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Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt.
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You’re welcome. Glad to have helped.
Pat the Bunny? There is a page that has you feel “Daddy’s beard” (less weird than it sounds when I type it out…lol). The beard was sandpaper.
Maxie, by Mildred Kantrowitz.
That’s it! You don’t know how long I’ve looked! Thank you!
I am trying to find title and author of a book I read in the 1970’s. The main character was an old woman who had gotten tired and didn’t think she had any purpose. One day she decided not to get out of bed, and then people told her of all the things that went wrong because she didn’t get up. It seems like the book was called Maxine, but I may be totally wrong. Any ideas?
I’m looking for a book that reminds me of my uncle who recently passed away.
It was a childrens book, approx from The UK, from the 1980s, it had textures in it as part if it, one was sandpaper to represent a man’s tickly beard – I think.
Does anyone know it please? I would love to get hold of it again. Thank you. Cath
How about this one?
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/17981448
https://www.amazon.com/day-off-Tobi-Tobias/dp/0399202684
Here’s a video on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAyENGftuks
I’m looking for a book from that I’m pretty sure was a Little Golden Book (though I’m not finding it on lists of those so maybe not.) I had it in the early/mid 70’s, so it was probably published then or a little before. It was about an old lady and a wolf, but was NOT Little Red Riding Hood. The wolf was looking for the old lady to eat her, and she kept messing with him and luring him into traps. I specifically remember one of the traps was she called out and told him she was in the berry patch picking blackberries, so he went there and got tangled up in the briars. She kept doing that, saying “oh, I finished with that ages ago, now I’m over here” and luring him into traps all through the book. Anyone have any ideas?
Maybe this one?
https://www.amazon.com/Night-Happy-nursery-Virginia-Parsons/dp/B0007DUKFA
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Any time I hear “wordless book” and “boy and dog” together, I think of Mercer Mayer’s books: A Boy, a Dog, and a Frog, Frog, Where Are You?, A Boy, a Dog, a Frog and a Friend, Frog On His Own, Frog Goes to Dinner, and One Frog Too Many. I don’t remember if there is pasta in any of the books – but in Frog Goes to Dinner, the frog gets loose in a restaurant.
Hello! I’m looking for a children’s book that is two-sided with beautiful illustrations. On one side, there is an alligator who slowly eats the entire world and universe. On the other side, there are a couple of children who go beneath the floorboards of their house and slowly find themselves in a magical world with a fairy queen.
I’m looking for a children’s short story that I think was in a Holt hard cover book called elements of literature that had a goat and flowers on the cover. The story was about a Magic Carousel toy that would come to life at night and take a little black girl into this magical world. The art was amazing and colorful in this particular story.
Hello, I’m trying to find a book about a family who went on holiday with a home made bike. The father made a 4 seater bike with the mum at the front, boy and girl in the middle, and the dad at the back. The mum and children were very rude about his frankenbike, so they decided to make it pretty. It ended up red and yellow, with a roof and panniers etc, then they went on holiday. Any ideas? It’s driving me crackers trying to remember what it’s called! Distinctive artwork in the book, I can see it in my head now. If I could plug my brain into a laptop it would make it much easier to find!
Hello. I had these two books in the 90s as a kid, hard cover children’s book – one was a mermaid story and one was a fairy story. The illustrations were incredibly beautiful, the fairy one has fairy illustrations I feel like I have seen again before, they’re commonish but I can’t for the life of me remember the illustrators name. The mermaid story line I vaguely remember is a child in a beach house, possibly fantasising about mermaids. It wasn’t a novel, bit bigger than A4 size. I know this is super vague but I’m hoping I’ll one day find it again.
I’m looking for a book that I vaguely recall as a child that my grandfather used to “read” to me (make up stories as we went along) – I am pretty certain the book had no words and I believe it was about a dog and a little boy. I remember them eating spaghetti or pasta at some point in the book. I thought it may have been “Good Dog Carl” but can’t seem the find that pasta/spaghetti picture in any of the Carl books. Any ideas?
