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I can’t find a description of it, but there aren’t all that many books with “chocolate mountain” in the title and in the correct time frame, so maybe take a look at The 20 Ton Chocolate Mountain by Helen Muir? They guy on the bike holding up the picture of the mountain could be an explorer uncle.
Tickle’s Tale by Stephen Cosgrove.
High in the hills of the Land of Later on the Island of Serendipity lies the castle of the wistful Wizard of Wink, the master of illusion and magic. Here too lives a wonderful white cat called Tickles. The wizard has but one simple rule: never, ever play with his magic. Alone, and wishing for a saucer of milk, Tickles learns that rules have reasons. You’ve got it backwards, though – his tail gets longer at the end and is always in his way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap2R4YTJeLo
Oh my gosh! Thatās it! You are an absolute wonder.
Lazy Tommy Pumpkinhead by William Pene DuBois.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUQaVcUTc_A
YESSSS!!! Oh my gosh, THANK YOU!! This made my day. š
Glad I could help! This seems to be a popular book – we get a lot of requests from people trying to remember it.
Thanks for taking the time to post back.
Thanks, but no that’s just about lots of ordinary tortoises bought from pet shops.
I’m with Suzanne Price, I think it’s the Bremen -Town Musicians and went looking for that title before I saw her answer. There are so many publications! Filtering to year range in Google Books search might narrow the versions down to the years you think.
This version from 1964 has no Baba Yaga feet, but the art style has that feel
Seeking a book about a Jewish child that survived the Holocaust. I think the author was Jack Cooper? In reading the story, the child’s name is Jankel Kuperblum?, and you realize it’s the writer with a westernized name. You would think I could find it, but so far, I cannot. Any help appreciated.
Hard to say without a better description. Was it just the goose, or were there other animals or people, too? Was it a realistic goose or anthropomorphic? Did it wear clothes?
Here are a few possiblities from the 1950s (or before) that are neither Petunia or Mother Goose. (Have you ruled out the other Petunia titles, such as Petunia Beware, Petunia and the Song, Petunia’s Christmas, Petunia Takes a Trip, or Petunia, I Love You?) There are also multiple of versions of the fairy tales The Golden Goose, The Goose Girl, and The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg.
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Tell Us a Story by Allan Ahlberg. The story about the cat is titled, appropriately enough, “The Cat.” The book has been reprinted several times, with different cover art.
The father’s initial attempt at a bedtime story spins on a pig who gets so fat that he can’t eat while sitting down anymore. So the pig stands while eating. The children object. And so begins the conversation of the second little fable, “The Cat”:
‘That story’s no good, Dad,’ the little boys said.
‘Tell us a better one instead.’
‘Right!’ said Dad.’
‘There was once a cat who ate too much and got so fat he split his fur which he had to mend with a sewing machine and a zip — The End’.
The accompanying illustration is of the cat, round as a ball, trying to zip his fur over his y-front underwear.
https://imgur.com/a/UfyqOvc
This looks promising! Take a look at The Very Best Doll by Julia Noonan (2003).
You can read it at the youtube link below. The picture with the mud cake is on the second page.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpl0IKu9yUQ
THIS IS IT!!!!! Your made my whole month! Thank you so much sweet person!
You’re welcome! Glad I could help. Thank you for taking the time to post back!
Hi I am looking for a children’s hardcover red book about girls from different cultures/countries from the 60’s Sorry I can’t recall the author or title
These are both older books, but it might be worth taking a look at them anyway:
Maybe Cotton Top by Jean O’Neill? Sarah Jane – called Cotton Top – is a little girl who lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains. She doesn’t have much, but counts her blessings and appreciates everything she has. When her city cousin, Serena, comes to visit, Cotton Top envies her cousin’s pretty clothes and fancy doll – but when she trades her beloved rag doll for her cousin’s fancy doll, she discovers that she can’t do all the things that she could do with the old doll.
Another possibility might be Ukelele and her New Doll by Clara Louise Grant. Same basic plot – Ukelele is given a beautiful new china doll, but discovers that she can’t play with her the way she can with her old doll, so she goes back to playing with the old doll. The old doll is made of wood in this one, not a rag doll.
