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.

I had a book as a child. Had to be in the early 80s. It was a book with pictures and words. A whole story from what I can remember. It was about a little boy that wanted to play outside but it was raining. His mother wouldn’t let him play outside and he built a train out of furniture in the house and played train all day until the sun came back out

My son had a favorite Richard Scarry book from the 1970’s. I think I purchased it at a ToysRUs store around 1978 or 1979. His favorite illustration was a two page illustration of a very detailed treehouse with all the items labeled, as the author did so well. There was a kitten in a basket being hoisted up to the treehouse. The image may have been an end cap of the book. I don’t remember which of the Scarry titles it was but it was one of the hardcover oversized books. I have been searching in vain for about four years now. If I at least knew the title of the book, it would make it a bit easier to find an old copy some day.

I’m looking for a vintage, illustrated children’s book that I believe was made in the 1940s or 1950s. In the story, a little boy (just one boy–no siblings or friends) somehow is invited to a fairy wedding and he dances and parties the whole night with the fairies, elves, goblins and toads before he has to go back home. Other details that stand out: he slides down a tunnel to get to an underground area where the “fairyland” is (my mom remembers this tunnel as starting at the base of a tree); he fills a jar with fireflies to make a lamp when walking through a dark place; at some point, either an elf or a toad or a fairy (some magical creature) is caught in something and he helps him escape and is rewarded by being a guest to a party/wedding (I think maybe the caught creature was the groom?); there is a cute little blushing bride who I believe is a fairy or something–I think the party was her wedding, but I’m not sure. My mother also remembers there being a lot of red-capped mushrooms throughout the book. Thanks!

The book I am trying to find is about a little duck that is looking for water but there is no rain, so he finds a truck that is spilling water out of the back to follow. My father-in-law had this book as a child in the 1950’s and passed it to my husband but it is now lost. They don’t remember a title or even possible words, they do recall it having wonderful pictures and illustrations. Any help is appreciated!

I’m pretty sure the title of the book is Poppy’s Garden. It’s about a little black girl named Poppy who is sad that she doesn’t have a real garden, so she plants poppy seeds in all the pavement cracks around her neighbourhood so eventually the whole place is her garden! It’s one of those large square shaped, fairly flat, children’s books. It would have been around in the early 90s but may have already been several years old by this point...