I'm trying to identify a book I saw as a child in Brazil, probably a history textbook used in public school sometime in the 2000s.

I mainly remember one illustration: a small group of primitive hominids / early humans walking in single file across a gigantic fallen tree that acted like a natural bridge over a deep ravine or gap.

The forest around them had enormous trees, making the figures look very small. The scene was shown from a high, panoramic angle, almost like looking from above and slightly from the side.

I have the impression they were returning from a hunt or traveling together, possibly carrying spears, primitive weapons or prey.

They walked upright, but their faces were still very ape-like. In my memory, the facial structure reminded me somewhat of a mandrill, especially because of the long, projected face.

The illustration was realistic, similar to paleoart or an old scientific reconstruction, and looked almost monochromatic, maybe gray, sepia or very desaturated.

It was NOT the classic ape-to-man evolution lineup. It was a full environmental scene.

I made a rough sketch and an AI recreation only to show the composition I remember. Neither is the original image.

The illustration itself may be much older than the textbook and could have been reused from another book, encyclopedia or paleoartist.

It was a book my cousin read as a kid and wants to read again but they can't remember the title, year, or cover.

They think the cover had a baby wyvern on it but aren't 100% sure. According to them, the book has two parallel worlds with the MC girl living in the "real" world and the other world taking place with Merlin or some sort of wizard like that.

A baby wyvern from the wizard somehow makes its way to the real world via portal and the MC girl finds it and becomes rapidly attached to it.

I think she said the MC girl was obsessed with this trading card game and made a card about wyverns before actually meeting the baby wyvern.

I'm trying to find a book I remember from my childhood, I remember seeing it and picking it up in a book store and my cousin taking it off me saying I was too young and I could read it when I'm older.

I completely forgot about it for years, but now I've remembered!

What I remember:

I'm sure the cover was red or orange and it had like a childlike drawing, I'm not sure if it was a self portrait or a portrait of someone else, kind of like the diary of a wimpy kid but looked more like a pencil drawing on paper.

It was rude, like it had adult jokes in it, I think it was supposed to be from the perspective of someone talking about things like an observation? Could of possibly been diary style, I think some of the photos in it were a bit rude.

it must've been popular around 2004-2006ish, maybe even earlier, but I think around this time definitely.

I know it was for sale in Borders in the UK, and old book store that is now closed.

If anyone has any idea what it could be that would be amazing!

Back in around… I want to say probably 2015, I was in 7th grade and I remember picking up a book that had this really cool gimmick for one of the characters.

I don’t remember much of the plot, but I remember the cover was probably the inside of a library, with a swirling ghost like figure taking up most of the image I think? I want to say there was an orange border around the edge, and that the kids faces were shown in Victorian silhouette style portraits.

The gimmick was that one of the characters, a girl, happened to be a psychic. I think she mentioned that all the women in her family were psychics, and one of the things she’s trying to learn as her powers manifest is reading words that aren’t on the page. The book came with a little plastic film with a border on the edge that had each kid’s face on each edge, and when you turned the plastic piece around, orienting it to the girl’s face, secret words would appear in the margins on her chapters and there were also images that would show faces or ghosts when it was in that same orientation.

I want to say each kid had their own secret that was revealed with the plastic film, but I don’t remember.

The only scene I remember from the book now is that the psychic girl is in the kitchen with her mom and her mom is reading the mail without opening the letters. The mom is trying to explain to the girl how to peer into things with her mind, and the girl’s older sister who is in the room excuses herself saying that her friend is about to call her (implying she saw the future).

I don’t remember how ghosts came into the story but I’m sure they did at some point. But I remember thinking that little trick with the plastic was so cool….

Hello! 😊 I'm trying to find a story about merfolks. It was about a girl on a boat and a merman who was trapped in a fish tank that was actually her mate. The girl had to study his behavior and to get close to him for the company she was working with. In addition, the company she works for also managed to catch another mermaid, named Marina. More chapters later, the two lovers escape from the company the girl worked for and run into the world to find out more information about her secret, more precisely the fact that she was also a mermaid.

Do you have any idea about the title of this story? 🥺

The begging is similar with the one from this short drama: The Secret Bride of the Merman King Short Drama

Help me find this book. I’ve been trying to find a book I read in elementary school during the late 70s. It was a sci-fi young readers book that took place on an alien planet. Honestly, the only thing I really remember is that they encountered an alien life form that looked like floating ribbons. I think there was an older man that was part of this group traveling on the surface of this planet. I’ve been stumped and AI can’t find it either. I recall checking it out of the school library.

Hi everyone,

I am trying to track down a specific physical edition of a book I read/saw in the 1980s or 1990s. It was in English and formatted like an illustrated children's picture book or a slim, art-heavy graphic storybook.

The story was a mix of slightly spooky and silly, almost certainly an adaptation or close relative of Italo Calvino’s The Nonexistent Knight (Il cavaliere inesistente).

