Very bright coloured picture book. Blocky figures of workers going to a job site and using every piece of heavy equipment imaginable. They carry lunch boxes, break for lunch and leave at the end of the day. Plain language. My boys (b. 1986 and b. 1989) loved it!
Child’s book from the 1950s. A 9×12 book with a cover in seafoam green. Realistic illustrations of children in soft pastel-like style. Stories about a family, perhaps called The Bumpsies. We think in one story, they have a picnic in the attic.
I read this book in the mid-80s; It’s either a picture book or a young reader book.
I think it may have been from a Scholastic/other company book order from submitted through school. I think (I don’t know why I think this) it may have been translated into English, possibly from a Scandinavian language.
I believe it was about a kind of naughty little boy; his mother was always exasperated with him, but she made it clear to him she loved him no matter what.
He got into all sorts of trouble, including, I think cutting a wolf’s fur with scissors. As drawn, the little boy had bright yellow hair.
The most vivid thing about the book from my memory is a single scene and an illustration of that scene: the little boy was running away from home, and he did so by taking a bag– a sort of tote bag– of his mother’s, cutting some holes in the bottom, and climbing in. His legs and feet stuck out of the holes, but none of the rest of his body is visible. In the picture, you see the bag with legs running down a little path or road.
I’ve been searching for this book for a while. I remember my mother and i finding it very entertaining and sweet, and would love to know what it is.
I’ve been looking for a picture book about a family that goes on a road trip (I think). I remember the pictures being detailed, I think the family had a loaded up station wagon with many things tied to the roof. They go to the beach, I think, among other places. I was born in 1974, , so it might be late 70’s, early 80’s? The illustrations almost had a Where’s Waldo look to them, though NOT a find and search book. I think there was a baby in the family, maybe three kids. I remember winding roads and color illustrations.
A 1960s (?) children’s picture book about a little bird who eats too much grain that it found in a railroad car. Bird got too fat and could not get off of train (I think). Bird could have been a sparrow. Beautiful illustration. Winter setting?
My now 21-year old daughter speaks fondly of a picture book that featured a boy getting rescued from a tree by a swan. She says the cover had a boy in a tall woods. There was a monster, a ‘lot about woods,’ and a ‘terrible red mist.’ Possibly Caldecott?
Children’s book with a mustard-olive color cover (as I recall):
Artwork throughout shows a busy woman in a long coat hurrying everywhere. Everywhere she goes people say “don’t be in such a hurry or something worse may happen” and it does – all kinds of unfortunate accidents due to her hurrying. Finally one day she steps in glue and is forced to slow down…and she realizes that there is more to life than getting there. At the end of the day she decides not to remove all the glue from her shoes, because she likes going slower.
I would SO love to find this book!
In the early 1950s, I had a children’s picture book about eight by ten inches concerning a clown who was forced to leave the circus. I can’t recall why he had to leave, but he had done something wrong. What lingers in my memory is a closing illustration of the clown, dressed in a blue clown suit, oversized shoes, red wig and nose, walking down a road with a pick and shovel over his right shoulder, perhaps into the setting sun, though I’m not sure of that detail. He had to leave the circus and become a ditch-digger. I thought it was the saddest image I had ever seen and the saddest fate I could imagine. I still think so.
Illustrated Children’s book with the theme ” You can choose”. We had this book in the late 1980s/ early 1990s. It was square with a yellow hardcover with a cartoonish girl/boy on it. Book was about 20 pages ( 10 layouts with different scenes where the boy and girl make different choices between colours and objects etc. ). Each scene ends with a phrase similar to ” You can chose”. Very repetitious. One scene has them in a classroom. Size of book 20cm x 20cm. I know it is not the following books “If I could choose” or “Which one would you choose”.
I’m looking for a children’s book I read as a child.
There’s a dark-haired little girl (maybe a Sarah, but I’m not sure) who goes outside to play in the snow (I think they build a snowman), but doesn’t put on her coat/mittens/hat/etc. When she comes back in, she gets sick. I think they give her a bath but it doesn’t work and she’s basically bedridden for most of winter. At some point she has a fever dream where she’s dancing with snowmen in some sort of winter world. When she wakes up, it’s springtime and I think she goes to a grandparent’s house, where the trees are in bloom, and the white blooms look like the winter world and she runs happily through them since she’s been cooped up for so long.
Beautiful illustrations. Would love to look for a copy for my daughter. Thanks in advance!