work, leaving his children with the warning that they must not let anyone into their house in a baobab tree. A witch, disguising herself to gain entry, carries off the children to eat. She almost succeeds, but the man rescues them in the nick of time. Undeterred, and still hungry, the witch then disguises herself as an elderly woman. When she is invited to dinner, it is her greedy eating habits that reveal her true identity and lead to her undoing. There are some curious elements of African folklore in this tale. In order to carry off her disguises, the witch has her tongue stung, once by ants and then by scorpions.”
Hi, I’m looking for a children’s book that had a number of stories included in it, was a very old one, my mum used to read this to me and my sister. I can vividly remember it had a blue/turquoise and Pink cover with I think a boat on it – my sister remembers one of the stories being the golden button or the roosters diamond button. We’re trying desperately to find it to give to my mum.
The Lost Half-Hour: A Collection of Stories, by Eulalie Steinmetz Ross, contains that story, but I wouldn’t say the cover is a match. Can you remember any of the other stories?
I am looking for a book from the late 70s that was a large hardcover about these sloppy, dirty monsters who leave bubblegum and banana peels on the benches. It’s meant to teach kids not to be messy and inconsiderate. It had very colorful funny-looking monsters.
Possibly Litterbugs Come in Every Size by Norah Smaridge?
Hi – I’m looking for the title/author of one of my favorite childhood books. I grew up in the late ’70s-early ’80s and this was a contemporary book. It was large format, hardcover, with beautiful full-page illustrations. The storyline is about a young girl who finds a fantasy land, with mountains and river valleys. She may have been ill with a fever? She finds a tourmaline scepter. I remember not much else about the book — the tourmaline, in many beautiful shades, was the key aspect of the story for me. There may have also been a horse or unicorn involved. Thanks for any tips anyone may have!
That sounds like the Hawkeye Collins and Amy Adams mystery series by M. Masters (a pseudonym for multiple writers), originally published between 1983-1985.
“Similar in style to Encyclopedia Brown, readers are given clues in the form of narration. An important distinction from the Encyclopedia Brown series is the graphical picture included for each story, presented as a sketch by “Hawkeye” Collins of the scene of the crime, which provide the necessary hint to solve the puzzle.”
“Collins and Adams are neighbours who live across from each other on Crestview Drive in the fictional town of Lakewood Hills, Minnesota. Collins is described as having excellent observation prowess and able to carry out a quick but comprehensive sketch of the scene of the crime which capture vital clues to solving the mystery. Adams is an athletic red-haired girl who is described as “quick of mind, quick of feet and quick of temper”.
More information and book/case titles here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkeye_Collins_and_Amy_Adams
Thank you so much!
That sounds like Mio, My Son by Astrid Lindgren (who also wrote the Pippi Longstocking books).
When the evil Sir Kato locks Mio in the tower, the “empty” spoon produces the Bread that Satisfies Hunger and the Water that Quenches Thirst.
“Nine-year-old Karl Anders Nilsson is the unwelcome foster child of an uncaring couple. Lonely and neglected, he yearns for simple things, things that many children already have: a warm and loving home of his own, someone to share his sorrows and joys with, and, most important, his real father.
Then, on October 15, Karl simply disappears. Where has he gone? (Police are searching for him!) But Karl is far away from chilly Stockholm, in Farawayland, where he has found his father, who is none other than the king of that land. And now Karl (whose real name is Mio) faces a truly dangerous mission. Prophecies have foretold his coming for thousands of years. He, his new best friend Pompoo, and Miramis, his wonderful flying horse with a golden mane, must travel together into the darkness of Outer Land to do battle with Sir Kato, the cruel abductor of the children of Farawayland. Only a child of the royal blood can stop him…”
Hi, I read this library book prior to 1963 and it has stuck with me all these years. I may be fuzzy on exact details. A boy was living with grandparents but was given a ball that when he rolled it would lead him to where he wanted to go. The ball showed him the way to his father, who was king in another land. At one point in the story, the boy and some other children were locked in a castle tower with no food. The boy had been given a magic spoon. When you put the spoon in your mouth, there would always be food on it. If anyone had any idea of what this book might be, I would appreciate it. It was a chapter book for the lower primary grades.
In 1998 my teacher read a book about a little girl not having many friends. So her mom bought her a bunch of construction paper. She made a whole town with the construction paper. I loved the book so much that I went home and tried to build a town of my own. I would appreciate any help figuring out what book this is. Thank you!
