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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: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 10:17 AM
Subject: PUBYAC digest 990
PUBYAC Digest 990
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) Focus Groups
by "Wendy Morano" <WMORANO@cml.lib.oh.us>
2) Child_Lit?
by "Jennifer Murphy, Head of the Children's Library"
<murphyj@uhls.lib.ny.us>
3) State craft idea compilation (long)
by "Bryce, Richard" <bryce@palsplus.org>
4) Re: Political opinions
by Jo Hick <johick_2000@yahoo.com>
5) 100 Harry Potter trivia questions & answers- very long
by "Bryce, Richard" <bryce@palsplus.org>
6) Re: Political Opinions/Jokes`
by Inge Saczkowski <isaczkow@niagarafalls.library.on.ca>
7) Re: Janeway bags & hooks
by "Jennifer Murphy, Head of the Children's Library"
<murphyj@uhls.lib.ny.us>
8) Harry Potter programs-Just say NO
by gabe <gabeny13@yahoo.com>
9) Re: Boys and Reading
by MzLibrary@aol.com
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From: "Wendy Morano" <WMORANO@cml.lib.oh.us>
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I'm going to be conducting at least one focus group with teens. It's my
first time. Does anyone have any experience/advice?
Thanks,
Wendy
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From: "Jennifer Murphy, Head of the Children's Library"
<murphyj@uhls.lib.ny.us>
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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 11:15:29 CST
Is anyone out there also on Child_Lit? It seems to have died. I have
tried to get back on twice, with help from the moderator, but so far no
luck. Boo hoo!
--Jendy Murphy
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From: "Bryce, Richard" <bryce@palsplus.org>
To: "'pubyac@prairienet.org'"
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Subject: State craft idea compilation (long)
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 11:15:42 CST
Hello! Many thanks to the wonderful people across the country who sent me
ideas for Western state crafts. I appreciate them all and now have
multitudes of ideas to sift through. The ideas are below:
When we celebrate our state we usually make papel picado or pinatas.
It's not a craft, but we had some little rocks (like you would use in an
aquarium) that we sprayed gold and then buried them in a lot of sand. That
is a fun activity. It's fun to encourage the kids to come in cowpoke
costume. I've also made western vests using paper grocery sacks- they will
only fit the little kids though.
The most fun I've had with a gold rush activity was when I got a small blow
up swimming pool, filled it with sand, water ,pennies and craft store
jewels, and had the children use pie plates with holes poked in them to pan
for gold and treasures. They stood in lines taking turns until everyone got
something. An outdoor summer activity!
Do you ever do contests? For California, you could do a "guess how many
gold
nuggets in a jar" contest. Just buy some gold spray paint, get lots of
stone
pebbles and spray them. Put them in a mason jar with a circle of cloth under
the lid. Make a stack of "panning permits" for the kids to write their
guesses on.
I found this idea in a Scholastic Ideas and Reproducibles book. The picture
of it in the book is so cute.
For Idaho, you could make stamps out of a cut potato and let them stamp
large brown paper bags, which could then be made it to book covers for their
school books.
I'm drawing a blank on Arizona. It sounds like your programs would be very
fun. Good luck!
Since Arizona is the only state to boast Saguaro cacti, here is an easy
cactus craft:
Cut out a saguaro shape with green paper (or more ambitious, twist green
butcher paper or tissue paper into the shape) Have the kids tear off tiny
pieces of colored tissue and crumple them up to glue on as blossoms. Make
prickly pears with round-ish pads glued side by side.
