Short story book read in UK aprox 1965. Think was thick cover & thick pages-each story had black and white line drawing at top. 1 story=Gnomes/ goblins knocking on doors asking for jobs- phrase used by goblins was “why to be sure”. Lady asked for hedges cut but they cut into shape of toadstools.
A children’s book with stories about witches & wizards from the late 80s/early 90s.
The book had colourful illustrations; one witch had striped leggings & funky punk clothing/ hair.
One story was about witch baking special muffins that turned a girl into a goblin to make friends.
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I think I mixed up a couple of stories from that book I had wanted to be found… I believe the good witch in that particular children’s book actually gives her neighbour-girl a hat that turns her into monster to make friends with the other little monsters that also live around the area… I hope you can find this book… I’ve been trying to search for it for many years.
I had an anthology of fairy tales, which I thought was called East of the Sun, West of the Moon. Whilst the format is very similar (girl traveling looking for something, told stories by the four winds), none of the versions I can find online match, so I may have the title wrong.
It definitely included the stories of:
The illustrations were beautiful but simple, maybe watercolour over ink lines. The characters were generally lithe with long, very straight hair.
It was a large book, with a picture on the front with a deep red/brown border around it. I would’ve been given it new somewhere between 1975-1985, in the UK.
Really hope you can help!
Little book from early 70′ / late 60’s about a boy that wants to fly, has animals with him, at the end I remember him in a helicopter. The book was thin, hard backed and cartoon type pictures on every page. I remember another page of him on a hill with the animals. Book was probably 5″h x 4″w
Hi! I’m looking for a children’s book – LIkely from mid to late 80’s. It was hard cover with beautiful full page illustrations. It was something about a boy who built a spaceship out of garbage – I remember a barrel being the fusalage – there was also a monster that was built out of garbage.
Children’s book about a train. Published 1960-70s. Rhythmic/rhyming book with verse” Clickety clack, clickety clack…..train going (a)’roud the track” It is NOT the book by Amy and Rob Spence. It was definitely published before I was born in 1978.
Additional Details: Approximate number of pages are less than 15; the colors within the book are reds/yellows. The verses were very rhythmic…you could almost sing them. It is also NOT the “Little Engine That Could” book.
I remember a getting a book out from the school library in grades 4-6 (1967-1970), though it might have been an older book even then. Don’t remember much about it except it took place in the fall, I’m thinking around Thanksgiving? and it may have had a mix of humans and animal characters in it. The reason I say this is I distinctly remember on the last page that a little girl goes back to someone’s “ house” that may have been in a tree stump? and had coffee and pumpkin pie. Definitely not “Cranberry Thanksgiving”, but had the same cosy, New England, kind of feel to it.
I am looking for a book with a story that my brother and I used to read in the 60s. We think it was called the Story of the Little Round Man. This funny round man lived in a ball-shaped house that could roll around very fast. In the story he saves some children wandering in the woods who find some beautiful shoes which, it seems, someone has left there for them to try. Tempted, they do try them on, but the shoes immediately force them to follow them all the way to a cave where a bad witch lives. They are her prisoners! The Little round man has to find a way to be directed to the witch’s lair. He puts on only one of the magic shoes, and, asking his rolling house to follow him, controls the shoe enough to discover where the witch lives, and can plan the escape of the children. The house is left outside the entrance and is spotted by the witch. Intrigued by the house, she steps inside, but the Little round Man jumps out from hiding, bangs the door shut, and orders the house to move as fast as possible with the witch inside (she’s all bones and angles), until she relents and accepts to save the children. I think the illustrations were black and white but can’t be sure.
This was an illustrated children’s book I had as a child in the mid sixties about a young boy who goes sailing with his father and looses his favorite marble in the cabin below. Years later as a young man, and with a child of his own, he discovers a shipwreck and finds his marble then restores boat
This is a picture book on what lies underneath a large metropolitan city, shown in cross-sectional drawings. I found this at a bookstore about four years ago, but it was a reproduction of a book originally published in the 1920’s or 30’s. All the cars on the street level were period automobiles with big scoop headlamps, like Packards and Pierce Arrows. All the illustrations were in color. Even though it is a contemporary publication, no bookseller I’ve talked to has a clue what I’m talking about. (And it’s not David Macaulay.)