Category Archives: Picture Book

159A: Witch and Wizard Battle

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my daughter is 35 now and i used to read her a book called:  the witch and the wizard.
it was a rhyming book , approximately 20 pages where the witch and the wizard each challenge each other for their powers, by casting spells on each other.
by the end of the book, they agree that they both are equally as powerful, and now have to clean up the mess that they made what with frogs and such all over the place.
it is drawn with each page showing the spell that was cast on each other, from the previous spell,such that the end characters are humorously disfigured.
i would love to find it and read it to my granddaughter, in the presence of her mother.
thanks for searching.

157L: White Bunny wordless book

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Preschool pictures only, no words. About the size of a “Where’s Waldo”, hardcover, thin book, slightly larger than 8 x 10. Contained pictures of a white bunny, one page was a bunny cooking a stew with carrots. I borrowed the book about 30 years ago from the Cuyahoga County library

 

157K: Trying to find a Children’s Book of a Princess who gets turned into a Red Pterodactyl-Monster

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Hello everyone, I am trying to find a children’s book that I used to have as a child in the 90s.  It had gorgeous watercolor pictures and told the story of a Princess who gets turned into a giant red Pterodactyl Monster.  I would be forever grateful to anyone who could tell me the name of this book

 

157F: Kid Paints Town

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Story starts out in a black and white town.  Little girl finds a paint set and begins to color the town and the people, paints the grass green and even paints the baby’s face a rosy color.  Possibly published in early 1990’s.  My daughter read it in elementary school about 1993-1998

 

157D: Angry Frog

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This is a children’s picture book of average size.

I don’t remember the title but the pictures and story are stick in my mind. It is about a forest animal, a frog, I think, who is feeling so sorry for herself that she stomps through the forest and pond stepping on other creatures and being quite a nuisance in her angry blindness.

I’m not sure of the date of publication but I read this book to my son when he was a little boy (he’s 36 now). Maybe it was newly published at that time or perhaps it was a reprint of an older book—I really don’t know.

 I seem to have lost this book or given it away. I want to have it again to read to my granddaughter.

I recall the frog’s name was an old fashioned one like “Gertrude”.

Wish I could tell you more.

156E: Miser’s Old Shoes Must Go! (solved)

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I’m looking for a picture book that I read to my kids in the 80’s about a miserly man in the middle east who refuses to throw away his old, stinky shoes. He gets in trouble with the Sultan at the public baths for his old shoes. He then tries many different ways to throw them away, and they keep coming back to cost him money and grief – he throws them into the reservoir and they end up clogging the city water pipes; he dries leaving them on the roof to dry, and a dog throws them off the roof onto a woman passing by down on the street – until he finally learns the lesson of throwing old things away when they are no longer useful.

 

156D: Haunted House Pop Up Book (Solved)

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When I was a kid, sometime between 1987-1992, my grandmother bought me a hardcover book that contained 2 or 3 haunted plays that all took place in a mansion (or maybe a hotel?). In the front cover of the book was a pop up of the mansion, that included several rooms, to be used as the set for the plays. If I remember correctly, it also included cardboard cut outs of the characters to move from room to room as you “acted out” the play. My cousin and I played with this book for hours, but for the life of me, I cannot remember the title or the author. It’s not the haunted pop up book by Jan Pienkowski and it’s not the Disney haunted house book. If anybody can help me figure this out, I would GREATLY appreciate it.

 

154E: Beautiful book of tiny people (solved)

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There was a full-color illustrated book at least 20 years ago. Each page was edge-to-edge covered with a cross-sectional view of cities, usually underground or inside plants, of dozens of tiny people (possibly mice?), going about their daily business. They often had sort of improvised technology, or had built devices into natural facades, like a periscope that looked like a flower. The illustration style was very realistic and extremely detailed.