This is for my mom, so I can’t provide all that many details. It is a book that she read in the 60’s, so could have been published in the 1950s or 1960s. It is about two turtles who are walking to school. One detail she remembers is that they were carrying books wrapped in cord or twine instead of in a back pack.
I unfortunately do not remember the name or author of this book. I received it for a Christmas present as a child probably between 1955 – 1957. The book was about Santa Claus delivering presents on Christmas Eve. He stops in the forest for a break to eat the sandwiches and coffee that Mrs. Claus packed for him. He sits under a tree to eat and falls asleep. The animals in the forest find him asleep and decide not to wake him – but to deliver the presents for him. The large animals take the bigger gifts and the small animals the smaller ones. My favorite part of the book was the skunk – being too small to climb to the roof to deliver his present, leaves it at the front door. There was even a picture of him doing this. There are illustrations on each page. My memory of the title was “The Animals Christmas”, but I have never been able to find this book by this name. At the time I received this book I lived in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. It was given to me by my grandmother and she would have purchased it in a local store.
I am searching for an old children’s book that was read to our 6th grade class back in the mid 60’s.
I am not certain of the title of the book, but I thought it had the word “Incredible” in it.
Other details, not certain about them:
I seem to think the author’s name was S.E. Stevenson. I can picture the book on the shelf in the school library, and it was near the end of the fiction section. The cover was red, white and blue, with simple graphics. I think there were birds flying along the ocean shore.
The story was about a brother and sister, Benji and Betsy? – who were sent to work in a mill after their parents died.
The story took place in either England or New England, I remember British terms used.
There was a mean foreman at the mill, who was very harsh with the workers, but was semi-friendly to Betsy
I thought the book won either a Caldicott or Newberry award, but I checked the lists and didn’t seem to see it.
I’m looking for a hardcover compendium of fairy tales bought for me around 1990 in the UK (I don’t know if it was published then). It was heavily illustrated and contained The Little Match Girl; The Magic Fishbone; The Dragon Princess;The Little Mermaid; Ali Baba – amongst others – Many thanks.
My sister and I have been always on the lookout for a book that was hers and then mine which was about a birthday girl waking up on her birthday and with a bluebird on her windowsill I believe and the story follows her day. She receives a glockenspiel as a gift.
It’s possibly a Golden Book or Wonder Book and she would have had it in the late 1950’s.
As a child I was gifted a hard cover picture book, written in the late 40’s or 50’s. It contained wonderful pencil-drawn illustrations of sleek and aerodynamic autos of that era. They were drawn from the perspective of a child viewing from a sidewalk in a busy city. I do not recall the name of the book, or even the story, but I have vivid memories of the drawings.
I am looking for a children book I had in my childhood all I remember is that there was a peeking mouse on a hole on a wall, an old man, a cat and a bathtub. The old man was in the bathtub. The art was amazing almost vector style. I was maybe 5 or 4 when I had this book I wish I remember its title I know it was vintage between 1960 to maybe 1978 I had this book in the 80s.
I am looking for a nursery rhyme picture book that I had in the mid to late 1980’s. The measurements of the book are approx. 7 by 7. The book is at least 90 pages; it was pretty thick. The illustrations are very bright and vibrant and have been described as “retro kitsch” similar to Virginia Parsons illustrations. The rhymes are the original English versions. For example, instead of “Ring-around-the rosie” it reads Ring-a-ring o’roses”. If you do a google image search for “retro kitsch” and “nursery rhyme” you will see a woman selling pages from the book on Etsy. i have contacted her and she claims to have no information about the book itself. There may have been some fairy tales mixed in with the rhymes, not sure if I am remembering that correctly. I beleive there was some red on the cover. It was a hardcover book and the pages have a matte finish. Thank you for your help!
I would check this book out of the library when I was in elementary school. I would put the time period between 1990-1995. The book in question is an illustrated children’s book about a boy whose toys either come to life for real or in a dream. They are mostly toy soldiers and in the book are wonderful two page color illustrations of these scenes with the toys. I remember one scene is in a bath tub with a toy boat battle. I don’t think the book was any older than the eighties but I obviously could be mistaken.
A book of rhymes, one of which was “Under the raft Melissa dived to find some shells for Joe. But all she found was seaweed, and a crab that pinched her toe.” Also. Billy’s bouncing ball as big as he which ended up in a tree and one about a black cat covered in flour. Thank you.