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I’m looking for a children’s book I read in the 1950s or early 1960s. I don’t think it’s a Little Golden Book (although it might be), but it is similar in size and length, and I remember that it was displayed on the same revolving shelves that the Little Golden Books were displayed on. On the cover, there’s a giraffe and a little girl dressed in a Victorian-style lavender dress with ruffles and frills, and they are at a table having tea. The book is (I think) about the many problems you might have if you invite a giraffe to tea. The title might be something like “Never Invite a Giraffe to Tea,” but when I search for that, nothing comes up.
This is a long shot, but is it possible you’re combining details of multiple books? I know this is long, but scroll down through all the descriptions and linked pictures – maybe something will ring a bell?
The giraffe and girl(s) in frilly dresses could be The Giraffe Who Went to School by Irma Wilde (1951). In this book, Alice the giraffe leaves her zoo home to visit a nearby school. She has trouble fitting in because she’s so tall that her head bumps the ceiling and she can’t fit in the chairs, but when disaster strikes in the form of a strong wind that blows away the girls’ Maypole, Alice rushes to the rescue. She is decorated with flowers and ribbons and the day is saved.
Having a strange animal to tea can be found in May I Bring a Friend by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers (1964), where the little boy is invited to tea by the king and queen on multiple occasions, and each time brings along an animal friend – including a giraffe, an elephant, and other creatures.
There is also The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr (1968) which has a similar cover to the one you describe – except, of course, it’s a tiger rather than a giraffe – and the girl is dressed in 1960’s style, not Victorian. This one may be a bit too late to be the one you remember, though.
Finally, there’s My Little Golden Book of Manners by Peggy Parish, with illustrations by Richard Scarry (1962) which does feature a giraffe shaking hands with a little boy on some versions of the cover. (The book also includes a little girl and a variety of other animals in various social situations.)
Loved it! There’s the core of a unique collection, Chanda.
Hi there. I’ve been trying to identify a book from my childhood. It was a large-sized hardcover book, with a tale that took place in either China or Japan. Figuring that out would be easier if I remembered even a single character name.
Story: In a long-ago era, three young sisters (probably 14, 10 and 6-ish?) are ordered by the Emperor’s wife (or some important bigwig) to the palace to see if they’re suitable wives for her three royal sons. Neither the girls nor their parents are happy with this, but must be obedient.
At the palace, the boys are nice enough but the Wife (maybe queen?) is imposing and judgmental. She also tells the girls that if they become royal wives they may never see their parents again. This horrifies them, and the Wife says okay, she’ll allow one visit, but if they wish to continue such visits, the girls must each return with a specific gift, which the Wife identifies only by three oblique clues.
This is really the meat of the story: solving the clues. Each one appears to demand the impossible. One is “A light that shines [or glows] but never burns.” Another is something about a breeze that blows but stays in the same place–I think–and I don’t remember the third.
I think the items are “paper lantern” and “fan” for those two riddles. The third… maybe a parasol? Anyway, the girls figure the riddles out and provide the gifts. Wife is mollified and impressed, and the girls’/boys’ marriages are duly arranged.
The year range would be from 1965 to 1975. It was a gift to my sister and we were of reading age after 1972, but I’m including the earlier date just in case it was an older book. I don’t recall if there was a jacket or not. I remember the cover as a coral red with imagery on the front of the three sisters, inked in black with perhaps jade and ivory accents? Within the book were lovely line drawings with I believe watercoloring for dresses, faces, makeup and so on. Thanks very much if you can help! This was a lovely book.
I’m looking for a chapter (YA) book that I read in the 1970s about a girl who had a magic key that she dropped down a storm drain, and then it reappeared in her room later that day. That’s all I can recall!
What the Witch Left by Ruth Chew.
What the Witch Left by Ruth Chew.
Katy’s aunt has left some very strange things locked in a drawer… Things that look ordinary but are actually magic! When Katy and her friend Louise unlock the drawer, they learn some very interesting secrets, but they also discover that magic causes a lot of trouble— especially now that Katy has lost the key! Her aunt is coming to get her stuff back, and if she’s a witch, she won’t be too happy.
The key eventually turned up in a tin box (also from the drawer, of course) that Katy had forgotten about and left under her bed. The tin had the power of “finding” lost items. I believe the girls had previously discovered that power when they found a missing glove inside it. (The gloves gave the wearer the ability to do things – like drawing, sewing, weaving, or playing the piano very well. It had been lost when the girls used another item – a pair of 7-league boots – to visit Mexico.)
It was The Bravest Knight/ The Terrible Troll.
I’m looking for a book I recall from preschool. All I recall is that in the beginning, two friends stick together through thick and thin all the time. At the end of the book, they stick together through thick and thin almost all the time. They had some sort of growing experience.
I’m looking for a book that was read to me as a child so it can’t be any more recent than the 1980s. It was a book where animals told each other stories. One of the stories was told by a princess who had been transformed into an ape. She still had a ring which became important towards the end. It probably had an animal motif that would have caught my interest. I’m grateful for any help.
I am looking for a book that was about a little boy and I think they were animals. But it was about breaking a pole and not wanting to get in trouble. It also had like a disk that read the book too you.
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I am looking for a childrens novel from 1920s to 1940s period. It was a story about a sick boy who had to spend his days in bed. He had a magic book that transported him to other parts of the world where he had adventures and he was healthy again. I can’t remember the name of the book but I do remember it had beautiful colour plate illustrations. I think 4. One for each part of the world he visited. I also remember one adventure was to an alpine region wnere he met a girl called Heidi. I have been looking for this book for 30 years and would be very appreciative of anyones memories.
