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I’m looking for a children’s book I read around the late 70s. It was a chapter book. I’ve been trying to remember the title for years! I think the cover was a sort of sepia or golden brown toned drawing of two girls making daisy (or dandelion) crowns, and I think it was called “The Wonderful Terrible Summer” or something similar. I may be putting the title with another book’s cover, but if either rings a bell, please let me know! I would particularly like to know what book that cover goes to!
Hello,
I’m trying to remember a book my sister and I had as kids. It was an illustrated book and we’re very soft more impression like images. There was a small child going on a journey, I think it was an girl, either at night or it ends at night. All along the way she sees people in need and gives away her belongings, one by one. She gives away bread and clothes. At the end she has nothing but the stars come down from the sky to cover her.
I’ve done a lot of searching, as has my sister with no luck.
Any feedback would be appreciated!
I am looking for a book my dad used to read to my older brother, in the early to mid 70s. It was a children’s picture book. It followed a group of animals, probably wild animals. One of the creatures was very small, probably a mouse, and he found a nail on the road. The animals are on a journey to nowhere specific, and they run into some trouble. Whatever happens, the little creature says, “I found this nail on the road, will it help?” The other creatures do not need the nail. At the end of the book, the creatures are all thirsty, and they come to a well to get some water. The crank on the handle is broken. The little creature says, “I found this nail on the road, will it help?” They use the nail to fix the crank, and they all get a drink of water.
Hi! I’m looking for a children’s book I had in the 80s, about a little crocodile who wanted to go to a party but they didn’t have a gift to bring. They were perfectly kempt for the party, but fell over and became dirty and the balloon etc got ruined. Can anyone help me find it?
Hey, I’m looking for a children’s picture book which must have been written before the early 2000s at the latest (and likely much earlier) where as far as I can remember, a kid finds a magic shop and is either left in charge while the owner is away or otherwise finds himself in the shop. While he’s there, all sorts of crazy and magical things happen, and he somehow manages to sort everything out. At the end, the owner returns and gives him a lollipop. It is possible some of the details are incorrect. It’s the lollipop scene at the end that stands out the most. I’ve done quite a bit of googling and chat-gpt-ing but haven’t been able to come up with anything that has that lollipop scene at the end.
This one?
LINGUISTIQUE APPLIQUEE- André Gauthier : Plain Sailing , Exercices écrits , Food for thought 2 vol . , Didier , Paris , 1972 . André Gauthier , maître – assistant à l’U.E.R . d’anglais Charles V , Univer- sité de Paris VII , déjà connu …
The Little Brown Jay: A Tale from India, by Elizabeth Claire.
Hi, looking for a book I read in probably the late 90s or early 00s. I remember it was a bedtime book about a child who goes off with a pack of lions in a desert (or maybe just somewhere sandy?) and hangs out with them, eventually sleeping I think. It was very pretty, more photorealistic, the pages I remember had a very sunset-themed color palette. The child might have started in their bed and then some of the walls sort of abstractly turned into another world, but maybe I’m imagining that part. I also feel like the lions had wings but not sure. Any help is welcome! Google is not being helpful.
Looking for a book for my dad which he read at school probably in the 60’s. it was an English book – learn English. Called something along the lines of plain sailing. Does that ring a bell to anyone?
Both would be fine. Sometimes the easiest way to ID a book is through the artist. Suzanne
Great! Thanks Suzanne.
I am getting an error message when I try to attach pictures to my post, but I will share this link to the scan from my cloud storage.
Here is the text of the pages I have:
Hello! I am trying to figure out the title, author, or any other information of an illustrated children’s poem that my mom read in the mid-to-late 60s. The book is in English and was available in the United States.
It starts with a boy doing farm work with his dad and dog. Most of the book is the boy imagining different jobs he could have when he grows up – he daydreams about being a mailman, carpenter, zoo keeper, clown, policeman, cowboy, and fisherman.
I actually have a scan of most of the book and could post pictures + text, if that is allowed on this forum.
