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From: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults
& Children" <pubyac@prairienet.org>
To: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults & Children"
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Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 11:01 PM
Subject: PUBYAC digest 328
PUBYAC Digest 328
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) Help: books w/ "integrated subjects"
by "Deirdre Miller" <dlmm34@hotmail.com>
2) "number" stories - bib
by "Heidi" <heidi@mail.cbiboca.org>
3) Book about catfish title
by Gale Criswell <gcriswel@pelican.state.lib.la.us>
4) stumper
by Judy Looby <jrlooby@yahoo.com>
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From: "Deirdre Miller" <dlmm34@hotmail.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Help: books w/ "integrated subjects"
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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 20:20:43 CST
Dear Wonderful Brains,
I have a rather vague request for a book suggestion for an 11-year
old.
The language arts teacher wants him to read something that "integrates
subjects." The mom used an example of October Sky
(Rocket Boys) which combines math and science in the story. I'm not sure
whether it needs to be fic or non-fic, so all suggestions are welcome! I'm
rather stumped, as I've never had this question, and I'm better at
high-school and up. Thanks for your help!
Deirdre Miller
YA Librarian, Lake Forest Park, Wa
dlmm34@hotmail.com
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From: "Heidi" <heidi@mail.cbiboca.org>
To: "pubyac" <PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
Subject: "number" stories - bib
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 20:28:14 CST
Many thanks to all who sent me suggestions of stories related to =
numbers! Below is a compilation of what everyone said.
--Heidi Estrin, heidi@cbiboca.org
Margaret Wise Brown's "Four Fur Feet"?
Stuart J. Murphy's "Henry the Fourth"
Keith Baker "Quack and Count" (for 7)
Jane Belk Moncure "My Seven Book" etc.
A Remainder of One - Elinor Pinczes (Scholastic)
My Little Sister Ate One Hare - Bill Grossman - (Crown)
One Grain of Rice - Demi (Scholastic)
What Comes in 2's, 3's & 4's? - Suzanne Aker (Scholastic)
Three Pigs, One Wolf, and Seven Magic Shapes - Grace Maccarone =
(Scholastic)
The Silly Story of Goldie Locks and the Three Squares - Grace Maccarone
(Scholastic)
Two By Two By Two - Jonathan Allen - (Dial)
Two Too Many - Jo Ellen Bogart (Scholastic)
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs - Jon Scieszka - (Viking)
Goldilocks and the Three Bears: A Tale Moderne - Steven Guarnaccia =
-(Harry
Abrams)
Reese's Pieces: Count by Fives - Jerry Pallotta (Scholastic)
8 O'Cluck - Jill Creighton (Scholastic)
The 13th Clue - Ann Jonas (Greenwillow)
17 Kings and 42 Elephants - Margaret Mahy - (Dial)
100th Day Worries - Margery Cuyler (Simon & Schuster)
100 Hungry Ants - Elinor Pinczes (Scholastic)
How Much is a Million? David Schwartz - (Scholastic)
Millions of Cats - Wanda Gag (Coward McCann)
and a poem:
On My Way to School Today!
On my way to school today
I Counted
10 trees,
48 houses,
7 shops,
5 post-boxes,
15 people,
6 dogs,
3 cats,
51 cars,
4 lorries,
23 lamp-posts,
2 zebra crossings,
4 telephone kiosks,
and
1 park,
which I had just reached the end of,
when I realized it was SATURDAY!
