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there is this children’s book i remember reading in the early/mid 2000s about this guy who has a really boring, repetitive life (specifically he liked his sandwiches a certain way) and then one day he wakes up as a fish and his house is underwater. at first he is upset that his routine is off but then realizes that change isn’t too bad. after that he wakes up and realizes it was all a dream. he may also have been a teacher??? i remember the art style being very minimal and only using red, blue, yellow, and green as colors. google has not helped me so maybe you guys will
I am looking for 2 books that I was shown in a childcare class about 15 yrs ago. Not sure how old the books are. One was about a penguin who moved and his feelings were illustrated using famous art such as starry night. The other book was about a young girl and the pictures were fabric/textiles sewn together. I hope someone can help!
My sisters and I would love to become reacquainted with this set of short stories, probably published late 1970s/ very early 80s. We had it as a cassette, but i think there was a printed version as well. There was a story called “The Last Present” about a classroom gift exchange, and a story about a boy who took a cupcake to school in his lunchbox with a mouse that kept telling him not to eat it yet, then he gives it to an old lady in the end. There were other stories too but those are the ones I remember.
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler?
I’m wondering if anyone else remembers a children’s book which had illustrations. The characters were animals. There was a family with many children. One evening the parents went out leaving the children with a babysitter who I believe was a fox. The young animals were put to bed and went to sleep. The babysitter is revealed to be a mendacious fox and puts the sleeping little animals into a sack and is going to leave kidnapping all the sleeping young children. She sneaks down the stairs but one of the little animals manages to escape and somehow pushes the wicked fox into the open fire hearth. The young animals are saved. There’s probably a fair bit more to the story. It’s probably early 1980s if not published before then. Any help would be most appreciated.
A childhood book from the 80s. It was basically a football team made up of spooky monster / friendly characters. Dracula, the mummy, ghouls etc to help a wee boy win a football match. Searched high and low.
Looking for an old children’s story book that I read maybe forty years ago. It was about a brother and sister who lived in the alps and were very poor. Their mother was sick and they were hungry. The children remember singing Christmas carols during Christmas time and receiving food for their singing. So even though it is summer, they begin to sing Christmas carols to try to get some food. Some Americans who are visiting hear them and help the family.
I am looking for a short story that I read in school, I believe around the 9th grade. A mother invites children in her town to a costume party for her children. 2 children show up in grave clothes and she assumes they are from a poor family and considers their attire to be in bad taste. They play a sort of hide and seek game which involves gathering with the person who is it. Later the mother meets the poor children’s mother and is told they did not attend. The reader realizes that the 2 mystery children were the ghosts of 2 children the story mentions having drowned a long time before.
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I am searching g for a childhood book from 70+ years ago. It was about Mother bear & her cub. It was about her rescue after being caught in a rope snare, tying her to a tree. A hunter emerged and said he would be back with a cage. Forest animals came and all tried to free her. Mr Beaver appeared and started chewing on the rope as al, the animal waited, impatiently wringing their hands. Mr Beaver was finally successful just as the hunter returned, allowing Mother Bear & cub and all the animals to escape into the woods.
IN MY MEMORY I CALL IT …”The Rescue of Mother Bear”
I am looking for a book or possibly a set of books. This was something I had in the 80’s and it was fairy tales or nursery rhymes or poems. I remember one story that had mermaids in the artwork. They all had a different color tail. I think there was one with black hair and a green tail. The book or set also had the “If Wishes Were Horses” rhyme in it. The mermaids were so pretty and I’d love to find this book again. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
I’m looking for a book I read as a child in the seventies. Two siblings, I believe an older girl and her younger brother, somehow get stranded on an island, maybe near New York? For some reason I think they can see Central Park or buildings. Any ideas?
There was a book I used to get from the public library a lot as a kid. It was a horror story for kids. I remember it had really unique illustrations and was a hard cover.
From what I remember, a boy sets out into the forest looking for his father and discovers a witches house. She said some rhymes to him and chants and then he ran away and ran home with monsters and things chasing him.
I cannot remember what it was called for the life of me and I have exhausted all possibilities of finding it.
I also remember the artwork being really dark. Shades of grays and blues. The illustrations were really detailed with a lot of stuff going on. The book “Bony-Legs” reminds me a lot of the art style.
