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Kensuke’s Kingdom also has a part with turtles, but it’s about a boy.
I don’t think so–she said it was more of a picture book.
No problem. It’s fine to ask again in a few days if you haven’t had a reply! Easier for people to find it. Suzanne
I am looking for a book about a boy who finds a caterpillar who turns into a butterfly. I don’t know the name, author or what the book looked like. I think it is pretty old as I read it in the 60s. I have been looking everywhere.
Hi y’all! So I am looking for two books… neither of which I remember very well short of knowing they were good. 1) a book about a girl who lives in dusty old town with tumble weeds and someone in her life was an undertaker she used to spy on and 2) a book about a boy lost/stuck/abandoned in the desert who climbed a butte to survive (not Deathwatch) lol. Thanks in advance!
I remember reading a book probably about 1995. I was in grade 5 I think? Our elementary school was clearing out some older books to make room for new ones. So we got to take any we wanted. I picked one that was an older hardcover it had a beige engraved kind of fabric. The book I remeber was about a chestnut coloured horse that a boy found stuck in the swamp. He brought it home and I think it was his grandpa he lived with? They couldn’t locate any owner so he let the boy keep it. He started riding it to school and they would have races. And he found out just how fast his horse was. Sadly at one point the people who owned the horse found him. Turned out this lost horse was actually a genuine bred racehorse. And they had to take the horse back. I can’t recall if they gave him back to the boy or not, but it was a really good story. I may be off a bit on some of the specifics. It’s been a very long time since I read it. Lol
I am looking for a picture book that I read in the 80s’ -90s’. It was about a cloud that wanted to be a big storm cloud but was too small and an indigenous boy who wanted to be a great warrior but was too small. They became friends. I can’t find it anywhere.
Hi, I may have asked this once before but maybe not! I am looking for a book that I read in the early seventies so was probably set in the late 60’s or very early 70’s, set in a waterfront suburb of Sydney. The storyline involved a youngster who made his own snorkle / free diving gear from scrap yard finds for snorkleing around the water front, he unfortunately see’s or hears something when on one of his forays in the scrap yard and is shut in an old fridge to suffocate but manages to breath through a crack in the side of the fridge after he has beaten it with a lump of old angle iron. And that’s about all I remember!
I think the book was about playing pretend or make believe. The board pages were just a white background and the pictures were of whatever the boy was pretending to be.
If they could have been published as early as the 1930s, I have book two of a series that pretty closely matches your description. It’s called ‘Art stories’ and is part of the Curriculum Foundation Series by Scott Foresman and Co published in 1934. Reading the introduction, it says that the vocabulary was integrated with the Elson Basic Readers. Book two is divided into sections and each section has a couple of stories about the children, a theory lesson, a piece of poetry or little story matching the theme and often a reproduction of a famous artwork.
It appears to also have been published by The Reilly & Lee Company around the same time as “Art stories for children”
Story that may have been in a storybook collection (1960’s), about an elephant in a zoo who hides pennies in cracks in a wall to buy gumdrops, which he loves so much! A zookeeper may be involved. THANK YOU!
Have you ruled out Nim’s Island?
Yeah, not Nim’s island! It’s a bit younger than that, more pictures than words!
A couple of details might help narrow it down more. How did she get onto the island–a shipwreck? Was it a hot, palm trees and coconuts sort of place? Was there anyone else there with her, human or animal? If she was so little, how did she survive alone? Did someone come and rescue her?
Island of the Blue Dolphins!
Sorry for the posting delay. Suzanne
Adventure on Klickitat Island?
I’ve been looking for a book I read when I was little for YEARS and no one seems to remember – googled everything I can think of! It was about a little girl (I think her name was Hannah) who woke up on an abandoned island and she built this really cool treehouse – at the end of the book she watched turtles hatch on the beach. There’s more too it but that’s all I can remember – it would’ve been 90’s/early 2000’s I think?
Thank you so much for all your help, everyone! Turns out my memory was more faulty than I thought–I think the books were the Huxley Pig series by Rodney Peppe (whose last name I think I was recalling as the name of the pig).