Ian Souter
How about Four Good Friends by Margaret Hillert (I think this is a=20
version of Bremen Town Musicians)
Thomas the Tank Engine - 4 Little Engines=20
Bea's 4 Bears by Martha Weston
Four Fierce Kittens by Joyce Dunbar
Spaceship Number Four: a Thanksgiving Story by Marjory Wunsch
Four Fat Rats by Cathy Bellows
Annie's Four Grannies by Steven Kroll
The Four Little Kittens Storybook by Kathleen Daly
The Four Magic Boxes by Jane Belk Moncure
I Have Four Names for My Grandfather by Kathryn Lasky
Four Leaf Clover by Will and Nicolas
Also, any book about the four seasons.=20
There is an old book (from the 30s probably) that is absolutely adorable =
called Four Little Puppies (Rags, Wags, Tags and Obadiah) in which =
actual dogs (and a cat or two) are dressed and photographed for the =
story. I have no idea who wrote it, but it was my favorite as a child =
(no, I am not that old--it belonged to my dad when he was a child).
Of course there are all the Five Little Monkey books by Christelow.
For 4, how about Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke (Edwards) or Four Fur =
Feet
(Brown), or Four Brave Sailors (Gindsburg) or Annie's Four Grannies =
(Kroll).
And Mirra Ginsburg also did Three Little Kittens (not the traditional =
rhyme).
How about Curious George Walks the Pets, edited by Margret Rey and Alan =
J. Shalleck.
(Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1986.) George walks his neighbor's four pets =
(cat, dog, canary and a goldfish)?
This one is fun: Gardner, Beau. The Look Again-- and Again, and Again, =
and Again Book. It is a visual perception, optical illusion experience. =
You turn the book four different ways to see different effects.
The Butterfly Book by Cynthia Bix talks about the four stages of a =
butterfly's life.
_Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke_ by Pamela Edwards
Four Black Puppies by Sally Grindley,=20
Four Pups and a Worm by Seltzer
and Four by the Shore by Marshall (also Three by the Sea by Marshall)=20
All in one piece / written and illustrated by Jill Murphy.
New York : Putnam, 1987.
Four young elephants help their parents get ready to go to a dinner=20
dance.
The traveling musicians of Bremen / retold by P.K. Page ; illustrated=20
by Kady MacDonald Denton.
Boston : Little, Brown, 1992.
A contemporary adaptation of the Grimm fairy tale in which four animal=20
friends mistreated by their masters set out to become musicians and=20
encounter a den of thieves.
Shrinking mouse / by Pat Hutchins.
New York : Greenwillow Books, c1997.
Four animal friends notice that the size of distant objects seems to=20
change depending on the location and movement of the viewer
To the island / story and pictures by Charlotte Agell.
New York : DK Pub., c1998.
Four animals friends enjoy an outing on an island.
Rolling Harvey down the hill / by Jack Prelutsky ; illustrated by=20
Victoria Chess.
New York : Greenwillow Books, c1980.
A collection of humorous poems about the narrator's four friends, one=20
of whom is the obnoxious Harvey.
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From: Gale Criswell <gcriswel@pelican.state.lib.la.us>
To: PUBYAC@prairienet.org
Subject: Book about catfish title
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I am sending this question in for Katherine Brown in Ruston, Louisiana.
Please reply directly to her
kbrown@pelican.state.lib.la.us
Help! We cannot identify a book that a patron remembers reading in the
early 1960's when he was in junior high. It is a story of a boy who spends
his summer trying to catch a particular catfish. That is the only info the
patron could give us.
-__________________________________
Gale K. Criswell
Youth Services Consultant
State Library of Louisiana
PO Box 131 Baton Rouge, LA 70821
Phone: 225 342-4931
Fax: 225 342-3547
E-mail: gcriswel@pelican.state.lib.la.us
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From: Judy Looby <jrlooby@yahoo.com>
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Subject: stumper
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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 20:43:50 CST
I'm being hopeful on this frozen and snowy morning. I
have a patron who remembers a picture book from his
childhood about a lost train. This would be pre-1970.
Unfortunately, that's about all he remembers. He
doesn't think lost is in the title, and he says it's
not The Caboose Who Got Loose. I've checked A to Zoo
and I've done a keyword search on our database. Does
this sound familiar to anyone? Please reply to me
personally. Thanks for any and all help.
Judy Looby
Charleston Public Library
Charleston, IL
jrlooby@yahoo.com
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