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i’m so happy i found y’all! this is what i distinctly remember about this book-
(mid level read, hand drawn illustrations along side story, no newer than 1999)
it’s about a traveling grasshopper or cricket who stumbles into a little bug town. they live in mushrooms or little trinkets like bottle caps. i think theirs a ladybug mayor. the illustrations were so beautiful and my grandma read it to me i would love to finally solve this mystery. thank you!
Hi! I’m looking for a kids picture book. It was about a little mouse that lives outside. I think the mouse had like a little wagon of trinkets and stuff. At one point she takes a nap on a little hammock she made. I think a strawberry or like a garden is involved. I feel like she had clothes or maybe a hat made out of flowers.
Childhood book in the 90s in my school library. Had a little girl cutout that you could move to different pockets on the pages…Thanks!
Looking for a children’s book that was in my school library I believe it was about a little girl on a magic carpet. The little girl was a cutout and you could move her throughout the pages into different pockets if I remember correctly. Thanks!
Perhaps Animalia by Graeme Base?
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im looking for a childrens illustrated book, possibly for tweens, about a girl who cant sleep at night or sleeps under the bed and maybe travels to an alternate darkly illustrated world. There are many pen like scribbles and i think she carries a stuffed rabbit. I remember it being a dark blue hardcover. It induced a feeling of isolation, thats the most clear thing i cant remember. She may have been blonde.
One suggestion: the series by Peter Dixon that starts with “Test Run.”
I am looking for this children’s book that had these beautifully detailed illustrations. Everything in the illustration started with the same letter and most of the page was the same color. I was in elementary school in the early 90s, if that helps. Thanks!
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews. (Yes – the same Julie Andrews beloved by children and former children everywhere as Mary Poppins and Maria in Sound of Music.)
The hats that Professor Savant gives to Ben, Tom, and Lindy are called “scrappy caps.” Near the end, Professor Savant admits to the Prock that the magic hats he gave the children to help them enter Whangdoodleland have no actual magic in them and were just a ploy to give the children confidence (which is the real reason, rather than his excuse that he’s grown beyond needing one, that he never wore one himself). But then it’s suggested that the hats might really be magical after all.
“Three siblings, Ben, Tom, and Lindy Potter, meet Professor Savant while visiting the zoo one rainy day. On Halloween, Lindy is the only brave one to knock on the spookiest house on the block — which turns out to be the home of Professor Savant. After a second meeting, they begin spending time at the Professor’s house, where he introduces them to games of concentration and observation. He reveals that there is a magic land called Whangdoodleland that can only be reached through the imagination, and that he is training them to accompany him there.
Whangdoodleland is the home of the last Whangdoodle that lived in the world. Once the Whangdoodle, and other creatures that are now considered imaginary, lived in our world. However, fearing that people were losing their imaginations, the Whangdoodle created a magic and peaceful world over which he reigns. The professor and the children explore this world.
Each time the children return, they venture farther and farther into Whangdoodleland, intending to reach the palace where the Last Whangdoodle resides. However, the Whangdoodle’s Prime Minister, the “Oily Prock”, does not want them to disturb His Highness, and sets up a number of traps, both in Whangdoodleland and the real world to prevent this meeting. He enlists the marvelous and funny creatures of the land in his effort, including the High Behind Splintercat, the Sidewinders, the Oinck, the Gazooks, the Tree Squeaks, and the Swamp Gaboons. The children use their imaginations, intelligence, and the friendship of another denizen, the Whiffle Bird, to outwit trap after trap, but can they reach the Whangdoodle’s castle?”
Wow, thank you, I thought it was lost forever. Been looking for twenty years. I don’t have the words to thank you, but thank you anyway!
You’re welcome! I’m so glad I was able to help. Thank you for taking the time to post back!
Long shot – but maybe take a look at We Hate Rain! by James Stevenson.
When Mary Ann and Louie complain to their grandfather about two straight days of rain, he remembers when he and his younger brother “Wainey” experienced a real rainstorm. Told in an extended flashback, his straight-on delivery of one of the wildest and silliest rainstorms is sure to delight toddlers and young children.
Grandpa recounts a turn of the century rainstorm in which it rained so hard that the water eventually started filling their Victorian house (beautifully illustrated by Stevenson). Grandpa and Wainey’s parents are as unperturbed as Grandpa is in telling the story to his grandchildren. Young Wainey inexplicably (and to much laughter from our son) says “Yump” a lot. As the water rises from the floor to the ceiling to the second floor and beyond, the two boys take advantage of their watery circumstances. Taking a bath is no problem, of course, nor are diving contests in the half-submerged rooms, sending letters by boat, nor visiting neighbors who float in and out of the house while calming seated. They’re an unflappable bunch.
