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Read the following in 1960. Illustrated young animals from all over the world in their native costumes get together. Large hardcover
My sister-in-law has developmental disabilities and since the birth of my son, she has been missing a book she had when she was a child. It comes up nearly every time we come to visit (she’s in her late 20s). She has the book memorized, so I will write the lines below and hope it helps.
The book cover is red and in the top is cut out in the shape of the illustrated baby
(may not be exact words)
Look at what these babies do, are these the things that you do too?
One little baby touches his nose, another little baby wiggles his toes
One baby laughs; another one cries
This one plays peek-a-boo and hides his eyes
One baby crawls, this one stands,
and this little baby claps his hands
3 hungry babies; one messy face,
Now they go off to have a race! Look who wins! Ready, set GO!!
It’s time to get clean, rub-a-dub-dub
This little baby plays in the his tub
All these babies like to play,
But why is one little baby crawling away?
He needs to be changed,
He needs a big kiss,
and now he plays a game like this:
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake baker’s man;
bake me a cake as fast as you can!
There’s one more thing these babies do…
They wave good-bye!
Can YOU wave too?
Hello! I’ve been trying to remember a book I used to love as a kid around 2006-2008? For a long time I thought it was an Edgar Allen Poe children’s book but I looked it up on google and couldn’t find exactly what I used to read. It had a lot of unique illustrations that were pretty creepy/scary. The illustrations were of small kids and I remember them having big, wide eyes. When I used to rent it it also came with an audio tape to listen along to. I don’t remember much so I know my details aren’t very helpful but if you know of any older strange/scary children’s books please let me know! Thank you for this cool resource!
Looking for a children’s book that my brother used to read to me when I was little (mid-1980s). He passed away this year and I’d love to find this book. I remember it started with:
A is for apple, shiny and red
B is for balloon, flying high overhead
For the second one, it might be worth taking a look at How Joe the Bear and Same the Mouse Got Together by Beatrice Schenk De Regniers. The older versions are illustrated by Brinton Turkle, and newer printings are illustrated by Bernice Myers.
Joe the Bear and Sam the Mouse are two friends who have very little in common – but they discover that they both share a love for ice cream.
Can anyone help find this..?? There was this book from when I was a kid called “You Can Fly If You Wear The Cutie Booties” and it’s NOWHERE to be found when I search it. I was born in 1986, but the illustration style reminds me of the late-60s. It was a very short, simple book that had a yellow background and hard cover. The “cutie booties” referenced here were drawn to look like bowling shoes with little wings. I remember holding it in my tiny hands!!
I really can’t remember much about these two books I adored as a young child in the 1980s. One of them, the page that sticks in my mind is of swirling colors going down a drain. I think it was a bathtub drain and I think the person taking a bath had been doing some painting. It was a beautiful, vividly colorful image.
The other one, all I can remember is that two friends are walking home together and they are two different kinds of animals, but they were wearing clothes and walking like people. I think they were sharing some kind of food, like gum or candy. Unlikely either one will ever come back to me, but I am just trying here because I haven’t been able to stop trying to recall them for many years.
Have you looked at Trouble for Trumpets? There is also a sequel, Trumpets in Grumpetland.
thats not the book. the illustrations were more of a Edward Gorey meets Wheres Waldo style.
I’m trying to remember the name of a childhood book about a young girl who is in bed at night. She then gets out of bed and rides on the back of a black jaguar or panther.
I think she may have been in the hospital and I think she may have been African American. The book had words but it had pictures too. I think she may have had pigtails in the picture of her riding on the black jaguar/panther.
It was one of my sister’s absolute favorites from the 90s and I’m trying to get it for her for her baby shower! Please help!
Possibly The Elephant’s Dilemma by Dee Thomas (A Bonnie Book)?
“There was one little elephant who just stood on the river bank under a tree, and watched the others. He WOULD NOT take showers and baths as the others did…NO!… NO!… He just stood and stared.”
Hello! Ok. Im trying to find a book from my childhood, mid 1970s or so. It was an oversized book, maybe 14x14in or so? I dont think there was any written dialog, I believe it was all illustrations. Pen and ink style with some color here and there. Very detailed drawings on most pages that told the story and set the scenes. I believe it was sort of a medieval theme book. Knights and maybe 2 “tribes” or competing groups of knights. The characters had different helmets,some horned, some armor, I believe all of them were wearing helmets. There was a flower that erupted from the ground. The ended up building a huge cage/dome around the flower and perhaps the two groups were fighting over the flower and eventually it blooms. It was very detailed, but there was a lot of whitespace. The kind of cool detailed illustrations that sort of reminds me of how Wheres Waldo was drawn with all kinds of small characters doing something funny so you could sit and really take your time to find fun things. I believe the name of the book was the name of the flower? Like “The Quormiand” or something like that. It is driving me nuts. Any ideas?
Please could anyone help find this book- Please would you help me find this childhood book for my lovely dad? It was his favourite book sixty years ago, but he can’t remember title or author. Please share far and wide, particularly with people of his age. He’s been looking for this for decades and it would make his Christmas.