Hello! Looking for the name of a children’s book, it has pictures. It is of a young girl, possibly a witch, who has to fix the teeth of monsters? Dragons? One of the pictures is of the girl inside a big dragon/monster mouth, gently chiseling at a tooth that is hurting. Any ideas? This is an image that I think was in the book. Google reverse search didn’t bring anything up.
Hello! Looking for the name of a children’s book, it has pictures. It is of a young girl, possibly a witch, who has to fix the teeth of monsters? Dragons? One of the pictures is of the girl inside a big dragon/monster mouth, gently chiseling at a tooth that is hurting. Any ideas?
I’m looking for a book I had from the 80s-90s. All I can remember is a, presumably, princess or similar type character that lived up high in a castle or fortress that was guarded by sharp wooden daggers or spikes (or something of the like) I remember her bedroom was beautiful and she slept in a bed that looked like a giant seashell. I know it’s vague and a long shot, but I’ve been searching for years!
I am looking for a beloved Christmas children’s book but don’t know author or title. I would get this book at the library in the late 1980’s. It was a book about a family and had country Christmas activities – it was almost more of a workbook. I remember one of the activities was planting your Christmas tree and then dictating with a popcorn garland. I know it’s not much to go by but I loved this book and always check antique book shops. The style of the illustrations was also very distinctive.
Hi! I’m a bit stumped on a book I’m looking for, my memories of it are very messy but I know it was some kind of “collection of stories” type of storybook, it had some Mercer Mayer tales in it (the art style has always stuck out to me and I can identify the art 20 years later lol), there was a spooky Bernstein bears story in it, and I believe Rosemary Wells tales as well? There’s dozens other stories in it too, if I saw the cover I’d recognize it instantly but if I had to guess that the book was probably made from the 80-90s era but I could be wrong, as I was a kid in the 90s when we got the book from the library. I’ve had no luck trying to find it online so maybe someone else would recognize it, it was definitely quite a thick book
Hey! I was looking for a book of poems, i believe they were all animal based, but specifically I was looking for a poem about a little girl losing her cat called Marmalade. From 1999-2000 ish
I’m looking for a book but I only remember one part, where an older lady (grey hair, long dark green dress and a feather in her hat) is walking with bears and a soldier guy. A snake jumps out of a rock and bites her. The soldier helps fix up her leg and she’s good to go. That’s all I can remember but it had an older art style and it was a kids picture book mostly about the family of bears and the woman.
I have been trying to find a children’s picture book that I had when I was a child. I would have had it the 1960’s. I believe it was called Night. It was about all the things that happened at night. What was out at night and who worked at night. It had really nice illustrations. I want to say the cover had a moon on it?
I’m looking for a children’s book tilted A Day Off. I don’t remember the author. It’s the story of a kid who likes to take a day off usually in the dead of winter.
I’m looking for a book that was read aloud to my class when I was in first or second grade, so somewhere around 1986-1988. The only details I remember are that a group of children sneak into a church, because they’ve heard that on…All Hallow’s Eve? All Saints Day?…the church’s ceiling opens up as a portal into…Heaven? Talking to departed relatives? Some other kind of magical realm? Well, the kids camp out, and at one point some statues of horses and/or knights come to life. I don’t think it’s the Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury. Thanks in advance for any leads, I’ve been looking for this book for years!
I would love to find a book I read as a child, it was beautifully illustrated and tells the story of a girl who tries out multiple jobs – I remember her dressed as a maid in a black dress with a white apron, and also as a mannequin. I seem to think that the title of the book, or maybe books, included the name of the girl. The book may have been published in the 30’s, 40’s or 50’s
Anyone know a children’s comic about a girl who doesn’t like girly things and then finds a fairytale world in her fridge at night?? Sounds chaotic but that was the plot
Or even Once Upon a Time in the Meadow?
