I'm looking for a book that I believe is fiction. I read it in the 90s, and it's about a mother and daughter that are pregnant at the same time. The mother would always save little things like rubber bands, and this annoyed the daughter. I was thinking it was by Barbara Kingsolver, but couldn't find it. Thank you so much!
It’s a children’s book, I think middle grade level? Not sure though, but I don’t remember it having pictures. A girl wants a horse for her birthday, but her parents get her a model horse instead. Girl is disappointed (I would be too!). She climbs a tree with the model and puts it on a branch, but is mad at it and flicks it down to the ground. It comes to life (full sized) and talks. She rides it around. I don’t remember how it ends. I probably read it in the early 90’s.
Seeking a personalized kid's picture book made '90 to '97. Had kid's name and possibly friends/family names. Had a teddy bear in it, either lost or on an adventure and there is a picnic or party at the end.
I have vivid memories of a children’s chapter book I got out of a Canadian library or school sometime in the mid-’90s. It was about an extremely poor family, a mother, a father, and a daughter who lived in a RV or mobile home or carriage or something; when the daughter registers for school, she says she has no address or birthplace because she was always moving.
They are so poor they can’t afford paper, and so the mother or father, a very talented artist, makes lots of drawings on toilet paper.
There are lots of comic-like drawings—I remember one which had a fork and peas in two panels, the first captioned “unsteady fork, steady peas” and the next with the peas falling off labelled “steady fork, unsteady peas.”
At one point, the daughter gets a letter sent to her with a drawing (reproduced in the book)—right side up it looks like a toucan, upside down it’s a man sitting on a toilet.
I think it’s called something like “Alligators Don’t Make Great Pets,” and it has silly descriptions and illustrations of many animals that would not make good pets. I think the child might choose a dog at the end? I checked this book out from the library in the mid-1980s. I’ve been searching for this book for years and would LOVE to find it. Hope you can help.
Looking for a collection of stories, fiction late 80’s-90’s. Cover shows drawing of a man falling from an airplane through clouds with a dalmatian. Title related to that. One of the stories is called “My Dad’s Hat”. Dream like prose.
My grandmother used to read to me an illustrated children's book - hardback- small book - (about the size of Peter Rabbit). The plot was about a little boy who tried to give a cute burro a carrot but he got bitten by accident. The police came and arrested the burro. She read it to me in the early 1960’s but the book seemed pretty old. It may have been from the 1930-1940 time period. I want to read it to my grandsons! Thank you!
I remember having a book as a little girl that was either a Little Golden Book or similar to, about a family that found a little dirty stray kitten. They took it home and gave it a bath and were surprised to find it was a white kitten. Then the kitten jumped out of the sink and fell into a tub of blueing, dyeing itself pale blue. They put a ribbon on it and it won first place at the pet show. Thank you.
Looking for a book by a British author. A man tells his story to somebody else. He was in a high position (judge?). Holiday at the seaside. While lying in the dunes, sunbathing, a group of adolescent girls approach him and watches (tease?) him. One of the girls visits him at his lodge, and a sexual relationship ensues. The parents of the girl find out about it, and he has to appear at court and gets sentenced; jail? At any rate he loses his position.