The beginning of the story goes like this:
A brother and sister were sat on the carpet in their lounge looking into the flames of the fire and imagining what pictures they could see in the flames. Their parents poked their heads around the door and said ‘we are off now, look after yourselves and be good’. The brother and sister said goodbye and then continued looking into the flames of the fire.
As time wore on the room became darker and the fire cast more shadows onto the walls. These looked like woods in a forest. Then they realised they were woods in a forest and out of the woods came two horses.
The children went with the horses down to the nearby beach. The horses said that they could fly over the water, but could not carry the children as well, but there was a small boat in the beach so the children could ride in the boat and the horses would tow them with the ropes that were attached to the boat. The boy went and got a bag of sweets from a local shop and then, when they were settled in the boat the horses took off and towed the children across the sea.
This was the start of their adventures.
I’m looking for a children’s book I remember as a kid. The only thing I have to go off of is that the cover had a hill/mountain shaped like a dwarf/old man. It looked like you think it would with a bald head (i believe), beard and was mostly covered on foliage. And in the book it had the same drawing but a cross section of the mountain to show it was a fortress for the inhabitants. It was in my elementary school library in the mid 80’s and was at least 12″×12″. I have gone through the david the gnome book and am sure its not one of those. This is the only book from my childhood that I have yet to find. Thank you for any help.
I am looking for a book that my mom had from the 40’s or 50’s about an elephant that would not go into the water
Any help would be appreciated! It may be from Bittner publishing.
That sounds like A Taste of the Moon by Michael Grejniec.
This whimsical children’s story highlights cooperation and collaboration between a group of animals in their quest to reach the moon.
“For a long time the animals had wanted to find out what the moon tasted like. Was it salty or sweet? They only wanted to taste a little piece…but however hard they tried, not even the biggest animal could reach it.
One day, the little tortoise decided to climb up the highest mountain so she could touch the moon. From up there, the moon was closer; but the tortoise couldn’t reach it. And so she called the elephant…”
I am looking for a book that was read to me as a child in the late 90’s, maybe early 2000’s. It was about a school where weird, paranormal things happen. One chapter dealt with a girl who was turned into a walking, talking breakfast burrito. The cover of the book had a cartoon picture of this burrito girl walking. Her name was like Betty burrito, Becky burrito… I believe something like that…
Looking for children’s or juvenile book 1950-1960s about 2 boys helping “Martians” getting their spaceship refueled, turns out it runs on sulfur so the boys give them a chicken.
The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, by Eleanor Cameron.
Try “The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet” by Eleanor Cameron (pub. by Little Brown, 1954). The “Martians” are actually from Basidium, a small moom not visible from Earth.
The Little Horse Bus would be a good guess. Unfortunately, from what I saw of the story and illustrations it is not the one of my memory. I have the impression that the story I read as a child had an American setting and the plot was about the loss of the old ways as technology (the automobile) renders them quaint and obsolete; similar to the sentiment of Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel or the numerous books about steam trains saving the day proving that they are as valuable as the streamliners that are replacing them.
Thank you for your help.
Looking for a Christmas book i read as a kid it was about a little girl who went to the north pole on Santa’s sleigh and she lost her bracelet in the snow and then Santa brought it back to her Christmas morning
I’m looking for a children’s book that was read to me in the late 80s or early 90s. I remember a sheep breaking their tooth on a fake cherry or.other piece of cake fruit. I also remember a character in the story wearing a hat with flowers and fruit on it. I know it’s a long shot
I am trying to find the name of a book I remember from my childhood. As far as I can remember, it was about a bunch of dogs who are maybe at a groomer? They hear a fire truck and go chasing it down the road. As you go along, you need to put the paper dogs back into their homes and beds. At the back of the book is an envelope to put all the dogs in. I’m pretty sure it was a hardcover. I was born in the early 70’s, and it was old then, so it was printed in at least the 50’s at my best guess. It was color I think, but mostly just black, white and maybe red. Not a whole lot of variety of color, which would go with the age I think. Each of the dogs was a different breed also as I recall. Sorry it isn’t more to go on. Any ideas would be appreciated.
This must be Dorothy King’s Catch the Dogs (1946) later issued as Puppy Play House (1951). I had one as a child, lots of fun but pretty hard to find now with all the dogs intact!
Love this book! My mom had a copy from her own childhood, and I tracked down a couple of copies for my own sons. (One copy had all the pages intact, and by combining it with the other, I also have all of the dogs.) My boys loved it too!
im looking for a book from around the late 90s (when we got it) me, my brother and my sister all read it and remember parts of it, this is a long shot but i hope someone recognises it. it was one of those really busy picture books sort of like wheres wally kinda busy except it is like houses and stuff and it includes these creatures called imps. in a page we remembered they lived in a shoe (NOT THE OLD WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A SHOE) it includes a witch that jumps up and shouts “yippee” it was very very busy and like full page of illustrations the layout of pages looked like snakes and ladders very detailed
I have bee looking for a collection of stories and poetry book I had when I was young. It was a thick book, maybe 400 pages. It has Aesop fables, stories, dr zeuss and many many more. Halfway through the book, you turn it upside down to read it. Seems like the name might have been something like children’s illustrated. Would really really like to find this book. Thank you
Tina
I’m looking for a Santa Claus book I read either late 80’s or early 90’s. A few plot points I remember.
