166D: Woman wants blue teapot for birthday (solved)

The book is a medium-sized hardcover compilation of children’s stories that includes one about a woman who is upset because she cannot find or does not have a blue teapot. Her friends and neighbors begin bringing her teapots of varying sizes and patterns, but none of them are the right one. Eventually she finds the teapot she wants and decides to give the other ones away.

Other stories may include a clambake, a young boy taming/naming a horse named Starbuck on a ranch, the circus coming to town, and a man who peddles pots on a mountain. My memory is fuzzy, so I’m not sure if those will be included in the book — but it’s important that the story of the teapots is there. I believe that this is a book my mother read as a child, so it should be published before or during the early 1960s. The cover (sans dust jacket) is bright green and depicts a valley or meadow. Any help or suggestions you could give would be invaluable.

2 thoughts on “166D: Woman wants blue teapot for birthday (solved)

  1. Mama Squirrel

    The blue teapot story was included in Fun all Around, a volume of Best in Children’s Literature by Nila Banton Smith. I don’t know about the others but it seems like a good place to start.

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