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Hello, I am looking for 3 books I read back in 1992 to 1998. 2 of them were kindergarten books that had mini stories inside. I remember 1 being called The Sun (I think). The cover was like a redish pink and had the Sun on it. The second book was called The Moon (I think). The cover was bluish purple and had the Moon on it. I attended St. Francis Xavier Catholic School in North York, Ontario Canada. I remember 1 of the stories was 1, 2 buckle my shoe, 3,4 shut the door 5,6 pick up stickes. Also the book taught us about things being over, under, inside and outside using a cartoon drawing of a baby elephant. The 3rd book was also a storybook with mini stories inside but possibly I was in the 2nd or 3rd grade when I read it. It had a story about a halloween party and a girl opened the door and let a real witch in but she didn’t know it was a real witch until the end of the party when the witch left.
I’m looking for and old anthology. Oversized, orange, a picture of a large tree on the front- possibly one many had tried to chop down until Boots came along with a magic ax. It contained a story of a hungry traveler who can to the door of an old woman making poppy seed cakes. Each cake she made was too good to give to the hungry man. Eventually she turned into a woodpecker. I think it also contained “The Princess on the Glass Hill. One where Boots told the magic axe to “chop,chop”. It was probably published in the late 40’s or early 50’s. My favorite story book as a child.
From Suzanne: I’m listing these together as each has a few different details:
I’m looking for and old anthology. Oversized, orange, a picture of a large tree on the front- possibly one many had tried to chop down until Boots came along with a magic ax. It contained a story of a hungry traveler who can to the door of an old woman making poppy seed cakes. Each cake she made was too good to give to the hungry man. Eventually she turned into a woodpecker. I think it also contained “The Princess on the Glass Hill. One where Boots told the magic axe to “chop,chop”. It was probably published in the late 40’s or early 50’s. My favorite story book as a child.
Hello All. The children’s novel that I am looking for is I believe from the 1930’s about a man who falls down from the moon. He is round only, like the moon, with a simple face, and stick-like arms and legs. He is on a search for green cheese, as it is plentiful on the moon. I think he befriends animals, starting with a bunny. The book is about 5″ wide by 7″ tall, maybe about 100 pages, with adorable black and white very simple illustrations. I remember the cover to be light green. I seem to remember that it was called “The Man in the Moon.” It is not the Sarah Comstock book, “The Moon is made of Green Cheese,” but perhaps it was written after the Comstock book, for a younger crowd. If anyone can help me, I would very much appreciate it, as I have been searching for it for years.
Hello, I’m looking for a book that I read between 1998 to possibly 2004. It’s about a girl who goes through a door in a I think garden wall and ends up in another world. She meets a boy who becomes her travelling companion and she has to go on a journey to defeat a magician/magical dude. As she goes through her journey she starts ageing and her travelling companion starts getting younger. She battles the magical dude and finds out that they had a previous history. This is super random but I remember at the end of the book when she goes back to the real world there’s a scene where she is looking at a baby in a pram and there is a gecko/lizard in the pram…I think it was insinuating that it was her travelling companion from the other world.
I borrowed the book from my school library, and I remember it had a door on the front cover with some foliage and possible a small gecko/lizard somewhere on the cover. Although this was a long time ago and my memory could be a little off.
Hello, for years I’ve been searching for a book I read and reread in my grade school library. The school hasn’t been able to help. It was a horse book and likely published in late 50’s early 60’s. The main character was an orphan who inherited his uncle’s thoroughbred farm which I think had oak in the name. All the horses were named after oaks in some way. The wise old trainer had kept the promising two year olds from being sold and the hero bonded with a gray colt while one of his orphan buddies that came to help on the farm bonded with a black one and of course there was a dramatic race at the end. I wish I could remember the title or at least character names.
Anyways, I would be ecstatic if someone knew of the book.
Betty
I am looking for a book with a rabbit I believe as the main character. Basically, he goes on a long winter trip to find something. I remember along the way he meets a bird and I think a tree breaks and falls onto his friends house? Something really distinctive I remember is the squirrel or chipmunk family running a white mitten over everything on thanksgiving? to ensure that it was clean and there was no dust. Thanks for any help! I read this back in 2012-2013 I would say, but it was a short story/novel and it might have been a part of a series. The cover is white/yellowish off white and its a paperback from what I remember.
I’m looking for a children’s book with a king being offered various gifts. I can only remember the first gift being toads and snakes, which made the king declare “THROW HIM OUT!”, and the third gift being a tasty peach. There was also a donkey and rabbits about to be made into a stew.
I can remember the whole story but not the title of the book.
It was all centered around a character (dinosaur or monster – I can’t remember which) who was going to throw a party. She cleaned all day until her house was shiny, she baked the perfect cake, she put out the perfect tablecloth, and at the last minute she realized she should take all the thorns off the roses. The roses started to die without their thorns and I think in the end her friends might have helped her tape the thorns back on the rose bushes.
If anyone knows the name of this book I’d be SO grateful. I’ve scoured Google multiple times with no luck and it’s driving me crazy. I really want to find this childhood book again.
Thank you!!!
Hello again…I’m looking for what is probably a YA book, from themid 1970s/early 1980s era. It is about a high school rock band…it doesn’t go far until a new kid in town called Lucky joins. One of the songs they do that becomes a hit is called “Ballad Of The Cold Cash Mine.” I believe the band was also called Cold Cash…and for 40 years thought that was the name of the book, too, but searches are coming up empty. Any ideas?
Hi I read a book back in 95 when I was around 12 years old call Troubles with Gwen.
Hello I’m looking for a Book from the 90s call Troubles with Gwen.About a new student name Karen whose brand new to the school , Everyone welcomed her to the classroom and made her feel like she is at home except for Gwen.
Looking for a children’s book of poetry probably published in late1940s or early 1950s. Contained “Wynken, Blynk and Nod”, “The Owl and the Pussycat” and I believe “Jenny Kissed Me” My mom read these poems to us each night, was a thick book with black and white illustrations perhaps.
