Need Help Finding an Old Children’s Book!

[S.]

There is a book I remember I used to read when I was a child. It was around 1993-1995 when I would read this book. The book was an audio book and I remember the lines, “cup cup fill up and the milk will flow”. There was a giant glass of milk that would fill up and there was a giant that would say, “cup stop!” but the cup would continue to fill up. I used to take it out of the library all the time and now I can’t even find it on Google. It’s almost like the book never existed but I can remember parts of it clearly. It was an audio book that came in plastic and of course it was a cassette since it was the early/mid 90’s.

Does anyone have any idea of the title or author’s name? Since it was in the 90’s there is a possibility the book was written in the 1980’s.

[Cassandra]

I'm not familiar with the story you're describing, but the line about the cup sounds like something out of a fairy tale. If it was a fairy tale, then there's a good possibility that it was published as a collection of fairy tales rather than as a stand-alone story.

[S.]

I thought that was a possibility but I just asked my older sisters who are 10 and 13 years older than I am and they said it was a stand alone book with an audio tape. I’m so sad and frustrated that I can’t find it. This book stuck with me since I was about 3 years old.

[Cassandra]

Did you ask your sisters if they can remember any other details?

Was the giant the main character or was there a human character? Was the giant male or female? Kind or cruel?

Did the story have a separate realm where lots of things were giant-sized similar to the giant's realm at the top of Jack's beanstalk?

Do you remember whether the book had any illustrations? If so, what can you tell us about them?

[Margaretha]

Could it be the "In the Night Kitchen" by Maurice Sendak?

[El]

In the Night Kitchen for Margaretha's suggestion

[S.]

Cassandra,

It did have illustrations but the k my thing we can remember is the giant glass of milk. There was a human boy (I believe) and the giant was a male. The boy was the main character but the giant played a pretty big role, I think.

My sisters don’t really remember much else about the book besides that one line and the giant’s line.

[S.]

No, it wasn’t In The Night Kitchen. I was really hoping that was it! 😩🥺😔

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

S., please put some of those plot details into your header/title. We have thousands of members looking for old children's books and your thread needs to stand out at one glance.

[Lozer]

Reminds me a lot of the plot of The Magic Porridge Pot, which has been included in *many* anthologies.