In a sci-fi anthology ~1970, the protagonist is sole crew on a space station with giant slug. Somehow his job is to keep it sad so its tears can be harvested for human benefit.
Probably he doesn’t understand the job at first.
Short story
The title is something like, “I’ll Be The Mommy and You’ll be The Little Girl”or vice versa. It also may include “I’ll be the Daddy, you be the Little Boy,” (or vice versa as well.) The book is from the early 1980’s, I think, suitable for early primary children. It is two stories in one book The first part is about a mommy and little girl going for an outing and they change roles briefly. If they book is turned over and similar story involves a daddy and a little boy doing the same thing. In the middle of the book is a two page illustration of the parents and the boy and girl meeting up in the home…just adorable. It is nicely illustrated and while I don’t see it listed on any Sesame Street lists, the illustrations of the characters remind me of that company’s type of drawing.
P. G. Wodehouse story: Bertie Wooster’s friend, Bingo Little, has a get-rich-quick scheme to start a mink farm where the mink are fed white mice that procreate without cost. It is a disaster and Jeeves must bail him out.
I read this book in maybe 1978. Black and white Illustrations with hidden objects throughout, like a giraffe under a man’s hat, etc. A boy runs away from home and befriends a man who sells donuts from a cart on the street. The donut salesman falls in love with a woman who has a pretzel cart and this makes the runaway boy jealous. Then a bull escapes from a pet store and runs into a giant tank of coffee, which the boy is sure to drown in as he gets trapped in a basement filling with coffee. The donut salesman saves the boy by dumping all his donuts in the coffee. The boys goes home at the end.
This was a large (maybe a foot tall) book of drawings from the WWII era that belonged to my father, a WWII veteran. I think some of it was actual cartoons with dialog but what I remember most was wordless cartoon-like sketches/line drawings. There was (I think a full page) drawing of a bunch of soldiers in a huge room full of cots, with high ceilings and tall windows The soldiers were mostly half dressed, some playing cards, some sleeping, some (I think) cooking over little stoves. The general feeling was of a room in a huge mansion in Europe taken over to house soldiers. It was an amusing image but had no words. Another wordless picture was a line of army vehicles driving along a road with lots of people on the roadside including at least one man wearing a turban and a loin cloth and (I think) nothing else squatting at the side of the road. It felt like India. I looked at this book dozens of times over 50 years ago (it was old then and falling apart), but those are the only two drawings that really remain in my memory. I think, but I’m not at all certain, that the whole book was the work of one artist. I think, but again am not at all sure, that it was a paperback.
I would so love to see this book again, to have it. It fascinated me then and has haunted me for years. I’ve tried other on-line forums with no luck.
I read this book in the 1970’s. It’s a dystopian future where teens are trapped on an open staircase. They arrive separately and meet each other there. They must do certain actions in order to receive food.
I am trying to locate a book that was in my elementary school library in the late 1960s (1966-69). It was a book about nursing school programs with black and white photographs showing the different type of nursing school caps and pins. The book looked like it was from the 1950s.
An early 1980s hip comic novel of single womanhood in which the heroine is the only white backup singer in a black rhythm and blues band.
I lived in Quito, Ecuador from 1950 through 1952, and remember reading a book about an orphan boy, possibly on crutches, who lived in colonial Quito. The illustrations were in black, white and yellow (I think!)
A children’s book I read in the early 1970’s. a boy goes inside a tree and there is a long, long dark staircase inside it. He climbs it and I don’t remember what happened next. I think the illustrations were black ink sketches. Thanks!