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Dragon Quest, an Usborne book by Andy Dixon.
Hello!
I am looking for a children’s book I randomly checked out from the library a few years ago and have been thinking about for a few weeks because it was such a sweet book that I would like to read it to my god daughter. Here are details I remember
Main character was a thin french woman, who wore all black.
She adopts a dog, and meets a man in the park by a fountain who is either a dog walker.. or like a shelter worker? she asks him for help training her dog. They fall in love, get married and all the dogs attend their wedding, then they adopt all of the dogs at the shelter, and their house is full of dogs.
I’ve been on a few online groups asking for help, and I’m starting to think I am crazy and it’s not real… PLEASE HELPPP!
Hello! Hoping someone can help me. I’m looking for a children’s picture book from my childhood (late 80s/early 90s). I remember fairies or princesses coming down from the sky and each had a different shape she could make it rain. One was diamonds, one was hearts, etc. I think they had a scepter with the shape in it. At the end, I remember all of them floating or in bubbles in the sky. I think they came to cheer a child up or something like that
Hi – I’m looking for a search and find style picture book where a group of kids have to go on a quest as (I think) there has been a spell cast on their town causing hair loss? I remember one of the characters is a girl wearing a big floppy, orange hat. Each page had a different scene where you find things in the picture – I seem to remember an underwater scene and a scene where they are going to be put in a giant’s soup pot. Have been searching for this book for years and would love if anyone knows it!
I’m looking for a children’s book that I read in the 70s about a migrant family who moved from field to field picking crops, and their daughter who keeps her treasures in a special box. ???
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Maybe: Elephant in Trouble, by Thomas Crawford. You can access it on archive dot org.
Looking for a vintage teenage book. A teenage girls dad died, mom remarried, she had to move to a new area, a new high school, trouble with her new siblings, she was into photography as was her father. Anyone remember?
I’m looking for an old children’s book. It was made in the 80’s at the latest. It was about messy marvin, an elephant. Some words in it were ‘marvin goes splash. Marvin’s all wet’.
I’m trying to remember a children’s picture book about a man who works nights and has trouble sleeping during the day because of all the neighborhood noise. I think there was a whistling mailman and maybe a garbage truck or some construction type work going on making noise. It’s possible the message may have been to be considerate of your neighbors. Most likely read in the late 70s or early 80s. Thank you!
I’m pretty sure this is Gone Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright. Lovely book. It was republished frequently.
I’m looking for a book I read in the 1960’s..a girl walks through some bushes or brambles (I think) and discovers an older, grandparent-like couple. It’s like a secret place and she loves going there. It’s not The Secret Garden, however. I loved this book. Thank you.
The People in Pineapple Place; The Prisoner of Pineapple Place.
The Half-a-Moon Inn, by Paul Fleischman.
I am trying to remember children’s books (I believe it was a series) set in Georgetown (Washington D.C.) strawberry may have been in the title and I believe they were written in the 60’s. What I remember was an alley or community that lived in a kind of cloistered environment but not unseen
It’s actually the mother who is the inventor! LOL.
You are so right!!! Thank you so much!
The Family Minus, by Fernando Krahn.
Oh, I know this book, I just can’t think of the title because it’s the name of the family/creatures and it’s slipped my mind. “The Hoobits Start The Day,” or whatever it was along those lines. I’ll keep thinking about it. (That’s a good description of the car, by the way–although I think it’s the mother who drives it.)
Hello! I’m possibly conflating a few books here, but I’m looking for a childrens short novel I would have read in the mid/late 1980s. I remember an orphan child (boy I think) as the main character. I think there was highwayman and a witch/woman who kept an inn. I think the woman had the ability to look inside the dreams of her sleeping guests. I also want to say it was set in Portugal, but I’m not sure. I remember being really taken with the book to the point were I told the school librarian about it and she insisted I stand in front of my class and tell them all about it. I’d be interested in reading the book to my daughter (who fortunately at 9 still lets her dad read to her) if I can find it. Thank you.
One of the Blinky Bill books?
The Kettles Get New Clothes, by Dayle Ann Dodds.
Hello,
Looking for a book from the 80’s possibly late 70’s. It’s about a family of animals, possibly aardvarks or something like them. The father is an inventor and has all these hone inventions. There are all these kids…all boys I think with one girl. They wake up in the morning with their blankets getting lifted off them with one of the dad’s inventions. I believe it ends with him taking all of them to school in this vehicle that has them all sitting in these individual pods. It almost looks like a caterpillar-mobile.
