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Comments about Tall Book of Make-Believe
I'm searching for a book from my
childhood, late
1950's-early 1960's. The title may have been
either, Tall Tales
or
Tall Stories for Children. It was about 15" long (hence
the "Tall" in
the
title). Two of the stories were "Bad Mousie" and
"The Very
Mischief".Also,
I recall a poem "One Day When I Went Walking". Any help
would be very
much
appreciated. I'd just about given up hope. Yes,
I'm interested in
the copy you've found. Thank you, again.
I am pleased as punch! I have been
looking for
the story "Bad Mousie" for years- it was read to me as a
child and the
book was taken, my mother can also not locate it. I want
my childrem to
have a copy of this book- Can you get one? I am not
worried about the
condition
as long as it is not trashed completly. It is very
important to me.
Thank
you.
This was one of my favorite books
as a
child,
and a few years ago I was able to buy a copy, only to
have it destroyed
when my apartment burned down. Is it possible that you
might be able to
unearth another copy? A former resident of the Buskeye
State would be
most
appreciative!
PS I found the most asked for books
fascinating
-- & yes, at least one particular favorite of mine
was there (Tall
Book
of Make-Believe; I still have my copy,
prized for "The
Very
Mischief").
I have a reel to reel tape (and
nothing
to play
it on) from the late sixties, when I was a first
year teacher, of
some of the stories from, I think, THE TALL BOOK
OF MAKE BELIEVE.
My
favorite story was about a visiting boy or girl who
discovered a
family
of bears living behind the bedroom door in her
relative's house.
The bears left her notes. I think she learned not
to be afraid of
the dark. Was this from that book? Also, I
remember having other
"tall" books, which I do not see in libraries or
bookstores now (maybe
Mother Goose?). As I remember, they were THE
TALL BOOK OF
MOTHER
GOOSE, THE TALL BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES
and THE
TALL
BOOK OF FAIRY TALES. Were these a
set? Who are the
authors? And are they still readily available? I
must find a
"make
believe" so I'll have the book to go with the tape once
I find it and
figure
out how to play it. Your website is like a
visit to our
childhoods--especially
those of us who read voraciously in the 50's.
Thank you!
I was searching for this book on
the net
&
found your wonderful site! My sister & I have been
searching for
this
book we had it as children and have such fond
memories of the
poems
& stories. Stories like Mr. Nobody, and the
one about the
kids
who got into mischief when the parents were away
taking apart the
phonograph, & clock, & putting them back
together with honey. I
gasped when I saw the photo of the cover on the 'most
requested' page! Garth
Williams' illustrations are wonderful. Thanks!
I have been looking for this book
for a
long time.
It probably was printed in the late 40s or early
50s. It was
probably
a Little Golden Book, or something like that. It
is the story of
a little girl who has a pet mouse that is constantly
making messes and
getting in touble.
This is Martha Dudley, Bad
Mousie,
first published as Bad Mousie: Donica's Story
by
Children's
Press (chicago) in 1947, reprinted as Bad Mousie
in
1966.
NB: isn't this in the Tall Book of Make-Believe?
I would like to add a comment to the
question
about "Bad Mousie," the story about Donnica and her
mischievous pet
mouse.
It does appear in The Tall Book of Make Believe.
Hi - I am not too optimistic about
finding this...
it was only recently that
I finally
discovered the
name
and author of my favorite childhood book... I figure I
would give a try
anyway.
It had winkin blinkin nod I
think was the
last story in it.One story was about a little girl who
at some point
gets
pulled under the door ,so that makes her flat ,but shes
ok,green forest
looking book, TALL TALES written in limb's (wood) 12 in.
tall and 4 in
wide, hard cover,I been looking for this book,for years
with no luck,
thanks
a Garth Williams Treasure of
Best
Loved
Golden Books
as a kind-of substitute to THE
TALL
BOOK
OF MAKEBELIEVE!!!!!!! discovered it online
one day, very cute,
tho just not as FABULOUS as Tall Book...... hopefully
Harper Collins
will
RE PUBLISH TALL BOOK!!!!!!!!
ciao!annie (thought it
could
be posted to your site in case anyone is looking for
garth
goodies.........
