Small late 60’s/early 70s children’s book- I ‘think’ it was about quiet cozy things to do, but I especially remember a picture of a snail outside in a light rain by pebbles and I think an upside down pail in one picture. I’m pretty sure it was watercolor illustrations. Sorry so vague I was quite little and my grandmother used to look at the book with me.
There is a children’s picture book about a little boy sent to visit his aunt, whom he is told has many wonderful old things. It looks like it will be tedious, but a bearskin rug comes to life as a kind of floppy bear, and then they are attacked by the Mouse King and an army of animate bric-a-brac. Then the aunt comes and says “I suppose the bear is in tatters again,” and they spend the afternoon drinking tea and stitching the bear back together, but the Mouse King has eaten all the cookies. Does anyone know the author or title of this book?
I am trying to find a children’s alphabet book that was produced in the 19070’s. The book was an A to Z and contained black and white pictures. I believe the photographer was a relatively famous Philadelphia photographer at the time. A – was Airplane and Q – was Quilt. The pictures were all of children – not illustrated. I believe the authors name or photographers name was Ann or Anne. Thank you for your help.
My friend read this storybook during her childhood in the early 1970s. She remembers it was about a little girl who was tired of her toys and ruins them all. She somehow ends up with either a boy or a bear who becomes her new toy. She forces the boy or bear to do what she wants, including playing maid and brushing her hair. The boy or bear eventually gets tired of this and throws the spoiled girl out in the snow.
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I am trying to remember/find a book about a little girl who doesn’t have much, except her little treasures. I think it was a stick of chewing gum, a jack ball, and a few other small items. She lives in a brownstone and it seems like she hides her treasures behind a brick. She takes them out and looks at them often. The front of the cover had her and another person sitting on concrete steps with a railing. I don’t know if it was a little golden book or not. It seems like it was about 5X5 square, about 10 pages? I would have had it read to me around 1970ish. I can’t remember much else. I have looked everywhere for it, only being able to search by the memory of the cover.
Hi there, hoping you can help find a book. I remember reading it in the late 80s/early 90s. It was about a child in Rome who lost his or her cat. They go all over the city looking for it and eventually find the cat in the “mouth of truth” (La Bocca della Verità) statue. I remember it was a blue cover and fairly larger than a regular sized book. It was in English. Hoping you can help track it down!
Little girl moves from crib to “big bed” It as a large sized book with colourful illustrations, and just one or two sentences per page. It talked about all the worries the little girl has about the move, and then how much she liked her new bed. I remember she said It was great because now there was room for daddy to sit with her at bedtime and give her “nose-nuzzles”. We used It 18 years ago to ease our daughter’s transition to a bed from her crib.
I’m looking for a picture book I loved as a preschooler – about 1980 – about a mother bird and her chicks (maybe living on the prairie) who scare a fox by carrying foxtails in their beaks (the fox perhaps thinks they’ve successfully conquered other foxes)? May be a Canadian book (lived in Canada then).
This is the children’s picture book I am looking for:
Circa 1940s +/- a decade
Pictures are, I think, in water color
Colors are dark and muted as it is night time
Story has to do with houses that – at night – gossip among themselves
Pictures show mouths and eyes and expressions on the fronts of the houses
Some of the houses are very proud and snooty to other houses
That’s all I remember.
I am looking for a children’s picture book that I bought in the 1990’s. I think published in Canada. It was about colorful wacky people who move into a town that doesn’t like them because they are different. The townspeople are snarky and grumpy. In the end the wacky colorful people win them over. It’s about discrimination.