It's a children's book, kind of big, maybe 8"x10", old, probably from the 60's or earlier. Hardcover. There is a lion on the front, I think the cover was pinkish. Multiple stories, one involving a lion that gave his hair to birds and lost it all, so they brought him leaves. I think another was about monkeys. I've been searching for years. Halp! 😀
The book was hardcover, dark blue, large (10″ x 7″) about 1″ thick. The characters in the story: Fritz, a workman who has restored a venerable steam locomotive, a boy who takes the locomotive on a trip across the United States.
The locomotive cannot stop, but can slow down for a variety of adventures, such as traveling through the New York subway, and rescuing people from a forest fire (perhaps inspired by the fire at Pestigo, WI). Upon return, Fritz announces that the “bearings are burned out,” and the final picture shows the locomotive’s diamond stack off to one side, and a deer’s skull and antlers on the wall.
This book was in my Grandmother’s home in Berkeley, California. I would have paded through it when I was six in 1949. I was overseas in the Army when she died. The house, and all the books, were sold.
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