He was being chased by a bad guy, who eventually got so cold he lost all of his hair.
One of the people traveling with him invented pontoon shoes that helped him walk across water.
The “elves” invented a translucent balloon filled with gas that gave his sleigh lift.
It was beautifully illustrated. It was such a integral part of my Chrostmas past and I am hoping to be able to find it for my sons first Christmas.
I don’t have, really, much description to go by but I’m looking for a book that was a colorful children’s picture book about a country town where the houses were almost in a round surrounded a winding river. It was a lovely town. I recall the book itself was a wide landscape shaped hard-cover.
Hi !
Im looking for a kid book my grandma would read me. The plot is that some animals (elephant, tigers and others) come at night and use the little boys bike and toys. They break them so little boy tries digs hole to trap them. He covers hole with leafs and sticks. When night comes, all the animals fall in hole. They end up fixing the little boys toys.
Thanks if you can help 🙂
Those Terrible Toy-Breakers by David McPhail.
Bernie has convinced Walter than a lion, a tiger, and an elephant are breaking the toys he leaves outside at night. When Bernie helps Walter set a trap to capture the culprits, the reader will get a surprise!
I teach English to students in China. A student shared a Chinese translation of a book about animals that are trying to reach the full moon. There is a turtle, an elephant, a giraffe, a zebra, a lion, etc. who stand on top of each other in a tower to reach the moon. Other animals join the tower, with a mouse on top. The mouse reaches the moon and eats it until it is a crescent moon. The story ends with a fish swimming to the crescent moon’s reflection to eat it. Does anyone know if this book is also available in an English translation, and if so, what is the title and author? Thank you very much!
Wow, thank you so much!
Glad to help! Thanks for posting back.
Snarly Snuffin, by Stephen Cosgrove.
The Secret Hideout. (There’s a sequel too.)
I’m looking for a children’s book, I don’t remember the title at all, and all I CAN remember is; A boy gets a new pair of ice skates, and against his parents warnings that the pond is too thin to skate on, he goes anyway and ends up falling through, but a spirit (or an angel, I don’t remember) saves him and pulls him back up to the edge of the pond.
A long shot, but if it might have been a girl that fell through the ice, take a look at Frost Hollow Hall by Emma Carroll. (There are boys in the story – Will, the boy who loans Tilly a pair of skates, and Kit – the boy who died falling through the ice years ago – and who saves Tilly when she falls through.)
“Frost Hollow Hall by Emma Carroll is a chilling ghost story set in the winter of 1881. Tilly is too poor to afford ice skates, so when Will, the butcher’s son, offers to let her use a pair as part of a dare, she jumps at the chance. Little does she know, Will is taking her to the lake at the manor house. The same lake which no one has been allowed to skate on since Kit Barrington died in an ice skating accident 10 years earlier. When they arrive, Tilly is afraid they will be caught but Will reassures her everything will be fine. Except its not. Tilly falls through the ice and is rescued by the ghost of Kit Barrington. Kit haunts her dreams for days afterward and urges her to expose the truth of the circumstances surrounding his death.”
Road to Agra by Aimee Sommerfelt? “Cover has picture of peasant children on a journey. Black and white illustrations by Ulf Aas. In the little village in India, Maya, Lalu’s little sister, is going blind, and if she does so, she’ll lose her spot in the school and will never learn to read. And if she doesn’t, she won’t be able to teach her brother. Hearing that a friend’s uncle was cured of blindness in Agra, Lalu decides to walk the long and dangerous distance to Agra with his sister to get the doctors to cure her. This is the story of their journey and the adventures along the way. Evocative black and white illustrations by gifted illustrator” It was a Weekly Reader so a lot of inexpensive ones around. A good book!
I’m looking for a picture book. I don’t remember what it was called, all I remember about it is that it was about Japanese toys that come to life at night. Also I think it had a black cover. I’ve been searching for this book but I can’t find any leads and it’s driving me crazy.
I’m looking for an old children’s book where each day the townspeople come and take the puffins egg to make their muffins. They do not appreciate the puffin until one day when they can’t find the egg. I don’t know the title, author or publication date. Can anyone help with a title.
The picture book I’m looking was likely created in the late 60’s/early 70’s. It involves a boy who is away from home vacationing (in his grandparents large old home?) who begins to discover a series of clues and instructions for physical challenges he must overcome. Eventually he is led to a secret hidden cave where he encounters a masked figure. It turns out it’s his dad who created the challenges when he was a boy. Any help is much appreciated!
