I am looking for a book. Here are the details I can remember:
1) The book is about about a woman who is desperately hurrying to bring sunshine/daylight into her house so that she can save it for later, she uses things like pans and jugs to trap the daylight and carries it into the house, but is then confused when she gets inside and there isn’t any light (her house may not have had windows).
2) It is a children’s book
3) I believe the main colors in the illustrations are yellow, brown and black
4) I read it as a child in the late 1980’s, but it was likely a hand-me-down book from my sister who was born in 1980
The premise of the story is here:
Why the world laughs
Charles Johnston
1912
page 305 Scandanavian Funny Stories
It’s a free Google Book but I don’t know how to send the link