I’m looking for a children’s book I’m thinking 1940’s it’s about a farmer that buys his wife a white cat with blue eyes named Candy. The cat keeps running away to another farm to be with another animal. The other farmer calls him on the phone to tell him and the 1st farmer says funny things like “well turnips and potatoes! ” or ” rutabagas and peas!” Color drawings
I am looking for a large, oversized children’s picture book that I read between 1973 and 1976. It was an anthology containing many stories. One story I remember clearly featured two zebras — a father and a son — who would race each other. The young son could never beat his father, until one day he finally did. The book may have been published in the 1950s or 1960s. Any help identifying either the specific zebra story or the anthology it appeared in would be greatly appreciated.
Book in which this Helen Oxenbury illustration appears?
What I recall:
-Children’s picture book, read in the 90s, but could be from 60s/70s/80s
– Illustratons were very simple, like James Stevenson or Jules Pfieffer
– Plot about a boy who visits some sort of factory or construction site where words are made- very similar to Charlie and the chocolate factory, but with concepts around stuff like words (and maybe some numbers/math too?)
– I recall a section where a kid gets stuck to a balloon (maybe a speech bubble) and floats away, and has to be rescued by an older gentleman who throws some sort of dart to deflate it. The man runs? The factory and gives the boy a tour.
My wife, born in 1963, remembers it from nursery school but we can’t find the book of any other references.
I’d buy the book on the spot if I knew it contained this phrase. It is sort of a grail quest at this point.
I am looking for this book.
Frau the hare a children’s book from the 40′ in the story Frau is running from a fox. She is desperate to get back to her burrow and her babies.
Would love to access a copy . Thank you.
Book was from the 1960’s which I purchased at my school’s book fair. About a black and yellow caterpillar who meets other characters along his way. Book cover is green. All characters have large eyes. The caterpillar feels he is ugly but turns into a beautiful butterfly at end of story.
This was a beautiful book I read a lot as a kid, so it definitely existed in 1984. The pictures were very colorful, perhaps made with colored pens or pencils & watercolors.
The story is about a boy with blonde hair who lives near a beach and he goes out snorkeling or swimming. It looks like Florida or the Caribbean. There are many gorgeous pictures of underwater scenes. He finds a pink conch shell containing a pearl that is part of the treasure search I think…..
At one point he encounters a school of barracuda fish and it’s full of tension. I believe he is threatened by a porpoise at one point, and a dolphin comes to his defense… or maybe the porpoise saved him from the barracuda? The fish don’t talk or anything, the only thing “fantasy” in nature is that the dolphin came to save him.
It’s hard to remember! But the final scene is he finds the treasure in what looks like a little tide pool in the sand and the gold & jewels are sparkling in the sun. Please help me find this so I can share it with my child! Thank you.
At one point in the story, They see a shipwreck and find a pearl (perhaps from the conch shell). Something scares them, maybe the shark – and they drop the pearl. But a little seahorse catches it in the curl of its tail.
I’m looking for the title of a picture book that I read as a child in the mid-1990s. I believe the book was written in the 1980s or 90s, though it could also be from the 70s. I don’t remember any part of the title. It was a large-format hardcover edition.
It features illustrations with a watercolor style and a brightly colored, somewhat flat, surreal aesthetic with greatly exaggerated proportions. Its protagonist is an explorer who is dressed in a blue 19th-century naval outfit and sailing a large (and very tall) ship by himself.
He is searching for a rare creature that has some giraffe-like features and eats bananas, and on every page you can see that this creature is following him just out of sight. During his exploration, the protagonist meets several huge, frightening monsters, one of which I seem to recall was named the “purple lumpy thumpet”.
When the explorer finally finds his creature, it is revealed that it has many babies, and also that the monsters he encountered earlier were all friendly. All characters then have a picnic together on an island.
As a young child I read this book over and over again, captivated by its unique blend of unsettling, dreamlike visuals and mischievous, lighthearted storytelling. I have now been searching for its title for nearly a decade with no luck, and just found out about this service.
I’m looking for a children’s picture book, likely published circa 1950 but certainly before 1960. I have very little for you to go on but I know it was a reddish-orange hardcover, wider than tall, and illustrated in black, white, gray, and red. The illustrations included a boy with a pot on his head (it was not Johnny Appleseed), and stuffed inside a ball of string or spaghetti (not Eddie Spaghetti). It could have had to do with him trying to find a costume for a party or something of that nature. It’s long out of print and certainly not a Caldecott or other award winner, but likely a 32-pager, at best. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you!!