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I really think this is it!! I’m going to try my hardest to find a copy. Thank you so much!!
Happy to help – I hope you find a copy.
HELP ME: VINTAGE BOOK HUNT pre 90s unsure of exact year.
I’ve been searching for a vintage children’s book for years now:
A kitten wants to play in the rain with his two friends, his mom tells him to clean his room first to find his rain gear, friends help, he even finds his toy boat to play in the puddles.
I’m pretty sure the cover was a beige book. The book is NOT Rainy Day Kitten or the Three Little Kittens
I’m looking for a picture book with no words in it. It had a picture of a doll in it. Most of the pictures were a blue gray color. It was a small book. I use to read it in the 90s as a kid.
It’s not The Night After Christmas or The Forgotten Toys, is it? About the old toys who get thrown out the day after Christmas.
I am looking for a childrens picture book from around 1975 In the story there is a cat that is afraid of a vacuum cleaner kept in the closet, He imagines the vacuum to be like an elephant. I can’t remember anything else about it and I have been searching for about six years.
“the big joke game” by scott corbett. a boy who loves jokes & games falls off a trellis while trying to run away from home & finds himself playing a life-size board game accompanied by his guardian devil, bub. a very popular book that many people remember!
That sounds like a good one! I must have missed that one, but I loved Corbett’s “Trick” books!
Might be The Phantom Tollbooth.
I’m looking for a chapter book I read in the late 70s early 80s. The only thing I remember is a boy on a rollercoaster of sorts who had to answer questions correctly to get through the ride?
Hi I had books as a child, they were tiny cardboard books you give toddlers and they were about a Teddy bear and her Teddy parents and came in different colours/flavours and I remember the red one, the baby Teddy bear got jam on her or eat all the jam. They were also magnetised
Benny Blackberry (Jam Panda Magnets)
Not a teddy bear, but a panda bear.
ISBN 978-0752531304
I am looking for a book…probably a collection of stories like the old anthologies from elementary school. In the early 90s my teacher read a short story to my class. The story was set in the future at a time when retail stores did not exist. All purchases were ordered and delivered to your home. The boy in the story wanted a bicycle, but his parents thought that he should be able to see, and feel, and try the bike before buying it. So they went to a warehouse where these things were stored, and asked to shop for a bike in person. The workers at the warehouse thought the family was very strange for “shopping” in person.
I am also looking for this
I’m looking for a kids treasure hunt book. It had an old blue cover at my elementary library in the late 80s. It had a boy and at the end he was being chased maybe at an old ladies mansion and he found the money in a bag maybe in a hole under a rock in the garden? Can you help
Amazon is the most likely. If you can get an ISBN number that would help. Here is a Ladybird specialist who might be able to help https://ladybirdflyawayhome.com/complete/
Thank you! I’ll make sure to thoroughly peruse that site, although I’m unable to find anything on Amazon. I was kind of depending on finding something there, too! But again, thank you so much for your help!
and a picture of the English cover
Hello all! I’m trying to find an old children’s book I read sometime before 1980. The main character was a boy about ten or twelve who was bullied, and eventually lured into an old abandoned house where the bullies trapped/locked him in the attic where he had to spend the night. I can’t remember anything else about, other than the character’s name was probably Toby, or the name of the book was Toby or had Toby in it. The cover was white or cream with a line/pencil drawing of the old, broken-down house with a bit of ground/grass in the foreground. It may have even been a short story in an anthology book and that image was within the story.
This sounds like Toby by Art Wallace. First published in 1971 by Doubleday, it looks like it was republished in the 90s as ‘Toby and the phantoms of the fourth grade’ (with a different cover, the old house is much more prominent).
Based on a CBS drama. From the Kirkus review “Toby’s problem — convincing his new classmates that he is not a “”creep,”” merely a genius — involves him in a series of dangerous escapades from near manslaughter to rapelling down a bicycle chain out of an attic window.”
A search for Toby and the phantoms of the fourth grade turned up a chillingly familiar cover! I actually got chills and goosebumps!
I found it at a decent price at abebooks and ordered it with rush shipping! If this is it I owe you hugely!
That’s it!!!!
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30158335631&searchurl=an%3Dart%2Bwallace%26sortby%3D20%26tn%3Dtoby&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-image5#&gid=1&pid=1
Inspired that Chanda found a long-sought book from the early 1990s within a few days (and many, many thanks again), I throw out a pro challenge!
I think it was called The Girl With the Violet Eyes. I was obsessed with this book at the age of 8 or 9, back in the early 1960s. Other than that I loved it, and read it over and over in a library, I don’t remember anything about it. I was not able to locate it when my kids were that age, but maybe you can find it for my grandchildren!
A long shot, but the era and the book length seem right: The Man with Purple Eyes, by Charlotte Zolotow.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22088017-the-man-with-the-purple-eyes
I also found a mention of a different book, about someone’s teacher reading them a book about characters visiting a world where everything was purple, and for some reason a girl with violet eyes couldn’t look at all the purple (so they blindfolded her?). Don’t know if it’s old enough to be your book.
Ok… total long shot here, but maybe worth taking a look at Star Girl by Henry Winterfeld (1956)?
From online reviews:
“Mo falls from her father’s spaceship as it hovers low over the Earth, and a group of children finds her in the forest. She tells them her father will pick her up after nightfall in a certain forest glade, and the children decide to help her.”
“Mo is discovered by a group of children. She has violet eyes, claims to have fallen from a spaceship and is wearing a necklace. A REAL diamond necklace.”
“But their troubles start when none of the grown-ups will believe Mo’s story. Mo runs away, the children after her, to spend a bewildering day learning about the funny and sometimes frightening ways of Earth’s inhabitants.”
“Here’s is a summary of a favorite scene: The kids hide out in the local library (on a sunny holiday afternoon!).Mo: I can’t read your language—I just speak it. Children: When the librarian comes in she must THINK you are reading. The library lady asks Mo if she needs help. “I read well” Mo replies. “But you are reading upside down” Mo hastily turns the book sideways, blowing their cover story!”
The book has been reprinted multiple times. Here are a few of the different covers:
That sounds like the sort of book you would borrow repeatedly. (Mine was Stars for Cristy.)
I read this book in 1990, and it was old then. I suspect it was probably published in the 1950s or 1960s. It was a book with a collection of short stories and some color illustrations. Some of the stories were sci-fi and others were similar to fairy tales. It was a hardbound book with a blue cover and at the top was an illustration of William Tell with a crossbow taking aim at the apple. The cover illustration also appeared to have characters and scenes from other stories within the book. I believe the title had the words: “bravery” and “courage” in it.
I can only remember three stories from the book but I believe there were several more. One story was a rendition of William Tell.
Another was a sci-fi story where astronauts from Earth go to Mars and find a preserved Martian who withers to dust as soon as they open the chamber. They find the Martian’s account of the destruction of his world written on metal sheets. The story serves as a cautionary tale for humanity.
Another sci-story features an inventor who builds a time machine. But he decides to test it before demonstrating it and gets stuck in an infinite loop.
