I’m looking for a book about a little bird trying to fly. Only thing we can remember is the line “itty bitty bobbin boo.”
308C: Itty Bitty Bobbin Boo (Solved)
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308B: Putting on Poochie Powder
Looking for a children’s book my mother, born in 1956, would have read as a child. She remembers it involving dogs having a party, getting messy and taking a bath, and putting on “poochie powder” or “poochy powder” after the bath.
308A: Penny for your thoughts, a girl and her parents
I am looking for a children’s color illustration picture book that is about 15 to 20 years old, maybe 25 years or so. Unfortunately, I do not recall the title or author. It may have been a Scholastic book, but I am not sure. The characters had no recognizable names, such as Madeline, Judy Bloom, etc., as I recall.
It was about a young girl and her parents. It was a series of illustrations showing different scenes, with the girl and her parents with a different fantasy happening, such as they are on the beach at night and you see pirates approaching, and in each scene the girl asks if her parents would let her go and the response is always the same, something like “For a nickel I would” or “We would for a nickel.”
It was a short book, not chapters, maybe about 10 to 12 scenes (each scene covered two pages as I recall) and page size was at least paper size or magazine size, not a small book. I can locate a number of books using the word nickel in the title, but I do not believe the word nickel was in the title of the book I seek, and it was not about the nickel (as the subject of the story), it was about the girl and her parents interaction about letting her go on each adventure.
Any help or suggestions on how to track this down would be appreciated.
Thank you.
307Z: She visited a field of flowers
I believe its a YA novel. Its a about a teen girl who’s mom is sick. Her mom has a hospital bed in their home. The girl and her dad take care of the mother while none of their neighbors really know that the mother is sick. Her dad continues his coaching job and acts as if everything is good. It flashes back to before the mom got sick. The girl is almost resentful of her sick mom. Her mom eventually dies towards the end. The girl visits a field of flowers that her and her mom visited before while shes driving her moms car.
This all I can remember. Hope you can get down to the mystery of what this book’s title is!
Thank you!
309Y: Jasmine One and Jasmine Two
A children’s book that I read in approximately 1982 when I was perhaps 9ish.
It was about a girl who was two children (an imaginary friend perhaps). One of the lines I remember is ‘people thought when they were talking to Jasmine (name may be different) they were talking to one little girl but really they were talking to two’.
They were called, Jasmine One and Jasmine Two. Jasmine One was a good little girl and Jasmine Two liked to climb trees and ride bicycles with her skirt hitched up. Jasmine Two would take over Jasmines One and get up to mischief.
It ends with Jasmine Two climbing on the roof of the family home to rescue a cat. When she is up there people become concerned and I think she gets stuck and fire brigade comes to rescue her.
While she is on the roof Jasmine Two becomes as light as the wind and leaves forever.
Jasmine One grows up and becomes a pilot and flies through the sky just like Jasmine Two.
I loved this book so much as a kid, I would love to find it again.
307X: Anglund Ballet
I’m looking for a ballet book that was (I believe) illustrated by Joan Walsh Anglund. It may not have been her. However in my mind this is what the girls int he book looked like. I cannot find it in the list of books she published. perhaps she just illustrated and did not write it?
307W: Shout
I am looking for a “picture book” for older students. It was probably published between 2002 and 2012. It is narrated by an African American girl who tells the story of going to church with her mama. The book is written in poetry and is beautifully illustrated. I think it has the word “shout” in its title. Here are the last 9 lines of the text:
I can still hear a myriad of
African musicians playing
On our shoulder, on our heartstrings
And we, still spirit-touched in
Our modern dance, move
Onward, upward, reaching
Til we’re tracing back through time
The same steps, that same familiar…
AMEN!
307V: Two beings in one
Fantasy novel with very stylized surreal/dark artwork – I am looking for a fantasy novel, which I believe may be a two book series, that stands out for having had an artist create particularly striking artwork for the story. Some might consider them a bit disturbing/surreal – heavy linework. The only clue I have on the story itself would be I believe the villain is actually two people (beings?) in one.
307U: An industrious beaver
I am searching for a picture book from my youth about a beaver that became increasingly industrious and started turning into some sort of earth-moving machine – a bulldozer or steam-shovel, I can’t really recall. Had the usual overtones about destroying the environment. Anyway I remember really liking it and am now looking for it for my son. Any help will be greatly appreciated. My Google searching efforts have been in vain since I can’t remember the title or author at all.
307T: Put the bread under your hat!
Children’s story: A mother asks her little boy (as I remember the story took place in Africa) to bring home a calf she bought from a neighbor. He hangs the calf around his neck and both boy and calf are unhappy about that arrangement. Mother says, “No, no, you should have led the calf on a rope. ” Then she asks him to fetch a loaf of bread from the baker. He drags it home on a rope. She says, “No, no, you should have put the bread under your hat!” Next she asks him to buy some butter from a neighbor. The boy puts the butter under his hat, but it’s a hot day and he comes home dripping with butter running down from the top of his head. I don’t remember how it ends. I would have been reading it about 55 years ago; don’t know publication date. Thank you so much.