I am looking for a children’s picture book. I probably had this book in the mid to late 1960s. In the story there are 3ish siblings (I think animals, but possibly children) that play outside while their mother is visiting a friend. The mother’s friend has a picket fence that encloses her yard. On the fence is a grape vine or berry bush. The 3 little ones eat all of the fruit. They feel badly about their behavior and replace the fruit the next day by tying fruit that they bought to the fence.
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This is the most likely answer, but I have seen the stories come up in slightly different editions.
Miriam Clark Potter, Bedtime Stories, 1951
“This is a Junior Elf book. It has a blue cover showing Mama Cat, wearing a pink-and-white gingham dress, seated in a green chair on a yellow rug. Mama Cat is reading from a book titled “Cat Tales” to her three kittens, who are gathered around her, wearing their nightclothes. The stories are “Three Jumpy Kittens,” about kittens who jump around on the furniture when they should be napping, until they wear themselves out and fall asleep, “Mrs. Groundhog’s Grapevine,” about two greedy young squirrels who devour all the grapes, then buy fruit and vegetables to tie to the grapevine as replacements, and “Mrs. Rabbit’s Birthday Cake” about three little bunnies who bake a surprise birthday cake for their mother. “