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Edit: I FOUND IT somehow ‘Grandpa’s ghost stories!’
One book that has plagued me. It was in the childrens section anywhere from 1980-the 90’s. I was reading in kindergarten in 1990 so hard to pin down when it might have been published. It was a “scary” book about a boy (i think) who snuck out of his room and into a dark forest encountering scary creatures, getting eaten by the house(?) and wandering through until he escaped from a witch or creature. It was mostly pictures, a lot of black, dark blue and mayyyyybe yellow as the accent color. I remember it being very monochrome. The art style was unique to me at the time, I was very into Pinkerton at the time, Jumanji book, True story of the three little pigs, but I remember the book I’m looking for has monochrome line art, not as busy as the books I mentioned. I’m sorry, I was 6-10 when I last read the book, and I’ve been thinking of it ever since.
Hi I’m looking for a children’s picture book, its kind of paneled like a comic book. I read it when I was in primary school between 1997-2001 its about Halloween creatures like a spooky street village or just a spooky hairdressers or barbershop, including rhyming lines such as ‘ and here’s the werewolf getting a short back and sides’ or something like that and something about an invisible man with bandages around its head in a barbershop chair.
its kind of like this
but more cartoony
Second one might be Two on an Island, by Bianca Bradbury, if their being on the island was more accidental than running away.
This one isn’t ringing any bells, but I’m going to check it out and see. Thanks for replying!
First one: Under the Haystack, by P.A. Engebrecht.
That’s the one! Thanks so much.
One of my favorite books when I was a child focused on time travel. A young girl (Susan?) lives with her widowed father in an apartment building (large enough to have an elevator) on the outskirts of an unnamed town/city. The girl does a good deed for an old woman (crossing the street maybe) who cryptically tells her afterwards “three trips should be enough” (or words to that effect). The girl goes home and upon exiting the elevator on her floor of her apartment finds herself in a house that stood many decades previously on the site of the apartment building. Living in that house are a widow with several children and things take off from there. Sound familiar to anyone?
Hello. I’m looking for a children’s book about a mouse or a bunny, I don’t remember which, making a winter coat I think. It’s so vague but I remember the animal having to go back to the store for different things (fabric and buttons) to put on the coat. Thanks!
I remember a specific illustration from a children’s book. There is a teddy bear and he is floating in space (?) Lamenting that kids don’t want to play with him anymore because they are into video games now. I think he might have also had some computer debris with him. Should be 90s era. Teddy bear is brown and fuzzy, as you might expect. Anyone seen this?
Looking for a children’s book published in the 1980s/1990s about a woman with very long dark hair. Her hair held rivers, fish, etc. I think I remember the woman being Native American. She held the world in her hair until she brushed it out. Thanks!
Looking for a children’s book about a little blonde girl (with a ponytail, fair skin, blue eyes, wearing pants) who brings home animals. The animals she brings home are basic animals such as a dog, cat, bird, rabbit, horse, etc… The little girls name might have been Emily? Book was from between 1998- 2009
Oh my gosh !!!! That’s it !!! My husband and I have been wracking our tiny brains for months. How did you do it ? You’re amazing !! Thank you sooooo very much. I’m very grateful to you
Glad it was the right one! I searched Google Books for children’s books party “something green,” and a reference came up in a book called More Picture Book Story Hours.
Spring Green, by Valrie M. Selkowe. About Danny the duck and his friend Ricket the frog.
There are two books I remember from childhood that I would love to reread. The first has a pair of sisters whose parents just left them at home. They need to work as seasonal pickers to make money for food. They order clothes and shoes from the sears catalog. And when a social worker shows up they hide in the hay bales in their barn. The second is also about some kids who are alone. They run away to an island (in Maine??) and live there for a time. That’s all I can remember of the second book. Thanks for your help!
