I can not remember if the book itself is from the 80’s or if it was a bit older. ( I was given it in the 80’s) I’m not 100% sure if it had “Mother Goose” in title. It had all the classic fairy tales with illustrations. I know for sure it had Gustave Dore’s illlustration for Cinderella as well as Walter Crane’s for Beauty and the Beast. These illustrations were the ones I remember being in the book.
I’m looking for a short story I read years ago about a girl from a well-off family who snuck out while everyone in her house was napping. She walked around until she found some kids from a less well-off family playing in the street. She played with them and was entranced by the fact that they didn’t have adults following them every minute, and by their different language patterns and food. Eventually, the little girl’s nurse (nanny) showed up to take her home. The kids she was playing with were fascinated by the little girl referring to the nanny as her nurse. They asked if she was sick because she had a nurse, but she explained that the nurse just took care of her.
I’m looking for a children’s book that was available around 1990 (not sure if that is the publication date or not). The story details I can remember are that a girl is either kidnapped or befriended by a fairy, and her mother tries to get her back. When the mother finds the daughter, she is told she has to hold on to her no matter what. The fairy then turns the daughter into different things trying to get the mother to let go (snakes, thorns, and finally hot iron). As the mom holds on to the hot-iron version of the daughter, the metal melts and turns back into the actual girl and they can leave together.
The version of this book that I remember had gorgeous illustrations in sort of an art-nouveau/greek style. Very detailed and beautiful. Thank you for the help in identifying the title/author!
I first read it when I was somewhere between first and third grade, in the early ‘70’s, and, unfortunately, don’t know what its cover or illustrations looked like, since I read it in braille. I have only the vaguest description, but hope this helps me find its title so I can now read it through adult eyes. It involved several kids who built, I think, a mechanical horse that time-traveled (maybe). Their workshop was someone’s basement—I remember they had to move some “lead weights” periodically, and I remember this only because, at the time, having never encountered the word as pronounced “led”, it took me a while to catch on that they weren’t “leed weights,” but were, indeed, “led weights”. I’m guessing it may have been 150-200 pages in print.
This book is one of a series of books by a female illustrator (and for some reason I think she has an Asian name). They are all different stories from different cultures. The one I am searching for (and found years ago on a site from Australia when I still remembered the actual name but neglected to write it down) is a story about an East Indian Prince who listens to a parrot’s advice about a Princess. The Princess has many sisters and an overbearing father. The Prince is cast out into the wild, I think he’s beaten up by other Princes, and the parrot is there with him to give him advice. I can’t remember if the parrot is more of a trickster parrot who gets the Prince into trouble, or a helpful parrot. I think they end up together (Prince & Princess) and I don’t know what happens to the parrot. Regardless, the illustrations are simply beautiful and with crisp and clear colours belonging to the mid-century era of illustration. I believe it’s oriented landscape, about 8”x11” (or smaller, but not by much), and it’s paperback. My Mum bought it in the early 1970s Victoria, BC, Canada, but I’m not sure if she bought it used or new.
There was a book that I always took out of my elementary school library between 1975 and 1978. Although I do not have the title, what I recall is as follows:
The book is about witches and fairies. The little witch in the story never felt right with the other witches, they were mean. I think she used to see the fairies and wish she was one of them. The middle gets fuzzy but towards the end she discovers that when she was a baby she was caught in the witches web and that’s how she came to be with them. But she was really a fairy and was returned to them.
I know this is not much but at 47 years old I cannot put this story out of my mind. I have always been an avid reader and hope to find this book. It will haunt me otherwise.
Hey guys … I’m looking for a book that I always checked out in elementary school, which was about 1980-1986. All I have to go on is what was on the cover, which was a robot, a knight (maybe) and either a huntsman, woodsman or Robin Hood. It might have been about time travel? Thanks!
This is an old (perhaps 1950’s?) children’s chapter book about a young girl living in a small Maine coastal lobster town, where her father is a lobsterman. I don’t specifically remember her mother being in the story… The main story line is that someone is stealing lobsters from traps in the town and somehow her father becomes a suspect – I think related in some way to a red sash from one of her dresses that he has in his pocket, that people think is the mask that the thieves were using. Somehow, his innocence is confirmed and I think she has something to do with it….
There are other pieces to the story as well, about her daily life, and I remember a part where she talks about listening to the rain pattering on the tin roof of their house.
Unfortunately, I do not remember any other specifics. Any help would be sincerely appreciated!
A picture book that I checked out repeatedly from my elementary school library. No idea of title. I was checking it out 1986-1988ish, and I remember it being newer, so I’d guess printing would be late ’70s-early ’80s. The girl plants different things on one page, and then when you flip the page, the tree has grown from those “seeds.” I specifically remember her planting diamonds/gems and getting a tree covered in necklaces (I remember that tree as a shimmery blue-white). I feel like there was also a hat tree that grew. There were definitely several different ones. I also feel like there was an old man/grandfather character. I think the ending was some moral about planting love and getting a family, but I’m least certain about that.
Would love to get this book for my daughters. Many thanks for your help!
My query is on a book I read in the mid 1960’s, however I don’t know when it was published. It was a child’s book about a young student (I believe a girl) whose parents worked in a restaurant. Because of that, she “had” to bring lovely, delicious restaurant leftovers for her school lunches. I vividly remember the descriptions of her covering her desk with a checked cloth, and taking out all this elegant, gourmet food. The twist was that she was ashamed of her lunches, for being different. I hope you can help!