Thanks for writing back and for the picture! Suzanne
Heyyy so this is gonna be hella vague because I cant remember a single thing about this book except for the front cover and the fact that I loved it as a kid. So, it’s a children’s book that I probably read in school in like 2011. The front cover had two young boys, one with red hair and the other with white hair and I think either one or both of them had wolf ears or something? And I think they were in a dark cave of some kind. Not expecting anyone to be able to find this one for me, just thought I’d try. Thanks! 🙂
Maybe ‘The Snail’s Spell’ by Joanne Ryder and Lynne Cherry? Or ‘Quick as Cricket’ by Audrey Wood and Don Wood?
I read a children’s book (1950’s) about a medieval tailor who has a canary. His neighbor finds the bird’s singing so annoying, he takes the canary to get rid of it, but is eventually enchanted by it. I remember that the tailor was very thin and wore green. The neighbor was heavy-set. The illustrations (if I am remembering them correctly) remind me of William Steig’s illustrations. Any help would be appreciated
Long shot: the Sam Pig books by Alison Uttley?
Hey! I can’t seem to find this book anywhere. It was about a girl that fell asleep in a treehouse in her backyard and fall out of it but when she hit the ground, she actually shrunk. She had, i think, a beetle or an ant as a friend and rode it across the backyard encountering different insects. I think she also went into an ants nest and had to help fight or something like that. My mom read it to me around 1998. Thanks!
Hi I’m looking for a book which has multiple short Australian stories. One is about a boy who receives a pet crocodile from his uncle (not 100%) and he then releases it into a local river and it become dangerous. One of the other stories is about a group of students who enoucunter a group of ghost students in their school. The book was given to me around to early 2010’s. Thanks.
Looking for a book from 70s/80s, maybe even 90s. It was a large in size book. It had multiple short stories in it. The cover or maybe the inside front/back was kind of like a collage of a character/detail from each story. The only thing I remember in particular was a man holding balloons.
You can read it online:
https://archive.org/details/atschool00hann
hi okay so i’m looking for a book that me and my best friend adored back in primary school – the year would have been around 2009-2010. basically it was a really beautifully illustrated picture book all about ducks and the only thing i remember is that on the last page you could press it and the ducks would quack. i would love to find this book again cause we just love it soo much!!
Never mind that question–I was thinking of the picture book which you’ve said wasn’t it. But do check out At School–the girls do have blonde hair.
Ghosts Who Went to School!
Hello All! I’m looking for a book my best friend had that I read every time I spent the night. Late 60s, early 70s? It was a boy who discovers the old house has a ghost boy & makes friends. Eventually he meets the whole family. There is a scene where ghost mom is driving with his mom & she’s nervous because they are going so fast. Any ideas?
Thanks for letting everyone know!
I found it! “MAXX TRAX: AVALANCHE RESCUE!” by James Preller. 🙂 https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/maxx-trax-avalanche-rescue/author/preller-james/
I read a book in the 90s as part of a summer reading assignment. I believe the book was quite older. 60s, maybe 70s. Most of it seemed to take place in a cave and there was mention of various colored gems. I know it’s pretty much nothing to go on. Maybe my public library would have record of the books you could choose for summer assignments that far back?
A children’s book I read in the early 90s (not sure if it’s from the late 80s or early 90s). I remember it was about a group of trucks, which were the characters – they spoke to each other. All the trucks had large tires and kind of looked like a future version of construction equipment. And I feel like they were trying to rescue a truck stranded in a snowy mountain area.
Looking for a book about a lost duck. I’m sure there’s about a million of them. I know it’s not “Little Duck Lost” or “The Little Lost Duckling”. But it does have similar art to those and I remember clearly that certain pages had duck prints going across the page. I can’t recall the title! Any ideas?
Try this: At School, a Scott Foresman social studies book by Paul R. Hanna.
The artwork looks SO familiar! If this isn’t it, it’s at least getting in the right direction!
I don’t remember it being a “chapter” book like this, but maybe it was
From a teacher’s guide (I can only read snippets):
After the page has been read , inquire , “ Who is the little girl with Mr. Wills ? Who did Miss Day think she was ? Why do you suppose she thought that ? If Karen and Kathy look so much alike , what do we call them ?
Surprises, an anthology selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins, contains Bugs and Peanut. You can read it on archive.org. I don’t think the illustrations quite match your description, though.