I am looking for help identifying the title of a book I read several times in the early or mid 1970s I think. Set in India, several children are traveling together on a hazardous road journey. I think they were trying to get one child to a clinic for cataract removal, under a time constraint. I assume it was a children’s book.
No, but thanks for the reply. My mom seems to think the book was printed by the church (Seventh Day Adventists) making the book even harder to track down. I contacted their publishing company and no luck either! Ugh!
I am searching for the title of a book of which I can remember only one picture. The plot, as I recall, has something to do with the waning days of horse drawn cabs in the city (I think New York) as taxis become more popular. The only specific memory I have is of the horse gripping the belt of a young boy in its teeth, who had run out into traffic, to pull him back to save him from a car (truck?bus?) about to hit him. The moral of the story fits quite well with many of the Little Golden Books and Whitman Tell-a-Tale books from the 1940s and 1950s about the underdog doing something “heroic”. to prove its continued worth and value. I recall there is a sign in the picture that says “Hack Stand”. I read this book, and others, over and over back in 1965/66.
Just to rule this one out: not The Little Horse Bus?
http://wetoowerechildren.blogspot.com/2010/08/graham-greene-little-horse-bus.html
Found it! It’s called Pepper by Lydia Caplan – a Whitman Top Top Tale.
“Pepper is a carriage horse in the park; when little Billy runs after his ball and nearly falls under a bus, Pepper grabs him with his teeth and saves the day.”
please help !!! i had a book as a little girl that had a crocodile or an alligator that was the wrong color or something so he went to talk to a bunch of different animals but the most specific memory is this book at a little colored cellophane part of each page that changed color on every page (because the layering of the cellophane). i want to know what this book was so badly someone plz help
Pre 1970 I started reading a book from the Jr. high school library, It was about a boy who woke up alone and lost. He traveled a bit and found a girl also lost and they eventually found a baby. The kids were in a forest or jungle if I remember correctly. They were from different tribes I think and learned to communicate. Alas, summer vacation arrived and I never got to finish the read but still think of it 50 years later. May have had the word green or lost in the title. Any ideas?
Yes! yes! Thank you so much!
You’re welcome 🙂
My husband speaks fondly of a story about a frog, who didn’t want to hibernate but wanted to see the winter, which he read as a child. My husband is 83 years old if that assists with knowing of the time-frame the story may be within. I was hoping to surprise him with the book for Christmas but first need to find it. Can anyone assist? The book is NOT the modern version by Dev Petty ‘I Don’t Want to go to Sleep.’
Really long shot here – but if there’s a chance he read it *to* a child, rather than *as* a child, there’s Tomie DePaola’s Four Stories for Four Seasons (1977) which includes a story about Mister Frog staying awake to celebrate Christmas with his friends, Missy Cat, Mistress Pig, and Master Dog.
“Mister Frog has slept through Christmas every year and is determined to celebrate this one with his three best friends. But when he takes a short nap that turns into a very long sleep, he wakes up late on Christmas Eve, and there’s no one to celebrate with! He’s all alone until Santa and all of Frog’s friends arrive with trees, food, and holiday cheer just in time for the big day!”
Another possibility – there’s a story in The New Round About (an Alice and Jerry Reader) from 1950 about a frog wanting to stay awake and learn about winter:
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Looking for the author of a kids book called “Fog”. Not THE fog, just fog. Can’t remember it’s storyline. I would have read it in the 90s or early 2000s. Cover if I recall correctly is gray, an illustration of fog. I’ve searched the internet, but can’t seem to find its existence!
Are you sure it wasn’t Hide and Seek Fog, Tresselt? It’s older but reprinted because Caldecott Honor. Cover illustration is right.
How about “Fog” by Susi Gregg Fowler?
https://www.amazon.com/Fog-Susi-Gregg-Fowler/dp/0688105939
Looking for a book about a boy who works in a hotel in Europe, shining shoes at night. At some point, a rich man stays at the hotel. That is about all I can remember. Illustration style is similar to that of Madeline or Lyle Crocodile, though heavy on blues and greens. Thanks for any leads!
This is not going to be much to go on, but my friend is trying to remember a book that was set back when cars were a new phenomenon. It was about a boy who visited animals, including a raccoon and some crows, that had taken up residence in the attic of the house next door. The boy would climb a tree to get into the attic to visit the critters. The story was set in a small town with a railroad running through it. The name of the town may have been the title, perhaps ending in “Junction” or “Crossing.” It was one of two books in a series. We would sure appreciate it if anyone can name this book!
Rascal by Sterling North. Rascal is the name of the raccoon the boy brings home. He lives in Brailsford Junction. I had the book in the late 1960s but never read it. The edition I had featured Bill Mumy (Lost in Space) on the cover
i’ve been wondering for months if this book even exists, but i definitely remember reading it as a kid. it was about a girl with big red hair that she never washed. she kept getting things stuck in it and eventually had to get all the stuff out in the shower. no one in my family seems to remember it, but it’s such a vivid memory that i feel like it has to exist… anyone recognize it?