Im trying to remember a book I read and all I can remember is that the main character made a friend and he found out that this friend and his entire family could turn into animals. I distinctly remember one sibling (I believe a sister) that turned into a moose, and I believe the brother turned into a bear. I also think there was an owl and a wolf, but I’m not certain. I just randomly remembered it at midnight and now I need to find this book
I’m trying to find a children’s Halloween story. From what I remember there was a witch who needed to choose a cat. I think there’s a page of a room filled with black cats. There’s one that wraps it’s tail around it’s body until it disappears. There’s one that winks. One cat rubs it’s back against the bottom of her feet and it takes the pain away. From what I remember from the book is that it’s a cranky witch who gets upset because this black cat keeps doing good things and she doesn’t want it around? Obviously there’s some conflicting memories about it but I think in the end I think the cat turns the witch into a nice witch? Any help? Thanks!
Trying to locate this old book. Was small, thin, paperback where a girl goes to visit her grandmother and the house is dark and scary and there’s no one there and there are weird sounds. Eventually she finds her grandmother bathing a dragon or something like that and it’s all ok. I could be wrong about the ending there.
Possibly: Miss Flora McFlimsey’s Christmas Eve.
thanks for the reply sadly not Miss Flora McFlimsey’s Christmas Eve. there must be so many illustrated kids books out there if I ever find it gonna buy a copy lol
Goldsworthy and Mort in Summer Fun, by Marcia Vaughan.
“Goldsworthy and Mort hope to get rich with a lemonade stand–at which their only customers are each other–and cool off at the beach with ice cream cones, as Mort tries to guess Goldworthy’s favorite flavor.”
I’m looking for a children’s picture book whose title and author I can’t remember. The book tells a story of an anteater and his friend who go to the beach together. The friend offers to buy ice cream for the anteater but won’t let anteater tell him his favourite flavour instead insisting he can guess. The friend runs back to anteater again and again each time with a different flavour, each time the wrong flavour, and each time insisting he’ll guess right the next time. Finally, there’s only one flavour left: vanilla. But as the friend is heading back to anteater, he’s so tired after all the running he trips and falls, and the ice cream lands on an anthill! In tears, the friend gets back to anteater, presenting the vanilla ice cream covered in ants, and telling him what happened. “Vanilla with ants,” proclaims anteater excitedly, “that’s my favourite!
Hello! This book would be for early grade school — illustrated in pencil–I think black and white
and all I remember is that the story had one girl becoming friends with a quite outcast of a girl in her class–this outcast had a STONE, I’m thinking something that a small kid can hold easily in their hand, that she always had with her,
and towards the end of that story I think a bully hit her in her head with her own stone and she fell down–
and I can’t remember the rest so this has been like a many-years-long-cliffhanger!
I think this was something of a sad book but obviously made an impression on me.
There is something in my memory that this outcast girl may have dressed odd, something like a long dress and it might have been the same one every day, but this last bit is quite possibly from a different book — “The Hundred Dresses”.
How about this one?
My dog Zeke by:Sonnett, Sherry
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54627902-my-dog-zeke
A story about a girl who wanted more than anything to have a dog. The dog gets lost and later is returned.
Editions:4 Date:1975
Series r, the new Macmillan reading program
https://www.alibris.com/search/books/title/Series-R-Macmillan-Reading
I’ve been trying to find the name of a children’s story collection I had as a kid for YEARS now, and I’d love to have it to read to my kids. I believe it had bible verses at at the end of each short story, but I’m not sure. They were about a bunch of kids from the same town. I remember one of the stories had a boy who stepped on a nail, one with a boy who got in trouble for teasing his neighbor’s dog, one where a girl shares her orange soda and root beer candy, and one where a girl tries to use face cream or toothpaste in her mother’s bathroom to get rid of her freckles. The book had little black and white illustrations that went along with the short stores. Does anyone know anything else about this book or what it was called? I hope so! Thank you.
The Melendy family trilogy, plus the sequel Spiderweb for Two, by Elizabeth Enright. The one with the fire is And Then There Were Five.
Oh my gosh thank you so much! I have wracked my brain for probably ten years trying to remember the name of these books!
You’re welcome. (I borrowed all of them from the library in the 1970’s, and then my kids read them too.)