Hi, I am looking for a book I used to read (early 2000s) the illustrations were very colorful and ornate and I think that it was a fairytale set in the middle east or India. I know that there was a princess and a prince and at one point the princess switched her voice with a bird and it sounded bad and scratchy. I also think she switched her voice with a bird like a blue jay and it was really pretty. I think the prince was blind maybe. I remember there being an illustration of a pavillion. I would really appreciate help with this! Thank you!
I’m looking for a children’s book that was about a family of Cats. They were illustrated quite anthropomorphic or human like. They wore clothes like you would see in a more rural/older generation. Particularly I believe the mother cat wore a farm type dress and the main character a young cat wore overalls and no shirt. I remember one page in particular there was a dog drawn who was angry perhaps shaking his fist as the main character who maybe stole some milk or trespassed on the farm the dog owned. The book was hard cover and it was read to my by my grandmother in the early 90s so would have been published prior to that. I’ve searched google images for the book for hours as well as eBay, I guarantee you its not a popular book or something from Disney/golden books. My sister and I always called the book “The cat family” but that doesn’t seem to be the name. I remember the cover being yellow my sister things it was red so maybe that would be the case, it was beautifully illustrated but I can’t recall the plot really.
I am looking for a vintage children’s paperback book, that has a black cat on the front, and is Halloween themed. I remember that I bought this book at a school book fair and I fell in love with it. The parts that I remember are; the cat would sit on a fence every evening all by himself because he had no owner and was alone. At the end of the book the cat talks to someone in a house and tells the woman whom is always sad or upset and always wears a frown I think, “did you know that if you stand on your head the frown turns into a smile”. This is basically all I remember. I would appreciate anyone’s suggestions please! Thank You, ..S
Looking for a children’s book that I remember reading in the early 90’s. Might have been about a duck/swan in a lake/pond, and I think there was something to do with pollution or the pond being destroyed. Remember it being pretty grey, and maybe it was part of a series of books (maybe there was also a holiday book). It’s not one of the obvious results I see when searching for those keywords.
Hi, I think it’s The Tailypo: A Ghost Story by Joanna Galdone and Paul Galdone.
Sally Small, maybe?
I’m looking for a book i read around 2000/2001, so it was probably wrote in the 90s. I believe it was a YA book. A woman is found murdered in her house, her sister is suspicious of her husband. The sister that is still alive ends up kidnapping the dead sister’s baby son. They live on the East coast, maybe like north or south Carolina. And she embarks on a trip with her nephew across the United States to get to her grandma’s old house. I think the house is in Louisiana. She ends up reconnecting with someone she knew as a child. I think he was doing yard work at the old house. Eventually she is found and has to take her nephew back. But I can’t remember what else happens.
Hi im looking for a childrens book for my mum she says she remembers reading it when she was younger (she was born in 1979)
she remembers this part:
“i wish to be big i wish to be tall i wish to not be so little at all”
any ideas would be supee helpful!
I’m looking for a children’s book. They was a story and you had to find objects. Not hidden, just not easily seen. Such as a blue flower with red on the side of a mountain. Stuff like that. I remember there was a house in the woods. Any help is appreciated. I did read this back in the early 90s.
Hello, I’m looking for a children’s picture book, I would have read it in the early/mid 90’s but guess it could be from 80’s. Probably a big square shape if I recall correctly.
I don’t have a lot but it was about a boy walking home from somewhere (school maybe) and I think he encounters three different monsters. I’m sure one of them he found when he climbed a ladder up into the clouds and I think he gave that monster a jar of honey. Thank you
A book of plays, or was it a mix of things? There’s a play called “Thanks to Sammy Scarecrow” that appeared in some school collections years ago.
Looking for a book, it’s a childrens carboard book i think it was yellow and had a ghost on the cover. I remember vaguely it had sort of a halloweentown vibe.
Looking for a book about a boy discovers a parallel universe father was evil in the other universe. Girl cousin switched with parallel cousin.
I am looking for a children’s book from the 60’s it contained a play called “Sammy Scarecrow”
It’s a stretch, but I’d suggest I am David, also titled North to Freedom, by Anne Holm. The city of Thessaloniki does play a part in the story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_David
Looking for a book I read as a child in the early 90’s. I’m thinking it might have been a scholastic book. I remember it being about a party and they handpainted a sign for it. I think the paint was red. I know this is not a lot to go off of!