The book most likely came out in the 1980’s. I read it in the early 90’s.
Looking for a children’s book that (I’m guessing) was published between the 60s and 80s. It was not typical children’s book-colors; it was darker, illustrated with yellows, oranges, browns and blacks, or possibly sepia-toned. It was LANDSCAPE format and my copy was paperback. It was about morning time and I think from the perspective of a little girl. I remember one image of her dad drinking coffee, maybe at a kitchen table. My adult brain remembers the illustration looking like linocut or woodcut print but I can’t be certain. Would LOVE to find this book!
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I am looking for a kids picture book from around the 90’s 2000’s that was like “Mr someones something something” I keep thinking pelican or Mcguire as his last name. And the title might have been about his house.
But the book was beautifully illustrated and the furniture was animals or had animals in it. It reminds me of ‘The eleventh hour’ but it isnt that book. I remember one page was the hallway and it had a giraffe? And maybe a swan umbrella?
I hope someone can help!
Noel Streatfeild books.
The first poem might be The Sugarplum Tree. The candy grows high in the tree, where you can’t reach it – but you can get the gingerbread dog to bark at the chocolate cat, and the cat will “cavort about,” knocking the treats out of the tree so you can gather it up off the ground. The second is The Duel, about the gingham dog and the calico cat who had a terrible fight and eventually “ate each other up.” (It is also sometimes titled as “The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat.”) Both are by Eugene Field and can be found in many collections of children’s poetry or poetry and stories.
I had both in my copy of A Child’s Book of Poems, illustrated by Gyo Fujikawa, and in The Tall Book of Make Believe, illustrated by Garth Williams. They can also be found in The Big Golden Book of Poetry, illustrated by Gertrude Elliott, and in various anthologies of Eugene Field’s work.
Harold Cole, A Few Thoughts on Trout. This review gets the title right but the author’s name wrong:
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/harem-cole/a-few-thoughts-on-trout/
Hi,
I’m looking for a book which is a collection of short stories for girls printed in, I guess, the 50s or 60s. I can remember 3 of the stories. One was about a Russian girl who was taken on as a pupil in a ballet school. Another was about a girl who learned to skate competitively with her family’s house keeper who was training to go professional. And the last that I remember was about a girl with aspirations to be a writer who got involved with a lady dog trainer from the circus…
Tall order I know… Anyone any ideas?
Thank you so much!
You’re welcome, and thanks for posting back.
An American Girl, by Patricia Dizenzo.
I’m looking for a book I read as a child. I remember very little of it. There was a boy named Stephan or Stefan I think. One scene that stuck with me because it was so scary to me as a child was when the boys climbs a tree to escape a pack of wolves but his puppy falls out of his shirt and gets eaten. At some point in the story he is joined by a female character. And there’s a castle with a mysterious man who I think was a werewolf. That’s all I remember of it.
Thanks for this wonderful site. I barely remember anything about this childhood book, but the main character was a girl who was left home alone a lot. There was mention of her heating t/v dinners. There was a cat involved in the plot, and I think it was supposed to be a mystery/spooky plot I believe.
I am looking for information on a book with tape that is about 40 years old that fearures animals contributing ingredients to make soup (black bean!/barley soup?)can you help me come up with the name/ a copy? One of the characters was called Buttercup??
Hello, I am looking for a book from my childhood that I remember as a picture book called Family, but not sure of the name or that it was really just pictures. It was a small book with a black cover and the story was a mom who had to go to the hospital to have a baby and the child stayed with his or her grandmother until the mom and dad came home with the baby. I used to check it out every time we went to the library, which would have been very early 80’s, but I believe the book is likely older. Any ideas?
Looking for a book published anytime from mid 1990s or earlier. The boy finds a hickory stick for a fishing pole and goes and buys line and hooks for a nickel and suspects the proprietor gives him a deal. The boy is fishing for trout at his favorite fishing hole, goes for breakfast and two city men offer to buy him breakfast(maybe pancakes?) for him to show them his favorite fishing hole. The fishing hole ends up getting fished out from overuse by city people and the boy says at the end of the book something along the lines of “seems like a pretty high price to pay for pancakes/breakfast). Hand drawn illustrations also
The Hungry Thing, by Jan Slepian and Ann Seidler.
