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.

may be scary book. Inside back cover a map of the town. A Mr. Foxy’s house (gloomy) a dump and store at the top w/  “Gone Fishing” on door. story of animals & clam bake. Halloween poem goes “witches & goblins prowling about on this shivery, hween night. A monster jumps out from a tree w/a shout”

A friend is looking for a pop-up book from her childhood that I’d like to surprise her with. She said it was a pop-up book about a family that goes to the zoo and everyone but the little boy gets eaten by the animals. She said the tag line was like “If you hunt for me, I will hunt for you”

This book was a children’s book read in the 80s. It is about a young girl who has some kind of party (possibly a birthday party) on a yacht. The illustration of the boat has lots of strung lights and balloons. I originally thought that this was a Madeline book, as I remember it being similar, but have not come across anything like it.

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.