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Possibly this one?
The The Animals Who Changed Their Colors. Pascale Allamand. English translation Elizabeth Watson Taylor. Lothrop, Lee & Shephard (1979).
The polar bear, whale, tortoise, and two crocodiles try to imitate the parrot’s beautiful colors, only to discover how impractical they are.
The book opens with a polar bear who sees a rainbow and wishes he could be colourful. He talks to his friend the whale and they decide to set of an adventure to find the land with colourful animals. Crocodiles and a tortoise join them along the way. They get to the Amazon and ask a beautiful parrot how he got his colours. Then they rub all try different things to change their colours and are feeling quite pleased until the parrot points out that their colours are what keeps them from danger in the own countries. So they wash themselves off and go back home.
Yes, that’s it!! Thank you SO much!
Was it a picture book or chapter book. There’s a series of books by Ruth Manning about R.Dragon and a girl called Susan. She meets him while on holiday on the beach at Saint Aubyns. The four books are: Green Smoke; Dragon in danger; The Dragon’s quest; and Dragon in the harbour
I remember these books. I loved them now must find copies
Just saying… found the books on eBay and bought them today. Am going to read them to my granddaughter.
Oh it was by Rosemary Manning
The Sugar Mouse Cake, by Gene Zion.
I would LOVE help IDing a book my great grandma used to read to me. It’s a long shot as it’s likely from the 1950’s or later?
It was a children’s book. The book was mostly black and white with pops of pink here and there. It was a story of a baker and a mouse (or many mice). I can’t remember much other than the illustrations and that general concept. I’m having my first child soon and hope I can read this to her someday!
I’m new here. I’ve spent years looking for a children’s book I had in the early 70s. Santa Claus’s alarm clock went off too early and he woke up on Halloween. There was a picture of his alarm clock and it had four “times” marked — a Christmas tree, a pumpkin and I forget the other two. Easter was probably one.. Well, he doesn’t realize it so he loads up the sled and heads out. He’s very surprised to find that all the children are outside at night instead of in bed. He goes up to a door and tries to leave some toys. A lady comments on his costume and puts some candy in his bag. He finally gives up and goes back to the North Pole. Mrs. Claus asks him why he brought all his toys back. He says something about his bag being more full after he got back than when he left. There’s a picture with his big red bag with candy spilling out of the top. It was a hardback book with water-color illustrations. I remember illustrations of a street with houses all lined up and lots of children dressed in costumes.
I am looking for a children’s book about a little bunny that goes and eats his neighbors Rose garden. It is a small book and not very long. It was my favorite children’s book my mom found it and then lost it.
i’m looking for a book a read somewhere between 1980-84 it was about a dragon that lived on a beach that was visited by a little girl that was on holiday i think. at the end of the book the dragon is gone and all that is left is a dragon tear that looks like a big diamond. ive no idea what it was called and i have made numerous attempts to find it. can anyone help?
The poem is called The Twins, by Edward Shirley. It can be found as a stand-alone book, illustrated by John Hassall and published by Thomas Nelson and Sons.
It starts off:
Paul Montgomery Vincent Green
Was THE VERY BEST BOY that was ever seen.
He had a twin-brother, and strange to say,
His brother was born on the very same day.
Peter Augustus Marmarduke Green
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Was the very worst boy that ever was seen.
He had a twin-brother, and strange to rehearse,
I’ve mentioned his name in the very first verse.
Found two possibilities:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15939367-susan-at-herron-s-farm
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/17497
I am looking for the same thing!
Fingers crossed someone might have an idea to help us locate.
Have you ruled out Susan and the Milkman? (1950, by Emily DeVore)
I’m trying to find a picture book that I loved when I was a child (in the 2000s but i think it was a bit older) but can’t remember the title or author. What I remember is that it’s about a girl, she has red hair(it’s huge and fluffy), and she has a bunch of different cats (small, big like lions, tigers etc). I believe it was kind of about an imaginary world/dream land? Where she’s walking through a jungle with all these different cats? I also remember some line about cats/tigers/lions having long crooked/zig zagging tails.