Tall Book of Make Believe is SO CHERISHED and loved by
EVERYONE who had
it in childhood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Ohhh, what wonderful memories this
book
has for
me! I still have my copy and it will be my
favorite
children's
book of all time. I so wish they would reprint
it. The
publisher
would make a fortune! My copy is priceless but I
just found out
they
are going for around $200.00. I remember the day
my mother bought
it for me. I was about 4 or 5 (I am 51 now) and we
went into this
quaint little bookstore for children. She said I
could pick out
any
book I wanted and that was the one. I read it so
many times I
couldn't
count and also read it to my children when they were
young. It
was
their favorite as well.
Tall Book of Make Believe.
This
is a book that has so clearly not only stayed but helped
form the
imaginations
of everyone who read it in childhood. Stories, word,
phrases continue
to
pop into my mind ever so many years later. There
is very little
else
I have ever seen in this world that speaks to my soul
with purer
delight.
My copy is just about ready to fall apart. Oh what
I wouldn'\''t
give for a new copy, even without my Godfather's
inscription on the
inside
cover. If ever a childrens book deserves to be
republished, it is this
one.
Comments about Elves and Fairies
I'm looking for a book called The
Giant
Golden
Book of Elves & Fairies, by Jane Werner. It's
illustrated by
Garth
Williams. I know the 5th edition at least was published
by Simon &
Schuster in 1951. Any chance you have it or know where I
can find it? I
grew up with this book and when I got older I found out
it had been my
Aunt's book when she was a child and she took it back!
This collection of stories and
poems was
very
near and dear to my heart with exquisitie illustrations
by Garth
Williams.
Please let me know if you can locate a copy for me.
And then there was the horror story
of a
customer
who remembered taking the book out of the library every
week and was
told
that the book had been recalled and was going out of
circulation. Her
mother
tried to buy the book from the library, but the
librarian grabbed it
out
of the child's hands and said she would burn it first.
Horrors!
I fear I have bit off more than I
can
chew . .
. it seems that the book my wife wants me to locate 2 of
is none other
than: The Big Golden Book of Elves and Fairies. One for
a present and
the
other to replace our current copy which has a very
battered cover (but
otherwise is pristine). Judging from your web page I
might as well join
De Leon is rummaging around Florida for the fountain of
youth......
Seriously,
how tough (and expensive) is it to find this thing
(non-binding quote,
of course- I'm just interested in an order of magnitude
estimate of
what
I'm in for since I'm your basic blue collar daddy of a
three year old).
This is the Giant Book of
Elves
and Fairies
with illustrations by Garth Williams. Maybe a
Giant Golden
Book?
It's a beautiful book, full of wonderful stories and
poems. I
treasure
my copy of it. One of the stories concerns a
little boy who is a
champion marble-player. I think he finds a
fairy's dress in
the garden. He winds up with all his marbles
changed into
precious
stones.
I feel like this is a l-o-n-g shot,
but
I remember
a book when I was a little girl(in the 50's)...have no
idea the name,
that
had all these tiny (fairy-like?) people trying to get a
giant shoe/boot
out of the mud in a forest?????
You've just made my day! I'm so
happy to
be able
to have it at a lower price. I did end up buying one at
a very high
price
but my Aunt really wanted a copy and so was continuing
to look for her.
I will be sending you a check for two, one for her and
one for my kids
(they aren't touching the old one!!). Thank you
again!!!!!
Thank you...thank you...thank you.
Like
all of
your customers, I have been looking for this book for
what seems a
lifetime.
I had it when I was a child and can recite "The Fairies"
by William
Allingham
by heart. The book was stolen when I brought it to
school one day for
show
and tell. I've been searching ever since. I can't thank
you enough for
making a dream come true. I'm a kinda new grandmother
with a 1 year old
grandson that of course is the light of my life. I want
him to know of
things other than mutant turtles, slime creatures and
foul mouthed
mice.
Being of Irish descent, my grandparents and mother
raised me on stories
of the "wee folk" and fairies. I've told my daughter of
this book
forever
and now at the old age of 26 she's going to be able to
see and read it
and I can read it to my baby Daniel. Thank you again, my
heart is
singing.
