This was a book in the Dr Seuss/PD Eastman format (i.e. about that size, not very long, line drawings with only a few colors) about a boy who starts noticing footprints on his ceiling and it turns out there is a boy who lives upside down. They make friends, but they can only go some places together. I remember a scene at a dock, for instance, where one was on top and the other was underneath. It has to have been published by 1964 or so.
Early to mid-1960s children’s picture book. Story about some kids (maybe one’s a young teen?) and their friend, a small troll who, I believe, wears a sweater and has a ’60s Beatles haircut. BIGGEST DISTINGUISHING FEATURE: It breaks the fourth wall — they know they’re in a book. Colorful, hip.
In the early 1970s, as a kid, I came across an extraordinary cloth-bound picture book: The story of a girl from another planet–a girl whose hair is made of actual gold. She is befriended by a young Earth boy who learns her secret, and tries to help her get away from bad guys who want to lock her up and harvest her hair.
The illustrations were photographs (or else very photo-realistic drawings).
I was fascinated by this little sci-fi tale. Years later I went back looking for it, and it was long gone.
I suspect it was not a new book even in the early 70s. It had the wear and tear of something that had been in circulation for years.
I would be grateful and astonished if you can find a title and author for this book!
I am looking for one of my childhood favorites from the 80s possibly 90s. It’s a picture book about a highway that always takes a family to the city (I think) for their summer vacation. One summer the highway decides to take them to the beach because the highway wants a vacation. The pictures that stand out in my mind are of a road twisting and turning, bumping a family to the beach. The road ends up in the waves of the ocean at a crowded beach. I feel like the title is something like Highway 101 Goes to the Ocean.
I am looking for a children’s book that I had in the 80’s. The latest being August 1986. There were 100 stories each being one or two pages long. There was an illustration for every story. The pages were 8 x 5 3/4. I do not recall the title of the book. However, I found “100 BEDTIME STORIES ” published in 1980 by Hamlyn, unfortunately this wasn’t it.
The book was hard covered with a white background and lots of pictures on the front.
Some of the stories are:
1. Space age Jimmy
2. Winston goes to sea
3. Jane and the wasp
4. Sparky and the cat
5. Playing indoors
6. First steps
7. A windy day
8. Blowing bubbles
9. Scrambled eggs
10. The diary
11. A pantomime
12. Dressing up
13. Adam’s scrapbook
14. Fun on wheels
15. Swimming lessons
16. The twins’ den
17. The library.
Picture book with almost watercolor like illustrations of pink and grey. Much whitespace. About a child (boy/girl don’t remember) and he/she looks into the reflection of the water (lake?) and fairy land is on the other side. He/she falls in and is trapped and cannot get home? Read in mid/late 80s.
Large book, about a sequoia or redwood in the pacific rainforest, it drops its nuts on the forest floor and several trees grow up around it, forming a circle. Ultimately it dies in a lightning storm, then becomes a nurse log. Beautiful artwork, animals, trees. Poignant story.
I’m pretty certain it was published before 90’s. As I remember each page spread was devoted to a wacky nonsense invention with rhyming description(I believe they were tongue twisters as well) and was illustrated showing the invention. I think there was an invention for each letter.
I am chasing the name of a children’s picture book that we borrowed from a library in the late 90’s. The book involved a girl who was in a room and was trying to decide on an outfit for the day. Each double page spread involved a different coloured outfit and the room transformed to contain multiple objects that matched the colour of the outfit. On each page was a chameleon to find as well. Finally the girl decides on a multi-coloured outfit.
Unfortunately I cannot recall the author’s name but recall that the title may have ended with the word “day”.
A children’s picture book I had when I was young. ( I was born in 1975) It was a heart-wrenching story about elephants.. It focused on the fact that elephants morn their dead. I believe the elephant heard was returning to a graveyard where one of their group had been been buried.