I am looking for a Children’s book probably l920-l930s with a poem about twins in it. They were called Paul Montgomery Vincent Green and Peter Augustus Marmaduke Green and one was the naughtiest boy that “ever was seen” – does anyone know of this book?
I’m looking for a children’s book from the ’80s. It’s about a white turtle floating down a jungle river (the Amazon?). Every time he brushed up against a leaf or flower along the short, he kept their color. By the end, he was multicolored. Any ideas?
Possibly Out There by Adrien Stoutenburg.
“Five children and their nature-loving “aunt” leave the domed city to search for signs of new life in the surrounding territory made barren by the disasters of misapplied technology.”
That’s it! Thank you.
You’re welcome! Glad I could help – and thank you for posting back!
Does anyone else remember a book from some time between the late 60s to the mid-70s about a school field trip to the outside world in the wake of an ecological disaster? I’m almost certain it was called “Out There.”
Hi! I’m looking for a book about a guy that finds a girl online and starts to meet with her in person. She seems to start flipping personalities? There’s a scene where she’s kind, goes into the bathroom, and then comes out angry. The guy is led to a river sometime at night and one twin tries to kill him, but gets wrapped up in a white sheet and falls on a knife. Not sure what happens to the other twin, but the book ends by the guy (closing his laptop?) while his girlfriend (I think) drapes her arms over his shoulders from behind.
Maybe the Child Horizons set? They’ve been reprinted with different covers multiple times, from the 1950’s through the 2000’s. One of the books is titled Things to Make and Do.
were there also stories abt how she goes away with her aunt and buys them handkercheifs and help thatch a roof and she lives in a two storey house with her whole family in a small town?
Hello! I’m looking for a book that had to have been written in maybe the 60s or 70s but can’t 100% say that’s accurate. It’s about the “end of the world” or so a girl thinks. She starts collecting food and items and storing them in an old building or basement or clubhouse maybe. Thanks!
I was a child in the 1950s (in the US) and had a 2 volume hardback book set. One was yellow, one was green and they had intricately embossed covers. The books had fables and poems and fairy tales and somehow I think the word “Illustrated” was in the title. Resonate with anyone?
My mother has been searching for decades for this book. She remembers it being a Little Golden Book called “Susan on the Farm”, but no such book exists. It was probably published in the late 40s or early 1950. My mother was born in October 1950 and her older sister wanted to name her Susan because of her favourite book “Susan on the Farm”. I’ve been in touch with several booksellers over the years, and had no luck figuring out what book it actually is. It’s not ‘Susan and the Rain’, which was a previous suggestion.
Hi I’m trying to remember the title of a book I read as a child, I’m now 68 😜 It was called something like The Kid or The xxx Kid It was a play on words as it was about a boy that buys a goat and keeps it hidden! Can anyone help please? T
Wendy and the Bullies, by Nancy K. Robinson.
Long shot… but maybe take a look at Three Little Horses at the King’s Palace by Piet Worm? It’s a sequel to his earlier book, Three Little Horses. Another book in the series is titled Three Little Horses Have a Holiday.
I am looking for a book that I had when I was younger. I think it had multiple stories in. The one I remember most is a girl going to pick blackberries (I think) and getting hurt. Ultimately there was a pie. This was in the early 1980’s in the UK. I know that it isn’t much to go on. Thanks.
My wife remembers a book about 3 princesses that received ponies as a gift. Each pony was matched to one of the princesses, (hair color?) It was a single story in a typical hard cover children’s book. She remembers reading it in the 1960’s.
That sounds like Timothy Tinker: The Wonderful Oilcan by Mabel Watts.