Hi! This was in the late-1990s, when my younger brother and I lived predominantly with our single mother, and we would visit the library all the time. One day, I stumbled across a book with an anthropomorphic female white rabbit who had these long eyelashes. She wore a threadbare light brown jacket-like cloak, and was wandering through some snowy woods. She had no family, and obviously wanted one, and a golden star was guiding her. The star ultimately found her a home in the woods with a bunch of other rabbits and she was allowed to stay. That night in her new bedroom, there was a star underneath her pillow, and she thanked it for finding her a home… This is all I remember, and it’s been driving me nuts! If you have any information, please email me at [email protected].
In kindergarten (circa 1996) I used to love reading one particular picture book that was in my classroom. From what I remember, it was similar to (or maybe a different version of) Cinderella. I remember a (motherless?) girl would go into the forest each night and receive gifts. I can’t remember if she got dresses each night or if each night the gift was one article to add to her ensemble (dress, shoes, etc.).
I’m trying to think about a book that I read around 1989-91. It’s about some kids in the neighborhood who can solve problem by looking at the sketch. One of them draw a sketch about what happened. And then they can solved the mystery that happened in their neighborhood after looking at the sketch. We have to guess the answer. What did they see from the sketch that gave them the answers. The book has the answer at the end with upside down position.
I’m looking for the name of a children’s book I read to my son in the early 1980s. it was a picture book about zoo animals and the last page had a picture of a sloth and it read, “The sloth hardly moves at all.”
That sounds like Richard Scarry’s The Rooster Struts.”
“Featuring roosters, frogs, giraffes, monkeys, and many more animal favorites, this tall board book—illustrating the variety of ways in which animals get from here to there—will have children hopping, flying, and strutting from page to page.”
The rooster struts… the duck waddles… the goose waggles… the ant crawls… the bear shuffles… the giraffe runs… the monkey swings… the eagle soars… – and on the very last page, “The sloth hardly moves at all.”
I’m looking for the name of a children’s book I read to my son in the early 1980s about zoo animals. It was a picture book and the last page had a picture of a sloth and it read, “The sloth hardly moves at all.”
Hi
Me and my sister have been looking for a book we read as children in the 90s for about 10 years now. The title of the book is ‘The Hat’ but I can’t remember the author. It’s about a girls mum who orders a hat and the postman brings a series of items that aren’t the hat she ordered. The front cover was diagonal purple and white stripes with a picture of a purple hat I think.
We remember a few lines that go “the next day the postman went ratatatat! And there on the doorstep was, a big black cat. No said my mum. I’m not wearing that! Where is my beautiful purple hat!”
I know it’s a long shot as we’ve not found anything for so many years and our mum bought it at a discount book shop so it probably wasn’t very popular. We’ve googled lots and there are a few books with the same title from a similar time but not the one we’re looking for.
Hope someone can help!
Thanks!
I think this might be your book. ISBN 9780872264403 The Hat by Christine Gray and Theresa Forster. When Mother orders a hat by phone, everything the postman brings is wrong. Published in 1990
Oh my god that’s the one!!! Thank you so much we’ve been so frustrated trying to find it for so many years!
Happy to have helped. Hope you get to enjoy it all over again.
Here is a discussion which might interest you, although I would take quite a lot of it with a grain of salt.. https://community.ebay.com/t5/Booksellers/First-Edition-Very-Hungry-Caterpillar-Eric-Carle/m-p/23604690#M78895 The last post seems to be your book, with jacket, but no one has answered it. Your book is of course not a first, but early, as you suspected, printed after ISBNs were commonly in use, probably 1972, but before 1974 when World merged with Collins. Unlike some fields of collecting, modern books with bindery errors like this one may be curiosities, but they have little monetary value. Does yours have a code on the back board? Even though it’s not worth much, you do have early colour plates, so keep and enjoy!
Thank you for the information and reply! It does not have a code on the back board. I love it because it is an oddity and the illustrations are beautiful. I will enjoy it. 🙂
Thanks for writing back. I list some beautiful books on my website called “shabby” which I’m very fond of although their value is greatly reduced. It’s fun to think about their history and all the people who have known them. Look at this little girl! https://www.oldchildrensbooks.com/books/das-kind-in-lied-und-bild-19059 or better yet
Hi,
When I was 7 in 1967, I received a very uniquely designed book that was about the months of the year and what a child was like who was born in that month (I think). The top of the book was arched, not a flat right angle. The pages were not ‘paper’ but more of a hard cardboard bound by a plastic ring, covered in a very whimsical art on each page and each page was dedicated to one month with a story about the child born in that month.