When I was in junior high (in the
last
millenium),
I read 2 books that were wonderful. Unfortunately,
they were sold
or thrown away before the old building was torn
down. Since I
lived
out of town at that time, I was unaware that I could
have gotten these
books. I would love to just read them one more
time....
There was also a fairy book that I loved. I don't
remember the
name.
All I remember is the one story in which a poor little
boy helped an
elf
or fairy. When he got home, he found that the
marbles in his bag
were actually fairy jewels. The illustrations were
gorgeous.
I have looked in several libraries, but have never found
these again.
Good
mystery solving.
I wonder if this person isn't
remembering the Giant
Book of Elves and Fairies. There is a story
in that book which
concerns a beautiful girl (I think a shoemakers
daughter) and a
prince.
There is a picture in which fairies are trying to pull
the prince up
out
of the mud when he has fallen, injured. And shoes
enter into it
because
the young woman has lovely silver slippers that have
been enchanted by
the fairies and that she has to cover up with wooden
clogs. She
falls
in love with the prince and goes to work in the court
and trips while
serving
food and loses her clog and the prince recognizes her by
her silver
slippers.
I realize that this is a long shot, but when I read the
sketchy
description,
this is what popped into my head.
My recent exciting book
(re-)discovery
was finding
the Golden Book Treasury of Elves and Fairies,
illustrated
by Garth Williams, recently as a newly reprinted
book, and that
was a happy ending to a quest I've been on for the last
couple of
years,
first, what the title was, and second, who the
illustrator was.
My
sister and I used to check it out at the city library
every time it was
available when we were young girls (in the 1960's), and
every now and
then
I'd grill her, "do you remember that book we used to get
that had the
stories
about fairies, etc."
I just listed this book on e-bay
without
knowing
how rare and popular it is. I am amazed by the
comments on your
site.
After seeing the price rise, I started searching for
why. It is
an
obviously beloved book by many. Good luck!
Jane Werner Watson is my
mother's
first cousin.
She is in her eighties now and lives in
California. In the 1950's
she sent my sisters and me many of her books for
Christmas.
I
am so glad to find a source for her books again,
as nearly
everything
we had has disappeared. I still have a beat-up
old Elves
&
Fairies which was one of my great favorites as a
child.
My sister and I grew up loving this
book, and
as she is older, she has the 1 copy. Please print it
again! I cannot
completely
communicate the wonder the stories and illustrations
have provided for
so many years, and I would love a copy to hand down to
my
daughter...the
400+ dollar versions are not in my range- re-issued is
just fine! Yes,
I would like a copy.
how-how-HOW do I get a copy of this
fabulous book?
My older sis (48 now!) is the owner of the only copy we
have and she is
keeping it! I am requesting a copy if you have it
or know of
where
I can find it--this book is tied in with almost all my
happy childhood
memories and is a Keepsake of the highest order!
Many thanks!
I see other people are looking for
this,
but I'll
give it a try as well. I
just took my
five-year-old
niece
to visit a friend who had it on her shelf of old
children's books. My
niece
was captivated while we took turns reading it to her
from cover to
cover,
and then almost had to be forcibly torn away from it
when it came time
to go home. I'd love to get her a copy if anybody knows
where.
The main character is a little girl
living in
a mountainous northern country which is inhabitted by
trolls. Her
grandfather
makes a pair of silver slippers to wear inside her
wooden shoes. The
story
is in an anothology including stories about a pink bear
working in a
canning
factory and a story of a boy who caught a Brownie and
ransomed him for
a bag of perfect marbles.
selected by Jane Werner, The
Giant
Golden
Book of Elves and Fairies. I'm sure
lots of people
remember this one! Singeli was my favorite story.
Is the reprint
still in print, or has it gone out again?
alas, it's been "temporarily out of stock" for months,
which really
means that it's gone out of print again...
Jane Werner Watson, Editor
Garth
Williams,
Illustrator, The Golden Books Treasury of Elves
and Fairies. 1999,
reprint.
The story about the little girl with the silver
slippers,
along with the one about the flying bear, is in this
1951 anthology
that
was recently reissued.
Watson, Jane Werner &
Williams,
Garth, Giant
Golden Book of Elves & Fairies.
