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Hi everyone! I am looking for a childhood book my nan & grandad used to read to me.. it was a book of poems on grandparents which had kids drawings to go alongside the poems (scribble-like drawings). I first had this book probably when I was around 5 years old which was in 1992. From what I remember, the book didn’t look that new to behind with and had a cellophane type cover which was peeling in the corners!
It was a hardback cover and I’m 90% certain it was a grey cover. The only poem in it I can remember was a poem about a grandad and his hands being as rough as garden sacks…I’m sure each poem was as if it was written by a child about their own nan or grandad, describing what the wore, where they lived, what they done etc..
Please help!
Looking for a children’s book from early 1960s …may have been a Golden book…about a grocer who would not fix his shop door and had all kinds of problems…then gets an automatic door and all is good.
Im looking for a book of a boy waking up and realizing time has stopped. He robs a nearby walmart or convenience store and this time stop happens only once a week or smth, think it was on wednesdays? He finds out this time stop was inherited in his family or smth. The cover page looked like a boy running through a doorway of some sort, the doorway was integrated into a human size word. Thank you so much if you recall the name of this fiction book! I read it as a teen and suddenly rmbed how much i love it.
Okay friends…I am looking for a children’s book about a girl traveling with a big cat and the moon turns into a bowl of milk. The cat also like travels through the milky way. This was a book that I read when I was a wee little lad and I am trying to find it. The illustrations (at least in this old brain of mine) reminds me of Eric Carle. Does anyone have an idea as to what the title of this book would be called?!
Looking for a book we read around 1966-1970 from a Massachusetts library. About an enormous treehouse, its raining and the characters climb up into it and are very warm and snug up in the treehouse. Beautiful illustrations.
Looking for a book that I believe was published in the 80s. These are bits I remember: It was set in the UK. Concerns a brother and sister whose parents divorce. Boy gets sore throat and given ice cream, day off school, gets to watch tv, bed made up on the sofa. Dad takes them to a safari park on one of his weekends with them. Near end of the book the girl runs after a cat into the road and her brother stops her from getting run over. I believe I would have read it from 1980 – 88
Looking for a cartoon book i read in 2000. The book was about 12inches wide by 8 inches tall i think. Very orange and yellow themed colors. An old farm couple on a desert farm and brown wooden farmhouse preparing for nuclear fallout. I think it was a funny comic. I cant remember how thick the book was, at lease 1/4 inch thick of more
A book that was in my doctor’s office when I was a kid in the 1970s. About a grumpy giant who bothered the people of a village. They found out he was just hungry. When they fed him a plate of beans, or peas, he became friendly.
hello!! i am looking for a picture book that is a sort of a retelling of romeo and juliet but it is about a polish teenager (or maybe kid) and another teenager (or maybe kid) of a different nationality. they live in neighboring neighborhoods but their families don’t like each other… so on and so forth. i think that they move away from each other and then reconnect later in life and get married.
Hi! I am looking for witch a children’s book about a little girl and a frog who go around collecting stories (classic-fairytale-esque) in a bag so that the little girl could trade them with a fairy queen (i think) and become a fairy. Also the little girl was a witch. I read it around the early 2010s. It was a picture book. The cover may have been yellow (though this might be wrong I dont very clearly remember)
Looking for a kids book I read with my grandmother. I remember a young pig (possibly Ms. Piggy) and she was dared to knock on a old lady’s door who had a scary looking house. The lady was very nice in the end and gave her cookies I believe. I also remember bubble gum from the story. Any ideas?
Looking for a board book from my kids childhood. The cover was white or yellow I think. The words go like this… Look at what these babies do, are these the things that you do too? One little baby touches his noes another baby wiggles her toes. One baby laughs, another one cries, this little baby covers his eyes…. That’s all I have memorized from reading it so much, but there’s a few more lines. My grandmother gave it to my firstborn in 1990, and somehow it got lost. I’ve looked up the title BABIES, because that’s what I thought it was called, NOT the correct book. Please help, having my first grandchild soon.
Hello, I am looking for a book called “Slimtails Picnic” made by Mary Chell in 1979 she did other Slimtails books but this one was a fond favourite of mine. Can anyone help?
