Can anyone suggest inspirational readings for 8th graders? [more inside]
posted on Oct 6, 2008 - 15 answers
BookFilter: Help me remember this book about 3 children who go on an "incredible journey" of sorts after their parents fail to pick them up from the hotel's daycare. [more inside]
posted on Apr 10, 2008 - 6 answers 
Children run away from home and live in a museum -- help me remember this book! [more inside]
posted on Apr 1, 2008 - 10 answers
What is the first book you remember loving? [more inside]
posted on Feb 18, 2008 - 146 answers
Please help me remember the title of a particular fictional, young-adult book from the 80s or maybe 90s. [more inside]
posted on Jul 21, 2007 - 5 answers
Another tired name-that-kid's-book-filter question: purple cover (?) paperback, crazy old lady in the neighborhood hosts kids on a rainy day. Something about an elaborate basement in her house, nothing overtly magical involved so far as I remember, but an air of "magical realism" most definitely abounds. [more inside]
posted on Feb 28, 2007 - 6 answers
Wanted: a book of a learn-to-read cartoon of sorts, likely serialized in a (Chicago?) newspaper, c. 1950-1970. [more inside]
posted on Feb 22, 2007 - 2 answers
Children's Story Filter: I'm trying to remember a picture book about a train conductor who had retired. He ended up building a working train that ran through a park, and he gave children tours. [more inside]
posted on Feb 19, 2007 - 3 answers
looking for the title and author of a children's book about a polar bear. i don't remember the specifics of the story except for the fact that it ends, approximately, with the line:
"polar bear, underwear."
what i remember of the story is that the polar bear is on is way to the shower and involves him stripping down to his "polar bear underwear."
i remember the artwork being somewhat strange.
posted on Dec 17, 2006 - 7 answers
BookFilter: I had this book as a child, it contained a number of solomon-like tales, (two mothers claiming a child, true mother didn't want it cut in half, etc.) Except with an Asian flair. It was called Judge Edo, Ito? Anyone? [more inside]
posted on Dec 4, 2006 - 10 answers
KidsBookFilter: Seriously, this was an awesome book... or, at least, that's the way I remember it! I read it in the mid-70s in the 2nd or 3rd grade probably, so it could have been published in the 60s. It was about the ghost of a cat (or the 9 lives of a cat?) that followed it's human family through several generations. That's all I can remember. That and it was an awesome book! So, no, there's not any [more inside]
posted on Sep 20, 2006 - 8 answers
How would one go about publishing a children's book? [more inside]
posted on Aug 12, 2006 - 8 answers
Historical fiction children's book ID filter: scholars and bandits in 1930s China and bull-jumping children in Rome. [more inside]
posted on Jul 26, 2006 - 7 answers
Can anyone recommend good books to read to a two-year-old boy who's going to be taking his first airplane trip in ten days? [more inside]
posted on May 20, 2006 - 17 answers
I'm looking for a children's book that was a collection of rhymes, based on the alphabet and kids' names. [more inside]
posted on May 9, 2006 - 7 answers
[LongLostChildhoodMemoriesFilter] I am looking for a book that I had as a wee-one, involving a night-time adventure through the city via a boy's imagination and a shoebox diorama. [more inside]
posted on Apr 23, 2006 - 11 answers
BookFilter - I'm trying to remember the title of a book involving two RAF pilots who bail out and end up exploring an underground world. [more inside]
posted on Mar 6, 2006 - 6 answers
Trying to find an old childrens' book involving a princess who finds a baby dragon. [more inside]
posted on Oct 25, 2005 - 3 answers
Another book identification question...This is a childrens' picture book, grade level 2-4(?)... [more inside]
posted on Sep 27, 2005 - 5 answers
What's the title/author of the children's book where a kid makes an airplane out of cookie dough and goes exploring? If I remember correctly, the illustrations were quite plump and billowy.
posted on Jun 3, 2005 - 12 answers
Children'sLitFilter: I am looking for the title of a long ago read children's book that is sort of "Alice in Wonderland"-esque. It involves a little girl going into a fantasy world, but instead of going through the looking glass, she goes into a snow globe. [more inside]
posted on Apr 20, 2005 - 5 answers
I was looking at mathowie's weblog: a.wholelottanothing.org, and he talked about the "theme" of the baby shower they just had - "bring your absolute favorite book you owned as a child". What was yours? [more inside]
posted on Feb 28, 2005 - 67 answers
YetAnotherLostKidsBookFilter: Since people have been so helpful with others, maybe you can help me. (MI)
posted on Jan 8, 2005 - 6 answers
Another forgotten children's book: stories of childhood mischief including one about eating dog biscuits. [MI]
posted on Jan 1, 2005 - 2 answers
Librarians, parents, readers, ex-kids: can any of you help me remember a long-lost children's book about a bear who learns to be self-reliant? [more inside]
posted on Sep 2, 2004 - 7 answers