However, when prehistoric-looking fish swim by, and the family is forced to the roof with one cracker left to eat, young Grandpa dives to the bathroom and pulls the plug on the inundated house. Back to the present, the rain stops, “Uncle Wainey” comes over, and the whole family enjoys some strawberry ice cream.
I am trying to figure out and locate a upper elementary/middle school boys book series from the late 1960’s to early 80’s publishing date. This series had one word titles and I believe focused on a series of adventures in and around Southern California. One book particularly focused on a dune buggy and racing, while another was the same boys grown up working as wildland firefighters. There were 6-8 or more books in the series. The covers were very flashy with neon and shiny colors.
If the man and kids are rabbits, I would suggest this book:
“Nine Rabbits and Another” by Miriam Clark Potter
You were right! Thank you so much. My 91 year old grandmother recommends the best books for my son but sometimes cannot remember the name. I’m sure y’all will see me post on here next time she recommends a good one!
You’re welcome. I still have this one from my childhood. Glad I could help.
The story is Granny Glittens and her Amazing Mittens by Gertrude Crampton, and it can be found in The Golden Christmas Book and in The Tall Book of Christmas. It may also appear in other anthologies.
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The possum story is Impossible, Possum, by Ellen Conford.
Alexander and the Magic Mouse, by Martha Sanders.
Looking for a children’s book published in the 60’s I would guess about an older woman with her hair piled high in a pointy bun that lived on a hill and it rained for days and nights. I think their was and alligator in this story as well. I can’t remember the title of this book.
Hello! I’m looking for an old children’s fiction book. The book was hardcover and blue. The plot is about a windstorm or tornado that mixed up different the animals and barns of the farmers. The farmers, animals, and barns were distinguished by color. I can remember black, red, and gold. I read this in the 80s and it was owned by my grandparents and already showed signs of being loved. Any help would be appreciated!
PLease help.
I’m looking for a book that belonged to my mother when she was small(1930-1940). It was a book of stories. The only one I remember was about a human baby being raised or taken care of by fairies. The fairies kept complaining about how much work she was. The book had beautiful pictures and was on the larger size
I am trying to locate a book 1960s/70s? About a prince who would not ride the kings beautiful horses but chose a donkey.
You guys have helped me find a book from my childhood before, so here’s another one I can’t stop thinking about:
A book for age 5-8 or so, had sweet illustrations which I believed covered the entire page, with text written on them. It was about a group of sister bunnies, maybe 5-10 of them? who lived together in a meadow. I wish I could remember more! I think the book was just about what they did together, maybe running in the meadow, eating lettuce, talking with each other. I believe they lived in a little house, not a regular rabbit’s nest. Maybe they wore clothes too? Sheesh, that’s not much information, but you guys are so awesome I’m hopeful one of out there might be able to help! Thank you so much for helping me find Poor Fish within a week of posting last year!
Looking for a book that had a little girl, a gremlin (I think) and she was trying to teach him manners at a tea party. They had tea and crumpets. Thank you!
I read this children’s book back in school and it was my favorite book but I cannot seem to find it. The book is where a teenage girl who is sick meets another girl in the waiting room of the doctors office, and the little girl tells the main character about a women in oregon who can heal. So the girl sneaks out while her dad is at work and her mom went to her aunts house. She buys a train ticket where she meets this boy who helps her get through because she was lost. He is leaving his home because he crashed his dads car and his dad is a car lover so he thought his father would be supper mad at him. After the boy takes her to the train station, the girl goes to the bathroom to get freshened up and a woman saw the main character on a missing child report and grabs her and tries to tell the police because there was money involved if someone found her. She got away by some camp counselor for these girls who would go out in nature and sing who takes her on the bus and gets her to another train station. She finally reached the healer after asking some people who were behind a dumpster and the healer cant heal her sickness. So she meets up with the boy she found on the train and they go home together.
Hello, i am looking for a youth fiction book from the 90’s, maybe from Scholastic, that deals with middle school football players and i remember a bid deal about the players not liking to eat the schools breadsticks with blue cheese. I know it is vague, but i remember reading it in upper elementary or early middle school, around the same time as How to Eat Fried Worms.
I am trying to figure out the title (or anything really) of a book I had when I was a child. I grew up in the 80’s but I would guess the book was fron tbe 60s or 70s. It was about an uptight man who owned a store (i think). And he had a lot of animals (it may have been a pet store). The main problem in the story was that all of the animals’ tails had been switched. None of them had the right tails and he needed to fix it.
