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Can someone please help me find this book. This is the only image I have
Hi Im looking for an Old childrens/baby picture book from the 90’s, Available in Australia.
It is a short story in similar style to the cocky’s circle or little penguin books.
It centered around a lost egg found amongst tall grass and the journey to discover the mother. The egg / or Dragon is blue with golden stars and I remember the name Dizzy from the book. The book goes past various animals in search of the mother, eventually finding mother dragon. I believe it may have been called, who’s my mother or something along those lines. Would really really appreciate your help in finding this book. i have searched through all the avenues I can and keep coming up empty.
(NOT the Jo Rigg Dizzy Dragon board book series)
I’m looking for a picture book from the late 60s to the mid 70s. I believe that the cover was in white, pink, and black canvas but I might be misremembering.
My aunt worked for the Burbank public library and since I had a small child, gave discards to my parents.
This book I’m trying to locate was about a little lost cat. My dad used to read it to my daughter, and on this one page or two, it talked about “a strange, black cat” that the younger cat found intimidating. My daughter’s eyes would get all big and round and she would repeat “a strange black cat!!”.
She has her own child now and I would love to find this book for her. Any clues would be wonderful!
I know the quality of the photo is terrible, but if possible, I’d love to know what book it is. The photo was taken in March 1971. Thanks!
Long shot since I haven’t looked at this book in a long time, but it reminds me a bit of “Mazel and Shlimazel; or, The Milk of a Lioness” by Isaac Bashevis Singer with illustrations by Margot Zemach (1967).
Hi! The book I’m looking for is about a lady animal (I think she was a pig but I could be worng) who is obsessed with keeping her home clean.
I remember a scene where when she was outside she saw a leaf on the ground (or falling) and needed to pick it up.
I think at the end she became a little more relaxed about having everything needing to be pristine.
Looking for a children’s book from 80’s/90’s about a family going on a picnic but the parents don’t want to go so the children shrink them. There is a line in it which is something about ‘they decided to keep them small for a little longer’
The Picnic, by Kady MacDonald Denton
watercolor illustrated Story was about a boy who went to the beach and then dreams about riding a seahorse
I am looking for a book from the eighties, I remember specifically it was bought at a big lots, that was about a young dinosaur, and I think he had a few friends, including a mammal like critter. The Dinosaur and his friends go on an adventure or journey and end up finding a valley or forest swarming with butterflies. The line BUTTERFLIES WERE EVERYWHERE is burned into my memory. I have never encountered anyone who knows this book. Thanks for the help.
I am looking for a picture book from the 1960’s .It is about a mouse who sews gorgeous Victorian or Edwardian dresses for other mice. The illustrations are in the style of Bramby hedge
Hello! I’m looking for this illustrated children’s book I bought around 2005-2009. It was a collection of short stories. One was of a girl who wanted a dog, but her parents say something like “when you are seven” (or six). In the meantime, she practices taking care of a toy dog. And finally she does get a dog. In the end, she wants to take the dog for a walk and her parents say “when you are eight” (or seven).
There was another story of a boy who couldn’t keep a secret (and a birthday might be involved). There’s also another story of a girl with many aunts, who gets many presents from her aunts for her birthday. These may have been from the same author or different authors. The illustrations were in color but I cannot remember the book cover, title, author/s, or any of the other stories. Has anyone come across this book?
I’m looking for a children’s book that was read to me in the late 80s. The character in the book mispronounces the word breakfast as Breakfix. I think that was the characters dilemma. I can’t remember if the characters were dinosaurs or humans I’m thinking dinosaurs. I still use the word Breakfix for breakfast with my child. I’d love to find this book.
Michael Jennings, The Bears Who Came to Breakfix.
That is probably the book I’m looking for. Thank you.
I’m looking for a book I read in the late 70s/early 80s. I think it was set in Britanny. A young boy was on holiday on an island there. There was a saying that if you were on a boat in fog, if you answered a distant call three times ‘they’ got you. Also, I think there was a rock a bit like a sacrificial alter, and a giant. Any ideas?
Hi, I’m trying to recall the title of a book I had back in the mid 1980s whose cover depicted a ghostly US cavalryman (possibly a Union soldier) mounted on a horse, wielding a sabre.