Like
so many people, I lent my copy to a friend back in the
1960s and
never
saw it again. The stories and illustrations have haunted
me all my
life,
so when my son, an artist, painted the face of a prince
that seemed to
me to be inspired by the illustration of the prince and
his horse being
dragged down, I was astonished. My son had never seen
the book, which I
had 'lost' several years before he was born. I am now
particularly keen
to find a copy of that illustration, to see whether my
mind is playing
tricks on me! Also, I was devastated recently when I
found the book had
been reprinted, and I didn't realise! I sincerely hope
Random House do
decide to reprint soon if anyone gets an inkling
that this is
likely
to happen, please let me know. Oh, and thanks for the
great site!
I’m trying to find a
collection of
bedtime stories that my mother read to me. I have
a part of the
book and would like to know the title so that I might be
able to find
and purchase the book for my Grandchildren. Some of the
titles of the
stories include: The Lost Merbaby
by Margaret & Mary Baker; The
Brownie in the Garden by
Elsa Ruth Nast; The Pixie’s Scarf by Alison Uttley; The
Cannery Bear
by Ray St.
Clair; The
Room
Beneath the Tree
by James Stephens; Where Hidden
Treasure Lies
by Sheila
O’Neill. Some of the Poems
include: Song for a Summer
Evening
by Mildred Bowers Armstrong; Little
People’s
Market by
Dorothy
Brown Thompson; A Goblinade by Florence Page
Jaques; The
Second-Hand
Shop
by Rowena Bennett; Pipes and Drums
by Lilian Holmes; The Fairies
by William Allingham; The Little
House by
Elizabeth Godley; Ring-a-ring
o'Fairies by
Madelaine
Nightingale.
Jane Werner (ed),
Garth
Williams
(illus), The Golden
Books Treasury
of Elves and Fairies, 1951, 1979,
copyright.
Definitely this one! Contains all the stories/poems
mentioned, plus
more. While original copies (and even the 1979 and 1999
reprints) are
scarce and quite expensive, the book is due to be
re-issued on
September 9th of this year. If you can wait 'til then,
you should be
able to pick up a new copy, at a reasonable price.
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Comments about Grandpa Bunny
This was a favorite book of mine in
the
50s and
of my children in the 70s. Now my daughter would
like to share it
with her children but none of us can find the
book. I would be
willing
to pay whatever necessary but I am not sure it makes
your $15. criteria.
I am looking for a children's book
called (I think)
Grandpa Bunny Bunny, it is a story explaining death to
young
children.
I belive it was a golden book published sometime in the
50's, upon
Grandpa
Bunny Bunny's death he is out painting the sky that is
why we have such
wonderful sunsets. I don't know the author.
Nice site. I found it through
a
search with
Dogpile.com, for keyword "Grandpa Bunny." When I
got here, I
couldn't
find any reference to the book, but decided to ask for a
search.
The first day I learned how to use eBay, the book showed
up there, but
three day later I wa outbid for it.
There may be a version with a
different
title.
Printed originally in the 1950's.
I am looking for what I believe is
a
Golden Book
(with the foil edging) that was called Grandpa Bunny in
the
1950's.
It may have a different name in subsequent
printings. Anyway, the
story ended with Grandpa Bunny dying and turning into a
rainbow.
My mom is looking for this as she and Dad, now
grandparents 5 times
over
and in their 80's, look at the message somewhat
differently now than
when
I was a kid. Any help is greatly
appreciated. My siblings
and
I have been looking for over two years.
My mom-in-law is looking for a
decent
copy of
this book and will pay up to 15.00.
E7 Hi, I'm looking for a
copy of
a book
that I loved as a child, but I don't remember the title
or
author.
It is an Easter book about a village of bunnies who
paint easter eggs,
flowers, leaves, and shadows of trees. They are
led by a very old
grandfather bunny who is approaching death. At the
very end it
shows
his last painting--that of a sunset. It had to
have been
published
in or before the late 1970s. Can you help me?
E7 is almost certainly Golden Book
number
D111,
titled Walt Disney's Bunny Book, "told by
Jane Werner".
A
family of bunnies paints Easter eggs, as well as Spring
flowers,
Autumn
leaves, the shadows of trees on snow etc. The last
scene is of a
sunset painted by Great Grandpa Bunny Bunny (the bunny
so nice they
named
him twice?)
