I am looking for a children’s anthology that likely contained a Peter Rabbit story and one about a boat sailing on a chocolate or candy bay. I remember vivid images of candy hanging in the sky. I believe it was the last story in the collection. I was born in 1986, and the book was hand-bound with thick ivory thread.
I submitted my original request back in 2011, but the Peter Rabbit information is new based on the illustrations in a book that I just found. F397 and B763 were the previous inquiries.
I enjoyed this book beginning in about 1955 but had two older sisters (the oldest born in 1946) so it could have been purchased as early as that. It was a hard-covered book and had stories for children of different ages. Each story had, under its title, a number of asterisks (I think one through six) equal to the age of the child it was appropriate for. For example, ****** was a story for a six year old. The only title I remember from the book is “Peter, Please, It’s Pancakes”. I would love it if you could identify this book!
I am looking for the name of a book, these the facts that I remember:
Circulation early 1960s
Picture book
Subject- town loses color and becomes black and white due to bad behavior, color comes back when sun shines through the tear of a boy producing a rainbow.
Length was perhaps 20 pages
Detailed illustrations
Please let me know, I'd be so grateful.
Juvenile book. Middle school. Adventure mystery story. Cover had a large idol with green (?) eyes. Huge eyes. Boy visiting a foreign country with parents and somehow has to return an stolen idol to a temple. Lots of danger and suspense. ie., almost hit by car. Falls in a river. Etc. Read during middle school in the mid to late 90s.
A description of the book, with helpful details:
I’m sorry I can’t recall anything more than this, I’m going off an 11-year-old’s mind over a decade later.
I’m looking for a book which features the adventures of a girl who is given rose colored glasses by neighbor and she enters an alternate world.
Looking for a children’s book we used to get from public library. Dewey number in the 300s/fairy and folk tale section. The story involved a sea king’s daughter and a tea party? The end pages had a black line with color washes drawing of the sea princess (with crown/long wavy hair) riding a Great Dane type dog (with antenna.) Another illustration was an underwater scene with anemone and a glass palace. We read the book in the mid to late 90s. No idea when it was published. Do not think this was a mermaid tale. The artwork was subtle & lovely, not brash or cartoonish. Do not recall if there were other stories in the book.