Category Archives: Picture Book

161A: Snowman delivers flavored snow-cones around the world (solved)

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!

 

160C: two girls leave their mom and go into the woods meet God?

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!! 🙂

 

159A: Witch and Wizard Battle

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

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

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

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

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)

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.