I don’t know the title or author; it was a children’s book for preschoolers that was read to me more than 80 years ago. One of the characters was a wise old owl who sat in a tree, saying, “I am thinking important thoughts I didn’t have time to think yesterday.” this line has been quoted in my family ever since to anyone who was staring into space, daydreaming. I have long wondered what the book was. Thanks for any help you can provide.
This was a children’s book that I read around age 5 or 6 around 1969. The main character is a bear who possibly befriends someone (a little boy?) and has to leave and say goodbye. All I remember is the ending is sad and it involves a bear and it made me cry and made my mother ask, “What’s wrong?’
This book would be from mid-late 1950s. Color illustrations throughout, done in a painterly style. A girl (with pigtails?) named (Belinda?) gets some money somehow. She sneaks off to the penny candy store to spend it and doesn’t want any of the other children to see her. In the old-fashioned candy store, they wrap her purchases up in a brown paper cone. As she runs home to avoid the others, the candies fall out one by one. The neighborhood children pick them up and return them to her. She learns about selfishness and makes new friends. I think she is wearing an old-fashioned coat with muff. I tried to find this book when my daughter was little, to no avail.
Captain Patchy Rat, as I recall from my very early youth, is the story of the rat who organized a swashbuckling rebellion against the tyranny of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Illustrated. I recall an eye patch, of course, a pirates sash with rapier brandished. The book dates to 1950 era.
Have not been able to locate with desultory inquiries.
Would like to locate before all my grandchildren are too old for it.
The title is something like, “I’ll Be The Mommy and You’ll be The Little Girl”or vice versa. It also may include “I’ll be the Daddy, you be the Little Boy,” (or vice versa as well.) The book is from the early 1980’s, I think, suitable for early primary children. It is two stories in one book The first part is about a mommy and little girl going for an outing and they change roles briefly. If they book is turned over and similar story involves a daddy and a little boy doing the same thing. In the middle of the book is a two page illustration of the parents and the boy and girl meeting up in the home…just adorable. It is nicely illustrated and while I don’t see it listed on any Sesame Street lists, the illustrations of the characters remind me of that company’s type of drawing.
I’m looking to find my favorite story I read as a child in the early 80s. It was about a young princess who loved strawberry jelly. Every page was about her love for this jelly. I’m almost certain it was strawberry. There was one page in which she was in an old fashioned tub washing away the sticky jelly. The princess had light brown hair. That’s all I can recall.
This is probably really impossible, but I read a series of books about a group of animals in the 60’s. The otters seemed to be a main family, it was a young reads book not a picture book. I can’t remember the name and the title, but was hoping someone would know of it.
I know this is all very vague, but I thought it was worth a try.
Looking for a children’s chapter book from the 1960s or early 70’s about a tree in the forest that has special powers. I recall that the vines were alive as was the tree – but I recall only a girl in the story could communicate with the tree and either visited or lived beneath the ground by the tree? For some reason I recall descriptions about being under the ground at times. I don’t think it was a scary tree. More like a friend and protector to the girl. Would love to track it down if possible.
No one can walk anymore. They only drive in large wheeled homes and mobile offices. They even have motorized vehicles in individual sizes for transporting themselves outside of these wheeled homes.
Everything has been paved over with roads, except a small area with a flower or a tree in it.
Fascinated by this unpaved area, the girl wheels over to it only to find her wheeled individual vehicle can’t go on the unpaved area. She is forced to get out of the vehicle and make her way across the green space without motorized assistance.
I am hoping you can help me find a children’s book we used to get from the library in the late 1990’s and maybe early into the 2000’s.
It took place on a farm in the grain belt and one day the animals started floating up, then the tractor, then the whole farm separated from the ground and they were hovering in one spot, but not attached to the ground. In the end grandma got out her needle and thread and sewed the land back down and they ate a dinner of white food (white rice, white potatoes, white bread and milk).
Sorry this isn’t much to go on. I was hoping to get it for my daughter’s birthday as a surprise, but if you need more info I can ask her for more details.