Hello, looking for a collection of stories I read in the 90s but the pictures looked to be from the 60s or 70s. One story was about an opossum whose couldn’t hang on there tree so the mom put sap on his tail, another was about how girls could doctors, pilots, etc and their were pictures of the kids pretending to be those professions. I’m sure there more stories but i don’t remember them. This book was in my grandmothers house and I loved it.
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I am looking for a book- well, a series of illustrated books, of which I had only the first two or three. Here is what I remember about them:
It starred a probably orange cat orange cat, which used to be a ship’s cat. In the first book, there was a storm. The ship’s captain and some crew mates discuss life jackets, and how they won’t stop you from getting hypothermia if you get in the water. The boat is wrecked in the storm, and the cat is stranded on the coast of Alaska. He hides in a tree, and rescues two kids from a bear somehow. The kids take him home. I forgot what happens next, but in the next book, they move to Japan or something, and take the cat there. I didn’t have any of the other books after this point, but there were several more.
I’m looking for a book I read in the 90s about how rainforest birds got their colors. The colors were very vibrant and it told a story of birds bathing in paint. Some of the birds might have been selfishly keeping the paint for themselves? There may have been a toucan on the cover of in the pages. It kind of looks like “how the finch got its colors” but that is from 2016 and is definitely not it.
When I was a kid I recall my mother reading me a book about a woman who made mittens (or it could have been scarfs) and she received an order of white yarn, but she needed colored yarn. So she dyed the white yarn using things around the kitchen, which made the mittens taste delicious. Pretty soon she had tons of orders from people because everyone wanted these mittens that they could eat. I’ve tried searching for this in many different ways, but I have been unable to find it. If anyone can recall what this book might be, that would be awesome. 🙂
Trying to recall a book I loved as a young child in the early 1960s. It was about an animal (pretty sure a rabbit) who wore many layers of coats.
I’m trying to find a story book from when I was a child, that would have been published in the late 70’s to early 80’s. It was a story about a mother mouse and two children. I believe the names of the children were Stinky and Blinky. A cat got caught in a mouse trap and the kids help free the cat even though they were afraid of being eaten. I can see the pictures so clearly but just can’t remember the name. Thank you in advance for your help!
I am looking for a children’s book published mid 1970’s or earlier.
The front had a boy near a wall (stone). The wall was around a tree and possibly a house on a hill. The boy’s school might have been near too.
I think he goes over the wall and ends up making friends with the owner of the tree.
Hi, back in the early 80s I had a science-fiction storybook with pictures about a brother and sister who lived on a colony spaceship. Somehow they ended up being ejected into space, in a lifeboat or shuttle I think. They were picked up by a derelict craft populated by robots and taken prisoner but they escaped.
I remember that the artwork in the book was very well painted, realistic, with nice ships and hardware. The robots were also well designed and quite scary, with glowing eyes and mottled green metalwork.
I hope someone can point me in the right direction!
I don’t know how old this might be considered but about fifteen years ago I bought a book in Yorkshire and it was signed, pale yellow cover with a black cat and perhaps some cobwebs drawn in a sort of Nick Sharratt style. It was about a little cat who was learning to be a witch with it’s owner and was illustrated on most pages
Children’s Easter Book Inquiry
This book has a scraggly old man that the kids take in and they put him in a room to sleep and when everyone wakes up, the old man is gone and there are a lot of easter baskets left under the blanket. The kids realize i was actually the easter bunny in disguise.
I had a picture book when I was young that had an old man on a boat telling his grandchildren stories during a thunderstorm. It was the late 90’s but most likely it came from a thrift store or rummage sale as we didn’t have much money. I loved this book but it was destroyed in a fire when I was 9 and I have since forgotten the title. I have a son that I would love to share with so if anyone thinks they recognize it I would be very thankful!
Hi, I feel like I’m going crazy searching for this book, especially since my parents don’t have a clue what I’m describing! So I feel like it might have been a Penguin classics book, I’m fairly sure it was completely illustrated because it’s the pictures I remember. It may be two different stories in a collection and that’s why I remember them together, but one part was about a magic flying plate (I think it was kittens flying the plate?) and it stops flying and those riding it don’t know what to do, and the other part I remember was about a big house at the end of a street with big gates and a gargoyle, but I’m fairy certain the gargoyle was (bear with me here) some kind of invisible green lion/dragon? I can really clearly see it being green, whatever it was! I know this is horrendously vague, but if anyone knows what I’m talking about please help!
