Looking for a children’s book about 2 pigs on a farm who feel like they are missing out on something. They clean themselves up and go out into the world. However nothing is as they thought it would be so they head back to the farm to their nice mud hole again.
I’m trying to find an illustrated storybook set in a medieval fantasy setting. It may be a children’s book but the story and theme are very morbid. I think the book was published in the late 1970s or early 1980s. The illustration style is drawn in detail and colored, possibly watercolor.
The protagonist is a young hero, possibly a prince, who is betrayed or abandoned by the woman he loves. Perhaps their courtship was called off after he performed a great deed or quest for her father?
He somehow ends up heartbroken and dying on a small island in the sea.
He stays alive by sucking the salt and tears from the tattered and faded blue or black cloak that he wears. Eventually the cloak becomes magically imbued with a toxic curse and is blown on the wind to the kingdom where his former lover lives.There it spreads a deadly plague, possibly the Black Death. I vaguely recall an image of the woman dying from the plague with birds strapped to her feet (an ineffective cure meant to ward off the plague)
Does this ring a bell for anyone?
Picture book from 1980’s (?) about a preschool aged child’s relationship with a baby sibling. Illustrations depict a messy, hippy-ish house, perhaps in Vermont, with a frumpy, gentle mom. Specific pictures include: the outdoors with a steep path leading down to the home with baby in stroller and sibling walking; hall entryway with pegs on the wall where coats are hanging and shoes & boots scattered on the floor; frazzled mom cooking with baby on her hip crying and sibling playing on the floor; sibling helping button clothes on baby and maybe attempting to tie own shoe; sibling feeling tender toward baby in their shared bedroom and maybe text anticipating baby being old enough to play. Illustrations have lots of detail about the environment, which is a warm but messy home, e.g. baby socks on the floor, toys scattered, kitchen counters cluttered, etc. Aesthetic of home is alternative, earthy.
I’m wondering how to find a children’s book that I remember having read to me. I was born in December of 1942 . I remember seeing an illustration ( in the book ) of hills made of sugar. Perhaps both white and brown sugar, that were supposed to be used to make Christmas goodies.
Story of a tree outside a little boy’s window that was to be cut down and brought into the house for a Christmas tree. The little animal inhabitants were told they had to vacate the tree by Christmas Eve. When the time came to cut the tree, the animals had completely decorated the tree.
Halloween children’s book I read in 1978-79: a boy crosses a witch, who hexes him in his sleep with nightmares… possibly sent ants to swarm his bed. The boy solves his problem by carving a jack-o-lantern, which guards him while he sleeps.
In the late 1960’s a friend gave me a fairy tale book that she owned. I LOVED IT!!! It was a plastic coated hardcover, perhaps 8×10 (it was a larger book) with various scenes (in color) depicting the stories inside. One cover picture that I vividly remember was a princess on a glass hill at sunset. In the body of the book were a lot of drawings (black and white from what I remember). I think there was a knight in armor on the cover, but I could be mistaken. I also think there were pictures on the front and back cover. I LOVED the interior pictures and traced many. Stories that MAY have been inside were one about “Roland”, definitely princess on the hill story.
I kept the book for years, but thinking that I would not have children to share the book with, I gave it to my stepdaughter, who promptly lost it. (I love her a ton, but of course she didn’t value the book as much as I did – reading material is a hugely personal preference).
I did read fairy tales to my daughters, but I would love to have this book to share for possible grandchildren.
I received a poetry anthology of about 20 children’s poems titled something like “My First Book of Poetry” in the 1960s. It had one poem per page and simple black ink drawings. Some of the poems included: “The Fog” by Robert Frost, “Alexander Beetle,” by A. A. Milne, “The Spider and the Fly,” by Mary Howitt, “The Neighbor” (?) by Edna St. Vincent Millay and “Poor Tired Tim” by Walter de la Mare. I lost the book in moving and have not been able to relocate it for years. Any help would be much appreciated.
A girl named Katie throws a baseball through a church window and replaces it with a homemade quilt. On Christmas day, the quilt has changed into a stained glass window. Children’s book from the 1960s maybe?