I’m looking for a book I had when I was a child in the 60s. It was hardcover, black, and was about planets
Can someone help me please? I’m trying to remember the name of a book my Nanny use to read me in the 90s (it could be 80s book though!). It was of some children dressed up going to trick or treat or attend an adult party but they get taken into the brambles I think. Under the brambles is a witches cavern and they free their friend and end up becoming good friends with the witch and they can go?
I can’t remember the name of a children’s book from 1970-1980. It is about an animal (perhaps a mole or a badger) that paints things (poppies – red, a door – purple, etc.) with colors that come from a rainbow that ends at a windmill. He gets the paint from the windmill and paints things for his friends. I think it ends with his friends doing something nice for him. It was an illustrated children’s book.
A real actress, or someone made up for the story?
it’s mostly about two brother cats, one is an orange tabby named Toby
•Toby is a jerk
•Toby is a fat cat that steals his brother’s food and gets stuck somewhere, possibly gets attacked by a dog?
•the cats were born in a box and abandoned by mama cat.
•pretty sure the perspective of the story is from the brother cat (not Toby)
•they eventually get taken in by a family
Sounds like something Roald Dahl might write.
Hi anyone remember a children’s picture That is about a teddy bear that climbs up into the attic where he finds a dolls house with a doll and I think a clock work mouse with cymbals and a toy soldier. I think its from the 80s or 90s . My memory of it is pretty vague but I remember at the end the girl makes new clothes for the toys that where lost in the attic out of polka dot fabric. will be so happy if any one can help me with this one loved it as a kid.
Hi I’m probably off on this but is it puzzle masters “ghostly games” by John Speirs.
I have been looking for years for two books that were part of a series that I read as a kid. They were about a set of siblings that solved mysteries/had adventures. In one book the family adopted a boy whose father/guardian died in a house fire. In the other book, the older siblings who were away at college created a mystery scavenger hunt for their younger siblings who missed them. I believe they were published in the early 2000s.
I can not remember the name of a children’s book where a little boy stands on a ladder and paints the world including a river and people. It’s called something like “William’s World” but the child’s name is not “William.” I would be so happy if someone remembers the name of this book!!
Hello! I’m looking for a series of learning-to-read books that my mother bought me when I was a child. Apparently they were so good that I learned to read at 3 years old. Now I’d like them for my own child. Unfortunately, the only thing I recall is a red dog named Zeke who ran. Anyone know what series this was? I must have gotten the books around 1979 if that helps. Thank you!
Could it be a cross between A Corner of the Universe, and Here Today, by Ann M Martin?
A Secret Friend, by Marilyn Sachs.
This doesn’t quite fit with your description of the series. It’s part of the ‘Carolrhoda mini mysteries’ by Beatrice S Smith.
“Voices from the haunted house” Beatrice S Smith and George Overlie (1976).
Could it possibly be My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett?
Ugh I’ve been looking for this book for ages. All I remember is it’s a children’s book from the early 2000’s. It’s about this girl who has a really big family and does chores around the house while her dad is at work all night. And there’s one scene where she sneaks out and climbs on top of a ferris wheel. She eventually gets the cops called on her. And at the end of the book it turns out she’s a famous actress, telling he children about ehr childhood/teen years.
Looking for a book I read as a tween girl. It was about a girl named Jessica, who feels like she is losing her best friend to a girl named Wendy. I can see the cover in my head, it’s two girls in the distance and one girl to the front, alone. There was a phrase that has always stuck with me, along the lines of – magic was wrapping around them as they were together, whispering together.
I’m guessing it was written late 80s early 90s. Along the lines of Sweet Valley twins and Baby Sitters club.
I’m desperately searching for a baby board book from somewhere from the late 80s – 90s. The cover was red and the book was for learning colors. Each page had a baby dressed in that color, along with a number of items in that color (I think most of not all of them included balloons in that color). Super weird, but I remember the baby on the purple page was Black.
I learned my first word from the book and I’ve kicked myself for ever letting my brother take it from my mother’s house when he had his first kid.