I’m looking for an elementary/early middle school aged book that I read in the early 2000 but was probably published earlier. The story line follows a child (or family with children but focuses on the children) on a trip (or adventure) and on this excursion they find animals that are not “normal.” The animals are common animals or zoo animals that have attributes of other animals (like horses with wings or lizards with fur, that sort of thing). And I believe in the end they try to bring one of the creatures with them but I don’t remember the outcome.
Other attributes of the book that are a bit more fuzzy in my memory are the book cover being red and the illustrations in the book are black and white. I believe that the book (or the illustration style) was at least a decade old just because it didn’t match any of the other books in my small school’s library.
I hope someone can help me because if I dreamed this book up I may be heart broken because the illustrations were so amazing.
McBroom’s Wonderful One-Acre Farm, by Sid Fleischman.
Me and Marie, by Patty McGurn.
Amazing! Thank you!!!
You’re welcome! Thanks for posting back.
Hello, Kyla, Your comment wasn’t deleted. This forum is moderated and I check it a couple of times a day. Hope you find your book, Suzanne
Hi! Looking for a children’s book possibly from the early 1990s? I remember the front of the book being bright pink and one of the first lines being something along the lines of “my hat is a cat, her name is Marie. She follows me wherever I go”
Hi, please if anyone can help…I am looking for a children’s book (possibly from the 70s/80s) that was about a red headed farming family whose pumpkins and ears of corn flew off the stalks and the family jumped on and rode them. Any help would be so greatly appreciated.
I think this is Ant And Bee Go Shopping, by Angela Banner.
I sent a comment but I think it was deleted. I’m looking for achildren’s book about being afraid of the dark or possibly camping in the dark? the most I remember of it was a little animal character has to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night while camping he has to go through the woods when he gets there he finds another animal there hiding under the sink scared as well. I can’t remember much after that the art was almost eerie ? and the cover was a dark navy blue I believe with the character holding a flashlight I cant find it anywhere please help !
I’ve been searching all over Google for a book series I read maybe around 5th or 6th grade. Can’t remember the title or author but I know it was Christian Juvenile Fiction and 3, maybe 4, book series. The main character is a girl probably about the same age, 10-12 years old and I think she had to spend summer break with her parents on location for work instead of whatever fun thing she had planned. I think her parents worked at a beach location?? Not sure. But i know she didn’t want to be there away from friends. She ends up finding a letter or something in the attic of the house they are staying for the summer, i believe. The letter was written by someone that used to live in that house and the girl goes on to discover more about the letter, the house, and uncover what ever mystery is in the letter, while also making a friend. I probably read this around the late 90s or early 2000s. Thanks for the help!
I’m looking For a book about three kids that are orphans and they’re lost down in the desert in the south and they find some Spaniard gold it’s a three part book. Would be more of a teenager book series. It has something to do with native Americans.
I’m looking for a children’s book that was about kids going to a party and they had to bring something green. The winner brought a green frog possibly named Danny ? We used to read it to our children in the 1990’s. Any help greatly appreciated
My Bedtime Anytime Storybook by V. Gilbert Beers.
“The stories feature the little adventures and scuffles of six animal friends: McWhiskers the mouse (quite obviously the author’s favorite character and the most virtuous of the bunch), Bru the bruin bear (the one who has the most lessons to learn but never seems to actually learn them), Puddles the blue hippo, Tux the penguin, KaWally the koala bear, and PJ the zebra (all of whom are definitely secondary characters to McWhiskers and Bru).”
“Cuddly illustrated animals teach children moral lessons that will last a lifetime. These original stories will delight children as they teach about helpfulness, kindness, friendship, serving, forgiveness, honesty, working together, and a multitude of other topics.”
https://media.karousell.com/media/photos/products/2021/3/15/my_bedtime_anytime_storybook_b_1615771537_f234a42e_progressive
Oh my word. You are a genius. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
You’re welcome! Glad I could help – and thank you for posting back!
The Very Best Christmas Present by Jim Razzi.
