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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:16:04 -0400 (EDT)
To: pubyac-digest@nysernet.org
Subject: pubyac V1 #717
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Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 16:05:15 -0500
From: "Brenda S. Evans" <chroom@seidata.com>
Subject: Fantasy
Dear Pubyakers,
Thank you for your responses to the criticism of the Wringer. I plan to
give her the complete compilation of responses.
Now I have another request. A patron is looking for a fantasy featuring
the characters, Cosgrove and Yakko. Are any of you aware of any such
book?
Thank you.
Brenda Evans
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Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 17:49:39 -0500 (CDT)
From: Sharon Lavine <slevine@nslsilus.org>
Subject: Knickerbocher Glory
Hi Pubyac,
A while back there was some discussion of Harry Potter and Knickerbocher
Glory and someone had posted the recipe for it. I didn't save it, so could
someone please send it to me? We'd like to try and make it.
Thanks.
Sharon Levine
Lincolnwood (IL) PL
slevine@nslsilus.org
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Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 17:36:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Charlotte Bradshaw <bradshaw@pls.lib.ca.us>
Subject: Stumper: Busy Man?
Help!
I have a patron who remembers reading a picture book, "Busy Man",
published around the 30's or 40's. It's about a hobo who helps out with
the town people, e.g. helping the candyman, picking up garbage, etc. She
thought the illustrations similar to "Andy and the Lion" (Daugherty).
Checked Children's Cat and A to Zoo..
Any help greatly appreciated! Thanks.
Charlotte Bradshaw
Sanchez Branch
San Mateo County Library
bradshaw@pls.lib.ca.us
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Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 20:47:16 -0400
From: "Alpizar, Marla" <MAlpizar@ci.hialeah.fl.us>
Subject: Hialeah, FL - 2 Librarian openings - JFK Public Library
We will be interviewing at ALA in New Orleans. Our notice follows:
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The City of Hialeah Library Division (Hialeah, FL) is accepting =
applications
for the positions of Librarian I and Librarian II. We are looking for
creative, energetic, qualified applicants with interest and experience =
in
Children's, and/or Hispanic Librarianship or as a Systems Librarian. =20
The JFK Library is the main public library for the City of Hialeah. An
extensive remodeling and automation of our library was completed four =
years
ago. The library currently has more than 91,500 books (with more than =
10,800
in the Spanish Collection alone), 1450 videos, 820 audiobooks, and =
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music CDs. =20
In the past four years, our library book budget has increased =
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from $50,000 to $207,000.The library is very heavily used by the =
community,
especially for educational information needs. It is not uncommon to =
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more than 1500 patrons a day in the main library.
Our library computer system - consisting of Galaxy Library Automation
Software, more than 9 Reference databases, Microsoft Office Suite, and
library-wide T-1 Internet access - runs on a state of the art Windows =
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Salary range for Librarian I is $21,242 - $42,848. Salary range for
Librarian II is $25,246 - $49,036. Starting salary will be based on
qualifications and experience. All positions are full-time civil =
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positions with extensive benefit packages. The City of Hialeah provides
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Marla Alp=EDzar, Acting Library Director=20
John F. Kennedy Library
190 West 49th Street
Hialeah, FL 33012-3712
Tel: (305) 818-9140, Fax:(305) 818-9144
email: jfklib@ci.hialeah.fl.us
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Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 22:06:34 -0400
From: mellifur@tiac.net
Subject: Re: Wringer
I have to say that I hated this book. It turned my stomach. I think HMurray
makes an excellent point about the book's intentions, and yes, Parker
learns that being a man doesn't mean you must be violent. But I hated
Parker's so-called friends, I hated every nasty thing that was described,
and I kept *screaming* that the whole idea of justifying shooting pigeons
by saying it's to raise money for the community was absurd. I'll grant you
all the rave reviews and the fact that the book is well written. But I
can't recommend it to anyone because I had such a strong negative reaction
to the entire book. (I'll say it again--this is a town of idiots if they
can't find better ways to raise money and if nobody else has ever
questioned shipping in thousands of pigeons just to shoot them. And the
other boys are simply loathsome, without any redeeming qualities.)
However: would I recommend taking it off the shelves? Never. And I think
that this woman and the school librarians who took it off their shelves are
missing the point. This book hardly glorifies violence. It's hard to
understand how they can read the book and not understand that Spinelli was
trying to make quite the opposite point.
Miriam Neiman
>At 11:01 AM 6/4/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>Dear Pubyakers,
>>A retired education professor from a local college has challenged the
>>notable book, Wringer, by Jerry Spinelli. <snip>
M. Neiman
mellifur@tiac.net
Welles-Turner Memorial Library
Glastonbury, CT
http://www.wtmlib.com
The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of my organization.
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Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 12:20:28 PDT
From: Donna Boudreau <donnab70@hotmail.com>
Subject: Stumper solved: Upside-down day
Thanks for your time and the answer to my question of the boy who had
everything done for him by machines.
Lazy Tommy Pumpkinhead by William Pene DuBois was the answer.
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Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 09:20:48 -0400
From: Cindy Rasely <crasely@wilson-co.com>
Subject: Miss Twiggly poem-stumper
Hi everyone,
I've got a patron who remembers a poem from several years back called
"Miss Twiggly's Tree". I've searched our Index to Children's Poetry
with
no luck. Does anyone know the poem and where I can get a copy? Thanks!