I ha c e a large collection of childrens books I have ben collecting for the the last ten years about 1000 to 1500 books .I n only collected books in excellent collection a few that are fair condition .im interested in selling them would you b interested and if not do you know who would
If you email me privately with some of your collecting interests, and a few representative books Title Author, Illustrator, Publisher., I can give you some ideas about the best way to sell them. Please don’t send pictures at this point. Suzanne
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I’m looking for a slim, hardcover book about polar bears that would have been published before 1974 (probably in the 1960s). I read it over and over as a child but always checked it out from the library, so I never had a copy. I remembered it as nonfiction, but when I saw the cover of Nenook on the site, it really sparked a memory. Could that be the one or am I missing another option? Thank you!
I’d be glad to send you pictures of the interior so you could see. [email protected]. If Nenook rang a bell, there is also the picture book of the movie Nanook of the North 1970 which has got to have polar bears in it. (I can look at that too) If the pictures were photographs there is a really charming book by Crosby Newell photos by Ylla called The Polar Bear Brothers. We don’t have one, but the dealer with photos is a reliable colleague. https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=newell%20crosby%20ylla&tn=polar%20bear%20brothers&cm_sp=mbc-_-ats-_-all
Thank you Suzanne! I really appreciate it and will send you an email. Something about the Nenook cover really grabbed me, but I did remember the book being nonfiction, so The Polar Bear Brothers could be the one!
I am looking for a book i had as a child 1945-50; It had crayons, a popcorn machine and balloons. I think it was larger than a Golden Book but not coffee table size. Don’t remember anything about the story line. Help
Thank you for this info but it’s not correct. This book had the spiral across the top.
“the flintstones meet the gruesomes?”
Thank you!
I am looking for a book that my first grade teacher gave me in 1958. It was a picture book about an Italian family. They made spaghetti and the spaghetti was hanging to dry in one picture (I think). My most memorable part was the little record in the back. The song was Finiculi Finicula! The book was probably a soft cover and close in size to a Golden Book.
that sounds marvelous!
So it isn’t that old of a book but I read it some years ago and i’m searching so hard for it. It was about a boy and his brother. They were going to visit their grandparents for (maybe) the summer. Their grandpa was blind and had a bird room. I think the title had to do with being brave? The cover was a bluish color and it had a house that they visited in the book where they found a ton of birds.
As Brave as You, by Jason Reynolds.
As Brave as You by Jason Reynolds.
Genie’s summer is full of surprises. The first is that he and his big brother, Ernie, are leaving Brooklyn for the very first time to spend the summer with their grandparents all the way in Virginia—in the COUNTRY! The second surprise comes when Genie figures out that their grandfather is blind. Thunderstruck, Genie peppers Grandpop with questions about how he hides it so well (besides wearing way cool Ray-Bans).
How does he match his clothes? Know where to walk? Cook with a gas stove? Pour a glass of sweet tea without spilling it? Genie thinks Grandpop must be the bravest guy he’s ever known, but he starts to notice that his grandfather never leaves the house—as in NEVER. And when he finds the secret room that Grandpop is always disappearing into—a room so full of songbirds and plants that it’s almost as if it’s been pulled inside-out—he begins to wonder if his grandfather is really so brave after all.
Then Ernie lets him down in the bravery department. It’s his fourteenth birthday, and, Grandpop says to become a man, you have to learn how to shoot a gun. Genie thinks that is AWESOME until he realizes Ernie has no interest in learning how to shoot. None. Nada. Dumbfounded by Ernie’s reluctance, Genie is left to wonder—is bravery and becoming a man only about proving something, or is it just as important to own up to what you won’t do?
I’m looking for a children’s book about a little girl with red hair who lives in a house with I believe just her father and has a small white rabbit as a pet. It’s a color book probably made in the early 2000s. I specifically remember a page where she’s choosing what to wear for a tea party or birthday party of some sort and she’s looking at her closet full of pretty dresses.
I am looking for a book by the Golden series. It had 7 stories in it, Emilys Moo…I see a Bee…Danny wants a dog, are the 3 I remember. I think it was published in 1969.
The Read-It-Yoursrlf Storybook contains these stories:
The monkey and the bee / Leland B. Jacobs —
Tony and his friends / Ken Wagner —
Emily’s moo / Tibor Gergely —
Come on! Play ball! / Ilse-Margret Vogel —
Peek-a-boo / Ilse-Margaret Vogel —
Eddie’s moving day / Janet Deering —
Too many bozos p/ Lilian Moors.
I’m searching for a book about a boy, growing up in a large family, that liked to invent machines and build things for his other family members.
Perhaps Andrew Henry’s Meadow by Doris Burn?
“Andrew Henry has two younger brothers, who are always together, and two older sisters, who are always together. But Andrew Henry is in the middle–and he’s always with himself. He doesn’t mind this very much, because he’s an inventor. But when Andrew Henry’s family doesn’t appreciate him or his inventions, he decides it’s time to run away. Many children in the neighborhood feel the same way and follow him to his meadow, where he builds each of his friends a unique house of their very own. But in town the families miss their children and do everything they can to find them. And the kids realize that it feels a little lonely out in the meadow without their parents.”
Hi I’m looking for a child’s hardback book from the early 1970’s about a family of friendly monsters. It was a large thin book. I think it was purple or pink in color but I am not 100% sure.
Hi, I’m looking for a book, and I only remember what happens. a mom tells her daughter to give this basket(pancakes or cakes) to mr wolf. and when she was on her way she was like I’m gonna eat one, then eats the whole thing, she gets an idea of making mud pie to give(so he can get fooled) but mr wolf gets mad, and comes for her at night, the ending was open ended. that’s all I know.
The name on the spine of the books is “Anytime Books.” On the back cover and on the inscription page, they are called Fairy Tale Castle Storybooks. It looks like they were published by Ladybird Books in 1995.
I could probably live for a million years and that will not be enough time because I will never be able to properly thank you!!!! Sincerely, thank you!!!! You don’t understand how many years I’ve been looking for this, and to at least know the title and publisher is so amazing! Thank you, really!! This is a bit much to ask, but do you know by any chance (or know about, I’ve so far looked on Abebooks and some random sites) where I might be able to buy the series new? I know the outer cover would probably be impossible, but if you know of any sites, I’d sincerely appreciate it! Sincere regards.
You probably won’t be able to find new copies – the best you’re likely to find is used copies, and even those may be incomplete. When I was looking for the publisher information for you, I did see a couple of partial sets on ebay and a few individual books. I don’t know if they’re still available or not. As for the cover the set came in, I couldn’t even find a picture of that, much less a copy for sale – but who knows? Somebody may have a complete set – with cover – sitting in a box somewhere, and decide to put it up for sale. The only suggestion I can give you is to keep checking used book sites to see if a set becomes available.
I think a part of me knew that it would be kinda impossible to get a completely new set, but I thought I’d try anyway. And yes, the picture I posted; I tried contacting the seller, but I haven’t heard back yet, but I’ll try again, anyway. And I’ve seen some incomplete sets on eBay, too yes! I’ll keep looking, too. I just want to thank you again, because you’ve been so helpful, honestly!
