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From: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and
Children" <pubyac@prairienet.org>
To: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and Children"
<pubyac@prairienet.org>
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 11:02 PM
Subject: PUBYAC digest 526
PUBYAC Digest 526
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) Bib: 5th grade humor
by carrie@nysoclib.org
2) (no subject)
by Tacoma Public Library <larmstrong@tpl.lib.wa.us>
3) boys in coffin-stumper
by Ruth Shafer <rshafer@fvrl.lib.wa.us>
4) Stumper: Fighting animals
by "Leanne Heald" <lheald@timberland.lib.wa.us>
5) Stumper: merlin book
by "Moffitt, Gina" <GMoffitt@city.newport-beach.ca.us>
6) Stumper: Spellchecker Song
by Joann Giese <jgiese@stdl.org>
7) Stumper
by "Kim Flores" <kimf@mail.sgcl.org>
8) Anti-Harry Potter video warns about witchcraft
by "Don Wood" <dwood@ala.org>
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From: carrie@nysoclib.org
To: <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Bib: 5th grade humor
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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 13:43:47 CDT
Thanks to everyone on this fabulous listserve who responded to my request
for humorous stories for older boys. As always, your contributions are
greatly appreciated, and the kids (and myself) are enjoying the
recommendations!! Enjoy.
*Recommended by more than one respondent
Recommended Authors:
*Jerry Spinelli: Maniac Magee, Who Put That Hair in My Toothbrush?
*Louis Sachar: There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom, *Holes, Dogs Don't Tell
Jokes
*Christopher Paul Curtis: The Watsons Go to Birmingham; Bud, Not Buddy
Gary Paulsen: *Harris and Me, The Schnernoff Discoveries
Robert Lawson: Ben and Me, Mr. Revere and I, Captain Kidd's Cat
Avi: Romeo and Juliet - Together and Alive
*Jack Gantos: Joey Pigza Swallows the Key, Joey Pigza Looses Control
*Richard Peck: A Long Way From Chicago, A Year Down Yonder, Ghosts I Have
Been
Gleitzman: Worry Warts, Misery Guts
*Sarah Weeks: Regular Guy and Guy Time
*Daniel Pinkwater: Lizard Music, Hoboken Chicken Mystery
Gauthier: A Year with Butch and Spike, My Life Among the Aliens, Club Earth
*Roald Dahl: BFG, The Witches, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Paul Jennings: Uncovered, Unbearable, Uncanny
Kate Klise: Regarding the Fountain, Letters From Camp
Robert McCloskey: Homer Price, Centerburg Tales
Sid Fleischman
Margaret Mahy
Jack Prelutsky
*Dick King Smith
Hilary McKay: *Dog Friday, Amber Cat, Dolphin Luck
Bill Wallace
Eva Ibbotson
Margaret Bechard
Lawrence Yep
Gordon Korman
Recommended Individual Titles:
*The Great Turkey Walk (Karr)
Enormous Egg (Butterworth)
A is for Aargh (Brooke)
Black and Blue Magic (Snyder)
Sinbad and Me (Platt)
King Arthur (Morris)
I Can't Believe I Have To Do This (Alford)
What Do We Do Now? (McCann)
Magnificent Mummy (Woodruff)
Little Wolf's Book of Badness (Whybrow)
Phantom Tollbooth (Juster)
My Life As a Fifth Grade Comedian (Levy)
Squire's Tale (Morris)
House With A Clock in Its Walls (Aiken)
Cheaper by the Dozen (Gilbreth)
Ordinary Jack (Cresswell)
Recommended Series:
*Hank the Cowdog (Erickson)
*A Series of Unfortunate Events (Snicket)
*Bingo Brown books (Byars)
*A Series of Unfortunate Events (Snicket)
*Geek Chronicles--Skinnybones; Opearation Dump the Chump; Rosie Swanson,
Fourth Grade Geek for President; Maxi, Rosie and Earl-Partners in Crime
(Park)
Help! I'm Trapped.books (Strasser)
*Henry Reed books (Robertson)
Soup books (Peck)
Alien series (Coville)
Macdonald Hall (Korman)
Great Brain (Fitzgerald)
Bagthorpe Series (Cresswell)
Besseldorf Mysteries (Naylor)
Hatford/Malloy Rivalry-The Boys Start the War/The Girls Get Even, Boys
Against Girls, The Girls' Revenge, A Traitor Among the Boys, A Spy Among the
Girls (Naylor)
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From: Tacoma Public Library <larmstrong@tpl.lib.wa.us>
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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 13:44:10 CDT
Is there anyone on this list from Fairfax County Public Library? If
so,
could you contact me off list at: larmstrong@tpl.lib.wa.us.
I would like to discuss the TAOS upgrade.