Mr. Floogle receives an unwanted cat. He repeatedly tries to give it away because, as he reminds us over and over again, “I don’t like cats!”. When he finally succeeds (by mailing the cat to the North Pole) he slowly realizes how much he really loves the cat and how badly he misses it. But happily, as you can see on the cover, Santa finds the cat and gives it back to him.
The Hat by Christine Gray.
A rhyming story of a family awaiting the arrival by mail of the mother’s new purple hat. Unfortunately, before the hat is delivered, a rat, cat, bat, and sprat (a type of fish) are brought by the postman and settle into the household. Throughout the story, the mother nervously anticipates the next delivery and imagines herself, in insets, “wearing” the latest arrivals.
The Hat, by Christine Gray.
Found these two. I couldn’t find anything about the second one listed.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2632318-the-purple-hat?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=6IfXbmO24e&rank=2
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2632319-the-purple-hat?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=6IfXbmO24e&rank=8
Found these two, but have never read them, so don’t know if they quite match
https://books.google.com/books/about/One_Cat_s_Special_Christmas.html?id=euxKEAAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2347281.Lyle_at_Christmas
Similar books we have had below. English and American publications will have different covers, images would be black and white.
Haviland, Virginia. Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Ireland./Artur Marokvia, illustrator. 1961
O’Faolain, Eileen. Children of the Salmon and other Irish Folktales./Trina Schart Hyman. 1965
Less likely but they were republished:
Lynch, Patricia.The Donkey Goes Visiting. (The Turf-Cutter’s Donkey Goes Visiting, UK)/George Altendorf, illustrator. This follows the Turf-Cutter’s Donkey 1935
Foyle, Kathleen. The Little Good People./Peter Frazer, illustrator. 1949
I have notes on these, though the books are sold, but if you don’t remember particular stories, best would be to look at the illustrator’s work on google images.
Hi, I’m looking for a book from possibly the 90’s. It was a Christmas book about a man who had a cat visit him, he sent the cat away and it would always come back and he was sick of it, on day he posted the cat to the north pole. He then realised he missed the cat and Father Christmas brought it back to him for Christmas.
I am looking for a children’s book where someone is waiting for their “beautiful purple hat” in the mail. The postman delivers all sorts of things like a cat, a sprat, a bat but not her hat. In the book it says “Oh no said my mum I can’t wear that! Where is my beautiful purple hat?”
I’m looking for a book on Irish fairy tales dated around late 60’s early 70’s, hardback we’d lost the dust cover so it was baby blue in colour and I remember something like a gold embossed picture in the centre, maybe of a figure I can’t remember but the illustrations where black and white I don’t remember coloured illustrations, could someone shed some light on this
Trying to remember author and title to a book I read in Junior High which would have been in the early 2000s. I remember the book cover was white and simple with a bird and a lone person on the cover, I think. It involved children, possibly orphans, who went to training in the art of combat, unsure if it was training as assassins. But one child from all the others rose above the rest and became stronger then any of them. I vividly remember a portion of the book when the kids were in a circle and they had to fist fight and two of the main characters were fighting and the one that the story was about was able to defeat the other that had been bullying him etc. The main character became where he was chosen or “special”., but again not sure exactly what the “group” was. I also can think that an eagle or some sort of bird, perhaps a crow, was present with the boy due to his abilities. This book was also set in earlier times not modern. The book eventually ended with him finishing his combat training and ready to lead. Any help appreciated. I really forget the main plot as to why they are training though.
I am looking for a book I had when I was little, I was born in 1991 so would have had it from about 94/95 possibly. It was about a pig getting ready for bed but it was set in the bathroom so brushing their teeth etc. He made a mess along the way and by the end the bathroom was really messy. It was a hard back picture book and I can’t remember if it was the front cover or the pig’s pyjamas that were blue and white striped. I think there was also another book in this series set in the kitchen with a red(almost pink) and white striped cover. I’ve been looking for this for ages to get for my baby so would really appreciate any information. Thanks
Looking for a book my daughter enjoyed as a child in the late 90s. Blue, hardcover — animals (Tux, PJ and Koala??) who taught character traits.. I know — not a lot to go on!