Hi please help me. I am looking for a SPECIFIC book collection of fairy tales, folklores, Brothers Grim etc. This particular collection did not have an illustration for a book cover, instead all of the books were dark green and had somewhat gold trim. I think some of the titles of the book were like Behind the Garden Wall or In the Meadow (something like that). What stood out is on the inside of the book cover there was a painting of several different story book characters heading inside of a castle. Some walked by road, others by boat or flying, and then the book collection/stories grew more advanced as the number grew higher. I remember reading so many enchanting stories like “Snow White and Rose Red,” “The Snow Queen”, there was a story about a girl’s hair who was a golden blonde and she gave it away to make waterfalls. I would really love to find this edition of the stories. Any help is appreciated!
The Book Houses did have people moving along a road to a castle, but I’m only familiar with the early ones. Later ones were published and perhaps did have airplanes!
It sounds like “The Witches” by Roald Dahl. I think so.
Hi I am looking for a children’s book, from the 1990s. It had a boy, a dog, science and magic. Also it had no pictures, it was very descriptive.
Somebody’s Horse?
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/319443.Somebody_s_Horse
If you can remember specific song titles, particularly unusual ones, it would help with a search of the Worldcat database.
I’m looking for a children’s novel, written probably 1960 to 1970, about a girl and her brother living on their own on the streets of a city (Los Angeles?) having lost their parents. I think they might have been hispanic but I’m not sure. I remember a bit where she obtains a small piece of soap and makes it last and last.
Hello, I’m looking for a copy of a treasured nursery rhyme book that was given to me in the early 1970’s. The spine was burgundy and the cover was a beige/taupe. No picture on the cover…it was like a synthetic grainy leather. It had beautiful pictures that looked like watercolors along the lines of old “Dick and Jane” books, but finer. It seemed to be from one of those collections that you would order as it had my neighbors name stamped in gold lettering on the lower front right hand corner. I was very little, but my memory tells me it was about 12×8 and maybe about 1.5-2 inches thick. I think is was published in 1960 or 1961.
I loved this book and kept it safe and would love to share the beauty with my children. It was sadly donated to my aunt’s church book drive. Any help or clues where I could find a copy would be great. Thank you.
Here is a picture I found that is one of the pages:
I’m pretty sure you are looking for the poetry volume from the Childcraft set. Try doing an image search for Childcraft poems, and see if any of those illustrations look familiar.
Ok this is based off a super vague memory that randomly popped into my head but it was a kids chapter book and these children were trying to stop the bad ¿guy? From turning everyone into an ice statue. The whole town was freezing and snowing and they sled outside the castle and I think there was some scene involving them using snowballs to fight back. Idk it’s just really bothering me that I can’t remember more or what the book was. If anyone has any idea that’d be great
Hi. I’m looking for a book that’s about a boy with glasses (not Harry Potter) who has powers and I think he was kidnapped by a witch or something and she wanted to eat him to get his power? I could be remembering that part incorrectly.
I’m looking for a book from my childhood that was about a human boy and girl who had a blue skinned elf friend that had to disguise himself as human at some point. I only vaguely remember it so I don’t know what the name of it or the author of it is.
I’m looking for the Songbook we used for Music class in the mid-60’s. I can remember many of the songs, but not the name of the book. Any suggestions how to find?
Thank you for your suggestion! That unfortunately isn’t it, but I was able to track the book down. Editing my original comment to provide it. Thank you again!
In search of a horse novel from the 90’s. The main character is an orphan or a runaway who befriends a red chestnut and names it Cinnabar. I believe the cover has the girl and horse on it. I do not remember the author but believe it was probably a Scholastic publication. I have searched high and low for years to no avail. Hoping someone here can help.
Thanks for writing back… that’s helpful for anyone who recognized your query. Suzanne
I’m looking for a book about a little girl whose favourite doll was destroyed by her dog, Pippa. Only the head survived but the girl refused to throw it away and instead put it on a stick and wrapped in cloth so it was still her doll. The doll turned out to be a magical one (enchanted princess?) and she could take the girl with her into different places while the girl slept. I also remember the pictures in the book were like ink drawings and the characters on them had old fashioned clothes and hairstyles (late nineteenth/early twenty century).
Hi I am looking for a book and it seems impossible to find. My mum used to have a book and all I remember is the little girl was Abigail and she had a stuffed crocodile or alligator and it grew when it got wet. I also remember in the book it says well well well Abigail could anyone help please been searching for weeks
Could it possibly be Zack’s Alligator?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110598.Zack_s_Alligator
Its a very similar story line but it isnt Zacks alligator x
I am looking for a picture book from fifty years ago, at least. The Enchantress. It was about a princess, a talking cat, and a flying sea shell. Black and white illustrations. The book cover (I think) was a yellow color.
I’m getting a snippet of a story about a princess who wants to be left alone to study sorcery. It also involves a prince who “(almost accidentally) found the huge rose in the garden of Joskin the Giant, the Remarkable Cat of Brummagen the ogre, and the flying seashell of the Mancunian Dragon, and in so doing makes the Princess the Victim of her own…”
But no title yet.
OK, got it: The Enchantress, by Edgar Parker.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21446724-the-enchantress
The Enchantress, by Edgar Parker.
I’m trying to remember the name of a book that was in my primary school library. It’s a picture book about someone ( a grandma I think) looking back on her childhood. One of the brothers becomes a sailor and her sister grows into a lady “and had us all to tea.” Any ideas?
Paul Rogers, From Me to You.
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Hi, I have been searching for a number of years for a book I read as a child. It must have been in the early 2000s, it was a seek and find book about a girl who couldn’t find her cat and the book went through an adventure about where the cat went/slept/etc. The cat was found on each page and the scale of the illustrations were similar to Where’s Wally. There was another book by the same author about the same girl finding her dog, again a seek and find book. I seem to remember the cat having a name like Chip? Bip?! I can not find anything even resembling what it looked like though!