Perhaps it’s Franny B Cranny?? That’s the one I remember with this premise…
I’m looking for a book that was around in the 1980s. If was a children book called something similar to Extraordinarily Strange Fairytales. Or something like that. All I about it was a story about a cake with ‘pumpkin squigglies”. I would so appreciate help finding this book!!
I am looking for a book I read in the early 1970s. The authors were a husband and wife. It was a collection of scary stories. One particular story was titled It. It was about a creature that was made out of some collection of gooey material but it could walk. It chased a little girl into a cave structure and it was able to squeeze itself between the rocks. The story was partly from the monsters viewpoint, what it was thinking and how it felt. At the end of the story the creature fell into a stream. It was describing what it was feeling laying in the cold water as it was being washed away. As an adult I don’t think it was anything a child should have been reading as it has haunted me well into my 50s
I am looking for the name of a children’s picture book I read in the 90s but could be older. It had colurful illustrations about made up creatures. One was a snake that bit it’s own tail and rolled like a tire until it got a flat. One was some kind of camel like creature that had a bald head and would cover it’s bald spot with the wig on it’s tail. I think another grew grass on it’s back.
The first and last of these sound very familiar to me. I thought at first it was The Ice Cream Cone Coot and Other Rare Birds, but that one’s JUST imaginary birds. Will try to figure it out.
Are you sure you are not thinking of the original charlie and the chocolate factory movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7lilfpZNGc
I am looking for a big hardcover childrens short story/bedtime story/fable book from around the seventies to mid eighties. It was glossy and dark blue in colour and possibly had a picture of a large tree on the front.at night, and maybe the moon? The stories were possibly fables. They were all a bit dark.
The first story was about jack who ended up challenging a giant or ogre to an eating contest, he put a skein under his jacket and tipped all the food (and wine?) into the skein and then he said he was full and needed to make room and slit it open and continued to eat. The giant did the same and died.
There was also a story near the end of the book about a man who was rude to an old fisherwoman/hag who was mending nets and she pulled off her thimble and tossed it into the sand and cursed him to spend the rest of his life looking for it.
I remember these stories; will try to figure out which book they’re from.
Hi, I’m looking for a book about an old teddy bear who’s left on the shelf, he is missing an eye and his arm is loose. One day someone gives him a new eye and sews up his arm and he is loved again. I would love to find this book. It was slim, hardback with a green spine and the bear on the front cover.
Not trying to be too obvious, but you have ruled out Corduroy?
I’m looking for a Christmas picture book that was published (I’m guessing) in the 1980’s, but not later than 1994. It’s based on the Twelve Days of Christmas, but this book added up all of the gifts for each day, then added them up in one grand total at the very end. It was a humorous book, but I can’t remember its title or the author. Sorry I don’t have more info!
I am looking for a book that was a collection of stories, read to me by grandparents 1955-1958. One story was about dolls that came to life so all the children were frantically repairing them (I honestly think that’s when I decided to become a doctor!), one was about a town that desperately needed rain, but someone had an objection to every single day! Big glossy book
Glossy book, 1950’s, Story of Live Dolls would almost certainly be The Better Homes and Gardens Storybook. But I don’t recognize your second story.
I am looking for a book that I would love to gift my dad for Christmas. He is a doctor and used to read us a book about being tiny inside the juman body. I remember they see red blood cells that look like inner tubes. Help!
Is it miss frizzle inside the human body
Im looking for a book where the main character is a boy who lives underground in the future with his dad, i think his mom is dead. I think the society was like totalitarian. He leaves from underground and arrives at like a farm land and meets a girl. The farm has a horse carriage.
I wanna say his home had an electric fence and if you touched it it was disenigrate you. Which is why he went underground
I’m looking for a childrens book that I read in the 80s, it was a softcover, short childrens novel. I remember it having a one word title it was called ‘Dog’. Can’t remember a lot of the story except that it made me cry 🙂 There was a boy who couldn’t go home so he slept in an abandoned car and came across a stray dog or maybe a puppy that slept in the car with him.
I am looking for the name of a book series about a little boy who has all these funny imagined events that happen in kindergarten. For instance, the school nurse lines up all the kids and vaccinates them all at once with one shot, the gym teacher makes them climb the rope with a fire burning the end, I thnk there is one that is about the bus ride, etc etc. Of course, when he finally goes to school he is relieved that none of the tales are true.
Another that sounds very familiar. Was thinking it might be one of the Little Critter or Max & Ruby books, but I don’t think so. Maybe Froggy Goes to School? He has a nightmare about missing the bus, per the online info; still looking for the rest.
https://www.amazon.com/Froggy-Goes-School-Jonathan-London/dp/0140562478
Unfortunately that’s not the book I am looking for 🙁 Thank you for replying though, I appreciate your help!
A long shot: is there any possibility you’re remembering Lollipop, by Wendy Watson? It’s about wanting a lollipop, not a pet, but it does have rabbit characters and a blue cover.