The artwork was amazing. Somewhat Peter Max ish, but definitely not Max. The round or arched area at the top was filled with a sun depicted as it would look for that month.
Any help would be very appreciated.
I found your book. It’s ‘The year around book’ by Helen Jill Fletcher and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. Published by McGraw-Hill in 1965.
When I was little I used to go down in my grandmas base
ment and I remember she had a box of books, all I can remember is this one particular book was about bubble gum or had pink bubble gum on the cover maybe? I wish I could remember more. This book is probably older than that, I remember thinking it was older when I would look at it. I’m thinking 70s-80s. I know it’s a long shot because I can’t remember much.
I’m looking for a children’s book I had while living in Australia in the
mid-80s. It was about a toddler yelling demands from his bed. The
last line was, “A sleeping daddy can’t fetch much.” I’d love to get
this book for my grandson.
I’ve been looking for years now for a couple of [unrelated-to-each-other] kids’/childrens’ books I read when I was younger in the 1990s….
One book was about what makes a pearl and it went something like “there once was a little clam, who swallowed a piece of sand … he thought it would make him sick, but it just made him hic … he rolled it around, then stuck out his tongue … see, a pearl for me” with accompanying illustrations; I think it may have been paperback, but I could be wrong, I really can’t remember anything for sure other than the little clam(or possibly oyster) swallowing a piece of sand along with possibly a repetition of the last word of each sentence like ‘sick sick sick’ or ‘hic hic hic’ or ‘me me me’ because it thought the piece of sand would make it sick but instead it just gets the hiccups and then it transforms the sand into a pearl!.
The other book had a cover that was either light brown or tan AND white, it was hardcover, and it was about sledding and sled dogs…I think it was illustrated in a kinda sparse or sketch-like and minimally colored if at all colored-in style(or at very least the cover &/or back of it or the inside of the front or back cover was)…and I just remember there being a puppy and the name “Nanook”[ although it may or may not have been spelled differently than that] and eventually the puppy starts training and has to learn commands like “gee” and “mush” and how these commands mean turn left or turn right or when to stop and when to go forward before finally being harnessed and pulling a sled in the end((or something along those lines)).
Both of these books were short, entertaining, and mildly educational. Any help remembering which books these were and who they were written by would be EXTREMELY appreciated; Thank You!!! 🙂 🙂
OMG! I just found the book about the puppy in one last desperate google search attempt just now!!!
I’m not quite sure where the name “Nanook” came from in my head, I am so sorry everyone, I really must have been somehow mixing two different books together in my head or something (possibly it was this book and a book titled “Husky in a Hut” in the ‘Animal Ark’ series) … but the book I was looking for is titled “A Puppy Named Gih” by Sara & Fred Machetanz!
((Obviously, I had NO concept of when these books had or hadn’t originally been published back when I was first reading them, I guess I was too young to care yet or something …or perhaps maybe I just plain forgot the publication date over the years since then; I’m kind of shocked to learn just how long ago “A Puppy Named Gih” was actually published. Wow!. So happy I officially know again which book it was though, regardless.!!))
I am Still looking for the one book about the clam swallowing a piece of sand, fearing it would get sick but only getting hiccups instead and then turning that piece of sand into a pearl in the end, though!
Thank you so much, once again, to any who tried or who try and help me look from now on!!!! 🙂
Thanks for writing back with your find!
No problem! 🙂 …It didn’t seem right to have asked for help remembering it, only to leave it hanging here when I finally stumbled across it again myself.
Hopefully the one about the little clam will be revealed sooner or later, one way or another, too. 💜 (And, if it happens to come to me through other means as well, I will try my best to remember to come back here and update again when it does. Lol) My mom can’t remember what it was either, and she’d really like to share it with my young nieces and nephews because my siblings and I always had a lot of fun reading it when we were kids.😅😹😹
We’ll keep an eye out for the clam. But if you do find it and come back after a long time, please repeat a little bit of the plot. Sometimes Disqus doesn’t seem to form threads if it has been a while. Don’t know why.
Thank you so much 🙂
& Thanks for the heads up; Will do!
I’ve found a few possibilities, I think…but I can’t confirm anything yet without being able to see inside the books. ((I am getting really curious to see if maybe I’ve forgotten the majority of the book and actually only remember a teeny little part of it!.))