I’m looking for a book about a boy and his mum living in a tower. There are rats at the bottom and pigeons at the top, the roof had aerials described as sticking up to the sky or something like that. She gets fatter as she eats more cakes. It starts off idyllic and ends up dystopian. I feel like the book is named after the tower block, which has a grand name, like Worlds End or Tower End (I feel like the tower was futuristic and very tall too, the builders wanted it to be utopian, but ended up dystopian). I think it’s an older children’s book. It’s not Boy in The Tower. Thanks!
Solved on another board: Mercedes Ice, by Philip Ridley.
Hello, I am looking for a book that I read as a young child in the 90s. I was born in 1992, so I’m guessing it was published in the 80s or early 90s. The book is a bilingual English/Spanish book about a little girl and her grandmother. The grandmother only speaks Spanish so she takes the girl to the store with her to translate. The grandma will say a phrase such as “tres naranjas” and the girl repeats to the cashier, “3 oranges”. I specifically remember them mentioning oranges (the number might not be 3) and ice cream. The book Is meant to teach young children Spanish.
Try this one: Abuela, by Arthur Dorros. (If they go flying.)
I was actually about to find it, Grandma’s Helper by Lois Meyer
Thanks for posting back!
Hi, I’m looking for a book from my childhood but the details I remember are fuzzy. I’m sure the main character was called Tilly and she might have been a hippo. She trashed her house, pulled up the flowers and all sorts and then got cross that someone had ruined it, but it was her. This would have been in the early 90s probably but the book may well have been older.
Yes, it’s also called 2 Voracious Bears! I discovered that title as well and I think those will both be important clues- thank you!
I’m a child of the ’80s and recall having a much-loved picture book with characters that were children dressed like different animals where only their faces were visible. The drawings were very sweet and included characters dressed like a teddy bear, dog, cat, etc. I think the cover may have had a lot of blue on it? I don’t think it was one story throughout but each page focused on a pair or maybe one character at a time. Does anyone know the title or author?
Im looking for a children’s book that is a white cover with a neighborhood on the front. The main character is a little girl who is invited to a birthday party for a friend but is scared to go because he has a dog, her sister calling her a “baby” and making faces at her. At the party the girl goes outside and the little white flufffy dog runs towards the street where there are cars. She has to decide whether to save the dog or go inside because she’s scared and she chooses to save the dog being the HERO of the day.
That sounds like Linda Saves the Day by Dr. Lawrence Balter.
“Linda is a little girl with a big phobia. She’s afraid of dogs. So she’s afraid to go to Alfred’s birthday party because of Alfred’s new puppy. Linda’s mom tries to help. But in the end, Linda has to bravely face her phobia, which she does.”
I’m looking for a children’s book my aunt and mother read in the 1960s. The cover is blue with a black cat silhouette and a moon on the front.
There may be stars on the cover, and they believe the story is about the connection between the cat and the moon. The closest I could find was Emerald Enjoyed The Moonlight by Jane Thayer, but they don’t believe it’s the one.
Any ideas would be much appreciated!
Update: Solved! I have confirmed that the book is, in fact, Emerald Enjoyed The Moonlight by Jane Thayer. After tracking down pictures from the inside pages, my aunt and mother realized it was 100% the answer.
I’m going out on a limb here and guessing “Space Cat.”
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/848023
I also found this one, but it’s in Spanish.
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/GATO-LLEGO-LUNA-AVELLO-CARMEN-P/9683763408/bd
I’m looking for a children’s book from before 1970 when I was still quite young. I believe it may have been in black and white but not sure.
It’s about a little dog that gets left at home. I think it was a black and white spaniel type dog. The dog keeps looking out the window for his people to come back. Ithink it was set in winter because when they came home and let him/her outside I believe the dog started licking the snow. That’s all I can remember. I would love to find this book again! Thank you
The Winter Noisy Book?
No. That’s not it. Thanks anyway.
im looking for a book i read when i was younger. i don’t remember much , but i remember that the main character’s grandfather passes away and he compares death/grieving to eating a bowl of hot soup.
Could it be Tear Soup by Pat Schwiebert?
I’m trying to find a vintage children’s book for a friend. It would’ve been published no later than 1965-probably earlier. All he can remember about it is that it was a boy helping animals during a storm he removers pictures of trees bit using boxes to make beds for the animals. I know that’s not much to go on but hoping it rings a bell with someone. Thanks!
I’m looking for a book in which the main character suffers from bullying at his school. One day, he bumped into an old man in some kind of alley, and he offered him a magic gift. This old man had also the ability to change the color of his eyes as he blinks. The boy didn’t trust him, and he ran away, but back at the schoolyard, he discovered he has the ability to stop the time.
Does anyone recognize the book. Thanks!
I am looking for a book from the 80’s – might be a little golden book – about a mom and her daughter who run errands. They go to the laundromat, they go out to lunch. It describes the kind of sandwich she orders. I LOVED that book when I was little and want to be able to share with my daughter. Thank you!
I found it! Its All Around the Neighborhood and it’s out of print.
I’m looking for a book I read in elementary school back in the 1970’s. It was a children’s book. It was about a boy who went to a party and it seems like he claim through the TV and followed a clown. That’s literally the best I can do to describe it but It had cute pictures and I’ve always wanted to find a copy of it and I don’t remember the title
Good find!
You’re welcome. Glad to be of help. 🙂
I am looking for a children’s picture book. It is about a little boy who goes into the woods and tries to play with the woodland animals. He keeps saying nobody, nobody will play with me repetitively every time he tries to touch an animal. Then he is frustrated and sits on a rock by a pond and all the animals come out of the woods and stand around him and he closes by saying all the animals are playing with me or something like that.
If it might have been a girl instead of a boy, take a look at Play With Me by Marie Hall Ets.
“A little girl goes to the meadow to play, but each animal she tries to catch runs away from her—until she sits still by the pond, and they all come back.”
Omg you are right. It is a girl and that’s the book thank you so much Chanda!