My family had the bunny book,
too. It
was
a little Golden Book and it was called Grandpa
Bunny.
The
cover had grandpa bunny, smoking a pipe, talking to some
little
forest
animals holding paintbrushes a la the deck of cards in
Alice painting
rose
bushes.
E7 DEFINITELY is a Golden
Book. I had
the
same one when I was little and remember Great
Grandpa Bunny Bunny
Both E7 and E8 sound like they could
be
referring
to The Country Bunny and the Golden Shoes.
In it,
a
wise old grandfather bunny recruits a bunny to join the
team of Easter
Bunnies that delivers beautifully painted eggs all over
the world in
one
night (they need a team because it would be too much for
one
bunny).
The Country Bunny is a mother with numerous little
bunnies, but she
outruns
and outjumps the bigger, faster and more arrogant
bunnies and is chosen
by the wise old grandfather bunny. At the end of
the Easter
night,
she is given the task of carrying a singularly beautiful
egg to a small
boy who lives on a mountain top and is very ill.
Try as she
might,
she cannot climb the mountain (she even injures her leg
on the ice)
until
the grandfather bunny gives her golden shoes that allow
her to bound up
the mountain in a handful of leaps. I think there
is a very
lovely
illustration of the sunrise that comes up just as she
leaves the egg
with
the little boy.
Just the publication info for the 2
Disney
books: Jane
Werner Walt Disney's Bunny Book
Racine,Western 1951, glossy
Pictorial Cover, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall, Walt
Disney Studio, Big
Golden
Book Jane Werner Walt Disney's Grandpa
Bunny NY
Simon
& Schuster 1951, 6.5X8 pict bds, unpag, Little
Golden Book #D21,
Walt
Disney Studio.
Guess what? It's the same
book,
albeit
in a different format.
E8 This children's
book
was very
colorfully illustrated and its main characters were
rabbits busily
painting
Easter eggs for Easter. I don't remember the plot,
except that
there
was some hurry to everything. The illustrations were
gorgeous, though
it
wasn't a big picture book; I believe at one point Jack
Frost comes
around
and paints leaves with frost. It sounds very similar to
the stumper
listed
as E7, but as I was probably 5 or 6 when I read it, it
was likely
published
in the 1960s. (I do remember a lovely picture at the
end, which may
have
been a sunset as E7 remembers.)
Regarding E8, I wanted to mention
that the
bunnies
in E7 also painted frost in the winter; and they painted
the leaves
with
autumn colors in the fall. They even dressed up
nature by
embellishing
mushrooms, and flowers, and making everything more
colorful in
spring.
Perhaps it is the same book being sought in E8, although
I don't
remember
where Jack Frost is in there or not.
Maybe it's Geraldine Ross' Stop
It,
Moppit! from 1964, about a clumsy Easter
Bunny who always
causes
a mess of one kind or another just before Easter, thus
making every
rabbit
hurry.
I was out last week from my office
and just
got
back to see your message. Yes, this sort of helps and
sort of
doesn't--not
only does that suggested title not ring a bell at all
for me, but I
think
the hurry that both I and E7 allude to is because
someone (the Easter
bunny?)
dies at the end, so all this stuff has to be done before
that happens.
I certainly don't remember mischief being a part of it,
but maybe I'm
being
morbid (!). I'll order this other if you've got
it--it's worth a
try.
It was a pink book about
easter.
There was
a grandfather bunny that was in charge of painting the
easter eggs, and
two little bunnies, I believe a boy and girl. The
grandfather
dies
(goes off into the sunset) at the end and paints a
beautiful sunset in
the colors of easter. It is beautifully
illustrated. The
grandfather
bunny is dressed formally with a vest and cane and
such. Please
help!
I was wondering if you could help
find a
certain
Little Golden Book my mom had when she was a
little kid. It
is called "Great Grandpa Bunny". We have
wanted this book
for
a long time, but am not exactly sure where to get
it.
Can you help us?
I cant believe how many people the
book Great
Grandpa
Bunny Bunny touched. I remember my
grandmoter reading
this
to me all the time when i was a child in the 70's. She
still has the
copy,
but I would like one of my own. I know that Walt
Disney Bunny
Book is
NOT exactly the same,and its used, but non the less it
will be enjoyed!