Thanks for the reply! Sadly that is not the book either. 🙁
I’m looking for a book I had between 1958 and 1963 about a school aged girl who has a big extended family and each member had their own room and they all lived together in a big house. Essentially, the plot is the girl describing her family and what each member does, if I recall correctly. The book itself was a big, hard cover, rectangle book with each family member in each of their rooms as a cross section of the house on the cover, I think. Thank you. Juliana
I am looking for a children’s book that had woodland animals in it. There is a grouchy/sad mole that makes the animals whole world gray. Slowly but surely the mole becomes happy and the colors start returning one by one. I think the mole got some sunglasses or something that helped him be able to enjoy the colors during the day with the other woodland animal.
Hi, I’m looking for an A4 blue hardback thick collection of childrens book, one included is The Whale Song by Dylan Sheldon, and I remember one other about 2 teenagers running away
I literally would happily pay a REWARD for anyone who could help me find this book. I have such LITTLE info…only a description:
Children’s book I read as a tot in the late 70s, about a dog who would visit a child in his dreams/sleep. I think the dog would fly around the world with the boy during the night. Vivid illustrations with beautiful color. Beyond that, I got nothing – I know it’s a long shot.
No but THANK YOU!!! That certainly does fit the bill!
Not Never Ending story by chance?
Children’s book I read in the 90s about a bunny-boy who wants a pet, but his mom always says no. It was a very small, thin book, I believe a light blue trim. I believe he keeps bringing home different pets but his mom says no. At the end of the book he asks for a dinosaur and his mom says no and I think he brings home a balloon shaped like a dinosaur. Please help, I’ve been searching for this book for so many years!
A possibility: Can I Keep Him?, by Steven Kellogg.
Hi. We had a book in the 70s that had a variety of tales & pictures with beautiful artwork. It was somewhat dark & very eccentric. There was a page of flying birds that were also scissors. There was the story that read “it was a dark and stormy night. The ship was sinking. The captain said to me…” There was a lady walking I think that said “followed by a magpie, followed by a shoe fly…” Pete & Repeat were sitting on a fence. It was about 8″ x 10″. That’s all I can remember. Thanks for your help!
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Arm in Arm, by Remy Charlip.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49073.Arm_in_Arm
Meg, I’m going to reprint the question because I don’t know if Disqus will bump this to the top or even if this was Archived from a different service we used to use. We’ll see. Good book!
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Hello. I am looking for a children’s book that I read in 6th grade. It involved creatures that were either elves, gnomes, or actually referred to as something indicating they were small..i.e. mini’s? The characters all had very hard to pronounce names and the inner cover contained a map of village(s) of these creatures. It was a delightful book that I’d like to read again or read to my children, but for the life of me I can’t remember what it was or where to start. Please help. I will continue my fervent search, but hope you can help. Thank you.
I am looking for a book and its about 3 cats one is pink one is dark purple and I can’t remember the other color but they were painters or their owner was a painter and I also remember a dark purple panda and alot of paint splatters it was a very colorful book
In the late 50s I read a book about a small boy, who, when he jumped off the rabbit hutch at midnight, was able to talk to his rabbit and join it in adventures. Does anyone recognise it please?
That’s it! Thank you Meg!!!!
It could be! It’s definitely triggering memories but I think it may have had words, or at least was part of a series. I just recall bears and maybe a big bad wolf etc. FMS is very similar illustration-wise, so maybe this is as close as we can get. Thank you very much!
I don’t suppose you can think of similar books?
I am looking for a book that I read in 8th grade last year. It is about a person who followed her sister who had been trafficked into a place full of crime. The person who followed her was her sister, but when she got to the place she had to act like a boy so that people wouldn’t take her into trafficking. The story has at least 3 narratives, each chapter a different person’s POV. There are 3 characters, 2 girls and a boy. The boy and the girl who was trafficked end up having a love interest, and one of the girl’s name is Mei. Please help me find it?
The Walled City, by Ryan Graudin.
Thank you so much!!
You’re welcome, and thanks for posting back!
I’m looking for a book where the little blond girl is home alone, and she treats all the household items so poorly that one by one (starting with her toothbrush I think), they grow legs and end up running away. She eats peanut butter and pickle sandwiches and eventually even her home gets up a runs away. I remember thinking it was so funny and want to show it to my boys.
The House That Had Enough, by P.E. (Patrick) King.
It’s a picture book meant for kindergarten age. It’s about what I believe to be a squash, but could be wrong (some big, blob type thing) that I believed dyed people different colours? Like it would dye someone blue maybe. I seem to recall it getting bigger and causing more trouble over the course of the story, and then being dealt with in the end. The protagonist was a girl. Any ideas?
Hi. I’m thinking of two books from my childhood, probably around 1991-93. I was in 4-5th grade when reading. One revealed in the end that there was an enormous crocodile that would hide in a discreet location and no one could figure out why or what was happening during story. It would come out wreak havoc and then go back into hiding.