I’m looking for a book I read as a child. I was born in 1994, so sometimes around then? It’s a picture book of short stories about bears. Beautifully illustrated. I remember one story was about 2 bears fighting over a piece of cheese- a sneaky fox came to help them make it equal by eating pieces of their cheese until there was almost nothing left. I believe another was about how/why polar bears don’t have long tails? I would love to know the name of it! I would definitely recognize the illustrations! Thank you.
I think it may have been a collection of Native American tales? Possibly?
The cheese story sounds like Two Greedy Bears, by Mirra Ginsburg. Maybe that will help to narrow it down.
Hello, I’m hoping maybe someone here can help me. I’m looking for a book I read when I was younger, so I’m thinking it was published in the late 80’s, early 90’s. The only thing I can remember was that it was about 2 young girls (friends) and I remember the song “Imagine” being a big part of the plot and something about 1,000 paper cranes. It was maybe a children’s chapter book.
Fingers crossed someone can help because I’ve been looking for it for years.
Maybe Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes?
That’s not it, although that’s the only book that ever comes up when I search for the one I’m looking for. I don’t remember exactly when the book I’m looking for is set, but it’s later than this one. Thank you though.
I am searching for a young adult/older child book about a boy that was on a windsurfer and discovers the river was polluted, he meets a young girl that also windsurfs
Hello, i hope someone could help me, Im looking for a very special book that means so much to me. I’m born in 1994 and i think i used to “read” (loved the book for the pictures) when i t i was around 4-5 y so around, something around 1998-2000 i think,
i don’t remember so much but i will try to do my best to describe what i can remember
The book was about this little girl (i think she had a white dog or cat) who got lost or trying to find a new home in the woods, i think this girl is wearing a dress and was very girly in her style. In her journey she would find different houses, and she would go inside to see if that’s her new home, and it was like the hidden illustration where you could “open up” and see inside the house who lived there and the girl where she was in the house. it was like 4-5 houses like that until the end she would find an empty cottage style house where she would stay in with her dog. and in the hidden pop up illustration you would see just her inside it.
it was a thin book with mainly these illustrations, the book was maybe and A4 size and the cover was brown or maroon colored with this girl on it. and around her was like this old styled lacy frame.
The memories is very vague, i don’t know when is published but it had an “old” feeling to it so maybe its from 80s/90s
i hope someone could help me
edit: its more a lift the flap style than pop up
Maybe this one?
Kitten Finds a Home: A Lift-the-flap-book (Happy Cat Paperbacks) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1899248277/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_FblgFb47DK5ZH
I am looking for a book I used to read at Sunday school. One day somebody decided to give all my books away and I have never been able to find it.
In the book a king want to conquer the next door land. He sends soldiers marching over and it is easily done, but the people are nice. They feed the soldiers their food and sing their songs and teach them their dances. Pretty soon the soldiers are forgetting home. The king is worried so he calls the soldiers home and sends in new ones, but the same thing happens. Every time the king sends in new soldiers, they love the new country. In fact the last group of soldiers get married and have children and refuse to return to their former country. The story ends with something about which country won–the one who sent the soldiers or the new country that converted them. Which is better: war or love? something like that. I think it is illustrated with simple pictures in red and blue–quite a friendly book. I would really like to find it.
Hi, I’ve been trying to remember a book from my childhood. Would have been mid to late 60’s UK. It was a school hardback book about 6′ x 8′. The main thing that made this book different was you could choose the next path of the story. It gave the reader a choice and directed you to a page number to pick up the next stage of the story. I remember it was an adventure story. There may have been an Island and sailing involved and there may have been a monkey and a name SIMILAR to ‘Samakand’, There were some black and white drawn illustrations. I’ve only just realised it’s the choosing the storyline that makes me remember this book rather than the actual narrative, but, I’ve racked my brains for years and can’t remember what it was called. Any advice would be appreciated. There can’t have been that many books like that back in the day.
In the UK, the Tracker Books by Transworld Publishers were some of the earlier gamebooks (predecessors to the “choose your own adventure” books of the 1980’s and 1990’s.) They were published in the early 1970’s, which is just a bit later than your time frame.
Treasure of Shark Island (1972) by John Allen and Kenneth James seems like a possible match to your recollection.
Here are the titles in the series:
1. Mission to Planet L
2. Secret of the Seventh Star
3. The Black Dragon
4. Treasure of Shark Island
5. Codebreaker
6. Skyjacked
7. Action Football
8. Three Men in a Maze
9. Rugger Final
10. Road Racer
11. Reporter on the Trail
12. Codebreaker International
There is a children’s book I had somewhere between 1990-2002 that was a book you could also follow along with the cassette tape version of it. It had a rabbit that wanted his carrots to grow bigger and bigger, and in the story he had a friend that was a little girl, and at some point in the book the carrots got so big that the rabbit and the friend began to ran because the carrots were growing out of the ground and popping into the sky. I can’t remember anything else about it and I’m desperate to find it. I’ve been googling for years.
I read this in elementary school, so somewhere between 1959-1995. I think it was part of a series about a group of children who had a scientist mentor/guardian, and in at least one of the books they wound up on an island with puffins. Wish I could remember more, but I do recall being utterly charmed by the book(s).
Have you looked at the Alice and Jerry readers? Produced by James Nisbet and co. Alice has a doll called Betsy Lee. I have one of the books in the New Zealand adaption where Alice and Jerry are renamed Janet and John. My book 5 Through the garden gate, has two chapters with Janet and Betsy Lee. The first where Betsy Lee arrives in the mail and the second called At the Farm. I believe the illustrations are different to the US version but are based on them. In my book they just run across the top of the page as little vignettes butJanet does appear to walk with Betsy Lee
YA SCI FI–I’ve been looking for this book for years! It’s about a group of kids and someone gathers them all up and they find out they have powers and they’re alien princes and princesses and they each have a different power and one of them is a girl with blue skin and she can read minds and she thinks she’s ugly and at one point in time they have to all go inside one of the girls’ mind and find her because something traumatic happened so she was hiding in her own mind. And I think she tries to drown them maybe? I just remember it being really dark and dangerous inside.
