Does this sound familiar to anyone? Ok, I know this is vague, especially since there is no plot. I've been trying to remember a children's book about art. I'm pretty sure it was published by the Museum of Modern Art and most likely in the late 1980s to early 1990s. The book had an artwork for every letter of the alphabet, for instance "D is for Dance" paired with
Dance I by Henri Matisse. I also remember
Two Cheeseburgers, with Everything by Claes Oldenburg.
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posted by fozzie_bear
on Mar 12, 2013 -
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Metafilter, do you have any thoughts or ideas on what might be a good instrument to buy for Chrismas, that the kids (6 and 3.5) can play with on their own (i.e. there won't be lessons) but can still gain skill and enjyment, that I can find second hand for under, say, $100. Recorder? auto harp? trupet? drums? We already have a piano and bells. Thank you!
posted by hollyanderbody
on Nov 29, 2012 -
27 answers
Trying to identify a book my nanna had on her shelf and that I loved when I was a kid, but has been given away since. I thought the volume was called 'Myths and Legends', though one story I recall in particular strikes me as probably more of a fairy story. It might have been one of a set with a number of volumes.
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posted by springbound
on Oct 27, 2012 -
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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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I didn't buy
this jacket when my kid was a baby. Who spends over a hundred bucks on something so frivolous? I didn't, but have been obsessed with it ever since. Does anything exist on earth that is similar and would suit a preschool-size boy? Boy being the operative word.
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posted by pinky
on Nov 8, 2011 -
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Help me find this children's book: About the seasons on a farm. No words, just four illustrations of the same barnyard with animals in the different seasons. The one from my childhood was over-sized and cardboard.
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posted by la_rousse
on Oct 28, 2011 -
7 answers
How can I amuse these variously-aged children who like to test boundaries? How should I handle things when I basically can't discipline them? How can I get in the right headspace to do this?
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posted by Frowner
on Sep 1, 2011 -
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I am looking for a chapter book I read as a kid in the 1970s/1980s in which a princess and her family have to move out of their ancestral home and instead rent all the houses on a street to hold all their things that used to be in the castle. It was kind of an adventure/mystery story after that, I think involving something with the family possessions. Anyone know the title of this book please?
posted by cmp4Meta
on Aug 12, 2011 -
2 answers
Anyone remember a kids' book about a boy with a magic copy machine that will copy anything (objects) and has an infinity symbol button?
posted by jfwlucy
on Jul 29, 2011 -
8 answers
Help me find a half-remembered children's book about a little girl and her pet, and what they say when they get the chance to speak one sentence to each other.
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posted by Encipher
on Jul 21, 2011 -
11 answers
Where or what children's (tv show? classroom teaching guide?) is this song from? Lyrics inside...
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posted by atlantica
on Jun 27, 2011 -
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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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Does anyone have any idea what 1980s or 1990s children's picture book this was? (very scary, about monsters).
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posted by Geameade
on Feb 11, 2011 -
6 answers
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 -
23 answers
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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I'm looking for the title to a children's book. It was about a hippopotamus or
a rhino who felt inadequate who on a walk met different animals he wished he was like and then had a dream in which he had one body part of each of the animals he wanted to be more like.
posted by Tziv
on Sep 11, 2010 -
3 answers
I am looking for information -- author, publisher, possibly title -- about a particular illustrated version of Verne's From the Earth to the Moon.
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posted by flechsig
on Jun 6, 2010 -
4 answers
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 -
2 answers
Help me find a picture book about which I can remember almost nothing, and what I remember may or may not be true.
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posted by geneva uswazi
on Jun 5, 2010 -
5 answers
Where can I find interesting versions (i.e. opera, acoustic, rock, etc.) of traditional children nursery rhymes/folk songs? Any language is fine.
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posted by ad4pt
on Apr 25, 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
What movie did I rent all the time when I was little? It was animated and had two children (brother and sister?) collecting the four elements for a wolf.
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posted by abitha!
on Jan 8, 2010 -
2 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 -
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I'm looking for the title of an action/adventure short story collection that I read in middle school (early 90s). It included The Most Dangerous Game and Leningen Versus the Ants.
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posted by anonymous78
on Oct 2, 2009 -
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Going bonkers trying to remember the title of a favorite children's book that I read growing up in the late 1960s. The story takes place in NYC and the main characters are 2 children, a boy and a girl. The children stand in the first car of a subway train and as the train moves faster and faster through a Bowery tunnel, the children travel back in time to NY when it was New Amsterdam. They meet Peter Stuyvesant and other characters in Manhattan when it was a Dutch colony. Sound familiar to anyone?
posted by suzeQ
on Sep 20, 2009 -
1 answer
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 -
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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
In the early 70's there aired a kid's after school program. Simple to identify, right? Course not, this is where you come in.
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posted by Allee Katze
on Aug 17, 2009 -
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Searching for information on writing children's television. What resources am I missing?
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posted by UMDirector
on Jul 6, 2009 -
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I had a book (not a picture book) as a kid that was titled something like 'The Greatest Man in the World' or 'The Greatest Man that Ever Lived', and it was a collection of stories that were like fairy tales, or fables.
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posted by Zaire
on May 13, 2009 -
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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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Name this children's book and TV series from the 80's...? It's Lord of the Flies meets Follyfoot. Kinda.
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posted by ticktockdoc
on Sep 16, 2008 -
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