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.

It is a book about Pete and Polly and their dog pippin the poodle. “It was a very hot day, I am tired of playing in this garden” sighed Pete, so am I agreed Polly, “I wish we could think of something to do” “Let’s go for a walk” sighed Pete “You promised you’d show me where the twisty path goes to” They ended up getting a key from a fish. A message was attached.. “this magic key will unlock the blue door, and that leads to Magic land, you can ride in the little red car, wherever it likes to take you. But bring back the key tomorrow without fail, or something dreadful will happen!” They rode in the car and met the three bears and a princess who had a lemonade fountain I think. The illustrations were very colourful. I Have been quoting this book to my children for years now 🙂 Would be something wonderful to find it.

Mother gives bored child an empty flower pot and some paint (I remember it as being blue). Child paints the pot and is careful, but a bit of paint gets on the chair the pot sits on, so child paints chair but gets some on floor, paints floor…and so on. When mother returns all is blue, even child.

This is for my mom, so I can’t provide all that many details. It is a book that she read in the 60’s, so could have been published in the 1950s or 1960s. It is about two turtles who are walking to school. One detail she remembers is that they were carrying books wrapped in cord or twine instead of in a back pack.