Thank you,
Loralee Armstrong
Tacoma Public Library
Meddle not with dragons for thou art crunchy and taste good with
catsup.
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From: Ruth Shafer <rshafer@fvrl.lib.wa.us>
Subject: boys in coffin-stumper
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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 13:44:37 CDT
I am hopeful someone out there can help me locate a tale from at least
30years back. The patron is not sure if it was a novel or a story in a
compelation of tales....just that it was in a fat book.
The story contains these elements:
3 boys (maybe brothers)
worked round the clock as apprentices, without sleeping
eventual fell asleep and could not be woken up
placed in a glass coffin (or perhaps three coffins)
after 100 years (maybe) someone opened the coffin and the boys awoke.
The patron tells me that she needs this story to read to a person who will
not wake up, and thinks if she reads him this story he will realize that
they is still hope and he may someday awaken. If you have any leads or
ideas please pass them on.
Thank you so much,
Ruth Shafer
Vancouver, WA
rshafer@fvrl.org
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From: "Leanne Heald" <lheald@timberland.lib.wa.us>
To: PUBYAC@prairienet.org
Subject: Stumper: Fighting animals
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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 13:45:04 CDT
Hi,
We are trying to find the title of a book a patron read as a child in
the 70s. It was a picture book with a single story in it, not a
collection. In the story, all the animals are fighting all the time.
Rabbit tries to stop the fighting, talking to each animal one by one,
but they still fight. A big fight breaks out at the waterhole. Rabbit's
book that he has been carrying around without opening, is knocked down
and opens. One of the animals starts reading it out loud, and as the
animals start to listen, peace comes over them all, and they stop
fighting. The book they're reading might be the Bible, but the patron
is not sure.
Thanks for any help!
Leanne Heald
Youth Services Librarian II
Tumwater Timberland Library
7023 New Market St
Tumwater, WA 98501-6563
[360]943-7790
Fax:[360]586-9028
lheald@timberland.lib.wa.us
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From: "Moffitt, Gina" <GMoffitt@city.newport-beach.ca.us>
To: "'pubyac@prairienet.org'"
<pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Stumper: merlin book
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Staff has asked me to pass along this stumper to the collective wisdom....
Patron is trying to find the title for a book. She needs the author's
name
too. The first lines of the book are "Merlin was the saddest
magician in
the world. He had lost his magic." It is not a YA book.
It's for younger
children, either a picture book or a juvi 398.2 book she thinks. She
thought one of these gals authored the book: Sue Alexander, Alice Schertle
or Jane Yolen. Anybody recognize these lines? Thanks.
G. Moffitt
Newport Beach P.L. CA
gmoffitt@city.newport-beach.ca.us
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From: Joann Giese <jgiese@stdl.org>
To: "PUBYAC (E-mail)" <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Stumper: Spellchecker Song
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 13:45:58 CDT
Thanks to Greg Ullman and Linda Goff, who gave me, respectively, "Jerry
Zar"
and "A. Lewis" as (differing) authors for this ubiquitous poem.
It was a
good idea to look on Metacrawler, Linda.
It's too bad we can't give credit where credit must be due, since now I have
TWO answers, and still no publication information!
Jo Giese
Schaumburg Township District Library
Youth Programs
130 S. Roselle Road
Schaumburg, IL 60193
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From: "Kim Flores" <kimf@mail.sgcl.org>
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Subject: Stumper
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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 13:46:23 CDT
Hi everyone,
OUr patron is looking for a Little Golden Book about a kitten who
is dyed blue. She thought it was The Shy Little Kitten. I'm
thinking it was actually The Curious Little Kitten but I can't
confirm it. Our library doesn't own either title and neither
Barnes and Noble, Amazon, BookFinder, BookSubject nor WorldCat
gives a complete enough description. I also tried a Little Golden
Books collector's guide but that only has cover pictures. Does
anyone know which is right, if either!
Kim Flores
kimf@mail.sgcl.org
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Sent via the Springfield-Greene County Library system at
mail.sgcl.org
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From: "Don Wood" <dwood@ala.org>
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Subject: Anti-Harry Potter video warns about witchcraft
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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 13:46:59 CDT
Anti-Harry Potter video warns about witchcraft
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=3Dorl%2Dl=
oc%2Dpotter081101
"The little-known video -- Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged --
Making =
Evil Look Innocent -- claims the very books embraced by parents and =
educators for leading children to literature also can lure youngsters into =
witchcraft."
__________________________
Don Wood
Program Officer/Communications
American Library Association
Office for Intellectual Freedom
50 East Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611
1-800-545-2433, ext. 1 + 4225
Fax: 312-280-4227
dwood@ala.org
http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/
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intellectual freedom @ your library
Free People Read Freely=AE
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