:  I am hoping to find a much loved book from my childhood.  I do not know the name of the book or the author.  I read it in the 1950s.  It was a picture book.  It may have been a Big Little Golden Book.  The story is of a mother and her two children who go to a cottage on the shore for the summer.  In their hurry to settle in, they leave the mother’s pocketbook in the car.  A wren builds a nest in the pocketbook.  The family cannot get the money out of the mother’s purse, so they do not have any money for the summer.  They have to find ways to get by without the money in the mother’s purse.
They plant a garden and wait for the birds to hatch and leave the purse.  Of course, by the time the birds are grown, the family does not need the money.  They are self sufficient.  Mainly, I am hoping to locate the book because of the beautiful pictures of the little wren – or at least in my memory, they are beautiful pictures.