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I am the Curator of the Maurice Sendak Foundation. I was doing some research on Sendak’s Outside Over There and he says it was inspired by a memory of a book he read as a child in the early 1930s that featured a girl in the rain in I believe a yellow raincoat. Does anyone know what that book might be?
Looking for a 4 volume set of children’s stories that were sold door to door. The covers were red, gold, blue, and green. It included The teeny tiny woman, and pokey little puppy, little red hen, and many others. My mother bought them for me as a child and they were lost through the years. I would really love to have the set to read to my grandchildren.
I’m looking for a children’s book which I think was published by Scholastic, I think around the sixties? It was about a boy who built a robot (not “Harry’s Homemade Robot”), just one robot, and there was an illustration in it I’ve always remembered; it was like in the third chapter or something, thr boy had been building his robot down in his house’s basement – the illustration showed him and family too (I think?) going over to the door that led down to the basement, they hadn’t quite come to it yet, but we the readers can see that the basement door is open, and inside you can only see blackness except for the robot’s glowing eyes. That’s the scene when he will end up discovering, of course, that the robot is now working. Does anyone know?
Hello,
I wonder if you can help me locate a beautiful picture book.
Our daughter was born late 80’s so – Published sometime between 1985 and 1999.
– Children’s Christmas Picture Book
-a girl with white hair in snow country, kind to animals, and the animals end up climbing into the fir tree as decorations, to surprise her at the end.
– bluey/ night coloured hardback cover, A4 + wide
Thank you and kind regards🌺🌿.
A female author in the 90s wrote a picture action book changing traditional nursery rhymes to have positive outcomes. My favorite was the old woman who lived in a shoe, she had so many children SHE KNEW EXACTLY WHAT TO DO!
Im looking for book called Geraldine’s pink blanket
Was it Geraldine’s blanket? They are quite easy to find on Amazon or abebooks.
Geraldine’s Blanket was pink! There is Jane’s Blanket,by Miller, also pink, reprinted but the original has a different cover and is quite expensive
I am looking for the title of a book I read as a child in the 1960’s at my grandmother’s house it was in with the collection of Beatrix Potter books (so the same size). It was about a girl who was terrible unhappy and skinny and then she met a boy who made her happy and she grew so that her buttons popped off her dress.
I would try The Golden Goose, in the Warne edition (like the Potter books). No buttons, but similar.
Beautiful color illustrations children’s book enjoyed in early 1950s. Seem to remember babies/angels doing household chores maybe? Hanging wash on stars? Making beds on clouds. One with red upturned flower on head maybe watering? Loved this simple little book especially for its illustrations…any ideas?
Ida Bohatta-Morpurgo? Probably not your book but take a look at the illustrations. She wrote and illustrated many of these little books and they were reprinted in the 50’s
https://www.oldchildrensbooks.com/pages/books/20325/ida-bohatta-morpurgo/die-himmelskuche-the-cloud-kitchen
It isn’t but it is the most similar anyone has come up with…thank you so much. I loved the book as a child and I can see it so vividly. Sweet, precious. Approachable. I can’t believe it is this difficult to locate…
Looking for a book I remember from 1981 ish. A landscape oriented thin paperback. The pages were colored and illustrated as if looking into the house and seeing each room and the people. I recall the children chasing after a dog that was stringing bubblegum around the house, so you see every room in the house. Maybe my memory is off, but I would love to see this book again.
I am looking for the title of a book I read as a teen in the 80s. It was about a girl growing up in the south and wanted to be a doctor in a time when women weren’t doctors. She learned about medicinal plants in the area and was given a pair of scissors as a gift by a friend, maybe it was a boyfriend, to use in her work.
book about a mom and daughter, the daughter copies everything the mom does, the mom drinks coffee, the child drinks milk, the mom counts change at the store, the child counts legs
Help finding a book! Old picture book where woodland animals go to the grand opening of a restaurant.Google is no help! If memory serves, the restaurant was in a tree, and was possibly run by a raccoon or skunk. I also remember an owl? I realize how little this is to go off, haha. The illustration wasn’t anything so distinct, but I remember it was a hardcover, rectangular book.
Also Hi! I’m looking vintage childrens books with woodland animals at a restaurant in a tree. I remember a raccoon and an owl, and I think they may ahve been going to the restautant opening.
Hi there! When I was a kid, I’d get a book out of the library that was a favorite. I cannot remember the cover, title, or author, but the illustrations still hang in my memory. The story was about a little boy who had a cat that he loved; he and the cat spent their days together, and the cat’s favorite spot was on a grassy hill under a tree. There was a section about how the cat had a different life at night, when he would prowl the neighborhood and run around with his cat friends. After a long life, the cat dies, and the boy decides to bury him in his favorite spot on top the hill under the tree. That’s where the book ends. The illustrations were incredible–only in black and white, but they were full page, sometimes across two pages, and appeared to be originally done as etchings or pen and ink. There was one in particular that showed the cat going out for the night, and he appeared to grow large as he left the human world and entered the cat world. This book was in my midwestern public library in the late seventies and early eighties; if I had to guess its publication date, I’d say maybe somewhere between the 1950s and 1970s. General internet searches like to suggest a book called “The Tenth Good thing About Barney,” but it is NOT this book. I’d appreciate if this rings a bell for anyone–any sort of lead I might follow. Thanks!
looking for the title of an old children’s book (published pre-1960?) where a mother sends her children through the snow to fetch their father in the barn. Eventually, she follows their footprints in the snow to the barn to find out their cat had kittens in the barn.
hi, I’m looking for a book published before 1994 (and maybe in the 1980’s?) about a soccer coach that wanted to become a pirate and then sailed to a mountain and built a pancake restaurant. I think the name was “Captain somethingorother and” … something about soccer?