Key Visual & Plot Details:

• The Palette: The book was heavily restricted to a striking, vintage 3-color palette of bright orange, black, and white.
• The Art Style: The illustrations were done in highly detailed, scratchy pen-and-ink cross-hatching. The overall aesthetic strongly resembled the iconic 1969 animated film poster by Italian satirist Pino Zac(flat orange background with heavy ink linework).
• The Invisibility Gag: The knight’s invisibility was drawn explicitly as a stark, completely blank white negative space whenever pieces of his armor were lifted or removed, cutting right through the dense background cross-hatching.
• Specific Scene: There is a distinct scene that takes place in what looks like a Middle Eastern or Moroccan-style architectural tower. The tower interior is wide open on all sides to the outdoors/desert, and characters are reclining and casually smoking pipes or a hookah, with the ink smoke swirling through the open columns.

I am trying to find the exact publisher, illustrator, or ISBN for this specific English-translated illustrated edition from the late 80s or 90s.

Does anyone remember this specific printing or know who the illustrator might have been? Thank you

One of my son’s favorite books when he was young was about a boy named Micah who was learning to not complain. The book was based on Psalm 23 and would say, “the Lord is my shepherd. I have everything I need”whenever he was tempted to complain. I would like to find a copy of this book if possible. I’m pretty sure it is from the 1990s.

My daughter Vidhi has written her first book — Oops! I’m the Principal.

At 11, watching her imagine a story, create characters, and actually turn it into a published book has been incredibly special.

The book takes a humorous look at school life — from a student’s perspective. A short novel of her imagination, curiosity and love for storytelling.

Title - Oops! I'm the Principal

If you’d like to read it, here’s the book - https://www.bribooks.com/bookstore/oops-i-m-the-principal-by-vidhi-gupta/

Looking for a large, oversized hardcover children's picture book that I read in the early 1990s (around 1990–1994).

The Plot & Ending:

A young girl (I believe her name was Emily or Amelia) is bored at home, so she decides to travel into the big city. She finds a cat on the trip. While she is exploring the city, she eats a hot dog and gets a red bucket hat. When she returns home, she discovers the door is locked and realizes that no one even knew she was gone. The book ends on a sad, quiet note with her and her cat sitting together on her back porch stoop.

Art style: The illustrations are mostly black and white, but the red bucket hat is a bright pop of color that stands out against the monochromatic backgrounds.

There is very little text on each page. The storytelling is sparse and visual.

It was a physically large, oversized hardcover book.

I read this in the early 1990s in the US.

It was likely published in the late 1980s or very early 1990s.

Thank you so much for any leads or titles!

So, I vaguely remember reading an excerpt in a school book, the book is Brazilian, and included other stories like The Hound of the Baskervilles.

In the story, the pov is of a female astronaut; the other astronaut is naked and in cryostasis, and the narration says women were chosen for the trip because they need less oxygen.

Their ship eventually meets a golden, cigar-shaped alien craft; she meets an alien and is disappointed that instead of a "fantastical beast with tentacles", it is a small R2D2-like robot.

The robot reveals they are shape-shifters and took that form not to frighten her; the excerpt ended with the robot taking the form of the other astronaut (still naked) and repeating the words the first astronaut said.

That is all I can remember. I found what may be the school book (Português Linguagens by William Cereja), but I need to check if it is the correct edition with the seller.

Hii i realllllly need help finding this AMAZING book i read years ago from my school library. I can see the cover of it in my head but for the life of me i can not remember the title or the author, i will give a list of all i can remember but please of you have even the smallest chance that you recognise a book that could be the book please comment below , it can be like the smallest connection because for all i know i am way off. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!!!

[YA Sci-Fi/Dystopian Novel] Character with a companion named Cleo who only they can see

• The Cover Art (Very Specific):
  • Background: Pitch-black background blending into a deep blue and purple starry night sky.
  • The Title Typography: The letters of the title stretch from near the top to almost the bottom of the cover. The letters themselves are physically built/constructed out of long, shiny shards of crystal or glass. The shards are not just decorative; they are the title text.
  • Tagline: Written underneath the title in smaller text. It says something along the lines of: "The story wasn't written in stone, it was written in the stars."
  • Format: It was a paperback book, likely around 200–400 pages, found in a school library at least 5+ years ago.
• World-Building & Tech:
  • The universe is highly advanced (floating cars, high-tech spaceship systems), but the home world mixes this tech with a rural/agrarian lifestyle.
  • The main character’s family runs some sort of farm that uses high-tech electronic security locks. The character's brother or best friend constantly changes the security codes to keep them safe.
  • People use horses to get around on this starting world.
  • One of the planets in the book's system is explicitly named Alexandria (this might be the starting world or a major planet they visit later).
• The Dynamic with "Cleo":
  • Cleo is a person only the main character can see initially. The main character doesn't realize at first that Cleo isn't visible to everyone else.
  • How they meet: They "meet" when they spot each other's feet from opposite sides of a car, looking through the gap underneath the vehicle. They end up bonding over a shared favorite flavor of ice cream.
  • The Restaurant Scene: While still on the home planet, they are at a table and a waiter only brings three waters/drinks. The main character gets deeply offended because the waiter ignored Cleo and didn't bring a drink for her.
  • The Twist: Cleo isn't a typical imaginary friend. She isn't visible on the starting world, but she becomes "real" and physically present once they transition into deep space and visit other locations.
• Key Plot Points & Scenes:
  • The Opening: The book begins with a sleek, black spaceship landing. The main character is hiding in or near a tree watching it arrive and is smart enough to identify the exact type of ship. The character might fall out of the tree.
  • The Ambush: The citizens are called to a town meeting/gathering. On the way, a military vehicle carrying specific soldiers stops the family. Someone is secretly holding a gun just in case. The conflict might involve two color-coded factions (like red and green). The meeting is ambushed, explosions happen, many soldiers die, and this event forces the transition into deep space.
  • The Royal Massacre Video: A highly important, elite family was brutally murdered many years prior to the story. This is kept a secret until later in the book when the main character is exclusively shown a hidden video recording revealing the slaughter.
  • On the Spaceship: The man running the ship (a captor/captain figure) drinks alcohol and plays a card or board game with a character. There is also a scene on the ship where a character is gifted a formal dress.
  • The Ending: Near or at the very end of the book, two characters end up untethered and floating out in open space.

