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.

My girlfriend is looking for a children’s picture book.  She would have read it as a child, in the early 1990s, so if I had to guess, I’d target the publishing of the book in the 80s, but it could be anything pre-1995. She says it was about a young dog (she’s 99.9% sure it was a dog) being tucked in at night, and he asks his parents about where they live (she even thinks the title of the book may have been something like “Where do we live?”).   His mom/dad told him about their street, then their city and planet. The artwork showed the other families in the book as anthropomorphic animals, and they all had unique houses (fish families had fish bowls, rabbit family had a hole in the ground, etc).  The houses stood out to her, but may have only been artwork, may not have been noted specifically in the story.  She believes the puppy may have been named Walter, or something similar.  I know this isn’t a lot to go on! 

In our small-town library, sometime between 1956 and 1959, I becamse fascinated by a large-format story book with darkly forbidding (Gothic!!) illustrations (maybe engravings, or duo-tone illustrations). I believe the story was about a girl and boy (sister and brother?) who were either lost or held captive by ___?? in a forest or a cave or some outlandish place. They were obliged (I think) to do manual labor of some kind — carrying something (ore?) or digging for something. I recall that it was a book my grandmother would not let me take out of the library on her card! I was only a beginning (but precocious) reader at the time (age 7, approximately), so cannot recall the title or the names of the characters, etc. But the words “forbidden” “hidden” “forest” “treasure” “lost” all seem likely terms to be associated with this book. I would LOVE to find it, read it, and solve this mystery before I die!!!