Looking for a children’s book I read back in the early 2000s, it was a picture book and the basic plot from what I could remember is this big white bird sees this lady drive by in her carriage and she dropped something which he promptly returned, then somehow he gets his leg injured and bleeding and she finds him, uses something to bandage it up (There was a blood spot on the bandage from the illustration and it looked like a watercolor splotch) and carries him away where she nursed him back to health and when he could stand up, she undid the bandage and he flew away.
I am looking for an old British children’s picture book about a year of birthdays, with craft projects and many garden parties for the various children. It was beautifully illustrated and probably from the 50s or 60s. We met many different children, some twins, and they all had beautiful frilly dresses and the crafts were sort of extravagant.
Ok, I’ve looked all over for this, But I can’t seem to find any record of the book-
For reference, I just turned 14 today and this was a book that was read to me by a boy that used to babysit me when I was around 4, This is quite a good memory even though I have no recollection of who the boy is or was despite what I remembered he looked like-
Anyways, This book from what I remembered had a very distinctive cartoony artstyle, There was a old lady or a woman, Very classic silver gray hair tied in what I remember to be a bun, Rosey cheeks and nose, A classic apron-ish style grandmas dress and she was always sitting in her chair and knitting with her knitting needles, There was a rat- Or maybe it was a mouse but she knitted the tail for them and it got so long that you could pretty much see the tail even when they were in the next room-
I don’t remember much else about that but it was mainly centered around the rst/mouse and the lady knitting their tail for them
If Mary and Sue were human sisters who were very different from one another, take a look at Mary and Sue by Ruth Stephens, published by Saalfield Publishing Co, in 1947. The two sisters start out very different from one another, but a visit to their Aunt and Uncle’s farm teaches each of them to appreciate the things the other one likes to do.
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Yes, this is the one!!! How wonderful!!! You are so kind and generous to help me with this!! I am thrilled!!!!
I’m glad I could help! Thanks for posting back.
I am looking for a book about a little dragon who has a birthday party in his home. His parents ask him what he wants and he says he wants a kitten. His friends (all dragons) come to the party and he receives the kitten.
Mr. Apple’s Family? But the oldest is a boy named Mac.
I am looking for a story that is about “wood fairies.” They are the sparks that float in the air as a fire burns. I don’t recall what the book looks like. I would have been reading it in the 1980s.
Okay, this one has been on my mind for years. As a kid (early 2000’s) we had an old joke book that I believe my grandma got us, so it’s definitely much older. It was a small paper back, but very sizable. This wasn’t an ordinary joke book, this thing had TONS of content (much of it not entirely that funny, altough I definitely thought it was at the time). The cover was bright yellow, with a (green?) elephant in the center. The book wasn’t strictly about elephants, there were multiple “chapters,” each being a compilation of a certain kind of joke. There was an entire chapter devoted to elephant joke however. How to kill a blue elephant, how to kill a pink elephant, how many elephants can you fit in a bmw (5, two in the front, two in the back, and one in the glove box.) There were knock-knock jokes, and most memorably, (I don’t know what you would call them) a series of longer paragraph style jokes about “an english man, an Italian man, and an American man,” sometimes others. I can only remember a few of the jokes detailing three men of different nationalities all in the same location. Three men in a hot-air balloon when it pops call out “God Save Me!” and land in a hay pile but the Chinese man says “Gos Shave Me!” and he lands in a barber shop. The three of them are stuck in the dessert with only a bottle of wine which they ration into thirds; they wake up to find that the American had drank the whole bottle because his third was at the very bottom. “I am the ghost of Able Fable, the dollar bill stays on the table.” “I am the son of Davy Crocket, the dollar bill belongs in my pocket.” “Well if you don’t give me back my golf ball you’ll be the ghost with TWO black eyes!” “I’ll PEEL YOU, and then I’ll EAT YOU.” I don’t know if anyone can help me find this book, it means a lot to me.
That poem is The Garden Year by Sara Coleridge. But sometimes it’s called The Months or January Brings the Snow.