If there might have been other animals in addition to the whale, possibly The Animals Who Changed Their Colors by Pascale Allmande.
The polar bear, whale, tortoise, and two crocodiles try to imitate the parrot’s beautiful colors, only to discover how impractical they are.
Girl sees halos of color around peopleās heads, lives on an island, has an encounter with a bear ā¦
I remember reading this book pre 13years old, and I can only remember bare threads of it. The threads that come to mind:
1) pretty sure she moves to an island
2) she can see peopleās auras, or if itās not explicitly stated as an aura, itās like a halo of colorā¦ and Iām pretty sure the halo color changes when that person is in danger?
3) thereās a boy her age that is of interest, he has a regular color halo ( maybe blue? ), but then he goes out on a fishing expedition and before he leaves she sees an ominous halo color indicating heās going to die / be in danger on this trip.
4) I know thereās a bear involved. Maybe at the beginning? And she crosses paths with it and itās intimidating.
I know the book isnāt āAuras and Other Rainbow Secretsā by Lila McGinnis. Does this overall plot sound familiar to anyone else?
Hi,
Iām looking for a book about a girl whoās dad told her and her sisters to make something beautiful. I donāt remember all the details but I know that both her sisters make towers out of shiny things to reach the moon and the sun. Iām pretty sure the first girl has a box of things from her mom that she uses to plant things.
Hello! I’m looking for a picture/chapter book I read in elementary school in the early 2000s. From what I remember, it’s about a pair of siblings who’s uncle is an explorer and tells them about a chocolate (or candy) mountain. The uncle disappears, so the siblings follow a map or clues to find him at the chocolate mountain. An element I remember is “I spy” questions throughout the book, where it will ask the reader questions like, “Can you spot the uncle’s monocle?” And the object would be hidden somewhere in the room or setting. I do not know the title or author, but the phrase “journey (or adventure) to the chocolate mountain” sticks out to me. Thanks so much in advance!
I’m looking for a book about a boy living in Nebraska, possibly Omaha Book was probably published sometime between !930-1950. One chapter was about a skink.
Thank you!
Harry and the Terrible Whatzit, by Dick Gackenbach.
There’s a series about a talking tortoise named Homer:
https://www.goodreads.com/series/283197-homer-the-tortoise
Ooh yes that looks like the answer! I will investigate further!
Hope it’s the right one.
“The lion that flew” by:Reeves, James
With the help of a magic ring, Toni turns a stone winged lion into a flying lion that takes him and his cousin Bianca on a journey from Venice to France to England.
Date:1974
Hi! I am looking for a board book that had a button to push to make the telephone ring and it was about being too busy and she would call them back. Any ideas?
Someone over at Loganberry Books was looking for this one! Commenter Melissa identified it as ‘The Animals Who Changed Their Colors’ by Pascale Allamand: http://w1.loganberrybooks.com/stumpthebookseller/?p=7565
Please help! I have been trying to think of the name of a book from the 70s about a boy (I think he has messy hair, wears striped PJs) who won’t get out of bed. The bed tips him down into a chute where a machine/robot dresses him. He goes in upside down and the machine is brushing his feet instead of his teeth. Later the machine makes breakfast (I’m remembering scrambled eggs?) on his feet because he’s still upside down. What is the name of this book?!?!
So I’m eating a Nutty Buddy right now and I immediately remembered reading a book from years ago. I believe I was 3-5 when I read it so it’s very hard to remember exactly everything about the book. What I do remember about it was the Nutty Buddy part, I believe it was a group animal children having a sleepover and one of the kids mentioned something about “can I have my Nutty Bar” before bedtime. I know it’s a very very vague memory and I doubt it’ll be found and I’m ok with that but if someone does happen to find it… Thank you, thank you, thank you!! š
esiotrot by Roald Dahl
This was a book I had growing up in the early 90s. It was about this beautiful white cat that had a really long tail. I remember one of the pictures it was on a book shelf and the tail was hanging over the side. I think the cat possibly lived with a magician and it ended up getting into trouble and itās tail got shortened. I remember the pictures were really pretty and we had others by the same author.