Did one of them cut her hair short?
I don’t remember…sorry!
I am very fond of bugs, I kiss them and I give them hugs? (Bugs, by Karla Kuskin)
That was included in the anthology Sunflakes, which fits your time, but it could easily be another collection.
You can see Botticelli’s Bed and Breakfast read on Youtube.
I’ve got it now! Botticelli’s Bed and Breakfast, by Jan Pienkowski (sorry I can’t do the accents).
Oh my goodness!! Yes you’re right! I’m soo pleased. Buying another copy…right now!
How did you manage to find it?
I did some looking for carousel pop-up books, along with words like “famous paintings.” Glad you can reconnect with your book, it looks like a lot of fun,
Is it ‘Balderdash the Brilliant’? I had this when I was a kid 🙂
That’s not it, but thank you!!
A book I read as a kid in the 90s. Beautiful line drawings that were mostly in black and white (and occasionally orange accents?). Melancholy feel, one poem about peanut on a railroad track becoming peanut butter, another about free kisses/hugs for bugs. Everything was illustrated. Dying to find this!!! (It’s not ‘Knock At A Star’)
I’m looking for a book my 1st grade teacher gave me in 1976. It may have been an old school reader textbook, but I’m not sure. It was about two twin girls named Karen and Kathy. I remember “soft” watercolor-like drawings and the girls had blond hair and blue eyes. I would LOVE to find this book again!!
I believe we had it in the 90s. I was born in 1986. All I can remember is a man, maybe a scientist, going around to different places with a boy and a girl, and mixing two different things to make other colors. The only specific thing I remember was cotton candy, I think they mixed blue and pink to get purple. I cannot stop thinking about it!
Thanks! 🙂
Hello, I am trying to find a simple baby board book about a boy who can be a dinosaur and other things and at one point he says “I’m a ghost. BOO!” We read it in the late 80s. Thank you!
Is it this one?
There’s A Mouse About The House by Richard Fowler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZOO1IQ3J08&ab_channel=BooksWithLaura
Literally just responded about this to someone else, I think it must be the same book!!
Where The Forest Meets The Sea by Jeannie Baker
The only thing I can think of is this book. The illustrations were unique indeed. Where The Forest Meets The Sea by Jeannie Baker.
Jess THANK YOU!!! To say you made my day is an understatement that’s the book! Wow thank you!!
Was about to suggest the exact same book, I still own it from when I was a child! I will gift it to my nieces, I think they’ll love it 🙂
Hi all – I’m looking for an art history pop-up book that I had in around the year 2000 or possibly slightly earlier. It was possible to tie the covers together and the book unfolded into a hotel that was populated (and possibly haunted?) by great works of art. Some of the works I can remember were the Sistine Ceiling, Whistler’s Mother, The Scream, a Vermeer self portrait and the Ambassadors by Holbein. It had a sort of humorous story about how the various painting interacted with each other. I have a feeling it came from a museum gift shop. Who knows how much the publishers paid for the rights to all the different paintings! Anyway, I loved it but can’t find a trace of it online.
Hi there – could this be Bedtime for Frances? The plot doesn’t match exactly, but it is about a child/bear and it is a classic!
I’m looking for a book not specifically about birds but one page has birds in the snow and the caption is “bright little winter birds coming to feed…each takes according to need” I read it to my daughter in the 80’s or 90’s.
Could it be Olivia the pig by Ian Falconer ?
Hello all! I had a book about dinosaurs in the early 90’s (I’m an 80’s baby) where the Dino’s were illustrated as if made from paper that had been dipped in paint with beautiful patterns. I remember staring at the patterns all the time. The book had lots of orange, green, red, and brown colors. Honestly could have been from the 60’s or 70’s. I’d love to find it for my kids to read.
I’m thinking of this picture book from the late 90s early 2000s about pig siblings or cousins. All I remember is one page where they’re jumping from a rope swing into a pond and the coloring is very green and blue. Not a lot to go on but it’s keeping me up at night trying to think of it!
Could be one of the Paddy Pork books by John S. Goodall.
Poppleton by Cynthia Rylant?
I had thought so at first, but no, unfortunately not! The pig was younger, I think, or at least he was drawn with a rounder kind of childish face. But thank you!
