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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: Saturday, May 18, 2002 11:01 PM
Subject: PUBYAC digest 765
PUBYAC Digest 765
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) Stumper - Children's adventures with horse
by "BALIS/PLS/SVLS Reference Center, SF Branch"
<srcsf@mindspring.com>
2) Re: Antique Stumper
by MzLibrary@aol.com
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From: "BALIS/PLS/SVLS Reference Center, SF Branch" <srcsf@mindspring.com>
To: "Pubyac" <PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
Subject: Stumper - Children's adventures with horse
Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 10:58:58 CDT
Does anyone recognize this book?
Cover illustration is of a crazy wild horse from a carousel. Story is
about
a fat boy with few friends. A girl comes from another planet, and they
become friends. She gives him pills which satisfy his hunger, and he loses
weight. The horse takes them on many adventures through time. The
word
"unicorn" may be in the title. Patron read the book about 12-15
years ago,
when he was in 5th grade.
We've searched OCLC and Alibris, and have not yet found anything which quite
fits. Titles we've ruled out so far: _Carousel horse_, by Shiela
Hayes;
_Returning Nicholas_, by Deborah Desaix; _Unicorn girl_, by Caroline Glyn;
_Time of the unicorn_, by Barbara Jefferis; _One fat summer_, by Robert
Lipsyte.
Many thanks for any help or suggestions! Please respond directly to
srcsf@mindspring.com, as we are not
subscribed to the list.
- Catherine Sylvia
BALIS/PLS/SVLS System Reference Center, SF Branch
c/o San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street, 3rd floor
San Francisco, CA 94102
tel: (415) 552-5042 fax: (415) 552-5067
email: srcsf@mindspring.com
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From: MzLibrary@aol.com
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Antique Stumper
Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 10:59:04 CDT
Twice a week I read children's literature to the residents of retirement
homes here in Peterborough, NH. We all love it and I'm grateful to my
director for realizing the value of this outreach program. If you're
curious, I'm currently several chapters into Anne of Green Gables after Mary
Poppins, Wind in the Willows, A Christmas Carol, Lemony Snicket and Harry
Potter. In addition to making new friends, I am thoroughly enjoying
several
of the classics that I somehow missed as a child.
Most of my listeners are well into their ninth, or even tenth, decades and
many of them are retired teachers. One such scholarly delight is most
interested in finding out the name of a book read to her in her early years
of elementary school. I am assuming this book would have been read to her
somewhere in the first or second decade of this century. This is what she
remembers: A little girl named Bushy is the main character.
(It isn't a
story, she doesn't think, but a chaptered book.) Bushy and others are
riding
horses through a wilderness scene and the snow is deep over their heads ...
higher than the horses. She has been longing to find out what this book
might be titled. I assume she would also like to see it or read it again.
I'm not sure where to look for this information and I've told her I have a
'special source.' That is, of course, all of YOU! Any ideas on this
book
or
character ... or where to look?
Thank you, once again.
Charlotte Rabbitt, Children's Librarian
Peterborough Town Library
Peterborough, New Hampshire
mzlibrary@aol.com
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End of PUBYAC Digest 765
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