:  I am hoping to find a much loved book from my childhood.  I do not know the name of the book or the author.  I read it in the 1950s.  It was a picture book.  It may have been a Big Little Golden Book.  The story is of a mother and her two children who go to a cottage on the shore for the summer.  In their hurry to settle in, they leave the mother’s pocketbook in the car.  A wren builds a nest in the pocketbook.  The family cannot get the money out of the mother’s purse, so they do not have any money for the summer.  They have to find ways to get by without the money in the mother’s purse.
They plant a garden and wait for the birds to hatch and leave the purse.  Of course, by the time the birds are grown, the family does not need the money.  They are self sufficient.  Mainly, I am hoping to locate the book because of the beautiful pictures of the little wren – or at least in my memory, they are beautiful pictures.

I do not know the author or publisher  … I would have read this book in the late 70’s or early 80’s .. it may have been a Scholastic book. The book was about an insect (maybe a bug or spider) finding lost or discarded items like a button, thread, cup and using them to build a house please help!

“There’s one book I’ve been searching for the title of for YEARS. I can only remember the illustrations in my head. It’s set in a garden–two girls leave their mom and go into the woods. They have long hair, no shoes, dresses. I feel like the book was a religious undertone of god and angels. The girls found another house in the woods–an old man gave them food and shelter. He had a German Shepherd. I feel like, if memory serves me right, the man was hinted to being God in plain human form. When the girls went back to their mom, she was very old–and they were still young. The book was more full page layout illustrations than wordy. Does anyone have any idea what I’m speaking of?? Id be EVER so grateful to have this mystery solved. Librarians and Google Searches have been left scratching their heads.”

I wanna guess the book was created in the late 80s or 90s–leaning towards 90s, but I really don’t know. Hope you can help!! 🙂

I seek a book I had as a child, a book about MILK; I believe the title is also MILK. It’s a simple picture book that chronicles milk through the ages. There is a page about Cleopatra bathing in milk in Egypt. I recall the font being a very simple black helvetica. Circa 1970’s.