I am looking for a children’s book titled Some Fun. I do not know the author or illustrator. On the cover, a father is picking up his toddler. I think the book is about having a fun day with your father.
296H: Some Fun
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Category Archives: Picture Book
295Z: Grand Old House in nondescript new neighborhood
Children’s picture book I read before 1995 (not sure when it was published though) about an old mansion. The mansion stood alone in a field until a suburban neighborhood packed with little nearly-identical houses sprang up. The mansion may or may not have been sentient. The house felt more and more out of place and eventually it/the owner decided to replace the old house with a new one just like all the others. All the neighbors couldn’t find their own houses anymore because they used to use the old mansion as a reference point. Eventually they convinced the old house/owner that its uniqueness was important to the neighborhood and somehow restored it.
295W: Good Morning Mr. Sun
Here is a direct passage from the book that I cannot find: “Good morning Mr. Sun. Time to rise and shine. I must get dressed. The day looks fine. Muffins for breakfast with strawberries and cream. I eat it all up and brush my teeth clean. Some of my friends come over to play. We run and climb and tumble all day. Off to the garden to rake and plant seeds. Water the ground and pull out the weeds. Time to eat dinner then off to my room. All tucked into bed. Goodnight Mr. Moon. ” The book is yellow/orange in color with a bear on the front.
295T: Too Awake-Too Asleep Picture Book
I’m trying to find a children’s book, likely from the 1950s, about the size of and with illustrations similar to a Little Golden Book. It includes two complementary stories, each beginning at one of the covers. The first reads toward the middle of the book. Turned over, the book includes a second story that reads to the middle of the book. The stories are small morality tale, one of a boy or girl (I can’t remember which) who refuses to go to sleep and is allowed to discover how boring the house is when its quiet at night. The other story is of a girl (or boy?) who doesn’t want to get up in the morning and is allowed to sleep and find out what goes on while he/she sleeps through the day. In both cases, these tales are part of a strategy to get each child to wake up or to go to sleep. The illustrations are similar in style to those of Little Golden Books.
294Z: It’s not Paddington
Children picture book about a bear, illustrated with photos of stuff bear in activities-short tale- seems he traveled- I remember suitcase – I knew it in 50’s might be older-I would check from OakCliff – Dallas library – know just where it is but library is gone – prob 10 x 13 size few pages.
It’s not a Paddington bear – I’m familiar with him and in this one the illustrations are photographs of the stuffed bear in the activities.
294X: The Perfect House (Solved)
I read this book in the late 1960s or early 1970s, and here is a somewhat lengthy synopsis of the entire story (which I used in a library school course as a story-telling subject while I was getting my MLS). Please help me identify the book! It’s been a life-long unsolved mystery for me!
There once was an old woman who had lived for a long time in a blue farmhouse. Now this house was not perfect, by any means. It needed a fresh coat of paint, and the roof leaked when it rained, and the shutters hung crooked on the windows.
But it was comfortable, and it was home to the old woman and her horse and her dog and her cat. The horse liked to graze in the meadow behind the house. The dog liked to jump and play in the stream that ran through the meadow. And the cat liked to chase mice in the attic.
One day, the old woman decided that the house was too run-down and that she must find a new house to live in. So she packed up all her belongings and loaded them into her wagon. She hitched the horse to the wagon, called for her dog and cat, and drove on down to the end of the road.
At the corner, she took a right-hand turn, and there, down the road a bit was a house just standing open and empty and waiting for someone to move in. It had a fresh coat of green paint, and the roof looked new, and the shutters hung straight on the windows.
The old woman decided that this must be the perfect house, so she unhitched the wagon, and unpacked her things, and moved right in.
After about a week, she noticed that her horse seemed very sad. He just moped around the little back yard all day with nothing much to do. The old woman thought and wondered and thought about what could be making her horse so sad. Then she realized that there was no meadow for him to graze in.
Well, the old woman could not abide by a sad horse, and she knew that she had to find a house with a meadow for her horse. So she packed up all her belongings and loaded them into her wagon. She hitched the horse to the wagon, called for her dog and cat, and drove on down to the end of the road.
At the corner, she took a right-hand turn, and there, down the road a bit was a house just standing open and empty and waiting for someone to move in. The red paint was a little faded, but the roof looked new, and the shutters hung straight on the windows.
The old woman saw that there was a meadow behind the house for her horse to graze in, and so she decided that this must be the perfect house. She unhitched the wagon, and unpacked her things, and moved right in.
After about a week, she noticed that her dog seemed very sad. He just moped around the meadow all day with nothing much to do. The old woman thought and wondered and thought about what could be making her dog so sad. Then she realized that there was no stream for him to jump and play in.
Well, the old woman could not abide by a sad dog, and she knew that she had to find a house with a streaming running through the meadow for her dog. So she packed up all her belongings and loaded them into her wagon. She hitched the horse to the wagon, called for her dog and cat, and drove on down to the end of the road.
At the corner, she took a right-hand turn, and there, down the road a bit was a house just standing open and empty and waiting for someone to move in. The yellow paint was a little faded and the roof looked old, but the shutters hung straight on the windows.
The old woman saw that there was a stream running through the meadow for her dog, and so she decided that this must be the perfect house. She unhitched the wagon, and unpacked her things, and moved right in.
After about a week, she noticed that her cat seemed very sad. He just moped around the house all day with nothing much to do. The old woman thought and wondered and thought about what could be making her cat so sad. Then she realized that there were no mice in the attic for him to chase.
Well, the old woman could not abide by a sad cat, and she knew that she had to find a house with mice in the attic for her cat. So she packed up all her belongings and loaded them into her wagon. She hitched the horse to the wagon, called for her dog and cat, and drove on down to the end of the road.
At the corner, she took a right-hand turn, and there, down the road a bit was a house just standing open and empty and waiting for someone to move in. The blue paint was faded, and the roof looked old, and the shutters hung crooked on the windows.
But the old woman found that there were mice in the attic for her cat to chase, and a stream for her dog to jump and play in, and a meadow for her horse to graze in. And she decided that this must be the perfect house. (It looked a little bit like this one.) And it felt like home.
294L: Rocking Horse Christmas (Solved)
The book I am looking for is something like Rocking Horse Christmas. It is a children’s book, many pictures in color, there is a snow storm, a dad driving home, and some writing. It was published in the early 1950s I imagine.
294E: Harriet hides a stain
A girl stains a carpet and moves all the furniture into a big pile in the middle of the room to hide the stain. I vaguely remember her name being Harriet but I could be wrong about that. A 70s book for young kids, illustrated.
293Z: Rabbits on the Run – NOT Watership Down
Picture book – published prior to 1985
Rabbits in jeopardy. Little (young) rabbit wants to escape. Persuades old, previously resigned-to-his-fate rabbit to escape with him. Big rabbit is scared out in the larger world, returns to his fate where they began. Little rabbit goes on to other adventures alone. Could be related to Watership Down – maybe a chapter of that turned into picture book. Illustrations were beautiful, and NOT clips from the cartoon movie of that book.
293V: A little zebra gets lost
I am writing a memoir and am trying desperately to identify a children’s picture book that would have been published around 1948 – 1953. It is a story about a little zebra that gets lost. The only vivid image of it I remember is the little zebra encountering a senior Zebra who was wearing reading glasses on his nose. The elderly zebra helps the little one find his mother (I think).
I do not remember the title except that I’m sure Zebra was in the title. It is a picture book.