If it could have been a storybook rather than a school reader, and if the doll was moving by itself (rather than wound up), try The Better Homes and Gardens Storybook, which has a long excerpt from The Story of Live Dolls.
I’m trying to remember a book I read from the school library. I was probably 10-13 yrs so would have read it 2000-2004ish in the UK. All I remember for sure is a boy walking through a field which usually had cows in it and he was attacked by someone wearing a clawed glove. He wore a red scarf to cover the claw marks on his neck. I think he lived with his grandmother.
It was a normal sized book (like paperback young teen) and it had a similar feel to Enid Blyton’s “The Riddle of the….” – slightly scary to a child but not graphic.
I am looking for the title of an elementary chapter book school reader from the 1950s with a chapter about a little girl (Sally, Alice, Jane?) who had a doll. She played with the doll in scenes and the doll even walked with her. I mention to people who were in my class at that school and no one but me remembers a story about a doll.
There was this charming book I read in the early 60’s about a child who discovered a spell (that also involved footwork to get through the portal) and she meets a magical boy named Heliotrope. I wish I could recall more than that. Does it ring a bell, anyone?
In the 1960’s there was a book about a child who discovered a spell (taking certain steps in a specific order/direction also) that took her/him to another world/dimension and meets someone magical named Heliotrope. I regret that that is all I can remember. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
You’re very sure about the name?
The only Heliotrope I have found so far is the governess is The Little White Horse, and that doesn’t sound like your book.
Hi! I’m trying to find a children’s novel I read in around 1986. It seemed like an older book. It was thick, from the school library. It was about a little girl. I think her parents die, and she goes to live on a family estate. There’s an older aunt? caring for her. There are dolls, or small people, that live there, but hide. I feel like they may be deceased ancestors. They talk about the Rose Garden or the Rose room. She looks everywhere but she can’t find the roses. At the end of the story, she is led to the rose garden. It’s actually a room in the house. The door is hidden. The flowers are actually the wallpaper, not an actual garden. Please help. Thanks
Behind the Attic Wall, by Sylvia Cassedy.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/831842.Behind_the_Attic_Wall.
Trying again: Behind the Attic Wall.
Hi! I’m so sorry for not responding sooner. The title and plot do sound very familiar. I’m extremely excited to read this! I still don’t know why I’m so hung up on the wallpaper, but I was 8. lol. I’ll follow up. Either way, thank you so, so much!
The wallpaper is in the book.
I cannot believe you found my book! I love you so much right now. You’re seriously impressive. Thank you so, so much:)
Hey hi, im looking for the title of a children’s book that i forgot the title… Im 17yrs old now, but i read that book since i think i was 7 or 8 yrs old. The was still hidden at our house. But this day i remember it a lot but not the title.. so it is about a boy named charlie or james or jake *but i think it is jake but im still not sure.. so the story is this that the young boy *kid* was living in an old rusty house with broken woods and holes on the roof so he finds a container to fill water and avoid flood inside the house when it rains. Until one day he met God, then God gave him a MANSION with sliding stairs, playroom with slides, food area with lots of sweets and other foods, and a room filled with toys.. and many more that a child would want in his house… I REALLY FORGOT THE TITLE.. IM SORRY.. i find it a very great book.. im not sure for every details and more.. so i hope someone knows THE TITLE… *AND I THINK THE TITLE INCLUDES THE NAME OF THE KID* im really not sure😅🙄🤦♀️🤦♀️😭😭 im dying to remember the title, i hope i dream about it though
I’m looking for a hidden picture style book my family had that I vaguely remember from my childhood, roughly between 1986-1990. In my memory, it was about the size of today’s I Spy books – vertically oriented. I think it was hardcover, but I’m not certain. I also think I recall that each page was a different forest – one maybe all pine, another all birch, etc. I also think I recall that all the images were mono or duo chromatic, namely shades of green. I think the images were illustrated or based on photos – quite realistic and dense. The images were similar to Dev Doolittle’s birch trees in style. I also recall each page being kind of what people call “forest bathing” today, though I realize that’s pretty vague. I don’t recall any text anywhere in the book. I’ve been looking around the internet with no success.
Hello 🙂 I’m looking for a kids’ (say ages 8-12) book that was published before 2005. The book features Dracula, Frankenstein and the Mummy. I recall Frankenstein being silhouetted on the cover.
The same author wrote another book about an orphan boy and his butler escaping the boy’s greedy uncles and aunt by hitching a ride on a train, joining a circus, and having a showdown in a mattress factory.
Any light you could shed on the author at all would be incredible.
I’m trying to identify a book from my childhood. Published before 1979. I believe it might be English. The plot involved an old lady and a kid who is a giant and whose name might have been Bigelow. She might have been upset because he trod on her garden. I remember toward the end she takes a trip on his toy train that he brought and set up just for her. It was an illustrated paperback. I don’t believe the plates were separate from the text. Fairly thin book maybe 6”x 8”. Not sure I can recall anything else. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you so much!
Thank you!! I did find it. Once I realized it was about a “Brownie” and not an “Elf” it was easy. I so appreciate taking the time to help! My grandkids did not seem to like it as much as I did….go figure!
This isnt really a book i am looking for but a poem from a book i half remember from one that has been running through my head the past few days.
It comes from Encyclopedia Britannica i believe 15th Edition (my book was either green or blue) in the children’s collection of these. 1974 – 1984
It was about either a pony or a doggy. And went something like this; “Get along little _________ it’s late in the day. ____ ____ ___ . The apples are juicy and ready to fall, down by grandpas wall. ”
I have been unsuccessful in any search i have taken and was wondering if anyone knows the little poem. And can send me the poem.
Thank you in advance.
The poem is called Trot Along, Pony by Marion Edy and Dorothy Grider. It can be found in the Collier’s Junior Classics: The Young Folks Shelf of Books, volume 1: ABC Go! on page 110 of the 1962 printing. And yes, the cover of the book is a blue-green color.
