Here is what we remember: The cat that lives in Peter’s house awoke one day when he heard a mouse scratching around on the window sill. What was that the pussy cat said and settled down again on his bed. All was quiet in the peters house. So back to work went the little mouse.
Captain Kangaroo takes zoo’s animals home to their habitats. In an airplane, they travel, slowly dropping different animals off: camels, brown bear. Penguins are last, and say “Too hot! Too hot!” when in the Sahara, etc. World map at the end showing their travels. Orig bought in Chicago.
Book is approximately 30 years old. Â Title and author unknown.
Part of the book went like this “knee pads, shin guards, ankle bracers, that’s what’s worn by roller racers” and another part talked about “Bethesda Fountain” which is part of Central Park in NY. Â That’s all we can remember. Â Any help in finding this book would be GREAT. Â Our daughter is having our first Grandchild in November and she fondly remembers this book and would like to have it for her child.Â
I got this book from the picture-book section of the library in the 1990s, I think. It was quite new then. It is about someone who wants to make an angel cake as good as her mother’s (grandmother’s?) but she doesn’t know the secret ingredient. Some angels come and make the cake for her, I think. Maybe they eat it too? I am not too clear on the plot, but I thought the illustrations were BEAUTIFUL! The angels are obviously portraits of real people. Obviously, someone else loved this book too because it disappeared, and I could never find it again. The author’s name was at the end of the alphabet- I only remember that because of where the book was on the shelves.
This was a book in the Dr Seuss/PD Eastman format (i.e. about that size, not very long, line drawings with only a few colors) about a boy who starts noticing footprints on his ceiling and it turns out there is a boy who lives upside down. They make friends, but they can only go some places together. I remember a scene at a dock, for instance, where one was on top and the other was underneath. It has to have been published by 1964 or so.Â
I am looking for a book my Grandmother had when I was a child. It was a children’s chapter book published in the 80s or early 90s, and was likely something she got either through a book club or at a yard sale. It seemed like it was intended to be part of a series, though I don’t know if any other volumes were ever published. The book was about a pair of siblings (I believe it was a brother and sister, though it could have been two sisters), who were attending summer camp. They were either not getting along with each other, or not enjoying camp and were unhappy. In the middle of the night, another brother and sister appear and invite them to come with them to a magic carnival. They ride a canoe up a moonbeam to the carnival in the sky somewhere. There they see all sorts of incredible characters and shows. There is an octopus running a game booth. And at the end there is a dolphin race where the children ride the dolphins and one of the siblings wins (their earlier angst may have been a result of one of them losing a race at camp??). Over the course of their adventures, the siblings mend their differences and at the end are returned to camp ready to enjoy the rest of their summer. Something about the book, either a summary in the back or something on the back cover, implied that there would be other books where different kids who were having problems would be taken to the carnival to sort them out. I have been searching for info on this book for years and any help would be much appreciated!
Young adult chapter book that I read as a child in school (1990s) There are two witches I believe on an island, or maybe there is an underground lake. They are raising or taking care of a little girl (maybe orphaned?) and she finds an infant mermaid & there are other magical happenings
I am trying to find a book that I loved as a grade schooler.
It’s about a boy who lives in the country or on a farm. He finds out he can read dog’s minds. There is a big dog who communicates in black and white and a little dog who communicates in color.
I have part of the title, but not all
It’s     J. —–‘s ESP.
I am looking for a children’s book that I had in the 80’s. The latest being August 1986. There were 100 stories each being one or two pages long. There was an illustration for every story. The pages were 8 x 5 3/4. I do not recall the title of the book. However, I found “100 BEDTIME STORIES ” published in 1980 by Hamlyn, unfortunately this wasn’t it.
The book was hard covered with a white background and lots of pictures on the front.
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Some of the stories are:
1.        Space age Jimmy
2.        Winston goes to sea
3.        Jane and the wasp
4.        Sparky and the cat
5.        Playing indoors
6.        First steps
7.        A windy day
8.        Blowing bubbles
9.        Scrambled eggs
10.      The diary
11.      A pantomime
12.      Dressing up
13.      Adam’s scrapbook
14.      Fun on wheels
15.      Swimming lessons
16.      The twins’ den
17.      The library.
I read this in elementary school in the late 70s or early 80s. It’s a story about a family who travels around the western US, I think in a covered wagon, putting on a variety-type show in the small towns they pass through. It is mostly about the older daughter who wanted to be treated more as an adult and fought with her mom about whether she could wear a hairstyle that did or did not show her ears. At the end of the book she defied her mother and performed some kind of ballerina act with the adult hairstyle. The parents also let each kid pick one day a year where they could break all the rules and not be punished. There was also a part about them searching for a “man with a Bowie knife” who had committed a crime. It had some funny elements and a nice family dynamic.