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Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 14:31:36 -0400 (EDT)
To: pubyac-digest@nysernet.org
Subject: pubyac V1 #362
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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 15:44:05 +0000
From: jhamilto@henderson.lib.nc.us
Subject: Stumper: Blackfoot Indians Fiction
Does anyone remember a fiction series published about 50 years ago
that was about the Blackfoot Indians. A patron is inquiring about
this series he read as a child and this is all he can remember.
Thanks in advance.
Joyce Hamilton
jhamilto@henderson.lib.nc.us
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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 14:29:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tina Lippman <tlippman@lis.pitt.edu>
Subject: Answer to Singing Wheels Stumper
Thanks to all who helped me find information on "Singing Wheels."
"Singing Wheels" was a fourth grade reading book. Its author was Mabel
O'Donnell and illustrators are Florence and Margaret Hoopes. It was
published by Row, Peterson and Co. (Evanston, Ill., New York and San
Francisco). Dates of publication were 1940 and 1947. It is part of the
Alice and Jerry Books Reading Foundation Series, which also includes "If
I Were Going" (a 3rd grade reader) and "Engine Whistles," a 5th
grade
reader. Mabel O'Donnell was an educator in the Aurora IL school district
and the book is supposed to be a fictionalized account of early Aurora
history. The books were not used in schools after the 1960s. They are
out of print.
I got mail from a couple of people who recall the books fondly.
Thanks again everyone!
Tina Lippman, Intern
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Children's Department
tlippman@sis.pitt.edu
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Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 11:39:42 -0700
From: FRM Staff 1 <frmsta1@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: "d" door sci fi stumper
We have a patron looking for the following which she remembers reading
to her son in the 1960's: a short story, possibly Issac Asimov about a
10 year old boy (in the magic future) who wanted to go out a small door
of his house but his mother didn't like to let him do so and wanted him
to use the Big "D" Door which was completely sanitized and a little
expensive. He kept finding a way out of the little "d" door and
returned with dirty shoes, dirty clothes, insect bites, common colds and
other diseases which children who stayed inside and used the Big "D"
door did not get.
Any clues welcome: please send to frmsta1@ix.netcom.com (the
character after the frmsta is a numeral one (1). THANKS Bonnie Janssen
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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 14:08:52 -0600
From: Becky Smith <bsmith@inter.state.lib.ut.us>
Subject: Stumper thanks (blind boy and ghost)
Thank you very much to those who identified the book about the blind
boy who makes friends with a ghost as "Into the Dark" by Nicholas
Wilde. We had it on the shelf, and the patron was delighted.
This list is such a great resource.....
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Becky Smith
Children's Librarian
Logan (UT) Library
bsmith@inter.state.lib.ut.us
http://www.logan.lib.ut.us
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"We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history."
-Mark Twain-
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Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 13:35:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: rebecca fisher <fisher@tipcat.dtcc.edu>
Subject: Stumper--smuggling gold past Nazis
A friend of mine is hoping someone out there can identify a book she and
her siblings read in the 60's, probably older elementary level. It was a
story about children in Denmark or Norway during WWII who smuggled gold
past the Nazi patrols by hiding it under their sleds. She thinks it was
nonfiction, or at least based on a true story. Thank you for your help!
Rebecca L. Fisher Phone: (302)478-7961
Youth Services Librarian Fax: (302)478-2461
Concord Pike Library
3406 Concord Pike E-mail: fisher@tipcat.lib.de.us
Wilmington, DE 19803
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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 14:34:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tina Lippman <tlippman@lis.pitt.edu>
Subject: Answer to Whoa, Joey Stumper
Thanks to all who helped me find information on Whoa, Joey.
"Whoa Joey" is the title of the book. It was a small paper or
cardboard
book like one might find at a supermarket. The author is Daphne
Hogstrom. The illustrator is Charles Bracke. It is a "Whitman Book."
It was published in 1968 in Racine Wis. by Western Pub. Co.
Thanks again to everyone who helped!
Tina Lippman, intern
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Children's Department
tlippman@sis.pitt.edu
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Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 09:11:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Peggy (Mary) M. Morgan" <pmorgan@tln.lib.mi.us>
Subject: video ordering information needed
I've been trying to find out how to order the following videos with no
success:
First Years Last Forever
from the Reiner Foundation
Hosted by Rob Reiner
Baby's World
a set of 3 tapes including: Reason and Relationships
Whole New World
Language of Being
from the Learning Channel
Any help would be appreciated. TIA!
Peggy Morgan
Youth and Young Adult Materials Specialist
The Library Network
13331 Reeck Rd.
Southgate, MI 48195
734-281-3830, ext. 131
pmorgan@tln.lib.mi.us
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Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 22:09:49 -0700
From: "Bill or Mary Schrader" <bills@sirius.com>
Subject: Umbrella story answer
Thanks to the infinite wisdom of our listserve! Two Pubbers suggested =
"Wizard of the Umbrella People" by Louise Kent. I am sure my patron =
will be thrilled to get this information.
thanks - mary schrader
bills@sirius.com
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Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 09:14:55 -0500 (CDT)
From: Angela Christianson <achristi@prairienet.org>
Subject: Alamo fiction??
Hello-
A patron was in recently looking for fiction based on or dealing
with the Alamo in Texas. This could either be historical or contemporary
as the patron did not specify. I check our OPAC with no success. Does
anyone know of any fiction (can be picture book, chapter book, or YA)
dealing with the Alamo as a place or as the event of the battle?
Thanks in advance,
Angela Christianson
MLS student
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
achristi@prairienet.org
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Angela R. Christianson
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
achristi@prairienet.org
achristi@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
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Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 13:34:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Aimee Meuchel <meuca@ils.unc.edu>
Subject: Help! Fantasy titles needed
Help! I need recommendations of high fantasy novels (other worlds) with a
male protaganist between the ages of 13 and 20. The books need to have a
publication date between 1990 and 1997.
Please do not reply to the list but rather to me personally. I'll post
the results in a future message.
Please excuse cross-postings.
Thank you,
Aimee Meuchel
(ribit)
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"She'll always be high on nerves and low on animal emotion. She'll always
breathe thin air and smell snow. She'd have made a perfect nun. The
religious dream, with its narrowness, is stylized emotions and its grim
purity, would have been a perfect release for her. As it is, she will
probably turn out to be one of those acid-faced virgins that sit behind
little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books."(Raymond
Chandler, The High Window, 1943)
"You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places where
people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason for our policy of
employing wild animals as librarians." (Monty Python skit)
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