What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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SOLVED. Children's Picture book, old-school '50s or '60s. Sick or injured little girl. [s]
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Do they remind you of another illustrator or picture book author?
I just remembered another illustration of the little girl crying on her front lawn while her dad fixes a fence and her mom hangs up laundry.
The illustrations you mention make me think of the Little Golden Book Fix it, Please!, but that is probably not it... And your note that it was similar to a Little Golden Book but not a Little Golden Book made me think of Rand McNally's Junior Elf books -- might it be one of those? There's a site that has a number of cover images http://juniorelf.com/ if any of those seem familiar, and I found some others just by searching google images for "junior elf" happy book.
Thanks, Nancy. The illustrations were not by Eloise Wilkin. I'm very familiar with her style. These pictures were more along the lines of Dick and Jane.Just checked the Junior Elf list, but nothing looked familiar there.
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It couldn't be Madeline, could it? She goes to the zoo and gets appendicitis in the first book, and she falls from a wall (into the Seine) in the second.
Thanks Sam, but unfortunately not Madeline.The style was much more Dick and Jane. Very Little Golden Book of the 1950s.
One of these book series?Wonder Books
A Cozy Corner Books
Tip Top Elf Books (A Rand McNally Book)
Story Hour Book series
Whitman Tell-A-Tale Books
Could possibly be one of those knockoff series. There are just so many of them!
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This is a long shot as I don’t have the book with me, so can’t read the story to see if it matches, but their is a little Golden Book called: Nurse Nancy that has a cover where the kids look kinda Dick and Jane-ish.
Thanks, guys. It's not Nurse Nancy, but the style is similar.
You also might try searching on Loganberry books. They are pretty good for finding books. You might have to pay a small fee.
I'll take a look, thanks!
For some reason I have been obsessed with this post. I googled vintage children's picture books with Happy in the title and came up with a few. The most promising was published in 1965 and is called : The Happy Book and is by Patricia Martin Zen's and illustrated by JoAnna Poehlmann. It has a yellow cover with a little girl sitting on the ground.Other possible but not probable books are: The Happy Family by Nicole , illustrated by Corinne Malvern and Happy Days: What Children do the Whole Day Through ( a little golden book).
Thanks for your hard work!It's not any of these, sadly. The Happy Book has the wrong sort of style. The Happy Family and Happy Days are a lot closer, but they still aren't the right one. Out of the three, I'd say Happy Days looks closest.
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Stop the press! I found it!!!The Romper Room Laughing Book
I had been looking through pages of Little Golden Book knockoffs, and I finally came across it. This is a Wonder Book from 1963. I even found a video on YouTube, yay!
Thanks mucho to everyone who tried to help!
Oh wow, well done for finding it! Would the pages of Golden Book knockoffs you found be good to share on the 'Resources to find books' thread, or were you just trawling through Pinterest or something similar?
I was trawling Google Images and came upon this page. It was pure luck that I found it. The image is very tiny, but as soon as I saw the full-size cover, I knew it was right.
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Haha, yeah, I was like "that looks familiar," but I couldn't tell for sure until I pulled up a larger image.
What's the Name of That Book???
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Hope someone can help with this. I remember a super old-school picture book. It would have been around in the '80s, but I'm certain it was published in the '50s or '60s. It was close to the Little Golden Book format, but I believe it was a knock-off of that series, not an actual LGB.
Plot was about a sick or injured little girl. I remember scenes of her lying in bed with measles or maybe mumps. Possibly with a cold, her mom or a nurse or doctor taking her temperature. There was also an illustration of her falling down while roller skating and hurting her knee. I also remember her going to the zoo. Can't recall if some accident befell her at the zoo or not.
I think the title of this book was something like "The Happy Book," but if you try to search for that, there are zillions of titles. I think the gist of the story was that even though the little girl was sick or injured, there were things she could do to cheer herself up, like singing a little song to herself. "Everybody has a happy place," I think I remember a line like that.
Old-school classic illustrations, I'd say mid '60s at the very latest. One of those books where everyone came out of the Leave It to Beaver, Dick and Jane world. Everyone super white, upper middle class, suburban, etc.
Thanks mucho for any help!