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.

I am looking for a children’s book, I am unsure of title but the (I believe) main character was a blue bear. He was injured while racing a dirt bike or motorcycle. I think he had his head bandaged after the injury. The book was a large, hardcover book (larger than a typical Dr Suess book, but about as long) and the cover was primarily yellow I believe.
My little brother checked this book out repeatedly around 1990-1994, I’m not sure how old the book is.
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It would make a friend’s year if I could find this…
Kid’s book. White cover. Most likely from the 60’s or 70’s. Maybe 50’s.
Child and dog growing up together. At end of book dog is huge and doesn’t fit on rug that is throughout the book. Almost written as a dog care guide. Kid gets the puppy, feeds and takes care of puppy as they grow together. Sketch style artwork. Subdued colors. Irish settler like dog. Probably 8″ x 11″ book. Maybe 20 pages.

I read a children’s book in the mid 70s to early 80s about a young boy who meets a good witch who brings him into her house and while she is in the other room he finds a magical book of fairy tales. When he starts to read it the pictures start moving. He watches a story about a princess who wears out her shoes every night and is always tired. I think the king says that whoever figures out how she does it will get to marry her. So a young man spies on her at night and sees her get up and go through a secret passage to a place I think was a gypsy camp where she dances all night.
Then the good witch comes back in the room and at some point in the story she tells him not to go through the gate in the hedge in her yard because on the other side is another world where there is an evil witch. Later in the story he goes through the gate and gets captured by baba yaga. But I don’t think baba yaga is the evil witch she warned him about. She just happens to be there. I remember he saw the hut walking around on its chicken legs and when he goes inside she catches him and keeps him there while she flies away on her mortar and pestle. At some point he sees the hut dancing and jumping and flipping all around. I don’t remember what happened with the evil witch that the good witch warned him about. That’s all I remember. For a long time I thought this book was Timothy and two witches, but I found a copy of that and when I read it I knew it was the wrong one.

Hardback children’s book written at least before 1983. A little boy must walk around everywhere saying goodnight to everything before bed. The illustrations are in black and white and I think he may have been in a castle. I remember one scene where he is walking on the edge of a fountain.