Looking for a collection or maybe a treasury of old fairy tales I had as a child. I can only remember 2 stories from the collection. They were in one hardcover book. One there was a creature, goblin or something similar that talked to a man in his home. At some point the creature burns his foot and you find out it was only a child because it’s mom comes down the chimney and picks it up by its ear. The second story I remember is about a circle of stones that were actually giants and once per year or something they walk to the river to drink. The stones sit upon treasure and when they walk to the river these two guys jump into the craters and try to get the treasure and one of them gets greedy and is crushed.
Thanks!
Sam
Wonderful to find this discussion!! I am looking for a book from the 1950s perhaps. The main characters are Sue and Mary. They are very unalike – city mouse and country mouse sort of scenario. I believe it is picture book, not certain. Have been looking for decades. Hopefull!!
Found two books about witches/buttons, but don’t really know anything about them.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/351701
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22410017104&searchurl=isbn%3D0426200802%26sortby%3D17&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title1
The Witch’s Buttons sounds like it would be close.
https://ruthchew.com/about-the-books/The-Witchs-Buttons.htm
I am looking for a children’s picture/storybook about a boy or girl (I could’t tell when I was younger) with a cat (I think) who go to an old house or mansion with ghosts. I remember the main colors of the book was a misty, whiteish, blueish color gave a vibe of mystery and intrigue. The ghosts were friendly if I recall. The boy was wearing a red cape or kilt like thing I think like the story was set in another time or something.
Bambert’s Book of Missing Stories, by Reinhardt Jung.
You’re my hero! I’ve been looking for this book for ten years
Glad to help!
It could be Something From Nothing, or it could be Joseph Had a Little Overcoat. Both are pictured here:
https://storytiming.com/2011/07/15/flannel-friday-something-for-nothing-or-joseph-had-an-overcoat/
I am looking for a red cover pictured front children’s poem book the word treasure was in the title the one poem I remember the most is a year the two months I remember the most are February brings the snow to make out toes and fingers glow, March brings breezes loud and shrill to to stir the dancing daffodils. I was 7 in 1968 . My mum gave it to me it was so special I keep thinking about it. Any help would be fantastic.
Magic treehouse?
I’m looking for a Little Golden Book that was about a princess and she had a horse from what my sister can remember the princess was blonde with like purple streaks in her hair and there was something to do with stars, and on the back there was a silhouette of Raggedy Ann.
i’m looking for a children’s book about a library where they go into different books that people in the library are looking for. they stamp them all and go back to the library. one of the books is about dinosaurs and it had the quote ‘65 million years ago’. please help me
Looking for a book about a tree a family plants (maybe it was already in their yard) and watches it grow over years. After they move away, the child or children comes back to visit it as an adult and then something bad happens to it. I cannot quite remember the whole story as it made me well up with tears and was quite emotional. I would be so grateful if anyone could help. It is not a new book; I remember it being in the preschool classroom I was teaching in about 8 years ago, but I’m not sure how much longer ago it was originally published. Thank you
I’m looking for a book (mid 1960’s) about Jelly babies, 2 teddy bears a train and a spooky forest. Thank you.
I forgot the name of the book about a coat at the end that’s made out of a patch. The patch throughout the years turned into something new. By the end of the book the old man had a coat with all patches on it.
My dad is looking for a children’s book he read in 70s as a kid. He said it was about a baker that had a lot of cats/dogs/pets. Or, that was what he remembered most about it. Google isn’t turning up anything
Looking for book about brother and sister who time travel. I believe they lived in England. Met their grandparents
I’m looking for a book that I read in the 80s as a second grader. I don’t rember much but it waa about a little girl (possibly indigenous/Native American) who had an imaginary bear friend. And I remember them sneaking down the stais and getting in to the fridge. I believe the cover was gold and brown. May have been written in the 70as
I am looking for a 1970s era book about a witch who turned a child into a button. I remember the book had some pictures, the witch had many cats.
Looking for a picture book from 1950s with a family of kids who live in a cave. Mainly black and white illustrations
Arnold of the Ducks, by Mordicai Gerstein.
You’re very welcome. LOL Glad to be of help, especially when I get such a wonderful response. 🙂
I had such extraordinary luck with a previous post – I am trying again. A middle grade book from my own childhood in 1950’s that I checked out from the library multiple times. A small series (maybe 3 total) about a family of 4 children living in a farmhouse in an apple orchard. Clearly from an era when children roamed free. They repeatedly crossed a creek/pond in a dinghy to get to a cave and had lots of adventures in this setting. I believe the oldest child was a girl named Kit.
