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319W: Artist Grandfather Helps Punished Granddaughter

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I’m not sure if you can help or not, but I’m trying to remember a story that I either read or heard as a child. It goes something like this:

There once lived a famous artist.  He was highly respected and thought of everywhere, as a great man.  As fate would have it, the great man happened one day to travel through the city where his daughter and granddaughter lived.  So he called and asked if he could join them for dinner.  Of course he was invited with open arms.  His daughter was very excited and determined that all must be perfectly arranged, for after all, her father was a great man.  In time the father came and they sat down to dinner.  Soon a soup was served, and the man’s little granddaughter, paying more attention to her grandfather than her manners, made a bit of a mess. This embarrassed and angered her mother.  So after dinner, the little girl was sent to stand in the corner until she could learn manners. The grandfather said nothing, and in time they all retired for the evening.  The next morning the daughter came to prepare for the morning meal and was startled to see her father painting a beautiful mural in the corner where just the night before his granddaughter had stood.  It was the most beautiful mural she had ever seen, and it was obvious that her father had been up all night painting it.  Why, she asked, why have you painted this?  Then the grandfather said to her, if my little granddaughter has to spend so much time standing in this corner,  I want to be sure she has something beautiful to look at.

319V: Children’s Series About Shoes

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I’m looking for a series of early reader books about shoes. The series was already old (in my recollection) in 1981, the books were square, and the one that stands out in my mind had a red party shoe on it? Maybe it was sparkly, maybe it was patent leather? Not sure.
As I search for it I keep coming up with the series by Noel Streatfield but those were probably too advanced for a kindergartner.
Please let me know if you remember this book.

319U: Pike Threatens Duck Family

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Hello! I am looking for a book that my father used to read to me when I was a kid (late 90s). As far as I can remember it was about a family of ducks(?) who were often threatened by a scary pike in the area. I remember it had pictures, and I could have sworn it was called ‘all through the night’ but haven’t been able to find that title. I’ve been searching for years without any success! 

319R: Little Girl Learns to Read Multiple Books At Once

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My stumper is a book that I loved as a kid though I don’t remember that much about it.   The main character is a little girl and her dad.  The little girl had lost her mother and I think I remember someone or some people were coming after the girl.  They go and stay with the little girl’s maternal grandmother and the grandmother teaches her the skill to read from multiple books at once. Which is a critical skill in the book.
Unfortunately that’s all I remember and I hope you can help me.

319Q: The Inept Wizard

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Seeking a fantasy series from the 80s/90s. In the series was an inept wizard who carried a satchel full of rune sticks leftover by a long lost race called the Rebus/Rhebus/Rhybus (I'm not 100% sure of the spelling). The wizard often failed because he had trouble decoding the rune sticks. Eventually his satchel caught fire and he lost them all. The enemies in the books were somehow made of ice and wary of sunlight - I think they were dark elves. When killed, they would degrade into a puddle of dirty water. In one of the books was a character who flew around inside a cavern while wearing an old-fashioned helmet with a hinged visor. He could blast fire from his eyes and regularly chuckled while firing at the trolls below. Any help finding this series would be much appreciated.

319P: Terrifying Baby Thief

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I got a book from a scholastic book fair back in the 1990s. It was about a girl who lived in a house with her baby brother (maybe sister). There was a creature in the woods who stole the baby and she had to rescue him/her. The cover was terrifying (at least to 11 year old me) and I even bought it twice because the cover came off of one.

This creature was maybe a witch or something that needed the youth of the baby to survive – it fed off of the baby or something like that. The book would probably have been written between 1985 and 1995, young adult thriller/horror/fantasy.

Any help is appreciated!!!

319O: Little Boy Turns Into Tiger

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Looking for name/author of a kids book from early 70s about a boy who dresses up as a tiger, but the book is written like he IS a tiger. He lays "on a tree branch" (actually the back of the sofa, I think), scares his sister, etc. At the end, he finally takes off the costume and goes to sleep. I think the artwork was pen and ink and the cover was orange, but I can't be positive after all this time.

319N: Stories Where Teenagers Reflect on Becoming Adults

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I read a collection of short stories in the late 80’s (maybe very early 90’s.)  The stories from the collection that impacted me involved teenage girls coming of age.  One story involved two teenage girls shoplifting at a Woolworth’s (this helps date the collection maybe.)  There was a story of a teenager babysitting some little girls whose mother was in the hospital after a terrible car accident.  The mother passes away during the time the young woman was babysitting.  She must act as an adult to break the news (or not) to the girls.  This story had mermaids within the title.  Another story involved a young woman at a wedding in a faux chalet-like event space.  She goes off by herself (in a bridesmaid dress?) to have a moment alone reflecting on her new near-adulthood when some creep exposes himself to her.  I’m unsure if the collection was classified as YA, but the stories definitely resonated with me as teenager at the time.