Thank you!
Hi,
I’m looking for a book I read when I was a child, late 90s to early 2000s. It’s about a family of 4 (I think they’re animals, maybe mice?!) who go clothes shopping and the store clerk tries them in lots of different patterns and styles, definitely striped, dotty and paisley etc. The parents and eldest child don’t like them because they just want some plain brown clothes, but the youngest child loves all the patterns. The rest of the family and the clerk are getting increasingly frustrated by the misunderstanding between the clothes they’re being given and what they wanted and are relieved when he finally brings them the plain clothes, but the youngest child is miserable and the book finishes with the youngest getting a mixture of all the different patterned clothes and being happy and the rest of the family getting their plain clothes and being happy. I’ve been looking for this book for about ten years so any help in finding it would be very appreciated!
any help appreciated! I am looking for a picture book my children had when they were young (30 odd years ago now), about nervous Mrs Possum visiting fussy Mrs Wombat
Need help finding a touch and feel house book
Looking for a touch and feel book that had a blue towel to lift on one page and a red checkered curtain which had blue butterflies flying underneath
It sounds like “Katie Meets the Impressionists”.
These might be books by Carl and Grace Moon, not many illustrations but very skilled ones, also not exactly a series but they fit together.
https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=f84ae1a24cb31e32&sca_upv=1&q=carl+and+grace+moon+books&uds=AMwkrPutq-TxOnWtSQaB1WSjWHshKAFG3XMaqsHyyfmv_f0lf78cAFC06pIhj8nYuSwiILdxLtDfmzz3GgFX6XNSOHxsil1zY5RNXbpHsdsoPNvSDzJB8bxH4m_mkfyFJAZ7dfhY6Y-Hl_84tcER_wQwlxw-nMjLLPEXCHydTc5fJXm3G26YWszp-haFFEilfn8iWmBppG-ef_tj7ysX6ol-FsPSiyCZ4aU1HSW7_D_cM0fUf3RO1UNVGEvXi6dgBnB5W2nFk_jBAjUx3rRDfHinM4q2wUqM08KcK_BJe5lrcnfG6fp9CCjTp25QRBmioGX_8p3Y57nh&udm=2&prmd=isvnbmtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjisqqHnLaFAxUQOTQIHUgQB3oQtKgLegQICxAB&biw=1145&bih=563&dpr=2.
Looking for a book from the fifties or earlier, series of books about a native American child in the American southwest. Very vivid description of the landscape. A chapter book, not a picture book though maybe a few illustrations.
Looking for a picture book that I used to borrow from my primary school library. It was about a girl who had an elderly lady as a neighbour (I think) who was an artist/did paintings. The paintings either came alive or you could jump into the paintings (something like that) the illustrations were amazing and colourful. I don’t remember much more about it, there could have been the word ‘imagine’ in the title.
Book from the 1960s about a little girl and a necklace of gold nuggets set in probably the 1800s and about prairie life. I don’t think it was part of the Little House in the Prairie collection. Thank you.
Clever Kate? I had this book in the 80s
Probably not it, but A Summer to Die has a girl named Meg who is learning photography.
Shirley Hughes books?
Teddy Robinson by Joan G Robinson?
Please, oh please help. I have been searching for this book for years and years that I read in my youth. I don’t remember the title but it’s from the 1980s/90s about a girl named Meg, I think, who works developing pictures and walks to work (maybe bikes? close by her house down a country road. There is something that comes to mind about molasses, glasses, and I believe her name is Meg. That is kind of all I remember, but it made a huge impact about hard work, I loved it, and really want to find it again.
Please, oh please help. I have been searching for this book for years and years that I read in my youth. I don’t remember the title but it’s from the 1980s/90s about a girl named Meg, I think, who works developing pictures and walks to work (maybe bikes?) close by her house down a country road. There is something that comes to mind about molasses, glasses, and I believe her name is Meg. That is kind of all I remember, but it made a huge impact about hard work, I loved it, and really want to find it again.
It doesn’t have the line about the butterflies but it does have her trying to catch a butterfly
it doesn’t have that line about butterflies but she plays with butterflies during the walk
Kate, I’m posting this again because I don’t see it showing up. Thanks for the photo
thank you
Hi! Trying to find a picture book from my childhood, I assume around 1990s to 2000s. I remember it is from the perspective of a young girl and she is describing her summer and the city she lives in. The only part that I remember very clearly is she talks about the man who sells them blocks of ice and she gets to suck on ice chips during the hot summer. She is possibly a Black girl and I’m pretty sure it takes place in a big American city. Thank you!!
