Hi there, hoping you can help find a book. I remember reading it in the late 80s/early 90s. It was about a child in Rome who lost his or her cat. They go all over the city looking for it and eventually find the cat in the “mouth of truth” (La Bocca della Verità) statue. I remember it was a blue cover and fairly larger than a regular sized book. It was in English. Hoping you can help track it down!
Something along the line of 3 brothers, get to a meet girl to marry if they are wise. The youngest chooses to carry food, a foolish brother carries an empty bag but it fills up as trash is put into it. Its been at least 35 years since I heard it in library. Its not the typical Chinese brothers with powers books.
Little girl moves from crib to “big bed” It as a large sized book with colourful illustrations, and just one or two sentences per page. It talked about all the worries the little girl has about the move, and then how much she liked her new bed. I remember she said It was great because now there was room for daddy to sit with her at bedtime and give her “nose-nuzzles”. We used It 18 years ago to ease our daughter’s transition to a bed from her crib.
I’m looking for a picture book I loved as a preschooler – about 1980 – about a mother bird and her chicks (maybe living on the prairie) who scare a fox by carrying foxtails in their beaks (the fox perhaps thinks they’ve successfully conquered other foxes)? May be a Canadian book (lived in Canada then).
I’ve been trying to remember the details on this one for years, and can’t pull enough out to find it.
It’s a young adult book I read several times growing up, always taking it out of the library. It was stocked in the first shelf of the Young Adult section, which means the author was somewhere between A and maybe N, I think.
The cover had, in the top left corner, a boy standing on the edge of the school roof, with wings or a parachute or contraption of some kind. Down below were two boys looking up at him, possibly waving their arms or shouting at him not to jump.
The boy on the school roof wasn’t one of the main characters, though, just an oddball who was part of the local color of the school. The main character had just arrived at a very odd boarding(?) school, where many of the kids were quirky. I believe he found someone kind of normal already there to take him under his wing.
That’s all I remember.
Early- to mid-1970’s: A boy builds robots in a non-urban area. A lightning strike makes them autonomous. At the end of the book, he tells them to “stop rowing for a minute. ” They take the instruction literally and, 60 seconds later, row away, never to be seen again. IIRC the book had some insignia on its paperback cover saying that it had won some sort of literary award.
This is the children’s picture book I am looking for:
Circa 1940s +/- a decade
Pictures are, I think, in water color
Colors are dark and muted as it is night time
Story has to do with houses that – at night – gossip among themselves
Pictures show mouths and eyes and expressions on the fronts of the houses
Some of the houses are very proud and snooty to other houses
That’s all I remember.
This was a series of books that I read between 1975 and 1981 (I think). Each book featured 20 or so stories (2-6 pages long) of a super sleuth who solved a mystery, that invited you to figure out how he solved it. Answers were in the back of the book. The lead detective was a “Dr.” and he had a sidekick who narrated, and were set in England.
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I’m looking for a older child/young adult book. It is set in earlier times, though I can’t recall for certain if it was as far back as Victorian. A young girl goes to live with an older, severe relative. She has a hard life but is befriended by a small grey kitten and a mysterious girl who is a ghost. The ghost gives the girl clues to the cause of her unrest The girl refers to the kitten as “gray one” or “little gray one”.
I am looking for a children’s picture book that I bought in the 1990’s. I think published in Canada. It was about colorful wacky people who move into a town that doesn’t like them because they are different. The townspeople are snarky and grumpy. In the end the wacky colorful people win them over. It’s about discrimination.