Until I am able to confirm or disprove it: I’ve accepted that I might even have actually read it in the early 2000s and not in the ’90s after all, and I’m working on looking into whether or not “A Clam Named Sam” by Lee DeVitt or “Sam the Clam” by Patti Toler (or possibly one of the multiple other “Sam the Clam” titled books by other authors) are the book, since my mother recently told me she thought that Sam was the clam’s name although I myself don’t remember at all if the clam actually had a name or not — “A Clam Named Sam” by Lee DeVitt is the cover that is giving me a strong sense of deja vu like I may have actually seen it before…trying to figure out a way to confirm it though, we may just end up having to take the plunge and buy ourselves a copy and see if it is or if we strike out. Lol
I am looking for a book where the couple hate where they live near a mountain and decide they have to move and are told that to find the perfect place they must do silly things like take their house apart and carry it walking backwards and they finally end up back in their old spot and are happy there. It is an illustrated children’s story.
I’m looking for a children’s book from the early 2000s about a little girl that had an attitude with her parents and switched with a green monster. There’s a page where she is trapped behind her eye and she is looking down at her family with the monster. the cover was orange.
That sounds like The Good Little Girl by Lawrence David.
“Even a good little girl can turn into a monster when her busy parents don’t pay attention!
Miranda is a good little girl. She understands that her working parents are often too busy to keep their promises. But enough is enough. When the waffles at the weekly Saturday Family Waffle Breakfast are replaced by yucky eggs and bacon, well . . . Miranda’s alter ego and new friend, Lucretia, bubbles to the surface. Now, thanks to Lucretia, Miranda is getting exactly what she wants, and boy does she like it! Her poor parents don’t know what’s become of their good little girl. Soon even Miranda thinks that Lucretia is mean and bossy, and she wants to take control. But Lucretia likes being in charge, and good little Miranda isn’t exactly sure how to become herself again.”
http://www.kathleendeady.com/images3/TheGoodLittleGirl2.jpg
Yes! Thank you!
Definitely this book. We have/had it also. Great story.
I’m desperately looking for a children’s book I had when I was younger. It was a hand-me-down from my stepfather, so I’m guessing it was from the 70s or 80s, maybe even earlier. It was softcover, fairly thin, and there were some beautiful uncolored illustrations inside. from what I remember, it was about a girl who lived out of an old single carriage / caravan (I remember it starts with an illustration of her standing next to / getting out of it) and traveled, with short stories of her adventures. the one I remember best is her going to three towns, singing in one and being told singing is banned because a dragon took the towns best singer, dancing in another town and being told the same, and (I believe) telling a story in the third town? later on, she finds the dragons cave where he has the three stolen girls in his stomach, and from the best of my memory, the three girls in his stomach tell him a story and sing him to sleep, then dance in his stomach until they’re spit up, and the main character saves them? I perfectly remember there’s an illustration at this part with all 4 girls escaping on a horse together. later on in the book all I can remember is another point where she’s in a forest and meets some kind of kelpie or similar creature… but that’s all I’ve got. I believe the girl is on the cover, and I seem to remember the cover art being very neutral/earth toned. I found this book on amazon years ago, but now I can’t find it again and cannot for the life of me remember the title or author. It was my absolute favorite book and id love to be able to find it again.
I’m looking for a children’s book I had while living in Australia in the mid-80s. It was about a toddler yelling demands from his bed. The last line was, “A sleeping daddy can’t fetch much.” I’d love to get this book for my grandson.
I’m looking for a children’s book I had in Australia in the early 1980s. The last line is, “A sleeping daddy can’t fetch much.”
I’m looking for a children’s book about a boy that was leaning on a building and people stop to ask him why he was leaning on the building and he said to hold it up and they kept telling him he wasn’t so when he walked away the building fell down.
Bennett Cerf’s Book of Laughs by Bennett Cerf.
From an online review: “It’s a series of short incidents all involving a little boy, Marvin. There is one involving Marvin leaning against a brick building, telling a lady that he’s holding it up. Also one with a fisherman who pulls Marvin out of the lake and asks how he came to fall in. “I didn’t come to fall in, I came to fish!” is Marvin’s reply. Another has Marvin sitting on the stoop in front of a building. A salesman comes and asks if Marvin’s mother is home.
Marvin says yes, and the man knocks and knocks, and rings the doorbell, all with no reply. “I thought you said your mother was home,” he says. “She is,” says Marvin. “But this isn’t my house.”
