The title is something along the lines of “what do we do/are we going to do about (insert name)” or “the (insert name) family.”   It’s a hardcover illustrated book published around the late 1960s to early 1970s about a teenage boy in a large family who keeps growing and growing, and eventually outgrows his bed, his shoes, his clothes. The family I think was modeled after the TV classic ‘The Waltons’, and the grandparents live with them. As the teenage boy grows and grows, the illustrations show family members amused by how he’s outgrowing everything. I think he even spouts a beard after awhile. I think the boy’s height eventually surpasses his father and his grandfather.

I am trying to remember the title and author of a children’s book.  It had pictures.  It was about a little boy with an extremely overbearing mother.  Or maybe it was about a man with an extremely overbearing wife.  At a certain point, the woman is carried off by a large bird, and then the boy (or man) has a peaceful life.

I can’t imagine what the title might have been.  So-and-so’s mother?  The bossy wife?

I read the book as a child, in the late 60’s or early 70’s.

I remember the picture of the bird carrying off the woman – she was large but got smaller and smaller as the bird flew away.

…a children’s book from late 50s early 60s (I suppose it could have been made earlier or at least the story could have been set in previous decades) about a little boy who wore calipers; he searched for conkers and his clothes were warmed by the fire. He may have had a nanny?  He may make toast on the fire with his mum/nanny?  I would say it was quintessentially English but maybe just middle class?