There’s this really weird book I remember reading as a kid, it was about set in this weird area and maybe was it was a desert and it was kind of like I don’t wanna say communist but like people couldn’t really leave you know and it was to do with that go karting or something and like the main character girl I think her dad had been like a like an amazing go karter and one day had said to the guards be like oh I just need to go test this go-kart out there and then he just never came back but like the main character she has a best friend who has a boyfriend who’s also go Karter and he’s an orphan and like these people are giving him like money to improve his go karting or something like that and as he’s doing this he’s becoming more and more distant, the main character and her friend realise these people only target orphans and then eventually the main girl she escapes she ends up in this weird place and there’s something to do with doves and wherever she ends up, her dad is there
Hello! I appreciate any help anyone may be able to give me. I’m looking for a book that would have been published some time between 1992 and 1998 and available in Ireland at that time, although it was more likely a British publication. It was an illustrated hardback collection of children’s stories. It included a story about a crab at the beach; a fussy boy who went on a lot of adventures and discovered that hunger is the best sauce; a farm and a float at a summer parade/fete; and bored children learning a rain dance; as well as other stories. It was bright and colourful. The cover may have had a blue background. It was a large book, at least A4 in size but likely bigger. I was given the book as a gift from an old babysitter who would have been a teenager at the time, and have since lost it, so there’s no way for me to find out any other information on it. I’ve asked on Reddit, I’ve even asked ChatGPT, and I’m having absolutely no luck!
I’ve been tryna find this book for YEARS, I can’t remember the name of it but it had an old lady who was a hoarder and she had like a ton of taxidermy animals and bugs and stuff in her house. but the drawings were so realistic like polar express animation almost. I’ve looked almost everywhere online and can’t find anything on it. It was hard cover with a white front and her feet sticking off the bed with the animals. I remember checking it out in my elementary school library in 2011-2013. If anyone can help much appreciated!
Hello,
I am looking for the title of a children’s book that I used to read to my daughter when she was little. She is now 25. I purchased the book in the early 2000’s in SC. I got my daughter’s nickname Tish from the book. The character Tish was fancy and all dressed up and she reminded me of my daughter who liked to dress up. All I can remember is that it was a fiction children’s book with vibrant illustrations. Throughout the book, there were various owners that all looked like their dogs. In the book, a woman named Miss Tish was wearing I believe a white fur stole and she looked like her white poodle. She might have had a diamond ring on, also. She was walking the poodle I think in a park. In the book, in the firehouse the fireman looked like his Dalmatian.
My daughter is expecting her first child in August. She’s having a daughter. I would love to be able to get this book to give to my daughter for her to read to her child.
Thank you for any help you can offer me!!
Help me find a children’s book from the 60s or 70s. It had a blue cover. The story was about a bear. It had a small bear attached to a ribbon and on each page you would insert him to a slot on the stage to complete the picture to go along with the story. Some of the different scenes were a bath tub, a tree house, a race car, maybe a bridge, and on the last page you put him in bed so you would know where to find him again.
My daughter is going to have a baby and this is one of the books I want.
The other book is about a boy. He has an imagination and something of his turns into different things.
I think it turns into a tree house a crane and a doughnut machine although I may have two or more books combined in my memory.
I am looking for this exact same book about the bear and cannot find it anywhere! None of us can remember the title but I absolutely loved it
Hi!
I’m looking for a cassette & sing along book from the 80’s that my mom bought me in San Francisco. The songs included Farmer In The Dell, Little Pussy, The Animal Fair, Froggie went a ‘courtin, Three Little Kittens, Over in The Meadow. The book had a soft cover and the illustration was watercolors or color pencil, the picture AND title on the cover included animals or animal. I can recognize the cover if I see it and the songs too. I’ve been looking for this book and cassette for years with no luck. Please someone help!
Sing With Me Animal Songs? (Pat Magers)
I’m looking for a picture book- maybe it had some words. Probably printed in the 1960s or 70s. It was pictures of posable plastic dolls.