They are the Bugg books by Stephen Cosgrove. More here:
https://www.goodreads.com/series/236485-bugg-books
I’m looking for an old childrens book my grandad used to read for my cousin when she was little. The story is about a man who invents the sundial for a King who can’t tell the time. Then he marries the princess. Any ideas?
I’ve been looking for this book I got from my school library when I was younger. I can’t remember the name, author, anything, so the best I can do is describe it.
It is a choose your own adventure picture book which I read anywhere from 2001 to 2010 revolving around a castle belonging to some evil wizard of the sort.
It wasn’t a very good choose your own adventure book, as pretty much any time you picked the wrong option of two you would die and be sent to the start of the book. But the artstyle was grim and gritty, with Gothic architecture.
There are a few notable pages I remember: Outside of the castle, where you would get mauled by a pack of wolves. One where you’re in a bog beside the castle, and you have to use the reeds as a snorkel. At one point you encounter this Frankenstein’s Monster like character, another you meet the wizard.
Apart from the fact that it may have been published in New Zealand, that’s all I can remember. It’s rather vague and I doubt anybody would be able to figure out what book I’m talking about, but it would be very helpful. Thank you.
Looking for a series of children’s books from the 80’s that I used to read to my boys. The books had two stories per book, you turned over and upside down to read the second story. The story started and ended with a rhyming sentence. It was about a village of bugs. Called buggles of bugville or something to that effect. Each story was about a different bug and their own personality. I hope someone recognizes the series. There were maybe a dozen books in the series. The books were maybe 5 or 6” square.
I found this series from that time, but doesn’t seem to match.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/291742
Hi! Looking for a book I loved as a child. No idea what the title was or exactly how the story went. But it was a hide and seek book, and the characters were all animals, but the really fun part was that you could move the characters in and out of their hiding places. So as you went through the book, and you found each character, you would pull them out of their hiding spot. Then I’m pretty sure at the end, when you found all the characters, you would slot them all on the last page so they were sitting round a table, I think to celebrate a birthday.
Hello. I am in my early 50’s and looking for some of my favorite books from my youth which I would check out from the library when I was a child. The main problem I am encountering is the rather generic titles of these books. They were from the same author/illustrator/publisher/etc. I would check these out from the library in the mid to late 1970’s and the early 80’s. One book was called “The Haunted House” and the other was called either “The Haunted Castle” or “The Haunted Mansion” (not the Disney version). My internet searches by subject and image have not been successful. These are not chapter books. The plot centers around a group of young people who explore these buildings. In at least one book, they travel up an underground river to get into the castle (?). The illustrations are beautiful. These books are similar in appearance to Hallmark’s “A Visit To the Haunted House”. I am also looking for an early age chapter book about a boy who gets a monster/robot making machine-box which he keeps under his bed (?). The illustrations for this book are black, white and green line drawings. As a further reference point, I frequently checked out these books along with “In the Night Kitchen”, another one of my favorite books from childhood. Any information or assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
The only one that comes to mind is Miss Suzy, and that may be too old for you.
hi, im looking for a children’s book I read when I was a child and my family nor I can think of the title. The only things I can remember is :
a girl is born and her favorite color is yellow because of the sunshine that shines through her window
she gets older and she becomes depressed, with 2-4 pages greyscaled because there is no color in her life
she has now become a tree as years have gone by and I believe her favorite color is green, like nature.
I do know there was a page for almost every color.
something like that. please respond if you know what im talking about, I can’t find it anywhere! My google searches are looking like “woman’s favorite color changes as she ages children’s book”
Does anyone remember the name of a book where a mother has lost her baby and she goes to ask different animals if they have seen the baby? It used to be accompanied by a CD with a song.
I remember in primary school we used to read a book which i can’t remember the name. All i remember that there was a character, an old man in the book who used to lick the chocolate off a digestive biscuit and threw the rest away. Its the oddest part to remember but its all i can think of. Any help would be amazing
Does anyone remember the name of a book about a scared dog who lived with an old lady and her cats? All I can remember is that he was afraid of the vacuum cleaner and it was referred to as the screaming, sucking machine. Also his nose and whiskers were seen by the cats as an eensie weensie spider.