Oddly enough, the picture that you started out with is actually from a listing for the set for sale for £3.00 – https://www.shpock.com/en-gb/i/W-hB3_stbVUzEZB2/12-mini-fairytale-books
I don’t know anything about that website or seller, and they do specify that the set is used – but given that it’s an old, out-of-print set, used is probably all you’ll be able to find.You just need to find a set that’s in good condition.
I am searching for a child’s book from between
1955-1960. Not typical. Top shaped unusually & folded sort of
Like a fan with colorful illustrations.
My mom threw away most of my toys, books, etc.
I am grateful for any assistance.
A long shot, since you don’t remember anything else about the books, but some of the books illustrated Charlot Byj had foldout illustrations at the top. See, for example, The Wonderful Window, The Shiniest Star, Velvet Eyes, Christmas at the Little Zoo, or Davey and the First Christmas.
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I am looking for a book about a Christmas Star. I believe the cover was navy blue and it had a spiral top. You turned the pages and it ultimately ended up looking like a Christmas tree with a star on top. I have no idea when it was published but we owned it in the 80s.
This probably isn’t it, but it might be worth mentioning, on the off chance that you’re combining the details of two different books: The Shiniest Star by Beth Vardon, illustrated by Charlot Byj.
It is about a Christmas Star, it has a blue cover, and it’s spiral bound – but it does not end up looking like a Christmas tree at the end.
I did a bit of digging and translating of German and it looks like this might be your book.The cover isn’t navy blue but it does have the comb binding along the top. I think it was originally designed to be an advent calendar wtih a story so that you could hang it on the wall and watch the story unfold day by day during advent. There’s a copy of the original German version in the German National Museum and their description says: “By turning the pages of the respective calendar day, a decorated Christmas tree gradually builds up like a pyramid.”
The most beautiful star in the world / Annegert Fuchshuber (1972) Published by Merry Thoughts
The experiences of Michael as he searches for the Christmas star.
A picture book published in the UK about a preschooler who claims everything as her own, wears it and uses it. “That’s my hat!” “No, it’s Mummy’s.” “Those are my shoes!” “That’s my bed!” (No, it’s the dog’s) Etc. The cover showed a little girl in a big hat with a flower. Colorful simple illustrations. It was in use in our house between 1987 and 1997. I thought it was called “Hey, that’s my hat!” but I cannot find it anywhere.
Look, There’s My Hat! by Maureen Roffey.
“A little girl enjoys borrowing other people’s things, such as a coat, umbrella, and basket. By turning die-cut pages, the real owners are revealed.”
You found it. Thank you!!
You’re welcome! Glad I could help. Thank you for taking the time to respond!
Just following up on my previous comment – here’s a different version of the cover for Look, There’s My Hat!
The Forgotten Bear by Consuelo Joerns.
“Forgotten for years in an old summerhouse attic on an island, Sam Bear sends out a plea for rescue in a bottle.”
“Firecrackers save the day in this story about how Sam the Bear and Peter, a boy, become sailing buddies.”
Sam (the bear) is lying on top of the chest on the cover of the book.
Thank you!!! This is it.
Glad I could help! Thanks for taking the time to respond and let us know that was the book you were looking for.
I am looking for a book about CAVE, in the table of contents there is about HOW CAVES are form. It’s a picture book with mix of real people and cartoons as well. The words inside the book are RINGS, PLANT, FLOWER, WATER. When rain drops goes to the ground and mix together and forms a cave. When the water is dripping from the ceiling and creates a ring called Stalagmites .
looking for a book of poems form the 80’s. The only real thing I can remember is peppermint; either the cover had peppermint sticks or their was a poem about peppermint. This may have had multiple volumes?
If it was historical fiction, you might try The King’s Daughter, by Suzanne Martel, about life in New France.
Rosy Nose by Bill and Bernard Martin.
It’s a little pricey, but there are copies available online. Hopefully it will bring some comfort to your mother!
Another long shot… maybe take a look at the book Pastoral from Walt Disney’s Fantasia? It does include a story about Baby Pegasus (a brown colt with wings), Pegasus, and other winged horses – but the winged horses do not appear on the cover. Here are some pictures from the story – and the cover of the book.
Looking for a vintage story book for children from the 40s-60s. Soft cover, possibly red or orange. One specific story is about an old woman who spends All day preparing for an important visitor, baking and cooking, and at the end of the story it turns out the important visitor is her grandson.
No problem. I wouldn’t have marked it spam because I check out every link, but Disqus thought otherwise! Good luck.
I’m really sorry for that, that was totally my fault! And thank you for your advice; I was considering that as well, but remembered this site, and decided to try my luck here first (if anyone thinks that they might know!). Thanks again!
There was a book I read in my Christian school in late 70s. It involves a girl who stained her face with tea for a disguise. Can anyone help??
I’m looking for a children’s book about a bear, possibly a teddy bear, that is lost at sea. To my recollection he arrives at a deserted island, where there is a dilapidated cabin/cottage. He finds a chest that contains fireworks, which he sets off. I don’t remember if he is rescued after the fireworks or not. I met someone else on the internet that also remembers this book, but they remember the book to containing a message in a bottle, the chest being a treasure chest, and that the bear might have been stuck on a boat, rather than getting to an island. We both remember the character being a bear, being lost and alone, finding/setting off fireworks and that the ocean/sea is involved. We also believe that the drawings were either black and white, or with minimal color. I believe it was mostly black pen and ink, or etchings, with possibly a wash of color.
I read this in the late 80’s to early 90’s as a young child (5-7), while the other person I spoke with was about the same age, but read this book in the mid 80’s. My thought is that the book was from the 60’s, but no idea. It could not have been published much later than the mid-late 80’s, but could have been published anytime before.
We both do not remember the cover, book color, or author/illustrator information. I know for a fact this is not Scupper’s the Sailor Dog. I also do not believe it is any of the original Little Bear books, though they possibly share a similar muted color palette. I also do not think this is the Adventures of Benjamin Pink, though it seems they share a lot similar elements.
I accidentally shared a link, and my comment was marked as spam, my bad! I’ve been looking for this collection of mini books for ages. It’s a big cover (a very big cover, when I was a child, it was about more than half my height) and lined on the inside of this cover is mini illustrated fairy tales. I had this in the late 90s, but I’m not sure when it was published. I found a picture online, and I recognized some of the covers, but besides titles, not much else available. I really, really want to find this. Thanks so much in advance!
Disqus marked your other post as spam, probably because of the site’s (non) privacy policy. If you have lost the original link, I can send it to you. I can almost see the publisher on the spine of Thumbelina and the Ugly Duckling but the resolution isn’t good enough. Why don’t you try to get in touch with the person listing this and see if they will send the publisher name to you. Most likely the individual books are common online and the big folder that held the little books is rare.