Hello, I cannot think of a book series I read as a child in the 70s that had 2 boys and a little girl that either ran away or were hiding because they cut the little girl’s hair to make her look like a boy and called her Toni. That’s about all I can remember besides the fact I really enjoyed reading it. I hope that’s enough clues to figure it out. TIA
Hi! I’m looking for a children’s book, possibly 1940s to 1970s about a young child who falls into a rockpool/tidalpool and can’t get out. She shrinks and is able to talk to the limpets and creatures that inhabit the pool and they in turn try to help her get out. She’s eventually rescued by the Twinkledad (or something similar) so called because his eyes twinkle like stars when he looks into the rockpool. Fingers crossed someone can help because this is driving me nuts!!
The Girl Who Changed Her Fate, by Laura Marshall.
Laura Marshall, The Girl Who Changed Her Fate.
I’ve been trying to find a book from my childhood for about 10 years now. It was given to me around the mid 90s maybe early 2000s. It was a children’s picture book. I can’t remember the name. It was set in Greece in the past before cars and stuff I’m pretty sure (we’re Greek so we got a lot of stories like that) and it started off talking about a family who ran an Inn or restaurant and they had something like 5 or 7 daughters. It described something like a respectable family but their problem was no matter how hard they tried none of the daughters could wed. One day an old lady came in and the family showed her kindness by letting her stay with them for free or something like that. And the parents told her one night about their problem. She told the parents to go in the girls’ room where they all slept in the same bed and take note of where their hands were. So they did, and came back to the old lady and told her some thing like: the oldest daughter’s hands were on her heart, the next folded under her head, the next wrapped around her or something, but the youngest daughters hands were just laying flat by her side. The old lady then said that the youngest daughter has a trouble “fate”(this word fate is what could be wrong in all my searches, its referring to a personified guardian being of some sort) and that the youngest girl must go to the land of the fates (?) and find out why her fate is upset or mad or give her an offering maybe or something. So she does so and i think i remember her mother sewing in coins to her dress to use for food and stuff. and i think i remember she used them for kindness to help people along the way maybe? so then she gets to the land of the fates and all the other fates are all women who are calm and kind and dressed in white and then she finds her fate who has fiery red messy hair and is wearing this rainbow colorful loud poncho robe type thing. The girl tries to appease to her and give her an offering and the fate throws a tantrum stomping around and screaming. the other fates come over and basically shame her for doing so and point out she is supposed to be protecting the girl. so the fate then apologizes and gives the girl some sort of gift. on the way home the girl runs into a prince on the dirt road. and i can’t remember exactly but I think something happens involving the gift the fate gave her that results in the prince wanting to marry her. and then when the girl gets home, she finds out her sisters all have suiters. and happy ending. I know this is a long shot and a very vague story line to go on. I generally do google searches like once a year trying to find this book so if anyone has any leads I’d appreciate the help!
Hi! I’m hoping you can help. I can remember a picture story book from when I was very little and would love to track it down. I vividly remember the line ‘oh look, there’s a butterfly and it has landed on your head. How pretty you look’. Apart from that… I think it was about a baby girl / toddler outside in nature. I feel like the front cover was mainly white with a picture of the little girl and maybe flowers in muted colours. My dad used to read this to me and I’d love to find it to read my little boy! Thank you
Hello! Thank you in advance for any help you can give, well-read wise ones!
I am looking for a children’s book. Picture book, color illustrations. Hard cover with paper pages (not a board book). Read sometime between 1980-1986 from school library (Saint Simon & Jude Catholic school, Brooklyn NY, school closed years ago); reader would have been about 10 years old at the time. English language. Human characters, not animals. Present-ish day setting? Not clear on time, but there were apartment buildings, cars, etc. things that were appropriate for the 1970s and 1980s in a major urban/city area like New York City, San Francisco, etc.
Synopsis: Boy (possibly Caucasian) is helping older female (possibly Asian) in his neighborhood with taking in her groceries. Neighbor gives the boy a gold coin as a thank you. The boy feels guilty about taking such a generous item, and was happy to help without compensation. At end of book, the boy returns the coin to his neighbor. She takes the coin and unwraps it, revealing that it is a piece of chocolate wrapped in gold foil.
