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.
Thank you for your time.
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.
Hello! I am reaching out to you in hopes you can help me locate a book I have been searching for for years. It’s about a quest nonetheless! 🙂 I do not know the title, I do not know the author. I remember it was a large hardbound book, the kind they used to make in the 70’s, that kind of story book. It was about a man who wanted to win the hand of the kings daughter, so he set up wild tasks for him to accomplish, and he did, with the help of his friends. One could run so fast he set things aflame, one could turn himself into a pig and eat and eat. One task was to get a golden egg maybe? I remember him climbing a mountain and trying to get into a nest that was far out of reach.
The pictures were amazing! When I think back, they remind me of Hildebrant type, like the old hobbit,very fantasy, very detailed. The man had a whole group of friends with him who could do amazing things that helped him pass his tasks. They did it without the king knowing how he did it.
I can’t remember its name. I’ll title it “The musician and the horrendously ugly giant” for now.
This was a book about a small town terrorized by a giant. A mother tells her son to not go outside, but he runs outside with his musical instrument (banjo? fiddle?) and somehow drives away the giant. The book’s description of the giant with ugly nails and teeth was chilling. It had an accompanying book on tape. I listened every day, terrified, when I was in first grade circa 1996.
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.
– green cover page
– British (?) children’s book published in the 80’s
– each page features a clock/time
– follows the two lives of Eddie Elephant and Marmaduke Mouse over the course of day
– Eddie is a clumsy driving instructor
– Marmy is more anal
– town features various animal community members
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.
I’m looking for this book I used to read in the 2000s. Small blue hardcover, first in a series. Kind of a graphic novel- illustrated throughout. It was about this girl who went to a world that she thought was fictional to rescue her younger brother, who really liked the series of books based on that world, and then she had to save it. She met the protagonist of the series of books, who turned out to be an African-American woman, and her name was something like Dot.
There was a palace and a witch and a whale and someone made out of soap, and if was all surreal and beautiful. I think if might have been called something like Abeceria or Azera. The protagonist was a rebellious teenager, possibly with a dead mom. If I can’t figure out what it is I’m literally going to have to bunk off and go back to my old elementary school and search their disorganized library, so I’d love some help!
I am looking for a children’s book most likely published in the late 70’s or early 80’s. I believe the one I had was hard cover. The cover showed a group of kids walking up to a scary house. It was a large book and was significant in that you would read it through and then flip it over and read it from the other side.
It was the story of some children who went into a scary house. But, when you flip the book over and ready it back to front, you see that all the things were actually not what the seamed. A big spider became an ice plant hanging in the window for instance. and a witch becomes a grandma.
Don’t know the name of the book or anything about the subject. All I remember is a illustration of A) Either a tiny dog jumping through a ring or the hole of a skeleton key, or B)the dog was normal sized and the person holding the key or ring was a giant.
I remember the person (giant) holding the ring (key) was very amused by the dog.
The dog was with a boy who was comparable in size to the dog.
I saw this book in the late 60’s early 70’s, so the book is probably from the 50s or earlier.