Hello! I was wondering if anyone would know a book I loved dearly as a child in the 90’s. It was about the indoor activities of a mother and daughter on a cold, rainy day. The details I do remember: when using the restroom, the mother sits on the toilet seat first, so when her daughter uses it- it’s warm. The mother also makes a warm soup for their lunch. I recall the colors of the artwork being very autumnal- greens, oranges, yellows, and despite being simplistic- very warm. Thank you in advance!
An illustrator to check out: Shogo Hirata.
I checked, that’s not it.
There was a book in which two children traveled to a fantasy land by wearing magic hats. My sixth grade teacher read this to us in about 1976, could have been 1975. At the end of the book, the man to helped them with the journey revealed that they could travel without the hats, with just their imaginations. As i recall anyway, long time ago. Anybody ever heard of this?
My friend is looking for a children’s book that her family read to her, probably from the 40s (she was born in 45). she only remembers flashes of the book: It was probably about about a fair or carnival because she remembers big red balloons on one page, a popcorn machine, and large crayons. i know this is s long shot, but thought we’d try
I had a series of paperback books as a kid published either in the 80s or 90s. The series had a standard cover of a green strip on the top and may be even on the bottom and a picture from the story in the middle. There was also a blue cover series with the same design. I think they had some pretty classic stories like The Three Little Pigs but some others that were less known. Each book had only one story, and was probably 10-12 pages. Lots of color illustrations. There’s one story that I vaguely remember as having a character had been out in the snow and had to be thawed out. I seem remember that the illustrations in this particular book had all characters mostly in profile and with ms Pac-Man type triangular mouths.
Looking for a children’s book from the 1950s called Down the Chipmunk Hole.
Hello! I just found this site while trying to locate a book I had as I kid. I believe it’s from the 1970’s or 1980’s. It’s about colour and has a little girl on each page dressed in a different colours (I.e. there is a red girl with red hair all dressed in red, and same with orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, black) they sometimes had a little pet that matched too – the little girl in black had a black cat I think.
Any help would be very appreciated – thank you!
Another possibility: Tidy Twinkle, printed in Great Britain, author unknown. This is availble as a Collins Squeaker Book (with a pressable “squeaker” in the back cover) and as a die-cut book without a squeaker.
“An endearing tale of a tidy kitten – Twinkle – and her two untidy kitten visitors – Bobbin and Bounce.”
If it might have been just a bit later (1960) possibly The Kitten Twins – a Rand McNalley Elf Book by Helen Wing.
“There were two little kittens with eyes of blue. One was named Twinkle, One was named Boo.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwLtaD_-meM
Hello! I am looking for an old lost children’s book (of course hahah…) I appreciate any guidance!
Published before 2000, but how far before, I couldn’t say. It could’ve been as old as my grandmother’s, or as recent as bought for me (born ’98.)
Art style vagyely similar to dePaola but not one of his works. Main difference in art style was very heavy stippling. The style was also more… pastoral? Folk-like? Not sure how to describe it, but very beautiful. Smaller heads, exaggerated body’s on animals, simple shapes.
The plot involved a boy (I think he was a poor farm boy) & he somehow (I unfortunately do not remember how) acquired a bottle that he could sprinkle around the farm. I remember he sprinkled it around at night on farm animals (possibly also on the crops or other things but not sure) & they grew very large. Unfortunately, I do not remember much else. I think he had to get another bottle to shrink them back down? There was a blue or purple cow or donkey, I think.
It was a picture book, approx. 30 pages (could be shorter but I don’t think it’d be longer/ much longer than that). Lost the dust cover so no idea of the cover art, but it was hardcover, bound with a kind of pea-green fabric (linen maybe?) I don’t think it has any text at all on the outside of the book; I’m not even sure if it has text on the spine. There may have been an imprint on the cover of some kind, a design, it might have been a donkey or cow (or not), but it also could’ve been completely blank.
There’s a chance it could’ve been a Polish folk tale, but that might also be a red herring (my family is Polish-American.) Thank you in advance for your time!
Looking for a vintage book my grandmother read to me. It’s about an old lady who lost her keys (I believe to her car), and ended up finding them in a tea kettle. Sorry I don’t have more details!
Some overlap with ‘Mud Puddle’ by Robert Munsch.
I am looking for a book about a kid who is in a toy store, it looks very similar to toys r us was possibly a knock off of toys r us but all I remember is his parents not giving him the toys and there’s a giant giraffe toy he wants.
I am looking for the title of a children’s book, likely from the 40s or 50s, that features a kitten/cat named “Twinkle”. It may be Irish in origin or from the UK. Will post more info if I can find it. Am searching on behalf of a friend.
