The name was 365 bedtime stories, one for each day of the year. The story i was interested in was Mara and the wishing well. I had the book in the middle or late 50′s The story was probably 3 or 4 pages long. This is all i remember.
I am looking for a storybook collection and I can only remember bits and pieces of a few of the stories. My mom read it to me in the late 70s and early 80s (but I think it was from an earlier era, 50s or 60s perhaps) and I loved it more than anything. My favorite story was about a little girl named Judy who had tea parties (or some kind of party) with her dolls and/or stuffed animals. I think she spread out a blanket outside. I also remember a story about baking a pie and putting something in it. Maybe rocks. “Pip” is actually the word in my memory associated with the pie, although I have no idea what it means or if it’s right. There was also a story about a boy and girl who lost something (a gold necklace maybe?), and a fairy or angel or some kind of mythical creature told them to look somewhere to find it. I am almost positive the book was illustrated. Our copy was well worn, and the cover was missing.
I am looking for a book my mother used to read to us in the late 70’s that was passed down from her German great, great grandmother. It was a collection of children’s stories and fairy tales with illustrations in English. One of the tales was Japanese (I think) about two sisters (or friends) that we remember being named O’Lotusan (sp?) and Miura (sp)? O’ Lotusan had a beautiful singing voice and a prince was in love with her. Miura became jealous and somehow turned O’ Lotusan into a very tiny fairy and tried to trick the prince into believing she was O’Lotusan. As a fairy O’Lotusan lived in a seashell or snail shell and collected dew drops that turned into diamonds. She would go and watch the prince who was very sad and sat at a fountain. One day, she had the courage to climb on his shoulder and sing in his ear and he knew it was her.
Two other stories in the same book that I remember are about a boy who was very sick and had to stay in bed (winter time) and fairies would paint pictures on his window pane with frost so he would see them when he woke up. The other involved a baby who lost its parents or had no parents and was found by the woodland fairies who built a bed out of a hollowed out tree limb and lined it with moss.
My sister and I have been searching for this beloved book for years. I am hoping it will ring a bell.
Unsure of exact title. A large childrens book of nursery rhymes, poems and stories. Hard covered, may have been blue. Published in the 1950’s. Included;
Poems
-I saw a ship a sailing
-Mud(Polly Chase Boyden)
-The Goops
-Father Williams(Lewis Carroll)
-The Fairies(William Allingham)
-The Brownie Yearbook(Palmer Cox)
-Winkin, Blinkin, and Nod
– The naughty soap song
Stories
-The Little Match Girl
-The Tinderbox
-The Fisherman and his Wife
-The Emperors New Clothes
-Rumpelstiltskin
-Penrod
-Why the Bear has a Stumpy Tail
-Black Beauty
-Puss in Boots
-Henny Penny
– The Pied Piper
-Puss in Boots
-The Princess and the Pea
-The Bremmontown Musicians
These are a few of what I can remember. The book started with classic nursery rhymes (little boy blue, Hickory Dickory Dock, Humpty Dumpty, ect.) and then went to poems and then stories.
This book was probably late 40’s or early 50’s and was a collection of fairy tales from around the world. It did have Bluebeard and Puss in Boots and some of the traditional stories, but it also had a story about children in “Lapland”. It was probably fourteen inches or so in height and maybe and inch and a quarter to an inch and a half thick. It had some illustrations. I can’t remember much more but I would recognize it instantly. Please help me identify it!
When I was a kid in the 1970s, I had book of wonderful/magical tales – the one short story that I loved (and have been looking for) is about a boy who finds these old, strange postage stamps in some box in his house – they have pictures on them that depict beautiful, exotic places that he’s never heard of.
He puts one on an envelope and it gets whisked away through the air, only to return a little while later, roughed up and postmarked. He puts a stamp on a package and it too gets whisked off – only to return, appearing well-travelled and postmarked. Then he puts his old pet cat in a box and puts stamps on it – the box is whisked away to this magical land, only to return with the cat seemingly younger and rejuvenated. I think it may have ended when he sent himself off on the same journey.
I don’t recall the name of the book or this particular story – but I suspect it had “stamps” in it.
I’m looking for a hardcover compendium of fairy tales bought for me around 1990 in the UK (I don’t know if it was published then). It was heavily illustrated and contained The Little Match Girl; The Magic Fishbone; The Dragon Princess;The Little Mermaid; Ali Baba – amongst others – Many thanks.
I am looking for a nursery rhyme picture book that I had in the mid to late 1980’s. The measurements of the book are approx. 7 by 7. The book is at least 90 pages; it was pretty thick. The illustrations are very bright and vibrant and have been described as “retro kitsch” similar to Virginia Parsons illustrations. The rhymes are the original English versions. For example, instead of “Ring-around-the rosie” it reads Ring-a-ring o’roses”. If you do a google image search for “retro kitsch” and “nursery rhyme” you will see a woman selling pages from the book on Etsy. i have contacted her and she claims to have no information about the book itself. There may have been some fairy tales mixed in with the rhymes, not sure if I am remembering that correctly. I beleive there was some red on the cover. It was a hardcover book and the pages have a matte finish. Thank you for your help!
A book of rhymes, one of which was “Under the raft Melissa dived to find some shells for Joe. But all she found was seaweed, and a crab that pinched her toe.” Also. Billy’s bouncing ball as big as he which ended up in a tree and one about a black cat covered in flour. Thank you.
I am looking for an anthology of short children’s stories that I had as a child ( in the mid 1980s). Based on my recollection, it should have been published in the late 1970s to mid 1980s. It had a shiny navy blue cover with some illustrations. There were spot color illustrations throughout the book. I would estimate that it had between 200 – 300 pages in total. It contained numerous short stories.
The story that i recall most clearly involves a boy who had to wash dishes as a punishment. During this chore, he was magically transported to a land where everything was made from pancakes. There were countless other stories in this book, including one about elves who were cobblers and a pirate who was a rat.