Poems, stories, or both? Could it be a collection of Eugene Field’s poems? We had one with rather amazing illustrations by Maxfield Parrish.
Hi! I am looking for a young adult novel probably out of print now that I believe was titled An American Girl – published circa late 1970’s It was a coming of age story about a girl who had some struggles at home (parents fighting, divorce etc) but at the end her mom is hanging wallpaper that has roses on it and winds up hanging it upside down, so the roses are falling, and she and her daughter begin laughing & healing their relationship. I would love to somehow find a copy of this book. Any ideas on author and/or exact title?
Looking for a 1980s collection of children’s stories with very vivid illustrations. One story was of a child in a candy land, another was of the gingham dog and cat who fight and tear each other to pieces.
I’m looking for a book I remember from my childhood — early to mid1980’s, but I think the book was older. I just recall a piece of it — kids running through damp sheets hanging on the line to dry and then making a bed with the quote” don’t forget the hospital corners”. I’m pretty sure it was hardcover. I thought it was called “Wash Day” but all of the books with that title are too new to be the one I want.
I wish I could remember more details, but it was about a girl, I think her mom and gradma were also characters. She wore a scarf on her head and the images for very 2D with quilted patterned geometric style. I know she had a basket, or they were farmers or gardeners, and there was a HUGE storm heading toward them that they had to prepare for I think? I’m sorry, that’s all I remember. I was born in 1988, so it could be a book from the 70s, 80s, maybe early 90s? If anyone can figure this one out, your a genius.
I’m looking for a children’s/pre-teen book from possibly late 1960s. I can only remember a grandfather (possibly retired navy captain?) and his handicapped grandson. A young girl moved in nearby and was trying to get to know the surly boy. He would get frustrated because he couldn’t play basketball well.
I am looking for a childhood book where the protagonist something like, “pancakes sound like shman cakes sound like flan cakes to me”.
The Secret Museum, by Sheila Greenwald.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4729015-the-secret-museum
Solved on another board: Come to the Doctor, Harry, by Mary Chalmers.
An American Girl, by Patricia Dizenzo.
Hi Bears, Bye Bears, by Niki Yektai.
Well, since you inherited it, there’s a 1910 book with that plot. This book is tiny but since you remember a story book, perhaps the story was included in a later collection: The no-nonsense Doll in Dimity arrives to cure Mabel May of her dreadful treatment of her dolls. First she wakes Mabel up and makes her clean and mend her many abandoned dolls and stitch their clothes. Then with a firm grip she steers Mabel through the streets, followed by a parade of dolls in search of poor children who will love them more. Needless to say, Mabel May reforms and learns to love.
Try looking for The Childhood of Famous Americans series, as it was later called, and then look for the oldest copies, which were also called the Silhouette Biographies. If you come up with an inexpensive one in jacket, it’s probably a later style. You can sort by date of publication on abe. Here are some examples https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?bi=0&bx=off&cm_sp=SearchFwi-_-SRP-_-Results&ds=30&kn=silhouette%20biographies%20childhood%20famous%20americans&recentlyadded=all&rollup=on&sortby=17
Looking for a childhood book that I only remember calling “the bear book” which was probably just my name for it. It had illustrations of bears dressed in costume to correspond with their emotions or situation. I remember as simple as happy bear sad bear but there was also rich bear and poor bear. I don’t recall any story, more so just illustrations of bears with their corresponding titles.
I’m looking for a Christmas picture book where a boy and girl (probably siblings) give gifts to people in their community. A plate of cookies for one person, a pair of gloves/mittens for the mail lady (?), etc.
Around 1980 I read a young adult novel off my teacher’s book shelf over and over again called something like American Girl. It was a coming of age type of story about teen girl who struggled with home life (parents fighting/divorce type situation) and at the end her mother is wallpapering a bedroom and realizes she hung it upside down because there are roses on it that are now falling downward. She & her daughter wind up laughing over this and making headway in their relationship. I would love to find a copy of it. Thanks!
We are looking for a book. It is one that I read to Melissa until she
had memorized it. I believe we had it from the library in 1984.
The kitten had caught his tail in the screen door and mama says we have
to go to the doctor. There they see lots of animals in the waiting
room. There was a rooster with a bandanna with a sore throat, a kitten
and his mother in a carrier, and lots of others.