Cooty-Doo, one of the Bugg books by Stephen Cosgrove. “Cooty-Doo is embarrassed that his father is “only” a garbage man and tries to hide that fact from his classmates.”
If no one here knows this one, try Loganberry Books anthology finder http://w1.loganberrybooks.com/books/authors/anthologies.htm
Sometimes the best way to identify these storybooks is to recognize the artwork.
Could it be ‘From Me to You’ by Paul Rogers?
I seek a book I remember from my early childhood. The book was most likely purchased for my older sister, who was born n 1938. I recall the book was a hardcover and somewhat oversized but not especially thick. It contained several different stories, but was not a Mother Goose collection. The stories were more like Little Red Riding Hood, etc. It had colorful full-page pictures, one of which I recall vividly. It showed a hunter with his rifle standng next to dead bears lying on the ground, not the best picture for a children’s book, but a memorable one.
I would appreciate any help in finding this book.
I remember a young children’s book about an old man who lived in a cabin deep in the swamp. He goes to bed one night and begins to hear noises. Something is coming closer and closer. He sends out his hounds but they never return. At one point the “creature” is climbing up the foot of the bed. I know it sounds morbid, but it was well done and lots of fun to read. (seems like either the man or the “creature” kept repeating a mantra of some kind.) Anyway, my kids loved it. Would love to have it for my grandkids.
do you think it could be any variation of the water babies by charles kingsley?
goosebumps? there’s a story called the barking ghost that seems like the dog one you mention, as well as blankets from below which had a dog ripping up a blanket that’s haunting a child?
Hi there! I work in a bookshop and I’m trying to help a customer solve the mystery of a book from her childhood so here’s all the information she gave me:
She felt like the title was something similar to ‘Thessaly’ or ‘The Thessaly’
The plot revolves around a boy with one arm
He possibly journeys to France
It’s set around wartime
Any tips or leads would be amazing as I’d love to be able to find it for her!
warmest regards.
Hi everyone,
I’m looking for a name of a children’s or young adult book published before the 80’s. In the box, the animals are all created from things, so there are ‘Boxes’ that look like foxes and ‘Dice’ that look like mice. Would appreciate any suggestions.
I’m looking for a book about a family of bugs and the dad was a garbage man. I read it in the late 80s/early 90s.
Hi! My dad told me a story the other day about how the only time his bio dad read him a book as a kid, it involved a man walking through the desert who lost his glasses in the sand and spent a long time looking for them. That’s all he remembers about it. Dad was born in 1951, so his dad would have been reading this in the mid-50s. I know it’s a long shot, but if anyone has any guesses, let me know! Thanks for what you do!
Possibly “The Giant Jam Sandwich” by John Vernon Lord and Janet Burroway…?
I am trying to find a book
A book I read when I was VERY YOUNG back in the 80s.
It was a children’s picture book. The main characters were a doll with a broken face and a teddy bear that was missing an ear. They were riding a train to maybe? a hospital? I know they were going somewhere to get repaired. They passed by a river of lemonade– there was a 2 page spread on the lemonade river with them taking a drink while the train went by.
Trying to google? Absolutely no help whatsoever.
It’s driving me bananas. B A N A N A S.
I’ve been looking for a Childrens book we had growing up but the only problem is I only remember the illustrations. So here is what I remember it’s about a group of Children with Victorian and Edwardian style houses that match the children that live in them (color wise) the children I think all leave their houses to go out and play together I remember there being a rope swing, mud, maybe a pond, maybe a dog, and some kind of fruit (I’m pretty sure it was cherries but it could’ve been apples or peaches)
The only author I’ve come across that looks familiar to the style it was is Muriel Dawson but I can’t find any books she illustrated.
The House the Pecks Built, by Helen Evers.
Hi,
I’m looking for a children’s book I read around early 2000’s. Don’t remember the plot.. but it’s got this Halloween vibe to it. There are ice creams that scream upon being licked.. I think the main characters bought it from an ice cream van. The end of the plot had this massive monster made of candy (?)… i remember the phrase “i scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream” being in it, but again, not too sure.
