I am looking for a story we had on audio cassette. It was about a child who kept repeating “I’m not sleepy yet, I’m not sleepy yet, I’M. Not. Slee-py.” The child would not be consoled until they had their teddy pig. “I want my teddy pig!” Thanks.
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318P: Meeting the Owl and the Pussycat Before Bedtime
I am looking for a book I had a child. It would be likely from the 80’s or 90’s. It was about a girl [or may be a girl and her cousin] having a bath and they dive down into the depths of the tub until they are swimming in the ocean, and they come out the other side and meet the owl and the pussycat in their Pea green boat. They go on some type of adventure and end up back at home for bedtime. I’ve been racking my brain for a LONG TIME on this one.
318O: Teenage Boy Won’t Stop Growing
318N: Mermaid with two fins, gives “prince” lock of her hair
Looking for picture book loosely based on The Little Mermaid. In this version, the mermaid has two tails instead of one. She meets and falls in love with a sea captain, and when he leaves she gives him a lock of her hair to wear around his finger. She cries on the rocks like her grandmother did once after he leaves. The captain forgets about her but encounters a witch later on who reminds him of what he promised, and I think it ends with him jumping overboard.
318M: Pitta Pat the Tabby Cat
Seeking child's book from the 1950's. Tall & narrow with a cut-out top. She's Pitta Pat the tabby cat, the cat who couldn't remember. She chews her soup and drinks her bread and sleeps in the bathtub instead of the bed. She's Pitta Pat the tabby cat, the cat who couldn't remember.
318L: British book about two pigs day in town!
This was a British (I think) book about two pigs whose parents were having a party, so they gave them each like a dollar to go out and have fun while they set up. They went out and went to the candy store and all these other places, and then at the end of the day they didn’t save enough money to ride the bus home, so the candy store owner gives them a ride home. And something about lollipops! And I think it has the word “town” in the title. Like, the pigs go to town, or a day in town, or something something town. It was purchased in the early 1990s in a small bookstore in New Hampshire, where we also got another book called Animal Party, which is also British. Maybe the same publisher?
318J: Poems Teach Kids English
Seeking hardback book from the late 60's early 70's for kids, I think had a yellow cover, with poems about parts of speech like "beware the dangling participle" and a snake dangling from a tree. Probably 8 or 10 different poems for different parts of speech. Seems like one of the poems has mugwumps but I am not 100% sure. Sorry I can't remember more.
318I: Large Bird Takes Away Overbearing Woman
318G: No Place Like the Farm for These Pigs
Looking for a children’s book about 2 pigs on a farm who feel like they are missing out on something. They clean themselves up and go out into the world. However nothing is as they thought it would be so they head back to the farm to their nice mud hole again.
318F: 1970s/1980s Illustrated Fairytale About the Plague
I’m trying to find an illustrated storybook set in a medieval fantasy setting. It may be a children’s book but the story and theme are very morbid. I think the book was published in the late 1970s or early 1980s. The illustration style is drawn in detail and colored, possibly watercolor.
The protagonist is a young hero, possibly a prince, who is betrayed or abandoned by the woman he loves. Perhaps their courtship was called off after he performed a great deed or quest for her father?
He somehow ends up heartbroken and dying on a small island in the sea.
He stays alive by sucking the salt and tears from the tattered and faded blue or black cloak that he wears. Eventually the cloak becomes magically imbued with a toxic curse and is blown on the wind to the kingdom where his former lover lives.There it spreads a deadly plague, possibly the Black Death. I vaguely recall an image of the woman dying from the plague with birds strapped to her feet (an ineffective cure meant to ward off the plague)
Does this ring a bell for anyone?
