Hazy memories

August 13, 2007 1:27 PM

Lost childhood books filter: This is a weird one

I keep seeing snatches of this in my mind, but I don't remember what on earth it was. I see snatches of colors arranged in a scale, and that it was possibly a book that contained pieces of fabric. What I remember most vividly is that one of the pieces of fabric was gold lame.

OK tell me I'm crazy but this is all I have to go on. I keep seeing that gold fabric in my mind and getting happy. And in this book, I guess gold was part of the colors of the rainbow.

I grew up in the late 70s, early 80s if that helps.

posted by chickaboo to Media & Arts (4 answers total)

Was it one of the Rainbow Fish books by Marcus Pfister? As soon as you said 'scale' I thought of fish, and now I can't think of anything but fish.
posted by iconomy at 1:42 PM on August 13, 2007

This is the book that came to mind after reading your description. I seem to remember being able to "touch" things in this book. Or perhaps it was another title by the author Eric Carle.
posted by LunaticFringe at 2:01 PM on August 13, 2007

This book didn't have physical fabric but it had textured stickers in it...and lots of rainbows.
posted by lemuria at 5:40 PM on August 13, 2007

Growing up in the early 80s I had a book, I think it was called The Soft Book, that was made out of fabric, probably felt. Don't remember if there was any gold or not. I think you could attach and detach little felt objects to the felt pages with Velcro. I couldn't find any info about it on Google. Hope that helps, although I know it's a stretch.
posted by good in a vacuum at 2:28 AM on August 14, 2007