I am look for an older children’s book (tweens to early teens) from around the early 1990s. It’s about two sisters who are bored during the summer until a fair (or maybe some type of rodeo??) comes to town. The older sister ends up working at the fair (possibly the snack bar) and starts dating a guy she works with, while the younger sister has a crush on a guy who works with the horses. This is all I remember!
Ann Nolan Clark, This for That (1965).
you all are AMAZING! That is IT! I can’t wait to get an old copy from ebay! thank you so much MamaSquirrel!
You’re welcome! Thanks for posting back.
If it could have been from India rather than Japan, there’s The Old Woman and the Rice Thief by Betsy Bang. (There are also other versions of the story in books of Indian folk tales.)
The old woman is upset because every night she leaves her rice out to soak – but in the morning it has gone. She sets out to complain to the Raja, but he is not there when she arrives. Along the way, she encounters a scorpion-fish, a wood-apple, a cow pat (cow manure), a razor, and an alligator. She tells each of them of her troubles, and they all promise to help her, if she picks them up and takes them home with her. When she returns home, they tell her where to put them. When the thief comes the next night, they are all waiting for him. He is stung by the scorpion-fish, burnt when the over-heated wood-apple bursts, he slips in the cow pat, is cut by the razor, and bitten by the alligator. In this version, the thief turns out to be a mouse.
In other versions of the story – such as The Story of the Old Woman and her Rice, from The Stupid Tiger and Other Tales by William Radice – the thief is a man. (This version also omits the alligator, and instead of a scorpion-fish, it has a spiked catfish.)
I have a mid 60’s childhood memory of a library book I loved to read about a boy in another country who would put what he hand in his hand down to pick another thing up as they would walk along. They called him Put-it-Pick-it. Was it so obscure that no one else had it? I would love to get a copy as I have a few of my other childhood favorites. Has anyone heard of a book such as that?
hi, does anyone remember this children’s chapter book. my teacher read it to me in the 4th grade. it was about a girl who had just moved and there was an old shack in the woods where the walls were painting as this greenery scene. everyday she would come back and she used to see movement in the painting until one day she stuck her hand in. it gradually got bigger from there where she would go into the painting.
A friend is looking for a book:
likely published between 1994-1999
“the art style is a combo of psychedelic painting and collage”
“it follows a little girl who always watches her father go off to work with his briefcase. she’s so sad that he leaves her at home that she decides to start her own company and she rises through the ranks until she’s the head of a country.”
“she becomes incredibly corrupt. she says, direct quote: “I will raise taxes 200%” and then she either falls or is pushed off a balcony and, direct quote, “falls into the sun.” two page spread of her falling from left to right with AHHHH written diagonally down from left to right.”
“she then falls into the sun where a tastefully nude sun god a la apollo or phoebus embraces her and cleanses her of her evil capitalist urges and she awakes again as a little girl whose father is coming home from work and she smiles REAL big.”
“and the whole thing is in rhyme. it was a hardback book with a dust cover. my mam, an artist, thinks it may have been a limited release in NYC from an artist or art student but i remember it had an ISBN on the back.”
“if i recall correctly it was primarily a burnt orange, but i may be recalling the opening pages which include a highly stylized sun with thick rays of varying thickness coming over green hills”
That is it! Thank you!
You’re welcome! Glad I could help. Thank you for posting back!
Hi, I’m trying to help my friend find a childhood favorite book. He remembers it as a Japanese tale that has something to do with a woman speaking to cow manure. I know it sounds ridiculous. But now that he has told me about it, I need to find this book! If anyone knows ANYTHING, please share. Thank you!
I am also looking for another children’s book. This was a series and the first had a red cover and the next one purple. It was a book about an old house this girl went to visit or stay in near the beach I believe. It was haunted and odd things happened. I remember the girl going to visit late at night in the dark
In one part she had to escape from the house, I believe a ghost was there so she needed to get out. She managed to run away.
Looking for a children’s book. The main character was a girl, I believe she had an argument with her family, possibly grandad? She stayed in her room or a treehouse. But she wanted a way to get food so she made a pulley system with rope and a basket and her Dad put food in it for her to pull up! This is all I can remember! Not much I know!
Hewitt Anderson’s Great Big Life by Jerdine Nolen.
Descended from a long line of giants, the J. Carver Worthington Andersons take their height very seriously indeed. You see, without exception all of the many J. Carver Worthington Andersons have been giants until now. And poor Hewitt—hidden in the floorboards, trapped in the flour vat, lost in the bedsheets—has his struggles being tiny. Oh, his parents worry: How will their son manage to live in a world of big things? Leave it to Hewitt to prove the power of being small.
