Our child was reading
The Pushcart War and it occurred to me that it is the only children's book I know of that does not feature any children as characters. Can this be correct, or am I just suffering brain-freeze?
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posted by IndigoJones
on Jun 2, 2012 -
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When I was very young, I read a series of books about dinosaurs, where each book was a fiction story (with educational information) about each species of dinosaur.. what books were those?
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posted by ceberon
on May 25, 2012 -
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I grew up always loving a children's book titled
Throw a Kiss, Harry. The author is Mary Chalmers. She wrote a number of children's book and illustrated for several other authors. I have been able to find several of them through Alibris, but I have been unable to find much info on this great author. I believe she is still living and would be in her eighties, but other than that, I am at a loss. I would love to find out more about her and her work. After and an extensive web search I have no leads. Any ideas?
posted by flesti
on Feb 20, 2012 -
5 answers
Help me find a children's picture book from the 40's-60's involving a princess who raises a baby dragon.
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posted by Windigo
on Jan 24, 2012 -
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Looking for a children's book about someone who is eating rice with a devil/ghost on his back who keeps stealing the food from him before he can get it into his mouth.
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posted by cmp4Meta
on Mar 27, 2011 -
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What do your children delight in when you read them picture books? I'm a writer who has been commissioned to write the text for one, and not having children, I was hoping for some insight.
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posted by PersonAndSalt
on Nov 7, 2010 -
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Need help thinking of children's books, especially classics, that are about kids who don't grow up or don't want to grow up, *besides* peter pan? Alternately, can you think of books published for adults that contain those themes (even if only slightly or vaguely)?
posted by whatgorilla
on Nov 1, 2010 -
21 answers
ChildrensBookFilter: Looking for the name of a picture book or a series of books about animals on a cruise ship that go to an island?
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posted by cottoncandybeard
on Oct 6, 2010 -
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Looking for a childrens book about the origin of words illustrated in a late 60's/70's psychedelic style.
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posted by alikins
on Jun 5, 2010 -
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What young adult novels (or chapter books for kids) are written in particularly elegant prose styles? (Bonus points if the story and characterization are good, of course, but I'm especially looking for books where the writing style itself is beautiful.) Examples include
The Graveyard Book,
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posted by yankeefog
on Mar 18, 2010 -
45 answers
I am reading the "My Father's Dragon" collection to my son, and I recently discovered that there was an anime released in 1997 called Elmer no Bouken: My Father's Dragon. I want to find a copy of it. I searched google and amazon, but I can find no record of it. Can anyone help me out?
posted by senador
on Jan 21, 2010 -
4 answers
I'm looking to create a printed book/magazine that will be as safe as possible for small children kids and babies. Safe in that they can put in their mouths, tear it apart and the risk to them is as low as possible. However, I can't find much information on how to do this.
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posted by JiffyQ
on Jan 17, 2010 -
9 answers
Looking for an out of print children's book entitled Prince _________, about a dog. Help?
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posted by samsarah
on Nov 5, 2009 -
7 answers
I am looking for a young child's easy reader book from the late 1960s/early 1970s about a bear and his bus.
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posted by goml
on Sep 10, 2009 -
6 answers
I'm trying to remember the name of a series of preschooler picture books. They were written a few years back and the main characters are two animals that look like bunnies but aren't. One is white and one is black.
I can't remember their names, hence my dilemma since their names are also the title of the series. I think one name is odd and starts with a B and the other is ordinary, maybe Maggie?
Anyway, they are wonderful oddball characters who mange to find their way in and out of trouble. Their charm lies in being different.
What are their names?
posted by Lorna
on Aug 20, 2009 -
8 answers
What are the cleverest, wittiest picture books you know? I'm looking for something you might recommend to a very smart kid who is still young enough to prefer picture books to chapter books. Another way of putting is, I'm looking for the picture book equivalent of McSweeney's.
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posted by yankeefog
on Apr 21, 2009 -
57 answers
Name this young adult book from my youth. It involved a land of pasta...
