I’m looking for a children’s picture book, likely published circa 1950 but certainly before 1960. I have very little for you to go on but I know it was a reddish-orange hardcover, wider than tall, and illustrated in black, white, gray, and red. The illustrations included a boy with a pot on his head (it was not Johnny Appleseed), and stuffed inside a ball of string or spaghetti (not Eddie Spaghetti). It could have had to do with him trying to find a costume for a party or something of that nature. It’s long out of print and certainly not a Caldecott or other award winner, but likely a 32-pager, at best. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you!!
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Long shot, but maybe one of Astrid Lindgren’s stories about Emil Svensson, a little prankster farm boy in Sweden. They date back to the early-mid 1960s and at least one is about Emil getting a pot stuck on his head (I think it’s usually called ‘Emil in the Soup Tureen’ in English).
Hi. Could this be Homer Price by Robert McCloskey? It contains the story or chapter called The Mystery Yarn, featuring a giant ball of string, and the color scheme matches.