I’m looking for a book where the main character is sickly/disabled and has his butler buy a certain number of small parachutes, so that he can send letters off into the wind. In his letter he asks whoever receives it to send him a story back (perhaps of their lives?). He finally receives some stories and a good portion of the book includes the letter replies. One of the stories is about a beautiful young girl who lives with a grandfather or uncle that removes all mirrors from the home to prevent her from becoming “vain”. She ends up disfigured/injured when a mirror is shattered around her. lots of parables id say.
The main character passes away at the end of the story and it turned out that his butler was the one writing the letters all along, to make the MC feel less lonely during his last years.
I would have read it in the early 2000s, maybe before 2006. Probably small chapter/ j fiction.
I am looking for a short picture book I read as a child in the late 1990s early 2000s. All I remember is it had green alien/martians that had cone shaped mouths and they lived like humans, I think interacted with humans, too. I remember them going shopping and drinking tea. That is all I can remember. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
I’m looking for a picture book where a toddler is playing in the back yard, in a kiddie pool. He gets taken away by birds, I think they were geese. They stick mud and feathers on him to help him fly. In the end, they take him back to his mom. I think the cover was purple.
I’m looking for a book from the 70s. The one sentence I can remember from it is “Some of the animals are worried now!” Hoping someone can help.
OH my GOODNESS….. YOU have NO IDEA how much you made my day….. THIS is IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BRILLIANT!!!! THANK you from the bottom of my heart.
Hi Blanche, I only monitor these posts once or twice a day (from Oregon) but these were both such enthusiastic thank yous I approved them both! Suzanne
im looking for a book about a boy that goes on a safari in africa, i think his name was maximilian mcmillan or something like that. i remember he catches a butterfly in a net. i had it in the 70’s
I’m looking for a book from early 90s. It’s about a little girl that goes through a secret door and turns into a cartoon strawberry shortcake in aa candy land.
My daughter lived it I accidently gave it away
How about “Elizabeth, Larry, and Ed” by Marilyn Sadler?
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/2459197
I thought I posted my absolute GRATITUDE and DELIGHT to you… but I can’t find my earlier comment…. I WOKE up to the BEAUTY… THIS is IT!!!!!!!!!!! Oh my goodness…. you have made me a very happy camper….. THANK you so much,… Not to mention I can put an end to my agony…. The only name I could remember was ED. How could I forget Elizabeth and Larry….. LOL
How about this one?
Catchin’ cooties Consuelo by: Tolya L. Thompson
To avoid going to school, Consuelo sets out to catch a cold, but what she catches is more than she bargained for.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1416240.Catchin_Cooties_Consuelo_A_Smarties_Book_
That’s it! Thank you so much 🙂 I really appreciate it
You’re welcome. Glad to have helped.
Looking for a children’s book where the 2 brothers build their own castles and fight each other with monsters. The mothers name was Hepzibah and I think one of the brothers was named Horace. The monsters end up falling in love with each other and the brothers no longer fight after.
I remember a book about a girl who went to visit her grandma, and it was snowing. her grandma and everyone in her family had an odd laugh, but not her. her grandma gave her a key and she found a shed that fit the key, there was a beach inside the shed. she swam with a dolphin and found her laugh, but I don’t remember the author or name.
Picture book,,or longer?
It is a picture book. She is going around looking for a cold, I think at one point she looks in a toilet, etc.
I’m looking for a book that was read in the early to mid 2000s. A girl wanted to catch a cold to avoid school, and at the end of the book she does end up getting a cold. The characters were human, not animals. Searches for this are now turning up a newer book called “How to catch a cold” featuring a boy but the one I want came out earlier and had a little girl.