Hello, everyone! I need help identifying a book my mother read to me in either the late 90s or the early 2000s. It was part of a series, and she says they were little books with red spines, and they were all about the same pig who went on adventures and wore fancy clothes. In the book I can picture in my mind’s eye there was an illustration (possibly the cover) of him in a striped sailor suit with like a hat the same kind as Popeye wears, at the railing of a ship and looking through a spyglass. I want to say his name was something alliterative, like Percy or Percival, but looking for “Percival Pig” or “sailing pig book” just gets me Peppa Pig, which is obviously not what I’m looking for. Any help would be appreciated!!
I’m looking for a book that I read in the early 80s, although I’m guessing the book itself was maybe published in the 70s? It was about a man who went around stealing peoples noses and carrying them in a sack on his back. It really freaked me out as a child, when it was read to me in a dentists office, but we didn’t get to the end, and I’ve always wondered how it worked out, haha!
It could also be Short & Shivery by Robert D. San Souci. I don’t know if it had the story about the civil war but I’m like 85% sure this one has a version of Tailypo in it as well.
I check every day if someone responds here 🙁 any help would be amazing thanks so much in advance!!
Thank you. Yes a little early unfortunately. The more I think about it, the more I think he was hard done by by the publisher. I guess it’s a common occurrence.
Thanks for writing back. Glad to be reminded of that book anyway! Good luck, Suzanne
It sounds like it might be The Rupert Bear 1973 annual https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/Rupert-Annual-1973-Stated-author-Beaverbrook/30881792126/bd
A picture book I had in roughly 1986. It was bought through Scholastic at school in Australia. It was one of those creepy/spooky collection of tales of kids up to no good/mischief. It had beautiful black and white illustrations. Each story was contained to 1-2 pages I think.
The story I remember most clearly is of a vampire wanting to attack a child through his bedroom window but the kid is hiding a stake under his pillow and it is strongly implied the kid kills the vampire. The vampire says something like “Don’t stab me through the heeeeaaaarrrrt!”
Other stories I can’t really remember but can remember the artwork:
A boy running about a swamp trying to catch butterflies in a net and getting mud everywhere. He looked almost like a Gary Larson (The Far Side) character – glasses, a bit dim-witted, possibly wearing a safari suit. Perhaps on the next page is just a picture of his muddy boots.
Another image I vaguely remember is of a little girl with maybe fairy wings and a drooping wand (or maybe she is a real fairy) and she’s somehow set fire to the family Christmas tree and the tree and decorations are all melted.
Another of a girl who needs to cross a garden path but in the garden are a whole bunch of snakes and spiders and creepy crawlies waiting for her.
Hi all. For years I have been searching for a book I loved as a child but cannot find the name of for the life of me. For reference I was born in 99 and had a mix of newer books and old classics from grandparents. The book featured a young animal (sort of like paddington, looks like an animal but behaves like a child) trying to sleep. I believe it was a bear but I could be wrong. He heard loud noises in the night and got scared and hid under his covers. Later in the book he figured out it was just his “rumbly tummy” or something like that and decides to make himself a snack (I don’t think it was pooh bear). He spreads honey on bread and eats it and then goes back to bed feeling better. I remember it so vividly but cannot find anything like it no matter how hard I search. Would love if any of you have an idea as to what this book could be, thank you!!!
I’m looking for a children’s book from late 90s – early 2000s
A (pet?) bunny doesn’t want to be left out of the picnic so he hides away in the picnic basket but then he gets lost and has to find his way back home
Hi, I’m trying to help my sister find a book this is all the information she can remember. “I’ve been trying to track down a picture book that I read in 2000-2001 when I was in primary school in Australia. I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the book. The only thing I can remember is it was a hard cover picture book, there was something about a young person (leaning more towards a young/ pre teen boy) going to a city in the clouds or something? Also something to do with a key? And I remember something about an old man possibly a wizard type man? It wouldn’t be more than 50 pages long probably less. The style of art is very similar to the works of Shaun Tan. It’s realistic style art with a little twist of cartoon style. It’s colourful but on the side of a darker colour palette. I’ve searched and searched google, libraries and op shops. As my memory is very clouded I just don’t have enough information to go on. Hoping someone on here can help me as I realise the details are scarce. Thanks!”