Cindy Rasely
Children's Librarian
Wilson County Public Library
Wilson, NC
crasely@wilson-co.com
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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 12:14:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: alibrarian@email.com
Subject: Stumper solved
Thanks so much to all of you who responded to my feminist princess question. The
book in question is indeed part of the Enchanted Forest quartet by Patricia
Wrede. Thanks also to those of you who provided such wonderful suggestions for
further reading in the same vein. Both myself and my patron are indebted!
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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 14:04:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mary Vanstone <mvanstone@tln.lib.mi.us>
Subject: uncle/grandparent divorce
Mark and Paula please don't feel slighted that your stumpers weren't
answered sometimes the thing your looking for just doesn't exist, or we're
as stumped as you are. I checked A-Zoo and asked a counselor that I know
and he didn't know of a single book either. He did mention that most young
children, who are of an age to understand that something has changed about
an extended family members life style, could take what they learned about
parents divorcing and apply it to grandparents and aunts etc.
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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 14:22:47 +0000
From: "marietta cole, children's librarian" <marietta@millinocket.lib.me.us>
Subject: Auntie Shrew Stumper
I'm looking for the title of a picture book story of a mouse family
that Auntie Shrew cares for. We have Beatrix Potter in mind, does
this ring a bell with anyone?
marietta cole, children's librarian
millinocket memorial library
5 maine avenue
millinocket, maine 04462
marietta@millinocket.lib.me.us
(207) 723-7020
(207) 723-7009 fax
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Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 11:12:45 -0700
From: "Carrie Eldridge" <celdridge@sanjuan.lib.wa.us>
Subject: STUMPER
One of our patrons wants to tell the story of how the Robin got his red
breast. I understand the story has roots in the Iroquois folklore and the
Sechelt Indians of the Northwest. Can someone tell what Anthology I might
find it in?
I work in a small library and we don't have that story.
Thanks!
Carrie Eldridge
San Juan Island Library District
Friday Harbor, WA 98250
360-378-2798
360-378-2702
celdridge@sanjuan.lib.wa.us
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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 99 13:00:40 MDT
From: "Candice Morris" <cmorris@mtlib.org>
Subject: Answer to stumper - girl, mountain, talking figurine
Thank you to all who responded to this stumper:
A patron is looking for a book about a girl who is trying to reach a
mountain. She cries on a mantel figurine of gold or brass, possibly a gnome.
The figurine wakes up and helps her.
The book is The Farthest-Away Mountain by Lynne Reid Banks.
Thanks,
Candice Morris Lewis & Clark Library http://www.mth.mtlib.org/
Youth Services Librarian 120 S. Last Chance Gulch Helena, MT 59601
cmorris@mtlib.org 406 447-1690 ex.15 Fax 406 447-1687
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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 14:02:00 -0500
From: "Katrina Lunceford, Children's"
<LUNCEFORDK@memphis.lib.tn.us>
Subject: Stumper-Little Bed That Ran Away
A customer is trying to locate the following book he remembers his
parents reading to him as a preschooler. The book was published before
1937. Plot line is as follows: a little boy does not want to go to bed.
One night, he falls asleep in front of the family fireplace. When he wakes
up, the house is dark, the fire is out, & everyone else is asleep. The boy
hears a noise in the upstairs hallway, goes to the bottom of the stairs,
and sees his bed moving "clippity clop, clippity clop"down the hallway
"clippity clop, clippity clop"downstairs and out the front door. His
bed
is running away from home because it is lonely and doesn't have anyone
sleeping in it. Eventually, the bed returns home, & the little boy is so
happy to have his bed back that he goes to bed from then on. Customer
believes the title was something like "The Bed That Ran Away"
"The Little
Bed Who Left Home"or something similar. The illustrations were black and
white, probably pencil or black ink, and that one illustration shows the
bed "clippity clopping" down the stairs. I've searched A to Zoo,
various
book locator sites on the web. Customer does not remember the exact title
or the author. It is not Greenberg's The Bed Who Ran Away From Home. If
anyonerecognizes this plot and can identify author/title, we would appreciate
it. TIA!
Katrina Lunceford-Children's Dept. Main Library
Memphis-Shelby County Public Library & Information Center
1850 Peabody Ave
Memphis, TN 38102
email:luncefordk@memphilibrary.lib.tn.us
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Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 14:12:05 -0500
From: Lisa Sampley <lisas@mail.orion.org>
Subject: ice cream puppet skits
I am posting this for a colleague. Does anyone have any ice cream
plays, puppet skits or ice cream stories? For the past three years they
have had a "world's biggest sundae" party for the end of summer and
are
running out of ideas?
You can post directly to me at lisas@mail.orion.org
Thanks in advance.
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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 13:58:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Charlotte Gerstein <cgerstei@soar.snap.lib.ca.us>
Subject: story w/ intertwining roses at end??
Hi, all--
Any ideas? A patron would like to identify (and locate) a picture book or
folktale-ish story she remembers from pre-1976 of a pair of lovers who end
up together despite family obstacles. The story ends with the roses from
the two families' yards intertwining, and has an illustration of the red
and white roses intertwining. Thanks!
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Charlotte Gerstein
cgerstei@snap.lib.ca.us
YA Librarian
Benicia Public Library
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