“The charming tale of little Timothy, who takes the noises out of things with his oil can.”
http://www.kathleendeady.com/images3/OtherBooks-TellaTale-1968-TimothyTinkertheWonderfulOilcan1.jpg
http://www.kathleendeady.com/images3/OtherBooks-TellaTale-1968-TimothyTinkertheWonderfulOilcan4.jpg
There’s a book called ‘A rainbow of stories and poems’. written and illustrated by students at Lafayette Elementary School in Oxford Mississippi. Prairie Grove, AR : Ozark Pub., ©1998. ISBN 1567634370
Roger Green Lancelyn’s ‘Once long ago’ which is a collection of tales from around the world was published in Canada in 1962 by Leland Publishing. It has a wikipedia entry with all the contents (it references the UK edition, published in the same year). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Long_Ago
Good one, but alas not the one. This was a much shorter paperback
I am looking for a book from the 80s or 90s about a girl getting bullied. One day she leaves for school but instead hides in some sort of closet and her mom finds her. While she was hiding she opened her packed lunch and got tuna fish in her hair.
I’m looking for a child storybook I read to My child between 1968 and1975 about a little boy and an oil can.
Hi! I’m trying to find a book I read when I was young about a girl who didn’t have friends. She was either a loner or an outcast. I can’t remember much about the book, but she had a little sister whom she took to the movies, that ended up being an adult film, or just too sexy for a teen and her little sis. She also went alone to the big city near her and got roasted chestnuts, possibly with her grandfather? Or it reminded her of her grandfather? I believe it was written in the 1970s or 80s.
Were they fairy tales? Can you recall any specific stories?
Hi! I’m looking for an old book set I had as a child in the US during the early 90s (but was probably a hand-me-down from older cousins, so it could date to the 70s or 80s). They were hardcover with dustjackets of different colors to make a rainbow, about ten volumes or so? Each volume had a different focus–I remember one being full of rebuses, one with fables and other stories, and something like a “things to do on a rainy day” volume with simple experiments and recipes, perhaps. It’s not the Childcraft set, and not a fiction collection.
I’m looking for a book about a teenage girl. I don’t remember that much about the plot but what I do remember is that the girl was kind of an outcast in school and her father wasn’t around. Her father had left this bag full of possessions. On the cover, it is a girl that has dark brown hair and side swept bangs. She has on a white hoodie and it’s covering most of her head. I’m not 100% sure, but I believe the book had a one-worded title.
Herbie Jones, by Suzy Kline.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2310751.Herbie_Jones
Thank you so much!!!
You’re welcome, and thanks for posting back.
Between 1968 -70 I read a book possibly called Tales (or Stories) Of Long Ago (not Enid Blyton) about knights, castles, witches, etc. Distributed in Canada by Scholastic Book Services as I recall.
Behind the Attic Wall by Sylvia Cassedy?
Books from 60s or 70s by female author, about a boy in 4th or 5th grade who brings a can of salmon to a birthday party. It was a chapter book
Solved on another board:
The mystery of the silent friends’ / Robin Gottlieb, Al Brune (illustrator). Published by Funk & Wagnalls (1964).
When two customers appear in her father’s antique shop, each trying to buy Henri and Henriette, a pair of Swiss mechanical dolls, Nina Martin scents a mystery. Then the hint of hidden treasure and a secret message send Nina and her friend Muffin off on a treasure hunt in New York City.
Yes, that’s it. Thank you!
The Josefina Story Quilt, by Eleanor Coerr. It’s sometimes mistitled The Josefina Quilt Story.
I’m looking for a book, I’m unsure what year it’s from, I had it in my school library in the early 2000’s but it was an older book so could be from the 90s, 80s, or 70s. It was about a girl who moved into a house and it had a secret attic room that was behind a wall in her own room and I think there might have been a ghost in it, I don’t remember much else about the book unfortunately. I remember the cover had the house on it and the title was something about a secret room or something like that.