Trot along, pony,
Late in the day,
Down by the meadow
Is the loveliest way.
The apples are rosy
And ready to fall.
The branches hang over
By Grandfather’s wall.
But the red sun is sinking
Away out of sight.
The chickens are settling
Themselves for the night.
Your stable is waiting
And supper will come.
So turn again, pony,
Turn again home.
thank you Chanda
Hello, I am looking for a book. I don’t really remember much but it was a thick book. It was a pop up/ 3D/ picture book. It was a spooky book. All I really remember was that the first page there was a paper mail box and inside there was a little card then on another page there was a witches pot and when you scratched it there was like this really horrible smell. I really can’t remember anything about it but it had many like hidden little things. I was born 2003 and I had this book back when I was like 7 or 6 maybe 8. I know it probably doesn’t make sense but I’ve really tried to remember and do my own research but I just can’t seem to find it but I do remember it was a children’s book I got for free from a little library. Also I know this probably doesn’t help at all but as far as I can remember there was no plot maybe a few characters but really no plot just a fun book. If somehow someone has a suggestion please say I would really appreciate it.
Possibly Whambamboozle by Jason Page?
“You’re about to enter Creepy Castle, full of ghastly ghouls, spooky spirits, and a Whambamboozle you’ll never forget. Finding a way into the castle is easy, but will you find a way out? As you turn each page, discover thrilling pop-ups and haunting holograms, knee-knocking sounds and sickening smells. And there’s a monstrous surprise lurking somewhere in a shadows. But there’s nothing to be afraid of…right? Hint: Before you turn each page you must find the key hidden somewhere in the room. This will get you closer to the fright of your life!”
Hello, I am looking for a book. I don’t really remember much but it was a thick book. It was a pop up/ 3D/ picture book. It was a spooky book. All I really remember was that the first page there was a paper mail box and inside there was a little card then on another page there was a witches pot and when you scratched it there was like this really horrible smell. I really can’t remember anything about it but it had many like hidden little things. I was born 2003 and I had this book back when I was like 7 or 6 maybe 8. I know it probably doesn’t make sense but I’ve really tried to remember and do my own research but I just can’t seem to find it but I do remember it was a children’s book I got for free from a little library. I would really love to one day read it again and if you got even a little clue please say I would really appreciate it. Also there was no plot or anything of that sort just a fun book.
Hi. I’m hoping someone can help me. I’m looking for a book I owned as a child in the early 90s. It was a large (a4) sized hard cover book of children’s stories or fairy tales. It was really nicely illustrated and the text was quite dense. It was about two cm thick. It had classics like the twelve dancing princesses, and probably had lots of Grimm/anderson tales. I remember the picture for the twelve dancing princesses was beautifully dressed women with beautiful shoes hurrying down steps in what (in my memory) looked like a canyon. (dark blues and greys). It also included a story about a woodcutter or Hunstman I’m a forest and there were giants moving amongst the trees. In my memory it wasn’t “kiddified” or dumbed down, it was a dense read and beautifully illustrated. I know it’s a long shot but I hope someone can help. Thanks
Hans Christian Andersen. Fairy Tales and Stories?
I am looking for a kids book. I am not 100% on the era, but it looks 60s or 70s to me. I recall it being about a little girl maybe a few kids, that go down a sort of bizzare street. There is a kid that talks and walks backwards, and another dressed as a traffic light. Any help would be massive.
Does anyone remember a book that featured a tiger with a marshmallow coat?
Hi, I wonder if anyone can help.
I’m looking for a bed time story audio book I used the listen to as a kid. (90s kid)
The story is about 2 sister who have a picnic onto of their shed in the garden. The one sister called Margaret think she can fly and jumps off the roof. She ends up breaking a bone and can’t go on the school trip the next day.
That’s all I can remember, if anyone has got an idea please let me know!
Right might be a longshot, but I’m looking for what I’m 99% sure is a picture book I read as a kid. 90s published I THINK. It was about kids exploring a dusty attic or dusty rooms in a house, and they kept imagining the monsters which would turn out to be normal things. There’s one scene where there’s a birdcage covered with a blanket and there are pictures of claws ripping through or poking out from underneath the fabric, and it turns out to be like a taxidermy parrot? The final part of the book is about a monster made from a pile of clothes, hats and fur coats, and underneath the brim of the hat on its head, tiny pinprick lights of eyes shine out from the shadows as it lunges for the kids. Really creeped me out as a kid and I would LOVE to know the title!!!!! Any clues would be appreciated!!!!
Hello, I am looking for 2 children’s books from my childhood. I grew up in the 80s-90s, so they are from that era. The first one is a book that’s filled with many stories like Biblical stories as well as fairytales like beauty & the beast, & aesop fables like the grasshopper & the ant. I believe each story had different artwork. 1 thing that stood out for me with this book was there was a story about a group of frogs who wanted to be king of the log, & there was a crown on the log. It turns out there was some serpent dragon monster in the water that claimed the crown. The other kids book was a picture book from anywhere between the 70s-early 90s. It showcased the different seasons & had colored artwork. For fall it showed people gathering maple syrup from maple trees, it also had a red irish setter looking dog throughout the book. If anyone knows of these books, it would be very appreciated! Thank you in advance.
The story about the frogs sounds like a version of The Frogs Who Desired a King – one of Aesop’s fables.
“The story concerns a group of frogs who called on the great god Zeus to send them a king. He threw down a log, which fell in their pond with a loud splash and terrified them. Eventually one of the frogs peeped above the water and, seeing that it was no longer moving, soon all hopped upon it and made fun of their king.
Then the frogs made a second request for a real king and were sent a water snake that started eating them. Once more the frogs appealed to Zeus, but this time he replied that they must face the consequences of their request.”
In other versions of the story, the water snake is replaced with a stork or crane.