Suzanne
Hi! I’ve been searching for this collection of mini books for ages. It’s several books kind of packed in a really big cover. The cover opens like a book itself, and inside the mini picture books (with a vintage style) are lined. This would have been in the late 90s, but I’m not sure if it was published then. I found a link with some of the books for sale (I recognized some of the covers!) But I can’t see any info besides the title. I’ll share the link: https://www.shpock.com/en-gb/i/W-hB3_stbVUzEZB2/12-mini-fairytale-books
Hi I am looking for a book maybe from the 1960s. About a runaway Double decker London bus and moggy the cat that he meets during his adventure. The name of the bus was called I think Horatio. The sketches in the book were fairly large
hi, i hope someone here can help me. ive been looking for this children’s chapter book series, and it was definitely a series. i remember almost half the bookshelf being filled with these books, so id imagine there’s at least 10 in the series. i read it in probably about 2010 and it seemed pretty old when i read it so it could be from the 80s or 90s. i thought the name anne or annie was in the title but no such luck on old google. but im 99% sure this was the main character’s name. she is a little girl who goes on adventures, from what i can remember it was mysterious, and the only details i can remember is the image of her going through a tunnel (maybe escaping something?) and a Native American (if he had a name, i cant remember it) helping her along the way.
The Mandie series?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandie
The closest thing I’ve found (other than lots of retellings of the myth of Pegasus) is Twinkle, the Baby Colt by Lawrence Louis Barrett (1945) – but I don’t see any reference to Pegasus.
“Twinkle, a seventeen-day-old colt, runs away from his mother. A storm, a lonely night and an attacking eagle are enough to send him home again.”
Many thanks for the response and research. I showed it my mum and sadly not the one. she seems convinced it was called Twinkle Son of Pegasus and was a board book about 9 x 15 inches hard backed and with a few pages. It could have been published in the late 1950’s. Apparently it had a brown baby horse with wings and pegasus on the cover
My mother has terminal cancer and keeps talking about a book from her childhood with a Polar bear with a bright red nose on the cover. She was born in 1941. Any ideas??
Looking for a children’s book about a family traveling to a cabin in the woods for Christmas and when they get there a fire is going in the fireplace and a decorated tree is in the corner
I am desperately trying to find a series of books that captured my imagination in elementary school in the late 1970s and early 1980s. These books described activities for kids from marble runs to radio plays, and they were arranged on the shelf of my elementary school library in colored covers ranging from blue to yellow to orange. I hope someone can help me identify them.
Hi, I am looking for a book for my mother, she remembers it being called Twinkle Son of Pegasus or Maybe Sun of Pegasus. She would have had it as a child in the 1950’s. That’s all the info I have, google can’t find it.
I’m trying to find the title of a book about two kid’s who live in different countries, Canada and USA I think. One child is male and one is female. They both receive robots or androids. The automatons are meant to basically be a servant/friend. It turns out the robots are actually ebing controlled by aliens remotely. The kids end up going to the aliens ship at the end. One robot was controlled by a male alien and one was controlled by a female alien.
Hi Everyone, Trying to desperately find this book from my partners childhood. A big ask I know… so far all I know:
Choose your own adventure type of book, where you choose the path
Title is possibly a jumble of these words: Raven Claw, Steel Eye
Black and white cover
Not a modern book as we were both born mid 80s and this book was described as old back when he read it as a kid!
He described it as quite a “dark” book?
any help greatly appreciated, thank you!!! <3
Long shot, but maybe worth taking a look at The Spell of the Black Raven by R.G. Austin? (Book #3 of the Which Way Books series)
“You are anxiously awaiting your birthday… when you receive an unexpected letter from your Uncle George, an anthropologist who lives with a tribe of Indians. When his gift arrives, you open the box to find a large raven inside. As soon as it lands on your shoulder, you feel a strange and exciting new power…
But whether you end up lost in the House of Horrors, trapped in a hidden cave full of stolen jewels and human bones, or escaping from weird beings in a dark and forbidding house, depends on you and the magical powers of your raven. This is your adventure!”
This reminds me of a Choose Your Own Adventure book I had when I was a child. I think the hero was called Hawkeye. I also remember a baddy in it who reminder me of Scaramanga in James Bond!
No problem. You can also leave wants on Amazon or Ebay, I think but they are so badly organized it amounts to spam. Good Luck
I’m trying to find a book from my early childhood. I was born in 1981 and remember my grandmother reading it with me at age 2 or 3. So I am assuming it was published either in the late 70s or very early 80s. It was about sounds that a child hears at night, but not scary sounds. The book described them in a very peaceful way. I recall that some of them (if not most) were outdoor sounds that the child could hear from his or her bedroom window. The book was complete with a lot of pastel illustrations to show the sound effect from whatever creature or thing made it. The one that stands out in my mind was a drawing of a katydid (cricket) with the sound effect written “katy-did…katy-did…” printed next to it so it was trailing off next to the picture. I believe there was also an owl with “whoooooo…” printed next to it in wavy letters, trailing off. The book was so descriptive that I remember imagining the sounds so vividly. I wish that I could remember more details, but I was so young. I just remember mostly the peaceful feeling it gave me to read it with my grandmother at night, and I was really hoping to find it for my daughter. (Just want to emphasize that this was not an animal sounds book — I know there is a Golden Book of Animal Sounds — this was about nighttime sounds.) I know this is not the most thorough description, but any lead that someone could give me would be very much appreciated. Thank you!
There’s the book ‘Sounds of a summer night’ by Mary Garelick. First published in 1963 with illustrations by Beni Montresor. Note that it has been republished with much brighter illustrations by Candace Whitman that are completely different in style.
I haven’t found pictures of the interior but the Wisconsin Library Bulletin says “Beni Montressor in full-page drawings effectively portrays a day’s changing light; the author poetically expresses the sounds of summer between daylight and darkness, and together they create and extraordinary and satisfying book for bedtime reading.
The Kirkus review is somewhat less flattering but does mention the sounds of katydids, frogs, rustling leaves and breezes.
Thank you! I’m not sure if this is the book that I was looking for, but I found a copy of the book you described on thriftbooks, and I ordered it 🙂
I had a large picture book as a child, 14 x 18 or more. My mom painted a picture from the book. Does anuone recognize this picture? The sun, flowers and rock all had faces.
Please upload your mom’s picture.
Oh ok. I apologize. I didn’t realize. I’ll delete. Thank you for the info!
I quite understand why you don’t want to pay those ridiculous prices for a Golden book, but this is a site for book ID, not buying and selling. Your best bet is to place a want on ABE. Search the book. You won’t find it. Then click on Create a Want “( Save your search
If we don’t have it today, create a ‘Want’ and receive an automated email when the item is listed for sale.) ” If someone posts the book for a reasonable price, PHONE, do not email. That’s what some dealers do.
