Hello everybody, I am looking for a children's book about small hairy creatures that can turn into any pattern or color all except the color purple. They find things like the borrowers, though they aren't the borrowers.
I don’t know the name of the book. It’s not the main character. One guy is a bar or club owner, he is engaged to a reporter.
Looking for a children's fairy tale hardcover collection with golden/yellow cover. I think it had a "realistic" illustration on the front or back, of a sleeping kitten on an open book. Contains stories such as Tinderbox, Why The Sea is Salt, Ugly Duckling, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.
I’m looking for a children’s picture book from the late 60s. A child wants animals to change beds: “____ sleep in the horsey’s bed,” (something like that), and many variations.
I’m fairly certain the illustrations are collage from painted paper, but it may just be a painting. The girl has either red hair or brown hair, she is naked. She is making a necklace with different items. She gets a gemstone or crystal in a cave. I believe she also collects a pebble, seashell and acorn but I’m not certain on those. I do not know what language the writing is in. I think it was likely German but maybe Swedish or Norwegian something Slavic or Germanic. I think that maybe fairies or gnomes give her the gemstone but that may be just something we made up since we didn’t speak the language. The things I’m certain of are is she goes into a cave, she is naked at least at some point and she is making a necklace.
The Rough Plot:
A boy inexplicably starts shrinking. When he is about 6 inches tall he befriends a Seagull, who takes him for a flight. The boy’s father is an inventor and makes a cockpit that fits on the Seagull’s back. A mysterious person from the Government comes to visit and asks the boy to ride his Seagull around the world and deposit a bomb-pill down the chimney of an evil person’s factory to destroy the bomb he is making and save the world. He does it and then is blown far away by the resulting explosion, but the Seagull eventually returns him home to re-unite with his Father.
This book was well illustrated with realistic pen and ink drawings.
It was a Hardcover book. I probably read it between 1948 and 1954.