I’m looking for a children’s book that I read in the mid to late 80s but was likely published earlier. The most striking memory I have is that the whole book is illustrated in black and white except the occasional spot of yellow. It’s about a boy on a Sunday that wakes up and eats a bowl of oatmeal with honey and a tab of yellow butter in the center. He might be reading comics? Then he goes to the store. It’s raining so he wears his yellow rain coat or rain boots. On the walk, he passes an empty dirt lot with a bright yellow flower growing all by itself. The little spots of yellow in the otherwise drab world have really stuck with me. I appreciate any help.
Looking for a book read to me when I was 6-8y/o, in the 1980s, in the UK. Little boy who planted a tree that grew with colorful fruits. I think the tree grew inside his house and through the roof. I think the changing seasons were involved. I remember colorful illustrations of purples, oranges, yellows. Thanks.
i’m pretty sure it’s not written by edward but he drew covers for many, many books written by others.
I’m looking for a book that I read around first or second grade. The latest this would have been was 1982. It was a hardcover picture book with a gothic art style like Edward Gorey (maybe it was him?). Besides black and white, I believe there was a lot of purple. All I can remember of the story was a boy in a sprawling old mansion who travels through a tunnel beneath the house and comes out in the grave yard (maybe). I’ve looked for this book off and on through the years, but have never found anything like it. For some reason the images in this book left a lasting impression on my young self, and I would be grateful for any information.
I am looking for an old children book about shoes and dressing up probably from 80s to 90s. As I remember it is about a girl wearing rain boots when it was raining, trying out shoes and sandals in a shoe shop. She also wears his mummy’s clothes (a dress, a pearl necklace and a big hat) and she looked at herself in front of the mirror. I remember the cover is a bit yellowish. My memory is a bit vague but I hope I didn’t muddle up much.
Another one often remembered: What the Witch Left, by Ruth Chew.
Possibly a short story read in a book in the 1980’s but book was vintage anywhere from the 50’s to the 70’s. Might have been a school old school short story book. Anyway story is about a very smart young boy possible early teen who invents a time machine. He decides to test it by going back only a few minutes back in time. He ends up going back to the moment he decides to test the machine effectively putting him in an endless time loop. The moral of the story was that he was too smart for his own good. He might have been named Paul, I believe he had a friend coming over prior to him testing the machine. i think there were illustrations along with the story. That’s pretty much all I can remember. Please help!
Sam’s Surprise by David Pelham?
I just randomly remembered a book from my childhood. It was shaped like a chocolate box and was, I believe, red. Had purple tissue paper or looked like purple tissue paper inside the cover? It was a box of chocolates full of gross things, like grasshoppers and garbage. I think the chocolates had little lift up flaps that would show you what was inside.
Topsy Turvy books by Stephen Cosgrove. Cooty-Doo and Crick-Ette is one you may be thinking of, Humbugg and Snugg is another. He wrote a LOT of them, though, I know there’s more than 20!
Hi, I’m looking for a book we read as a class in year 3 😂. All I remember is that there is a boy and I want to say his name is jack but I’m really not sure but I know that there is also a girl called pumpkin in the book. I know this really isn’t much to go on but oh well.
There are a lot of books that use the seven-league boots. Here’s one possibility:
“The Two Princesses of Bamarre” by Gail Carson Levine
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/183656.The_Two_Princesses_of_Bamarre
Hi i’m looking for a set/collection of books from a “book club thing my Grandfather did for my daughter 1989-1992. The were about a world of Bugs, and they had 2 stories in each so you turned the over and the other was there, They had Cricketty, Humbug, and the end of each story it said something bout the ‘In the Land of more than small,there lived Bugs that’s all.’. I thought they were called “The Bug books” but nothing comes up!!