Hi, I’m trying to find a story that I believe might be an Enid Blyton one from one of her collections (but there are so many online and I don’t know the name). From what I remember, it’s about a town of little bald villagers who are ruled over by a mean man and one of the villagers (or a travelling wizard) makes a potion to grow hair back, and tricks the mean man into eating these sweets that make all his hair fall out so he ends up bald and the villagers have used all the potion to have their hair back again. I’m sure I didn’t imagine reading this story as a child! Thank you 🙂
Maybe Dragon Quest (Usborne Fantasy Puzzle Books) by Andy Dixon, illustrated by Nick Harris (1997)?
“This is an illustrated fantasy in which readers accompany three bald dwarves on a perilous puzzle quest. When evil Winston, the wig-wearing wizard, casts a spell which makes all their hair fall out, the villagers of Shortsville (previously known for the length and lustre of their locks) decide that something must be done. Armed only with eight big bug burgers, a bottle of yab’s milk and a book of old maps, three intrepid villagers set off to find the source of Winston’s power deep inside the dragon’s lair.”
I’m looking for a picture book I read in the late 1970s or early 1980s. There is a lot of mint chip or mint ripple ice cream in the book, and it ends with children happily sledding down a mountain of the green chipped ice cream. I can’t remember if the plot was that there wasn’t snow or the children loved ice cream, but I believe that wishes were involved and there was more and more ice cream until the snowy ice cream mountain. Thank you for any leads!
This may not be a match (I’m not sure if there’s sledding or not) but ice cream snow keeps coming back to The Littlest Snowman by Charles Tazewell. When the temperature suddenly rises and there is no snow in town for Christmas, the littlest snowman gorges himself on all flavors of ice cream, getting fatter and fatter, then climbs to the top of the town’s Christmas tree where the strong North Wind blows him to pieces – blanketing the entire town in multi-colored ice cream snow.
I’m looking for a book of collected children’s stories that I read many years ago, I’m 61 now. The one story that sticks in my mind was of a fisherman’s wife who found a mermaid baby. The illustrations were to my child’s eyes breathtaking. The mermaid baby had beautiful red hair. I do so want to find this book.
Hello, I’m looking for a children’s book was published maybe late 1990’s or early 2000’s. It is illustrated and made to look like the boy in the book made his own field notes about dinosaurs during his museum visit. I believe the book was printed landscape mode and was hardcover. There might have been tabs on the side or at least in the illustration to look as if the boy had organized his notes.
Hi I’m looking for a book about a cat who wouldn’t eat his egg for supper . The Dad said that the 2 children couldn’t give it anything else until it had eaten its supper. Maybe it got into the rubbish bins and there were some foxes I think
Is it Mog on Fox Night that you are referring to? She wouldn’t eat her fish for dinner or her cat food because she wants an egg instead. The fox and cubs got into the house and made a huge mess:
“Mog is unimpressed with the fish she is given for dinner. She is not happy with the second option of kitty food either. “She wants an egg” says Debbie.
Mr Thomas had just put the bin bags out in the snow and was not in a good mood. He said Mog was spoilt and would not get an egg for breakfast either if she did not eat what she had been given.
Both children knew that she would never eat the food. Poor Mog. She was very cross and went out into the snow in a huff to slept behind the bin bags. She dreamt that Mr Thomas had all the eggs in the world in bag and he was taking it away.
In the night foxes came and ripped open the bin bag to find food. Mog saw to her horror that the fox ate the piece of fish that she had left in her bowl the day before. Now her two cubs were also being fed from the bin bag. Yuck! thought Mog.
The cubs played a bit and then wanted to play with Mog, but Mog did not want to play and ran through her cat flap. The foxes followed. Mog crept onto Debbie’s bed to sleep and escape the playful foxes.
Luckily in the night they ate her food and in the morning Debbie and Nicky saw what had gone on and cleaned up the mess the foxes had made. Mr Thomas thought Mog had eaten her food and she was allowed an egg for breakfast after all.
Mog was pleased and so were the foxes.”
I’m trying to find a book that I found as a kid at the library. I’m unsure when it was published but my guess would be the 90s. It was supposed to be set in more edwardian times (I think?) And was about a little girl who is a but of a tom boy. She gets a porcelain doll as a gift and the story is her taking this beautiful doll on all hermessy, outside adventures until the rhing is unrecognizable.
Sounds a bit like Impunity Jane, but that was about a boy who “borrowed” a little doll and took her on his adventures.
Possibly Dahlia by Barbara McClintock?
Charlotte was not the kind of girl who played with dolls. No, she enjoyed making mud cakes with her stuffed teddy-bear, Bruno, climbing trees, and beating the neighborhood boys at wagon-racing. So when her Aunt Edme sends her a delicate doll, with a prim mouth and fancy clothing, Charlotte is less than thrilled. “You’ll just have to get used to the way we do things,” she informs the newcomer, which means no tea parties, and no being pushed in frilly prams. Luckily, Dahlia – as she is soon christened – for all that she may look prissy, has an adventurous spirit, and takes to Charlotte and Bruno’s outdoor activities like a duck to water. A little wear and tear never hurt a doll, if she is loved by her little girl – which Dahlia soon is – but will Aunt Edme see it that way…?
Following up with some images from Dahlia:
Hi I’m looking for an older children’s book i remember checking out from the school bookshelf and reading when I was in school sometime in the early 1990s. All I remember is a picture of a castle made of human teeth, there may have been a king or queen of some kind present, im not sure, but mainly that there was human teeth involved in the castle structure. I’ve google searched this numerous ways for years and haven’t yet come across the page I have imprinted in my memory.
I think this is the Tooth Fairy book! I loved this book as a child too…
https://www.amazon.com/Tooth-Fairy-Childs-Play-Library/dp/0859532933
I am searching for a very early reader book about a Bear and Cake from the early 80’s.
It is not a Jasper Tompkins book, those are all wonderful. The one I am searching for was the first book my oldest daughter read on her own. Seems we donated it years ago. I would like to find it and surprise her for Christmas. I think it has a white cover and we had it in hardback. Thank you for any assistance in this search.
Could it be Mooncake?
http://frankasch.com/bear-books-2/
How about Little Bear and Birthday Soup? It is in a totally charming first chapter book by Maurice Sendak, and Mother Bear comes home at the end with a cake.
Hello! I’m looking for a children’s book that I used to check out from my school library (obsessively!) around 1983 when I was 8 years old. It was a spooky story and had some illustrations — I believe they were all black ink illustrations. The main character was a little girl, and she would prick her finger, drop some blood into a bowl, and summon a dark spirit or demon-like figure. I think this dark spirit could help her with something she needed or wanted, but the details of that are fuzzy. I know this isn’t much to go on, but I appreciate any suggestions!
Hi, I am looking for a hardcover children’s book that was published in the late 1960s or early 1970s. It was called something like “How Things are Made” and had detailed accounts of how steel, rubber, books etc were made. It was a large book (12×18″ish) with a white or cream cover. Anyone remember this one?
Hi everyone, I hope you can help me with this one.. It’s been on my mind for years.
The story is about a wooden boy (not pinnochio!) who needs to journey to the (or across) the Blue Mountains to find an answer (perhaps his parents?). There he will find a lake or river that will turn him into a real boy after he swims in it. I think there is an owl that’s in this book too.