Even when we can’t solve the puzzle, a lot of great children’s book plots show up on this forum. If this book doesn’t exist, someone should create it!
I remember a book from my childhood, and I need help figuring out what is was called. It started out with a family living in a one room house. They are a little cramped, so the dad, a carpenter, decided to build a kitchen, and some bedrooms, and then built more and more rooms. Eventually, the members of his family travel around on roller skates and a broom, and then there’s a train from the kitchen to the living room or something. at the end, the kids get lost and they decide to tear it all down and live in a one room cabin again. the book ends with the kid saying something like “it’s cramped in here.” what book is this?
Maybe this one?
THE Ugly Duckling (A 3D Puppet Wonder Book)
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, retold by Oscar Weigle ; illus T. IZAWA and S. HIJIKATA
Published by GROSSET & DUNLAP, 1971
It was written in Italian but I believe it was a translation from another language so hopefully the drawings remain the same and someone will be able to identify it? Thank you
I’m looking for a book that I had in the late 60’s / early 70’s. I think it was based upon Hans Christian Anderson’s The Ugly Duckling. What made the book unique was that it had 3d pictures that were on serrated plastic pages! It was very cool. Anybody have any idea how I might find this book or what it’s title might be?
Probably ‘The Fledgling’ by Jane Langton.
I’m looking for a book that my Nana had. It’s about a girl who had blonde hair and a white
cat, I feel like
her name was Nina. If I remember rightly she was wearing a pink dress. She goes to visit her grandma they may have been in the garden then it rained (I think). She found an old trunk that had dress up items in it. I remember their being a grey fur scarf, I think shoes and a hat that she tried on.
This has been driving me mad for years I would love to find this book!
Thank you
I am looking for a children’s book I read in the early 1980’s which depicted strange made up creatures. There was a man and a dog that journeyed through the countryside/woods encountering these creatures. The creatures were not the typical fantasy creatures (ex. elves, fairies, etc.) but rather were quite made up by the author. I don’t know if there was an actual story or if it was more of a picture book. I recall the illustrations being more of a black & white pencil drawing look to them. I remember one illustration of the man & his dog fighting one of the creatures and I distinctly remember the man had a pocketknife. I am thinking there was a table for each creature that listed basic traits like Name, Food, Habitat, Enemies, … etc. because after reading this book I went on a creative binge making up my own creatures by drawing them and using this same format for basic traits of each.
I have been searching for this book for decades but cannot pinpoint it. Any assistance would be very much appreciated. Thanks!
I am looking for a children’s book I read in the early 1980’s. I don’t recall much other than there was a boy who magically transformed based on idioms spoken about him. In one specific instance, he wanted candy from his mother while walking home and the mother called him a little piggy, to which he became a little pig. The boy cried and learned to exercise self-control and turned back into a boy again.
Thanks for your assistance.
Hello, I’m looking for a children’s picture book, I would have read it in the early/mid 90’s but guess it could be from 80’s. Probably a big square shape if I recall correctly.
I don’t have a lot but it was about a boy walking home from somewhere (school maybe) and I think he encounters three different monsters. I’m sure one of them he found when he climbed a ladder up into the clouds and I think he gave that monster a jar of honey. Thank you
Hey all, I am looking for a book that is about a group of kids who go on a detective mission after there is a crime at what I think was the local lodge which was on a lake. I believe the kids had a fort on an island in said lake and from there did their detective work. The end of the book resulted in the discovery that someone had stolen silver dinnerware from the “lodge”, and had hidden it in a duffel bag and thrown it into the lake that the lodge was on. I remember that the cover showed a night scene of the lake with the moon and perhaps a canoe as well. I remember when I read it thinking that some had been died and thats what had been thrown into the lake because one of the kids alleged to have seen that happen. I recall reading in grade school in the early 2010’s but it could easily have been older. I know this is vague but your help is greatly appreciated!
