# Help Me ID an Old Childrens Book
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-an-old-childrens-book/179294
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [June 3, 2003, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-an-old-childrens-book/179294 "2003-06-03T03:04:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Balle\_M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balle_M)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2003, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-an-old-childrens-book/179294/1 "2003-06-03T03:04:00Z")
I’m trying to find the title of a childrens book that my sister had as a child. She had it before I was born, so it was published in 1959 at the latest. She thinks that it was either a Golden Book or a Wonder Book.
The only lines she remembers are:
"A pig came in for a pound of chops,
A beaver bought some forget-me-nots.
A cockatoo asked for some lemon drops
to take to Baltimore.
Beelzebub the Lion Cub had a swimming pool…"
Any help will be greatly appreciated as this could result in MAJOR brownie points for yours truly.
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2003, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-an-old-childrens-book/179294/2 "2003-06-03T03:24:36Z")
I haven’t a clue myself, but you might try this site:
[http://www.logan.com/loganberry/stump.html](http://www.logan.com/loganberry/stump.html)
My sister and I have found the titles to several books through this place. In fact, her next birthday present will be a book I haven’t told her yet I found. I even solved one title search myself.
Good luck!
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2003, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-an-old-childrens-book/179294/3 "2003-06-03T12:44:03Z")
I dunno, but unless that pig’s buying lamb chops, that’s one sick, sick pig…
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2003, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-an-old-childrens-book/179294/4 "2003-06-03T13:12:11Z")
**Baker** that is one great site.
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2003, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-an-old-childrens-book/179294/5 "2003-06-03T16:59:23Z")
Thank you **Shirley**. I love it. BTW, the book I’m getting for my sister is titledAdventure in Forgotten Valley. We both read it when we were kids, and forgot title and author. But I posted a stumper and detailed what we \*did \* remember, and we had an answer in less than a week. The “solver” actually posted an index that had over a thousand titles in “prehistoric fiction”, and when I went to it I round it there, after a short search.
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### Author:  [@bluedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluedolphin)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2015, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-an-old-childrens-book/179294/6 "2015-05-28T03:12:32Z")
Animal Jingles
Whitman Tell A Tale #837
Jackie Peller
Illustrated by Georgiana
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2015, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-an-old-childrens-book/179294/7 "2015-05-28T03:27:01Z")
Good job, **bluedolphin**!
Of course, it’s been 12 years since the OP was asked, but still: mystery solved!
😛
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2015, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-an-old-childrens-book/179294/8 "2015-05-28T03:34:00Z")
Here’s the new URL.
[http://w1.loganberrybooks.com/stumpthebookseller/?page\_id=8](http://w1.loganberrybooks.com/stumpthebookseller/?page_id=8)
It now costs $4 to submit a stumper.