Hey, I need help finding a children’s story book I read from a long time ago but I forgot the title. It has a really good art style. It starts from a young boy, I think he’s trying to blink to stop himself from crying, and then he meets this young girl who just moved in on their town, she’s swinging on a tire swing, then I forgot the rest of the story, but I remembered at the end, they were teenagers then he was giving an apple to her. Please help me find it. It’s none of those, please suggest more
I am looking for a soft-cover children’s book from the early to mid 1970s. It involved a young boy’s routine getting ready for bed in the evening. I don’t recall much more than large images with minimal text on each page, including one image of the boy in his striped pajamas walking down the stairs. The cover may be in the cool blue/purple color scheme. It is also possible that “Bedtime” is in the title. Any help is appreciated.
I’m looking for an oversized children’s story book from the 50’s. Think the cover was red. One story was about a boy who as on a family picnic and crawled inside their car and went to sleep. Another story was about a girl who lived in the country. I remember a drawing of her running barefoot through a field. That’s all I remember.
Hey, I need help finding a children’s storybook I read a long time ago but forgot the title. It has a really good art style. It starts with a young boy who I think is trying to blink to stop himself from crying. Then he meets a young girl who just moved to their town; she’s swinging on a tire swing. I forgot the rest of the story, but I remember that at the end, they were teenagers and he gave her an apple. Please help me find it.
A child’s picture book from the 1970s featuring a boy and his grandfather constructing a green go-kart from materials in a shed or garden
Im looking for my first childrens book that i can possible remeber, and all i have is this page copied from a random post. I remeber the space fairy either car or ship had broken down, and they also had a conversation with a dandelion clock. Please help!!!
Hi everyone!
After great success Finding the name of the previous book inquiry here is another possibly more obscure one that’s been in my mind for decades ! Looking for an obscure children’s book – humanoid rhinos, surreal Mediterranean and Egyptian setting, published possibly early 90s or 1980s… I was given around early 1990s, which I believe was published in the 1980s or early 90s
Here’s what I remember:
The main character was a humanoid rhinoceros, a white human body with a rhino’s head, wearing colonial or safari-style clothing, like an early 20th-century European explorer.
The setting was vaguely Egyptian or North African — with deserts, pyramids, and a surreal magical atmosphere.
The villain was another humanoid rhino, possibly an evil magician who wore a black cape and a red fez. He had constructed a glass pyramid and had captured the moon inside it.
The tone was quite strange and dreamlike, with a slightly eerie feel — it gave me the creeps as a kid, but I think I’d appreciate it now.
The illustrations were painted, detailed and clean, it was atmospheric and beautiful.
The book i had was hardback and square, possibly around 12×12 inches. Not long.
The front cover was mainly a pink geometric pattern, and had a circular illustration in the middle showing one of the characters or a scene if i remember right
It was definitely written in English, but had a strong French or Belgian artistic vibe — similar in mood to The Little Prince, but more neatly painted and more colors.
It may have been a very obscure or small-run publication, But it was a high quality book if I remember but if anyone remembers it, I’d be so grateful for any leads.
Thanks again!
I’m trying to identify a richly illustrated children’s picture book (or possibly a short series) that I remember reading in the mid-90s, likely published between 1990–1996. It featured a world of miniature humanoid creatures living inside a giant oak tree, with incredibly detailed cross-sections of their homes, tunnels, and machinery—much in the style of Bramley Hedge by Jill Barklem, but with a more American and less twee tone.
The central theme was wartime: there were two opposing factions that felt loosely inspired by Axis vs. Allies. The characters wore acorn helmets, built war machines, dug tunnels, and even rode hawks into battle. The artwork was intricate and atmospheric, showing entire communities inside the tree, with a mix of old-fashioned clothing and militaristic elements. It wasn’t cutesy or saccharine like The Littles or Acorn Green—it had more of a serious, even epic tone, though still child-friendly. There was very little text; it was primarily visual storytelling, possibly even wordless or near-wordless.
The characters themselves were not animals or fairies—more like odd little people, maybe slightly Moomin-like in design. I suspect it was American, and it felt like the sort of book you might have found in a good library’s picture book section in the early-to-mid ’90s.
Trouble for Trumpets?
Thats it, thank you so much!
Thanks for writing back. Mama Squirrel is amazing!
Suzanne Price, Old Children’s Books
Great! Thanks for posting back.
Trouble for Trumpets, and the rest of that series. Completely brilliant books.
Agreed!