I’ve done some Googling, no joy. It is NOT:
The Chocolate Touch or Chocolate Fever, both by Patrick Skene Catling
The Mystery of the Gold Coins (Cam Jansen #5)
I believe it is a stand-alone title, and not part of a series. Do not know anything about the cover other than that is had illustrations consistent with the interior. Do not recall any unique names or phrases.
I have emailed Library of Congress and they were unable to help, but referred here. Thank you all in advance for any help or direction you can give!
Looking for a children’s book for the 1980s about a mother reading a story from planet Earth and then at the end another mother reading from another planet, possibly the same story
Looking for an old children’s book I read to by 5 year old in the 1980s. Plot is a mother reading a story on earth to her child and the end shows a mother from another planet reading the same story I think .
Please help me find this book. It was an old children’s book that had several different stories in it. All I remember is that the title of the book had the word Six Ducks… But I do know that included in the book was the poem Goody O’Grumpity by Carol Brink.
….Did the two little kids fly around with the little alien in a sort of home-made space ship? Rusty’s Space Shiip) Lampman. from Truman
Glad to see you’re back!
I am trying to find a book that I read at school in Year 2 (approx 2000) in which a tiny (I think alien!) creature flew around in a little space ship.
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I am trying to find a favorite children’s book I used to have. Unfortunately, I can’t remember the title or author of the book. What I do remember is: the book was a hardcover and blue. The cover had a young girl about 3/4 turned toward the reader( with I think) a sealskin coat on. The main characters were Fannie or Fanny, her brother Hugh, school friends and a rabbit being treated with linseed oil. I know the book is out of print. Is there any way you can help me find this favorite childhood book?
Try Friendly Gables, by Hilda van Stockum.
Friendly Gables, if the nickname for their hideout was”Homework.”
My grown daughter is trying to remember the title of a book I read to her as a child about kids with a mean nanny who hide from her in the attic. Does that sound familiar? I would have read it to her in the 90’s, but it could be older than that. Thanks!
Looking for a picture book I remember from the early 70s, so it could easily have been released in the 50’s or 60s. 2 boys, one is short, one is tall, both have homes that don’t suit them. (E.g. maybe the short boy lives in a basement and can’t see out of the high-up windows.) They find a place together (a shack maybe??) and decorate it. I think I remember them pasting newspaper on the walls.
I don’t suppose you are thinking of Coraline by Neil Gaiman or Book of Lost Things by John Connoly or May Bird and the Ever After by Jodi Lynn Anderson?
I am looking for a children’s collection that I read as a kid in the 90s. I believe the cover was blue with a child with a bowl-cut and he was shouting “don’t tell me that I talk too much” from the poem (Shel Silverstein), which is in the book. Also in the book is a folktale about a crocodile and a monkey (I think) and a section about playing cards history/origin. I don’t remember the title of the book or the author. I would really appreciate any help! Thanks
Looking for a children’s book from the 1970s, or perhaps even the 1960s – as I recall, a collection of short stories with a whorled shell on the cover. One of the stories involved the discovery of a buried body or skeleton on a beach, in whose hand was found the closure of a shell (operculum). Many thanks in advance.
90’s children’s story book, find bear paw print on each page
Looking for a book. There’s a girl being raised by her aunts. They take a picture of her every year by a tree. Her father visits when he can, but he’s usually away at sea. She discovered he actually has a family not too far away and sneaks on the bus with her friend to go see them. She discovered she has a step mom and half brother and half sister. Her half sister, Anabel, is missing 2 digits from her hand. She eventually starts playing with the children but when the step mom discovers her, she gets really angry. The girl has flashbacks of living there and thinks she does Anabelle it something and that’s how she lost her fingers. But that’s not what happened
Hi everyone,
I am desperately looking for an old children’s book that has a red-wine cover. The book was about a girl showing her home and the garden. Her home was quite distinguished and noble. It seems it was British. I think I remember a cat that was seen again and again. It is possible that the book included the main character made out of cardboard to play with. However, I am not sure about that. I hope someone of you can help me. I am looking forward to your ideas.
I’m looking for a book for my wife. She has mentioned it fondly several times. All she can remember is this one line:
“Red boots, red boots, black boots brown. I wear red boots when I go to town.”
Thank you in advance,
-A
This is not it, but this also looks interesting. I´ll buy it for our school for next Christmas, thanks for the tip!
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There’s Snowmen at Night, by Caralyn Buehner, but that seems too late (2002).