The little kitten is holding his tail and telling everyone what has
happened to him. The doctor looks at his tail and says his tail will be
fine tomorrow so the kitten tells everyone on the way out of the
doctor’s office.
I am looking for a book about a cat, I believe he was an orange cat. He belonged to a little girl & didn’t like that she always tried to do girly things with him. At one point she pushes him around in a stroller. At the end of the book he embraces it and he can be seen dancing at night. I remember the pictures being very vivid colours.
Thank you so much, especially for the variations!! I can’t wait to show him or send him a recording of the story. we use to have so much fun reading stories after bath and this one was one of his favorites!
You’re welcome! Glad I could help – and thank you for taking the time to post back!
When I was a child my public library had a set of books in the reference
area that I would like to identify and perhaps acquire.That was about 1950. They had orange covers and all
illustrations were black and white silhouette style, no shades. Each
book was about one person, and the people were people like Ely Whitney,
Louisa Mae Alcott, Jane Adams, Thomas Edison, George Washington Carver.
The book I’m looking for I read in the late ‘80s/early ‘90s. I remember very little about it other than it was a children/YA book with the following:
– the protagonists were siblings (a brother and sister, IIRC)
– they found a doll that moved on its own (possibly at their grandmother’s?)
– the doll had a sword (a soldier, maybe—I also feel the doll was intended as a Russian cassock, but that could be completely wrong)
– they tried to mail it somewhere else to get rid of it, but later found the box it had been in; the doll had used its sword to cut its way out of the box from the inside
Any help is much appreciated! ~
I am looking for a book that my mom used to read to me. It’s about a girl that moves to the country with her family. One day she is picking blackberries and she finds a playhouse that is a replica of a mansion. She finds a bunch of dolls in the playhouse and cleans them up. Does anyone know the title of this book? Thank you for your help.
The Man Who Was Too Lazy to Fix Things?
https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-688-10394-1
Hi! I remember reading a book from my elementary school library in the 80s, but the book was old then – I think from the 60s. All I remember about it was a young lion who read a book, and it turned out the book was about himself (or maybe about lions in general?), and he was very surprised and pleased about it. I only read it once and when I looked for it in my school library again, I couldn’t find it. The lion wasn’t particularly anthropomorphic in the illustrations – he walked on all fours – except for being able to read. I’m pretty sure he lived with his parents in the book, but I remember from the illustrations that he had a mane.
Hi, I’m looking for a children’s storybook that I owned around 2009/2010. I am pretty sure I inherited the book though so it was definitely printed before then. I cant remember the title but I remember a couple of the stories. There was one story about a little girl who didn’t take care of her toys so the toys left and the little girl had to find them and promise them she would take care of them (this might’ve been a little boy rather than a little girl) as well as a story about a child who has a toy (maybe a stuffed bear?) on a shelf but the shelf gets so crowded the toy gets pushed out the back of the shelf and goes on an adventure. If anyone knows what the book is called please let me know!
That sounds like one of the variations of an old Spanish folk tale. Perhaps it might be Esteban and the Ghost by Sibyl Hancock (1983) or The Tinker and the Ghost by Archie Bennett (1976). The story can also be found in Three Golden Oranges and Other Spanish Folk Tales by Ralph Steele Boggs and Mary Gould Davis (1964). The Boggs/Gould version is also included in the Arrow Book of Spooky Stories – and variations of the story may be in other ghost story anthologies as well.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51quNLnGGuL.jpg
Sounds like The Tinker and the Ghost.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5475834-the-tinker-and-the-ghost
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My Little Happy Book?
Or maybe this one?
“Toto, the Timid Turtle” by Howard Goldsmith, Shirley Chan
A timid turtle learns he can have fun outside his shell as well as inside.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/700868.Toto_the_Timid_Turtle
Found this one, late ’80s, but he’s sad because he is slow.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3915650-thomas-the-tortoise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUUGrXS6P8I
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The book I am looking for was probably acquired in the early 1980s from a Scholastic Book Club flyer (the kind that gets sent home from school).
Note: This book is *NOT* “The Foolish Turtle” with two swans
This book is *NOT* “The Foolish Tortoise” illustrated by Eric Carle with many animals
…although these two titles did seem promising.
