I was asked in France what's the first chapter book an American child reads on his or her own, and I didn't know whether there is one such book. Do you know of one or have any idea of the most likely titles?
posted on Jul 23, 2008 - 50 answers

I'm looking for a recording of good traditional (American) children's songs. [more inside]
posted on Jul 8, 2008 - 20 answers

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. [more inside]
posted on Jul 1, 2008 - 4 answers

Children's Book Filter: Help me find a book from when I was a kid. Of course, only limited details remembered... [more inside]
posted on May 27, 2008 - 9 answers

the child otto falls down a hill, sprains his ankle, and then the situation gets worse. help me remember what children's book this scene is from? [more inside]
posted on May 22, 2008 - 2 answers

Children's backyard play structure filter: recommendations wanted. [more inside]
posted on May 3, 2008 - 7 answers

I've written 2 children's books, now I'm looking for an illustrator. [more inside]
posted on Feb 29, 2008 - 11 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. [more inside]
posted on Feb 28, 2008 - 12 answers

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 [more inside]
posted 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. [more inside]
posted on Feb 3, 2008 - 8 answers

My mother used to sing a song to me as a child: "It's a rainy day / and we have to stay inside. / The rain is falling down / and we can't go out to play. / Why does it have to rain / anyway?" She swears it's from Sesame Street, but Google seems never to have heard of it. Who composed this song? Where could she have heard it from? Is it indeed Sesame Street?
posted on Jan 30, 2008 - 6 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. [more inside]
posted 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 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. [more inside]
posted 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. [more inside]
posted on Dec 12, 2007 - 15 answers

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 on Nov 26, 2007 - 45 answers

Please help identify a children's horror program either on television or VHS (most likely) that I watched as a child in the early 90s. [more inside]
posted on Oct 5, 2007 - 4 answers

Need suggestions for a reasonably priced hotel near Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for Oct 11th-13th. [more inside]
posted on Aug 30, 2007 - 10 answers

For nostalgia's sake, I'm trying to recall the title of a British novel (or maybe it was a series of novels, I'm not sure) about a family of animated rag dolls who live anonymous lives until a human discovers their secret and falls in love with one of them (?) Yeah, it's a bizarre concept, but I remember it being kind of poignant in an Edward Scissorhands-esque way. Since I read the book as a kid, I suppose it would have been published about 15 years ago, give or take.
posted on Aug 9, 2007 - 3 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? [more inside]
posted 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" [more inside]
posted 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 on Jun 3, 2007 - 45 answers

I can't remember the title of this old children's movie I saw long ago. [more inside]
posted on Feb 9, 2007 - 11 answers

Any recommendations for children's books featuring little girls? [more inside]
posted on Jan 13, 2007 - 37 answers

I'm looking for a young adult collection of ghost/scary stories I read in middle school (1980s). It was illustrated by Edward Gorey and contained a story about a young girl who discovers a creature of some sort living in a quarry near her home. She becomes obsessed/infatuated with the thing and frequently visits it. I remember strong sexual undertones in this story. [more inside]
posted on Dec 11, 2006 - 3 answers

Looking for a children's book about a boy who plays the harmonica... [more inside]
posted on Oct 26, 2006 - 5 answers

Book series for children and young adults? Recommendations welcome. There is [more inside]
posted on Oct 23, 2006 - 49 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. [more inside]
posted on Oct 2, 2006 - 4 answers

What children's book had one of the main characters, a boy, collect his spit in a bottle? It seems to me that at some point he tripped on the stairs and broke the bottle. I remember being utterly grossed out by this. I seem to recall it being a sort of a dramatic book, rather than light. As a side note, there may have been a bully in the book who was obsessed with airplanes, and possibly a brother and a sister who were obsessed with kingfishers, although it's entirely possible I'm describing three separate books.
posted on Oct 1, 2006 - 4 answers

What is this children's book I read twenty years ago? Basic plot and scant specifics inside. [more inside]
posted on Sep 17, 2006 - 5 answers

Children's book search: Old woman lives on a house on hill with animals and it rains for weeks? [more inside]
posted on Sep 12, 2006 - 5 answers

I'm trying to locate a book I loved as a child. Help! There's... [more inside]
posted on Aug 28, 2006 - 10 answers

Children's book question, blue jeans running in the woods... [more inside]
posted on Aug 7, 2006 - 6 answers

I'm desperate here. I need to see an episode, any episode, of the old children's TV show called Vegetable Soup. A basket full of carrots and cauliflower to anyone who knows where to find video of this show, either on disc or online. Preferably online. Does anyone else remember this show? It was on in the mid-70's. I've looked on YouTube and other such sources, but there must be something I'm missing.
posted on Jun 24, 2006 - 9 answers

OK. Here's another question about a book I read as a kid, 25 or 30 years ago. It was a collection of short stories where truly horrible things happened... [more inside]
posted on Jun 18, 2006 - 5 answers

First girl has middle name Moonbeam. Second girl has middle name Rainbow. What's a good middle name for a third girl in a similar vein? [more inside]
posted on Jun 18, 2006 - 90 answers

I wrote down a story that I made up and used to tell to my daughters at bedtime. I think it's really good, and that others would like it too. It would be my dream come true to have it published. [more inside]
posted on Jan 13, 2006 - 17 answers

Name that children's toy... [more inside]
posted on Nov 21, 2005 - 10 answers

Help me find this children's book I read maybe 25 years ago. (more) [more inside]
posted on Nov 9, 2005 - 9 answers

Tell me about little kids' shoes, the ones with the flashing LEDs. [more inside]
posted on Oct 14, 2005 - 10 answers

I read a book in school when I was in 1st or 2nd grade (around 1975). [more inside]
posted on Mar 25, 2005 - 5 answers

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. [more inside]
posted on Mar 22, 2005 - 4 answers