# Trying to find children's picture book from the 70s

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**Created:** [September 10, 2024, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-childrens-picture-book-from-the-70s/1007068 "2024-09-10T16:31:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2024, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-childrens-picture-book-from-the-70s/1007068/1 "2024-09-10T16:31:03Z")

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Long shot here but I’m trying to locate a copy of a picture book my grandparents kept for me at their house that was a favorite of mine. Was from the late 70s.  
Note: It was NOT a Richard Scarry book.  
The details I remember:  
-Was probably 12x12 hardcover, mainly white, glossy finish  
-Contained random wordless activities, puzzles, panel cartoons of which some examples include:  
-an illustration covering two pages of a countryside that contained hidden images of animals. There was a hippo in the clouds, a lion in some palm trees, a leopard in some tall grass, etc.  
-a puzzle that was sounding out a phrase with images (bee)(4)(eye)(saw)…  
-a short panel cartoon of a kid getting into mischief. In one he accidentally cuts down some flowers mowing the lawn so he gathers them into a bouquet to give to his mother. In another he is washing something with a garden hose and decides to spray his dog, he gets caught and ends up in a washtub with his mother hosing him down.  
-I don’t remember the cover of the book but the back had a tic-tac-toe like grid with various characters in the spaces ala the brady bunch. One characters head was a rabbit with glasses and a shirt collar with tie.  
Again, a long shot but that’s all I have to go by.

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**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2024, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-childrens-picture-book-from-the-70s/1007068/2 "2024-09-10T16:56:54Z")

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Try Marc Brown for his Arthur the aardvark books?

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**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2024, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-childrens-picture-book-from-the-70s/1007068/3 "2024-09-10T17:32:56Z")

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Sounds a little bit like a Remy Charlip book I used to love - Arm in Arm.

> **[Amazon.com: Arm in Arm: A Collection of Connections, Endless Tales,...](https://www.amazon.com/Arm-Collection-Connections-Reiterations-Echolalia/dp/1681373734)**
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> Amazon.com: Arm in Arm: A Collection of Connections, Endless Tales, Reiterations, and Other Echolalia (New York Review Children's Collection): 9781681373737: Charlip, Remy: Books