From another review: “Marvin’s Mother says “Marvin, you have your shoes on the wrong feet”. But these are the only feet I have. Marvin and his friend are down town looking in the beauty shop window his friend says “Look Marvin my grandma got her hair cut, she doesn’t look like an old lady anymore”. Marvin says “No, now she looks like an old man”. Marvin is running in and out of the door. His Mother says “Marvin, I don’t like all these flies in my kitchen”. Marvin says ” Okay, which ones don’t you like and I will put them out”. A lady walking down the street sees Marvin leaning against a brick wall. “What are you doing Marvin?. Holding up the wall?” “Yes, Marvin says and then Marvin walks away and the wall falls down.”
A friend is looking for a book about a donkey and a kookaburra (a bird) which she thinks played music or sound as you went along. This would have been a 90s or early 2000s children’s picture book.
I’m trying to find a kid’s book published before 1999 (could have been well before). From what I remember, there’s a baby bear who gets lost at night. He runs into a porcupine at one point. I think I remember the art style as being similar to make way for ducklings, with only a few colors used.
Any chance it might have been a rabbit instead of a bear? If so, take a look at A Remarkable Rabbit by Margaret Wise Brown. The story is included in the book Once Upon a Time in a Pigpen and Three Other Stories (1980).
“A rabbit runs away from his mother. He falls in a hole; he experiences confrontations with four scary animals: a frog, a snake, a worm, and a porcupine. In each encounter, the rabbit negotiates a truce with the animal and deals with the threats they present him. Chastened, but victorious, the remarkable rabbit “runs and he runs and he runs to this mother. “I’ll never fall into a big black hole again,” he says. “Don’t be silly,” says his mother. “You’ll fall into plenty of holes. Just remember that you can get yourself out of them. You are a remarkable rabbit. Never forget that.”
Looking for a book I loved in the mid to late 70’s A children’s book about A young black male being bullied by his brothers and sisters on his birthday. His uncle gifts him a tiger costume and he scares his siblings into treating him with respect. I loved this book as a child and would pay to own it again.
Try this one: Timothy the Terror.
Trying to find this one for ages. I read it in the mid 80s. It’s set in the far future, where there are no animals. A young boy and an old man have a menagerie of animals, made of taxidermied robot/clockwork animals. I remember they wore out and at the end a fire or something destroyed the last few of them. It was a very sad story, and I was reading it at the same time I was reading things like Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov, so it’s likely to be a short story in a book of a similar genre instead of a full book on its own.
Sounds very familiar. Tried Googling; nothing useful. When I have time, I’ll go through my old SF anthologies.
Hi, I am looking for a children’s (probably picture) book that would have been published before 1998 (definitely earlier than that maybe late 80’s, early 90’s but I don’t want to miss any possibilities!) It is about a man who I think was wearing glasses (might have even been called man or mr mann or similiar in the book) who finds a strange bird that has a cartoon bump on it’s head. I think the bird multiplies or breeds rapidly until there are many. I know it sounds a really strange story but that’s all I can remember. Again also strange but I do have a drawing from when I was little to do with the book that gives an idea of the bird and man if I can post it and is of any use! I would really appreciate any help, thanks!
This is a really long shot and probably not the book, but a man and a bunch of birds immediately makes me think of Hey, Al by Arthur Yorinks. It’s about a janitor and his dog who encounter a strange bird in their apartment. The bird takes them away to an island paradise – only they eventually discover that they are slowly turning into birds themselves.
?v=1526753531
?w=652
I’m sorry but it doesn’t look like the story – thanks for the suggestion! I remember the bird was rare or strange and had a big bump on its head, but it’s not a real bird breed. I think when it bred or multiplied, they all looked the same too. Thanks again I’ll keep searching!
I have been loking for a novel which i read long ago but Forget the name
And even though i can still remember it was a japanies novel
The story is A girl of a rich father her father has many fishing boats
She loves a boy who also work in her father”s fishing boat
But her father chose a boy who also work in her father fishing boat
And he is very arrogant haughty and lazy
I’m trying to find an old childhood book, but while I remember loving it, I struggle these days with the details. It was hardback, A4 sized, and full of illustrated poems and nursery rhymes. One I recall was about a boy who lost his tummy. There was also a story about a witch and one of the illustrations was of a wicked witch grabbing a fairy by her wings. I had it for many years then seem to have lost it an a move. I’d love to find it again.