It’s not a thick book, but I think there are sequels. I remember the ending – he made it to the Blue Mountains! But i wasn’t sure if he made it to the lake.
Sorry I don’t remember the names of the characters. I only remember the pictures in the book were somewhat dark and sad. Lots of candlelight everywhere.
Stage Four of the Puddle Lane books by Sheila K. McCullagh, starting with When the Clock Struck Thirteen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Puddle_Lane_books
“When The Clock Struck Thirteen (31 Oct 1985): At the top of the clock tower in the Magician’s House, an Iron Boy strikes the bell every hour of the day. One night at midnight, the Iron Boy strikes the bell thirteen times, bringing him to life and requests the Magician make him a real boy, but as the Magician’s magic dust only works on toy animals and not iron people, he sends the Iron Boy on the Flying Saucer to the Country of Zorn, where the Iron Boy must go to the Blue Mountains where the magic waters of the Silver River can make him a real boy.”
The Sandalwood Girl (31 Oct 1985): A Sandalwood Girl sits in the attic of the Magician’s House. On the night the Iron Boy strikes the clock bell thirteen times, the Sandalwood Girl comes to life as well and, like the Iron Boy, would also like to be real. The Magician grants her request by sending her by owl to the Country of Zorn to meet up with the Iron Boy.
On The Way To The Blue Mountains (30 Jan 1986): Upon meeting each other, the Iron Boy and Sandalwood Girl set out on their quest to the Blue Mountains. After spending the night at an old woman’s house, their bravery is tested when the Iron Boy falls off a bridge over a river and the Sandalwood Girl has to help him.
The Fire in the Grass (30 Jan 1986): Continuing their quest, the Iron Boy and the Sandalwood Girl come to a large grass field where red fire-breathing dragons live. After narrowly escaping a dragon that sets fire to the grass (with the Iron Boy testing his bravery by carrying the Sandalwood Girl) and with help from a hare, they make their way to a cave where three flying Silver Ponies take them the rest of the way to the Blue Mountains.
The Silver River (30 Jan 1986): Upon arrival in the Blue Mountains, the Silver Ponies drop off the Iron Boy and the Sandalwood Girl at a cliff that overlooks a lake that has the magic waters of the Silver River. After an almost perilous climb down to a smaller cliff, the Iron Boy and the Sandalwood Girl jump into the river where they change into real children and meet a lady named Alanna who not only takes them to their new home in the City of Zorn, but gives them their names too.
I am looking for a book l that talked about feelings it was a yellow color. It had a picture of a little kid holding a teddy bear. The font looked little or it was from the 60’s or 70’s. I remember it being called How I’m Feeling. I’m looking but can’t find it.
Any chance it was a coloring book? The cover sounds like How I Feel – A Coloring Book for Grieving Children by Alan Wolfelt, PhD. The book was published in 1996, but you don’t specify when you read it – only that you thought it looked like it was from the 60’s or 70’s (if I’m understanding you correctly).
Have been trying to remember a book I read as a child, probably in the range of 1960-66. I liked mystery plots then and I’m pretty sure I got this one from the local library. I don’t remember the main plot, but what I do remember most is that a boy lived in a house with purple or violet tinted windows, the only one like it in the neighborhood. But then he sees another house with the same windows a few blocks away. At some point, he finds out the houses were originally either connected together, or next door to each other, and that one was moved to the other location at some point in the past. I’m pretty sure the houses were related to the central theme, but I just can’t remember much more.
I’m looking for a children’s novel published before 1972 (my guess is 1968-70) about kids who find a box in an antique shop, containing various magic items including an egg that allows them to become invisible. I vaguely remember a yellow cover but I might be wrong. I don’t remember illustrations or anything else.
This isn’t quite a match, but it might be worth taking a look at M for Mischief by Richard Parker. It has the magical eggs that turn people invisible: “Andrew, Peg and Milly know right away that the oven they find is no ordinary vessel for cooking. The richly ornate exterior design and peculiar, almost human mannerisms of the oven suggest an antique that is more than what it appears to be, and so it is. With the help of the mysterious repairman who drops in every once in a while to make sure the oven is working properly, the kids learn the oven will work just like any other stove if the dial is on “O” for “Ordinary”, but if they push it to “M” for “Mischief”, all sorts of havoc can arise. From invisibility eggs to unpredictable human transmogrification, the three young siblings find it can be rather perilous to mess around with magic, even when one follows the instructions perfectly. When a little payback on an annoying neighbor boy backfires on our protagonists, can they fix what’s wrong before the magic of the oven is taken away forever?”
It’s been printed several times, with different covers. One of the covers was yellow:
Another set that might be worth looking into is Mr. Wicker’s Window by Carley Dawson and its two sequels, Sign of the Seven Seas and Dragon Run. I don’t know about eggs and invisibility in this series, but it centers around Mr. Wicker’s antique shop. In the first book, Mr. Wicker is looking for a boy to help him in his shop. When Chris goes to inquire about the job, he is told to look out the window of the shop and tell Mr. Wicker what he sees. To his surprise, instead of seeing the street he just left, he is looking into the post-revolutionary-war past. This indicates that he is suitable to learn magic – because that’s what Mr. Wicker was really looking for in the first place: a boy he could train in magic, rather than just an errand boy. All three books involve time travel and magic.
You can read Mr. Wicker’s Window here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/28952/28952-h/28952-h.htm
I’m looking for a type of book I owned in the 1970s when I was a kid. They were hardcover books w/stiff, board pages featuring a cut-out element which moved when one turned the page. I owned The Gingerbread Man, but there were more titles (I believe Cinderella was one). Does anyone know what the type of book was called?
I’m looking for a type of book I had one example of when I was a kid. They were rectangular hardcover books w/board pages on which were cut-out elements which moved as one turned the pages. I had The Gingerbread Man & I believe Cinderella was also in the series. As far as I know, all the titles were like those: the familiar ones w/which everyone’s familiar. The cover of the book featured a boxed illustration of the titular character on the run & other than that, I remember green being used as a dominant colour. These would’ve been published in the US. I’ve never seen one apart from the one I owned & I’m wondering what the type of book is called. Does anyone know?
I’m sorry, thought I had posted this but I didn’t. Technically this is a moveable board book, but it might be listed as a pop-up because ones that move like this one are not a common.
Looking for a child’s picture book probably from the 80s, it was about a squirrel and a bear. The squirrel cant remember where he buried his nuts and they go out looking kn the snow, bear snagged his sweater and it unravels as they check several spots until they realize the are lost but can follow the string back. In the end the squirrel remembers his nuts are like under his doorstep.. I dont remember the character names but I think it was titled with them like blank and blank. 🤷🏻♀️
How old is “old?”