I’m looking for a book I read in sometime around 1996/1998 about a girl who is sent to her room and a “goose” comes to her window and takes her on an adventure. I say goose lightly because idk if it was a goose, just what my brain remembers. I’ve been searching for this book forever and would take it home from the library every other week. I loved it so much! TYIA <3
Hello all! I’m looking for a book I read as a little kid about the life of a hedgehog. It followed a female hedgehog from her youth, the story of her family and through to her death. I remember specifically a scene with a gardener attacking one of the hedgehogs with a garden implement and that the hedgehog dies in the end of old age. It was a bit of a grim book honestly but I do recall it being aimed at young readers. Any ideas would be very appreciated!
Hi! I’m looking for a children’s book that I used to read in the late 90s/early 2000s. It’s about a girl who was getting ready for her day, and I remember she took a bath and wore a yellow and red polka dot dress maybe? TIA!!
You’re welcome! And thanks for posting back.
I am looking for a book probably from the 60s that had graphics of children laying on clouds and I think one was even making the clouds a piece of pizza or an ice cream cone
The Tiny Little House.
That’s it! And I see that it’s a Scholastic book. I was thinking that maybe it was. And now I remember after seeing it again, that one of the girls was blonde, like me, and the other was brunette, like my best friend. And look! It’s only $100 on Amazon. Lol. I’ll see if I can get it through the library. Thanks so much, Mama Squirrel!
You GENIUS!!! This is it! Thank you so so much. I read this book until the pages disintegrated and have been looking for a long time. Warm regards, Leslie
Great! Enjoy reconnecting.
Try this one: The Wicked, Wicked Ladies in the Haunted House, alternative title The Wicked Pigeon Ladies in the Garden, by Mary Chase.
so many people ask about this one – it must have been very popular!
I’m looking for a book that was probably published in 1960s about a small seemingly abandoned house on a city street with high rises being built around it. Two girls use it as a clubhouse. The mean landlord tries to run them off but they give him a cookie they baked and he turns into a friendly guy. They fix up the little house and turn it into a bakery. It was illustrated with pen and ink drawings. Thanks for any help in finding this book!
Hi, I am looking for a book I read in the early 1970s. I think it probably was a scholastic book. It was about a girl who sees lights at night in the apparently abandoned house/mansion next door. At some point, she investigates and finds herself roughly a hundred years in the past hanging out with girls around her age – either time travel or haunting, I’m not sure. I think the ghost girls all had names that started with L, and there were more than a couple of them. The protagonist wants to get home (of course).
I have tried searching the internet to no avail.
Thank you so much for reading my query.
Hi, I am looking for a book my mother read to me in the early 1980s about a young African-American girl who was told to peel carrots for her mother, or her grandmother, and she would talk about how it stained her hands orange.
That’s the only memory I have of it, but I can clearly see the illustration in my head.
Elizabeth Upham’s Little brown bear loses his clothes
Hello, I’m looking for an illustrated children’s book with many short stories. each story would be only a couple of pages and each page was beautifully illustrated. i can’t find it anywhere. from what I remember there were at least 30 stories. cover of the book had an illustration with some of the characters from the stories and a red border. here is an example of some of the stories I can remember:
-a snail that takes a ride on a kite.
-mice that sleep in walnut shells
-a caterpillar in a Christmas tree
-a rabbit who wants to build a faucet so he doesn’t have to go get water from a well
– animals jumping out of a tree house onto a fireman blanket
-a story about bear and fizzy soda
Thank you in advance!
I am looking for a nook my parents used to read to me in the eighties. It was about a little bear who was messy and wouldn’t listen to his parents and pick his clothes up. One night the wind blew in and stole all his clothes and hid them in a tree.
Hello, I am looking for a kids short chapter book available around 1995-1999 era. I think it had a cover with a cartoonish moon on it and it had 6 or 7 chapters. The book tended toward slight surrealism. Some story snippets I remember are a bakery truck in a forest with a word or cryptic word on it, and an ornate glass house that a girl walks in to and hangs out in. Bless you if you know this book, I have been looking for it for 25 years after regrettably donating it out!
Edith McCall (sometimes Edith S. McCall) wrote a series about the Buttons, including Bucky Button. She also wrote books about Butternut Bill. Could onenof those be what you want?