I’m looking for an out of print book about a hen named Henrietta who lives with her mistress in England. Her mistress (Mrs. Fowler) looks remarkably like Henrietta (plump with a beak-like nose), and is unable to pay her rent. The fat landlord comes to collect. Henrietta discovers a Roman pot and coins in the back yard, and it turns out they lived on top on a buried Roman city. They are now rich! The landlord falls into the excavation hole and is never seen again and Henrietta and her mistress are dressed in togas to celebrate the new Roman ruin discovery with a giant celebration. Henrietta uses some of the money gained by the discovery to build herself a new house with a popcorn machine that shoots popcorn next door to a castle where her romantic interest, a beautiful rooster, lives. They have chicks and Mrs Fowler loves the chicks. Everyone lives happily ever after. I can’t remember the name but did find an out of print copy in England several years ago. It was destroyed in a fire. Can anyone tell me the actual title and Author? Thank you!!!
Henrietta the Faithful Hen, by Kathleen Hale.
Hello, I’m looking for a book, probably from the 90’s, It’s a children’s picture book told from the child’s perspective about a mom who gets a headache when the children fight and goes upstairs to rest and then a mean babysitter appears who wears a black dress with white polka dots. She makes the children obey and then at the end of the day she will go upstairs and the mom returns. The end of the story you see the mom putting the polka dot dress and black wig in her suitcase. Thanks for any help!
If it could be a teacher instead, and with a black dress, it sounds like Miss Viola Swamp in the book Miss Nelson Is Mussing.
Missing.
Grandma’s Secret, by Marie Frost, may be the one you’re looking for, and she does wear a polkadot dress.
Trying to find a book
The book is a cardboard picture book. It was about a boy dressed as a knight who is exploring the dragons land with a dragon. I believe that the main dragon was green. The book takes place at night.
The book was glow in the dark on all the pages. It had multiple yellow wheels on the side that you could turn to change some of the pictures.
I recall a few scenes. The first one was in a castle. It had many levels and was filled with dragons, not people. The next scene I remember was a camping one. All the dragons are camping and some are making s’mores around a large campfire. I do remember the very last page of the book was the boy’s room. His bed was a fake castle and he had a dragon stuffed animal.
I read the book around 2012. It is probably older than that though. I appreciate any help.
The Good Knight Night Book
by Beth Berner
Looking for a book that had a very interesting endpaper. When you open the book, you saw a picture looking down on a sort of castle labyrinth. (See below for my best attempt at recreating the image.) I believe this book was from the 60s, 70s, or 80s. I read it in the early 90s and I believe it was a discarded library book. The story was about a chase around this labyrinthine castle structure. A man, possibly a knight, was trying to get away from a hairy monster. This endpaper was a sequential illustration if I remember correctly so you could see the basic plot by looking at it. The man was on the horse at the top left, then at the bottom was the monster, and finally across the top pages was the man no longer on his horse being chased by the hairy monster.
Even with the story details foggy, here is my best rendition on what the castle, maze, fortress, labyrinth, place looked like:
I’m trying to remember the title of a children’s book that I read in the early 1990s but it may have been written before that. The premise was a boy who fed a horse or donkey a cube of sugar but he didn’t put it flat in his hand like he was supposed to and instead used his fingers to feed the donkey and the donkey got in trouble even though it was the boys fault.
Chouchou, by Francoise.
I am looking for an old bedtime story book, it was quite big and I was a light blue hardback book with hole cut out on the cover around 20 years ago, I’m from the UK. If any one knows please share your guesses, it has been on my mind for a while.
I’m looking for a book I read in school around grade 5,6,7 and it was a blue cover and it the cover had 3 family members the older sister and a little baby and a little brother wearing glasses knocking on the door and the one who opens a door is a old man that had big ears and blue face.
Hi, I’m looking for a children’s book that I read in the 90’s, maybe late 80’s.
It had a number of sibling children that had to stay by themselves. They were protected by a cat(?) for most days, but there was one day that they weren’t.
On that day one year a gnome tried to steal them, but couldn’t, but threw mud at the kids and they all got mud spots.
Then the next year he was able to steal one, so the rest if the kids had to go through a series of trials to save their sibling and each other…
They lost their mud spots in the process of these trials and ‘grew up’.
Solved on another board: Rumpty-Dudget’s Tower.