Thanks for letting everyone know!
That sounds like the Bremen Town Musicians. I found a Pinterest page of them of all things, but Google images will also work. Tenggren’s are nice. https://www.pinterest.com/inkspired/the-bremen-town-musicians/
A children’s picture book I’m pretty sure was from around the 1970s of a kid who wants to go to the zoo but all the shadows he sees in his daily life already look like jungle animals. e.g. the shadow of his cat next to an indoor plant looks like a tiger stalking in the bushes; a tall woman’s shadow looks like a giraffe, a guy’s shadow on a motorbike with a big mane of hair looks like a lion; machinery on a building site looks like dinosaurs, etc. The cover I think had a boy (and maybe also a girl) with scruffy hair building a model rocket ship and the shadow looked like a monkey/gorilla/ape/s of some sort. Pretty sure it’s from the USA. Beautiful retro color illustrationsāas in it had a 70s aestheticālike possibly some of the characters were wearing flares/fashion of the day. When the boy returns home at the end of the day after viewing all the ‘animals’ his parent/s ask him if he wants actually go to the zoo and he replies with something like “No thanks, I’ve just been”.
Thanks, hope it turns up! We tell you the name and from these it will be easy to find on Ebay or Amazon. Suzanne
This one was a favorite of my siblings and I growing up in the 80’s. But I just cannot remember the name. It’s one about kid who absolutely hated it when his mom ask him to go in the basement to get I wanna say potatoes or peaches or some food along those lines and then there was a monster in there and maybe he kept the monster or something and kept him hidden there…
Sorry I can’t remember a lot. Hopefully someone will know what book I’m talking about though. Thank you!
Iām looking for a book from my childhood I think called the whale who wanted to change his color about a whale going through a jungle with different colors and I want to purchase it
Iām looking for a book from my childhood I think it was called the whale who wanted to change his colors about a whale that went through the jungle and had all the colors of different animals on him and he decided he loved himself as he was originally Iām wanting to purchase a copy for my children if anyone comes across one Iāll buy it !
No, the doll was definitely buried. I think it was something about the British coming and the little girl was worried about her doll. Then years later this little girl comes along and hears the story and tries to find the doll. It could be as much difference as 80+ years later. The mystery was solved a great many years after the doll was buried. Her cloth body was gone, it was just her china parts. And the bowl with the bunnies decorating it was important to the mystery. It might have been a bunny platter or big plate instead of bowl, but there was a hole in a rabbit’s leg and the map was wadded up in it. I wish I could remember more details.
The Wooden Locket, by Alice Alison Lide.
Martha ā¢ 9 minutes ago
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am trying to find the title and author/illustrator of a children’s book
that I read (probably published in either the 50’s or early 60’s). How I
would love to see that book again! I am an artist and what I remember
is an illustration of some animals (with maybe a child too) standing on
top of one another in order to reach up to peer into the window of a
hut in the forest. I think I recall that it was possibly dark out and
the window cast a glowing light from inside. There may have been
illustrations of the tree roots tripping up the characters on their way
through the forest. Possibly the hut stood on chicken feet (like a Baba
Yaga hut), because I remember seeing that in some book as a kid and
being impressed to the point of having dreams about it, but not sure if
that was from the same book as the one I am seeking. I was very
impressed by the artwork as a child (and still remember it at age 69!),
but do not remember the story itself anymore. I believe the book was a
hardcover, possible a larger format and square? I remember sitting on
the floor up in the attic looking at that book, and it must be about 60
years ago! I don’t know if the book was from our local library or if we
owned it, just that I loved the color illustrations.
Iām looking for a children’s book about a man who would polish everything for the king, he would polish the flowers that only came out at night. These purple flowers, he would shine everything he could find, then one day he shined the floor so much so the king couldnāt chase him and he escaped.
I canāt for the life of me remember what itās called.
Maybe Boy of the Pyramids (1952).
Doll and tea set sound like Magic Elizabeth, although other details don’t match (no bunny bowl, no map). Could you be conflating two books?