I’m looking for a picture book about a legend/myth/story from South America.The story is about a girl who was shunned and bullied by her village and her only friends were the birds of the forest (mainly macaws). The birds were her only friends and swhenever she met with them, they would leave alot of feathers which she used to sow together to make wings.. At the end of the book she flies away on these wings she made from the feathers.
Hello,
I’m looking for a book I read in 4th or 5th grade in the 70s. It was a mystery about two kids, maybe boy/girl siblings(?) whose dad owned an antique store. The store had two mechanical dolls that moved when you turned a key in their backs. One doll drew pictures and one played a miniature piano. A strange man tries to buy them and won’t take no for an answer even though the kids love the dolls and the dad won’t sell. It turns out that there is a third doll that maybe the man has (?). That doll writes. The three dolls contain a clue to where a bunch of gold is hidden, but you need all three of them to figure it out. I loved that book as a child.
Hello, I’m 14 years old but when I was around 5-6 I remember a picture book I had. Each page was a fairy in her own personality-themed tiny house. I can’t recall its name. For example, one page had an ocean themed fairy room with shells and pearls and another had nature themed and I think it was in a treehouse. Like I said it was more of a picture book and if needed I could try to provide as much detail as I can, I really hope someone knows what book this is, thank you.
You are welcome – I’m glad I could help! Thanks for posting back and confirming!
The Constant Little Mouse by William Wiesner.
” Sweetie-pie Mouse wants to marry Count Hazelnut but her mother wants someone mightier for a son-in-law.”
Found two that match plot:
“The Yellow Leaf” by Hasan Terani
Despite the urging of wind, rain, and crow, an autumn leaf refuses to
fall from its tree until a gardener relates the story of the seasons’
cycle and nature’s rebirth
“Alfie’s Long Winter” by Greg McEvoy
A breeze blew. Alfie closed his eyes, and – held on tight. “AL-FIE, AL-FIE, AL-FIE…” All the leaves on the ground shouted together. But Alfie could not jump. And so, Alfie’s long winter began.
“The constant little mouse” by William Weisner.
Sweetie-pie Mouse wants to marry Count Hazelnut but her mother wants someone mightier for a son-in-law.
There is this children’s book I remember. It was one of those books that had a small paragraph of words in each illustration. It’s about a young girl with braided blonde hair who has a pet chicken (I think the chicken is named Helena or something) as they travel in carriages. It’s set in colonial times. Some events I remember is the family almost got robbed at night when they made camp, I think the chicken couldn’t lay any eggs, and the chicken passes away in the end of the book I believe.
It was one of my favorites and I hope to find it.
Hi, I’m looking for a book that was a collection of short stories written by children published anytime between 1996-1998. A friend of mine from Mississippi was in the third grade when her short story was chosen for this book. My friends name is Tiffany Bosarge and I’m hoping to get her a copy of this book as her copy was destroyed when she was a kid.
I’m trying to find a children’s picture book from the 80s, maybe earlier, perhaps titled “Count Hazlenut” that my daughter loved. It’s about a swashbuckling mouse who falls in love with a mouse called “Sweetie Pie.”
The Tom and Pippo books sound like they would fit.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/76431-tom-and-pippo
Possibly a reprint of The Forest Pool by Laura Adams Armer? From our comments: Marvellous, glowing pictures of two children discovering an iguana near a jungle pool. Caldecott Honor. From dw flap. (!) “The paintings have the quality of primitive art without the grotesqueness of some of the Mexican artists of the present day.”
The Google images don’t do the colour justice, at least on my device. https://www.google.com/search?q=forest+pool+laura+armer&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi0q–uxprzAhU6EDQIHavzD3EQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1233&bih=718&dpr=1.75
Looking for a very colorful children’s picture book from early 1950s about a little Mexican girl.
Was it A Sleepy Story by Elizabeth Burrows? It was a Golden Book with a little girl who couldn’t go to sleep and her mom tells her a story about all these other animals going to sleep?
Found by June Oldham?
YES! That absolutely was it!! Thank you so much!
