This book features a simply drawn boy, maybe even a stick figure. At some point, perhaps in a dream, trees come to life and dance around him. I believe the trees turn to popsicles or lollipops.
Thank you for trying to figure this out with so little information!
1940/1950 Possibly a Jr. Elf book. It was a small children’s book about cats on South Sea (?) island, kittens went to island, one (or more) cats wore a crown of pearls at the end.
Greetings from upstate New York!
I hope you can help me identify and find a book I had as a child.
I do not know the title or what the cover looked like because my copy was missing the cover. But here are the facts as I remember them:
I was born in 1960, so this book had to be late 50’s early – mid 60’s
It was a Christmas book – containing many different stories/legends from the birth of Christ to the real Saint Nicholas to Christmas legends like the Christmas Spider
It was a large, oversized book, say 12″ x 18″ ish. It was not a thick book.
What was so great about it was the artwork – very beautiful renderings – not cartoony or modernish, more like realistic paintings. So the art was appealing for even adults, but the stories were short, maybe one or two per page. If I had to guess, I would say the art style was something similar to this picture below.
As a child, the images I remembered the most was the story of St. Nicholas paying the dowries of three poor women. They were all sleeping in a bed and he threw a bag of gold in through the window.
There was also a story of this flying ( but I don’t remember it with wings!), hairy, red-eyed beast with sharp tusks/teeth, but I can’t remember the story. LOL – I don’t think it was Krampus, because it was more like an animal (wolfish) than a human devil guy.
Another feature was the rich colors of the end papers. Like a renaissance fabric pattern. I think red with a little blue and gold in a repeating diamond pattern, I think – it has been a long time since the book was lost or given away.
So I know these are a lot of random details – I wish I had the title and publisher, but maybe you can help me – my desire is to purchase a replacement copy to pass on to future grandkids.
Children’s book — probably about 70 years ago — containing many stories. The one I’m looking for is about Wee Bear. A big bear was going to eat him up. Wee Bear said, “Nee no, nee no. Please don’t eat me up and I will make you some stone soup.”
A Santa Claus book, circa 1940-1950. It had a red cloth cover with gold imprinting showing Santa’s sleigh and Santa in outline. It was a historical overview of Santa.
This is a book my 84 year old grandma talks about reading as a little girl, in the 4th grade– it would be so special to find it for her! She believes it was a golden book, circa 1940. The book features a man with a red and black plaid shirt that stole a little boys dog. The man denied stealing the dog, but eventually the dog got away from the mean man and made it back home. When he got home, he had a piece of the man’s red and black plaid shirt still caught in his tooth. The little boy and his father then had proof in the piece of cloth and confronted the mean man. Sorry I don’t have more details for you! Let me know if there is more I can do to aid in your search and I will ask my grandmother for further details.
Thanks again for your time and consideration.
This is the first book I remember reading on my own, which would have been about 1954-55. The book was much older than that. From my hazy recollection of its appearance, I’d guess late 1920s through early 1940s. I have no memory of the title or the author. It was written at what was then probably considered a third- or fourth-grade level. There were some facing-page illustrations, but I don’t remember them clearly. It’s a story about a “cave boy” who becomes separated from his family, survives on his own, grows to young manhood, and is reunited with his family at the end. Besides that, I can remember only one specific incident: lightning strikes a tree, causing a fire, which is the occasion for the boy to discover the use of fire.
Would be delighted to find it again.
In late 1950’s, early 60’s, I read a book from the Young Adult section of the library. It had a dust jacket that I recall as darkish, perhaps blue or purple with people, maybe the children of the story. The story was about a boy and girl (siblings?) who spied a wooden door in a culvert as they were passing by in a (carriage?). They return on foot and upon entering, find Vulcan at his forge. Reluctantly, he directs them to Pegasus. They climb upon Pegasus’ back, and he flies to the Elysian Fields. There is an illustration of Pegasus stretching out his dainty hoof to land gently with the children on his back. I believe they meet other gods and goddesses also, but I do not recollect the specific incidents.
Thank you for any assistance you and your readers can share.
Child’s storybook – Had yellow hardcover binding (no jacket on the copy I remember). Included a story about a rooster who ignored the hen’s advice, ate a strawberry that wasn’t ripe yet, and got sick. Probably from 1950’s if not 1930’s.
Published between 1880 and 1920 I think Pastor’s children fix up a house in their neighborhood secretly. Set during Victorian years. The first pages of book were lost and I can’t remember title. I read it in early 1950s