You found it on Stump the Bookseller! Thank you so much! My description wasn’t the best but I wasn’t too far off. lol
MamaSquirrel on March 3, 2022 at 8:17 am said:
Margaret Pope Trask, Three for Treasure
Hereās the Kirkus Reviews description of Three for Treasure:
High Over, Vermont, is another name for paradise according to Lissa
and Daniel Duffield. It is the home of their grandparents and the
perfect place for two curious youngsters to spend a summer. Even the unwelcome presence of goodnatured clinging Martin Hatch cannot dim their enthusiasm though both children are certainly disappointed to see him. Reluctantly they include Martin in their games and projects, the most exciting of which is the discovery of Aunty Mellyās diary written when she was a little girl and indicating the general whereabouts of Arabella, a precious doll containing a silver teaset. After writing to Aunty Melly, the children receive an answer leading them to the treasure. Yet a much more valuable prize is in the offing. As Daniel and Lissa get to know Martin through the mishaps and pleasures of summer escapades, they come to know a kind and generous child who is no longer an intruder. Though Lissa refuses to sell the antique teaset to persistent Mrs. Plum, she gives it to Martin ā as a token of her own newfound generosity. There is warmhearted humor in this story and children as real as their readers ā children who grow as a result of their experiences.
Probably ‘Princess Nevermore’ by Dian Curtis Regan (1995). Backup option: ‘Of Two Minds’ by Carol Matas and Perry Nodelman (1995).
I thought of ‘Yesterday’s Doll’ by Cora Taylor, though it only matches partially.
There is no magic or otherworldly parts to this book though. I THINK the little girl learns about the doll through either an old letter or a diary she reads. I really wish I could remember more. Its a chapter book and was probably for tweens, so we are looking for a paperback. Although it could have come in a hardback. But its not a picture book.
I have been trying to find this book for years. It is centered around an african american boy, and his father. His father teaches him about how seeds and beans are able to grow into bigger plants. They make a small garden somewhere near their home (they might have live in a city, so they did it on their apartment roof/ balcony, but this part I do bot quite remember), and the book shows illistrations of what it looks like underground while they are growing. It is not in a typical cartoon style, rather the pages have some abstract forms of art used to create the setting and show how the plants are growing. I read this book in early 2000’s, so I am guessing it came out around that time, or late 90’s.
Hello,
I’m looking for the title of a book I read as a child in the 1970s, though the book itself must have ben written much earlier. What I remember most vividly is an old mansion with stone lions flanking the entrance. At night, the stone lions come to life and carry the children (child?) places.
Any idea which book this might be?
I also remember some kind of white magic gem stone (a moonstone?). Though it is possible this is from a different children’s book.
Hi, looking for an 80s kids middle school/teen time travel book.
The main character was a teen girl with dark hair who lived with her father. Mother possibly dead.
The girl found an old clock and discovered if she set it to a certain time she would wake up the next day in the future of past.
She went back to experience life as a baby.
Then forward in time to discover she had married her current boyfriend only to find he was very controlling & opened her wardrobe to find only modest grey dresses as he didnāt allow her to wear red.
Needless to say she broke up with him.
Anyone have any recollections of this?
Found it!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1928435.Changing_Times
Not quince and quail, though, so maybe not.
One of the Frances books, maybe? Bread and Jam for Frances describes school lunches, and Best Friends for Frances has picnic food.
Could be Maraboe and Morsegat, included in this book of fairytales by Godfried Bomans:
https://archive.org/details/wilywitchallothe0000boma
Thanks so much for your reply! I am looking for my mom. She read the book in the 50s so I donāt think this is it. BUT- it was part of a book of stories so we are getting closer. šš
As a child in the 1970s, in the UK, I read a book (it would probably have been one with chapters) where someone’s pet tortoise could talk to them (because it was magic or something). It was wise and I think it had an ancient Greek sounding name like Achilles or Pythagoras. I don’t remember anything else about the book, except that it inspired me so much, I persuaded my parents to buy me a pet tortoise – because I secretly thought mine mght talk too! It didn’t.
