Category Archives: Picture Book

148B: Little Boy Flies on Quilt Each Night

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I am looking for a picture book that was one of my favorites when I was five or six, so that would put it around 1968/1969, or possibly older if it wasn’t newly published. I remember borrowing this from my public library in NJ and my mother reading it to me.   I’ve searched your Stumper results and haven’t found the one I was looking for. What I remember:  a little boy leaves his room each night and flies through the air on his quilt. I think he flies all around his town, maybe has a few adventures.  I think it was a patchwork quilt, and maybe at the end he comes back and takes his little sister out with him.  Almost all of my other Stumpers have been solved, and this is one of the last beloved book memories I am trying to solve.  Thanks for your help!

 

148A: Yellow-checkered (?) apron with ruffles

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I read this in the 1970s but it was probably from the 1950s. I believe it was a short picture book in which someone is making an apron out of (possibly) yellow-checkered or calico cloth, but there isn’t quite enough material. She ends up sewing a ruffle on the bottom to make it work.

This book might have had other fashions in it and been printed in just three colors – blue, pink and yellow?? – with black outlines. I have a recollection of ’50s-style flared A-line skirts and tiny-waisted tops. But I might be confusing two different stories.

 

147D: “Going Swimming”

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. I will be amazed if you can find this book as I think it was just published locally in the UK. It was written by a mother who does swimming lessons I think. It is a small book, paperback, pretty sure the title is “Going Swimming”. It is about a boy william and his mother and baby sister Vicky going swimming. William has a swimming lesson. At the end they all have a cup of tea and biscuit. On the back of the book is a black and white photograph of the author with her daughter swimming in a pool. The pictures in the book are very distinct, they are quite lifelike, the children are quite ugly! It is strange because white children in the book have not been “coloured” in and black children in the book have a sort of grey hue to their skin. I think it was very cheaply published, maybe even as an educational book for a local council???

I can decribe the book in much more detail if you want but don’t know the author or illustartor. It is so annoying. It is a childhood book of mine which I have now been reading to my daughter so I remmeber it clearly as we have only just lost it recently (2 weeks ago). Because it is so old and obscure I have not been able to find it on google searches. If you can find it I will be so happy!!

145T: Honeycomb Border

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Children’s picture book circa 1980.Most pages had a honeycomb border with bees, containing the illustrations.Story may have been set in the Middle Ages.My niece was born in 1976,so I’m guessing the book was published before she was 8 or 9.I may be remembering the bees commenting like a greek chorus.