Hi, I wonder if anyone can help? I am trying to find a book that my Mum said she loved as a child. All I know is that it was about bees and started with “in a sunny corner of the garden”
and that’s all I know unfortunately.
she was born in 1945 so I assume the book would be from around that time give or take. I would be ever so grateful if anyone has any idea
many thanks in advance
Rich
Looking for an illustrated children’s book possibly from the early 2000’s. The cover features the main character (a kid) flying a homemade soapbox style aircraft. Some key points in the story are the aircraft, a snow day and his brother or his buddy getting his finger squished in a laundry press. Been looking for the title for a while now and this is all I have to go on.
Thanks!
I need help finding a book from my childhood. I can’t really remember the name who it was written by but I loved it and can’t find it anywhere. The book was about a human couple (I think they were called Mr and Mrs Bear) who had a baby (I think he was called Eddie or Eddy). As the baby grew older, he started growing hair all over his body and his ears moved further up his head. Eventually, he turned into a bear cub and I think the parents set him free in the wild so he could live a better life. The illustration was really good
“The Trouble with Edward” by Dick King-Smith, 1989
Hi everyone,
I am looking for a book I owned as a child in the late eighties. It was a story about a young reindeer who was wandering around getting into trouble with wolves. A friendly puffin tried to warn him to go home but he wouldn’t listen. The wolves attacked and an older reindeer came to his rescue and was injured as he fought off the wolves. That’s all I remember. I think I might have owned a similar book in the same series, which featured the same puffin and a polar bear?
Looking for a children’s book, from around 2007-2014 ish- it was about fairy’s and the front of the book had a gel cover with glitter stars in it. There was a scene where the fairies had a picnic. From what I remember the front of the book had pink and purple on it. Please help!!
I’m looking for a children’s book from the 1990’s hard cover with animals wearing human clothes in fancy attire suits and pearls animals doing human activities like a giraffe and cheetah
Read a children’s book when I was a kid, it was about a boy who instead of growing up, grew small. He and his father built a sailboat with functional cannons. He had a saddle on a bird and began spying for the government (I think) and he saved the world from a bomb the size of a grain of rice. I also remember this book had illustrations for the story. I would have read it in the late ‘90s, maybe early 2000s.
The Fabulous Flight, by Robert Lawson.
I am looking for a book that was the first book I read on my own when I was 3 or 4, so 1978-9. So it was published in the 70s or prior. And it was a first reader and had simple words and was about bees. So simple words like BE and BEES and illustration of bees doing things. I can see the book and the illustration and the book size and look of it was similar to Dr Seuss books but I’ve searched all those and haven’t come across a book about bees. I have a very vivid memory of where I was in the library and reading it out loud to my mom for the first time. I really would love to be able to find it again. Thank you.
Could it be “CDB” by William Steig (1968)?
Good afternoon! About 15 years ago, I had an illustrated children’s book about a bird that worked in a factory. He collected little objects on his way home and built a “wonderful machine (or some such superlative)”. The artist had an Eastern European sounding name, and the color palate was greys and browns for the most part. At the end of the book, he forms a friendship with a lady bird. There are pages where he is walking and finding the little treasures, and the machine seems to have no purpose other than being beautiful and creative. I believe the bird wears a hat and glasses, and he is drawn with a sparrow-like body. Does this seem familiar to anyone?
I’m looking for an old children’s book I was little and didn’t know how to read but I remember it having a dark purple binding and it from what I could tell from the pictures was about a mama bear and a daughter bear it had beautiful pictures and I kind of remember clock for some reason ballerina slippers Mama Bear relaxing but I remember wishing I could read it. and how that book was so beautiful it was my favorite to look at I would love to be able to just read it and even though I probably won’t ever find it that book has a special place in my heart. Bron 1991 so somewhere between 80s and 90s I’m guessing
For Diane Hayes: Evaline Ness, Exactly Alike. (Elizabeth and her four brothers.)
Looking for a book I read in 1968-1969 about a young girl who has these king and queen dolls. She made a house for them with scraps of fabric, wood, cardboard…anything she could find. She had 5 brothers that were seemingly identical. They tore up the dollhouse and stole the king and queen….to my fading recollection anyway…..she discovers that her brothers gave differences she never noticed before like one has one blue eye, one had a dimple on his chin, one had a freckle on the end of his nose etc. At the end they gave her the dolls back…I think….but she was kneeling down hugging them all. The illustrations were drawn and all in black, red, a blue green and possibly some yellow. I LOVED that book!
