I am hoping you can help me with the name/author of a book that I loved as a kid in the 1970s – I think it was called “Girls and Boys and Boys and Girls” or something like that. It was a color, picture book probably aimed at 5-7 year olds.
The format was basically “Lee A. (who was a boy) likes to color and Lee B. (who was a girl) likes basketball” and so on – I think all of the kids in the book had names that were gender neutral – Lee, Chris, Jo, etc.
A book from the 1960’s! It is about Angel Uriel directing Heaven’s music. Middle grade level, blue and gold cover. Earthly part takes place in Germany, I think.
I am trying to locate an older book I read back in 5th grade elementary school, older than 1985 and possibly published before 1980. This is a small hardcover book (5 x 7?), children’s historical fiction. A mother and daughter have fallen from the graces (have disgraced or angered) the king and queen in France, maybe between 1600-1700 (did daughter say something to make the king mad?). They are being sent away (or flee) to New World, most likely Canada. I think the mother and daughter were seamstresses for the royalty and made their own clothes. Book is NOT Angelique, not The Frenchwoman either. Thank-you for trying to locate book, especially when I cannot remember title at all and am trying to find book over 30 years later!
It is a “scary” children’s picture book about a woman dressed in all black and she kidnaps children. She has a black hat with a black veil, yet has yellow eyes that can still be seen. She carries an umbrella and a bag of bricks. She has pilgrim buckle type shoes. She can run really fast and creates a black streak as she passes. As she kidnaps more kids, the parents of the remaining children send them to school with protection. The zookeeper’s son arrives with a boa constrictor around his neck, the beekeeper’s son wears a beehive, the military kid rides up in a tank, etc. The lady in black even takes a teacher. They eventually catch her and she leads the police to a cave where the children and teacher are kept, unharmed. The lady then slips out of the handcuffs and escapes. The book was written in English and had colored illustrations. I read it in Minnesota, USA in the mid-to-late 90s. I remember a specific illustration in which the lady is hiding behind a pole at a bus stop, just before she takes a kid.
I’m looking for a children’s book from the 50’s or 60’s. I can’t remember the title. The book is about a family of mice that ride a train to the beach for vacation. They are dressed up like people (in clothes) for the train ride and I can see (in my mind) their little tails coming out of their clothes. They love the sand, the beach and the creatures on the beach.
The illustrations are color but I’d say that they are pretty minimal – that is to say – great illustrations but not a lot of extra stuff in them.
I sure hope you can locate this book.
This is probably really impossible, but I read a series of books about a group of animals in the 60’s. The otters seemed to be a main family, it was a young reads book not a picture book. I can’t remember the name and the title, but was hoping someone would know of it.
I know this is all very vague, but I thought it was worth a try.
My daughter (now age 20), has been searching for years to find a book she loved to check out from her elementary school library in first grade +/-. She has re-searched the library many times, spoken to teachers, friends and has had no luck. I remember her bringing it home, so I know it isn’t a figment of her imagination.
What she remembers:
— Picture book of a horse in a forest of silver trees, limited (if any) text
— Illustrations in black ink/watercolor style
— Limited color palette, black, white, gold and maybe silver
— Possibly part of a series/pack of picture books
— Horse is main character on some kind of quest or adventure, with many crystals in the forest, possibly gold
— Special lake in the forest, perhaps also a cave
— Likely blue hard cover, she thinks larger than 8.5×11
— Likely an “older” book, I’m guessing from 1960s or even older
This is a hardback picture book we read in the 1980s from the library. One garden is transformed (I think topiary is involved), then gradually other gardens in the town. Drawings are like wonderful aerial maps of the transformation. I recall streets being very rectangular and regular in shape.
This was a hardback picture book we read in the library in the 1980s. Two or three children go to a fair. On the way to or at the fair they get some small items (possibly a gold star?), which are put in a ‘cornucopia’. I think this was pictured as a paper cone. On the way home through the forest, robbers steal their treasures. I think it had the line ‘what wicked robbers to steal such precious things’, the point being these are items of no commercial value, but things of wonder to the children.
I read this book in the early 1990s, but have no idea when it was published. The details I remember are that there is a girl who is for some reason befriended by fairies. She shrinks down and goes to visit them. Maybe she’s going to become their queen or something? For some reason she ends up with this necklace made of thorns that she can’t take off. The only other thing I remember is that the fairies would feed her nectar from a flower.