I’m looking for a book about a man and his dog. The story is told from the dog’s perspective. The man also has a hen who loses her toes to frostbite. Not much to go on, but it’s all I remember. Thanks.
Small late 60’s/early 70s children’s book- I ‘think’ it was about quiet cozy things to do, but I especially remember a picture of a snail outside in a light rain by pebbles and I think an upside down pail in one picture. I’m pretty sure it was watercolor illustrations. Sorry so vague I was quite little and my grandmother used to look at the book with me.
This book is at least 25-30 years old. It was about mice/ rats in a hospital after hours. There was one character with a broken tail from a trap and they had their own hospital ward with little beds for the mice/rats. The imagery was quite dark, not typical for a kids book.
I have been trying FOREVER to remember/find the book I read as a kid at our medical clinic. I have a lot of allergies, asthma, hay fever…in short, I was sick a lot plus I have 2 younger siblings so I was at the doctor’s office A LOT! I remember reading this one book when I was there all the time, but can’t find it…SO PRAYING you can help me finally remember the book! It’s about either a goose (or gander) living in a house…a spider gets into the house and the goose/gander try getting the spider to leave or try killing it a lot of different ways, but the spider doesn’t leave. The goose/gander do major damage to their house (it might break a pipe or something because I vaguely remember the house having water in it)…in the end the goose/gander is so upset & tired of spider that the goose/gander leave the house (I think the spider follows it or something??) It’s a short children’s book. I just remember thinking the book was so funny…all the ways the goose/gander tried getting rid of the spider & the spider always survived but the goose/gander ruined it’s house in the process…just a cute, funny story…and a big childhood memory…again…since I was there SO OFTEN. If you can help me figure out what book this is I would SO GREATLY APPRECIATE IT!
I only have a vague memory of the ending of the book I’m looking, which goes something like this:
Many years later, she [a young girl during most of the story] received a neatly wrapped package with no return address. Inside was a soft, silver scarf. When she held it, she knew it was the silver scarf and felt a mixture of emotion, sadness, a tear, a bit of happy memory. As she held it, she thought about wearing it, but then, “Not today,” carefully folded the scarf and put it gently in a favorite drawer in her dresser.
Will appreciate any thoughts on the name of the book.
I am trying to find a children’s alphabet book that was produced in the 19070’s. The book was an A to Z and contained black and white pictures. I believe the photographer was a relatively famous Philadelphia photographer at the time. A – was Airplane and Q – was Quilt. The pictures were all of children – not illustrated. I believe the authors name or photographers name was Ann or Anne. Thank you for your help.
Sometime in the 1960’s I read a folk tale about a little hen who’s house was a mess so she never got anything done. She decided to go to the wise man in the next village to ask for advice the next day. When she got up in the morning she couldn’t find her shoes and spent all morning looking for them. When she found them she put them by her bed for the next day, when she would try again. On day two she had her shoes but couldn’t find her skillet to cook breakfast, so she hunted all morning until she found it, then washed it and left it on the stove for the next day…
She finally realizes the solution to her problem and spends the day cleaning her house instead of going to the village.
For some reason this stuck with me as a kid and I’d like to find the story again.
A young boy is the bat/ball boy for a baseball team. Trying to help them improve he searches for four leaf clovers, makes some for the team. There is a fake bunt and a hit in the game to win. Read in late 1960’s or early 70’s.
My friend read this storybook during her childhood in the early 1970s. She remembers it was about a little girl who was tired of her toys and ruins them all. She somehow ends up with either a boy or a bear who becomes her new toy. She forces the boy or bear to do what she wants, including playing maid and brushing her hair. The boy or bear eventually gets tired of this and throws the spoiled girl out in the snow.
Thanks so much! If there is anything else I can provide, do please let me know.
This is a book that was in the library when I was in grade school so early 90’s. It was already vintage then, probably 70’s-80’s, but I actually have no idea as to the publishing date. It is about a young girl who acquires/has a dollhouse with a little witch living inside who is alive and rides around on her broom. If I remember correctly the house is in the room where she is staying with an old relative. I think someone’s name started with an S, possibly Samantha, but I could be mistaken.