Shoe Shoe Baby by Bernard Lodge
Shoe Shoe Baby owns the best shoe shop in town where every kind of footwear you could dream of can be found under one roof. Shoe Shoe Baby sells shoes to make you taller, shoes that hoot, speedy boots and shoes that put a spring in your step. But what does she dream of when it’s time to sleep?
Glad I could help! Thanks for posting back.
Cannot find a childhood favourite of mine. It was Aaout going to the park. It was an Interactive book: you could make ducks move so it looked like they were eating bread crumbs off the floor, there was a pop up balloon man on the last page. Another page was about finding shapes.
Loved the book so much, would love to buy it for my daughter, but no idea what it’s called
Thank you in advance
Thomas and Olivia
I’m looking for a book about a Black family where the parents are giants and the son is normal sized. The one part of the book I remember is when the family locks themselves in a room and the boy unlocks the door with his body, since he’s so much smaller than them.
Someone recently asked… “What was the first book you remember reading…?”
I am now 70 and when asked that question, my memory immediately flashed back to a story, my teacher had me read in first or second grade…
I think the title was “Pink Legs”.
It was a story, as told by a precocious puppy, (yes the word “precocious” was in the body of the text…) about his obsession with his little girl, (and, of course… only being able to see at his eye level…) her pink legs…
If anyone could point me in the direction of this story, I would be forever grateful…!
Looking for a childrens picture book, girl owns a shoe store and recalls her week of selling all the wacky shoes she sells, she sleeps in a shoe bed too??
I am looking for a children’s book about animals that give gifts to a tree. A mouse or a squirrel one gives it manure. My son was 3 and thought it was so funny. This was about 22 years ago. He is having a baby next month and I thought I could surprise him with it but I don’t remember the title.
I am looking for an illustrated children’s book about a being/person/creator/god/might have been a child who creates the earth and people (the people are each unique but also a part of him), he watches them, it looks like fun, and decides to come to earth and join them but then he forgets he created it al. I bought the book in the late 1980s at a metaphysical book store, used children’s book section. Loaned it out and it was never returned to me. This books haunts my memory.
Thank you.
Thank you so much!!!
If it might have been a hot air balloon, try Ted and Dolly’s Fairytale Flight by Richard Fowler. Ted and Dolly fly off through the clouds and over a rainbow, to fairy tale land, in search of a missing kite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jrm3yIMgk4
Amen!!!! 😁
Mimosa and the River of Wisdom by J.H. Sweet (part of The Fairy Chronicles series)
While she debates whether to use her fairy magic to help her mother stop smoking, which would cost her her fairy spirit, Mimosa and her fairy friends are sent to find the librarian of the Library of the Ages who has disappeared.
Other books in the series: https://www.goodreads.com/series/57014-the-fairy-chronicles
“The Thief of Always” by Clive Barker
I actually just read this one last week.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32638.The_Thief_of_Always
The Thief of Always by Clive Barker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thief_of_Always
You can watch the Bank Street Story Video of Mr. Bubblegum here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1aWYuKcIOw
Mr. Bubble Gum by William Hooks
Another installment of the Bank Street Ready-to-Read series features two brothers. Eli sticks so close to his older brother that he earns the nickname “Mr. Bubble Gum.” Three adventures compose this slim chapter story, all of them light and amusing, and the situations–inventing a new soft drink, a Halloween mix-up and a rescue–are sure to spark readers’ imaginations.
Hi, there is a book I remember from my childhood in the early 90s about a balloon, and if I remember correctly, children trying to find said balloon. The balloon itself was a separate piece from the book that could travel through little slots in the pages, landing in various places. One of the places, if I recall, was a cloud. I’ve been looking under various things with the title “balloon” in it without any luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.
I am looking for a book that I read in school about a boy who goes to a magic house led by a monster portrayed as a man and the house is all they could want it had multiple kids there one kid was named Lulu when they are in the house the time in the outside world was moving fast if you were their to long they turned you into a fish. Does this ring a bell
Looking for a children’s book from 1980 – 1986. About Black girl on her birthday. The only details I can remember are that she was a city girl who lived in a Brownstone (NYC?) and she was excited about the crackle top cookies her grandmother was going to make for her birthday. I can’t remember anything else but I know I loved the book.
Farewell to Shady Glade, by Bill Peet.
So grateful MamaSquirrel! You made my day! Thank you
Great! Thanks for posting back.
Maybe a Monster, by Martha Alexander.
Hi. I’m trying to recall a children’s book from about 40 years ago featuring a boy who built an elaborate trap in the woods to catch a monster. He kept making the trap more elaborate, but in the end all he caught was a bunny rabbit.