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I am looking for a book I read in elementary school. It’s about a girl who has a magic boot, only one, and when she takes a step with that boot she travels 7 miles
Geraldine Belinda, by Marguerite Henry.
This book was mine in the ’80’s. It was about a little girl who is unhappy about being put in an itchy dress to go to tea or lunch with someone. She meets a rumpled old man who uses big words and they escape over a fence or under a hedge, and he uses very big words.
I remember reading this book in the late 70’s. Its a childrens book.
Its about a girl who wants to dress up as a witch for Halloween but becomes sick with a sore throat. There is a Halloween party at her house but she has to stay in bed. She gets on her broomstick and flys above the party and looks at how much fun her friends are having. She is afraid her friends may see her flying above the party so she goes back to bed only to wake up & realize she was dreaming. She also has a cat. Im pretty sure it was in black & white & also when she wakes up it mentions her vaporizer was still bubbling right next to her bed.
Mr. Pudgins, by Ruth Christoffer Carlsen.
I am looking for a very old book that was bound with each page uncut. The story goes like this- a little girl has several pennies and wants to go to the Notions shop and get dollhouse furniture. She puts her pennies in a little coin purse and puts on a muff and goes to the notion shop, where she buys several pieces of furniture as well as a candy stick. The propieter rolls of a piece of paper into a cone, instead of a bag, and places her items into the paper cone and she skips home avoiding all her friends as she goes because she does not want to share, or play, or be nice.
She gets home, discovers she has dropped everything from her cone along the way. She cries. Someone’s at the door and it’s all her friends she was mean to bringing back all her dropped toys and candy. So she decides they were nice and she will play with them after all. It’s a very old book, maybe 40s? Not sure
Cover was hard and reddish. I am recalling this entire story from memory as a child I do not know the author.
I’ve never been able to search this up online! Please help?
I am looking for a children’s book about fairies. I was born in 1984 but nothing sure when the book was written. I probably read it when I was 6. I remember it was a tall book with a hardcover. The book was about fairies with big heads and long lanky bodies and big feet. Their wands had different things that they symbolized like a flower for example. I remember they had to use their wands to fight evil that was trying to take over. The fairies looked cartoonish and reminded me of ballerinas. Each fairy was a different color too that went with their wand motif. If you could help me I would love to share this book with my daughter.
I am looking for a children’s book I read in early elementary. It had a pink cover and it was a hardcover and paper book that was about a princess i think. I have tried Google and I have not found any that look the same. It wasn’t a bright pink but more of a light pink. She might have been going to a ball and getting ready.
I know it’s a long shot, but if any of you know the book I’m thinking about that would be great!
Looking for a book from maybe the 90s or 80s. It’s a “lift the flap book” shaped like a house that combines all the fairy tales like Little Red Riding Hood, Gingerbread Man, 3 Little Pigs
I’m looking for a fairy tale book I read when I was a child (probably around 2000, early 2000s time frame). It was an illustrated Chinese fairytale (at least the illustrations were Chinese, the fairytale itself might not be). It was a Cinderella-esque story about a girl who is abused by her stepmother. The girl falls in love with a guy (maybe a prince?), and the stepmother is furious that they are in love. For their wedding, she gifts the girl a poisoned comb/hair ornament thst curses her and turns her into a bird. I don’t remember how it ends, though… I think the guy breaks the curse by pulling out the comb that was stuck in her feathers or something? Or maybe she dies? I can’t remember, I feel crazy!!
I am looking for a book that I would have read in preschool/elementary school. In it I think there are three animals each making a cake for a fourth animal’s birthday party. One makes a cake shaped like a triangle, one makes a cake shaped like a circle, and one makes a cake shaped like a square. They put all the cakes in a pink tote bag and take them to the party. When they get to the party, they find that all the cakes have molded together into a weird shape. Their fourth friend loves it and they have a good time. For some reason the pink tote bag is quite vivid in my mind haha. If I remember correctly it was more of a rustic art style with humanoid animals like William Steig?