Hi,
In elementary school (97-98ish) our music teacher took us to the auditorium and read us a Halloween themed book that was glow in the dark. It was pitch black with the curtains closed but we all could see the book and the words. I cannot remember what the book was about but I remember a skeleton glowing on one of the pages. He also played a soundtrack (I’m not sure if it went with the book) of thunder and rain and I remember the music seemed in sync with the pacing of the story. It made such a wonderful atmosphere and I would love to find this book. I believe it was a hardback and the size of the book was pretty large and thin.
Hello everyone!
I’ve been trying to find this one children’s picture book for almost 20 years now – unfortunately I can only remember one page of the book, which has made trying to find it all the more difficult.
The page I remember was set in a dungeon, all stone walls and stone floor. There was a very long stone staircase with a wooden door at the top, the perspective of the stairs leading into the dungeon below.
In the lower-middle of the page there was an old wizard and a very large octopus – I believe the wizard was in a wooden pillory of some kind and the octopus was tickling him.
The wizard was wearing a blue star-covered robe with a matching cone hat. He also had a long white beard. The octopus was rather large, purple, and took up considerable space on the bottom of the page.
Like I said, I can’t remember anything else about the book — if anyone has any clue as to what picture book this could be, I would really appreciate it!
I happened to pick up this book in a used book store as a child in the late 90s, but my dad had already checked out, so despite my wanting the book, it was time to go.
Couldn’t resist suggesting Emile by Tomi Ungerer, although this is not the right book. This octopus in green and there is no wizard, but he is large!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1409254.Emile
I am sorry but I don’t know the book. However, your description of the wizard makes me think of Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter!
Hi There!
I’m looking for a book series that I read when I was a kid, It’s set in a wild boarding school that has tons of eccentric characters.
It has a rich kid that bought a butt pillow for his chair in one of the books, there was also a huge water fight in one of the books where the students made all sorts of contraptions to get the upper hand, and the main protagonist’s crush was called “April May June”.
Try the Rotten School series by R.L. Stone.
Stine, not Stone.
You’re welcome! Thanks for posting back.
I used to read this book with my grandma. It was probably a book from the 60s or 70s about a little stubborn boy who has to do chores for his grandmother, he’s blond and wears a cowboy hat) they use the phrase ” hoot and hollered”. At the end he gets molasses on his pancakes that his grandmother makes for him. I know a horse and other animals (maybe? But the horse for sure) are invited to have some with him. Half of it is in color and the other half is black and white. Please HELP!
Gregory: The Noisiest and Strongest Boy in Grangers Grove, by Robert Bright.
Hi there!
I am looking for a children’s book that has to do with a king, a sail boat, an island, and monsters. can you help me? Thanks
Where The Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak?
For school, we are doing brain teasers that are popular children’s book titles made out of emojis. One of them that I cant figure out has an emoji of a king, a sailboat, an island, then two monsters. Can you help me figure out what book it is?
That sounds like Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.
Max sails off in his boat to the island where he meets the wild things (monsters) and is crowned their king.
Thank you so much.
I’m looking for this book, I don’t remember much about it, but I believe it was a middle grade book and it had these monkey figurines like monkey do no evil, see no evil, etc. And they were in like a shop or something and they might have been evil??. Sorry I know that’s very vague.
A very long shot just in case it could be bird-mouse instead of bird-bird: In a People House.
My boyfriend remember a book he read as a kid, probably published inbetween 1990-2010. He said it was a funny kids book, about a Red Hen, and the cover was her in a tree with flowers- like dogwood flowers maybe. That’s all he can remember! We search and all we find is the classics and those are not the book. Anyone have an idea? She has a fun name too, the hen did.
Well, I know there is a book called the little red hen. I hope that helps!
I am pretty sure the book was from the early 1950s. It is the story about a little bird who helps a crocodile get something out of its tooth. I remember the name of Croxy or Crocci but don’t remember the spelling. I remember the bird had to hurry because the crocodile was in danger.
Hello
I have a story book from my childhood . It’s a compilation of probably 100ish stories. I don’t have the back or front phe to look for any information. I was born in 94 . This book has stories like mats coffee morning, buggy races,mantis little elephant , seeing the sights coming thinks big, Tillys grin and many more . I like in Ontario if that helps . One of the bag goes has pictures of a raccoon in and putting on pjs , a bunny on a scale and bunnies in the tub. I really hope someone can help me. Thanks in advance!!
My Very Best Book of Bedtime Stories, published by Grandreams in 1996. There may be more than one front cover. The back cover lists the stories.
Trying again: My Very Best Book of Bedtime Stories, published by Grandreams, 1996. There appear to be different front covers. The back cover has a list of the stories.