You might take a look at The Lima Bean Monster by Dan Yaccarino, about “…a young boy, Sammy, who can’t stomach lima beans. Literally. He tries to hide them under the mashed potatoes, shovel them to the dog under the table (no dice, says Blackie), secret them in his napkin. His mother always finds them, and serves up even more. A solution comes via Sammy’s socks, where he deposits the beans and his mother fails to look. His mother happily assumes he’s eaten them and Sammy makes a beeline for a vacant lot where he buries the offending item. A friend notices Sammy at work and helps him by tossing in some broccoli; soon other kids are contributing failed school tests and ugly sweaters and yet more vegetables. Judgment Day comes when a bolt of lightning hits the now sizable mound, transforming the dump into a horrible lima bean monster—big, green, covered with bits of broccoli, an accordion, and that sweater. The monster is about to munch Sammy when the smart lad points out that his science teacher, who is trying to make a fast getaway, would make a bigger and better meal. Soon the monster has grabbed every grown-up around. Salvation comes when the kids decide to eat their vegetables—the monster—lima beans included (but not the ugly sweater). The admonition to “eat your vegetables” gets the drubbing every kid feels it richly deserves; vegetables really are as evil as they think.”
I am looking for a old children’s book that is about a young boy who tries to hide his vegetables in different ways he spreads them out on his plate to make it look like he’s eating more of them than he has he will feed some to the dog he will hide vegetables in his napkin and other ways I guess That’s I think about I only know about it it’s was in the grade school library all right thanks
I’m looking for a children’s book about a girl & her family going on vacation. Each year she tries to build the best sand castle and win a medal. Finally, she builds an awesome castle and back to it after lunch to discover it’s been destroyed but the only clue she could find was a scuba shoe with a shark imprinted in the sand.
I’m looking for a fairly old chapter book of animal stories written probably for the 7-10 year old range. Most likely published before 1960, but could be early 60s, I suppose. The premise is that a group of children would go to an old man’s house, where he had a crackling fire, and he’d tell them a story based on an animal — if I recall correctly, this was set in Vermont or New England somewhere. It was a hardcover book, and there were separate plates for each story. There’s one part of one story where the storyteller tells the children which logs make the best fire. Not Uncle Remus, which comes up most often in any online searches I do.
Young adult historical fiction/ biographies by Gladys Malvern One title is Foreigner! about Ruth from the bible. There’s another one about Queen Esther. There are several books about fictional girls who “lived” during actual events such as when Dolly Madison helped evacuate the White House, or during the reign of Napolean Bonaparte, or on a wagon train going across the American west. Interested in all Gladys Malvern’s books.
Thisi s a book ID forum, but we’d welcome discussions of books. It’s not a buy and sell board though, try abebooks.com and amazon if that was your questions. Thanks, Suzanne
I’m looking for a children’s book I had sometime back in the 80s, so it’s at least that old. It was about a possum who just couldn’t figure out how to hang by his tail. I think his family try to help him by hanging him from a vine or something, but a female peer (I think it was probably his sister) starts putting sap on his tail so he could get a better grip. That works for him and she keeps doing it, but eventually she switches from putting sap on his tail to just water, sort of tricking him into getting past his fear of it. Has anyone heard of this one?
That sounds like Impossible, Possum by Ellen Conford.
“You can if you think you can, agreeably demonstrated in the story of a diffident little possum who has trouble hanging by his tail. Repeated trials are hard on Rupert’s head and his ego (all the other possums can do it), and though sap works for a while to stick his tail to the branch, when winter comes and the sap dries up, Rupert is back where Ire started — on the ground. It’s a triumph for the whole family when Rupert finds that he can do it all by himself. Rosemary Wells’ quietly expressive pictures reinforce what might have been just another supportive session; her distinctive fall and winter trees are not just background but part of the story, and her variously hapless, probing and rejoicing possums invite attachment.”
I’m looking for a book I had as a kid, probably published in the mid-to-late 1980s (1990 at the latest). It was a picture book about Halloween monsters (at least one witch, a wolfman, dracula, etc.) putting together a mildly spooky rock band. The illustrations were in color. It was an accordion book and, when unfolded, the back side was one large final image (if I recall correctly, of a giant monster alluded to on an earlier page).
I’m looking for a children’s book that taught kids how to tell time on an analog clock. It was a large book (as in, tall and wide, not particularly thick) and the book itself was shaped like a house. It had a huge clock made of flimsy plastic set into the middle of the book that let you move the hands to different times. I believe the hands of the clock were red. The book itself centered around a bunch of different animal families (I can’t recall all of them, but I believe there was at least a mouse family and a cat family) who go about a daily routine in this house with emphasis placed on the clock.
The book couldn’t have been released any later than 2005, as there isn’t a time in my life I can recall before I owned that book, and it’s probably at least a few years even older. The illustrations were all in color. The pages themselves were those thick board pages that don’t bend rather than paper. I can’t quite remember the art style, but I do remember it was more traditional art, nothing overly cutesy or minimalist – the kind of art with a lot of fine details in the drawing to pick through and find little things happening. Every page was of the interior of the entire house, conforming to the shape of the book, like a cross-section. It showed the little holes in-between walls as well, where the mice lived. I think I remember the color yellow being prominent – maybe the color of the house’s wallpaper?
I don’t remember anything about anything resembling plot, besides the fact that it didn’t really have any to speak of. Nor do I remember any names, or pieces of the wording. This is just about every memory I can scrounge up about this – I must not have thought about this book in at least a decade.
Hello there, I’ve been trying to find this old childhood book of mine and i cannot stop thinking about it. I can only remember very vague things but maybe someone can help me?
It’s about this blue dragon/lizard creature who I know to be called ‘carballo/carbello’
He worked in an office and everyone was really depressed so he took a day off and went to the city. I distinctly remember he bought a donut and a Fez
I remember he met a lady dragon/lizard who was a pale green colour. I think I remember them feeding ducks and then going to a carnival/circus where he played in those funny mirrors.
He went home and had a bath.
The artwork was absolutely stunning, it was cartoon and quite abstract. the book held a very special place in my heart and I’d do anything to find it again.
That’s all I can remember from it, I hope someone out there may be able to help me find it again!
Thank you for responding! I looked up the book because you could be very right about me mixing details. Unfortunately, it looks like the dates don’t line up. It was published in 2002 and the book I am looking for was definitely published before then.
Thank you, though!
I am looking for a book that is about a sharing monkey. Not Curious George. He wears clothes, like a hat and shirt, with different names on them. The monkey’s full name is a combination of all the names on his clothes. None of the other forest animals have names, so he gives away all his clothes in order to give them names. He is left with no name, but that all gets fixed with the help of his newly named froends. I don’t remember the ending, but I think they give all the clorhes back and make up their own names. I think the name of the book is the monkey’s super long name.
I had this book in the 90s, but I don’t know if it was published before then. I don’t know the publisher, author, what the book looks like, or anything else about the book. I just remember the plot.
Well… it’s not about a monkey – or names – but the “giving away all his clothes” part of the plot sounds similar to The Smartest Giant in Town by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Probably not the one you’re looking for, but still thought it might be worth mentioning, just in case you were combining details of multiple childhood books, as can sometimes happen after 20 or 30 years. (I know I’ve done that plenty of times!)