Hiya, I’m trying to remember an old children’s book (toddler age) from the late 80s / early 90s about a boy and his pet monkey (I think real but possibly not) and they go on various adventures in the series. The one I remember vividly is that they go into outer space. I seem to recall the names Bo and pippin but Google isn’t bringing back any hits on those names.
Hi, I’m trying to find a book for a friend that was probably written before the 1980s.
Here is what he says: “It was about a family that was going on a vacation. An elderly lady said they could use her vacation house. I think it was by a lake, but that didn’t really play into the story much. As I remember the there was a young boy and girl (maybe 10 or 12 years old) in the family and they weren’t too excited about staying at this vacation house. Shortly after they got there they saw a piece of paper sticking out of the side of a particular chair. They read it and it was obviously a clue to a treasure hunt. Not really knowing the place they really had to explore. I don’t remember how many clues or locations except one clue led to some water fountain out in the woods or grounds around the house. The two kids eventually found a valuable necklace. The elderly lady shows up and in talking with her they find out that her father use to do treasure hunts for her when she was a little girl. The kids had not told her what they found so they quickly put all the clues back and gave the lady the original clue. The elderly lady explained that her father must have set that up before the last time she was at the house as a little girl, but her father had some disaster happen (medical issue I think) and they never came. The clues had been hidden for decades. When she got the necklace she was overjoyed because she need the money for some reason. I think she didn’t have much and this would somehow save the day, but I don’t remember exactly what.”
He has already checked out Enid Blyton, Elizabeth Enright, and Phyllis Whitney. I have checked the Meg books by Holly Beth Walker and Ginnny Gordon books by Julie Campbell and cannot see any match. Nor do Elizabeth Honness stories seem to match. Can anyone help us? Many thanks, Mark
Arthur’s Granny, by Kit Wright.
Oooh thanks so much!! I managed to find a picture of it now, I didn’t realise that it was such an old book!
You’re welcome! Thanks for posting back.
I’m looking for a children’s picture book that I had in the late 90s. It was full of a few stories and they were animals that were like humans but I think in a wood. One of the stories was a gorilla with new squeaky shoes think they were red trainers and they were possibly playing hide and sneak and they could all hear him coming
I am trying to find a picture book collection from my childhood which was in the 90s, but the book could be older. One book was about a leaf that didn’t want to fall and the changing colors, and the leaf finally falling. The leaf had a face. There was another book about a shoe that snuck out at night to go to the carnival. Thank you in advance for the help.
I’ve trying to find a book my children had in the early 1990’s. It was a picture book with a family of not animals/not people, something in between. Grandma has come to visit and they’re looking for the ‘baby’. Every double page spread has a different room in the hosue where the baby has wreaked havoc, kitchen, living room, hall, bedroom etc. On every page the grandma says ‘he’s good for his age’. Eventually the painting on the walls elads then to the bay, fast asleep in his cot. Does anyone remember this please?
There is both a Folk Tales Children Love and a Stories Children Love, both easy to search using “Watty Piper” (note spelling) on Ebay, Amazon or Abebooks. The covers of Folk Tales changed slightly over the years, so look on Google images and pick the one you are familiar with. https://www.google.com/search?q=folk+tales+children+love+piper&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiPwcvUi5jzAhVIuZ4KHV6OBbEQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1233&bih=718&dpr=1.75
Stories is a little harder to find but you shouldn’t have a problem:
https://www.google.com/search?q=stories+children+love+watty+piper&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwj639HWi5jzAhUUJn0KHWqkA2oQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=stories+children+love+watty+piper&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQA1CcjgJY98UCYNXNAmgAcAB4AIABgAGIAYMMkgEEMC4xM5gBAKABAaoBC2d3cy13aXotaW1nwAEB&sclient=img&ei=7wROYbqsMpTM9APqyI7QBg&bih=718&biw=1233
I am looking for a book that was published Wayback in the 40s. The title is “folk stories children love“ the publisher is Platt and Monk company Inc.; edited by Wattie Piper.
