I’m looking to find my favorite story I read as a child in the early 80s. It was about a young princess who loved strawberry jelly. Every page was about her love for this jelly. I’m almost certain it was strawberry. There was one page in which she was in an old fashioned tub washing away the sticky jelly. The princess had light brown hair. That’s all I can recall.
From what I recall about the ending of the book: There is an older doll who used to be played with all the time but now had long since been forgotten and was put in an attic. One Christmas she comes down the stairs to experience the warmth and beauty of the Christmas tree lights once everyone had gone to bed on Christmas Eve. While she is downstairs, Santa Claus realises he forgot a present for one of the children (was this an orphanage?) and he spots the doll. (And for some reason I keep thinking the doll’s name was Clara.) The doll is mortified that Santa picks her up and puts her under the tree as a gift. She is too old (too stiff) to make it back up stairs and she realises how outdated he clothes and hair look when the newer dolls are laughing at her. The angel atop the tree looks down and feels sorry for her so she somehow manages to adorn the tree with lots of new clothes. When the children come down the stairs on Christmas morning they want to play with the old doll who now looks new and stylish. (I do not recall if the doll was intended for one special child or not).
I am trying to locate a title of a book
The book is from the 1950s or 1960s. It is a children’s book about a little boy and his pony. Him, his dad and grandpa are searching for a baby calf.
It is a hardcover book – blue in color but black and white pages.
My dad is trying to remember the name to hopefully track down the book to buy for my little girl.
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