The book might have been from earlier than the 70s as my parents owned a 2nd hand bookshop.
I am looking for a childrens book with many stories in it from the 50’s or 60’s. It had winkin blinkin and nod and the princess and the pea and some story about goblins too
can you help?
Iām looking for a book in the uk about a dad reading stories to his children. One story was āThere was once a cat that ate so much and got so fat he split his fur which they had to mend withe a sewing machine and a zip. The end ā There was also a story about a cow and other animals. Anyone heard of it please?
Hi there! I have been trying to find the title or any pictures of this book I had when I was little. It was about a little girl with a old rag doll who got a newer better doll but she still loved the old doll. I remember her playing in the mud making little cakes. Itās either from the 90s or early 2000s. I know this is next to no information which is probably why I canāt find it. If anyone has any ideas it would make me happier than I could even express to maybe find it again. Thanks so much.
It was a story about a little girl who was lost in the woods somewhat similar to Hansel and Gretel who started eating candy treats on a witch’s house in the children’s classic tale. In the story I loved so much, as I recall, it was an adorable black cat that caught this little girl’s attention. Soon she was surrounded by cats. Of course, the witch was a mean one. She made the little girl work and work and work. She had to dust and sweep the floor and make the beds and feed the cats and collect the firewood and do all of the bidding for the witch who was always ordering her around. The little girl loved the cats and gave them loving attention whenever she could, petting them and talking to them. The day finally came when the little girl, carrying a bucket of water, accidently tripped, spilling the water all over the floor. Some of it, probably a good amount of it, splashed on the witch who began simultaneously yelling at the little girl and melting into a puddle right before the little girl’s eyes. Of course, that pleased me, but what pleased me even more was that all but one of the cats the girl had loved so very much turned into children. The witch’s spell, you see, had turned other lost children into cats. Thus, they were not recognized by their parents when they came looking for them. Now her spell was reversed. Now the children could return to their grieving families. But what of the cat that didn’t turn into a child? It was truly a cat, and it went home with the little girl who had saved everyone from the terrible witch.
I read a book to my kids in the 80s and 90s, probably from the UK, that had little animals seeing what they had in their lunch baskets either at school or on a picnic. Beautifully illustrated and mentioned interesting exotic food
Looking for a book probably written in the UK about little animals in school or on a picnic and they see what they got for lunch, things like quince and quail. Beautifully illustrated and fun exotic foods. Read it to my kids in the 80s and 90s
So do I when I’m doing the admin work!
there was a childhood picture book of mine which has been pestering me for weeks:
it was about a family of rabbits/bunnies and the two children begin an argument, to which the sister says that the mum does not love her brother, the brother gets upset and runs out the house, he then either falls into a bramble bush or out of a tree, and is returned home, his dad is a doctor, and hes treated with ice cream.
thought the title was along the lines of: brambles and blackberry pie or something?
I am not sure where to start. First of all, I think it was one of those books where a little girl is sent to a relative for the summer. This book would be from the 80’s at the earliest. Not sure on that. But during the time she is wherever she is – and it IS in the country – she finds out about a doll that’s been lost for a long time. Its a china doll and I am pretty sure a tea set. Again, not positive, but I think the doll was buried to protect her from something real or imaginary. Somewhere in the story there was a bunny salad bowl with a hole in one of the bunny legs. A map or directions of some kind were wadded up in that hole. I am nearly sure it was a Scholastic book. I don’t think it had very many illustrations, if any. It was such a sweet book, I would love to find it again.
I’m looking for a children’s chapter book that was published probably in the 1910s to 1930s. I can’t remember the title, but it was bound in cloth with a pasted-on bright picture of a young woman with long blonde hair and 19th century ‘poor servant’ clothing. She’s sitting on the ground in front of a hut, sewing blue ribbon ties onto a pair of reed shoes she’s woven herself. The story was about how she escaped some bad situation, living on her own at the edge of a marsh. I think maybe she was waiting for her father to come back from war? I’m pretty sure the story is set in France. Thank you for any suggestions! Tess
I’m looking for a novel, 1960s or earlier, set in ancient Egypt in the time of Khufu. I think the main character was named Setna, but I’m not sure. He lived with his father, who was bitten by an asp. It might have been a mystery. Might have been a Scholastic Book. Maybe 4th or 5th grade reading level.
