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SOLVED: Children's/YA > SOLVED. Childrens book, read before 1985, written in rhymed verses, illustrated with line drawings, about a family of children who misbehave. A page for each family member. [s]

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Fine Family | 7 comments I had a hardcover edition with a light colored cover.
The title of the book may have had the word Family.

On the page about the sister there was a line something like:
My sister never went to bed and every morning she had wool in her head.

There was also an illustration of one of the brothers with the body of a boy and the head of an animal.


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Lobstergirl | 44924 comments Mod
The Sorely Trying Day? I don't remember if it rhymes. It has line drawings.

By the same author, The Little Brute Family?

Both are about family strife which gets resolved.


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Rainbowheart | 28679 comments The Monster Den: or Look What Happened at My House — and to It

There once was a girl who never went to bed.
Every next day she had wool in her head.

Soft wool, scratchy wool, white, black, and brown wool.
All colors, all shades, and all of her head full.

Every next night for a week in a row
She never went to bed. She didn’t want to go.

Every next night for a month, for a year
She never went to bed. I hope it’s clear

That every next day the wool in her head
Grew thicker and thicker. And have I said

She never got up and she never lay down?
So she never got to wear her pink nightgown.


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Fine Family | 7 comments Thank you Rainbowheart!! The Monster Den is it!!


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Rainbowheart | 28679 comments Awesome, glad to help out!


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