What is this book? For kids, about a scientist's assistant who breaks into the lab safe one night and finds potions that he feeds to the lab rat. Hilarity and mayhem ensues. [more inside]
posted by phunniemee on Dec 7, 2009 - 1 answer

What was this children's book I had in the 1980s that contained large pictures of woodland animals engaged in battle scenes, using military equipment such as cannons that fired acorns? [more inside]
posted by EndsOfInvention on Nov 2, 2009 - 4 answers

Name this Children's book! I had this book as a child, and I would like to find it again both for myself and my own child's library. I only remember the vaguest details: 1) it focused on a band of characters traveling somewhere, 2) each character had a particular power or unique ability, 3) I think one of the guys had the ability to conjour bees or wasps (he may have even dressed as one), 4) the leader resembled Errol Flynn's Robin Hood, 5) at one point they went into a huge cave with lots of steps and paths, 6) one of the characters may have been able to shoot fire. That's all I remember. Any guesses?
posted by bjork24 on Oct 13, 2009 - 4 answers

Children'sBookFilter: Help me find any awesomely simple children's book from my childhood [more inside]
posted by ThaBombShelterSmith on Jul 22, 2009 - 7 answers

For years, my mom has been talking about tracking down a children's book she remembers reading in the 50's. She swears it's part of the Little Golden Books series, and it tells the story of a town that feeds a snowman ice cream until he explodes, causing the town to be blanketed with ice cream. Does this ring any bells? [more inside]
posted by Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld on Jul 7, 2009 - 4 answers

What is the name of this children's novel that includes time travel, Ben Franklin, some kids and a professor, and two versions of the same character, one of which is from several days in the future? [more inside]
posted by Tin Man on Mar 28, 2009 - 12 answers

KidsBookFilter: I've been racking my brain for hours trying to dredge up the title of a book I read sometime in the 90's while in elementary (or possibly middle) school. I remember very little of the plot and sparse details beyond that: at some point the main character's personal clubhouse was vandalized by a classmate--with mustard. [more inside]
posted by miratime on Mar 9, 2009 - 4 answers

Trying to remember the name of a Young Adult or children's series about guardian angels. [more inside]
posted by acidic on Jan 31, 2009 - 1 answer

Please help me help a friend find a children's book. It involves a little person who lives in the freezer compartment in the supermarket. [more inside]
posted by snarfois on Dec 15, 2008 - 6 answers

Help my find a book about a "haunted" dollhouse from my childhood! [more inside]
posted by starfyr on Jul 21, 2008 - 12 answers

[children's book filter]: Help me (Ms. Umbú) remember the title of a children's book that features the cloisters in NYC! [more inside]
posted by umbú on Jan 31, 2008 - 6 answers

Help me identify this UK children's book about a sea monster kept in a house! It's not The Water Horse! [more inside]
posted by subbes on Dec 28, 2007 - 10 answers

Help me find this Christmas book from my mother's youth-- the Christmas story from a cat's perspective. [more inside]
posted by summit on Dec 24, 2007 - 2 answers

Lost childhood book filter: My brother remembers a book we had with a bunny or rabbit that wouldn't eat his veggies with his family. He only wanted a hamburger on a sesame seed bun. Google and Mother have failed our quest for answers. Please help!
posted by green herring on Nov 27, 2007 - 4 answers

Please help me find the title of a hazy remembered childrens book with animals and a helicopter. [more inside]
posted by Glow Bucket on Nov 23, 2007 - 9 answers

I'm hunting down an Easter themed children's book for a friend... [more inside]
posted by tomble on Oct 21, 2007 - 5 answers

Help Me Remember This Book! version 100457: I have a visual memory of a picture book that I came across in elementary school (mid 90s) which featured a distinct sketchy, inked, scribbly style of illustration to accompany some really gruesome, horrifying stories. [more inside]
posted by dorothy humbird on Sep 24, 2007 - 9 answers

I'm trying to remember the name of a children's book I read when I was younger. I think it was about a guy who had his own names for everything (including fire), then one day his house caught fire and his daughter (or servant?) couldn't tell him, because she couldn't remember the word. [more inside]
posted by mrnutty on Sep 6, 2007 - 7 answers

Childhood Book: Please help me figure out what book this is from decades ago. An English boy (and maybe a girl) discover a hidden fairy society living in woods near relative's house on holiday. They befriend a fairy and get involved in the internal fairy struggles. Long train ride featured. Book may be older, from 1950s? [more inside]
posted by ScarletPumpernickel on Jul 8, 2007 - 57 answers

Help me figure out the name of this book! [more inside]
posted by lilybeane on Jan 12, 2007 - 12 answers

Children's Story Filter: Help me find a story about the Apple family. [more inside]
posted by kidsleepy on Dec 11, 2006 - 3 answers

I'm trying to find the titles of a couple of books I read as a child, and both happen to be set around Christmas. [more inside]
posted by srah on Oct 24, 2006 - 6 answers

Looking for a children's book. [more inside]
posted by sellout on Jun 7, 2006 - 3 answers

Do you remember a children's book that involved a couple of kids who wrote and produced a play (that eventually included Neil Diamond and the Vice-President of the USA) to surreptitiously raise the money they needed to build a hang-glider? What was it?! [+] [more inside]
posted by subgenius on Jan 10, 2005 - 8 answers