Does anyone remember any 1950s children’s books about a goose (not Petunia or Mother Goose)
Searching for a 1950s book about an immigrant child from Eastern Europe who was given a wooden locket by her grandfather. The locket had seeds from “the old country” glued inside, which she proceeded to plant in his memory (I think). The immigrant family might have spent time in a “displaced persons” camp before arriving in the US or Canada. Regrettably, I cannot remember the name of the book or of the author. Help! Please!
Hello again, I love this website! Would you please help me find a book I loved when I was about 10 around 2004? It was a young reader’s chapter book about Easter. The illustrations were drawn in a realistic 90’s cartoon guache/watercolor style and the story centered around a boy age 8 or 12ish with short brown hair and his mom and I think older sister (I do not recall there being a dad.) I think they visit the city (possibly NYC) for Easter and I think they had used a letter with a handwritten drawing in order to find the right row-style house, the house with the red door. The boy is possibly visited or “Chosen” by the Easter Bunny in some way and has to find eggs? The book had a mostly white cover and was regular book-size and I remember the illustrations being really beautiful with the painted eggs and the furniture/rooms. The book also might have had a “i-spy” game component. If you find it I will be so thankful! I love reading all these stories on here when I’m bored.
Does anyone know this book, probably published in the mid-late 90s. The cover is like the girl looking through a well or into water or something and the world is reflected back to her but somewhat changed. Like if you turn the book upside down, it’s makes sense too. The girl lives in a society where everyone is a realty warper, I think. And she is maybe a princess and meets a boy from another society or kingdom where everyone has some other power? Maybe to do with water? And the reveal in the end is that the king they are fighting is actually her and she changed the world to suit herself?
hi, looking for a childrens book. dont remember much about it, only that it was a collection of short stories. one of them had a kid who sold bubblegum to his friends, but to hide the evidence asked another friend to hide the money in a trashcan. there was another where a kid has a cavity in his tooth and hears scary stories about the dentist, so he tries everything he can to cover up the cavity.
I’m looking for a book of short horror stories I read a few years ago but I can’t really remember much from it. In one of the stories, a girl bought(or stole idk) something from a garage sale and after she touches it, everything she sees that leaves her line of sight will disappear. That story ended with the phone ringing in another room so her mom left to go pick it up and ended up disappearing. There was another story in the book where a girl was babysitting a kid and took him to the park and inside the slide was a creature that turned kids into insect-like creatures. That story ended with all the little insect kids pushing the babysitter down the slide so that she could become one of them. In one more story, a boy caught a fairy and kept it in a jar. He fed it insects and he was unsettled by the way it ripped off their heads when feeding. It told the boy that it could turn coal into diamonds so the boy decided he wouldn’t set it free. When it showed the boy the diamond it had made, the boy was disappointed by the size of the diamond so he went to bed. However the next day he found out that the fairy had used the small diamond shard to cut through the glass jar and it escaped. It ends with the boy not being able to sleep at night anymore because he fears the fairy will come back for him. There are a lot more stories but I can’t remember them clearly- one story might have had something to do with a lawnmower, in another someone’s worst nightmare was a person turned inside out, in another a boy’s room was overrun with caterpilars. I’ve been trying to remember the name of this book for about two months now cause I really want to read it again and it’s driving me crazy- please help.
A friend is looking for a book which he has the following memory of:
The book was a picture book. It was about a dad building a
house. Each page started with the premise of āWhen I was 4 we built
thatā¦..ā āWhen I was five we put up the wallpaperā¦ā etc.
The pictures were these crazy depictions of the dad doing everything
totally wrong. The wallpaper covered up the couch and the furniture and
everything possible. The chimney was this twisting brick thing that went
on and on up in the sky, at such an angle the picture showed them
wheeling a wheelbarrow full of bricks up itās twisting length.
