Looking for a Christmas book, it was a burgundy color, the edges of the pages were gold along with the writing on the cover and square-ish (if I remember right), and had a collection of stories like “Twas the Night before Christmas”. Thanks for helping.
Series of books I read in 1980. Must have yellow binding w/black letters. One book was completely Greek Mythology. The other books in the set are different topics and are fuzzy to me. Your closest solution is M129, wrong color/binding. The Young Folks Shelf Books also wrong color binding.
My mom used to read me a book in the early 1950’s which told the story of a bunny who disobeyed his mother and fell into a hole in the woods–eventually rescued, he learned his lesson. The distinctive thing about the book was that the illustrations were photos of real bunnies dressed up in human clothing–for some reason, I think the photographer’s first name was ‘Bill’, but not certain about that. Any help greatly appreciated.
Looking for a book that was my mother’s. She was born in 1938 and had a book that featured a story a day for the year. It had a small margin on top of the story on each page that was illustrated in black and white. Published sometime in the 40’s.
A story about a sultan/ prince or exotic, wealthy man – who is looking for a wife. He tries a lot of different ones; one is an American who arrives dressed in pants. He hates this! In fact he finds fault with each. He casts them all off.
This book was a children’s book about a bunch of tiny people. They lived on or around a river, and led a very scary life. Someone – maybe a full size person, or a rival group of miniature people, was quite willing to kill them. And hung dead animals up on trees to scare them away from wherever it was that they wanted to go.
I don’t know how it ended – as a child I only got through the first two thirds one night when my family was visiting another family, and there were no other kids present so I picked up something to read instead. This would have been 1971/1972 in Africa, Lesotho or Swaziland. So the book would most likely have been British in origin. It was kind of dreadful and frightening for a kids’ book, but I have always been curious about how it ended!
I would guess from the pictures that I remember that it was very Art Deco, from the 20’s, maybe the 30’s. I used to have it when I was 5 or 6, but it was old then. My Great Grandparents gave it to me, I think. I wore it out. It was my favorite. I think it was a thin book, like a Little Golden Book, don’t know publisher. I would love to know the title, author, and if any copies are available. The pictures are what are imprinted on my mind. If I see it, I will know it.
It is about 7 princesses that are awakened each night and secretly taken to another land, by boat, to meet their princes and (I think) dance all night. I don’t remember much more.
It was a children’s or young adult novel about a young group of teens participating in a group study. There was a machine that they were hooked up to and when they were hooked up to it they had visions of their future 10 year reunion.
I’m looking for a children’s book early 1980s (or possibly very late 70s). The main character was a young bear who had bionic shoes – Bruce the Bionic Bear? He looked like one of the Berenstain bears, but I can’t seem to track him down that way. When he put his shoes on, he could leap across streams and there was a big rainbow illustrated somewhere in it too.
I am looking for a book which could be a stand alone story or an anthology involving a skunk and a seagull. I found a card that had been made out of a page of this story or poem.
Following, are quotes from the portion of the text I have in my possession:
“They lived inside the hull of a steamboat upon a beach. Their life was far from dull.”
“3. At 8 o’clock they ate breakfast with healthy appetite, and all day long they dug for clams to have a snack at night. Then went on deck with a guitar, and danced in the moonlight”
“5. All was serene, free and easy until a fateful day when the gull wasn’t home for tea. The skunk had set the tray and waited with jam and muffins in front of the gangway.”
These portions appear on page 65 of the book.
Thanks again.