: Evaline Ness, Exactly Alike. (Elizabeth and her four brothers.)
Hello! I’m looking for a book that I read in elementary school in around 2013ish. It was a chapter book and all that I remember is that it was about a boy who got hit in the head and had amnesia. He ends up staying with this family. I remember a specific scene where the mom cuts his hair and she was upset, but I don’t remember why. She was biting her lip. I’m pretty sure that the boy’s name was Nick, but I’m not sure. I also remember the title having “Door” in it, or “Secret” but I could be wrong.
Sounds like The Forgotten Door, by Alexander Key.
—a children’s book from the 1960s or 1970s titled The Enchantress, featuring a princess, a talking cat, and a giant flying seashell—
The author is Edgar Parker.
Yes!!!! Thank you! I’ve been trying to find this for years!
I’m looking for a book I saw early 2000s so it could’ve been new at the time or 90-.
It was about a Hen and she was bad and wore a dress and lipstick and her friend was mature and like told her she couldn’t be a mean hen or something?
I can’t remember much more than this but I think their names may have been… posie, Rosie or Dot! I could be wrong but it’s all I have to go on and I can’t find it anywhere!!
Key words: Hen , Chicken , Chicken wearing dress , Hen holding purse, polka dot dress(?).
Hi! I’m trying to find a children’s book that I read when I was a kid. I’m 20 now for reference. I don’t remember much about it, but it was about a yellow spider that I believe had some sort of black pattern on it, possibly black spots. It showed her hatching and like the challenges of a new baby spider, like eating it’s siblings and then I think it faced other insects or something. It flew away on its string and then if I remember correctly, the book ended with the female spider laying it’s own eggs and continuing the cycle in a barn. It wasn’t hyper realistic in design, but it was a full spider. I think it was modeled after the yellow garden spider. I can’t find it anywhere, so if anyone recognizes my crappy description that would be amazing!! It’s been driving me insane!!
Added information – I live in the US and it was probably like around 2012 when I was 7, and it was a picture book, a pretty big but thin book. Shaped like a rectangle.
Miss Spider’s Wedding, by David Kirk, 1995?
I’m looking for a children’s book from 1980s/1990s where main character Alex (white boy brown hair) and his friend (black boy) find ways to play with cardboard boxes. Alex is initially a bad mood and doesn’t want to share his boxes until his mum suggests some ideas and they use their imagination to share. Alex’s fiend’s older sister (Reenie) goes to the hairdressers to get her hair done and when she comes to Alex’s house to pick up her little brother her hair is green and Alex’s mum tries not to laugh.
Well this isn’t it, but there is another wonderful book, Roxaboxen by Alice McLerran, a true story about children who created a town in the Arizona desert with boxes and pebbles. I’ll be interested to see what this one is.
Found it! “Alex & Roy” 1982
Thanks for writing back!
I’m looking for a book that was probably from the early 90’s or even late 80’s. It’s mostly a sketched style with minimal color about girls (maybe 3 girls) and I remember the gist was that they went to a birthday party and got in a fight. It was a picture book and the girls or at least one girl had braids. Drawn more detailed but not hyper realistic. I’m guessing the book was about friendship or feelings. Any ideas??
I’m trying to find an illustrated children’s book about animals playing on a frozen pond, with no skates. An older man is watching them. In the book the man throws a stone on the ice to test its safety, and they play under a stone bridge
Looking for a book I had in the mid 80s. Black and white illustrations. Macabre single-page stories of children up to no good / spooky tales. One has a kid who kills a vampire with a stake through the heart. Another has a kid who sets a christmas tree on fire. Another has a boy running through a swamp catching butterflies and getting mud everywhere. Another has a kid trying to cross a garden path but it’s filled with spooky stuff like spiders, snakes, nasty stuff. I’m certain ‘ghastly’ was in the title. Think it was published/sold through Scholastic (in Australia anyway).
Possibly Beastly Boys and Ghastly Girls ed. by Willliam Cole, but this was an anthology.
Yes, it seemed like it was an anthology. But different illustrator and I don’t think the stories are the same. Thank you though.