Hi I’m looking for a book for my uncle. He said he read it I. School as a small child. It would have been in the late 40’s or early 50’s. All I know is the last line “ and nobody knows if those pigs were found or still in the woods near the town. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hi. I’m looking for a book. In my head I remember it as Billy Buttons. It was a series. Very Dick and Jane, but probably published in the 1970s. It was an early reader series. Thank you for any help or info.
Hi everyone! I’ve been on the search for a book I had as a child in the 80s. I don’t remember too much about it so I’m having a hard time finding it. What I do remember is that it’s a big, yellow hardback book about animals. At the end of the book, 2 animals (I believe they are a monkey and bunny) get into a boxing match. This is all I remember and it feels like a fever dream lol Any help is appreciated!
Hello. A long time ago i read a book about two sisters. One sister didn’t really like her sister, they were fighting over their Grandma’s broach and who got to have it. One day her sister falls into a dam and she drowns. At the end the sister gives her dead sister their grandma’s broach at her funeral.
I can’t remember much else about it. There were pictures but they weren’t in colour. The cover was navy blue. I’m 90% sure the girls were sisters, but maybe they were cousins? The title had something to do with Fate- like fiddling fate or riddling fate- i’m not sure if that’s something i made up as a child. This was about 15 or so years ago.
I’m also Australian, so i’m assuming it was an Australian children’s book?
Thank you so much!!
You’re welcome
Hi. I’m looking for a music book from the 90s. It has a keyboard (color circles) and christmas songs. I remember it has a sky blue and white hard cover. Thanks for your help
Hi. I’m looking for a children’s storybook from the 80’s or 90’s. It had a royal blue hard cover and had multiple stories about cartoon animals. I remember a zebra and a red balloon was in one of the stories. I carried this book with me everywhere when I was little and it was left in the rain. Any help would be appreciated!
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/6662228
I believe I found it. “The Fish” by Dick Bruna.
A hungry fish becomes despondent as he watches the swans and ducks eat all the food in the pond.
A little fish is unable to get any bread, until he saves a little girl from drowning.
The Five-Star General, by Joan Potter Elwart.
Dick Bruna, The Fish. There are at least two different covers for this.
I’m looking for a hardcover collection of spooky/ghostly short stories for children that I think must be very obscure. To the best of my knowledge, it would have been published between the eighties to the early 2000s – it’s definitely not newer than that, and I don’t think it is older. I read it in 2003 or thereabouts, when it had already been in my grade school library for some time. It had color illustrations which were reminiscent of Geraldine McCaughrean’s style (though I don’t believe she was actually the illustrator). It was not Grizzly Stories, Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark, In a Dark, Dark Room, or any other of the dozens of nineties-era scary-story-for-kids books out there on google; and I believe it must have been published in the UK, so any brit commenters might have a better handle on which book this is. I remember a couple stories from this book: one about a man with either a hook, a lantern, or both in a wood at night, encountered by some kids; one about a boy who repeatedly sees a black dog (like a church grim or a black shuck? it was sort of folkloric) outside his school, home, etc; and one about a boy trying to get rid of a blankie that just won’t go away. I have a strong image in my mind of an illustration for that last story: a yellow dog holding a blue blanket in his teeth. Any help tracking this down is appreciated!
that’s a very thorough description! Hope someone finds it.
Looking for a picture book; the publication date should be prior to 1970. The book itself is small (both physically, and in terms of story length). It has simple sentences (and pictures – no shading, plain color backgrounds, primarily dark blue). The plot follows a little girl who feeds ducks buns and one day falls in the river. The ducks ignore her, and a fish saves her. If I recall correctly, she wears a red raincoat.
I spoke to my mother about it, and she thinks the title is “The Fish”, and that it was written by a Scandinavian author… but every search has come up dry!
I am looking for a children’s book from 1950 to 1970’s about a little boy that had a star sticker on his forehead and wouldn’t take it off ,but it finally came off and left a star tan on his forehead. Any help would be appreciated. Lesa
Might be ” The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” by Barbara Robinson (published in 1972)?
Haven’t read it in a long time so i don’t know if it has “and Leroy” specifically, but it would make sense to structure a sentence like that for comedic effect based on the story context, and your post feels like that’s ringing a bell? It’s not in a collection of short stories, but it is a quick read, and I’ve seen abridged versions in textbooks that she might’ve come across as a teacher and be remembering.
