It is a hardback children’s book that we read to our now 36 year old son in the late 70’s to mid 80’s.
It is about a little girl who has a pet mouse. One day she could not find him. Page after page, room after room she lloked for him; in the stove, refrigerator, closets, microwave, etc. . . . . NO CHARLIE! she finally found him asleep in the be in her doll house.
Please confirm the title and author for us so we can purchase them.
I’m looking for a children’s fiction book that my father used to read to me in the 1980’s. It’s about an alligator or crocodile lady who is dressed in women’s clothes. She has three parrots/birds and they are always telling her what to do. They say, “Cook spaghetti! Make popcorn!” At the end of the book, her house overflows with popcorn. It would mean the world to my father and I to be able to find this book and read it together again! Thank you!
Children’s picture book I briefly picked up somewhere in Germany 3 years ago. The book was written in German. But the pictures had an entire miniature family of brothers and sister and a mother who lived underground in a forest. The children decide to go above ground and disguise themselves as bugs.
I remember a children’s picture book that I owned 10-15 years ago where the family lived on a school bus together in the woods (near water?). I believe the main character was a little girl. The illustrations had a lot of sunsets and there may have been some firefly collecting.
The book is about a traveling poet who sells his rhymes. He meets a king or ruler of a town who wants everything to be the biggest and the best. So king is building a hill bigger than any hill, but the hill collapses every day. The colors on the book were very muted so I think it was pre-1980s. I think a part of the book was “the sun is a sun a star is a star i am who i am you are who you are” and something about walking on his feet and following his nose. I would be forever grateful if you could find the name of this children’s book!
This book was probably published between 1942-1965. It was about a family that lived near train tracks so that the soot covered everything in the house, including the family. The doctor was sent for and I remember he looked everything over and said, “Hmmmmm” which I thought was funny as a small child. The illustration I remember was of a pig sleeping in an open dresser drawer. I seem to recall the illustrations were not in color but more like sketches. I have searched for this book for 10+ years. Nobody has ever heard of it.
Also, if this helps, my mother belonged to something called the Junior Literary Guild and many of my books as a child were JLG books. Maybe this one was as well. My older siblings thought the book was called The Dirty Family or the Dirty Little Pig or that “dirty” was a part of the title.
short book about a boy who pretends to be a lion so he can scare his mother. read to me as a child in early 1960’s. cover has picture of boy with lion costume on. in one of the scenes he climbs on top of refrigerator. mother pretends she does not know him and asks the “lion” if he ate her boy.
I recall a blacksmith character, a black lady in traditional african clothes, a cat on a windowsill watching the sleigh, a distinctive lipstick kiss mark left by a reindeer. Fantastic illustrations and lots of humour.
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I’m looking for a picture book about a lost bird looking for his family. The book has lots of voice bubbles to show the bird speaking a language that none of the other animals understand. At the end, the character finds someone who understands him. I believe it was published within the last 5 years. It’s similar to Cuckoo by Fiona Roberton, Beegu by Alexis Deacon, and Little Owl Lost by Chris Haughton.
I am looking for an old book that has dolls performing household chores like ironing and dishes. It is not the Lonely Doll series or Patsy Ann books. I read it in the 70’s and it was old then. It is actual pictures of dolls doing these things. Not animated.