There was a book I owned as a child in the the early/mid 90’s.  It was a hidden objects, interactive book, where I believe each page represented a different country.  There was definitely something about hidden treasures.  I believe after you finished the book, there were extra challenges at the end.  One of them was to find a particular man on each page.  I can’t remember if he was a good or bad guy (i.e. a detective or a thief.)  The one thing I remember absolutely is that on each page there was a capital letter hidden somewhere on the page.  After you found all the letters, you had to unscramble them and it would tell you the location of some hidden treasure ( I think it was some type of goblet.)  I remember that Brazil and China were two of the countries- I believe Russia was there too.  I think the answer to the riddle was that the treasure was hidden in Brazil.   It was a large hard-covered book and title completely escapes me. It might have been Treasure Hunt or something like that.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I’m looking for a hardcover illustrated children’s book that I remember as having some of the most gorgeous illustrations I’ve ever seen. It’s not a novel, it’s more of a picture book. It has very little plot to it, and is more about describing sights and sounds than about a plot. It’s about a princess that goes to a ball (it could be a masquerade, I’m not absolutely sure), at or before midnight and dances with a fairy prince (I think she does, anyway). The ball is held outside on the palace grounds and in a garden maze (as far as I remember). I think the book ends at dawn when all the magical creatures dancing there disappear. It might have been written in poetry form. I think the cover had an illustration of the princess walking down a flight of stairs in a midnight blue dress. I remember the cover itself as being midnight blue, as well as that colour being the main colour of all of the pages. I can’t remember the title. I feel like it had either the word “Midnight” or the word “Mystery” in the title. I remember the clothing pictured as being 18th century-type and there were lots of peacocks and peacock type colours on several of the pages. The book was most probably published somewhere between the late 80s and mid 90s. I’m hoping someone will be able to help me with this. I only wish I could remember more. The illustrations themselves were reminiscent of the work of Graeme Base.

A book about a part-raccoon (maybe fox) brother and sister who lived together in the wild and were hiding from a hunter. Published sometime in the early 1990s. The author and illustrator (they may have been husband and wife) would come to the school libraries and sign books and draw custom doodles.

This is a book that my mom read to me when I was a little girl in the late 80’s, early 90’s.  I think it was called something like “Mrs. ______’s Cake Shop” (or possible Bake Shop) although I’m not sure and haven’t found anything by searching with those keywords.

I remember that it was about a lady who had a cake shop with all different kinds of cakes. The illustrations were really cute and it talked about how she made big cakes, and little cakes, and short cakes, and tall cakes….The illustrations showed cakes of all colors and sizes sitting on different platters. Some cakes had frosting and were very fancy, others had no frosting. Some were little like cupcakes and had pink frosting (I think) with cherries on them.

I think the story continued with her boxing up a cake, or several cakes, that she was going to deliver somewhere. As she is walking along with her cakes, it starts to rain. I think she didn’t bring her umbrella with her because she was holding all the cakes, or there is something about her umbrella in the story, but I’m not sure if its a main part of the story or not.

And that’s all I can remember!

This was one of my favorite books as a little girl and I can still remember the illustrations of all the little cakes in my mind but I just can’t seem to remember the title or how the rest of the story goes.