Category Archives: Picture Book

173A: Lost Book Mother Learned to Paint From (solved)

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I’m lookiJanetFng for a book my mother had as a child. I think you would call it an coloured Illustration book with animals all dressed up. Some with babies and some not. My mother was born in the 1920’s So not even sure how to find it without a name. My mother loved this book and later in life she became a painter. She painted from the book an elephant that was dressed with a mouse and the elephant is jumping because of the mouse. Also a possum with her babies. I have one painting I will send you from the book. My father out lived 2 wives and was on his 3th wife when he passed so my mother’s book got lost. I remember how she loved this book and would love to find it.

172C: Day with Daddy

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Thin (approx 8-15 page) children’s book published between 1980 and 1995. My best guess would place it early 1990’s. I think it was roughly the size of a golden book. It is about one little girl who is approx. 5 years old and while the Mother is mentioned, the story is about her day with her Dad. The two parts I remember most are when she helps him wash the car, and they go to the beach and she collects shells. In one of the beach scene illustrations, the girl has an orange one piece swimsuit. Also, the girl has short dark blonde hair. The illustrations looked like watercolor with a slightly faded hue. I think at the end the girl goes to sleep (isn’t that how all of those short little books end ? 😉
I’m sure you always hear this, but I can’t tell you what it would mean to find this book. I have many cherished memories of reading it with my parents and would absolutely love to own it.

165E: Old aunt becomes young again

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This book was a short picture book that I read in the 1970’s.  I am guessing it was published late 1960s to mid 1970s.

A girl visits her great aunt or similar relative, who is bedridden and lives in a room upstairs in a beautiful old house.  When the clock strikes the old lady turns back into herself as a young girl and the two girls play together and have a great time.  Then the clock strikes again and she turns back into an old lady.  The girl is dressed in what children would have worn in the 1890’s or thereabouts and I remember she had long black hair with a ribbon tied in it.

 

165C: Three little kittens jumping in pie with juice squirting out

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The book I am searching for is a book my mother has looked for for years. She remembered it from her childhood so it would have been a book from the 30′s. It was a 3 little kittens book- possibly oversized and longer across the top than the length of the binding. The pictures she remembered were one of the cats in the snow with a lighted house in the background (maybe at night?) and picture of them playing with yarn balls, a picture of the kittens stepping in pie with juice squirting out, and picture that showed the kittens with just the legs of the adults showing. Since there are so many scores of books about the three little kittens, it may be hard to find, but I would like to surprise her with it if I could! She is 81 years old.