Wow! I have spent 9 years searching Google / Internet to try and see an image to remember the name of this book for my kids – I have even tried some memory techniques to try and search the gray matter as it was 30 years ago I had this book…
Today I thought I would have a final google search, and out of interest scrolled down the list of peoples forgotten books on this site… I read the first few lines of this and knew it was this book!
I cannot thank you all enough for this, what were the chances of that happening. Wow again! Mama Squirrel = Genious 🙂
Thank you!!!
Rob
You’re welcome!
Hi! My sister and I have been discussing this old picture book from when we were kids (born in the 90s). All we can really remember is this two page spread in the book and the general theme. Basically, it’s about a school that gets a new principle or a bunch of new rules… and by the time these new rules are in place, the school is very reminiscent of a prison or very military-like. The 2-page spread is an illustration of a long line of kids on two hills waiting to get their new gray uniforms, and they all look really miserable. If we’re remembering correctly, the school is also very abstract looking and sort of wild. This is a limited amount of information we know, but this has been killing us for months! If anyone knows or has ideas of keywords we can search in databases for, please comment!
I am not sure if this is the right book but “Sideways stories from Wayside Schools” might be the book you are looking for!
That sounds like The Clay Lion by Amalie Jahn. It’s the first book in a trilogy. The other books are Tin Men, A Straw Man – and Under the Rainbow (a prequel to the other three).
“What if you could go back in time to save the person you love the most?
The rules are simple. If you want to travel back in time, you need to be at least eighteen years old. You can only travel within your own lifespan for a maximum of six months. And above all else, you must never, ever, change the past.
But that’s exactly what Brooke Wallace plans to do.
As Brooke faces existence without her beloved brother, his life cut short by a rare disease, she can think of only one solution – travel back in time to prevent his death. However, her attempts at fixing the past challenge her to confront everything she believes to be true about herself. And ultimately, she is forced to discover whether or not we can ever truly be in charge of our own destiny.”
“In a world where time travel not only exists but can be used by pretty much anyone (though only once, per government regulations), young Brooke Wallace decides to use her allotted “trip” through time to save the life of her beloved younger brother, Branson. Determined to thwart the circumstances that caused his sudden and tragic demise, Brooke soon discovers that changing the past is not as easy as it seems.”
Had a flashback of a children’s illustrated book from the 90s. If I can remember rightly, the character was a child that left the house at night and would pass by windows along the neighbourhood. He/she would see things in a different light. I vaguely remember a shop window and what appeared to look like scary snakes at night was actually a hanging plant in the day. It was as if the character was seeing scary things because they were out at dark; But when they went past these places in the day they were normal things. I remember on one page the character approaches an old house with broom stick and cat (appears to be a witch) but it’s a friendly neighbour by day.
My brother and sister can remember the book too but we’re struggling to find on the internet.
Hi all,
I’m looking for a book (possibly from a series) which was in the English Primary School reading system I would have read in around 2000, but definitely much older than this.
I wish I could remember the author or the name of the book. What I do remember is there being a griffin who disappeared into the back garden wall, which was magic, and he was very nice to the children. I also have a meme org of them decorating pine cones to look like mice and hedgehogs for Christmas.
I so hope somebody knows, it’s been playing on my mind for weeks. Thanks
There’s Something From Nothing by Phoebe Gilman (1992).
Thanks – but sorry – no – that’s not it. The illustrations were as I said, Arab/Persian/Turkish in style. There may have been turbans. I don’t remember a main character being “Joseph” – though there could have been. Someday – maybe I’ll find it. It’s like it dropped off the face of the earth. Another one of those lessons – to buy something when you see it if it touches you. You may never see it again. Again, thank you.
It could be another Maurice Sendak book: ‘Outside over there’.
I’m looking for a book that I think I read on my kindle but it may not have been because I just can’t find it on there. It was about a young girl who’s brother had passed and she would travel back in time like a few months to save him. In this world each person had a pass to travel back in time but the one rule was that they couldn’t change anything about the future. Obviously because she was trying to save her brother she didn’t listen. Anyways she failed using her pass and so asked her dad for his and her mum for hers. On one pass she fell in love with this boy at a party or a campfire or something and then when she came back to normal life she had messed up somehow I don’t remember how and so she went to this boys house which she had messed up his life really badly and he was like you can use my pass as long as you don’t include me in your life. Don’t remember the endings to anything but my guess would be that it was published before 2012 I think.
Say Good Night to Illiteracy, 7th Edition. If you look for it on Amazon, you can see the cover with the cat and the moon.
