I read this book in the 1980s.
Book features a long necked dinosaur skeleton in a museum. A child tries to feed the dinosaur food but it keeps dropping out of his bones. He then fills the dinosaur skeleton with coloured balloons.
Please help I loved this book
This is an obscure a book that has an Easter theme or at least involved rabbits who produced these really ornate Easter eggs, in which some or at least one of them had another world inside. I seem to recall something about a Grand bunny or master rabbit or similar; but there also seemed to be some kind of theme where a child escapes their current world into one of the eggs (like a pied piper kind of story)
YA book from the 1970s about girls learning to become witches. I remember one scene where the test was that they couldn’t walk on the floor, so they were all walking on the furniture. Thanks!
I read this book to my children between 1966 and 1970. The story is about a rhinoceros who escapes from a zoo and two children, a boy and a girl, find the rhinoceros in a park and see to it that he gets home. My recollection is that the book had a brown cover. I don’t remember it having a dust jacket, although it may have when it was new. We must have purchased it at a local bookstore in Northridge, California.
When I was a child, we enjoyed many books from the local library (located at Coventry Rd and Euclid Heights Boulevard in Cleveland Heights, Ohio).
A favorite was about two bugs. I remember them pictured as lady bugs named Pimpernel and Cochineal. Their friend Bagley Beetle was sick and they went to visit him and gave him some slippers they made for him.
Book was probably printed 1930’s or earlier.
Girl gets lifted by a big bird to a far off fantasy land. She has golden blonde hair and brown eyes. All of the people in the new land have white hair and blue-green eyes, and the kids ride to school on six-legged unicorns.There is a wise old woman who grants each person one answer to an important question in their lifetime. This was a children’s book I borrowed from the library in 1972 or 1973.
This book was a little over my head when I was around 7 (ironically). It was not a Little Golden Book nor a Disney book!
It was a story book or what seemed to be a collection of related stories. An elementary epic? May be Scandinavian stories rather than Soviet.
The early 1970s edition I had was bright blue and the cover was at least 8 ½ x 11.
There were seven (or only six) sisters. In the picture book version each sister was wearing an ornate but monochromatic dress. I’m thinking they were different examples of the regional dresses worn, or maybe clan-type styles. But with a hippie-vibe art style.
I think each sister was sent out on some kind of unusual coming-of-age search. Or maybe they were kidnapped by seven (or six) different people and each had a story about how they got home.
I was a natural reader, but either the words were a bit too big for me or I was too interested in what they were wearing to remember much of the plot. (That, and home wasn’t peaceful so I was sleep-deprived…so it was a big, wordy, beautiful blur of a book.)
I’d still have the book, but since I didn’t seem to be reading it, Mom gave it away to charity. I still have books that I was given when I was even younger…
I work at a high school library and am trying to find titles of two books I had read as a young person back in the 70s. Both were probably titles that I had ordered off of the book order form/flyer that the school handed out back in the day where the kids could order really cheap books, like maybe Scholastic or Troll or something similar.
In this children’s book, a pet alligator lives in a penthouse apartment. He wants a garden to be on his balcony. One day, he falls off of the balcony to either get at a plant or a balloon animal. (Somehow, balloon animals are involved. ) He gets stuck in a tree, and his owners frantically search for him. At the end, they buy plants to put on his balcony. Each page was full of intricate details when you examined them closely.
I’m looking for a book about a little girl who forms a friendship with a grumpy weatherman. Her class is due to go on a school trip, to the beach I think, but the teacher tells them they can’t go if it rains.The girl decides to go and see the weatherman to request nice weather.The weatherman is in his weather factory and can see that she is on her way to find him. He sends wind, rain, snow, and all sorts of bad weather so she can’t make it. For some reason, I think there is a picture of her in a snow storm on Inkerman Street. The street name might be mis-remembered though. When she finally gets there, the weatherman is cross because people only come to see him when they want something. The girl realizes he’s lonely and they make friends. He shows her round his weather factory and makes her cloud ice cream with rainbows. He gives them good weather and the trip goes ahead. It was probably published in the 70s or 80s. The illustrations in Anthony Browne’s books really remind me of the illustrations. I loved it so much but my mum was a teacher and took all our childhood books to her school when we out grew them, and no one can remember what this one was called.