Looking for probably a Scholastic Club book from the late 50s through mid sixties. There were several siblings who went camping on a lake, possibly in the Great Lakes or upper NY State area. There’s an Indian legend about a monster who lives in the lake, possibly called Wendigo. There’s also some menacing local men/criminal types who want to run off the family because they’re looking for a treasure (?). At one point there’s an encounter and a father or brother bluffs by yelling into the cabin to “bring the shotgun!”
It turns out the monster is actually deadly gas (maybe from a nearby mine?) and the illustration depicts a black, tornado-like configuration rising from the lake.
It’s NOT “The Mystery of the Lake Monster.”
Thanks to anyone who can solve this frustrating mystery.
Well, Really, Mr. Twiddle!
Just a quick guess: one of the Mr. Twiddle books?
A chapter book or picture book? Long or short? A library book, or one you owned?
Possible setting, tome or place? Names of any characters? Was it a spooky attic? Any extra details would help.
Hi Emma, Welcome and thanks for your contributions! I monitor every post on this site a couple of times a day, PDT, Oregon US. This leads to some time lags, especially with members from UK and AUS. Suzanne
Hi Children’s Book Lovers! I read this book, hard cover, in the early 1980s. Color illustrations, probably for ages 6 and up. A mystery with an attic scene. That’s all I got, but it did make an impression on me and I think of it oftenaron.
Hey Sam, sounds like The Mermaid Princess by Shirley Barber.
I’ve recently bought this for my daughter as I loved it as a child! Just as good as I remember. 😍
When I was a young child in the 1960s, I had a set of maybe three blue hardcover books that seemed to be textbooks for children (not first readers but possibly second grade level and slightly higher, but they were stories about doing art with illustrations of children in school doing art, and then I recall some illustrations for making drawings of things like bowls with the proper shading. I have no idea what the titles were of these books, but they were the first books I learned to read in about 1960. They may have been published in the 1950s.
Hi all,
Im looking for a book that I remember as a child (90s) although my mother thinks it may have been hers from her childhood (60s). It is about a little leopard named spot (I believe) and I think the basic premise is that he is getting scared by different things in the jungle (maybe he lost his mum??). I’ve done a decent google search and it’s not any of the versions of ‘how the leopard got his spots’.
It’s a long shot, I know, but thought I’d try my luck. Thanks. Emma
Hello! I’m looking for an English children’s book I recall reading when I was a child. It was a book of stories about a grumpy old man and his wife. It was old when I read it, perhaps written in the 40s or 50s, owing to it being pre-decimalisation. The book was a dark green hardback with no dustjacket but (then faded) gold lettering for the title (which I can’t remember!)
One particular story in the book that I do recall is one where the old man’s wife has gone out for lunch with her friend, leaving the old man to mow the grass. As he’s pushing the mower around, he keeps finding either crowns or sovereigns or another kind of coin. Eventually, he’s picked up and pocketed so many, he decides to go and treat himself to a good lunch. He has a slap-up meal at the local café/restaurant but, when it comes time to pay, he finds out he doesn’t have any money at all! What he DOES have is a hole in his trouser pocket, meaning he had, in fact, been picking up THE SAME COIN over and over again. There’s a hullabaloo after that, I think with the old gentleman’s wife turning up with her friend, and many larks are had.
I’d be ephemerally grateful for any help anyone could give me on this, as I’ve been thinking about it on and off again for the last, oh, twenty years or so.
Many thanks!
It is “Whoops!” by Jane Edgecombe and Noeline Cassettari if anyone wanted to know. Someone on Goodreads found it.
Hi there! I am looking for a children’s book I read in the 1990’s, maybe early 2000’s. It was a book about princesses. I believe there were three little princesses on the cover. One may have been blonde in a pink dress and one brunette in maybe a yellow or green dress. The book was paper back and the top and maybe one side was curved or something like that. To the best of my memory, it was about how princesses behaved or how they should act. There was one page that had an illustration of a brunette princess swinging from a tree branch. I think there was a butler in the background of the illustration. The illustrations depicted different princesses in different situations. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Hi, When I was a kid in the 90’s I had a book that was about a sick girl who lived by the sea but couldn’t go outside (i believe she was in a wheelchair) and a mermaid came and I think her brother took her outside to meet the mermaid at night. It had beautiful illustrations. I can’t remember the name of the book or the author. Does this plot sound familiar to anyone?
