A boy, Jeffie or Jiffie, goes to or has a party. He dresses u as a rooster or a bird. There is a picture of him in the book in the costume. It was picked up as a used children’s book in the 70’s
I am thinking of a book that I checked out from the school library about 100 times in the mid-late 80’s
It was a picture book and each page was fully illustrated with animals. There was one page per animal, and went from A to Z. Some if not all of the animals were exotic. I remember wondering “what the heck is an ibis?”
So the pages went from A to Z. Each 2-page spread would name one animal that starts with that letter. The pages were covered densely from edge to edge with drawings of that animal. There was also one example of the animal illustrated and you had to find the matching illustration on that page, which was quite challenging. So it was an animal book, an abc book and a seek-and-find book.
I remember each page being colored background (maybe different colors for each animal, seems like mostly dark, rich colors like crimson), and the print might have been black only but I am not certain about that. It wasn’t white pages though, I am sure of that. I am almost certain it was a hardcover book too.
: 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’m looking for a collection of children’s short stories that my mom read as a child (either read herself or had them read to her – her memory is fuzzy). She was born in 1944. She remembers illustrations in the book and the book having a story about a fox and a little red hen. Any information or leads you can provide would be awesome!
I am looking for a large (coffee-table sized) book of children’s stories that are beautifully illustrated by watercolor in full color with glossy pages. The illustrations could be kind of scary–they were artistic, but not childish or cartoonish. The stories were involved, with lot of text.
One was about a dragon that had a toothache because a baker’s apprentice brought him so many cookies and donuts. Another about the Chinese character Li Po trying to get the moon in a cup.
Another about dangerous mountainous adventures.
A children’s picture book in my library around 1986. A cute knight on some kind of quest. Detailed illustrations where each character has unique heraldry? At some point someone says to the knight “Good morning, good knight” to which he replies “that was a very short day”. Title maybe like Sir X?
This was a book for young children, maybe no text, all photos, not drawings. 1946-1955. Two Japanese children walking in the woods, by streams, gardens. The book was bigger than a Golden Book, maybe 10×10 inches.
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!
I am trying to locate a book for a friend of mine. He is not sure when it was actually published, but remembers reading it the early 60’s as a child. The snowman could fly, and he delivered flavored snow-cones to kids all over the world. The illustrations were typical for a lot of children’s books from that era – soft watercolor or gouache – and the snowman closely resembled contemporary “Frosty” snowman characters we see today – top hat, cherry/carrot nose, coal eyes, etc. He thinks it could be a Little Golden Book, but he has not found any evidence of that yet.
My friend is a cancer patient and this would make him really happy!
“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!! 🙂