378Q: My Last Hope

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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  1. Marisa

    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).

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