I am looking for a book that I think came out before 2008. It was about a girl (I think) who was of elementary school age. She was playing the game Life with her friend and she put 2 girls in the front seat. Her friend got upset saying she can’t do that and she said she can do that because her moms are that way. Does this ring a bell for anyone?
Hello, I’m searching for a book series I can remember reading in the 2000s about a group of neighborhood girls who are fairies. I remember that they each are a flower, like their outfit and tools and personality are themed after a specific plant (I think I can remember marigold and thistle? But more than just that). I know there were adults in the books that were also fairies and acted as guides for the younger ones. For some reason the most specific detail I can think of is one girl whose mom was a long time smoker and couldn’t quit made a deal to forget her fairy life to obtain a pill that would get rid of her mother’s addiction, and she put it in her mom’s cheerios at the end of the book. I would really appreciate any help!
I’m looking for this illustration book that had very detailed creatures in it from my childhood. This was in the late 90s/early 2000s, but I believe the book was older than that. They had long noses, long fingers, and were possibly green? but i cannot recall the color of them. For some reason I remember the male creature holding a wicker candle and wearing a night cap.
Hoping for some help…as a child – probably 40 – 45 years ago – I read an amazing group about animals living in the forest. Then, development came, and they tried to bite the big earthmoving equipment, but couldn’t hurt it, so they decided to take a train away. It mayb be a Canadian book…has anyone heard/seen it? Apologies for not knowing the author/publisher. Had wonderful pictures of the raccon, rabbit and other animals. Thanks in advance – Gratefully, Ian
Danger in the Drain Pipe by Irene Morton.
After his spaceship goes out of control and lands on earth, tiny Dagon from the planet Kranton is befriended by a group of insects.
Other books in the Dagon series include Dagon Saves the Day, A Ghost in the Garden, The Big Honey Raid, The Royal Crown Robbery, The Treasure Box, The Crash Landing, and The Spider and the Junk Pile.
Oh – this looks promising! Full Moon Soup by Alastair Graham.
At the Hotel Splendide, strange things start happening. There are tales in every room, and readers will love following all the characters from spread to spread to see what horrible and ridiculous mishaps befall them.
During the course of one moonlit night, a seemingly respectable hotel descends into chaos. How? Because the moon is full – and according to legend, crazy things can happen at that time.
The craziness in this wonderful riot of a book is high octane. Not only are there are ghosts, vampires, mummies and aliens, all causing their own particular type of mayhem, but there’s also the eponymous Full Moon Soup, a sludgy green concoction that appears to set off even more trouble as those who taste it turn into werewolves.
Bit by bit, the disasters begin to pile up until, among many other wild and whacky things, a spaceship crashes into the roof, Dracula emerges from a casket in the cellar, sheep invade the hotel, and a torrent of icy cold water pours from the fridge, complete with a polar bear and surfing Eskimo.
Long shot – but maybe worth taking a look at The Apartment Book by Leo Hartas (also published as This Old House).
The story (or stories, as the case may be) of the apartment building at 51 Albert Street unfolds in this oversized picture-book, with artists and mad scientists in the attic, sophisticated movie stars, wealthy art patrons, and two happily normal families all living their lives above and below one another. There’s even some drama down in the sewers!
The crazy shenanigans include a flood (water leak from upstairs crashing down through the other floors), alligators in the sewer, a hot air balloon crash on the roof, a scientist attempting to launch a rocket from the roof, art thieves, and a wild party.
Ok so this is a long shot but I have something stuck in my head that I need help finding. I distinctly remember when I was younger watching a story that was still pictures with the story read over it.
Anyway it was three short stories about a boy with a little brother named Eli and a nickname like mr gum (or something like that because he sticks to him like glue) the one story is about the boy and his friend Roberta (I think) trying to recreate this super secret cola recipe (this part has video footage of like real life soda bottling) and cola gets everywhere. The other story is about the boy going to get something in a junkyard and hurts his leg but his brother was following him so he gets his mother to help and the one I remember most is they go trick or treating and he can’t find his brother because he doesn’t see his mask but turns out his brother was following him home the entire time because he traded his mask for a pumpkin head. Does anyone else remember this? I know I found the video on YouTube a couple years ago but I can’t remember the title and any combination of keywords I’ve tried isn’t working. I appreciate any help, this is driving me crazy!
Full Moon Soup?
Kid Sister by Margaret Embry.
Zibby finds life difficult as a kid sister, particularly when her elder sisters object to her pet rat.