Hi, I am looking for a book that I believe was published in the 1960s or early 1970s. At one point in the story, a character says “Hi, Feety” or “feety, feety.”
Hi! I can’t take this book out of my mind:
Time Period: Published sometime between 1960-2000
Art Style: Watercolor illustrations
Main Character: A hare
Plot Summary: The story is about a hare who wakes up late and misses the teacher’s (or group leader’s) car that was supposed to take him and other young animals on a trip/outing/excursion to a place where they would play. The hare cries because he’s missed the departure. Then an elderly animal appears driving an old car and gives the hare a ride, helping him catch up with his friends at their destination.
Setting: A world of anthropomorphic animals (animals wearing clothes, living like humans, driving cars)
Probably an european book because of the cars and clothes in the illustration
Remembered that the point of the story is that the hare uses roller skates to arrive on time to the school, the teacher warns him, he doesn’t pay attention, and one day he wakes up late and then it comes the rest of the story. The image of the book is this hare with the roller skates and a scarf
I kept thinking of Etienne Dellesert and I even could picture it, but in Ashes, about friendship, the hare is travelling by canoe, no scarf. Not a Yok-Yok book either. https://www.oldchildrensbooks.com/pages/books/21349/etienne-delessert/ashes-ashes
Looking for a children’s story collection from the 1960s or 1970s. One of the stories was about a dog named Noodle.
There is a 1937 book called Noodle by Munro Leaf illustrated by Bemelmans (Madeline) so that might have been one of the included stories.
Hello I am looking for a very precious book!! It got thrown away when my mum died but it was meant to be kept. It’s a book of fairy tales folk laws myths and legends. In it was the tinder box with a black and white illustration of the dogs. The illustration was quite frightening.
The singing bone again black and white beautiful picture (prints from tablets I think) of a young boy wearing an Indian headpiece and a skeleton with a pipe the boy is standing over the skeleton.
Also there was a merman or sea king he was a fat merman with long nails and he had jewels and riches to offer a young lady and I think he was trying to lure her to be with him. This book was very old 1800s possibly very rare a collection of stories. Please does anyone know of this book. I can’t find any of the illustrations online. I’ve been searching for 3 years. It was my childhood book. I can’t remember the name of it or the illustrator or date but I have the illustrations in my mind. It was beautifully written with the first letter morphing into a large drawing. It was art the whole book
I was unable to find this collection (Tinder-box is Andersen but Singing Bone is traditional German, not Andersen, sometimes in Grimm). Anderew Lang’s Fairy Books seemed possible but apparently not. You might want to look at the artwork of these illustrators for the style you described and see what looks familiar. I would use Tinder-box or Tinder Box as the most likely: Arthur Rackham, Dulac, Harrison Ford (for Lang), Kay Nielsen. The first few results of a Google images search or an Abebooks.com search sorted most expensive first would be best. (AI hallucinates terribly for this kind of search. My son says to include a request for “Proof” in your prompt.)
Also, all these illustrators have been reprinted many times, including recently, so find the illustrator first, then start looking at the bindings.
I am looking for a book illustrated by Marjorie Cooper (Elizabeth Webbe) that has a page in it with the words- M is for mailbox that postmen will fill with letters and cards all bringing good will. Probably 1950-1960’s.Thank you.
The Christmas ABC, by Florence Johnson, illustrated by Eloise Wilkin.
Thank you very much. I apologize for having the wrong illustrator.
No problem! Enjoy reconnecting with your book.
Does anyone remember a children’s book about a pumpkin head hopping on a stick?
Looking for a children’s book, possible title “the upside-down woman”, definitely pre-1960’s, possibly pre-1950’s. An old woman who wakes up at night and sleeps during the day, sleeps with her head at the foot of the bed and her feet (in old-fashioned button shoes) on the pillow. Naive, charming pen and ink illustrations.
I’m looking for a book I read to my children 35 years ago. It has the line “can you reach the cookies? Are you really that tall?”
Is it this Care Bears book (“What Can You Do? Can You Play Peek A Boo?”) https://www.ebay.com/itm/384857303150 Scroll through the images and the last one has the line you mentioned!
Looking for a book about a girl named Calla/Callie living along the Mississippi River. Story takes place roughly around the turn of the century, I think. Steamboat is mentioned going to Natchez. She lives nearby her cousins (book specifically refers to them as double-first cousins). If I recall, it had a green bookcloth cover.
Looking for a 1960s childrens book about a rain storm and the animals and children take shelter in a large tree
Miss Twiggley’s Tree?
Found it! My donkey Benjamin!
Thanks for writing back. Other people will be looking for it. Suzanne
I am looking for a children’s book about a young girl who is taking care of two mischievous ponies throughout the book but at the end it is revealed they are her younger siblings playing pretend! I can picture it but cannot remember its title. Thoughts?
Plot was underground talking animals that began to get sick from sludge that was leaking from a factory
I’m looking for a children’s story book from the 1960s or early 1970s. It was a solid yellow hard cover children’s story book and I think it had black and white glossy photographs. I think it had a donkey at the child’s home and was set in a warm place like Morocco. It was a serious book — maybe the main character went for a walk. I don’t remember much action. Thanks
Looking for a story of two girl cousins ( Russian, Ukranian?) one city and one country. City cousin travels to see country cousin and learns about old traditions…national costumes, holidays, wax dying Easter eggs, etc
Sounds like The Good Master by Kate Seredy.
I just looked it up….that is it!!! I’ve been looking for a couple years and I couldn’t come up with it….thank you so much!!!
Great! Thanks for posting back.