In this story, there are very few pages and very few words on each page, probably 1st or 2nd grade reading level. The illustrations are very basic with everything as blocks of muted,1970s palette colors, no details or texturizing.
There was only one character: a sad turtle (or perhaps a tortoise) who has to decide whether his head should be in or out of his shell. Over the course of the story, he alternately decides always to leave his head in, or always to have it out, with both extremes leading to negative outcomes.
At one point he is hit by a rock that falls when his head is out (or runs into a rock when his head is in?) …and says “OUCH!” (in a white speech bubble with large all caps?)
He ultimately decides something along the lines of:
I will poke my head out some of the time.
I will pull my head in some of the time.
…and is happy making moderate decisions, as needed, based on necessity.
Looking for a children’s book that was circulating in the early 2000’s (could’ve been in print earlier, I just know my family was reading it sometime between 2000 and 2004).
The first few pages read “This is my little happy book. When I’m sad, I take a look. Birds flying by. A rainbow in the sky”. Thank you for any help!
Hello everyone! I’m new, and alittle unsure how to proceed. I’m not well versed in social media. I am looking for a book I used to read to my Oldest son, now 33, when he was a wee lad. The story was about a man that goes on a journey. He finds a deserted castle and settles in. The castle is haunted and an eerie voice calls out ooooo, look out, I’m falling. prices of a man keep falling until a head falls last. The traveler puts all the pieces back together. As a reward, the ghost then gives him a bag of silver spoons, another bag of something I can’t remember, and then leaves the castle with a bag of copper pennies. The traveler then moves into the castle and sells his pots and pans that he repairs. Does this story sound familiar to anyone? I’d love to find it again.
Hi! I am thinking of a picture book I read in the early 2000s. It was about animals who lived in some town or city and I remember there being an Orange border on the front cover. One of the animals was a firefighter. If I can remember correctly, the main character was a girl and she was looking for something she had lost/someone. I had thought it was called safety town or something but I can find anything. It is not the busytown books.
Found this one, but cover doesn’t match description.
“Charles Caterpillar” by James Haas
Charlie, the caterpillar, learns that eating and sleeping in safe areas are boring, but are necessary for survival. His friend, Archie, learns this lesson too late and gets eaten by a crow while teaching Charlie to search for food in unsafe territory.
Editions:1 Date:1992
https://books.google.com/books/content?id=de66AAAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&imgtk=AFLRE73gnle0IDAr7MbB4Ve4p1vanp4syl07nlRpgVu4YnO8mQ8S4rtZXN0ti_V5I2AjjTdce-ofpxN5oUFAjdTPQNCqZYQaUWTUGpWTZ5-SjNb1FHouivOwH31cJWAdZsgOLC4fStv6
Hi. My brother and I have been trying for several years to remember chapter book from our youth. Probably anywhere from 1960-1980. Mystery with kids and it doesn’t seem to be one of the more well-known authors/series. We both remember that there was a riddle sewn inside a bear and found in a tree. It began something like “To Fred, from Fred.” We don’t remember much else.
The Housekeeper’s dog by Jerry Smath. A dog who likes to roll, scratch, and play with bones is quite a different dog after attending Madame de Poochio’s School for Dogs. First published in 1980, there are two different covers. I believe the cover with pink is a later version published in 1992 or 1993 by Gareth Stevens Publishers. This isbn for this version is ISBN 10: 0836808851 ISBN 13: 9780836808858
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This sounds like The Housekeeper’s Dog by Jerry Smath – does that ring any bells?
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Glad you remembered it!
Hi there!
I am looking for help sourcing a childhood favourite book of mine and my dads. We cannot remember the name or author but hoping that someone here may be able to help us!
The book was probably from the 1980s or 1990s and was all about colours. It was possibly a red book and very thin.
The imagery was very vivid and almost like little paintings. We remember that there was descriptions of marmalade and black berries on separate pages.
The most vivid image I have of this book is the final page. There was a man with a small girl standing next to him and another girl on his shoulders, their backs to the ‘painter’ and they were looking up at the moon. There was a sunset sky, there was also a red car in the picture to the side. Possibly a lamp post as well. They were in the street. This is the only vivid memory we all have of the book – would LOVE if this traces any one’s memory.