I’m looking for an illustrated cheldren’s book I had in the late 1950s or early 1960s, but I don’t remember the title.. It may have belonged to my Dad when he was a boy. It was about a man who had a pickup truck and I think (but not sure) owned a gas station. The last page described the man and his wife sitting in the truck under a bright moon. I don’t remember much more than that, but I loved the book and would like to find a copy.
Looking for a kid’s picture book from I BELIEVE the 1980’s (maybe earlier) about a boy who goes on an adventure through the snow leaving little flags behind him as he goes so he can find his way back. I think he packed himself a picnic basket for the journey. It may have had strawberries in it, but that might just be the red color of the flags.
Could it be “The House of Dies Drear” by Virginia Hamilton?
Does anyone remember a children’s book from @ 30 years ago about a family of little people (not The Littles and not The Borrowers) who lived in a big family’s country house. There was one evil little person who would make the mother want to clean all the time so she wouldn’t spend time with the children because she was so tired. They went on a family picnic away from the house and the mother was fine until she went back into the house and started cleaning again.
The Trek by Ann Jonas
Maybe ‘Houdini the Disappearing Hamster’ by Terence Blacker?
Could be ‘Old Magic’ by Marianne Curley.
YES!!! That is it. Thankyou so much.
‘Mandy’ by Julie Andrews Edwards?
Iām looking for a childrenās book that was published in in the late 70ās. It was supposed to be a sort of āhow toā about various activities and hobbies for kids, but it was actually a satire. Your guide through the book was a fellow in a long powdered wig who had a long fancy-sounding name ending with Esq. I remember in the section on stamp collecting, the guide advised that you must find an upside down airplane stamp to start your collection. Pretty sure it was a hardcover. Wish I remembered the name or the author! Thanks for any ideas you might have for locating it.
Hello!
Looking for a picture book that I had in late 90s early 2000s. It had a tree on the cover and I think that lightning knocks it down in the story? It was a fairytale type where an old man with a Really long beard is trapped in the roots and can’t escape. It isn’t Snow White and Rose Red (though I used to love that one too!)
I’ve been trying to find out the name forever and wish I could remember more!
Looking for a 1949s or ’50s book who is rewarded for brushing her teeth and washing her face. Her mother takes her shopping for gloves and a purse and her father gives her a bunny.
Looking for a book,
Itās a kids picture book.
It had a girl eating a cherry pie on the front cover, and she shared it with all her friends at schoolā¦
Iām looking for a childrenās book about a little girl who goes to an amusement park with her parents and crawls up into a giant egg(? Statue?) and gets left in the park. Her parents end up finding her. All I remember is blonde hair (for sure) and a hot pink stuffed animal (I think) Probably around late 90s, very early 2000s.
Hello! I’m looking for a book that I used to read when I was little, probably around 2007-20010, It was a book of illustrated children’s stories, I sadly cannot remember how old the book was as I was roughly 6-9 years old, there was one story about a cat, he went fishing but was captured by some knights (they were all cats), he was taken to a king who was going to have him killed or just kept underground in the dungeon, the cat then had to escape from underground. That’s the only story I can remember from the book though, I’d appreciate any help I can get with vague details such as these, thank you!
I’m looking for a book my mom is looking for. She told me that it’s about a little girl who looks in a store’s window, looking at a doll set she really wanted. Then her mother made the doll set for her out of paper. i think it was at least pre-1980.
im not sure when this book was published but I read it maybe 4 years ago, it was about these 2 boys who live alone in a cottage in the wild and winter was coming so one of them had to head out for a few days to collect food to last them over the winter months. While he was away a red dot in the sky appeared and over time grew and made the whole sky red. I hope someone recognises this and helps me out, cheers
Could be What Then, Raman?
https://kidsbookswithoutborders.wordpress.com/2018/02/24/what-then-raman-a-book-review/
“Maybelle the Cable Car” by Virginia Lee Burton
Maybelle loves to carry people up and down the hilly streets of San
Francisco, until the City Fathers decide that she should be taken out of
service in the name of progress.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8158510-maybelle-the-cable-car
If it’s a very old book, it might be The Little Lame Prince by Mrs. Mulock (Dinah Mulock Craik) originally 19th c but republished in different formats many, many times, and with the author’s name cited differently. From our notes “How an exiled prince, who could not walk, used a flying carpet to recover his kingdom from his uncle, the wicked usurper. A political fairy tale that is still absorbing.” You probably weren’t too interested in the politics as a child, but you might remember that he was exiled and shut up in a tower with a fairly mean nurse.
