Hello! I am looking for a book that my father used to read to me when I was a kid (late 90s). As far as I can remember it was about a family of ducks(?) who were often threatened by a scary pike in the area. I remember it had pictures, and I could have sworn it was called ‘all through the night’ but haven’t been able to find that title. I’ve been searching for years without any success!
Looking for name/author of a kids book from early 70s about a boy who dresses up as a tiger, but the book is written like he IS a tiger. He lays "on a tree branch" (actually the back of the sofa, I think), scares his sister, etc. At the end, he finally takes off the costume and goes to sleep. I think the artwork was pen and ink and the cover was orange, but I can't be positive after all this time.
A Little Golden Book (or similar style) about a young island (Polynesian?) girl. A ship's captain visiting her village gifts her with a porcelain doll. She tries to play with it as she had her own doll, but found that she couldn't get it wet, or feed it sand cakes, etc. It was a book my grandmother had, but I'm pretty sure it's not a vintage book - probably no older than the 1960's (but that's 10 year old me remembering. ) Still, I don't remember the graphics being older looking. It was the size, shape and length of a Golden Book.
Looking for a picture book my girlfriend read in the 90s. She says it was about two witches (sisters?), one nice and one "mean." They had an uptight neighbor who got mad at the nice one about her vegetable garden and so the mean one made the pumpkin big and scared him. She thinks the mean one was named Madam Mehetabel and that this might have been part of the title.
The title, actually the subtitle, was something like "OR, The Things in [girl's name, I think it might have been Susan]'s Piano." It was about a girl who was bad at playing the piano, maybe willfully from refusing to practice, and inside the piano were monsters who were hurt or injured or horrified or angry or something, by her bad playing. They may have been musical notes come to life. It was a picture book in my elementary school library, so it was published before 1982. Probably in the 70s. It was sort of psychedelic and the characters were almost ugly, deliberately so. I remember lots of teeth in big mouths.
I am looking for a children’s book I memorized at age 3 in 1945. I believe the title is: The Land of the Dutch, Dutch, Dutch. I do not know the author or illustrator. It is a child’s introduction to Holland. As a child, I recited the book to any guests in our home. As a teenager, I was an exchange student in Holland.
Looking for picture book loosely based on The Little Mermaid. In this version, the mermaid has two tails instead of one. She meets and falls in love with a sea captain, and when he leaves she gives him a lock of her hair to wear around his finger. She cries on the rocks like her grandmother did once after he leaves. The captain forgets about her but encounters a witch later on who reminds him of what he promised, and I think it ends with him jumping overboard.
I am looking for a children’s book from the 1940’s to early 50’s about a Navajo Indian girl who goes into the desert with her donkey to find something—a puppy? Gorgeous illustrations.
Picture book from 1980’s (?) about a preschool aged child’s relationship with a baby sibling. Illustrations depict a messy, hippy-ish house, perhaps in Vermont, with a frumpy, gentle mom. Specific pictures include: the outdoors with a steep path leading down to the home with baby in stroller and sibling walking; hall entryway with pegs on the wall where coats are hanging and shoes & boots scattered on the floor; frazzled mom cooking with baby on her hip crying and sibling playing on the floor; sibling helping button clothes on baby and maybe attempting to tie own shoe; sibling feeling tender toward baby in their shared bedroom and maybe text anticipating baby being old enough to play. Illustrations have lots of detail about the environment, which is a warm but messy home, e.g. baby socks on the floor, toys scattered, kitchen counters cluttered, etc. Aesthetic of home is alternative, earthy.