Story starts out in a black and white town. Little girl finds a paint set and begins to color the town and the people, paints the grass green and even paints the baby’s face a rosy color. Possibly published in early 1990’s. My daughter read it in elementary school about 1993-1998
This has been nagging me for years and years. I am coming up 63 years of age now and I would be eternally grateful to anyone whom could help me. It is a story that I read when I was about 10 – 12 years old …………… so probably from the 1950’s or 1960’s. It haunts my dreams – although (however hard I try) I cannot recollect a title. It is an English book (I am English – although, now, live in NZ) about a girl called PERDITA and a MOUNTAIN. A mystery story, I think. Hoping for some help!
This is a children’s picture book of average size.
I don’t remember the title but the pictures and story are stick in my mind. It is about a forest animal, a frog, I think, who is feeling so sorry for herself that she stomps through the forest and pond stepping on other creatures and being quite a nuisance in her angry blindness.
I’m not sure of the date of publication but I read this book to my son when he was a little boy (he’s 36 now). Maybe it was newly published at that time or perhaps it was a reprint of an older book—I really don’t know.
I seem to have lost this book or given it away. I want to have it again to read to my granddaughter.
I recall the frog’s name was an old fashioned one like “Gertrude”.
Wish I could tell you more.
I’m looking for a sci-fi storybook, probably from the early ’80s. I remember it as similar in tone to The Black Hole, but that’s definitely not it.
The only scene that sticks out is that at the end, someone is tied up with energy whips or ropes that looked like curved lightsabers.
This story is one of many characters, and is beautifully illustrated. I recall one character as very tall, lanky man, dressed in oranges, reds, and browns, almost as if a medieval or early renaissance peasant. His hair is a very red-hued brown, spiky, and seems to have its own agenda. His face is freckled, ruddy, and very long. He has no facial hair, from what I recall. His ears are pointed, almost as if elven, and his neck is quite thin. Layers of these dark red and burnt-orange-colored and brown tunics fall over spindly legs covered in what looks like tights of the same colors. His shoes are pointed and seem to have no soles. He is also shrouded in fire, and at one point in the story, he cooks a feast of meats and vegetables for the group, as there were no ovens or other ways to cook. Another character is a large, green-hued man with a very round face, and maybe no neck. He is smiling and dressed in greens. His tunic is flowing and I believe his tights are brown. In the story, he grows tall, as a leafy tree, and protects the group of travelers from wind and rain. There are other characters, but I cannot remember many details. In the story, they are all traveling to meet a Czar, for what reason I do not know. The czar has a pointy beard. I also recall a character who resembles a bee, short, with a pointy nose, and wearing a yellow and black striped tunic. At one point, he turns into a swarm of bees to fight of an intruder. The illustrations are many, and greatly detailed. I know it is not a lot to go on….
I’m looking for a kid’s/youth book that had fantastic full page illustrations, and was fairly long. It featured a goblin/elf/hobbit-like creature who went on a quest, and at the end of the book, there was a large stone staircase where you would turn to stone/statue, but the main character managed to avoid being turned to stone and complete his quest. I can’t remember much more than that, but the illustrations were great, and very dark in colour.
I’m looking for a picture book that I read to my kids in the 80’s about a miserly man in the middle east who refuses to throw away his old, stinky shoes. He gets in trouble with the Sultan at the public baths for his old shoes. He then tries many different ways to throw them away, and they keep coming back to cost him money and grief – he throws them into the reservoir and they end up clogging the city water pipes; he dries leaving them on the roof to dry, and a dog throws them off the roof onto a woman passing by down on the street – until he finally learns the lesson of throwing old things away when they are no longer useful.
When I was a kid, sometime between 1987-1992, my grandmother bought me a hardcover book that contained 2 or 3 haunted plays that all took place in a mansion (or maybe a hotel?). In the front cover of the book was a pop up of the mansion, that included several rooms, to be used as the set for the plays. If I remember correctly, it also included cardboard cut outs of the characters to move from room to room as you “acted out” the play. My cousin and I played with this book for hours, but for the life of me, I cannot remember the title or the author. It’s not the haunted pop up book by Jan Pienkowski and it’s not the Disney haunted house book. If anybody can help me figure this out, I would GREATLY appreciate it.
Only story I remember from a book of stories I received in the 1st or 2nd grade, mid to late 1960’s. A hardcover book with color illustrations, about a boy and girl, lighthouse keeper’s children, who go with Mom to a big city department store with an escalator. No title, author or publisher.
Hi-this book was my mother’s when she was a child in the 30’s. It had about 5 different “fairy tales” in it. Two that I remember are Rumpelstiltskin and an Irish tale about a crooked boy who I believe caught a leprechaun and asked to be straightened. There was, of course, an Irish maid in it.