I’m looking for a young adult book I read around 2006 and was trying to find online for a long period but have since then forgotten all of the details. Sorry this is really nothing to go on but maybe somebody has a guess for me. It was a dystopian YA novel and I think it centered around a teenage girl/girls. I think that the cover was possibly a cloudy indistinct white/gray and green, landscape like picture and it may have been smallish and more squared off (like 5x6in.) My lasting impression was that the plotline was just so underwhelming, anti-climactic and understated.
The setup was a carefully constructed dystopian situation that might have had something to do with pollution, poisonous smog, pandemic, nuclear fallout or a similar disaster that made most of earth uninhabitable and killed most people (?) and they may have lived underground in a bunker in a desert. I think it may have also had a cult-like society where the kids had to follow rules and tasks that to the reader seemed ridiculous (similar to Ender’s Game or The Giver but it felt like a much smaller scale, with more anachronistic primitive technology and a sense of cabin fever and being isolated?) The plotline might possibly have been a typical YA plotline with teen kids’ friendships but most of all I remember it being a vividly specific future scenario with soviet/censorship vibes with a “memorably un-memorable” plotline that was hauntingly forgettable in a way that made the set-up way more creepy!
I am looking for a book that I read in 3rd or 4th grade in about 1962. It reminds me of a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle book that I read at the same time, but a kindly old man was the babysitter, and kids came to his house where funny things happened. One of the stoies was that it was an upside down house where kids stepped over the door top, and could play camp out around a campfire with the ceiling lights which were on the floor. One story was that the faucets all around the house malfunctioned and each dispensed a different beverage.. one sink had.. grapeade, the bathtub had orange pop, etc. They had to cook dinner using the “water “from each spigot, so they had orange mashed potatoes. I’d love to share this with my grandchildren, bvut can’t for the life of me remember title or author.
I don’t know the book but it sounds awesome. The hide and seek game is called Sardines here though.
Thanks Glenn. I’ll add “sardines” to my search terms and see if that snags anything.
…. I’m sorry but we do not post individual contact information on this forum. I think if you sign up for Disqus, they will notify you if there is an answer, otherwise check back. Suzanne.
This sounds SO familiar!
Is this is?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64744.Ice_Cold_Birthday
I’ve read something like that recently, but I’m sure that kind of thing is mentioned in a lot of books. I can’t remember what book I read it in, but I think it came from one of these series:
https://www.goodreads.com/series/50390-beyonders
https://www.goodreads.com/series/43365-fablehaven
https://www.goodreads.com/series/96069-spirit-animals
It would help if we knew the year it was printed/you read it. Also, was it a board book, or was it just a normal hard cover book? Was it just about cats, or were other animals/people involved?
The Story of Live Dolls?
i am looking for a book I read in 7th or 8th grade which would have been between the years of 2012-2014 and it was about either a single kid or a group of kids who went mountain biking and got lost and or stuck in the woods or whatever. I have been searching for some time and can not seem to find it if anyone has any ideas let me know!!!!!!!!!
I looking for a children novel about girl who moved and lived with grandmother some times and learned from her more experiment ,i think a bout flower and seed
Looking for title of a children’s book.
It was about a girl who’s birthday party was cancelled due to a snow storm, I think the name was Jeni?
The family made her a Oreo (or some type of cookie) ice cream cake I think? It may have been a 7th birthday.
GUYS HELP!!!!! I want to know my first ever book I’ve read. All I can remember is that:
– It is a tall book which is the biggest thing that sets it apart from the other books I reckon (I’ve attached an image like it below)
– It is a hardcover with a bumpy texture
– The cover has 2 cats in a tree
– Its a children’s picture book like the pages only have a few words on it a
– The style of the illustration is like an antique style of art (also attached an illustration of a cat in the type of art style the book is in)
I’d appreciate it SO much if someone could help me find it
Oh my goodness! Yes! That is it!