So I’m having difficulty remembering/finding a book I know I read in year 2? On the front cover it was a victorian looking cobbled street? And a boy looked like a chimney sweep, and he was holding either a pie or a bit of breading his hand looking at a hungry looking either Irish wolfhound or a deerhound… similar illustration style to the book “sing for your supper” and I just can’t find it anywhere…
Thanks for writing back with the information!
I’m looking for a book I read back 1960-1964 about a boy who rides different colored horses bareback and a girl who would sneak out of the house to ride also until she became sick.
I’m in search of a hard-backed illustrated children’s book that is wider
side-to-side than it is vertical, published maybe between the 70s-90s
(could’ve been earlier, I read it like 20 years ago and it belonged to
my older sister), that has a shiny gold or yellow background on the
cover (not a Little Golden Book tho, I’m pretty sure) about a little
blonde? girl in colorful clothes at a parade, circus, or carnival that
probably includes animals but I don’t think they were walking upright or
dressed up. It had more realistic than cartoonish illustrations, if
that make sense, mostly of carnival/circus/or parade scenes in bright
colors that the girl was watching or following behind (I don’t think she
was part of it, just observing), with minimal words towards the bottom
of each page. I don’t think I could read when I flipped through this
book, so I can’t remember any of the words!
I’m 59 years old and fell in love with a book at the age of 5 about a teddy who goes off to try out different jobs like a baker. It was a “big book” and paperback my family’s home flooded when I was about 8 and the book was destroyed. Wish I could remember titke and author so I could hunt for it. Does anyone know of this book? Thank you!
I’m looking for a book I read in about 1972 it was a green hard back book with school yard rhymes and and yearbook signs, like ‘remember the hard work remember the fun, remember the homework that never got done, or similar with references to schools like PS42. I loved reading it. I would like to share it with my grandchildren but I can’t remember the name. Any clues?
Hi there, I’m trying to remember a book I loved when I was young (90’s) that had really beautiful illustrations and was about a small animal (a rabbit or squirrel maybe) that was collecting acorns or other foods and preserving them in her house (I think the house was in a tree). Something happens and she loses them (I think they’re taken) and she’s upset by it. If anyone can help identify this book I’d be really appreciative!! Thanks 🙂
Hi Everyone! I am looking for a book for my partner that is very near and dear to him but he can’t remember the name of. The book is a children’s poetry book that is illustrated in oils and has an old man as the shopkeeper, the book is about the various patrons buying things from a shop, a shop that sells items of sadness(possibly loneliness?unhappiness?despair?or just unwanted). The cover he believes is blue, grey, black and the title he believes maybe something along the lines of “the shop of sadness”. My boyfriend read it in Vancouver, Canada in elementary school around the year 2009, but he says it predates 2005. thank you, I would really appreciate any help as this is a book that means a lot to him
I’m 57, and read a book many years ago that had the lead character stitching up a hole in a dragon’s wing using a stick and thread.
Spot the Dog?
Hi! I’m 43. I’m looking for a children’s book I read in elementary. It was a book about a boy with a mole on his face. Other kids made fun of him for it. He got lost in a forest? The fairy king found him and he was celebrated because of his mole.
Hello, I am looking for a book about a cat (I think named Cecile) and a milkman. It came with a figurine of the cat. This would have been from the 1960s or earlier. Thanks!
I was born in 1975 and when I was young my mom would read me a book about littering. I remember there was one scene about a popsicle stick park. I think a little boy threw a popsicle stick in a park and whomever he was with says, if you throw one popsicle stick in the park you just have a popsicle stick in the park but if EVERYONE threw their popsicle sticks in the park, we’d have a popsicle stick park! I know there were other things I think throwing something into the brook.
I am now 46 and I still think of that book and absolutely hate littering!
I’d appreciate any help!
Hi!!
