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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 19:01:50 -0500 (EST)
To: pubyac-digest@nysernet.org
Subject: pubyac V1 #507
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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 20:13:51 -0600 (CST)
From: Sarah Howard <showard@mail.coin.missouri.edu>
Subject: Stumper.
Patron looking for a picture book written in the 60's or 70's. A
lady lives in a tree house, people make fun of her, there is a flood,
everyone then wants to go to her tree house.
Also, have a patron looking for a book club for a 12 year old for
the holidays. Where the child would receive a book-a-month for a year.
Anyone know of this for older kids?
Please respond to me. Thank you for your time!
Sarah Howard
showard@mail.coin.missouri.edu
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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 23:45:31 EST
From: FISHSTIX26@aol.com
Subject: Re: Chinese Brothers
Thank you to all that responded so promptly. It is the Five Chinese Brothers
that the patron was thinking of. We do not have the newer version by Mahy
(Seven Chinese Brothers) that everyone suggested- but will perhaps look into
it. Also it was suggested I get Storytellers' Sourcebook and/or the Eastman
Index to Fairy
Tales for future reference. I will also look into that. I appreciate your
help.
Lynn Poe
Children's Services
Kirkendall Public Library
Ankeny, IA, 50021
Fishstix26@aol.com
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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 08:49:56 -0500
From: "Alison Hendon" <ahendon@dorsai.org>
Subject: Stumper
This is a stumper posted to another list on which I participate. I thought it
was The
Boggart by Susan Cooper and then realized that it wasn't quite right (not to
mention
being to recent. Can anyone help?
Alison
Brooklyn Public Library
The book will have been published more than 30 years ago. It features a
brother and a sister who go to either England, Scottland, or Ireland with
their father, who is an English professor on sabatical while he writes a
book about a famous dead author. The children discover the elf-like tiny
person living in the house that they've rented. The elf has previously
undiscovered letters from the famous dead author and makes some sort of a
deal with the children to give them those letters if they do something for
him, which might have been that they sneak him back to the USA in their
suitcases. Back in the USA in the 2nd half of the book, the elf works his
magic when he smokes his pipe, helping the boy to play football better
than ever before. A favorite aspect of the book is that the elves
communicate to one another through the humans' trash; they send what
appears to be junk mail, but if you read every third word it contains a
message to the elf. The book contained line drawings in every chapter or
two and was probably about 60,000 words long. The book I read had a red
cover. (Totally useless info, I know, and that's what I remember the
clearest.)<bigger><bigger>
<nofill>
Alison Hendon
ahendon@amanda.dorsai.org
"Though my soul may set in darkness,
It will rise in perfect light,
I have loved the stars too fondly
To be fearful of the night...."
- Sarah Williams, "The Old Astronomer to His Pupil"
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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 09:25:55 -0600
From: Eric Norton <enorton@scls.lib.wi.us>
Subject: fantasy stumper (owls and flowers)
Thanks to everyone who had the answer. The book is _The Owl Service_ by
Alan Garner. Must be time to reread that one for me.
Eric Norton
enorton@scls.lib.wi.us
Head of Children's Services
McMillan Memorial Library
490 E. Grand Ave.
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin 54494
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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 09:50:01 -0600
From: "Don Wood" <dwood@ala.org>
Subject: CDA II Put on Hold, For Now
US District Judge Lowell A. Reed Jr. has blocked the Justice
Department from enforcing CDA II (the Child Online Protection Act)
until December 4, and may extend his order for another few weeks.
For more information, see "An Easy Win for Free Speech," by Declan
McCullagh at
http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/16387.html
The temporary restraining order can be found at
http://www.aclu.org/court/acluvrenoII_order.html
________________________
Don Wood
American Library Association
Office for Intellectual Freedom
50 East Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611
800-545-2433, ext. 4225
Fax: 312-280-4227
dwood@ala.org
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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 11:58:54 -0700 (MST)
From: PUBYAC Moderator <pyowner@pallasinc.com>
Subject: Reminder on how to ask/answer Stumpers!
I've been getting tons of answers to the listserve on various stumpers.
Remember, folks, these get DELETED so make sure you're sending to
the right person! --Shannon VanHemert
10. "Netiquette" Procedures for Stumpers
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996
Subject: This is how we will do Stumpers on PUBYAC
Here are our PUBYAC "Netiquette" procedures for posting Stumpers.
1) It is professional courtesy to include in your posting the references
which you have already checked. That way, librarians all over the world
won't be hauling out their A to Zoo for the same question. This is Standard
Operating Procedure in large libraries who write "call-back"
questions.
2) SUBJECT LINE must begin with "Stumper" and continue with a short
description of the book. There's nothing worse than a generic stumper
subject heading. This will also enable people who have the capacity to
filter their e-mail to delete the stumper before it hits their e-mail
box. [Note, however, oh ye filterers, that if your "kill" file kills
anything with the word "stumpers" in it, you will have lost out on
this
fascinating discussion about stumpers which we have just engaged in.]
3) I will NO LONGER forward misplaced stumpers to the correct addressee.
Replies must be sent directly to the original poster. You don't see this
aspect of PUBYAC, but it takes an inordinate amount of time to keep
track of all these stumpers. In other words, if you accidentally send an
answer to PUBYAC, it will not be delivered. (My life just got 5 times
easier.)
4) Because of #3, it is VITAL that the original poster include *in the
body of the text* his or her return address. Many mailers strip out
addresses from the headers and people can't see them.
5) Agree that no one has to answer a question they don't want to answer.
6) "Thank yous" are optional. If you are curious about an answer,
contact
the original poster.
7) I will try to send stumpers out last each night. If the digests work
right, stumpers should therefore be at the end. This is somewhat out of
my control, however.
Live long and prosper,
Shannon VanHemert
PUBYAC Moderator
pyowner@pallasinc.com
PUBYAC Web page: http://www.pallasinc.com/pubyac
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