Wanted: I took mommy walking and we saw

[stevek3]

Am looking for a children's book by the title or first line of "I Took Mommy Walking and We Saw", probably a Rand McNally or Golden Book. It was my daughter's favorite story book and I'd like to get it for my wife to give to her, now that she's about to have her first child. We've searched every antique store in the Midwest (only exaggerating a little)... Can anybody help steer me in the right direction? Thanks.

[dwwashburn]

R186: Red balloon, little boy and mother, mid-50's
For what I can remember of the book, (I haven't read it in 36 years) is a little boy goes out on a walk through the city with his mother. They see all kinds of sights. The last one they see is an organ grinder and his monkey. And I'm 99% sure the little boy gets a red balloon. At the end his mother and he arrive home so she can cook dinner for his father who will be home soon. They walk up their brownstone or apartment steps together. I believe the little boys name is Peter. It's set in the 50's. I remember his mother wearing a dress from the mid-fifties. This book isn't about the little boy who runs after a red balloon. I've seen that movie and I can say with confidence it's not that one. Thank you so much for your help.
Rosemary and Richard Dawson, A Walk in the City. This cute book documents a young boy's outing as he walks through the city's streets, with his Mother and wagon dressed in their Sunday finest---no jeans, sneakers or sweatshirts. Along the way they meet an Organ Grinder and his monkey, Grocery Man, friendly dogs, the Ice Man, Coal Man, a band, bus, taxi, park, etc. The text is in rhyme and quite delightful! There is a map on the inside front and back covers where the child can follow his path!!
Gladys M. Horn, illustrator Dorcas, Hippety Hop Around the Block, 1953, copyright. I wonder if this could be it -- my copy is the later version (1973) retitled Baby Goes Around the Block, and with a different illustrator, and the only balloon is in a picture of some children leaving a birthday party. The story is in rhyme: "I took Mommy walking, and we saw... A soft gray kitty with one white paw, A boy I know, with a truck that can GO! <...> A fat, round doggy, and one that was thinner, and Daddy, coming home for dinner!" A picture of the older edition's cover is at
www.seriesbooks.com/hippetyhop.htm.

From LoganberryBooks.com
loganberrybooks.com/stump-qr.html

[dwwashburn]

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Up for auction is
A Walk in the City
by Rosemary and Richard Dawson
The Junior Literacy Guild
and
New York * The Vinping Press * 1950
Copyright 1950 by Rosemary and Richard Dawson
Published by the Viking Press in April 1950
Published on the same day in the Dominion of Canada
by The Macmillian Company of Canada, Limited
Lithographed in the United States of America
by Reehl Litho Company
There are some ballpoint pen marking at the outside of the map on the last page and some green felt-tip pen onces on the map in the front. But I have seen no markings inside the book or on the inside lithography. It has obviously been used to read to kids but it seems that it have been kept mostly out of reach of them...
alternate text and lithography pages : ~ 30 pages total