Hello,
I’m looking for an old illustrated children’s book, part of a series I think. The illustration style was very simple, using only a couple colors at a time, and the story went like this:
a little girl wakes up, and then she tries to put her slippers on but they’re having a silly day and won’t cooperate. The slippers have eyes and mouths, I think. In the end she dresses up and goes downstairs to have breakfast, but turns out the cereal is also having a very silly day and it jumps everywhere.
Any detail that you know or remember would be very appreciated. Thanks🩵
Hi I’m looking for a children’s book from the 1980s or even before. It is about a cowboy child and an Indian child that wears a red feather and his name is “red feather” . The cowboy child has a gun and the gun falls into a fountain that make it be golden. In the end of the story it appears that the child is acythe grandfather that tells his grandchildren about his childhood.
I am trying to find the title of a picture book from the 80s or 90s. The plot follows a young witch who lives with her warlock father. She struggles in school because the other kids know she’s different. The warlock father goes to the school to talk to the teacher about the other kids taunting his daughter. The teacher and the warlock fall in love and the final scene in the book is the dad marrying the teacher at the Dead Sea and they throw something into the sea
hi. don’t know whether this’ll yield any results but i’ve already tried google and (begrudgingly) chat gpt so i’m basically out of options. i’m trying to find a german children’s book (don’t know whether it was originally german or translated from a different language but i presume it to be european in origin) about an anthropomorphic bear that is sick with a fever. i have no idea how old the book is, but my best guess 80s-90s. i unfortunately don’t remember a lot of details since i was very young when i read it. it had as far as i remember a lot of illustrations in this sort of semi-realistic art style. the bear has hallucinations and at some point there’s an illustration showing this demonic creature standing in the woods and there’s fire surrounding it (shitty sketch of what i remember attached for reference), i remember that specifically scaring the shit out of me when i was little and it’s basically the reason i’m searching for it in the first place. the bear also notably has one of those old, racist golliwogg dolls, and at some point there’s an illustration of him laying in bed holding it. the appearance of this doll is partially why i’m suspecting it to have been older, or at least a newer printing of an old book since even though i must’ve read in sometime in the 2000s i doubt such a detail would be included in a more modern book. the closest comparison i can find style-and-tone-wise is “a bad case of stripes” by david shannon.
Hi! I’m looking for a book that chat gpt couldn’t find. It’s animated about 2 friends, one blonde with curly hair, and one with a short dark bob and a big nose. One of them has gay dads and another has a sister who I believe is named Melanie?? Anyways melanie is super goth and goes to guatemala to help build houses for people and in one book they go on a road trip and the dads sing American Pie over and over. I swear I’m not making this book up. I think there were stripes on the edge of the cover too. Please help i’m going insane.
Hello–I’m looking for a picture book about a girl who lives with or visits her grandpa in Greece. The main detail I remember is that they go to the store to buy ripe black olives. I read this book in 1984 or 1985 for the first time. I can’t think of the title for the life of me.
Hi, looking for a book I read as a child. I asked chat gpt got no where. I know this book exists. It’s about a boy who was mean and there was a portrait of him that got uglier the meaner he was. I don’t remember the name of it obviously, I remember the cover of it was maybe black, purple, overall a dark cover.
I’m looking for a late 80s or early 90s book. The characters were animals, the basic plot was that old things cast into the sea were returned new, specifically old tools, until the main character realized they would trade all the shiny new things for their old worn originals.
Hello I am looking for a book written in early 90s perhaps, about two animal friends that have a sleepover and stay up all night to get ready for a picnic. They bring their muffins and carrot juice to see the sunrise, one animal falls asleep as they are watching it.
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i am 37 now, when i was in primary school i found a book in the library, this book had a very colouful cover and the book dealt with 2 kids dealing with hunger, a revolution and the fact that there was a war going on this book is old and had pictures like a graphic novel, in the book the children are so hungry that the desire a chocalate in a shop window but when they finally get to it then it turns out to be just cardboard i cant find the name of the book
I keep trying to remember a book from my childhood and the image that’s lasered into my skull is a 2-page picture of a ton of bread loaves and baked goods. It was a thin square-ish book and I think the scene is a palace kitchen. I had the book in the 90s so I’m assuming it was published around then or earlier.
