Halloween children’s book I read in 1978-79: a boy crosses a witch, who hexes him in his sleep with nightmares… possibly sent ants to swarm his bed. The boy solves his problem by carving a jack-o-lantern, which guards him while he sleeps.
In the late 1960’s a friend gave me a fairy tale book that she owned. I LOVED IT!!! It was a plastic coated hardcover, perhaps 8×10 (it was a larger book) with various scenes (in color) depicting the stories inside. One cover picture that I vividly remember was a princess on a glass hill at sunset. In the body of the book were a lot of drawings (black and white from what I remember). I think there was a knight in armor on the cover, but I could be mistaken. I also think there were pictures on the front and back cover. I LOVED the interior pictures and traced many. Stories that MAY have been inside were one about “Roland”, definitely princess on the hill story.
I kept the book for years, but thinking that I would not have children to share the book with, I gave it to my stepdaughter, who promptly lost it. (I love her a ton, but of course she didn’t value the book as much as I did – reading material is a hugely personal preference).
I did read fairy tales to my daughters, but I would love to have this book to share for possible grandchildren.
I received a poetry anthology of about 20 children’s poems titled something like “My First Book of Poetry” in the 1960s. It had one poem per page and simple black ink drawings. Some of the poems included: “The Fog” by Robert Frost, “Alexander Beetle,” by A. A. Milne, “The Spider and the Fly,” by Mary Howitt, “The Neighbor” (?) by Edna St. Vincent Millay and “Poor Tired Tim” by Walter de la Mare. I lost the book in moving and have not been able to relocate it for years. Any help would be much appreciated.
A girl named Katie throws a baseball through a church window and replaces it with a homemade quilt. On Christmas day, the quilt has changed into a stained glass window. Children’s book from the 1960s maybe?
I had a book as a child. Had to be in the early 80s. It was a book with pictures and words. A whole story from what I can remember. It was about a little boy that wanted to play outside but it was raining. His mother wouldn’t let him play outside and he built a train out of furniture in the house and played train all day until the sun came back out
I have this memory of a book about squirrels living in a village in the woods. My memory includes the cover: soft green hardcover book, that I discovered in the my grade school library in the 1950’s. That’s about all I remember about it but it captivated my imagination then.
My son had a favorite Richard Scarry book from the 1970’s. I think I purchased it at a ToysRUs store around 1978 or 1979. His favorite illustration was a two page illustration of a very detailed treehouse with all the items labeled, as the author did so well. There was a kitten in a basket being hoisted up to the treehouse. The image may have been an end cap of the book. I don’t remember which of the Scarry titles it was but it was one of the hardcover oversized books. I have been searching in vain for about four years now. If I at least knew the title of the book, it would make it a bit easier to find an old copy some day.
I’m looking for a vintage, illustrated children’s book that I believe was made in the 1940s or 1950s. In the story, a little boy (just one boy–no siblings or friends) somehow is invited to a fairy wedding and he dances and parties the whole night with the fairies, elves, goblins and toads before he has to go back home. Other details that stand out: he slides down a tunnel to get to an underground area where the “fairyland” is (my mom remembers this tunnel as starting at the base of a tree); he fills a jar with fireflies to make a lamp when walking through a dark place; at some point, either an elf or a toad or a fairy (some magical creature) is caught in something and he helps him escape and is rewarded by being a guest to a party/wedding (I think maybe the caught creature was the groom?); there is a cute little blushing bride who I believe is a fairy or something–I think the party was her wedding, but I’m not sure. My mother also remembers there being a lot of red-capped mushrooms throughout the book. Thanks!