Melisande by Edith Nesbit?
Thank you so much!
Also looking for a book with a baby carriage on top of a hill. I believe it was about lost children and it was named either found or lost. My memory is fogged but I do remember there was a vicious fight against The children in the end .
Looking for a childrens book from the 90s early 2000s about a boy who pretends his sleeping dad is a bear and under the covers was a cave
Possibly Flanimals by Ricky Gervais?
Not quite! It was more of a surrealist children’s book; and I believe it was just a picture book. I think there was a fox and clover mashup animal too to add to the description.
I’m trying to remember a children’s book from the 80’s in the UK. It was about a boy and his Gran who was described as low/short and wide and she had a car that was low and wide too, possibly yellow that she would take him and his friends in for a drive. She said’ I like the shape of the shape I am”. I think it was Arthur’s Gran but that doesn’t come up when I search 🙁
I am looking for a children’s book from the 50-60 about a tall woman that was too big for the town. But she found a singing tree and dancing swan.
Hello book sleuths!!
For years I have been looking for a book from my youth. I thought it was a golden book. But not sure. It is a sleepy time book. About animals going to sleep or being put to bed. In my mind it was a smaller size book. With an owl on the front cover…who said “who, who” throughout the book. I’d love to find it!! I think it would be in the 1970’s?. Thank you in advance!!
There’s a book I used to borrow from my school library as a kid (so, published in or before 2003). It was a picture book that was a cross between a maze-book and a “search and find” (ala Where’s Waldo, etc). The mazes operated on getting to a dead-end, but at the dead-end, there’d be windows to different parts of the maze that were present elsewhere in the same two-page spread illustration. Finding them acted like a ‘teleport’ to their corresponding parts in the bigger picture.
I recall the book having a slight ‘plot’ element that involved a red? dragon, perhaps issuing the maze challenge to the reader. I think each maze had their own focus on moments within ancient history (terra cotta army, pompei, maybe?).
This all sounds very specific, but I cannot find it for the life of me. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
The premise sounds like Melisande, a short story by E. Nesbit. I’m not sure if it was published as a standalone story in the 1960s, though, so it may not be what you’re looking for.
Thank you!!
I’m looking for a children’s reader book. I read it in 1975-1977. It’s about a boy who gets a pig in the mail by mistake and it follows him to school.
Try this one ‘Sugar and Spice’ Delia Huddy and Penny Dann. When Mrs Jones moves to a flat by the sea, her two cats, Sugar and Spice, hate it so much they set out on an incredible journey back to their old home. Originally published in 1974 by Kestrel Books. Republished 1995 by Walker Books (UK).
This is it! Wow thank you so much, the power on the Internet. Thank you again, I’ve been hunting for so long for this to read to my little girl 🙂
No Flying in the House.
Loved that book!
For some interesting books, take a look at the Getman’s Brooklyn online Book Fair today through Sunday. Here’s the page that has all the Children’s books. https://getmansvirtual.com/category/childrens-books Probably some in Illustrated too.
Might the boy have been a mouse? If so, try Wallace’s Lists by Barbara Bottner and Gerald Kruglik.
“Wallace was a mouse that loved to create TO-DO list. His method to living his life was that if he didn’t put it on the list then it was off limits. He made lists for everything, from his clothes in his closets so he could get dressed in the dark, to places that had funny names. A new mouse had come into the neighborhood and moved right next to Wallace; the new mouse, named Albert was completely different from Wallace. He loved not planning anything, and what he loved most of all was getting lost. He had told Wallace that getting lost was a true sign of a real adventure. Wallace wanted to be more like his new friend Albert but was scared of all the outcomes that would come with things changing in his life.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS_vLY3gU8Q
Yes! Thank you! This is definitely the book! I forgot he was a mouse!
You’re welcome! Glad I could help – and thanks for posting back!