Maybe one of the Madeline children’s books? There’s one where Madeline and Pepito join a circus caravan, with one of the page’s art including a dancing bear, and when they want to leave they are trapped somehow before escaping. My copy is a collection of 6 Madeline stories so I’m not sure of the exact title for the one with just the circus story
Thank for sharing this, I haven’t thought about this book in years. It brings back happy memories! Glad MamaSquirrel remembered the name.
Hoping someone out there can help me locate a children’s book from my childhood 🙏🏼 I’ve scoured the internet and and off for years but to no avail 😔
I owned it in the early 90s so likely published 80s or early 90s. It was a hardcover book, and the picture on the front was mainly the base of a tree in the centre with a nighttime dark blue background, I think an owl was on the tree. When you opened the front cover you had a map of the story which took you around the woods (which was the story) with various animals along the way.
Does anyone recognise this story?
One of William Corlett’s Magician’s House books?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magician%27s_House
I’m glad to hear things are going better! Best wishes.
Pigs in the House, by Steven Kroll.
Omg thank you so much. Thats it I recognize the artwork. Thank you 😊
Great! You’re welcome.
The Magic Friend Maker, by Gladys Baker Bond.
Sorry for the slow monitoring. Our big Newfoundland developed osteosarcoma and had an amputation so things have been very dog centered around here. We’re at day 10 now and he’s doing very well, so we’re all back to the mew normal. Suzanne
I’m looking for a book where either a child or children are in a big/manor house, I think at night time and are looking for something.
They then have to hid and either a local man/burgular breaks in to the house looking for the same thing.
One of the children hide in a fireplace and I believe there are secret steps in the fireplace also but not sure.
This book would have been around in the mid nineties but published way before
Thank you
Hello. I am looking for a book I read possibly in the late 60’s or early 70’s. It was a children’s picture book about a stone that looked boring and gray but when the stone got wet it had beautiful colors just like the sky at sundown. I have been wondering about this for years and often think of it when I see a beautiful sunset
Hi all I’ve been on the hunt for a book I read when I was little. I’ve been looking because i want to share it with my son & my niece. All I remember is there are pigs on a farm that play dress up,watch tv, & cook. They basically run through a goldilocks type routine while the farmer went to run errands. It’s kids picture book from the late 80s to mid 90s around the time that pickle things by Marc Brown came out. I only remember that because mom bought pickle things and this book at the same time. For context I was born in 1995 the Mark Brown book pickle things came out in 92 I think. I have asked my mom she does not remember what it was called. I just really want to find it that way me and my sister can share these books with our children.
I’m wondering about a book that I read in the 2000s but it felt like an older book. The protagonist was a boy in a wheelchair, and I seem to relieved he didn’t speak as well. Something about the neighborhood kids including them in his play. There is one scene where he is laying out in the yard on a blanket watching ants go by.
Hi! I am looking for a children’s Christmas book. It was small. Maybe 6×6 in size. It was cloth covered cardboard? Red and maybe gold trim. It was cute little drawings of a family cutting down their tree and coming back for hot chocolate. My guess it was a book perhaps from the 50’s? Not sure. It was read to us when I was about 3. I am 60 now.
Hello, looking for a children’s book please about a school washed away in a flood. Book designed for approx 8-12 year olds reading age. The school children are in the building as they watch the waters rising. The school uproots and sails away intact. If memory serves, they may climb onto the roof and rig some DIY sails from material found in the school, or else the interiors of the school remain usable and everyone stays indoors (imagine the movie Up but a school, and in a flood). Possibly the floods recede and the school arrives back to where they started. I believe it had large (watercolour?) illustrations taking up most of the pages, in dark colours. Read this in the late 1990s, in Ireland. Thanks for any help!
The book I’m looking for I read in my 90’s childhood. I remember it being purple on the cover with a yellow drain – about a monster or creature in the drain. If my memory isn’t faulty, it had the look of the old submarine helmet. The cover was hard, but the book was relatively thin and the cover had a hole that you could see through to the title page, but I don’t think the hole went all the way through the book.