A children’s picture book I had when I was young. ( I was born in 1975) It was a heart-wrenching story about elephants.. It focused on the fact that elephants morn their dead. I believe the elephant heard was returning to a graveyard where one of their group had been been buried.
I had a book when I was younger (pre-2000, book may be older, possibly published in the early 80s) that had a hard cover and housed a collection of children’s poems. All were by different authors and all were illustrated.
Romance about a young girl that is tired of having suitors bother her so she decides to act crazy. She keeps pet chickens and takes them on walks with a maid walking in front feeding them. She ties ribbons on them to match her clothes supposed to be quite funny. Older book
My girlfriend is looking for a children’s picture book. She would have read it as a child, in the early 1990s, so if I had to guess, I’d target the publishing of the book in the 80s, but it could be anything pre-1995. She says it was about a young dog (she’s 99.9% sure it was a dog) being tucked in at night, and he asks his parents about where they live (she even thinks the title of the book may have been something like “Where do we live?”). His mom/dad told him about their street, then their city and planet. The artwork showed the other families in the book as anthropomorphic animals, and they all had unique houses (fish families had fish bowls, rabbit family had a hole in the ground, etc). The houses stood out to her, but may have only been artwork, may not have been noted specifically in the story. She believes the puppy may have been named Walter, or something similar. I know this isn’t a lot to go on!
An older woman and her three daughters live on a rural, isolated farm. Maybe Italy? One day a bad man dressed in black arrives and hides in the basement. I think he is stealing their honey. One by one the daughters go down and try to get rid of him, but he captures them all. Finally, the older woman sends the bees down to sting him and he runs away. 1982-1990 approximately
A Red Leather book with an interesting symmetrical design and texture within the leather that is a self help book, of sorts, for adolescent boys with a title conveying the general principal of “now.” Title examples are, “Right Now” or “Today,” Published in the 40’s or 50’s.
In our small-town library, sometime between 1956 and 1959, I becamse fascinated by a large-format story book with darkly forbidding (Gothic!!) illustrations (maybe engravings, or duo-tone illustrations). I believe the story was about a girl and boy (sister and brother?) who were either lost or held captive by ___?? in a forest or a cave or some outlandish place. They were obliged (I think) to do manual labor of some kind — carrying something (ore?) or digging for something. I recall that it was a book my grandmother would not let me take out of the library on her card! I was only a beginning (but precocious) reader at the time (age 7, approximately), so cannot recall the title or the names of the characters, etc. But the words “forbidden” “hidden” “forest” “treasure” “lost” all seem likely terms to be associated with this book. I would LOVE to find it, read it, and solve this mystery before I die!!!
Book title “anemones and peonies”
Probably published in late 60’s or 70’s
Feminist slant
story about little pink and grey elephants all the pink elephants turn grey at the end
Children’s Outdoor How-To Book
I remember a book about a boy (possibly with his brother) and a group of friends who built all sorts of outdoor things to defend their farm & woods against a rival group of neighborhood kids. The book alternated between the story and very detailed instructions & plans how to build the items.
The few items I remember they built were a tree platform, a sailboat & slingshots (I think).
The ending culminated with an apple-throwing battle and boy and his friends being victorious from all the items they had built.
Book was paperback with black and white illustrations. It was a rather large book and I the copy I had (lost to time) was in the mid-to-late 70’s
I’m looking for a book that I had as a child, 1969/1970 ….. while living in the UK. A little boy called Joe goes with his dad to work – his dad is a lorry driver, they stop off at a transport cafe for lunch and Joe has a red and white lollipop and meets lots of friends.