Thank you.
Looking for a book that wife had in mid nineties that was a creamy yellow with red border and had a toadstool on cover. She thinks it was about a caterpillar who didn’t know who he was or that he was going to be eaten and had to find safety. But her memory of that time isn’t clear.
Hi! I’m looking for an odd picture book I remember having read to me in kindergarten circa 1996. The premise was that a man moved into a dilapidated house and the neighbors were excited for him to fix it up, but he didn’t and they eventually had him evicted or something. It ended with a letter he wrote apologizing and promising he would improve the house’s curb appeal if they let him move back in. I’d be fascinated to know who was writing Homeowner’s Association propaganda for children.
Years ago I read a story about two little boys who made a pact. They would always walk each other home from school because of a monster who lived in the dark. This particular monster would grab young children, but not if they were standing in the light. So, these boys would run from street lamp to street lamp, always aware of the monster behind them. They couldn’t look back, lest it grabbed them. They couldn’t spend too much time in the dark, lest it grabbed them. Then one of the little boys comes down with the flu, and he not only misses school, but he’s no longer there to walk his friend home. He returns to school to find his friend missing, knowing it was the monster that grabbed him. WHAT STORY IS THIS? Does it ring a bell? I could have sworn it was by Ray Bradbury, but I know this isn’t Something Wicked This Way Comes.
This story has been retold many times and is often published as “The three trees”. The copy you’re looking for may be “The three talking trees” by Frances Timoney. Published by Our Sunday Visitory in 1974. This is the earliest one I can find with a cover that somewhat resembles your description. That book acknowledges that the source material was God’s Trees by Helen Frazee-Bower which was published in the mid 1940s
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Found this one. Two children on the cover, but not flying a kite and the cover is yellow. Don’t know if they made different covers. And the date is ’68. Closest thing I could come up with.
https://www.amazon.com/God-Everywhere-Discovering-Gods-World/dp/B0006BVDK4
Hello all,
I’m looking for a book I got for Christmas back in the 70’s. It’s a large paperback fairy tale book that was printed with different colored sections (all in the same book)-pink, light green, light blue, yellow. I remember some of the stories were The Little Match Girl, Hansel and Gretel, Jack and the Beanstock, 3 Billy Goats Gruff, The princess and the pea. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks!
Found it! Deep in the subconscious . Just Only John. Thank you though!
There’s Dr. Merlin’s Magic Shop, by Scott Corbett, which includes a magic gumdrop. But I know there are other similar books even older than that one.
Hi everyone!
Trying to recall a few picture books which were read to me in the very early 90s, but I believe they were from the 80s or maybe even 70s? They were small square cardboard baby books and mostly illustrated, the illustrations were very whimsical. One was about space/stars/planets and the children or fairies who took care of them (but in sort of fantastical ways) and the other I think was about children who took care of a meadow because I remember they harvested butter from buttercup flowers. I can’t remember the titles at all! Thank you for your help 🙂
Hello everyone,
I’m trying to find a child’s book from back in the 90s.
It was about a man whose monkey died so he ended up adopting what I think was a hound dog. The dog would make a really loud noise so the owner left him at the house I believe and a burglar came in and the dog got scared and made the sound and scared off the burglar and then everyone loved him and the owner started selling toys of the dog.
It was a short paperback book
It was my favourite book as a kid and I’ve been trying to find it for years
Hi! Looking for a book my nana used to read me. I’m 21 so it would be from the early 2000s maybe? It’s about a little girl who’s mom is a witch I believe. I feel like it was illustrated in teal, black, and white. It’s so vague to me but I just want to find it again.
Thanks in advance 🙂
Hi, guys! Want to help me out? I’m looking for (a somewhat older) kids picture book about a dog who goes away to dog school and comes back knowing how to talk. He becomes a smart aleck, and will only have the best. He throws big exclusive parties for the ‘rich’ dogs. All the dogs are at a party, someone complains about the noise and I remember having a dogcatcher (?) showing up, or something like that. The dogs all end up running away, and hiding. In the end the dog the book’s about reforms, and becomes a normal dog.
The cover is pink, and shows the dog and his lady owner on it with (maybe) an umbrella and it’s name is something like ‘So-so’s school for dogs’.