I’m looking for a book I read when I was little, I’m almost sure it was a series. It was a black book I think. The plot was a boy is able to see things and there’s a myth in his town about a man who died in the woods because he had an accident where he got both of his legs shredded off doing a job. The boy starts seeing the ghost of the man dragging himself to him and his girl friend doesn’t believe him till she starts seeing things too. Every couple of chapters in the book, you would get a code to this website that had recordings of things the main characters saw in the book. It was honestly chilling and one of my favourite reads but I can’t for the LIFE of me remember the rest of the plot, author or title 🙁 It was around 2010 to 2016 that I had discovered the book so I don’t think it’s old. It was also a horror!!
Maybe take a look at the Wonder Story Books readers by Miriam Huber?
Titles include I Know a Story (book 1), It Happened One Day (book 2), After the Sun Sets (book 3), It Must Be Magic (book 4), They Were Brave and Bold (book 5), and These are the Tales They Tell (book 6).
The books have been reprinted multiple times from the 1930s through the 1960s, with different covers. Below are two different covers for each of the last three books in the series.
Hello. I’m trying to find a book from my childhood. I’m 28. The book was a pop-up, lift-the-tab interactive type board book. I remember two kids and a dog. Can anyone help?
Okay this was a kids book that I was read in the very early 2000s (pre-2006) and it was a picture book about an animal (I think a bear cub but honestly) whose mom sent him to the store to buy cookies, and along the way he talks to various people, including a bully who keeps calling him “stripey pants” (he had striped pants obvs) and he ended up giving the bully a cookie with red hot candies to get back at him later in the story.
Thanks!! Sorry that’s all I have
‘Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe’ by Fannie Flagg? As a child the character named Idgie is a tomboy and doesn’t want to wear a dress to her sister’s wedding, so she climbs a treehouse to hide. Her older brother Buddy talks her down.
Not the 1980s, but it could be ‘Anne of Avonlea’? The lady sounds like Miss Lavender in that book. Or might it be ‘The Secret Garden’?
I don’t know the book title, but it sounds like the Cree stories: ‘How the Birch Tree Got Its Stripes’ and: ‘How the Mouse Got Brown Teeth’. Perhaps including them in your search might bring something up.
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I am looking for a book I read in middle school (2009). The book is about a man who wakes up as a tree. I remember he was trying to move his arms but he couldn’t because he was a tree. People keep coming and going around him and some even sit by his tree trunk.
Please help me find the title.
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Maybe one of the doll stories written by Rumer Godden?
The Faraway Tree series by Enid Blyton?
I looked, but it’s not The Faraway Tree series. Thank you for trying. I think this book is not that old ( probably 1960s or 1970s). I don’t think it’s part of a series. I think it was like The Wishing Tree or The Magic Wishing Tree or something along those lines.
Perhaps ‘Family Ness’?
Perhaps a Milly-Molly-Mandy story? She has a tea party in ‘Further Doings of Milly-Molly-Mandy’.
Seeking picture book my kids enjoyed in the 1990s about a spider named Intrepid. Any suggestions appreciated!
Maybe “Sally’s Secret” by Shirley Hughes?
Seeking my 7th grade reading book from around 1966. It was a beautifully illustrated book of world fairy tales, and we read one in class each week. Everyone had a copy so it was an issued reader used in public school. I loved it and would love a copy but I cannot remember the exact title. Anyone else have this reader in the 1960s?
This sounds amazing
When did you read it? Was it a new book then? What era did it seem to be set in? And was it a novel or a picture book? Any of those might help narrow it down.
Would have been in the 1990s..I was in lrimary school..remember getting it from the school.library. there was a few black and white drawings in there but was mostly writing if that makes sense
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.I am trying to find a childhood book I read abiut a girl from a rich family who has to stay over at a relatives house (?) The relatives or friends are poor. The girl gets to choose which car to go in as her parents have two cars
When she is at the poor familys house she is amazed that she can have fun without expensive toys as she plays hairdressers with a girl there whonuses simple things like foil for curlers
Thats the main bits I remember desperate to find it..have no idea what its called???