A boy builds an airplane from a vacuum cleaner and flies off to rescue his dad. I think it’s to get him home for Christmas. On the way back home they stop off to buy presents for each other, and they buy the boy’s mom some perfume from Paris.
Addition: It’s a picture book – a fairly short story on large, colourful pages. I read it in the 1970s and it seemed of its time. Borrowed from my (then) local library, in fact. Would it help to mention I’m in the UK?
Probably 1950’s or earlier, a book with actual wood for front and back covers, like shingles, about life in a logging camp, with black and white drawings of the narrow-gauge railroad used, etc. I remember it as being from a child’s perspective, who was sent to or visiting the camp, and I seem to remember the cookshack and mealtimes as important.
My mom remembers a book that she read to me as a child and she has wondered what the title was ever since. I was a kid in the 80s, and the book was bought used, so: pre-1989 for sure.
The picture book is about a mother and daughter who hang sheets on a clothesline. Something about smelling the freshly washed sheets and then a storm coming.
Thank you for your help! It would be so cool to locate this for my mom.
Illustrated Book on Tree Houses
This is a black and white illustrated book on tree houses of almost impossible designs, of a Rube Goldberg or Dr. Seuss complexity, full of multiple levels, ropes, block and tackles, ladders, wooden shingles, stove pipes, etc. I remember the illustrations looked like Erik Blegvad’s style of crosshatching, but it may not be him. Very fun book I got from the church library when I was ten, so it would date from the 1960’s.
I can’t remember the title or the author of the book and only vaguely remember the story. However, I desperately want to read my little girl this book that my mother used to read to me as a child. It is about a little girl who wants to be a dancer, but than she either gets hurt, or has some problem with her fee and she has to wear special shoes, which are big and clunky. She thinks she won’t be able to dance in her recital anymore. But, instead of giving up she gets on stage and dances her heart out in her big clunky shoes and she has a great time and impresses everyone. My mother read it to me about 30 years ago. Please help me to find this.
Picture book, available in early ’70s. Illustrations in penciled sepia. A little boy enjoys a tree but grown-ups say it must be cut down. Eventually he is given a chair, his size, made from its wood, which soothes him, maybe with a spindled back. Not The Giving Tree.
Looking for a book about learning to care for different things. Each time the child is given a new object to care for (kitten, cheese, etc.), she cares for the new item as she was taught to care for the previous item thereby ruining it. This is a children’s book I remember from 50+ years ago.
This is a book that my mom read to me when I was a little girl in the late 80’s, early 90’s. I think it was called something like “Mrs. ______’s Cake Shop” (or possible Bake Shop) although I’m not sure and haven’t found anything by searching with those keywords.
I remember that it was about a lady who had a cake shop with all different kinds of cakes. The illustrations were really cute and it talked about how she made big cakes, and little cakes, and short cakes, and tall cakes….The illustrations showed cakes of all colors and sizes sitting on different platters. Some cakes had frosting and were very fancy, others had no frosting. Some were little like cupcakes and had pink frosting (I think) with cherries on them.
I think the story continued with her boxing up a cake, or several cakes, that she was going to deliver somewhere. As she is walking along with her cakes, it starts to rain. I think she didn’t bring her umbrella with her because she was holding all the cakes, or there is something about her umbrella in the story, but I’m not sure if its a main part of the story or not.
And that’s all I can remember!
This was one of my favorite books as a little girl and I can still remember the illustrations of all the little cakes in my mind but I just can’t seem to remember the title or how the rest of the story goes.
A boy kicks over a hive of beens and is stung so much he needs to be hospitalised. He is sent to the beekeeper (for care, or to apologise, or both) The bee keeper gives him a soup which shrinks him down so he can enter the hive. He comes to respect the bees and to feel better about himself
I have submitted two stumpers. We believe they’re by the same author, but don’t remember. We think the author is also the illustrator, but could be mistaken. These aren’t quite board books, but little hardback picture books for very young readers.
This second book is about a little girl, possibly named Susan, who feeds fish by the water’s edge. She falls in one day and is rescued and carried to shore by a big fish she has been kind to. Probably published in the late 1970s or early 1980s.
A remarkable and memorable thing about this book was its illustration.
The graphics were geometrical and simple, almost primitive, and the colors were bold. I don’t remember as well what “Susan” looked like, but her body may have been a triangle.
My parents bought the books for me at a little bookstore in Elmira, NY, when I was small, probably right around 1980-83. Would love to find these books for my own boy. Thanks for any help!