I’m looking for a children’s book (probably published in the 70s/80s) that included various plays on words, with each sentence having a double meaning. For example, the blue prince for the house, vs. the blueprints for the house.
Book was published in 1954 and is about a mouse with a name beginning with M who chooses to live at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and meets all the other animals who pride themselves on being antiquities. They refer to the mouse, disdainfully, as “contemporary”
I read a book in the mid-1970’s about a large family. The babies all came from a plant in the backyard which grew pods. When a pod would get ripe, there would be a human baby inside. I cannot remember if there was a science fiction element or not. Does anyone remember this story?
This is a book my boyfriend read when he was a young child in the early 1980s, he thinks it might be as old as the 1960s though. It was a picture book and it must have been a pretty easy reader. The parts he remembers are that there was a little boy (possibly named Sam) who was taking a bath. The tub overfilled and flooded the whole house, and while it did he rode the tub on the water throughout multiple stories of the house. He thinks there also might have been a parade at the end. I’m trying to find it for him as a present, so any help would be great. Thanks!
. I read this memorable book in 1965 when I was ten years old. I was a 5th grader at P.S. 92 in Brooklyn, NY. The story was about the friendship which grew between two teenage boys-one white, one black; teammates on a baseball team in the South (Texas, perhaps?). The black teen lived with his widowed father in a small, meticulously maintained home. Initially, the white teen is wary of his teammate, his attitude shaped by the segregationist attitudes of that time; the novel very movingly describes how mutual mistrust evolves into a soild friendship. I’d be grateful for any help you could give in helping me find this wonderful little book…
I saw the book 1973 – 1977, maybe from 50s or 60s, Oak Hill Elem., Evansville, Indiana. Children’s book, red cover, mother and little boy in a large city, possibly European, Paris? Rome? London? Went through the day and showed clock time and what they did.
This picture book has a girl recalling something like ” when i was a girl on the island ….” she would ride her bike, play flashlight tag with her friends, pretend to be a ships capt, ect. Last page shows her grown up with her own daughter on the island on a beach or something.
The book had a light blue cloth binding. The plot revolved roughly around a young man who enters a cursed castle. He is invited in by floating ghostly hands. He has to pass a series of challenges, such as pulling yards of beautifully decorated linen through the eye of a needle. Another challenge involved miniature dogs on pillows (I’m not sure what he did with them). It was a very fantastical story. Illustration had bold black lines and solid colors. In the end I believe he marries a princess.
I’m looking for a book i had when i was a child in the 1960’s. I called this book “Little Pink Rosie” but don’t think that was its actual title. Its about a pink goat that gets kidnapped by foxes. I remember monkeys although i can’t be certain She’s kept in some sort of cage.
I don’t remember the title or author. Hardcover book, maybe light yellow. Printed in 1970s or 1980’s. No later than 1988. It had different plays kids could act out. I think it included prop lists with each little play. Cover maybe had a stage with kids.