Please help me find this book!
I’m looking for a children’s picture book from the 1990s. It was beautifully illustrated. It takes place in the day time where a child, a girl I think, is in a bedroom (possibly falls asleep and wakes up) to find vines or plants coming in the window. She follows them and climbs out the window into a magical land with heaps of quirky things.
I know this sounds a lot like ‘where the wild things are’ haha but I promise it’s a different book
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I have been looking for years for a beautiful children’s picture book I remember for sale (new) in a shop in N. California in the later 80’s I believe – maybe early 90s. The story was basically the same as the story line of “Joseph had a little Overcoat” – the basic story of recycling/reusing – a coat into a shirt into a vest into a tie into a handkerchief into a rug. The style of the illustrations was more Arabic/Persian/Turkish. I cannot remember the name or author. Please, I hope someone remembers it – Thanks !
There was a book when I was a child (80-90s) that all I remember is the boy in the book had a strange birthmark on his face and other children mocked him him and said Robert of the Roses. He also went out to colorful fountains and bought a yo, yo. Very odd description, but if I remember more I’ll add it.
I am searching for a book that I think is titled Come on Over to My House. It is not the Dr. Seuss book. The cover had a bird and a tree with a house (nest) in it. It was about friends (birds). It was my son’s favorite book 30ish years ago. I appreciate any help.
I knew you’d remember! The person who called thought it was maybe Strawberry Fields but somehow he didn’t think that was right. Thanks so much,
You’re welcome! I have book-loving friends who considered those catalogues as treasures in themselves.
Chinaberry!
https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=20030315&slug=chinaberrym15
I am looking for a children’s poetry book or collection of children’s poems. The cover is a cat sitting on the moon. There were very detailed illustrations going along with each poem. One of the poems was called “the elephant’s snore” there was a poem about a girl named Molly mcdolly mcpolly mcbeam and she rolled around in the grass. I believe there was also a poem about a girl playing piano. It could be a limited edition of the book but I cannot find it anywhere!
Someone called and asked about this and I just cannot remember. There was a children’s literature publication started by two women from Southern California. It had long articles and reviews of well chosen children’s books, probably aimed at young families. The books were for sale, so it was actually a catalogue. During the time I subscribed it had a kind of newsprint, Mother Earth News feel to it. 4to size. I think I saw it with a slicker cover about 8 or 9 years ago.The name was sort of organic, like Wishing Tree but that is not it. This was not a professional journal or a member of the Cricket magazine group. It was probably used by homeschoolers, but was started before that movement became more formal. I thought the name would pop into my head in a few days but apparently not. Thanks!
Possibly Bamboozled by David Legge?
Oh my god thats it!!!! You’re right! Thank you so so much I’ve been trying to figure it out for years haha. How did you find it?
It was a favorite in our house, too! My kids loved it!
Im looking for a childrens book from the 1990s, I dont think it was very well known. it was about a child who goes to a house thats really quirky, like animals heads coming out of sinks or wild animals all around the house, but also just odd things in odd places. And its just room to room seeing all the weird and wonderful things in this magical house. And it was really beautifully illustrated. I think there were words possibly, or it may have been pictures only. If you know this I will be eternally grateful!
Hey! I’m looking for a book from the 90s in the US about a girl named Sonya or Sonia and she had a cat named Barney. The book takes place in the night time and there’s some noise outside and it turns out to be a friendly fox howling at the moon. For the life of me I can’t find the name!
I think I might have the book you are looking for! The tenth good thing about barney might be it. I hope I was able to help!
The Tenth Good Thing About Barney is about a pet that dies. It does not take place mostly at night. I don’t remember a fox either.
I think the first could be A Dream of Sadler’s Wells by Lorna Hill, also published in the US, or perhaps another in the series. (note: Sadler’s)
Looking for a library book entitled Miss Percival’s Cat. could have bee Mrs. Percival’s Cat. Also a book entitled Cat and Dog or vice versa, Dog & Cat.
I am not finding anything by those titles. Can you remember any other details?
I have been looking for two books that I read a book when I was a child. The first one set in England, the book follows the story of an orphan who loves to dance. She gets to dance in a pantomime as a cat and finally ends up attending dance school at Covent Gardens/Sadler Wells. The cover was pink.
The second one is set in America, Chicago I think. Another dance story. Young girl loves to dance and ends up dancing in a ballet called the Windy City as a newspaper boy.
Any help would be appreciated.
Beth