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forgotten title from childhood...

1lachapakhan
nov 24, 2020, 1:35 pm

i’m trying to remember the title of a book i had when i was younger. it was given to me by a neighbor who was a teacher.

i don’t recall what was the plot, or if there was one, but there was a tiny character drawn in all throughout the book (i think just a line drawing in b&w), who would run around eating the letters off the page.

some of the letters were printed in different colors, and there was a definite bias as to which colors would be eaten and which were the tastiest.

is this enough to jog anyone’s memory?

2booksaplenty1949
nov 24, 2020, 1:42 pm

The Very Hungry Caterpillar eats holes in the pages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Very_Hungry_Caterpillar

3merrystar
nov 24, 2020, 11:12 pm

Roughly when did you get this book? Was it a picture book or a chapter book?

4lachapakhan
Redigerat: nov 25, 2020, 2:54 pm

it wasn’t a childrens’ picture book, like the hungry caterpillar... it was mostly text, like a regular book.

i think i got it when i was around 10, perhaps?

the character drawn on the pages was a person... maybe with a funny hat, like a pointy sleeping cap?

5kplamp
dec 7, 2020, 11:37 pm

6lachapakhan
dec 12, 2020, 10:02 pm

no...

i know i said i didn’t really recall the plot, but my vague memories lend me to think perhaps the book was more about itself and the little character eating its words and letters than that it was telling any story external to itself.

7lachapakhan
dec 12, 2020, 10:04 pm

i think the drawn character was vaguely jester-like in appearance... that may account for the point-hat memory i tried to impart, above.

8Aquila
dec 12, 2020, 11:35 pm

Could be an edition of Ella Minnow Pea or The Wonderful O, they're both about removing letters.

9lachapakhan
jan 24, 2021, 10:04 pm

no, they don’t seem to be.

it must not have been a widely published or popular book, i guess.

10amanda4242
Redigerat: jan 24, 2021, 10:17 pm

11Awards-and-Medals
jan 30, 2021, 3:05 pm

Do you remember when it might have been written or at least when you read it?