Hi I have this a faint memory of a picture book with a child in it that had monsters who jumped out of the book I believe and I remember them looking really creepy like a Tim Burton style drawing and it had ink splotches of ink all on the pages. I don’t remember if it had much color but I remember it being mostly black and white. I don’t think it’s a super old book because I was about maybe 7 or 8 when I read this in like the early 2000’s. Please I really want to find this book again
This was like an anthology style book of drawn animals (similar art style to the ‘this is fine’ dog meme if that helps) from the…70s/80s? and there were cats and their house flooded and a dog who got stuck in wet cement because she wasn’t loooking where he was going. does anyone know what it was called?
I have been beside myself trying to remember this wonderful children’s book about a swamp creature that comes to stay with a man who lives beside a swamp…One of the names is Ed… I can’t remember if it is the man or the creature…. Anyways…. the creature borrows the man’s toothbrush…. eats his food… wears his pyjamas… It is the sweet story…. For some reason I want to call it Edge of the Swamp … but no matter what I entered into Google about swamp creatures or edge of a swamp… nothing came up…. CAN someone please take me out of my misery??? It was about 18 years ago that I read this book.
I’m looking for a book that was about buttons. “Buttons, buttons, everywhere” and it ended with “but the button I like best is my very own”. I would love to find this book again!
This could be it – the dog’s name is Digby. You should see my dog. By Martin Oliver and Sami Sweeten. Published in 1995. Martin Oliver wrote a number of puzzle stories in the 90s including the companion to this one You should see my cat.
Yes!!!! This is it! It’s exactly as I remember. Thank you so much <3
Happy to have helped
Possibly this one: Ladder Company 108 written and photographed by Rona Beame. Published 1973 by Julian Messner, New York.
Melissa – this HAS to be it. Thank you so very much. It was my son’s go-to library check out and I have been looking for a long time to provide him with a copy. His own kids are way past this stage, but I know he will be thrilled.
I just looked online images align with my recollections. THANK YOU
Happy to have helped!
There was a book where a princess somehow gets lost and becomes a baker and her father is the king that she reunites with in the end. I just remember it being beautifully illustrated!
The Secret World of Og, by Pierre Berton.
Jan Mogensen, The 46 Little Men.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1578931.The_46_Little_Men
Ok so I definitely remembered it wrong, but that’s it! Thank you so much!
Great! Thanks for posting back.
I have a super vague memory of a book about a family of children who go underground to a kind of magical place with dwarves or elves or something similar. All of the children’s names started with the same letter (P or L I think) and the explanation was because it was easier to divide the silverware for when they grew up. I know it’s not a lot to go on, but does any have any ideas? Thanks.
Hi everyone. I’m looking for a illustrated children’s book I enjoyed in the late 1990s/early 2000s. The book was featured cats that walked upright (and I think wore clothes), and the story involved then stealing jewels if I remember correctly. I think that there might have been a palace that was covered in gems, and a scene where there was cave covered in jewels. I would appreciate it immensely if anyone knows what book this is! It’s driving me crazy because I can’t find any trace of itbexisting.
I’m looking for a book I read every night to my Son in 1989, it was his favorite and I am looking for the book to now buy for my grandson. I had thought I had saved it but can’t find it.. It was a book about getting ready for bed and the first line in the book was. “I like to play with cars and trucks, beep beep the light is red. I’m busy driving everywhere I don’t have time for bed “. Any help in finding this book would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
When I was in reception class, I remember a book where every word in the book was look. I’ve googled everything and cannot find any evidence that this book existed. I have had conversations with other people and they remember it too. Does anyone know this book and know how I’d find it online?
I’m looking for a childrens picture book I loved in the 90s, it had a light blue cover and it was about two siblings (I think) a boy and a girl, I think the boy had red hair and the girl had dark hair, they were fighting over a badge they found in the street which was either a 6 or a 9, they are calling eachother silly names like fish face I think and the illustrations showed this. In the end I believe the badge belonged to a black boy.
I can’t remember what it’s called at all and it’s driving me crazy!
Oh my goodness! That is it! How amazing. I can’t thank you enough! : )
You’re welcome!
Seeking a book about a Brooklyn fire station, featuring a firefighter named John Alessi. Possibly Engine 108. Non fiction, Lots of black and white photos. Was in NYPL in the early 1980’s. Geared to pre-school, possibly early grades. Thanks!
