I was sure was the book was titled “Just Plain Nancy”, as my name is Nancy. It’s about a girl who has a sister, I think named Marjorie. Marjorie was named after her mother’s friend, but “Nancy” was just plain “Nancy”. It was set in the time when “Nancy” could ride along on an ice wagon.
Young boy in New Orleans sneaks in to see a float where it’s stored before Mardi Gras parade. This was a book I read in the mid-1950s. Could have sworn it was a Little Golden Book, but can’t find it in lists. Atmospheric drawings with French Quarter architecture. Can’t remember if there were consequences for child sneaking in to see the float being built or stored; he may have fallen asleep on the float and woken up when it began to move for the parade (but unsure about that plot point). I remember pictures of harlequin costumes and masks. Toward the end, he ate a snow cone or snow ball with crushed ice and syrup (during the parade?).
For my mother in law in UK. She was born in 1938 and recalls a pink book which had a drawing of a dog on a bed and another one stretching, trying to get on the bed. This would have been between 1938 - 1949
This was an illustrated children’s book about a family of pigs whose parents left them with a terrible/villainous babysitter. They had to save each other. Does this ring any bells?
In 1974, aged 4, I repeatedly traced the letters of the book which I recall was entitled Who Owns the Sun?
I have since looked for it and only ever found Chbosky’s Who Owns the Sun online; that is not the book I’m seeking.
In the book I remember, it was thin and paperback with color drawings. The illustrations may have been watercolors but my memory isn’t certain.
The storyline: a chick hatches from its egg on a farm. Once out of the egg, the chick goes from farm animal to farm animal asking “who owns the sun?”
Each farm animal’s response is somewhat unique but amounts to “I don’t know,” or “it isn’t known.” The chick does not learn who owns the sun by the end of the story.
Somewhere between 1953-1956, on my evening trips with my father to the Rochester (NY) Public Library on Winton Road near University Avenue, in my wanderings among the children’s stacks, I found at my eye level a book about 7”x 5”, about 1/2” thick, that had a brown cover with an illustration of squirrels. It was about squirrels and other animals in the forest. But squirrels were the stars.
Each page had maybe two short paragraph’s worth of words – maybe three sentences each. Each page had illustrations too. It was the first book that looked to me like a “real” book, not a children’s read-to-by-an-adult book. It was a book I could read, meant to be read by me in solitude.
I read it over and over. I just remember the squirrels, the brownish-orange of the cover, the lovely large print, but not so large that there weren’t paragraphs. The squirrels were very happy in their forest lives; I was so happy in my reading life.
Not much to go on, that’s for sure. I just paid my four dollars, though. Why not try?
This book I am looking for is about a pound that has all different kinds of dogs in it waiting all day for their new master to come get them. As the day goes on one by one a person shows up that looks identical to one of the dogs in the pound and that dog gets to go. The book is from the perspective of one dog in particular and as every person shows up the dog says “ are you my master?” or something like that “Are you my guy?” or “is this my guy?” and each time it’s not his guy it’s another dogs guy.
And as the people show up one by one, as a kid, you KNOW what dog they are coming for because the person looks identical to the dog.
The day goes on and on and it’s finally dark, they are closing, and this one dog who is narrating is the only dog left. No one has come for him and he is all alone and very sad. Finally just as they are closed, HIS GUY, or HIS BOY, shows up and they are identical looking and the dog and the boy are overjoyed that they have found each other and he gets to go home with the boy.
It is driving me crazy that I can’t remember the name of this book or how to find it. I am 53 so it was probably written in the 1960s.
I’m not sure how to pay for this but Ill go back on the website and make sure to pay but please post this I promised my Mom that I would try to find it!!!
Looking for a children’s book which my mom read to me so many times that she memorized the verses below. The time frame could be anywhere from the early 80’s back to the 40’s. “When a cement truck travels, it mixes water, sand and gravel. When it’s travels are complete, it’s full of freshly made concrete. ” “When someone’s in trouble, the police get a call. The police car can get there in no time at all. It’s flashing lights and siren say, ‘I’m in a hurry. Get out of the way!'” It appears to be about service vehicles. I’ve tried Google searches but came up with nothing. Any help is greatly appreciated!
I am looking for a textbook-style reader (in the same style as “Dick and Jane” or “Alice and Jerry” books, maybe for 2nd/3rd grade, with a story/chapter about a girl whose father builds her a playhouse/treehouse around a large tree. She decorates her “kitchen” or whatever in red and white, I think. I have not seen this book since. Any clues? Thanks.