The book is about a little girl with tap shoes. At one point in the story she bakes a chicken. The book possibly has a red cover.
118B: Little Girl With Tap Shoes
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118A: Girl befriends mouse and fights growing alley cat
I’m seeking a children’s book I once owned, probably purchased in the late ’80’s or early 90’s, about a girl in an oldstyle London apartment who befriends a mouse. They are both threatened by an alleycat, who grows larger and larger when the girl runs, but shrinks when she turns to face him.
117E: Boy with magic cube or seeds
I am looking for a middle reader or young adult book published late 1980s to early 90s. It involved (I believe) a boy who had these sugar cube type things (or possibly seeds) that when he ate them gave him magic or granted a wish that he spoke.
117C: Folding Train Book
Folding children’s train book, published 1955-1963.
Size about 4″ x 6″ folded up accordion-style with flap on top.
Each book panel is a different kind of train car with a pocket containing a small booklet with a story, puzzles or games.
Final panels contained coloring paper & box of crayons.
117B: Otters Swimming in Moonlight
Story revolves around two brown otters, one of them is trying to find the moon that is making the reflection in the water. Published sometime prior to 1990. Cover was dark blue and depicted one otter on a cliff near the top of the book the other in the water below the cliff.
117A: Children’s Weather Forecasting
A hardback children’s book, published in the 1970s, about weather forecasting. The cover is light purple and on the inside of front and back cover are weather symbols. It is for kids around age 9. It was in our school library when I was in 4th grade in 1977.
116A: 1970s Kite History and Making Book
This was a small hardback, maybe 3 by 5 inches, printed in colour, with a history of kites and then a long section on how to make them. The spine may have been red in colour. Single clear memory: in the opening chapter there was a panel from the TinTin story showing Tibetan monks flying kites.
115C: late 60s/70s school textbook set w sawtooth circle logo on back
Glossy cover(?) w/ sawtooth edged circle logo on back. Langston Hughes “Thank you ma’am” (?) inside. Remember cool picture of Japanese climbing “cliff” built on skyscraper. “Queen Peavy” by Robert Burch may have been in. Story about kid solving swimming pool installation w melting blocks of ice
115A: Children’s book of colourful rooms
I am chasing the name of a children’s picture book that we borrowed from a library in the late 90’s. The book involved a girl who was in a room and was trying to decide on an outfit for the day. Each double page spread involved a different coloured outfit and the room transformed to contain multiple objects that matched the colour of the outfit. On each page was a chameleon to find as well. Finally the girl decides on a multi-coloured outfit.
Unfortunately I cannot recall the author’s name but recall that the title may have ended with the word “day”.
114E: child threatens misbehaving teddy bear with boogeyman
This was a rhyming book or poem from the 60s. It began, “My teddy bear was bad one day, I could not get him to obey” the child tries to scare the bear into behaving with a scary description of the boogeyman and I think it ends “I don’t believe it said my bear, and neither did I so we left it there.”