Hi there, I’m looking for a book I had as a young child late 80’s early 90’s I have no idea of the name or author, it was beautifully illustrated story. It was about a vine / tree growing up the side of period flats and every day the vine would get higher and bigger and you could spot all the changes from day to day (there were lots) of the people who lived there to what was going on outside.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks amber
hi!! does anyone know of a children’s book about a monster that cuts off toes and makes soup/stew out of them? sorry that’s so gross…
anyway, when searching online, i’ve found “the monster who liked to eat toes” and “the big toe” but those aren’t it. i hope i’m not imagining this story, as i was very young when i think i read it. thank you very much to anyone who can help me!! 🙂
Oh, that’s great!
Feathertop?
I think so! Thank you so much!
I think you want the one by Maurice Dolbier, about Dick, Denise, and their dog Woofle, who want to buy a magic wand for their father’s birthday. Woofle eats a magic biscuit and is able to talk.
I am looking for The Magic Shop. I don’t know the author’s name. I read this in 1957. It was a young children’s book and I checked it out of my school library in 5th grade. It was about a brother and sister who, with their dog, were in town with their parents and wandered into a magic shop. The owner was a charming old man and showed them impossible toys that were alive. After they went home magic was everywhere, and their dog began to talk. There are newer books with this title, making it impossible to find.
I’m trying to find a book that I read as a child which I thought was called the devil’s tree. From what I remember a child a young boy is enticed by a talking tree which offers him gifts, but is in fact the devil. I read this book in the late 70’s early 80’s.
I’ve been looking everywhere for this dark Halloween children’s book, a pumpkin headed scarecrow turns human, but when he looks in the mirror he still sees a pumpkin face, so he eventually becomes a scarecrow again. I remember the drawings were quite lovey and one page still sticks, it’s him walking down a white (possibly stone/marble) semi circular staircase. It would have been written definitely pre 2003, but was probably from the ‘80s or ‘90s
Long shot, but I’m trying to find a Seek & Find style book I saw once decades ago.
All I remember was there was a cast of maybe 100 characters that would be up to different things on each page. The only characters I remember are “The World’s Unluckiest Man” “The Worlds Second Unluckiest Man” and “The World’s Third Unluckiest Man” But I think there were others like couples that would always be together… I think they may have been miniature people (like the borrowers) but i’m not positive on that. My wife remembers it too but neither of us can find anything!
I’m trying to remember an Australian children’s book I used to always read in the early 2000s. It was about I think a child retelling his parents stories of when they were younger. I remember the book cover was colourful and swirls with a girl on rollerblades! In the book there was also a picture of a little boy pressed up against a candy shop window with a 10 cent coin talking about how cheap candy used to be! I’m pretty sure a quote in the book says something along the lines of “when my mum was younger” oh and there was another page talking about how when the mum was younger they all gathered around the Tv to watch the first man go to the moon! Pls someone help me it’s driving me insane!!
Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine, by Evaline Ness.
This is driving me insane but I’m wondering if anyone remembers this book. I can’t remember anything except for one specific scene where a girl is in her bed. She just went through something difficult. she might have had to give up an animal or something like that but don’t quote me. Anyway, she sees this small animal hopping on the floor in front of her bed. A picture of this animal is what made me remember this book, it was a jerboa, which she thought was a baby kangaroo. Whoever was with her told her it wasn’t a baby kangaroo but it was hers to keep. I’ve been looking all over the internet and haven’t had any luck. Does anyone remember this??
I’m trying to remember the title of a children’s picture book about an elderly man who moves from the city to the county. A dog starts coming up to his house and he ends up feeding it until it becomes his pet. Soon the same happens with a cat. In the end he goes to town to buy food for either the squirrels or the birds, I can’t remember. If it helps, the books is divided into chapters, but they’re really short.
No little girl, but found this one.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1396158.The_Dog_That_Dug
Ah no not the one but thanks!
Try this: Is it True Grandfather?, by Wendy Lohse.
Possibly The Cay by Theodore Taylor? When the ship carrying Phillip and his mother to Virginia sinks, Phillip is stranded on a raft with Timothy, an old black seaman, and his cat. Without his sight, Phillip must rely on Timothy to survive. Shipwrecked on a deserted cay, Phillip and Timothy discover they are different in so many ways. but will Phillip realize that beneath their skin they are the same – and that without Timothy’s help he is in terrible danger?