Possibly Marvin Redpost: Is He A Girl? by Louis Sachar (better known as the author of Holes). This is the third book in the Marvin Redpost series.
“After Casey Happleton tells him that of he kisses his elbow he will turn into a girl, nine year-old Marvin experiments and finds himself very confused about his identity.”
“If a boy kisses himself on his elbow, he’ll turn into a girl. If a girl kisses herself on her elbow, she’ll turn into a boy. Oooh gross. Marvin Redpost would never want to turn into a girl. Then, why does he keep trying to kiss himself on the elbow? The idea of turning into a girl starts to give Marvin nightmares. Then, he starts noticing some of the things that girls traditionally do that might be worth trying, like playing jacks, turning somersaults, telling secrets in the girls’ bathroom. It might even be fun to be a girl. Wait, is this an out of body experience? What is the real difference between boys and girls?”
While he doesn’t actually wear a dress to school, he thinks about it and dreams about it. You can read the book here: https://onlinereadfreenovel.com/louis-sachar/page,3,33876-is_he_a_girl_.html
I just shared with my husband how you’ve helped me find several long lost favorite books, and now he has one – it was from at least the late 70’s, probably much old, a big illustrated book of dark fairy tales. The only story he remembers is the Boy Who Had an Eating Match with a Troll. It sounds like ‘Fairy tales’ by Bridget Hadaway but I didn’t see that story in the table of contents when I looked online.
YES! Thank you so much!
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YES!!! That is the one!! I guess as a child I thought Kim was short-haired girl 🙂
Glad it was the right one!
looking for a book about sister’s who go to dance class together and the older one feels like the younger one no longer needs her. at the end the older one helps the younger one cross the street while eating mint chocolate chip ice cream
Hello! im trying to remeber this book for YEARS! its a book about bunnies, they have short stories and i remember one of them was a bunny that kept catterpillars and they turn into butterflies in his room or something. please please please help me! i would cry if i found it again
I read a book in the 70s when I was young about a little girl who was orphaned and living with her grandmother. She had a magical companion in the form of a tiny, talking figurine of a dog with jeweled eyes .. I think. I’m pretty sure the grandmother kept the figurine in a locked cabinet of fancy things and the little girl would sneak the dog out of the cabinet to spend time with it. Eventually she finds out she’s half fairy and the dog was assigned by the parents to guide her in the mortal world. Or something like that.
I can remember this book 2000s about I think it was a duck that kept getting dirty or something. It could’ve been a different animal but for some reason I think it’s a duck.
The King Who Rained, by Fred Gwynne.
If it could be a boy: One Kitten for Kim, by Adelaide Hall.
Is it by Anne Fine? Bill’s New Frock?
Hi 🙂
I’m trying to think of the name of a picture book I read when I was growing up in the 90s.
It was about two cats, I believe they were called Sugar and Spice (I remember one had a bushy tail and one had a skinny tail) and they got lost and were trying to find their way home.
Thank you
Jo
Thanks for writing back with your find. Interesting… I didn’t know about that one.
Thanks Peggy. Got your email. Suzanne
I’m looking for a book I had for my children in the 1990’s about a little boy who happens to wear a dress to school and discovers how differently he is treated
I’m trying to surprise a friend by finding the name of a book she remembers from childhood. It would be from around the early 60s and is about a little girl with very long hair. When she decides to cut her hair she begins to grow and grows so big she has to move to an island.
Any help is appreciated!
I believe this is Joe Kaufman’s Big Book About How Things Work! It’s big and yellow, from the 70s/80s, and has all the pictures you mentioned.
One more – trying to find a paperback I read in middle school, probably from the 1980’s, about a haunted house. All I remember is that the ghost’s name was Julie, she was a woman who went missing, and her body was eventually found behind a bookshelf in her house by a teenage girl. Also just want to say thank you so much for your work in re-connecting people to their treasured memories!
Percy, by Roger Dunn.