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! I believe that is exactly the one! I am now 63 and a School Bus Driver (Special Needs). My Aide who helps me kept rats as pets. I have wanted to find the book and see if I can possibly get one as a gift for her. Either way — THANK YOU !!!!!!
These were such nice thank yous that I posted all of them! I monitor this site personally and so approve posts once or twice a day (Pacific Time), so I guess you just missed the cut off. Also there seems to be a delay from the time people post to the time I view the post on Admin, which I have never understood.
Oh, once again — a wonderful side of this site! You offer such AWESOME help! I’ll keep the slight delay in mind with future posts! Thank you all SO MUCH! My Bus Aide is going to be tickled pink (or should I say green, like the rat’s tail?????) to get this delightful book! I can’t wait to see it again myself! Thanks for helping!
Thanks for the kind words. I administered rural schools for a few years and I know how great it is to even have a Bus Aide (we didn’t) Suzanne
I’m not sure what happened to the response I already tried to post but THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!! I am a School Bus Driver (Special Needs) and my Aide kept rats as pets! Due to YOUR help — I just ordered a copy as a gift for her from Etsy!!!! Original cost – .60!!! But now worth a million for the smile it will bring to my friend’s face!! THANK YOU!!! what an AMAZING site !!!!!
You’re welcome! I’m so glad I could help. Thank you for taking the time to post back!
Kid Sister. The rat is Rosemary. (My kids begged for a rat after reading it.)
Dear Mama Squirrel too!!! I’m not sure what happened to the response I already tried to post but THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!! I am a School Bus Driver (Special Needs) and my Aide kept rats as pets! Due to YOUR help — I just ordered a copy as a gift for her from Etsy!!!! Original cost – .60!!! But now worth a million for the smile it will bring to my friend’s face!! THANK YOU!!! what an AMAZING site !!!!!
You’re welcome! I hope she enjoys it.
I’m looking for a book from either the 60’s or 70’s that features a young girl (I think her name is “Libby” – for Elizabeth). She’s a younger sister and has a pet rat. Her siblings (sisters) think it’s odd and awkward for her to have the pet rat. I believe the rat is white with black markings. Something that happens in the story is she dips the rat’s tail in green ink (for St. Patrick’s Day) and it causes the rat to be more accepted. Thank you for your help!
Hello all! I’m looking for a kids’ chapter book, with some illustrations, that my friend remembers reading in the early 2000s. It involved two (or more) girls that gain the power to read minds but decide they don’t want it anymore. The solution to getting rid of it involves giraffe sweat. They try getting some from a giraffe at the zoo, but fail. Later, when they’re eating lunch at the school cafeteria, they suddenly lose the ability to read minds, implying that there’s giraffe sweat in the school food.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
A large children’s book that was mostly pictures of a hotel where everything is going wrong. There is a ufo that is over the hotel in one of the photos
Mrs. McClosky’s Monkeys by Elvira Woodruff.
The three McClosky brothers are so berserk over the prospect of summer vacation that they abandon all notions of self-discipline and self-control. After a particularly disorderly day, they begin to change into monkeys. As their behavior continues to deteriorate they grow more and more apelike. At last they decide to take up residence in the zoo. But the high jinks pall. The boys grow bored with being monkeys and return to their human forms, albeit retaining some simian aspects.
Thank you so much chanda! I’ve seen this book multiple times in my life but could never retain the mothers last name. Thank you again!
You’re welcome! I’m glad I could help. Thank you for posting back!
I remember this book!! I have a particularly clear memory of the construction site. I don’t remember the name of the book, I’ll ask my sister.
Any luck @tamsynreynolds:disqus ? I was starting to think I was the only person on the planet aware of this book. Another clear memory of the book is a grocer holding a banana and he’s shoo-ing away flies. His extended arm looks like an elephant’s trunk and the banana is his tusk. The illustrations were so amazing I can still remember them decades later. I really need to know the name/author of the book.
SOLVED! Private Zoo, by Georgess McHargue https://www.amazon.com/Private-zoo-Georgess-McHargue/dp/0001956434
Thanks for writing back and letting everyone know!
I’m looking for an illustrated chapter book I read in the 80s about a young parentless girl who lived alone in a house (or she might have been looking after a younger brother). She had long snaky black hair and used to take day-old baked goods out of the bin at the back of a nearby bakery. She was secretive and wary of being “rescued” by welfare. At one point she wants to buy soap with a particular smell as a gift for her mother, and she spends ages smelling all the soaps at the pharmacy trying to find the right one. Might originally have been written in German or a Scandinavian language (she has a friend called Birgitta, and the book definitely has a European feel).