I realised I must have mixed two booked together! I found the one with the title I was thinking which was a Puzzling day at Castle McPelican.
But this is the images I had in my head!
Glad I could help! Bamboozled was a favorite at our house. My boys loved it!
looking for a book I read in 5th grade (around 2014–2015) but I can’t remember much about it. The main character is running through the woods and is describing how he held a fist so tight that his nails cut crescent moon shapes into his palm. He’s talking about his dad. Something about a cliff.
I wondered if anyone could help track down a book from my childhood in 90s UK? I remember it involved balloons, possibly collected while going through their town, and unless it is a false memory ‘up, up and away’ appeared somewhere but have not got anywhere with that through online searches. There was a whole string of people who then tried to catch the children holding onto the balloon to get them down (policeman etc) but not managing and joining a whole chain of people attached to the balloon.
Solved on another board: Hank and Frank Fix Up the House, by Joanna Cole.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3926598-hank-and-frank-fix-up-the-house
Hey hope you are all well.
I’ve been racking my brain trying to find my childhood book but I can’t remember the title or the author, I can only remember vague bits of the book like a penguin saying “aw push off” and pushing a character off the page and Cinderella getting arrested at the end of the book. I think it’s a fairytale book but it’s funny and nothing goes right in the book. (90’s/00’s era)
I’ll be so grateful if anyone can find me the book.
Thankyou so much for taking your time out to help me.
OK, I think I have tracked it down: Healthier and Happier Children Through Bedtime Meditations and Stories, Volumes (Books) 1 and 2, by James O. Perkins and Lee Perkins. Volume 1 includes “Sammy and the Mouse,” and I think Volume 2 includes “The Last Present.” The two appear to have been packaged as a set. Some listings say “Prayers” instead of “Stories,” but the photo of the plastic case says “Stories.”
I am trying to find a book I read as a child in the 1950s that was written early in the 20th century. This is very vague, but I think it was about a little girl who found an enchanted doll at the gate at the end of her house.
Probably The Magic Tunnel by Caroline Dwight Emerson, very popular as a Scholastic paperback.
Yes!! Thank you!!!! I’ve been trying to think of it forever! 🙂
Thanks for writing back! Enjoy your book, Suzanne
A child leaves his home out in the middle of nowhere in the dead of winter, I think to go look for his dog, or maybe his sister. He ends up hurting his ankle, and then the details get really fuzzy.
Update: I think his younger sister ends up dying out in the snow or just never was found
I know I read this book in school when I was quite young, maybe 2005-2010. It could have been older than that but I’m pretty sure not.
I don’t remember what the book looked like as the teacher read it aloud to us.
I know I didn’t give enough details but that’s all I can remember I was really young. I figured I’d try to post what I remember here on the off chance somebody knows what book I’m talking about
The book itself might be Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816486.Nightmares
The Wizard, by Jack Prelutsky.
The Wizard, watchful, waits alone
within his tower of cold gray stone
and ponders in his wicked way
what evil deeds he’ll do this day.
Looking for a book that I read back in the 1970s. It was about a brother and sister in NYC. They got on the subway, which malfunctioned and ran backward and crashed. When the climbed out of the tunnel they were back in early NY when Peter Stuyvesant was the “mayor.” The kids were Dutch and wore wooden shoes. They had to try to figure out how to move forward in time so they could go home. Does this ring a bell with anyone?
Trying to find a children’s picture book. Story is about 2 brothers that are painters. A lady hires them, but they go to the wrong house. The man is mad about them painting it but they don’t stop. In the end they paint this older man’s house in a safari theme. This makes him happy because it reminds him of his younger days. The older lady is happy they went to the wrong house because she realizes they wouldn’t have painted get house like she wanted.