I’m looking to a children’s book that I had read to me around 1993/4 by my primary school teacher. It was about some islands that were in the shape of the word ‘No’. That’s all I can remember about it but hopefully someone out there might know what is was!
When I was a kid in the 90s, I remember this paperback picture book my mom ordered for me from one of the book orders. I think it had a green cover. I thought it was called My Friends Are Weird, but I’ve never been able to find a book with that title. Maybe that was a line from it. I remember one of the pictures was people looking in through a window who were dressed kind of wacky, like big glasses or a curly mustache. It’s very fuzzy to me. One other thing I remember is that I got this in the same order I got the book Wanted: Perfect Parents. Did I dream this up?? Can anyone confirm the existence of this book?
Maybe this one: Why Are Boys So Weird?
Maybe one of The Cat Club books featuring Jenny Linsky. Only, she wore a red scarf. My favorite growing up.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/194094-the-cat-club
I’m looking for a childrens book from the 60s 79s or 80s that had a light pink cover and a slender black cat with a bow on its neck.
Hello everyone, our teacher read us a book in 1969 about 3 siblings whose parents moved the family to the other side of the country. The kids decided they would walk back home to their old house. The oldest child was a girl called Ashley. The middle child was a girl; the youngest a boy. Cannot remember either the title or the author. It’s probably out of print sixty years later.
Any suggestions most appreciated. Thanks!
Hi everyone, I’m looking for 2 books that were around in the 80s/90s:
– the first was about teeth and had a big picture of a girl with a huge smile on the cover. The storyline involved the girl’s aunty losing her teeth when she was an acrobat and May have been a pilot?
– The second had pages that were asymmetrically cut to different pictures within the book. The storyline is about a little girl who gets mad on her birthday and runs and hides. Then she gets given a witches hat for her birthday.
Any ideas gratefully received!
Try this one: Trupp: A Fuzzhead Tale.
Hello, I’m trying to remember the title of a book, I believe from the 90s. I recall a red brick wall on the cover. Protagonist is a furry white creature. Ultimately he finds a woman pushing a cart filled with her belongings who is kind to him. I seem to recall a red hat or scarf she gives him. It had beautiful illustrations, and a one word title in big letters. If anyone has any ideas it would be much appreciated!
Hi! I’ve been trying to remember this book I read as a kid in the 90s. I assume that is when it was published but it’s possible it was earlier or later. I remember the illustrations being beautiful and I think it had a one word title (the name of the protagonist?) it was about this white furry creature who traveled through the snow and got lost. Ultimately he finds a woman pushing a cart filled with her belongings who is kind to him. I seem to recall a red hat or scarf she gives him. I feel like he had been rejected until he found this woman. I know those are a handful of random threads from my memory, but I remember loving this book and can’t for the life of me remember the name!
Maybe this series? Though, they don’t seem to be any smaller than a regular paperback.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/180842-george-smiley
No, I’m sorry Bonnie, I wish it were! Thank you though
A Little Child’s Book of Stories, by Ada M. Skinner, Eleanor L. Skinner, and Jessie Willcox Smith, contains both “Potato! Potato!” and “Little Wait-a-Minute.” You can even borrow it online from Open Library. Now, this is the thing: you want that exact title, not A Very Little Child’s Book of Stories, or any variation on that, because looking for the right Skinner storybook can get confusing. 🙂
The story is Little Wait-a-Minute by Helen D. Denbigh (the girl is Bessie). It was included in at least one school reader, so you might want to search that direction.
Hello Everyone! I’m trying to find a book from my childhood. It was a purple book with two red colors holding hands on the front. It was about all the colors in the rainbow and it had a cassette tape as well. Please help me find it. Thank you.
The Bedtime Book, by Sara Boore.
Hi there!
