The book I am looking for is a hardback, large sized (slightly bigger than A4), picture book that would have belonged to my mum, so printed early 60’s maybe?  It had a pastel green cover with a picture of several girls playing, at least one of them was skipping rope.

The girls were drawn with the chubby cheeked vintage look similar to Strawberry Shortcake/Holly Hobbie.  The pictures closest to what I remember are the books by Maria Luisa illustrated by MR Batlle.  I think they wore the puffy caps similar to Strawberry Shortcake too, and maybe wore aprons over their dresses?  I seem to remember one of the girls wore glasses.

I don’t remember what the actual story was about but it may have been about going to school.  I have absolutely no idea of the title or author sorry but I would love to be able to find this book again!

Even if you had some clues about authors/illustrators that had similar style drawings I would be grateful.