Early to mid-1960s children’s picture book. Story about some kids (maybe one’s a young teen?) and their friend, a small troll who, I believe, wears a sweater and has a ’60s Beatles haircut. BIGGEST DISTINGUISHING FEATURE: It breaks the fourth wall — they know they’re in a book. Colorful, hip.
Folding children’s train book, published 1955-1963.
Size about 4″ x 6″ folded up accordion-style with flap on top.
Each book panel is a different kind of train car with a pocket containing a small booklet with a story, puzzles or games.
Final panels contained coloring paper & box of crayons.
Glossy cover(?) w/ sawtooth edged circle logo on back. Langston Hughes “Thank you ma’am” (?) inside. Remember cool picture of Japanese climbing “cliff” built on skyscraper. “Queen Peavy” by Robert Burch may have been in. Story about kid solving swimming pool installation w melting blocks of ice
The book as I remember it: Soft cover bedtime stories…blue maybe? Looked kinda like a coloring book, but was bedtime stories.
The story: Took place in a candy store, at night all the candy came alive. The only thing I really remember is the marshmallows starting to melt. It would have been in the 1960’s probably. it was my favorite story as a kid and would love to read it to my grandson. Hope you can find it…I have had no luck. Thanks.
Hi. I’m looking for a book from the late 1960’s – early 1970’s, and I haven’t had any luck at the sites you recommend because I have so little to go on.
A little girl is excited about her class trip to a pumpkin patch where every child gets to choose and take home a pumpkin. When she finds her perfect pumpkin, she discovers a mouse living inside it. She decides to leave her perfect pumpkin so the mouse can stay and goes home empty-handed.
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PS I grew up right by Shaker Square. Next time I come home I will visit your store!
Circa 1960: Children’s book about a large pine tree in a forest which all the animals and birds seek shelter in, especially during the winter in the snow. The illustration in the snow with all the birds on the branches and the animals sheltered at the bottom of the tree was amazing. I seem to remember a little girl having to take shelter in it too, along with the animals. Then something happens to the tree…it falls down during a storm or something like that. The birds and animals are sad and worried. Then someone plants a new smaller tree which will grow and take its place. The illustrations are beautiful (I realize that doesn’t help) – maybe a German or European author/illustrator? Definitely German or Scandinavian in style. Something tells me the title was “The ____ Tree” but not The Giving Tree, and I’ve searched until I’m desperate.
This was a library book I read in elementary school in the early 1970’s, so I am guessing the book was likely published sometime in the 60’s. To the best of my memory, it involved a brother and sister in South America who somehow offended the sun (it could have been the moon, but I am pretty sure it was the sun) and the sun came right out of the sky and rolled after them, chasing them up and down hills. I remember the sun being quite scary and it having a mouth that was illustrated very similar to a zipper on clothing. Any help you could provide would be much appreciated.
I used to read children’s mysteries in the early 1970’s and am looking for them for my son. They were written much like the Boxcar Children but set in Canada, at least one in Montreal. I think they were written in the 1960’s, possibly before.
May be circa 1960s. Something about a man with a moonstone ring Mr. ??can’t remember the name, a hidden gate or door, and children captured by goblins or trolls that must be rescued by the man.
The man with the high stepping sole. Children’s poetry book. Various authors. From the 60’s.