When I was a child, we enjoyed many books from the local library (located at Coventry Rd and Euclid Heights Boulevard in Cleveland Heights, Ohio).
A favorite was about two bugs. I remember them pictured as lady bugs named Pimpernel and Cochineal. Their friend Bagley Beetle was sick and they went to visit him and gave him some slippers they made for him.
Book was probably printed 1930’s or earlier.
Children stranded on island, cared for by older sister, and rescued by a ship at end. The sister only regrets that one child’s broken leg had been set incorrectly. I read this in the fifties, probably published before WW II.
I am hoping to find a book that my father read to me when I was about 5 years old. After that, I remember reading it myself for years. This was a very long time ago…probably 1948 or so. No, I don’t remember the name of the book or the author but I can still visualize the black and white line drawings. The book told the story of how human beings “diversified” and the different races and ethnic groups evolved as they traveled across the Earth over centuries. The groups of people were called by various nonsense names….as I recall, there were names like Goopledops but that’s about as close as I can get. I know it was a hardcover book. I wonder if anyone remembers it. Thank you.
I grew up in the mountains of Virginia. In my three room country school, there were very few books, but there is one I remember very fondly and would love to have a copy of it. I don’t remember the title or author, but I would have read this around 1946 or 1947. Here is a gist of the story. A family lives very happily in a tiny, tidy one room house. One day they decide that their house is too small so they begin adding rooms onto the one room. They continue to add so many rooms (one behind the other) that they seldom see their family members. I believe that the house became such a curiosity that train tracks were built along side the house so tourists could see it. The family members navigated this long house on roller skates. One day the family happened to meet together in one of the many rooms and decided that they were much happier in their one room. So they proceeded to tear down all of the added rooms until their house was back to the one room. Here is the part that intrigued me and the reason I believe I still remember it. On the final page, it said. “If you want to see what this family did next, turn back to the front of the book and read it again!”
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.
I would like to find a children’s book about a cat who’s mother has died and now is a face on the moon. It was written c.1939-1945. I thought the author was Ben Hecht but the book is not listed among his bibliography.
The book was in color and maybe 15 pages in length. The mother communicates with her daughter every moonlit night.
When I was in grade school in the late 1950's, I read a book, possibly from the library Bookmobile, that was about a family who moved to the country. The main theme was the transition to an old, broken-down house and the arduous process of fixing it up to make it livable. The story is told, I believe, by a young son, probably about the age I was when I read (10 or 11) it. What started out as an unpleasant experience for the kids, at least, over time turned into an adventure as the DIY project progressed and the boy explored the surrounding area. Finally, the family was able to embrace the house as their new home and I think the son learned the value or hard work and the pride that comes from it. I know this is sketchy at best, but it's not easy to clean out the cobwebs of my memory that far back! Any help would be greatly appreciated.
For my mother in law in UK. She was born in 1938 and recalls a pink book which had a drawing of a dog on a bed and another one stretching, trying to get on the bed. This would have been between 1938 - 1949
Vintage children’s picture book about mixed up (hillbilly?) family that drives a crazy car, lives in a goofy house, wears funny clothing (a flower pot for a hat?), and paints their farm animals (pig? goat? cow? chicken?) funny colors. The son’s name is something like Oscar Idis Nooney and the other family members (father, mother, daughter) have similar names. It has to be vintage 40s or early 50s. No idea about the title but it was a favorite of my father’s. He was born in 1941.
This is a story which I remember hearing on the radio when I was about four years old in 1948. I’m pretty sure the radio program was the “No School Today” show with Big Jon and Sparkie. I have the impression that this story was on a record Big John played, rather than a story he told or read himself.
The story as I remember it is that two young rabbits, one brown and one white, were friends and played together in the woods. Someone (the fox?) started a rumor among the white rabbits that the brown rabbits were dangerous to them because the hunters could see the brown rabbits so easily when the snow was on the ground in the winter. “And when the hunters find the brown rabbits, they’ll find you too.” Another rumor (also from the fox?) started among the brown rabbits that the white rabbits were dangerous to be around because the hunters could see the white rabbits so easily when the leaves were on the ground in the fall. “And when the hunters find the white rabbits, they’ll find you too.” The rabbit community was split.
The two friends consulted the oldest and wisest animal in the woods, the great ermine weasel. He told them that he knew both sides of this split because his coat was white in the winter (except for the tip of his tail that was then black) and brown the rest of the year (except for the tip of his tail that was then white.) He told them that rather than being dangerous to each other, the white and brown rabbits should help each other. In the fall, the brown rabbits should go out first in the morning, and tell the white rabbits to come out only when the brown rabbits had made sure that there were no hunters around. And in the winter, the white rabbits should go out first and make sure it was safe.
The two friends carried this wisdom back to their rabbit village, the rumors were defeated, and the split in the community was healed. (And the fox went away hungry?)
What is the name of this story, who wrote it, and where was it published?