I’m looking for a ballet book that was (I believe) illustrated by Joan Walsh Anglund. It may not have been her. However in my mind this is what the girls int he book looked like. I cannot find it in the list of books she published. perhaps she just illustrated and did not write it?
I am looking for a “picture book” for older students. It was probably published between 2002 and 2012. It is narrated by an African American girl who tells the story of going to church with her mama. The book is written in poetry and is beautifully illustrated. I think it has the word “shout” in its title. Here are the last 9 lines of the text:
I can still hear a myriad of
African musicians playing
On our shoulder, on our heartstrings
And we, still spirit-touched in
Our modern dance, move
Onward, upward, reaching
Til we’re tracing back through time
The same steps, that same familiar…
AMEN!
I am searching for a picture book from my youth about a beaver that became increasingly industrious and started turning into some sort of earth-moving machine – a bulldozer or steam-shovel, I can’t really recall. Had the usual overtones about destroying the environment. Anyway I remember really liking it and am now looking for it for my son. Any help will be greatly appreciated. My Google searching efforts have been in vain since I can’t remember the title or author at all.
I had a book as a child that was about 10-12 inches long and about the size of normal tablet paper. It was hard back and rather thin with no more than 50-75 pages but probably much less. The outside cover was a light bluish color leaning toward the teal side of the blue spectrum. It had whimsical pictures with each short story and was about animals such as a Rabbit, Hedgehog/Porcupine and possibly a raccoon. There are a few stories I remember a little of. Most of what I remember are the illustrations and I have been searching near and far for many years. I was born in 77, so it had to have been published before then, right around then and or no later than very early 80's. One story, one of the animals takes his fathers boot and makes a flower pot out of it for his mom. Another story there is a rustic fireplace and a porcupine/hedgehog and another animal are eating berries in front of the fire. Another, there is a sort of party outside and the table was made from a tree with stumps as seats. This is not any of the classics like Peter rabbit, wind in the willows etc. Its very obscure in my opinion. I cannot remember the author or title but I will know instantly if its "the" book if I could just find one of the illustrations but I have been unsuccessful for so many years. I hope very much that you are able to help me.
Looking for a book that I got for my kids around 40 years ago. I keep thinking that the title was something like Book Number 3, but I can’t find anything like that. It was very colorful and was about a little kid that kept pestering his/her parent. Example…the dad was in the bathroom and she kept pounding on the door and the dad said, “I’m in the kitchen…go look for me” and the kid would. The kid tells the dad that he’s in the bathroom pooping and peeing, which never failed to crack my kids up, and me, too. Anybody?
I would like to find a children’s book about a cat who’s mother has died and now is a face on the moon. It was written c.1939-1945. I thought the author was Ben Hecht but the book is not listed among his bibliography.
The book was in color and maybe 15 pages in length. The mother communicates with her daughter every moonlit night.
A little bunny is sitting in the house sitting at the table in the same place every day and looking out the window at the same tree every day; and thinks things never change (are somewhat boring) because he looks out the window at the same tree every day.
Then, one day the bunny sits at the opposite end of the table while eating his lunch and looking out the window and sees the same tree outside of the window looks but it looks different. Ultimately, the book delivers the message of things may appear different from another angle/ point of view.
I read this children’s book to my children in the 1980s; and I am searching for it for my soon-to-be grandchild.
This search is important to me because I want to give the book to my daughter at her baby shower because instead of gifts guests are being asked to gift a book.
Children’s picture book, British, pre-1969 (probably 50’s), about a group of animals, possibly a family of hedge hogs, who convert an old double-decker bus into a home in the forest – I think they are searching for a house.