r/whatisthisbook

Children's book from the 1940's or 1950's about a dog who has everything, a big yard, food, etc. but still grumpy until he saves a cat in a tree.

I’m looking for a tall skinny shaped board book about kittens (maybe other animals in it as well?). I think it had a blue background on the cover. I had it from 1991-1996ish. I don’t think the book had a plot, just showing kittens doing random activities. Thanks! Have been googling this for week with no success.

I have been searching for this book for YEARS to no avail. I'm even wondering if it could have been a movie or an episode of some obscure show, but I'm pretty certain it was a book. It took place in a seaside town that was pretty gloomy. I remember there being a boy character and a girl. The girl lived with her great-aunt in a house up on a bluff. The house was described as being pretty dilapidated and her aunt was an eccentric old lady who had a bunch of odd pets, owls and stuff like that. The town also had a dress shop that was owned by twin sisters. The most distinct thing that I remember was that the town had a bed and breakfast owned by a man who made seafood chowder or some other kind of soup and it was known to make people sick because he was such a terrible cook, but nobody ever warned the tourists about it. I think this was because they didn't want an influx of tourism in the town. I don't remember the details of the actual plot itself (maybe something about a magical creature?) but I really remember the setting and these little character details!

Could anyone help me identify a book that was sold by the scholastic book club during the 1960s? It was about a young girl growing up who wanted to be a movie star and practiced posing in front of the mirror. One day while posing, she realizes that she looks like her mother.

Im trying to find out the name of this book I had when I was a kid in the 90s. I don’t remember much about it but I remember the illustrations looking really vivid, especially the peanut butter (and jelly?) sandwich. I remember the drawing of the bread of the sandwich looked so detailed and delicious. I think it was maybe titled something about the backyard. I think it took place in a sandbox in the backyard and the main character boy was building sandcastles. I recall the sand castle having water, like a moat or it rained on or something.

I would love to know the name of it so I can gift a copy to my soon to be born neice

i know it’s war-related and the boy doesn’t realize the couple who come to pick him up are his real parents. the boy’s temporary parents own a cat and something else i know is that baking a cake happens sometime in the story. the book ends with the boy accepting the real parents as his real parents.

I started reading this book online years ago and never finished it but I can't for the life of me remember what it is called. It was on a website for people to proofread before release. All I remember is it was about a young boy that went to a "magic " school. But it was in like a different time zone. The school kept getting attacked. So this boy went to find out why and started talking to this scary giant underground spider that he'd knowledge no one else did. That's as far as I got please help me Tia

I read this round maybe 2016-2023 from i think my library. Its a middle school or upper elementry level novel.

MC is about 12

Her mother died in a suspicious house fire

Her father trained her in martial arts

The basement contains lots of weapons

She is home alone training when she hears a noise upstairs and investigates

She quickly moves to another state with her father

They are pursued by some vehicle that attacks them on the road and crash, leaving Dad hospitalized

A nurse introduces her to a hidden Valkyrie/supernatural society by showing her the nurse's own tattoo—the MC doesn't have one

Nurse's son walks her to school

The strange traffic scene is not supernatural; it's simply a local custom where pedestrians have extreme right-of-way

She makes two friends at school

One is a girl who secretly has real feathered wings, concealed under/with a little-girl backpack

There is a secret elevator in the school

It descends into a large, friendly underground city/community beneath the town, with ordinary places such as cafés, parks, meeting rooms, etc.

This has been driving me crazy! I’m looking for a book I used to love when I was little in the early 2000s. I don’t remember many details, although I believe it was about a boy(?) looking for specific object(s) around the house, and each page was a different room with lift-up flaps where you could see the different objects. IIRC, I think he had curly hair and wore pajamas, but I’m not too sure. The only image I can sort of recall is of the kitchen, which was very detailed and intricate, and at least one of the wooden cupboards/cabinets lifted up.

The book had beautiful, detailed hand drawn illustrations that were meant to look somewhat realistic and very cozy. Not with bright colors or cartoon-y looking images, and the book is clearly meant for younger children, maybe age 3-4? I don’t believe there were other characters, and I don’t recall any animal characters either (but again, I may be wrong). I really can’t remember anything else about the book, although I believe the first page took place in the living room.

I have looked through many other Reddit posts with similar descriptions but none of them are a match. Please lmk if you can find this book, and thanks in advance!

I’m looking for the name of a book.

all I remember is there is a kid and she’s spray painting outside of an art gallery I think. An old man sees her work and is impressed, then she tags along with him. I think she has a favorite artist , and I think her or the artists go to is like turtles or something. the old man is going to see a friend and doesn’t want the kid following him but the orphan does anyway. I think it’s an orphan girl but could be boy. don’t remember how they have a painting but at one point they board a train with it and accidentally leave it on there. I think a nice lady with kids recovers it. At the end they make it to the old man’s friend’s house.

I know that’s not a lot to go on but any help would be amazing!

Looking for a book about a girl with black hair and green eyes named cat. She is a tough girl with a attitude and maybe a rough home life.

(i can translate the post to English but i read this book in spanish as a child)

Hace Casi dos décadas me lei un libro de cuentos "infantiles", de este libro yo recuerdo dos historias:
La primera es la historia de esta chica, cuya madre se iba a trabajar y la dejaba sola, Ella recolectaba bayas y pensaba que tenia un hermanito (¿o quizás el hermanito se lo pidió a un gnomo?). Al final el hermano se desvanece (¿creo que en la pared?) y la chica llora por el, su mama llega y le dice que él se fue por que ahora es una mujer (¿Asumo una historia de crecer y madurar y dejar tu imaginación atrás? Un poco tétrico para la edad que lo lei pero interesante).

El segundo cuento en el mismo libro es de una chica/princesa que en un bosque se enamora de un colibri, después de un tiempo, ellos se casan o emparejan y viven juntos, ella deja su palacio. Ella nunca ha visto su apariencia humana, aunque tengan un hijo. Un día, ella se harta de no ver su apariencia, coje a su hijo (que si lo avia visto antes) y se marcha al palacio, ahi, el rey y ella reúnen hombres para que hagan una prueba. Cuándo reúnen a las personas, ella le dice a su hijo, "cuál es tu padre?" y el niño (que parece como de tres años) camina Asia un "mendigo". Ella queda espantada y horrorizada y muy avergonzada, se siente engañada, coje a su hijo, y huye. Luego de esto el colibri los persigue, buscando a su amada y su hijo, al parecer ella se escondió en el mar (mi memoria recuerda que se escondió con sirenas, pero no estoy seguro). Al parecer su apariencia era falsa, cuando el los encuentra, ella y el se disculpan (creo? ).

Francamente, los dos cuentos se quedaron marcados en mi cabeza cuando era niño, creo que fue el primer libro que me lei, lo e buscado por google y otros search engines, pero no lo e logrado encontrar. Los cuentos train arte, dibujos en las páginas al lado de los cuentos. Lo lei en español en Colombia.

Muchas gracias! (I can translate it to English if its possibly a book in english. I know the bird story has other versions of other animals in other tales? )