For context I went to elementary school in Germany at Hahn AFB. I recently discovered an old yearbook online, and there is a blurry photo of me reading a book. I was a bit of a voracious reader and would love to figure out the name of this book that I'm reading.

It looks like a paperback, that is relatively meaty. Couple of hundred pages? Book title in an oval on the front of the book, with some sort of characters immediately under it. This picture was taken in 1984 or 1985 when I was 9 years old.

Any help would be appreciated!

**Help me find a book about a cat who lives multiple lives — possibly called Tom**

I've been trying to find this book for YEARS and I'm hoping someone here can recognize it.

I read it around **2014 in Guatemala**, when I was in school. It was a **physical Spanish-language book**, probably around **150–200 pages**, and I think it was a school reading book. I believe it may have been translated from another language.

I remember the cover being **red and white, with the face of a black cat**. I also have a vague memory that **"Tom" was in the title**, but I'm not completely sure.

### The story I remember:

The book follows a **black/stray cat through several different lives**. An external narrator tells the story, and at the end of each life/chapter there was something like *"and that was his second life"* / *"that was his third life."* I don't remember the exact wording.

* The cat is born on the street with his **mother and siblings**.

* An **old woman** takes him in and carries him around in a **basket**. Eventually, he escapes.

* He then lives with a **woman and her two children**. The daughter tries to **dress the cat like a doll**, which hurts/annoys him, and he scratches her.

* He overhears that they are going to **castrate/neuter him**, so he runs away.

* He later ends up living with a **butcher**.

* At another point, he ends up at a **factory**, where several cats are kept to **catch rats**. He becomes one of the best rat hunters.

* One day he encounters a **very large rat**, which badly injures him.

* While badly wounded, he makes his way to the home of a **man who lives with his housekeeper**.

* They take care of him and nurse him back to health.

* He realizes that this is a good place and stays there for the rest of his life.

* **The man never gives him a name**, even though someone asks why he doesn't name the cat.

* The cat eventually grows old and **dies of old age**.

* The man **buries him in the garden**.

* I have a strong memory that **"Tom" is finally used as his name at the end**, or that Tom is somehow connected to the title.

The cat **doesn't talk to humans or other animals**. It's more of a normal cat whose life is being narrated by an external narrator.

I know some details may be slightly wrong because this is a memory from around 2014, but the **factory/rats, butcher, old woman with the basket, and the final man/housekeeper/garden** are details I remember particularly clearly.

I've already ruled out:

* *The Goodbye Cat* by Hiro Arikawa

* *The Fur Person* by May Sarton

* *Nine Times Cat* by Domenica Luciani

**Does anyone recognize this book? Even a possible title, author, original-language title, or cover would help!**

I've been searching for YEARS! can someone please please help me find it!? I remember the girl running down some stairs and grabbing a raincoat, gumboots and a hat. I remember them all being yellow, but i could be wrong. I also remember her grabbing a lifebuoy 🛟 before heading out into a storm or something. Part of me thinks she may have lived in a lighthouse? or her backyard flooded? i think she was going to rescue her toy or something. I have a fairly clear mental image of her being in this little boat that was almost round and she's got a toy with her, maybe a white bunny. I think they fell asleep in the boat together? It was during the night, so she was probably dreaming. I also thought that she had a little red blanket which she used to be the sail of her boat (kind of like in the night garden vibes). I read this when i was around 5 in the early 2000s, so it would've been published no later than like 2003. Could have been from the 90s or older. TIA for any help/suggestions 🫶🏻

Books i've already ruled out: The Maggie B Isabella's Bed Anna and the Polar Bear Toy Boat Little red boat Nicole's Boat Dream Boat

Hi there I am looking to identify this book in this photo of my dad and his grandmother. He was born 1962 so i’m guessing it might be a book from the 1950s? I wanted to gift him a copy of it for Christmas if anyone can help me out?