Timothy does die in the book. Phillip is rescued in the end and his sight is restored.
A Blue-Footed Booby Named Solly McBoo?
I am trying to remember the author and title of a children’s book set in Africa, I believe, about a brother and his little sister who were exploring a cave and the little sister got lost, and the brother eventually found her eating some kind of jam or fruit. Vague details, but I’d love to locate this book again because the illustrations were lovely!
I’m looking for a book I read as a child that Mom and I both loved. There was a donkey or a mule that carried a crystal rock on her back. It was covered, and when the owner (a man) took the cover off, I think it either told stories or “showed” stories. No one seems to know about this book. I read it in Pomona,CA in the late 50s
i can’t remember the name of this one book but it was part of a series about a gang of little animal friends, what i remember is they like to play pranks on the old frog who lives in the pond , one such “prank” being almost getting him eaten by a king fisher (bird) but the old frog tricked the crane into standing still for hours trying to catch him but jumping away just as he struck.
all these little animals live around a pond which is the center of their community, i remember that there’s a mother beaver who doesn’t want her son being friends with the other little animals because of the mean pranks they pull, the main characters were definitely a beaver a stoat and a muskrat and one other animal i don’t remember the name of.
another part of the books is that the old frog is settled in his pond for life, set in his ways and all, he never wants to leave the pond.. but his friend toad is a traveler and wants to see the world and have adventures, i think it said every year toad visits him but they have an argument about what an old stick in the mud frog is and toad doesn’t return one year because of the argument? something like that.
if anyone knows what book i’m talking about please tell me! i’m obsessed with stories about little animals that act like people and these were one of my favorites i really wannna find them again 💔
Looking for a book about planes and flying, had a young girl and her dad in a private airplane. Think it was published in the 50’s or 60’s. Cover was maybe orange and blue
Thank you. That must be it. Do you have it, do you know if it has a distinctive smell to it as well? As I recall it was the smell of the sandpaper that is the strongest memory.
I don’t recall a distinct smell, but it’s been a lot of years since my kids were young enough for books like that. I’m sure the smell would also vary according to the printing (older versions may have used different kinds of sandpaper or different adhesives than newer versions) – or the smell could be something that was acquired somewhere else, such as air fresheners, incense, cigarette smoke, cooking smells, or any of a host of other environmental smells that may have permeated the paper.
I am looking for a book that I believe I bought at a book fair in the 90s (so may
be Scholastic) it was about a little girl who had a naughty dog called Digby or Digger or similar (I think) who either got lost or lost his bone in a busy town and each page was different scene – construction site, park etc and I remember it being almost like a Where’s Wally where there was lots to see and spot on each page and you had to solve the mystery by the end. It was very bright and fun to look at, the dog was small and brown spotty/patchy and the little girl was black or mixed race. I might have got some details wrong but I’d definitely remember it if I saw it again if anyone can help!
Omg I feel like I’m going crazy because I can’t find the name of it anywhere online…. But do you remember a book I had when I was little about a bird (I think she was a blue footed boobie maybe named Sally or something similar?) she didn’t fit in with the other birds or didn’t like her feet or something so she kept trying on different pairs of shoes. Random I know but I can’t find it anywhere.
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So the book was probably a children’s novel with a cover that looked very tim burton in style. I remember the first chapter was surrounding the main character, the young boy, being sent away from home for some reason. His parents were in bed, sick or dying I can’t remember, and were sending him away and surrounded by warmed water bottles. Suddenly their fireplace started a fire and they laid in bed, unmoving as their house lit on fire and their son was sent away. I can’t remember much else.
Hi I am looking for a book from the us that u read as a kid the plot of the book is about a kid who gets lost at sea with I believe someone else after boarding a boat and leaving the country, the boat crashes and two people I believe remain on sea with a couple of water and chocolate bars to eat they search they island they stayed on and look for food long sorry short the kid makes it and the guy doesn’t and the kid had been gone for I think 6 months or 6 years I can’t remember as I read this book in 3rd grade but wanted to read it again as the plot was good, thank you