We have done Wild West programs frequently; maybe something from this would
be useful. (I'm thinking "Wanted Posters" for California with
the kids
drawing the picture and making up a name)
WILD WEST FUN CLUB
Read: Bubba the Cowboy Prince (Kettemen)
Pecos Bill by Steven Kellogg
Tyrannosaurus Tex by Betty Birney
Sing: Old Steven Austin Had a Ranch (with puppets)
Activities
1. Pan for Gold (spray painted rocks in bucket of sand)
2. Stick Horses to Ride
3. Twirl a Lasso
4. Horseshoe toss
5. Teepee
6. Campfire Rocks with Critters underneath
7. Puppets: Coyote, Tarantula, Rattlesnake, Armadillo,
Horse, Longhorn
head
8. Rattle and Scorpion to look at
9. Dress the Cowboy Flannel
10. Pin the Tail on the Horse Game
Crafts
1. Texas Maze and Coloring Sheets
2. Tissue Bandanas - Stamp with Texas Pictures
3. Deputy Badges
4. Horses with Clothespin Legs
5. String Ties with Texas Shapes
6. Gunfighter Flip Book
7. Wanted Posters
Bryce,
If you choose the gold rush ideal here is something to go with it. Take
chex mix and a few yellow skittles in a bowl for each child and let them
sift through it panning for gold (yellow skittles). Wear hiking gear
during
your presentation.
I'm doing an event that I think I'm going to call "States Fair" for
"Read
Across America" except that it will be 2 or 3 weeks after RAA because
Seuss'
birthday happens to fall on Mardi Gras this year which we are going to
celebrate. Crumby sentence structure, sorry. This will become an annual
event with about 5 states a year. I haven't absolutely chosen the states
for this year yet, but to paraphrase Joyce Kilmer, "Only
God can make a cactus!" How about sand painting for Arizona? It
is a
native art to the Navajo there (Maybe Hopi or Zuni, too.) It is easy to
make colored sand with a good quality chalk (that has color all the way
through). Just hold the chalk straight down into some salt and rub or turn
or in some way grind. It colors the salt beautifully, fairly quickly. And
it's fairly cheap, depending on how much the chalk costs.
Just spread some glue on a surface and sift the color on, or use bottles and
make layers of color inside.
For gold panning, I intend to use pyrite (Fool's
Gold) and try to get
hold of a child size swimming pool or a baby bathtub. The pyrite will stay
when sand washes away (swirling around in a pie pan maybe).
Glitter is so light, it would wash away before the sand, I think. One
could
come up with something with gluing glitter on paper, I suppose, but a
nuggett of pyrite would be neat and shouldn't cost much.
Since Washington's Mr. Rainier is probably going
to become an active
volcano before too long, you might want to perform some sort of volcano
demonstration---or is that too morbid? When we were in Seattle years ago,
we took the underground Seattle tour, which was pretty cool. It conjured
up
visions of its days as a roaring seacoast town, fill with saloons and
gambling along with other colorful activities. but wait this is for kids in
a library. Hmmm. It still is a bustling seaport with lots of
fishermen.
Golhunters on their way to Alaska all came through Seattle. There's a lot
of rain and fog and fungus there. The Oregon coast, too, is very, very
green. It has the best state parks I've ever seen (when we were young and
very poor and living in Arizona, we actually camped around the west).
For Idaho, you may be stuck with potatoes.
You just have the neatest ideas. I can't
remember where West Milford
township is, but if you need ideas for Ohio, let me know.
Re: cactus, I guess I was thinking of
saguaro before, which could be
done in miniature, but flat prickly pear could be made of homemade
playdough. The cracking that comes with drying would look pretty right.
I
have no good ideas for the needles, though. Maybe sippets of thread that
you put some kind of stiffener on (starch, fabric stiffener, sugar water,
etc.).
How about quilting? You would not necessarily have to do an actual quilt
block though you could buy some inexpensive muslin and some embroidery
thread or yarn. You could also do a construction paper quilt with scense
from that time period (they could even draw a potato for Idaho...)
Another option would be to do some kind of Conestoga wagon craft.
Or have the girls make a bonnet of some kind.
Check out "Westward Ho! An Activity Guide to the Wild West" by
Laurie
Carlson
Good luck!