I hope that it is STILL available and not sold yet.
Walt Disney’s Grandpa Bunny
or Walt
Disney’s Bunny Book: I think this may
be the same one as
the Solved Mystery: Grandpa Bunny Bunny.
There is
one
winter scene in particular that shows the little bunnies
painting
shadows
on the snow. Since this is so often requested,
maybe you would be
interested in the several versions I own or have
seen.
1. Little Golden Book – Walt
Disney’s
Grandpa
Bunny, #D21, @ 1951, 28 pages, pink
cover
2. Little Golden Book – Walt
Disney’s
Bunny
Book, #D111, @ 1964, 24 pages, red
cover
3. Little Golden Book – Walt
Disney’s
Bunny
Book (Australian version), #D98, @ 1972, 24
pages, red
cover
4. Walt Disney’s Story
Land
– 55 favorite stories adapted from Walt Disney films
(ISBN
0-307-16547-7).
It includes the story “Grandpa Bunny”, but only 4
illustrations.
5. Walt Disney’s
Fantasyland
1 of a 4 volume set of the Wonderful Worlds of Walt
Disney. It
includes
the story “Grandpa Bunny”, illustrations reformatted and
some left
out.
Have any of the folks who have looked for the story
mentioned seeing
the
motion picture “Funny Little Bunnies” that the pictures
were adapted
from?
That must have been fantastic!
Thank you so much for finding the
name
of the
book I have looked for - Walt Disney Bunny Book.
The
picture
of the cover brought back a flood of wonderful
memories.
It is not available now but I will be looking for it in
the future.
Thank
you again.
The Bunny Book.
My
Mother
used to read this wonderful book to me as a small child,
no older than
4, around 1957, before I understood anything at all
about death.
Often I wondered what happened to it, as the beautiful
illustrations
stuck
in my mind. Around spring of 1976, I happened to
find the last
several
pages of it (from the autumn part to the end) in our old
summer home in
Florida. One day in 2000, I happened to be at a flea
market where they
had many old books and out of the blue I asked the woman
about this
particular
book and she knew exactly what I meant. She found
one copy of
"The
Bunny Book", c. 1951, in mint condition (with the foil
binding still
shining)
and gave it to me for $6. She told me it wasn't
the original
edition,
but the third publishing, and that the way to find this
out was to look
closely at the corner, near the bottom on the last page,
close to the
binding,
and there would be a letter corresponding to the
edition. You
have
to pull the binding ever so slightly to see it, but
printed there you
will
find a capital letter (A,B,C, etc) which will tell you
how far from the
original publishing it was printed. The one I got
from her had
the
letter "C" there, which meant it was the third printing
in that
particular
year (1951). When I got home, I checked the last
page of the book
I found in Florida, and to my delight, it had the letter
"A" printed
there,
which meant it was one of the first editions of this
particular Little
Golden Book. Comparing the two, I noticed some
difference in the
versions
(the latter having a slightly different wording from the
original, and
the illustration on the page about painting the
autumn leaves was
slightly different from the original (which I thought
was better).
At any rate, the thought of this
little
book
and its message has comforted me in many times of grief
throughout my
life,
and I sincerely hope Ms. Werner knows that her simple
story has left an
indelible imprint on the lives of many people, and
helped us
understand
the nature of our existence. I only wish I could
thank her
personally.
If anyone could tell me how to, I
would.
Let me weigh in with the Bunny Book
...
My mom
read it to me (in the early 50's) and I wore the darn
thing out because
I was eagerly turning the wonderfully colored pages of
eggs and
landscapes.
My kids also read and were read to from this book and
we've since lost
it. I do recall that there was a dazzling, vivid
sunset (or was
it
a rise) which the parent bunnies explained to the baby
bunnies as
Grandpa
Bunny Bunny's final work of art. Our kids were
helped to learn
about
the finality of all life through this edition. So
is it still
available?
I'd be interested in purchase if it's the same story I
enjoyed.
