Anyone published a children's book, or work at a publishing house that does? [more inside]
posted on May 27, 2008 - 10 answers

Looking for recommendations for a science experiment book suitable for an 8 year old. When I was a kid, I had a copy of “Mr. Wizard’s Supermarket Science” that I loved, but unfortunately it’s out of print. Any suggestions?
posted on May 19, 2008 - 11 answers

Need to find very specific type of hat on the INTARWEBS. First seen in San Francisco's Chinatown. Picture follows... [more inside]
posted on Dec 24, 2007 - 4 answers

Childrens' book filter: I'm looking for a story about a mole, in which he tries to escape from a digging machine. [more inside]
posted on Dec 23, 2007 - 3 answers

Whats the wonderfully illustrated childrens storybook about a little yellow three eyed/eared alien rabbit who has lost his/her parents on Earth? [more inside]
posted on Dec 18, 2007 - 1 answers

Help me find a specific childrens book that shows illustrations of different professionals (fireman with his hose, doctor with his stethoscope, etc.) which depicts a "Salesman" in a cheesy checkered suit. [more inside]
posted on Jul 18, 2007 - 4 answers

What are some good children's books that have been put to song? [more inside]
posted on Jul 12, 2007 - 16 answers

I learned to read with children's books featuring Zip and Ted (tad?). Help me find them again, please! [more inside]
posted on Jul 12, 2007 - 11 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

Marcovaldo, Old Man and the Sea, Catcher in the Rye, House on Mango Street. What are some other adult books that precocious middle schoolers might enjoy? [more inside]
posted on Jun 20, 2007 - 61 answers

A-E-I-O-U! Does anyone know this old sand animation show and song? What about the red-and-blue clay? [more inside]
posted on Nov 14, 2006 - 10 answers

I need help finding a (British?) children's book from the mid 1980's. It was an introduction to colour theory under the guise of a storybook. It had great transparent plastic pages that you could overlay to see the effects of subtractive colour spaces. I don't remember what the story was about, but there were lots of balloons. [more inside]
posted on Oct 5, 2006 - 2 answers

I'm trying to remember a book from my childhood. Shipwreck, tragedy, dead girl... [more inside]
posted on Aug 25, 2006 - 6 answers

What is the title of a children's book about a large family of mice, all of whose names are derived from numbers? [more inside]
posted on May 9, 2006 - 5 answers

Can you help me identify two children's stories/books? [more inside]
posted on May 5, 2006 - 8 answers

I am trying to find an old book from my childhood (the 1960s): it involved a (possibly magical) bedspread and Sirius (the Dog Star). I remember lots of blues and greens in the illustrations, but not much else. Does this ring a bell? Can you help me find the title?
posted on Mar 19, 2006 - 5 answers

Many years ago, WGBH (NPR) in Boston had a Saturday afternoon folk music program. One day they played exerpts from an album by a singer/guitarist who had recorded rude songs that children sing when they think that there are no adults around. Who could this be and what is name of the album?
posted on Feb 11, 2006 - 1 answers

I'm trying to find a book that I read when I was in grade school, sometime during the mid to late 80's. The basic plot involved a girl scaring her impressionable young step(?) brother by pretending to go into trances and make predictions. IIRC, she was somewhat of an outcast at school, but had recently been cast in the school play as a colonial witch (Tituba perhaps?). I think there may have also been some references in the book to the Sybills of ancient Greece (hence the trances). Is this ringing any bells? [more inside]
posted on Nov 27, 2005 - 13 answers

Help me find a children's book about a monster under the bed who doesn't like smelly socks. [more inside]
posted on Nov 3, 2005 - 7 answers

Does anyone remember a childrens book about a place where its dark all the time except for one day a year when the sun comes out? In the story the little gets locked in a closet by other kids on the one day of sun? thanks!
posted on Oct 20, 2005 - 21 answers

When I wake my 3 year old daughter up in the morning, I always sing a few lines from a song that goes: "Oh! The bright sun comes up/and the little bird sings/'Good morning!/Good morning!/Good Morning to you!'" What the heck song is this? Are there more (or correct?) words? Actual music? [more inside]
posted on Jun 13, 2005 - 14 answers

I'm interested in finding old syndicated newspaper strips drawn by well known children's author and illustrator Syd Hoff. [more inside]
posted on Mar 10, 2005 - 1 answers

Back in the early/mid 80's here in S. Africa the local TV station broadcast a live action children's series about two minitaure elves(I think they were elves) who lived amongst normal size folk in the modern day. What was it called? [more inside]
posted on Mar 10, 2005 - 4 answers