I am looking for an old children’s book I remember having as a child (2000’s baby, but I imagine the book was much older). It was a collection of stories, and I remember it having a pale, murky indigo cover with a purpley-brown spine and gold lettering on a hardback book. The pages were roughly cut and it had very few pictures that were in black-and-white and had a very sketch-like appearance. I remember in the book, there was a story of a girl nicknamed “Little Miss Wait-a-Minute”, who was notorious for telling people to wait a minute while doing tasks and would end up late. On one day in particular, she decides to clean out her dollhouse and she is so tired from the hard work of cleaning out her dollhouse that she misses going with her father to the circus. She is very upset and cries, exclaiming she will never again be “Little Miss Wait-a-Minute”, and follows true to her word – and her father does end up taking her to the circus in the end. Also in the book, there is a tale of a little girl who loves all types of potatoes. She is obsessed with potatoes. One day while she is walking through the forest, she finds a talking potato…. fairy? I cannot recall the ending for the life of me, and it’s driving me crazy. Outside of one redditor seeking the same answer, I cannot find this book anywhere! Does anyone recognize this book?
Hi! I am trying to find a book my grandma got me when I was a baby. I was born in 1994 – so this book is at least about 30 years old, if not older. It is about a red haired little girl, and just chronicles her going through her day, playing in the mud and eating dinner. The story ended with her being carried to bed. I distinctly remember her having a toy frog and rainboots. The illustrations were kind of sketchy – almost looked like crayon. The book also had a small wind up music box in the bottom right corner.
My grandma has since passed – but she got the book for me because I also have red hair and the little girl reminded her of me. I would love to find another copy of this book as my copy as been lost over the years. I hope someone else out there has seen/read this story! Any help/leads would be appreciated 🙂
I remember a book like that from the book club at about the same era. The one I’m thinking of is this one. SWAK, the complete book of mail fun for kids by Randy Harelson (1981) Workman Publications. Suggests slogans, codes, craft projects, games, and other activities that can enhance letter writing.
There’s a three part series by Christopher Nicole about British spy Jonathan Anders. They were published in 1969-1972 and have white covers. The second book may be the one you are remembering. When a Polish general disappears from behind the Iron Curtain, British agent Jonathan Anders is assigned to find him
Operation Destruct. Onboard the Russian trawler which shipwrecked off the coast of Guernsey was a British agent who was defecting along with a Nobel winning woman biologist. Jonathan Anders is sent to scuba dive to find the cause of the wreck and finds himself hunted by the Soviets and the British police.
Operation Manhunt. Polish general has disappeared and a wild search for him begins by an assortment of countries, British, American, and Soviet. Jonathan Anders is intrigued that a picture of a steward on a luxury yacht looks a lot like the general.
Operation Neptune.
Thank you, Melissa, but these aren’t it… 🙁 One thing to look for, the books I’m looking for were smaller than this size paperback, which I’m hoping will make them stand out. I may have the first book you mention above, I got it off I think Abe books because it sounded like what I remember, but it wasn’t it. But thank you for your quick response!
Hi! I’ve been trying to remember this book I read as a kid in the 90s. I assume that is when it was published but it’s possible it was earlier or later. I remember the illustrations being beautiful and I think it had a one word title (the name of the protagonist?) it was about this white furry creature who traveled through the snow and got lost. Ultimately he finds a woman pushing a cart filled with her belongings who is kind to him. I seem to recall a red hat or scarf she gives him. I feel like he had been rejected until he found this woman. I know those are a handful of random threads from my memory, but I remember loving this book and can’t for the life of me remember the name!
Hi, A good friend of mine gifted me 3 small paperbacks when we were kids, this would have been early 70s. They were all from the same publisher, and again the paperbacks were also smaller than is common, were mostly white, with an illustration on the cover, along with illustrations throughout the books. The only book I can recall anything about though, was it was about a fictional James Bond like character, who goes behind a fictional iron curtain, and that’s pretty much all I can remember., I know, it’s frustrating. I also want to say one of the pictures in the book shows him climbing over the wall. I think he might have been there to rescue someone, maybe a scientist? Another one of the books I think might have been about WWII in North Africa, but not sure, I wish I could remember more, but this is all I can recall, thank you, everyone.
Hi all! I remembered an anecdote from a children’s book I read in the ’90s and wanted to share with my daughter. I can’t remember the main plot of the book, but part of one chapter describes the family adopting a puppy and naming him Thor because he keeps having little rainstorms on the kitchen floor. Does anyone remember this book? Thanks in advance!