I’m looking for a book I had in the 1970s. It was about a little girl who was, I think, called Amy. She was upset her mother had a new baby brother until it ended up that she was the only one who could make him laugh. The whole book was in orange and white. Pleas help me find it. It could have been called something along the lines of
A Brother For Amy
Amy’s New Brother
Amy’s Baby Brother
Thank You,
I remember a picture book story from when I was little – I was born 1975 – and was about 10 or so, not sure if the book was old or new at that time – I’d estimate being read the story somewhere around 1985
The story is about a young boy, maybe a prince, who wakes up after a fresh snowfall and looks outside to see a field of sparkle-y, glittery snow. He walks out to see the beauty of it all and realizes his footprints mess up the beauty. So he hires more men to carry him on a chair or table. I don’t remember the ending exactly but eventually all the men make the problem worse and so he ends up just walking himself – or something along those lines. Any clue as to the book title?
Thank you for your time!!
St. Patrick’s Day picture book where man is captured by leprechauns. I don’t remember much of it, but when I was in middle school (2010-2014) a teacher read us a book about a man whose horse/cow was stolen by leprechauns, so he follows them the next time they come and gets trapped in their home under a mountain until he can escape— which he eventually does and with his animal. The one thing I definitely remember is that the book mentioned that the Leprechauns used to be in heaven, but they were thrown out by Gabriel after the fall of Lucifer, forcing them to live on earth with humans.
I’m looking for this book of illustrated stories I read during my school days (would have been ~15-20 years ago). It had a light blue hard cover and the title I believe was something along the lines of “365 Illustrated Bedtime Stories” or the like (I have tried searching various book websites with various combinations of this name but no luck).
It was a collection of 365 illustrated stories, each a few pages long. I remember details from a few –
1) There were a few stories about a young boy wizard who is getting trained. In one of the stories he had a long day and fell asleep (there was a specific illustration about this)
2) There were a few stories about a family on an alien planet in space (terraforming it?), assisted by a bunch of sentient construction robots. The family consisted of a mum, dad, son, daughter and pet dog. In one story, there is an infestation of mechanical crab like creatures – one of the children get carried off and is later rescued by the robots. In another, they accidentally puncture the crust of the planet which starts flooding the surface with the underground ocean that they were unaware existed. They are unwilling to leave the robots but have to evacuate the planet. Thankfully, the robots modify themselves into a spacecraft and manage to evacuate as well (I remember a few lines that were along the lines of – suddenly there was a bright flash of retro boosters from the surface… the robots has transformed [one of them] into a spacecraft etc etc)
I believe there was a companion book of “365 Illustrated Daytime Stories” with a light peach cover, and I believe a basket of curled up puppies / kittens or a large curled up squirrel with a bushy tail on its cover.
Sorry I know this might not be much to go on, but I really loved these books as a child and am very keen to get my hands on them if possible.
Any help would be very much appreciated!! Thanks in advance
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?