Interesting. Goodyear rubber (tires) in particular. It happened in our town and now they are putting the trolley back for a tourist attraction. I’ll be looking to see if it’s found. Suzanne
I am looking for a book that I read to my daughter back in the mid 90’s
There is a little girl with red hair (we think) who is in her room going to bed and has a dream/nightmare about a witch. we think the dream takes place in a forest. it is a picture book that we used to get our library in hardback.
I remember in the 50’s there was a childrens book about how the streetcars were driven out by the Bus companies. Does anyone recall?
Looking for a book about a baby hiding…one of the pages says…is the baby behind the curtain? You look behind the curtain….and the baby is not there..this was purchased in the early 90’s
Found this one:
“Ben on the Ski Trail” by Leonard Shortall
Ben learns to ski, the snowplow, how to turn, how to ride the rope tow, and after much practice is ready for the trail with his teacher. However, he finds himself
racing down the slope alone.
https://archive.org/details/benonskitrail00shor/mode/2up
Hi there, I’m looking for an early reader which I believe is a collection of short stories. My Father in law remembers reading it as a child & I would love to hunt it down for him. One of the short stories was about a cook who was working for loggers/miners?? A bear tries to get into the camp kitchen and so begins the story and shenanigans of the cook vs. Bear. I do believe he mentioned a part in the story about the bear chasing the cook up a long beam or pole? Any direction would be so greatly appreciated. Thankyou!!
Looking for a specific copy of Sleeping Beauty. Probably printed somewhere between 1960-1990s, with earlier being more likely. Die-cut, board book in pastel colors. Illustrations are very cherubic looking, and the cover is of “sleeping beauty” aleep on her bed.
I am looking for the name of a book I read in the late 60s – early 70s about a young boy who loved to read. Details: he wrapped up some sort of meal maybe in banana leaves. He walked vast distances to go to his job. He saved his coins feverishly to collect enough to buy a book.
This may be a faulty memory but I seem to remember him walking through a jungle. It was set perhaps in India or Africa…..
Would you know of a child’s picture book from probably 1970, 1971, 1972 in which a little child goes to a star? I loved that book but it didn’t belong to me. At the en dof the story th echild is sitting on the star.
Also, a very very old book that a nun donated to the primary school library about someone flying out their window on a carpet? I found the Phoenix and th eCarpet but not sure that’s it.
Thanks
YES!!! Thank you so much. As soon as I saw your post I knew that was it.
Many a night I would stay up late into the morning reading that.
You’re welcome! Thanks for posting back.
I Will Not Go to Market Today, by Harry Allard. About Fenimore B. Buttercrunch.
Could be Trouble River, by Betsy Byars.
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Looking for the name of a book of a rooster who just wants toast woth strawberry jam but every time he trues to go out something prevents him from getting it (like a broken leg). Does anyone remember this book?
I am looking for the first book I read as a young person back in the 70ās. It was about a little boy in Vermont who was determined to learn to ski and he would sneak out and climb up the ski trail and ski down in the moonlight. Later he described very well how the old rope two worked taking him up the mountain. The book had such great detail that it really left an impression on me that I could ski and started a life long enjoyment if skiing for our entire family, despite being based in Texas! Iād love it for our grandkids now! ššš
If you’re signed up for Netflix they’ll notify you, otherwise come back in a few days and see if anyone recognized it. If you have trouble finding your old post, email me [email protected] and I will look it up for you from the admin search which is much easier to use. Thanks, Suzanne
Looking for a book from around 1980’s possibly, about a boy and a woman who I think was his grandmother, they lived beside a river and a flood is coming so the boy builds a raft and sets out on journey to outrun the flood. Raging River, Roaring River, something to that effect.