It requires using a cutting device, but I remember in elementary school and
scouts using raw potatoes to make stamps (cutting shapes into the potato or
around the inside of the potato depending on how we wanted our stamps to
look)
Washington State, we did this last summer, carved totem poles from yams or
sweet potatoes
Hi Richard, I have done a cactus: Have the children shape aluminum foil into
"cactus shapes", either paint green, cover with green clay (my
favorite),or
cover with green tissue paper, them poke broken spaghetti or toothpicks
through (as prickles).(A base of clay works well to anchor). Pyrite nuggets
buried in sand (in an enclosed basin or box), sifted with kitchen strainers,
is a fun activity, too. Have fun!
Also, a craft idea for Washington might be to make a volcano out of
playdough or clay and use red colored vinegar and baking soda. You could
always make Potato stamps for Idaho. If you need an idea Montana, Wyoming,
or Utah you could do a fossil hunt/ identification or focus on Dinosaurs
(Dinosaur National Monument is in Utah).
Hi Richard,
Just a few ideas.
For the Gold Rush- how about collanders (plastic thingys with holes like a
shifter- for pasta) from the local dollar store, some sand (oh, no, be
brave!), and some rocks painted gold? With a kiddie pool to contain the
sand, the kids will hardly notice there's no running water for panning. Or
add water if you're really brave. The kids get to keep the "gold" they
find.
Not a true craft but lots of fun.
Cactus- how about those green lumps florists use as bases in arrangements
(it's Friday I forget the real word for them)? The kids can shape them and
cloves or toothpicks (the flat edge kind!) can be used for needles. Also
paper tissue for small flowers.
Idaho- got any old Mr. Potato Heads? Or even with large baking potatoes, you
can decorate them with toothpicks and patterns for hands, feet, etc. Or how
about a create your own potato chip craft- give the kids a yellow sheet of
paper, cut out a perfect chip and provide odds and ends of paper, glitter (a
four letter word in libraries), cotton, etc. and have them make a unique
chip. Trust me- even the older kids will like it- they can make gross chips.
Washington- apples! Apple prints with apples cut in half and washable ink
stamp pads?
Oregon- something with wagons? Pioneers?
As far as making cacti go, I've seen them made by putting lettuce
heads in flower pots and toothpicking brussel sprouts to the top. I
think it was on some decorating show, but I bet you could get good
results with colored stryofoam balls.
Hi Richard,
If you're determined to do potato crafts, you could try potato block
printing. However, gold and silver mining activities would also work for
Idaho, like panning for fake gold nuggets in a mixture of water and sand.
There's also timber and forest products, gem minerals, murals of peas and
lentils (where I'm located in the state), farming and cattle ranching, and
Lewis-Clark related activities.
Just so you know the states and crafts I have done or will be doing next
month are:
Maryland- mini paper plate crabs with flexi straws
New York- stuffed ladybugs (state insect)
New Jersey- sea shell pottery (glue colored shells onto flower pots)
Nebraska- hanger heart mobiles (for Valentine, Nebraska)
Illinois- "edible" log cabins (President's Day)- cover pint size milk
containers with frosting, add pretzel logs and Chex snacks
South Dakota- corn on the cob or corn kernel placemats- kids can either glue
kernels onto a placemat size paper or roll corn on the cob into paint and
then roll that onto the paper.
Have fun!
Richard Bryce
West Milford Township Library
973-728-2823
bryce@palsplus.org
"All it takes is one good deed to change the world for good."- Rabbi
Menachem Schneerson
"So many things have made living and learning easier. But the real
things
haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the
most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and to be cheerful
and have courage when things go wrong."- Laura Ingalls Wilder
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From: Jo Hick <johick_2000@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Political opinions
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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 11:15:51 CST
Wow!