I’ve searched for it, but it seems nobody has invented a app that recognizes vague descriptions of book people can’t remember the name of. We’ll have to work on that…😁
Anybody know what book this is?
Thanks!
Maybe: Hamish and the Worldstoppers. (How long ago did you read this?)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22595631-hamish-and-the-worldstoppers
I am looking for this one book that I read when I was a little girl…it was one of my favorite books at the time, but I was so little at the time I’m not sure I even read it, but I did tell myself the stories through the pictures. It was something like there was this little girl and it was night time, and she was about to go to bed, but a black goo, fog, type figure climbed through her window, and then the girl made friends with the black figure and they had a tea party…it sounds absurd but that’s what happened. I can’t find the book anywhere 🙁
I am looking for a children’s book from maybe the late 60’s early 70’s. It had a gold cover with dark green trees. I believe it was about trees in a forest that eventually became the manger in the stable. I can’t remember the title.
Hey guys, I am looking for a book where a girl and her grandma live in a forest in a tree and make either potions or healing medicines for the forest animals. I remember reading it a lot as a kid but I can’t remember the name of it.. hopefully you can help me!
Hello! I am looking for a Christian children’s book from either the 1950’s or early 1960’s. It had a sage green cover with two children flying a kite and was about how God is everywhere. I thought the title was perhaps “All About God” but I cannot find anything with that title. Thanks so much for your help!
Millions of Cats, by Wanda Gig? The guys not a baker, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millions_of_Cats
Going nuts. Looking for a book. 1965 ish. Boy goes to a candy store on way home from school, eats a treat and changes into something. Magical. Candy store. And then he changes back. Anytime I search, I get something new called Candy Shop War. Uggh.
Hi everyone. Looking for a childhood favorite. Its about a group of children in the new England area written as memoirs. It gives details on things like building treehouses, making maple syrup, backyard ice rinks and more. I’m not sure when it was published. Any help would be amazing!
hi im looking for a picture book and it starts with an illustration where a child lifts up the ocean like a blanket and finds a key (I think it was a key) underneath the ocean, and the book is filled with beautiful illusions like ships turning into clouds and the melting clocks etc
Hello, I’m looking for a series of 3 or 4 books my son loved reading in the late 1980’s or early 1990’s. Each book was titled something like a red, blue and yellow bus/truck. It was in paperback and the size of the book was about 9inches square or so. It was about vehicles and each book was themed around a different colour. One of the books had text about a hole in the road. Does anyone remember the title of this series or any of the books? Thanks.
Babies, by Stephanie Calmenson (not the one by Gyo Fujikawa).
Maybe this one?
“The Fly-By-Night” by Terry Jones
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1888019.The_Fly_By_Night
Thank you so much for taking the time to look for this book! Unfortunately, this is not the book🥺
Allison, we really appreciate your note. It takes just as much time and effort to find a book that isn’t quite the right one as the right one! Suzanne
The only one I can find in that time frame is:
“Toffee Pockets” by Jeanne Willis
Originally published: 1992
Poems which center on the relationship of two small children and their grandma and grandpa. Suggested level: junior, primary.
Thank you so much but I don’t think it’s this one, the drawings were by the children themselves. I’m starting to think that the book may have been older, maybe 60s or 70s!
Sorry, typo: Miss Twiggley’s Tree.
When the Wind Blows, by Raymond Briggs.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Wind_Blows_(comics)
Miss Teiggley’s Tree, by Dorothea Warren Fox.
Thank you so much!!! This is it! Best, Monica : )
From Twitter: “there’s a book my mother read to me as a kid with a woman who knocks over her beehive and is all “oh god why have you sent me all this misery” (a monkey gets involved and is torn apart by wild dogs, it’s a great book)”
I want this book very badly now. Does it ring a bell? There can’t be many children’s books with wild dogs tearing monkeys apart.
It doesn’t seem to be available right now. You can put a Want on abebooks, just search your book and follow the link. Good luck, Suzanne
Thank you for letting me know, I will do that its such a great help!
Is it like The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein?
Is it Magic Treehouse #1 Dinosaurs Before Dark by Mary Pope Osborne? They travel to the cretaceous period 65 million years ago, according to Wikipedia. I loved that book!