Maybe, or maybe not.. “Everybody Bakes Bread” by Norah Dooley, 1995 … although that is thin and squarish. And all about bread. Carrie searches for something in a multicultural neighborhood and discovers all kinds of breads
good afternoon all im looking a book called Buzzy Will Not Go i have looked high and low for this book my son read as a kid its sort of a early birthday present so he can read it to his kids can anyone help me
Is Buzzy a person, an animal, or something else?
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I am looking for a book I had when I was a kid. It could be from the 70’s 80′ or even 90’s. It was a hard cover book that hippo with it mouth open and a monkey was inside riding a unicycle. It was a collection of short stories, poems and songs. I am looking to get this for my daughter. Thank you
Hi I am looking for a fairy book. Not a book of poems but a story about the fairies who have rose petals for dresses and wipe the dew from the roses. The boy fairies are blue and tend the blueberries. The little girl can see and talk to the fairies and there is a moral to each story. It is driving me crazy hunting for this book. Thanks for your help!
Peter in Blueberry Land, by Elsa Beskow? Just throwing that one out.
I’m trying to look for my childhood book
Hi, I’ve been looking for a children’s book for a long time that has stuck in my mind.
The book is about climate change, at least that’s what I think? I remember from the book that there were only cars that ate some oil balls, the cars were hairy and they had mouths and eyes. As far as I remember, there were no people in the book, there were only cars, and I remember that the pictures in the book had those hairy cars And it was a really deserted area.
I’m looking for a book that my mother in laws father read to her when she was a child, probably the 1950s. She doesn’t remember the name but said it was about bunnies, chipmunks, or some type of little critter eating all the fruit off a tree and then they hung more fruit on the tree with a string. Can anyone help with this?
Bedtime Stories, by Miriam Clark Potter.
Thank you so much!
You’re welcome. I loved that little book when I was small.
I’ve been fruitlessly searching for a kids book of poems from the 80s or very early 90s that definitely included ‘Fuzzy Wuzzy was a Bear’, ‘I eat my peas with honey’, and ‘The boy stood on the burning deck’ and other famous kids poems. ‘The boy stood on the burning deck’ was a funny version that ended with ‘…and so he wore his sister’s!’ With a picture of a boy with skinny legs and pink girly underwear. I cannot for the life of me find it and nothing ever comes up on google images or any online booksellers. I feel like the colourful illustrations were vaguely similar to the style of Babette Cole. I tried looking for anthology books by Spike Milligan or Ogden Nash but nothing I could find matched. It’s also definitely not The Random House Book of Poetry for Children by Jack Prelutsky, or the Puffin Book of Utterly Brilliant Poems, and I don’t believe it’s a Michael Rosen book either.
I’m looking for a book from around the 1980s about a boy who went to a school costume party dressed as a “hero” or something like that. He ended up defending a classmate from a bully called “Zoogy” (I think he wanted to steal her purse). This book was part of a series about an elementary school teacher and her class; years later, I found another book in which the teacher took the class to the beach at the end of the school year and they reminisced about the school year; the incident with Zoogy was also mentioned.
Tough Jim, by Miriam Cohen.
The beach story is See You In Second Grade!
I am looking for an old paperback children’s softcover book from the 1970’s. Must not have been copyrighted? The title was “It’s a Topsy Turvey World! The cover was a colorful urban scene. Each page had a bright illustration of a typical part of a city, with a few things completely bizarre, like a bird flying upside down or a dog operating a bulldozer. It was funny, innocent, and silly and I read this with my son and nieces many times. In my old age, I wanted to look at it again, especially from the perspective of the “modern” world!
Try the spelling as “Topsy Turvy World” (with no e) and put that on abebooks.com. About 80 possibles including repeats of the same title, but fairly easy to look through.
am looking for a book from the early 90s about a rabbit that got 10 gifts for their birthday, and one of the pages was about buttons, it was a cardboard book and it was purple but I cannot think of the name on it …
Looking for a young adult fantasy I read in the early/mod 90s and it’s been plaguing me for years. It had a shiny cover, metallic like. It was green or teal (probably closer to teal) and I’m fairly certain it had a girl on the cover in a dark pink or light red dress. I only remember small details in the plot…a young girl goes on a mission (some adventure) and meets either a unicorn or a horse. I feel like the uni/horse either talked or could read her mind. Any chance someone has a clue??