Who could not feel sorry for Scheffler’s Giant, named George, when he is ‘the scruffiest giant in town’ and who could not feel so proud of him when he is kitted out in all new clothes that make him the smartest giant in town?
But … after he had bought a smart shirt, a smart pair of trousers, a smart belt, a smart stripy tie, some smart socks with diamonds up the sides, and a pair of smart shiny shoes, it all goes downhill!
On his way home from the shop where he had purchased his new outfit he meets various animals, all of whom are in some sort of distress. And, being the big, kindly giant that he is, he offers each of the articles of his new clothes to relieve the hardship of the animals that he meets.
A giraffe, whose neck is very cold, receives his tie to use as a warm scarf; a goat on a boat on a river had lost his sail so George donates his shirt to help get the goat and boat on its way; a family of mice had lost their house in a fire so George donates one of large shoes to make a new home for them; a fox, who was out camping, had dropped his sleeping bag in a puddle and it was soaking so George gives him one of his socks to sleep in; a dog who cannot get across a bog receives George’s large belt to make a path across it. After all this George’s trousers fall down and he proclaims ‘I’m the coldest giant in town!’
So back he goes to the shop where he purchased his new clothes and where he left his old ones. Unfortunately the shop was closed and George was sad. But, out of the corner of his eye he espies a bag with something familiar poking out of the top. It was his old clothes so he puts them on and happily declares, ‘I’m the cosiest giant in town.’
He danced back home along the road to find outside his house all the animals he had helped and they were carrying an enormous box. They told George to open it and inside was a gold paper crown and a card. On the card was a verse that was taken from the verses that George had made up as he disposed of each article of his clothes as he returned home.
It ended with the words, ‘the KINDEST giant in town’ … and so he was!
This sounds like your book
Edsel Edgar Eugene : the monkey with no name / Sunny Griffin & R M Kolding (illustrator) 1993. Edsel Eugene Adgar, a very generous monkey, gives his names to his jungle friends because they do not have names.
This is it!!! Thank you!!! One look at the cover and I knew. Thanks to you, my ten plus year search has ended. Just ordered it for my son. 🥰
I am searching for an obscure childrens paperback from the 1970’s maybe earlier. It is a collection of very short stories with black and white illustrations that were drawn in basic black thick lines, not very detailed very cartoon-like. I am relatively sure the title was the first story, “The Boy Who Wouldn’t Eat Green Vegetables and Other Stories” or something to that effect. Other stories included a puppy being bullied for not having a tail until he grew one, and one about a boy sleeping on a huge block of ice on the hottest night of the year, and may others. Each story was only a few pages, typeface was large. The book was the thickness of a young adult paperback but the format was strange in that the book was tall and thin. I have googled, gone to many book sellers, nobody remembers this book. I doubt it was ever released in hardcover. Please help!
Hello
I’m looking for a book about these cartoon families
They look similar to simpsons
I remember one point it changed from the normal family to vampire families
I’m pretty sure it revolved around families who were of monster origins (Zombies, Vampires)
I remember that one of the families (I think it was the human family) went to Nevada.
It is a book that has a lot of drawings
It might have even been a comic and I’m pretty sure it was
I am looking for a children’s chapter book I read 1996-2001, it was about a girl living in the Australian outback with her father and possibly siblings and a mother. There was a snake in the story, but thats about all I remember. I have a feeling her name was ‘Emma’ but only have very vague memories of reading this book. Not a lot of info sorry! Thank you, Ellen.
Maybe “Jessica” by Bryce Courtenay??? Amazing novel ❤️ – I just don’t recall this being a children’s paperback tho 🧐
Hello, i am looking for a book I read back when I was in elementary school. I am 27 now & believe I was in the 5th grade when I read this book. Maybe younger, I don’t know. Anywho I can’t remember much about the book (unfortunately), I just know I loved it & have wanted to re read it for years. All I can remember from the book was it focused on the front or backyard… I want to say there was a wishing well? From what I remember, this was like a fantasy as in a lot in the book could never happen in real life. Anyways I know that is like zero details but I thought I would still try & ask!
I wonder if it was one of the Anna Lavinia books by Palmet Brown, Beyond the Pawpaw Trees, as that starts out in the yard…
Hi, I’m trying to find the name of a bedtime book I used to read to my young son in the mid/late ’90s. I remember it being a mother bear comforting her young cub and one line read “Little bear, it’s alright, it’s only a tree branch outside in the night”. On each page, the mother bear explained away something that frightened her cub. The words rhymed.
Your description immediately made me
think of the book called “Let’s Go Home, Little Bear”.. Not sure if that’s it though..
If not, here is a good list to check.. https://bookroo.com/books/topics/bears
I’ve been trying to find this same book for decades. It had buttons to press with an audio track. I remember this book terrifying me as a kid, and I’ve been trying to find it! Did you have any luck? Your post is the only link I can find on Google.
I’m looking for a children’s book that was about a young vampire boy (I think his name may have been Vince?) and the book had glow in the dark accents on some pages, I know there was a spiderweb on one page. It’s not a scary book at all the boy just happened to be a vampire, it’s one of those books that’s on thick pages like cardboard.
Hi Disqus Knowledge Keepers.
Please help. I am looking for an old children’s book I read in England growing up. I recall it being old even when I read it as a child in the ’70s, possibly bought in the 40s or earlier if it was my mothers.
Bound well, cloth cover, possibly white, silver. Real paper, the thick kind. Illustrations for each chapter heading, I believe. Possibly more throughout, but unsure.
On the last page it had the following poem, which I memorized.
“And now goodnight, the book is read.
And on your (or “the”) pillow lays your head.
You’ll soon be in the land of Nod, where things are always very odd.
You’ll dream of fairies and of toys, and all the pranks of girls and boys.
What fun you’ll have the whole night through, and how I’d love to come with you. Goodnight.”
Any help you could extend would be appreciated.
Love, Love.
Hi and thank you so much for all your help. I am still searching. I may have to order the crazy magazine to see who they cite. Thank you again, I do appreciate it.
The Little Brute Family by Lillian and Russell Hoban.
“They eat sand and gravel for breakfast and a stew of sticks and stones for dinner. No one says “please” or “thank you.” Instead, they kick and yell and punch and shove. Then one day everything changes, when Baby Brute happens upon “a little wandering lost good feeling in a field of daisies.” When he brings it home in his pocket, nothing is ever the same for the little Brute family.”
The Little Brute Family, by Russell Hoban.
We are exhibiting at Getman’s Virtual book fair. Some very interesting children’s books here, about 185 booksellers from all over. Very strange not to be able to talk to any of them! https://getmansvirtual.com/category/childrens-books
Hi! I’m looking for a children’s book from the 60s or 70s about a grumpy “animal” family who weren’t very nice to each other. The daughter found a good feeling and brought it home in her pocket. She brought the feeling home and it spread from person to person till they were all happy. Thanks! Lucy
Yes! Thank you, this really has annoyed me for years!
Glad I could help! Thanks for writing back.