I’m looking for a book my dad read to me and my brother when we were kids this would have been roughly between mid 80s to late 90s but I’m not sure if the book was older. From what I remember it was a book of monsters that had a monster and a little poem about them every page or two and the one I remember the most was a green or yellow skeleton maybe called Stanley or maybe they had Stanley in their name? Their poem said something along the lines of “He’s deadly and he’s dangerous he has no funny bone.” If anyone remembers this I would love to hear it thanks for reading.
repost from 2 years ago, still looking: I am looking for a children’s or YA book that was a portal fantasy about a child falling down into a new world. They get lost in the unpleasant underground space. It is not Gregor the Overlander. Possible female main character. I remember it being a bit unsettling to read. I feel like the main character escaped down a staircase in a home belonging to a mean woman or women that they perhaps had to work for as a servant? They meet underground residents that make them feel uneasy, but there are many uninhabited spaces and the character is often disoriented.
I’m looking for a book my dad used to read to me and my brother when we were younger. This would have probably been between the mid 80s and late 90s but I’m not sure how old the book was. I think it was a book that had a different monster every page or two. The one that sticks out the most in my mind who was a green or yellow skeleton who’s name was maybe Stanley or they hand Stanley in their name, and their little excerpt read something along the lines of “He’s deadly and he’s dangerous he has no funny bone”
I have been remembering a book I had as a child called (something like) Diana in the City. Probably hardcover and illustrated. I can’t find it on Alibris or Worldcat or anywhere! I think it would have been from the 1960s or earlier.
I have been trying to find a book I had as a child called (something like?) Diana in the City. It was illustrated, I think in hardcover, probably from the 1960s or earlier. Nothing found on Alibris, Worldcat, or anywhere! I vaguely remember beautiful illustrations. I would love to see it again.
I am looking for a children´s book where a boy goes into a winter forest and sees many animals, snowmen skating etc. I cannot remember its name, nor the author. I have read the book as a child in the 90s, but I don´t know when it was originally published.
I’m trying to find a book from my childhood (1990s), but I don’t know when it was published (it was at my grandma’s house).
It was a children’s picture book, but it was an interactive “choose you own adventure” style, but not part of that official seriesThe only things I remember are:
1. There was a scene with a lot of clocks or a clocktower
2. There was a scene with a room filled will bubbling pots (of spaghetti I think)
3. It took place in a dreamland, because at the end, the character would wake up (I think).
Any idea what book this is? ChatGPT’s no help.
I am trying to find a chapter book, written before 1995 – it was about a boy visiting Egypt who befriended another boy, who was essentially a time traveler with his father. We were reading as a class in 5th grade but I moved away before we finished it, so I may be a little off on the details… thank you!
I am looking to find a book I had as a child. Either from the late 60s, or early 70s about a girl going shoe shopping with her mother. I remember beautiful illustrations, one page featuring many different kinds of shoes. They many have been shopping in NYC, but I’m not sure. Hardback back
Ann Nolan Clark, This For That.
This For That, by Ann Nolan Clark.
Hello, Despite searching on and off for a few years, I cannot find this one. It was a picture book from 1960 ish of a Native American boy and his family. He was always forgetting/losing things and was called put it pick it after the similarity of his approach was flagged by his grandfather/father to a packrat? Prairie dog? I want to say there was a blue feather in the story? Thanks.
Hi 🙂 I’m looking for this book, I think from the early 2000s, where a little girl who I remember being brown is picking out an outfit to hangout with her grandma. It’s very colourful and pretty and her dress was red and orange maybe with lots of patterns. I vaguely remember a fun hat being involved.
Evan’s Corner, I think.
Hi, I am looking for a children’s picture book that I read in the late ‘80s or early ‘90s. There was a little
girl bear who was going to school for the first time and was nervous about it. She had blackberries and cream or porridge for breakfast and the story described what she did at school that day. It was not Berenstain Bears but the story wasn’t entirely dissimilar from The Berenstain Bears Go To School. It was a sweet story.
Looking for a children’s book from the 90’s about a child who has a new sibling and who feels left out/is annoyed of the baby so the family makes a special hidden play room that the child can go in to be away from the baby but eventually learns that the baby is ok and lets the baby join him in the playroom. Thanks!
