Children’s picture book written in the 60s,70s or early 80s…I read it in the early 80s. A young African American girl has an imaginary lion. She is teased by her siblings and somehow in the end of the book the lion eats up her siblings.
Children’sChildren’s picture book. Takes place in Mexico. Written in 60s or 70s, maybe 80s… read in early 80s. Main character, Mexican boy, who interacts with a jaguar and a pyramid.
I am looking for a children’s book about a mouse (rat?) who would see something pretty or shiny and pick it up. He would get distracted by the next shiny thing and put down what was in his hands and pick up the next thing. My husband thinks it’s called “Pick it, Put it” or the other way around. It was his favorite book in the early 60’s. Can you help? Thank you for trying!
I wish I had more information, but my girlfriend described a book that she had as a child. It was (I believe) a picture book, with various pictures of children of color and descriptions of their skin tones (like “John’s skin is the color of a penny,” stuff like that). I know it’s not a lot to go on, but if anyone remembers anything, that would be great.
We’d love to reconnnect with this children’s book we had from our local library, but despite extensive online searching, can find no trace of it, as cannot remember or even guess at the title.
Illustrated short children’s book from c. 1990, for readers perhaps 5 – 9. The young heroine (age 8-ish, possibly called Anna) is not good at timekeeping, and is often late for tea. She therefore observes that ‘time is [like] a monster, marching on’. She meets the clock-keeper of the town hall clock, asks him about the nature of time, and he kindly on one occasion puts the clock back about 5 minutes, so that she does not seem late home for tea. The story and pictures have a mainland European feel to it. Someone suggested it may have been set in Switzerland. It is almost certainly a translation into English, and the English has that sense of maintaining a foreign idiom.
If this resonates with anything you recall, we will be overjoyed!
Nephew receives a box in the mail from his uncle. When the boy opens the box he is surprised there is a penguin inside.
My father who was born in 1930 tells me this is one of the first books he ever read which leads me to believe the book was published in the 1930s. My father doesn’t remember much else but he always laughs when he describes the boy opening the box and finding the penguin. I would love to be able to find this book for him to read again.
I’m looking for a children’s story about a boy who leaves home or is lost and is adopted by a family of ducks (or geese?). He wants to learn to fly, like the ducks do, but has no wings, so he builds wings from mud, sticks and leaves. The illustrations are in a sepia tone. My wife read this book as a girl. She is 33 years old. She doesn’t think there were words – only pictures.
7/8 year old or younger, 1953-60s, colour drawings, long in horizontal format, children go on a journey through countryside, towns factories etc
I’m trying to find a children’s book about a girl that loved to read. She surrounded herself with books and read all of her life, sometimes pushing away friends and family so she could read. The illustrations show her in rooms filled with books. I distinctly recall a picture of her in a big, comfortable chair and all you can see is her holding a book and surrounding by mountains of books. Maybe even by candlelight. I can’t even remember her name! All I remember are each piece of artwork in the book shows her reading and in places filled to the brim with loads and loads of books.
I’m looking for a book my fiance read when he was in primary school.
He borrowed it from the Bookrunner Bus (a library van which visited primary schools), and he thinks he was 8 or 9 at the time. This means it will be from before 2000.
It was a short, children’s paperback, but had black and white illustrations – which he believes were in a similar style to Edward Gorey.
It was about a young boy living in a house with his mother and big buildings were being constructed all around, which cast shadows over his house. In the end the boy and his mother have to move to an apartment in one of the bigger buildings. There might also have been some sort of pet bird, but he can’t fully remember! He did mention that it was a really odd, creepy book.
If this sounds familiar to anyone, please let me know! I really would love to get it him for Christmas.