More Comments about Elves and Fairies
Thank you for the information! It
amazes
me that
they'd cut short publishing such an apparently popular
book. My jaw
just
about dropped when I read that the 1999 edition was
going for $199.00
on
the Amazon listing. You have a lovely sight!
Jane Werner Watson is my mother's
first
cousin.
She is in her eighties now and lives in
California. In the 1950's
she sent my sisters and me many of her books for
Christmas.
I
am so glad to find a source for her books again,
as nearly
everything
we had has disappeared. I still have a
beat-up old Elves
&
Fairies which was one of my great favorites
as a
child.
I have a book by Jane Werner that I
don't see
on your list. It is Christopher Bunny,
illustrated by
Richard
Scarry, Simon & Schuster, 1949. I was looking
for a value for
the book. Perhaps it should be added to your list.
Help! You are my last hope..like so
many
other
people here. I had a book of stories and poems
that I had between
1950 to 1960 or so, it was a large flat book witha shiny
cover with
pictures
on it, I don't remember what they were, but the inside
of the cover and
front page had a picture of fairies playing in the
forsest. I do
remember that the book had a particular story about a
bear that is
granted
a wish and ends up working in a salmon cannery,
this had an
illustration
of a bear wearing overalls and shoes that pinched his
feet and I also
remember
he had a radar antena on? There was a story about
a fisherman and
his wife who adopt a mermaid baby, another about a
leprechaun and a pot
of gold, and one about a shoemaker. It also had
some poem about
fairies
come out to play when theres a ring around the moon? I
have found many
fairy tale books but not with these stories. It
may have been
illustrated
by Garth Williams though I am not positive of
this. I am hoping
for
some kind of help, and it seems that everyone who leaves
an inquiry
usually
gets some help!
Jane Werner Watson, Giant
Golden
Book of
Elves and Fairies (now reprinted
as The
Golden Books Treasury of E & F), 1951,
1999. Isn't
that
a wonderful book? You'll get lots of answers on
this it's
on
the "Most Requested" list, but I don't know whether or
not it's
actually
still in print. (And yes, it was illustrated by
Garth Williams.)
The cover and title page were torn
off
by visiting
children)of younger siblings)who did not know to
respect
books.
I did not discover the damage until years later when
reclaiming the
book.
Sadly I don't remember the author, publisher or title.
What I have is
information
about the book and its remains. The book was most
likely
published
before the 1950's (when I read it). Also the
following authors
were
featured: Dorothy Brown Thompson, Mildred Bowers
Armstrong,
Florence
Page Jaques, Elsa Ruth Nast, Rowena Bennett, Lillian
Holmes, Alison
Uttley,
William Allingham, Ray St. Clair, Jane Werner, Marjorie
Barrows,
Margaret
and Mary Baker, Elizabeth Godley, James Stevens, Sheila
O'Neill, and
Madelaine
Nightingale. The illustrations were/are wonderful and
all about pixies
and fairies.
Jane Werner, Giant Book of
Elves
and Fairies.
This book was a gift from my grandmother to my older
brother in the
late
50's an has been a treasured part of our library at our
cabin. I can't
tell you the hours we spent as kids reading an looking
at the wonderful
illustrations by Garth Williams. I am in my 50's and
have raised
countless
friends childrens on these magical stories. In fact,
many of these
'kids'
have children of their own and have expressed interest
in finding
copies
of this incredible book. When it comes back in print I
would love to
purchase
several copies as gifts.
The Big Golden Book of Elves
and
Fairies.
I also grew up with this book. It's funny as I read the
comments of
others
and look at the cover illustrations, I get teary eyed. I
Loved this
book
as a child and would like to find a copy. If anyone
knows where I can
find
one please let me know. Also looking for The Boys and
Girls Bookshelf
Vol
II, Elves and Fairies, Pub. The University Society. Will
buy individual
vol. II or complete set.
I am anxiously waiting for when Elves
&
Fairies will be republished - because my 3
next door neighbor
kids
(9, 5 & 3 years old) ADORE my old, falling apart
1950s book.
They always go to the bookshelf and pull it out, sit
down and turn the
pages in silent rapture with those pictures! I
would dearly LOVE
to give them their own new book that won't fall apart.
|
ABC
is for Christmas. Illustrated by Sally
Augustiny. LGB
#108*,
1974.