The other was same time period and involved a villainous character that lived in the woods and would hunt people. I feel like the title was one word and started with a “w.” Something about weasel, like that was his name or something. I saw the book “Hatchet” from 90’s and that triggered other two books for me. Sorry for terrible descriptions. Lol.
big hard cover children’s book illustrations were at the beginning and the story followed
children’s book, big book, hardcover illustrations were at the beginning and the story followed. I may have started with an M.
I’m trying to recall the name of a book about a duck. It was an elementary-appropriate chapter book read to me by my teacher in 6th grade. I feel like the title involved the duck character’s name and two almonst-rhyming adjectives (i.e. “Mallard the Stumbling, Wondering Duck”). Can’t seem to find this anywhere, so I wonder if it’s out of print? I seem to remember the main duck character being slightly awkward, like an ugly duckling sort of story. Thank you!
The Tale of Timothy Mallard?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/992334.The_Tale_Of_Timothy_Mallard
Amazing Mamasquirrel, 🙏 thank you!
You’re welcome! Thanks for posting back.
looking for a book for my twin sister, it was made in the 1940 or 1950 about a girl who had to put coal in a furnace her name was tilly, im not sure of it was a golden book or not . please help me
I keep thinking of Christine Noble Govan’s Pink Maple House and its sequels, because she does have a character named Tilly.
Hi!!! So this is a children’s book I can remember but have no idea what it is! In the book, a family (I don’t know if they were people or animals or something else) goes on a ride. Now I remember it being kind of like the tunnel of love but not exactly because I think that that one of the characters was scared of something on the ride. They were going through the ride on a boat and that’s all i can remember. Thanks!!
Hi. I’m looking for an illustrated children’s book that was described to me as a young boy who lived on the East Coast and took a balloon to visit his aunt in another State for lunch, then he went to visit his uncle in another state and due to time zone he reached his uncle’s in time for lunch also, he finally ended up at his grandparents but was not hungry for lunch but possibly stayed for dinner. My partner said it was a book he read as a child. So it would have been written before 1970.
High-Noon Rocket, by Charles Paul May.
In relation to my last post: I found it! It was The Secret Birthday Message by Eric Carle. Phew.
Hello, I wonder if anyone remembers a children’s picture book that I used to look at in the library. It was very 1970s, painted abstract type of illustrations but the key thing was that the pages had shapes cut out of them which led through to the next part of the adventure! So you could see the next page through. I believe it was a landscape format book but have no idea of a title or author. Please help! TIA
hi i’m looking for a book where a boy is in his room and finds a hidden box or compartment in his wall in his closet and throughout the summer, every dangerous or thrilling adventure he goes on, he adds a momento from that adventure. he then comes home one day from school to discover that his parents have moved to a bigger house just down the street and a new family has moved into his old house and they also have a little boy his age. i remember the family that moved in is very poor and that the boy who moved tried throughout the whole story to get his box back. at the end, he sees that the poor boy’s family had mysteriously moved and when the boy finally gets back into the house, he sees that the other boy had found his box. plz help!!!!
I’m looking for an old book from the 60s. It was a picture book about a bear that went fishing and could see something in the distance coming towards him it got closer and closer andbigger and bigger. On the last page it was a fish it leaped out of the water and ate him. It really scared me as a kid, I was around 5. Any ideas?
I’m looking for a kid’s picture book (ages 4-6) from the 90s. I can’t remember the title but the premise was all these characters at a big country manor/hotel. I think it had 3 bears, a wolf, other fairly tale / spooky characters, and it’s not the Berenstain Bears! I just remember the cover – it was a large book and quite a busy illustration with lots of characters and an grand castle/hotel in the background, imagine a very diluted Where’s Wally but with ‘Jolly Postman’ style characters…not optimistic but would be very pleased if we could find it!
Full Moon Soup?
The book I’m looking for a book that was about a dog who ran away from his good home and wanted to party. He wore a black eye mask( kind of like Zorro wore). The police showed up at the party and the dog tried to run away and was crying.
This is going to be complicated, but I’m looking for this children’s animated book in which the characters are animals and they are illustrated in a clay figure way. All I remember is that there was a part were they were having tea and going to the beach.