Hi all! I’m looking for a picture book from my childhood. I was born in 1995 and I would’ve been about 4-5 years old when I read this book. It’s about a boy who builds a cubby-house with his parents. It was made out of yellow planks. I vaguely remember them all squeezing into the cubby house at the end of the book. Thanks!
Wild guess: Tony’s Hard-Work Day.
Hello! I’m looking for a book that my mom remembers from her childhood. It had to be published from ’68-’75. It was a children’s book and the pictures were black and white photographs of a doll in the woods. I’ve shown my mom pictures of The Lonely Doll and she says it is NOT the book she’s talking about. Thanks!
EDIT: SOLVED! its “The Little One” by Dare Wright (part of her The Lonely Doll series)
Thanks so much for writing back. Your mom is right! It’s a different doll.
Thank you for your timely reply. That does help! Lenticular added to my vocab, lol. Yeah, that last link drawing style was kinda like that with the black outlines, but a little more sunny & juvenile. It must have been from a lesser known publisher….wasn’t very long and was just pictures, I think lol. God bless librarians, teachers, and readers/writers for their extensive knowledge! I can only assume you are one the above 😀
looking for a YA chapter book called Bambi that Disney made his movie from. The author is Felix Salten
This is one of those books that’s been published in many forms, first in German. A very popular one in the 20’s through about 1960 was illustrated by Kurt Wiese, and I’d suspect that’s the one Disney had.
The older ones are called Bambi: a Life in the Woods. I made an abe filter for you that has pictures of Bambi books without Disney or Bambi’s Children. See if it works! The modern one by Janet Schulman is quite pretty and very inexpensive. https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=salten+NOT+disney&bi=0+h&bx=on&ds=30&pics=on&recentlyadded=all&sortby=17&tn=bambi+NOT+disney%27s+NOT+children&cm_sp=pan-_-srp-_-allc
Thanks for the link! I ordered the one that sounded like the one I wanted–mostly print with a few black-and-white illustrations–not a picture book. Even the picture of the book looked like the one I read. We’ll see!
Thanks for writing back. Let us know how it went. Was it the Kurt Wiese illustrated one? I was surprised to see that there were so many versions.
Found it–thanks!! Hold Fast to your Dreams by Catherine Blanton
It’s always so helpful when people write back when they have found the book! Thanks.
I was born in 1996 so I understand many people on this site won’t be familiar with books of my generation. Thought it was worth a try.
They were both historical fiction chapter books.
The first was about a girl whose nanny was a suffragette. With her nanny, she participated in a woman’s rights march. There was a baby sibling who was pushed in her pram. While marching, the girl thought to herself how tomorrow, her life would be calm and back to normal, but today she was doing something big.
The second involved a girl and her family escaping Hawaii right after Pearl Harbor. They took with them a young Japanese girl. There was an escape in a car and they spent the night in a field of sugar canes.
The second book sounds like American Diaries #18 – Janey G. Blue: Pearl Harbor, 1941 by Kathleen Duey.
“Janey loves the beautiful trees, delicious fruits, and exotic mix of people on the island of Oahu, where her father has come to work at Hickam Airfield. But she’s terribly homesick for her friends back in Kansas — especially with all the frightening talk about war and rumors of a Japanese invasion of Hawaii. Then, on December 7th, Janey’s worst nightmares come true. Japanese bombs and bullets shatter the early morning peace. Fleeing with her mother, brother, and Akiko — the girl across the street, who barely speaks to her — Janey is terrified for her father at the airfield. During the long, tense hours of worry and fear, Janey must try to find her courage. Will the war turn everything upside down? Will Janey be scared and lonely forever?”
The first book sound like American Diaries – Francesca Vigilucci: Washington D.C. 1913 by Kathleen Duey.
“Thirteen-year-old Francesca Vigilucci has always lived a privileged life in Washington, D.C., as the daughter of a wealthy lawyer. The year is 1913, and things are changing for women in the United States – although it seems as though life in the Vigilucci household is no different than it has always been. Francesca knows that her parents expect her to marry a wealthy man and raise a family, but that’s not the life she dreams of. She longs to attend college and start an exciting career, instead of living a life like her mother’s – a life that would be boring to Francesca. The only person she can share her dreams with is Laura, a girl her age who works as a servant in the Vigilucci home. The girls long to attend the suffragist parade to show their support for the women fighting to win the right to vote, but with Francesca’s grumpy, traditional aunt in town, will they be able to find a way?”
hey! I’m looking for a book that I used to read when I was 3 (I’m 20 now) so I don’t remember exactly everything but I do know on one of the pages had a picture of this fuzzy green forest creature and his friend was a little blonde girl, the art looked old like the lion the which and the wardrobe kind of or Little Women (obviously the one with pictures) it was a short story too. thank you!
I’m looking for a book read to us in school in 1993. We never finished it and I need to know what happened! Book is about a boy who has to go live on an island with his uncle and has to learn all about using axes and lighting fires etc. He cut his leg with a hatchet to avoid doing work, but still had to do the work anyhow. There was a bad storm.
I previously suggested Storm Island. Were you able to rule it out?
You’re welcome! Glad I could help!
I’m looking for a children’s book that my husband read when he was a child. He thinks it was called ‘The Giant with the world in his pocket’ and was literally about a giant with the world in his pocket. Have done may online searches for the title, individual words but can’t find the book! Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hi there! I’m on the hunt for a book that I read as a child in the late 90s/early 2000s but it may have been published earlier. It was very much in the vein of the Betsy-Tacy series–a book for preteens-ish that centred around a family living in the 1800s. What I remember most vividly is the illustration of the family right when you opened the book. The name of the book was the family name. I keep getting “The Twinkleberries” and “The Featherbys” stuck in my head–it’s not those, but maybe something similar? I used to get it fro the Lillian H. Smith Toronto Public Library but have had no luck searching their site.
Not much to go on, I know…
Can you remember any of the characters’ names?
Maybe the Fairchild Family books?