Now that I have been verbally burned at the stake, let
me end this discussion by clarifying my point:
When you make a comment about a group, it is totally
different than joking about one person. I find most
political jokes very funny regardless of which party
the person being picked on belongs to. That is not
the same as when the joke made is regarding a
particular group of people, whether it be Blacks,
Muslims, Jews, Christians, Librarians (haha),
left-handed people, farmers, etc... and the message is
being sent not to a friend, but many, and out of that
group there may be those belonging to the group being
made fun of. This is not being intolerant, or
thin-skinned, I'm just asking for respect for those
that you don't agree with. I thought that this list
serve was intended for helping each other with library
issues, and I understand the frustration regarding the
government's funding (or lack thereof!). I respect
people who don't agree with George Bush, I certainly
don't agree with everything he does either.
Please reread the original comment at the bottom of
this email and instead of the word Republican, put in
the word Democrat, or Gay, or Buddist.
J.H.
--- Vicky <vickys4444@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> I think it's called a JOKE. And the last time I
> looked
> jokes and political opinions were allowed in this
> country.
>
> Vicky Schoenrock
> Warren-Newport Public Library
>
>
> --- Jo Hick <johick_2000@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> > Cassie,
> >
> > Just a suggestion that when submitting a comment
> on
> > PUBYAC, keep your political opinions to yourself.
> > Not
> > everyone in the library world is a Democrat. Your
> > comments were rude and unprofessional.
> >
> > jh
> > --- Cassie Wilson <cwilson2@woh.rr.com>
wrote:
> > > I tend to agree about tv viewing, but I'm always
> > > reminded by my husband
> > > that he and his little brother watched tv like
> > > idiots 40 years ago
> > > (especially war movies) and both came out
> pacifist
> > > valedictorians of
> > > their graduating classes (Unfortunately, the
> > brother
> > > also became a
> > > Republican, so I can't recommend tv watching too
> > > heartily.). Actually,
> > > it was a real relief for their mother to have
> them
> > > sitting inside so she
> > > could know where they were because once they and
> > > their little friends in
> > > the neighborhood decided to hang Bill's brother
> > and
> > > actually had done so
> > > when someone's older brother rushed out and
> > rescued
> > > him. I guess they
> > > knew ahead about the Republican thing.
> > > They are both great readers.
> > > Cassie Wilson
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From: "Bryce, Richard" <bryce@palsplus.org>
To: "'pubyac@prairienet.org'"
<pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: 100 Harry Potter trivia questions & answers- very long
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 11:15:59 CST
Hi! These are Jerry's questions that he sent to me. More information
can
be found in the teen book group compilation. Enjoy!
HARRY POTTER QUIZ
1. What is Harry's parents names?
a. George and Gina
b. Lily and John
c. Lily and James
d. Lauren and James
2. What is the shape of the scar on Harry's head?
a. Star b. triangle c. square
d. lightning bolt
3. What is the Weasley's ancient owl's name?
a. Egypt b. Errol c. Hedwig
d. pig
4. Where is the snake in the zoo from?
a. Brazil b. Australia c.
London d. Bolivia
5. Who is the maker of the Sorcerer's Stone?
a. Professor Dumbledore
b. Nicholas Flamel
c. Tom Riddle
d. Tim Philips
6. Who is the Charms teacher?
a. Professor Snape
b. Professor Flitwick
c. Professor Dragon
d. Professor Tulip
7. What position does Krum play in Quidditch?
a. Keeper b. chaser c. bludger
d. seeker
8. What year was Hagrid expelled?
a. First b. Second c. Third d. fourth
9. What does Mr. Weasley do for a living?
a. Works at the Ministry of Magic
b. Is an artist
c. Is dead
d. Works at Hogwarts
10. Who is Harry's enemy at school?
a. Draco Malfoy
b. Ron Weasley
c. Dudley Dursley
d. Lavender Brown
11. Who is the top of Harry's class?
a. Ron Weasley
b. Hermione Granger
c. Vincent Crabbe
d. Harry Potter
12. Who beat McGonagall's chess set?
a. Harry Potter
b. Ron Weasley
c. Dumbledore
d. Hagrid
13. What is Hagrid's first name?
a. Ruby b. Rubeus c. Diamond d.
