In the 1950s I had child’s chapter book, line drawing illustrations, an alternate telling of Cinderella. Hero was a boy (Teddy?) who found a key to the castle gates (fell asleep while reading?) and he and King had adventures. Buttons and butter involved.
I am looking for picture books (with words). I read as a child and checked it out from our local library in Seymour, IN. I believe there was more than one book by the author. I think they were square shaped hard back books. The children in them were cute with dimpled knees and very round faces (not Campbell Soup kid related or Dick and Jane). I recall a girl being sort of the main character in these books about their small adventures. This would have been the early to mid 1980s when I was reading these. The pictures were very simple. I think I recall a story about a mud puddle in one of the books and the girl’s name may have been Mary but I’m not sure.
This is a small children’s book, most likely written in the 60’s. It was a small, orange book. It is out of print, possibly in the late 80s, since at one time I somehow was able to research it.
The story follows around a little girl, with a ponytail or pigtails who wears an animal swim tube around her. She is found in the pictures behind others or in groups, and stands out, due to her wearing this tube. Though I don’t remember, I’m guessing the story would have taken place in summer.
I’m sorry I remember so little about this book. My mom and I both remember reading it countless times in the library when I was young (probably early to mid 70’s)
My friend read this storybook during her childhood in the early 1970s. She remembers it was about a little girl who was tired of her toys and ruins them all. She somehow ends up with either a boy or a bear who becomes her new toy. She forces the boy or bear to do what she wants, including playing maid and brushing her hair. The boy or bear eventually gets tired of this and throws the spoiled girl out in the snow.
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I am trying to remember/find a book about a little girl who doesn’t have much, except her little treasures. I think it was a stick of chewing gum, a jack ball, and a few other small items. She lives in a brownstone and it seems like she hides her treasures behind a brick. She takes them out and looks at them often. The front of the cover had her and another person sitting on concrete steps with a railing. I don’t know if it was a little golden book or not. It seems like it was about 5X5 square, about 10 pages? I would have had it read to me around 1970ish. I can’t remember much else. I have looked everywhere for it, only being able to search by the memory of the cover.
Hi there, hoping you can help find a book. I remember reading it in the late 80s/early 90s. It was about a child in Rome who lost his or her cat. They go all over the city looking for it and eventually find the cat in the “mouth of truth” (La Bocca della Verità) statue. I remember it was a blue cover and fairly larger than a regular sized book. It was in English. Hoping you can help track it down!
This was a series of books that I read between 1975 and 1981 (I think). Each book featured 20 or so stories (2-6 pages long) of a super sleuth who solved a mystery, that invited you to figure out how he solved it. Answers were in the back of the book. The lead detective was a “Dr.” and he had a sidekick who narrated, and were set in England.
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Hi there! I’m looking for a book my mother used to read to my sister and I as children. It was about bunnies that go on an Easter egg hunt. The book may have come in different sizes, but this particular book was only about 5×5? The cover was mostly white, I believe and had pictures of bunnies and grass and eggs hiding. The book didn’t have bright colors. It was mostly pastels. I believe it was geared toward younger children, but we loved when our mother read it to us!! Please help me find this book!
I have been searching for this book for so long with no luck. Unfortunately, I don’t remember the title.
I got it when I was in elementary school in the 1970’s. It was probably published early to mid 70’s. I got it through one of the school’s reading program catalogs, so it may be a Scholastic book or another company like that. My best friend and several other students also purchased it. It was a Halloween book. It was about school students who have a young, pretty new teacher come to their school. Her name was Miss – something. Maybe Miss Grey. (I don’t trust my memory that far though.) The students think there is something odd about her. She wears a big, wide-brimmed hat. Of course, she’s suspected of being a witch.
The book was a thin paperback. The illustrations were pencil drawings in black and white. That’s about all I’ve got on it. It was such an unusual story and I’ve never seen the book again. Wish I knew where my copy got off to. Probably gave it away when I felt I was too old for children’s stories… geez…
When I search online, the later 80’s series about “Miss Nelson” pops up, but that is not it.
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Three? children are gifted (by a scientist /older man?) magical thinking caps, which increase their capacity to imagine. They use these hats to create/connect to and explore a magical world. I remember the antagonist wanting these hats so that they can free themselves and enter the other world. The children are careful to only go to the land together for safety. The antagonist has an agent that can move in between the worlds, a Slinky/Shadow/Sneaky Cat. This cat convinces the girl to come back alone with him to it’s yarn house. The other two? children go on a rescue mission with the scientist? who has his own hat, but because he is an adult is not able to use is as well as the children.
I read this book with my elementary school class around the time when we transitioned off of picture books to shorter novels, so I would expect this book to either be the latter, or one of those children’s novels with some pictures. It would have been published no later that 1998.
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