Hi, I’m looking for a children’s book with pictures that I read back between the ages of 3-6. I read the book sometime in the 90s so the publication could be anything before then. I remember something about it being night time and there was some kind of journey/adventure. Something with a ladder or maze. One of the images inside was a top down view or cross section of the inside of a home that felt really cozy. I don’t know how much this part is accurate but there was maybe something with a crocodile or alligator. And the book seemed to have something to do with eventually coming back home at night after an adventure.
Fiction.
It is a children’s picture book. From what I remember, it is a boy who has to battle monsters before he goes to bed. He might call himself a superhero? But it’s basically his fight against all these different creatures to fall asleep. It ends with him getting to the bed and sleeping.
I read it around 10-15 years ago, and I think it came out anywhere from 2000-2010 (most likely). Early 2000’s for sure.
I read it in the US, and it was in English. Most likely it was from America, but could have also been from England.
I think it was a pretty slim book, but am not 100% sure. It also might have been a test book, trying to get sold by a publishing company, so I don’t think it was a very popular children’s story.
I’m trying to find it for my brother again. Anything helps, thank you!
Hi, I’m looking for a children’s book I used to read at my grandma’s house. It was probably published in the 1940s or 1950s (maybe early 1960s?) and was a story about a forest ranger and his large dog and a black kitten. I think there was a forest fire at some point and the dog rescued the kitten. The kitten had a peg leg (after the fire?). It wasn’t a chapter book. I remember the illustrations were fairly realistic. I can’t remember the title or the author.
Looking for a book that my daughter read in the early 90s about FBI cases like Ma Barker, John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, gangster type criminals. When I was cleaning, I tossed it out in a box and want to find another for her. It was a small green paperback and the title included FBI, we think. It was probably for older kids/teens.
Hello, I’m looking for a children’s book I had in the early-mid 2000’s. It was really colorful and fully illustrated; about a little girl who had a messy room. Her mom said they could go do something fun (can’t remember exactly what) if she cleaned her room, so she shoved everything in her closet. Her mom saw it was clean and they were getting ready to leave, but then the closet burst open and the girl had to actually clean her room.
I’m looking for old (80’s) childrens hard back book I think Christmas/ winter theme. White landscape book with the back cover of tree with branches and possible fairy lights? Have been searching for this book for years! 😅
Hello. I am looking for a fairy tale book from the 90s or before. It had many stories in it that taught lessons and did not always end well. I remember a story with a picture of Jack Frost at the window. Another was about water nixies or sprites or fairies that invited people with their dancing but then drowned them. Another was about a red haired rich snob and her blonde haired poor step sister. The poor sister was sent out into the snow and sat under a tree. In this version she ends up talking to Jack Frost I think and ends up in a beautiful sleigh and she is wrapped in jewels and a beautiful fur lined light blue dress and cape and she goes away to live rich and happy in the sleigh. The red haired rich sister is jealous and tried the same thing but she is not kind to the Jack Frost figure and she freezes to death under the tree. There are also other stories in this book but these are the ones I can remember.
I’m forever on the hunt for a book (series?) about dragons from the 80’s. I’m pretty sure it’s a boy & a girl that find a door in a cave after walking along a beach. The series starts out with them finding a young dragon and helping it return home. When they leave and come back, several times, time has gone faster in the dragon world and their dragon friend grows older and faces hardships. What I remember most, is that when a dragon dies, they fly over the water towards the sunset, and the way it was described was very poignant and made me cry. I would love to find these books again.
I’m looking for a children’s Christmas or winter picture book. It was larger than 81/2 by 11, though I don’t remember the actual size. I remember it from my childhood in the 1980s. It was frontier style, in that I believe they lived in a cabin. They went for a walk into the woods that was lit with candles to a special tree that was fully lit and glowing – I don’t think it was decorated in anything but lights. I remember a girl and maybe her grandfather or father. The book was in color and hardback. Thanks for your help!
OMG!!!! Thank you sooo much!!! I’ve searched for this book for YEARS but didn’t know the name. I’m getting it for myself for Christmas!!!
Enjoy reconnecting with your book memories!
My Flight Bag Book, by Kathleen N. Daly. There appear to be earlier and later editions/ illustrations (Eloise Wilkin? Yoshi Miyake?), so if one doesn’t seem right, maybe check the other.
Probably the Twins books by Lucy Fitz Perkins. This a very early printing or a first but they have been republished many times, much more inexpensively, in trade and narrower school versions and probably in paperback since they are still used in homeschooling.
https://www.oldchildrensbooks.com/pages/books/13962/lucy-fitch-perkins/the-scotch-twins