Hairy
14, What is Ron's owl's name?
a. Cow b. Pidwidgeon c. Owlwidgeon d.
cat
15. What time did the Hogwart's train leave?
a. 6 a.m. b. 10 a.m. c. 11 a.m.
d. noon
16. Who is the giant who came into the hut?
a. Threadneedle b. Argos c. Nick
d. Hagrid
17. Who was the owner of the Sorcerer's Stone?
a. Nicholas Flamel
b. Robert Carlos
c. Nick Flanel
d. Nivo
18. What is the wizard bank called?
a. Gringotts b. Hogsmeade c. Diagon
Alley d. egg
19. Name of the oldest of the Weasley children?
a. Ron b. Bill c. Percy d. Tom
20. What type was Harry's broomstick?
a. Clean Sweep Five
b. Comet two sixty
c. Hogwarts Special
d. Nimbus two thousand
21. What house was Harry in?
a. Slytherin b. Hufflepuff c. Gryffindor
d. Ravenclaw
22. Who killed Harry's mom and dad?
a. Hagrid b. Voldemort c. Severus Snape d
Sirius Black
23. Who is the defense against the Dark Arts teacher?
a. Binns b. Sprout C. Quirrell
d. Hagrid
24. What is the caretaker's name?
a. Mrs. Norris b. Filch c. Dumbledore d. Lee
25. Professor Flitwick taught which lessons?
a. charms b. potions c. transfiguration c. history of magic
26. What was Harry's owl called?
a. Snowy b. Hedwig c. Scrappy d. Rusy
27. Who is the head of Slytherin house?
a. Snape b. McGonagall c. Bloody Baron d.
Listerin
28. What was Hagrid's boarhound's name?
a. Fluffy b. Cerberus c. Fang d. Dino
29. What was in vault seven hundred and thirteen?
a. money b. a cabbage c. a potion d. a package
30. With which house was Gryffindor doing flying lessons?
a. Hogwarts b. Slytherin c. Hufflepuff d.
Ravenclaw
31. Which football team did Dean Thomas support?
a. Spurs b. West Ham c. Sunderland d. Arsenal
32. What is the fluttery golden ball in Quidditch?
a. Quaver b. bludger c. quaffle c. snitch
33. Where did Professor Quirrell find a troll?
a. the dungeons
b. third floor corridor
c. the tower
d. dormitories
34. Who rode a flying motorbike?
a. Mcgonagall b. Hagrid c. Dumbledore d. Charvais
35. What did Harry find he was good at soon after arriving at Hogwarts?
a. spells b. potion making c. Quidditch d.
running
36. Who was nearly headless?
a. Nick b. Bloody Baron c. Peeves d. Moaning
Myrtle
37. Who was the cat sitting on the wall when Harry was a baby?
a. Callum b. McGonagall c. Bud d. Dumbledore
38. Vernon Dursley works for a drill company called?
a. Guiness b. Grunnings c. Seabury d. Knockington
39. The Dursley's address on Privet Drive is number?
a. one b. three c. forty-seven d. four
40. Uncle Vernon's idea of "rations" for the night the Dursley's spend
on an
island at sea is?
a. sandwiches for all
b. sandwiches for all but Harry
c. a bag of chips each and four bananas
d. potted liver
41. Harry's parents were killed on?
a. May 13 b. July 31 c. Halloween
d. Christmas
42. Gringott's/ the London bank patronized by wizards, is run by?
a. leprechauns b. wizards and witches
c. goblins d. trolls
43. To get to Diagon Alley, one goes through a shop that seems unnoticed by
Muggles; it is located between a bookshop and a record shop and is called?
a. The Singing Hen b. The
Squeaky Wheel
c. The Leaky Cauldron d. The Chamber of
Doom
44. There are 17 silver sickles to a gold galleon/ how many kunts make up
a
Sickle?
a. 8 b. 12 c. 29
d. 105
45. Harry's school books come from a store called?
a. Barnwick & Fenders b. McNauseum
c. Flourish & Blotts
d. Geoffrey O'Bore Esq.
