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.
I read this book around 1996 and it looked kind of old then. It was a hard cover, wide book and I’m pretty sure the picture on the front was yellow/orange. Very autumn like. The story was about a family of foxes, a mother, father, a son and a daughter (they specifically used the word vixen). The little vixen fox went and found an elderly couple who lived in a house and stayed with them. They gave her a red ribbon to wear. Her leg got caught in a hunter’s trap, and her mom came and lay down with her, where I think it snowed on them and they died together. Every year after that a certain kind of flower (might have been red) would grow in the shape of their bodies laying together.
My Gramma used to read my dad a childrens book when he was young (he was born in 1951) and she can’t remember the book but knows the phrase “(from the top top top) of his head head head” – the part in () I think is what she said but not sure. I think it might have been a golden book, and not sure of the rest from there. His name when he was little was Jimmy, not sure if that’s the character or not. Good luck, it’s not much to go off of. I could probably probe for more if needed from my Gramma. (i was hoping to surprise her). Thanks!
This was a short story in a book of children’s stories, ca 1945-50?
The owner of a mastiff bets that his dog will accomplish a verbal task no matter what. He shows the dog a piece of money ( I believe it was an English crown), puts it in the dog’s mouth, tells him to take it home and sends him off. He goes home to await the dog’s arrival. A long interval goes by with no dog. Finally the dog arrives, bleeding with many dog bites, but still has the crown in his mouth.
The faithful dog has completed his task at fearful cost!
My book stumper is a children’s picture book I’m pretty sure it’s about colours. I have no title or author but I was about 5 or 6 reading it, making that 1963-64.
What I remember most are the deep rich vibrant colours. It was nothing like the washed out, pastel-riddled books I mostly had.
One page was a drawing of a bunch of grapes and they were the deepest, purplest, most mouth-watering colour imaginable.
I think I remember a cloudy storm page…all blues,blacks,grey’s. Images were large and loud. Maybe a new book in the vibrant 60’s!
There was an orangey page. A bold page of sun, I think.
I remember no people and if there was text it was very limited… maybe “a purple bunch of grapes” or just “grapes are purple”. No story.
Only about 8- 10pgs perhaps.
Hardback. paper pages.
We grew up in Canada so either an American or British book, not likely Canadian.
It was stunning. I would love to find it
This children’s picture book was written at the latest in the 70s. I believe it is set in a European village, probably French, and a cream puff bakery figures prominently (the baker may have been name pierre or a similar french name). the protagonist, a little boy, loves cream puffs and somehow either witnesses the bad guys (soldier/government agents/thieves?), and has to escape from them through a coal chute. I think the bad guys get stuck in the coal chute and the little boy escapes through a hole into a snowy place. It may be set in WWI or earlier. The style of drawings may be maurice sendak-ish.
My entire family thinks I’m crazy now. Was challenged by one of those ‘name 10 books that have stayed with you’ and could not think of the name of a children’s picture book that we read almost daily when I was growing up.
The book included the rhyme: A hunting we will go, a hunting we will go,
We’ll catch a fox and put him in a box,
And then we’ll let him go!
But I do not think it included the remainder of the rhyme, only that part with the fox in the box. As I recall the cover of the book was green, and about 1/4 to 1/2″ in depth. Maybe 12″ in length, and 10″ in height. Probably published in the 1960s, because it was something I learned to read as a child.
The plot of the book was that Joe wanted to go fox hunting, catch a fox and put him in the box, and then let him go. I believe, he was going to hunt the fox with a bow and arrow, and did shoot the fox in the leg with the arrow. He put the fox in the box, and the fox pleaded with him to remove the arrow and let him go, as Joe promised. But Joe wanted to keep the fox. Ultimately, the fox was let go.
I always thought the book was called Fox in a Box, but cannot find it under that name. It was definitely not a Dr. Seuss book.
Would be awesome if you could find this book.