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posted by shii
on Mar 9, 2009 -
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WhatWereThoseBooksFilter: I'm looking for several unrelated books, or possibly series of books, that I read as a kid. The first involved a family of magic users living in what was the time the modern world.
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posted by Caduceus
on Jul 1, 2008 -
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Children's Book Filter: Help me find a book from when I was a kid. Of course, only limited details remembered...
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posted by finitejest
on May 27, 2008 -
9 answers
When I was in third grade, there was a book at the library that I would go and find every couple of months. Having since, you know, grown old, I can't remember what it was called.
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posted by svolix
on Feb 28, 2008 -
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Please help me identify several books I read as a preteen in the late 80s and early 90s. One involved four or five teenagers keeping diaries for school, one was about a girl whose mother was running for mayor, and one was about a boy who lived with his father, a 60s radical on the run! Oh, and one really bizarre book about a girl and her pewter animals. There's
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posted by lunasol
on Feb 17, 2008 -
9 answers
I'm looking for recommendations for books, movies and even music that might be relevant for a group of middle school (7th & 8th grade, ages 12-14) kids who are going to Rome over spring break.
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posted by bjennings
on Feb 3, 2008 -
8 answers
Another books from childhood question. Can you help me find these two books? I remember them from the early 80's or so, U.S.
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posted by kookywon
on Jan 18, 2008 -
12 answers
I would like help finding a book from my childhood. It's about a female squirrel that takes up residence in an attic, and the toy soldiers in the attic defend her from a pack of bad male squirrels.
posted by Irontom
on Jan 18, 2008 -
5 answers
I'm looking for the title of a children's book I read while growing up (early 80s) about a condemned house.
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posted by anonymous78
on Dec 28, 2007 -
5 answers
I am looking for some good subtly pagan/world religion themed children's books, toys, movies etc for my 6 year old niece in Arkansas. It doesn't have to be specifically pagan, just something that fits the themes and values of most any earth-based or mystical religion.
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posted by evilcupcakes
on Dec 12, 2007 -
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I like reading to my 5yr old son at bedtime. We have discovered that we both enjoy reading longer books/ novels with many chapters and some pictures here and there. Our latest was the original "The House at Pooh Corner".
Please suggest more!
posted by ohdeanna
on Nov 26, 2007 -
45 answers
Can anyone tell me the title (or author, ISBN #, any other info) of a children's alphabet book-probably published late-1960s or early 1970s, featuring fantastical creatures chasing other fantastical creatures?
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posted by MsElaineous
on Aug 1, 2007 -
13 answers
Help me find a series of illustrated children's hardcover books from the 70s/80s about the upcoming technologies of "The Future"
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posted by Ryvar
on Jul 10, 2007 -
11 answers
A friend and fellow bibliophile is having her first child. As a baby shower gift, I'd like to get her a nice children's book collection (in the $100 range). The 58-volume Dr. Seuss collection looked awesome, but at $500 is beyond my price range. I thought I'd get some ideas about what children's book collections you or your children have loved. (I'm thinking Hans Christian Anderson collections, etc.) She's having a girl if that makes a difference to your answer.
posted by bananafish
on Jun 3, 2007 -
45 answers
Children's book filter - When I was about five or six (call it the late 80s/early 90s), there was a children's book that we adored about a little Australian girl who vividly dreams about spending time in an Asian (Chinese/Japanese) world with a small boy about the same age. Now, at 22, I have no idea what this book was called, or who the author was.
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posted by lilithim
on Oct 2, 2006 -
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What is this children's book I read twenty years ago? Basic plot and scant specifics inside.
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posted by Tuwa
on Sep 17, 2006 -
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I would really like to locate a hardback picture book I loved as a child. It has to do with 3 children who find this whole fantasy world up a tree. Different areas on each stretch of branch, and the tree is hollow so they can slide down it's centre to get to the ground.
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posted by aclevername
on Mar 22, 2005 -
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