Category Archives: Picture Book

149B: Caroline and her Friends (solved)

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I had a children’s (picture) book in the 60’s called something like “Caroline and her Friends.” Caroline was a little girl but her friends were all animals. They traveled around the world. I don’t remember much text, but the illustrations were marvelous and detailed, sometimes a 2-page spread, in which each animal friend was doing something that fit their nature: being scared or brave etc. There was a storyline of being castaway after their ship sank, they built a raft, ended up in India where they helped a prince regain his kingdom (he’s trapped in a pit with a tiger when they first find him, I think).  There may have been two books in a series. At the end of one, they return to Caroline’s house and do spring cleaning. At the end of another, they are in a ski resort, one of the animals breaks a leg and has to stay inside. I may not actually have the name Caroline right. My mother threw this book away when it got moldy in the attic and I’ve longed to see it again for years.

149A: Three animals living in a tree

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This is a story of, I believe, three animals.
There is a crow, and two others whom I cannot remember. These three animals live in a tree that they share.  They are trying to survive, and much of the story surrounds their attempts to Cook good meals.  They may make stone soup.  The book has chapters and it has some illustrations.  It focuses on animals staying warm and staying well fed.  For example, They eat biscuits.  I would LOVE to know the title of this book.  Help?
My Mom gave me the book in the 3rd grade.

148K: angry boy destroys reality

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hi there. i’m looking for a book that i read when i was a child (early 90’s) and my sister recomended this site.

from what i (think) can remember of the book a boy goes to bed angry (not where the wild things are!) and subsequently his foul mood starts to make the world break. first his room cracks and then later on the world becomes flooded and there is a picture of him sat on the roof of his house, leaning agains the chimney with his arms crossed as he watches things float past (at one point i think he hangs onto his bedroom door as it floats). i think the book ends with the whole world (reality) having been destroyed.

i think that the book used the colour blue a lot and my mother says that she remembers that it wasn’t very inundated with language- mostly pictures 

 

148G: bicycle ride under road

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One of my favorite books as a kid was about a man who rode his bicycle into a crack in the road; the crack keeps getting larger and larger until the man finds himself riding through a giant ravine underneath the road. I think there may have been a plant or vine that grabbed his bicycle tires and dragged him into the ravine. I think the drawings were in black and white.

I was born in the early 1980s so the book was probably published in the mid-late 70s or early 80s, less likely 1960s although it was sort of psychedelic.  

 

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.