Try this: Scrapyard, by Andy Soutter.
A long shot, because the title isn’t even close – but maybe take a look at Bamboozled by David Legge? Your description of the illustrations sounds like it could be a match.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF-L1x7mhmM
Hey,
I’m looking for a book that read to me by a teacher in perhaps 1992/93. I reckon it was published in the early 90s, late 80s at most, though I’m unsure.
It is a picture/rhyming fantasy book, about witches, wizards, magical beings, etc, each having a page or two with its own dedicated poem.
The pictures were beautifully illustrated, and black and white, and, in my mind, very similar in style to the
cut out circular cover art of Gregory Maguires “Wicked” (I will try and post an image of that for reference)
The book was probably just over A4 size wise, and I only saw a hardback version.
One poem i remember was called “The Wizard”, maybe? It spoke of as wizard who lived in a tower. I have false memories of it’s words, but it was something similar to:
While the watchful wizard waits
In his tower with creeky gates
Thinking up new spells to brew
To cast down upon me and you
I only ever saw this book once, at school in England, so know it’s a long shot, but any help would be appreciated!
Solved on another board: Sunshine, by Jan Ormerod.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/761699.Sunshine
Hi. Im trying to find a child’s book that I used to read to my daughter in about 1989/1990. All I remember is that it was yellow fronted. It was about a bear called susie/suzie who hid and it was lift the flap….under the flap you would be looking for susie and the last line was There she is. Susie was a bear
I read a book about a child who accidentally disembarks a train at a scrapyard and encounters another child (possibly a girl) who lives there and has figured out how to see the scrapped car’s memories. It culminates with a black car (I think with a German name, like “Kopf”) and the girl turns out to be a manifestation of the car’s memory. The book ends with the child meeting the girl as an adult.
Two on an Island, by Bianca Bradbury.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1764210
Hello–I’m looking for an annual which belonged to my mother. It probably dates from the 1930s. In it is a story about a homeless boy who sees a toyshop window. Later he returns to the store and the owner allows him to spend time with all the toys. He leaves and is found frozen to death with his family. I read it as a small boy, in the 1950s and it made a great impression on me about poverty and inequality. I’d love to find a copy of that annual. Peter
I had a Christmas book when I was younger and it had gold pages and i think it was red and it was a really thick book and it has different stories in it one of them being a girls grandfather who was Father Christmas and another one about a Christmas tree that gets chosen and what happens to it. I really want to find it because it would bring back so many memories
There was a book I used to read when I was a child in the early 2000s where a girl makes a beautiful picnic, but all the animals around her steal all the food – but when they see her crying they make all the food again for her and sit down and have a giant picnic all together – tried searching for it but can’t find anything. The original book had really beautiful painted illustrations.
First one could be Augustine, by Melanie Watt.
Maybe: Louis the Fish, by Arthur Yorinks.
The story is Basti’s Song in Altorf, by Johanna Spyri. The book was likely her book Red-letter Stories: Swiss Tales.
Thank you so much!
You’re welcome, and thanks for posting back!
Mr. and Mrs. Pig’s Evening Out.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3047897-mr-and-mrs-pig-s-evening-out
Wow! MamaSquirrel you are good! Thank you. You answered me what no google search could do. Did you have to spend a lot of time working out what novel my request could be or did my description narrow it down a fair bit. Is this a novel still read to children today?
I think it’s come up before, but I couldn’t remember the title. I tried a search using the words children’s books babysitter wolf (when “fox” didn’t turn up anything), and that was the key.
I read this book a lot in the late 2000s, it’s about 3 girls, one of them I think was called Grace and she had a yorkshire terrier plush, the other two got actual dogs in the beginning of the book. They made a dog club and right afterwards they ended up in a new world where the toy terrier came to life, I remember a hotel being the main location. There was also a website for the dog club made and I believe the book cover was a dark pink, I hope someone can help me find it, have a good day!