These books are generally called Claymation. You can see some of the older ones on Abebooks, sorted Highest price down. Searching claymation pop-up book on Google might give you some ideas, although they are not all books. https://www.google.com/search?q=claymation+pop-up+book&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwivi7HlwezsAhX3Ap0JHZvlC1sQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=claymation+pop-up+book&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQA1DaggFYgIwBYP6WAWgAcAB4AIABvwGIAeEGkgEDMC41mAEAoAEBqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWfAAQE&sclient=img&ei=4oSkX6-SK_eF9PwPm8uv2AU&bih=722&biw=1357
Hi what a wonderful service this is! I am looking for a book I had as a wee girl in Scotland in the late 70’s/early 80’s. It was a little girl in her bed imagining the shadows in her room were scary things that turned out to be familiar items after all. One page was an armchair with a mound on it and it went “maybe this, maybe that, maybe puss is not a cat!” I remember it was muted colours and a rectangular book. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I have searched for this book for years! Thank you in advance and again thank you for the wonderful help provided 😊
Good-Night, by Russell Hoban.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/russell-hoban/good-night2/
Hi what a great service this is! I am looking for a book I had as a wee girl in Scotland in the late 70’s/early 80’s about a little girl in her bed imagining the shadows in her room were scary things! One page was a chair with something on it and it went “maybe this, maybe that, maybe puss is not a cat!” If I remember correctly it was quite muted colours and was rectangular shaped. I have tried for years to find this book and any help would be so appreciated. Thank you in advance and congratulations on the wonderful service you are providing 😊
See above.
I’m looking for a children’s book series from the 80s or 90s about a family similar to the Addams family except the characters were all animals. It was a picture book.
I remember reading a book in the late 80s. I believe it was by an african american author. It was about a black boy walking down by the river daily. he came upon a genie or a djinn that came out of either an urn or a big basket. something about it was REALLY CREEPY. i remember it had a very ominous feel and i always looked for it when my class went to the library, i would have been less than 10 years old
There’s ‘Juma and the magic jinn’ by Joy Anderson and illustrated by Charles Mikolaycack (1986).
Juma and the Magic Jinn is a children’s picture book written by Joy Anderson and illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak. First published in 1986, this folktale with an African setting tells the story of a fictional, daydreaming boy named Juma who is living on the real Lamu Island just off the East coast of Kenya
i have looked for this book off and on for years with no luck. It never had a cover for me to remember probably because it was my older brother’s book and by the time it got to me it was ragged. It was a collection of stories for children that often had a moral and each one was dated for a day of the year I can remember one being about Johnny missing the train that his grandmother was coming on because he fell asleep when he didn’t mind his mother and take a nap that day. It was probably published in the 1940’s or 50’s. thanks.
Hi. I am trying to find a particular book which I had as a child, so this must have been c. 1987-1990. My father used to travel to the US quite a lot back then, and would bring us back a lot of paperback illustated children’s books, for age group around 6-10 years, so it could be a book he brought back from over there.
This one was beautifully illustrated and although I can remember very little of the story, it has stuck with me, particualrly the pictures – lots of cherry blossom trees and fields and mountains. The plot seemed to be about an Asian boy who was on some sort of quest – he had to get through some mountains and there was what I think might have been a Genie or a Jinn trying to hinder him. In one particular image the genie was giant sized and had green poison dripping from a long pointed fingernail.
I realise this isn’t much to go on, but I would love to track this down again, if anyone has any ideas.
HELP ME PLEASE!!!!! looking for a book from 1983 or older.. kids primary 1 class.. vague memories of this but I know it definitely existed. The book ended with a derelict house in the woods with a hairy wee man in it.. sure there was smoke rising in the distance and as you opened the pages you got closer and closer to where he was and it was meant to be a wee shock. Iv searched for years for this..oh and its not “a dark dark tale” !
thanks anyone…
I’m looking for a book I used to love to check out from the library. It’s a book full of nursery rhymes and poetry involving snow and winter, but also Valentine’s day. The art was all hand drawn, and had a limited color palette, very black white red and maybe light blue. All of the pictures were horse and carriage times, and I know that the cover was light purple, lavender, around the outside border with an illustration from the inside in the middle. I feel like the title was something similar to “letters for my valentine” but I can’t find it anywhere, and the library doesn’t have it anymore. My mom used to read it to me a lot, even when it wasn’t winter time, and I’d love to get it for her for Christmas.
Maybe this one: A Valentine For You, by Wendy Watson.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3468124-a-valentine-for-you
I was directed here by someone you have helped previously, im looking for a book about a girl who moves into a big house with her mother and stepdad or vice-versa shes given an entire floor of this house but told not to explore. She meets this glowing boy who she becomes increasingly infatuated with. The boy has some grudge or something horrible planned for her, just before he succeeds she learns about his being evil n saves herself as well as thinking she destroyed him. Book ends with him still alive n still planning to go after her or someone close to her like a little sister to force her into doing what he wants. I hope you can help me!
My life will be complete if I discover the name of this book that I read early 80s (might have been published earlier):
All I recall is that it was about two children (boy and girl I think) in a little boat on a small river going thru a dark (but not scary) forest. They might end up going through a cave with gemstones encrusted into the cave walls. The book was hardcover, about A4 size, and either dark greens or blues. The illustrations on the cover and throughout the book are vibrant.
My concern is that I’m a little mistaken -that it’s part of a collection of stories. It’s not hilda Boswell, but definitely the illustrations are of her caliber.
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you should get “big joke game” – it’s good. i only ever read “the hairy horror trick” which i loved. i should track down the others.
I’m sure the person who administers that site would welcome a question. Good luck, Suzanne