46. Harry's wand comes from Ollivanders, "makers of Fine Wands
Since....?"
a. 1720 b. 1473 c. 1313
d. 382 B.C.
47. To get the train for Hogwarts, one goes first to?
a. Paddington Station b.
Victoria Station
c. Central Station d. King's
Cross Station
48. Ron Weasley comes from a large family. Several siblings have gone to
Hogwarts ahead of him. In his sibling set, he is number....?
a. three b. five c. six
d. seven
49. In Ron and Harry's first confrontation with Malfoy, Goyle and Crabbe,
they are saved from getting into a fight by the action of....?
a. Hermione b. Professor McGonagall
c. Scabbers d. Hedwig
50. According to the Sorting Hat, which house is best for the "brave at
heart"?
a. Griffindor b. Slytherin c.
Hufflepuff d. Ravenclaw
51. According to the Sorting Hat, which house is best for the "just and
loyal"?
a. Gryffindor b. Slytherin c.
Hufflepuff d. Ravenclaw
52. According to the Sorting Hat, which house is best for those of
"wit and
learning"?
a. Gryffindor b. Slytherin c.
Hufflepuff d. Ravenclaw
53, Dumbledore's extraordinarily short welcoming speech runs as follows:
a. We are very pleased that you are here. Now
lets us all eat.
b. I know that you are all tired. Let's eat now
and then you may
retire for the night
c. Nitwit. Blubber. Oddment. Tweak.
d. I hereby declare the term has begun.
54. When Harry first encounters Snape's gaze from the high table at the
initial banquet at Hogwarts, it
a. causes at sudden flash of pain in Harry's scar
b. strikes him as smarmy
c. is accompanied by a pleasant nod and smile
d. reminds him of a rabbit in Aunt Petunia's back
garden
55. Each house has its resident ghost. The resident ghost at Slytherin is
a. Seamus Finnegan b. The Blood
Baron
c. Nearly Headless Nick d. Enid
56. The fat lady in the pink dress requires two different passwords in the
course of the book. Name the first one?
a. codswallow b. caput draconis c.
balderdash d. draco dormiens
57. The number of stairs at Hogwarts is?
a. 18 b. 73 c. 142 d. 436
58. What is Harry Potter's birthday?
a. January 13 b. March 11
c. May 2 d. July 31
59. A remembrall is?
a. a kind of magical mirror
b. a brand of Quidditch broom
c. a glass ball full of white smoke that turns red if you forget something
d. a long strip of parchment with answers that Slytherin students sometimes
carried slipped up their sleeves during exams
60. The fat lady in the pink requires two passwords in the course of the
book? What is the second?
a. caput draconis b. codswallow c.
balderdash d. pig snout
61. Hermione's charm for opening locked doors is?
a. caput draconis b. balderdash c.
codswallow d. alohomora
62. In Quidditch how many beaters on a Quidditch team?
a. two b. three c. four d. one
63. Harry's first Halloween feast at Hogwarts is interrupted when it is
reported that the castle has been successfully
invaded by?
a. a troll b. goblins c. Fluffy
d. ghosts
64. Harry's first public Quidditch game is played against a Slytherin
team headed by 6th year student named?
a. Crabbe b. Goyle c. Marcus Flint
d. Terrence Higgs
65. In Harry's first Quidditch game, the Slytherin seeker was named?
a. Draco Malfoy b. Crabbe c.
Goyle d. Terrence Higgs
66. From whom does Hagrid buy Fluffy?
a. Greek chappie b. a wandering minstrel
c. centaur d. troll
67. When Hagrid having drunk a good deal, kisses Professor McGonagall
at Christmas dinner, she...?
a. giggles and blushes b.
shrieks c. gets up stiffly and walks out
d. at first thinks he is her furry cat
68. To whom did Harry's invisibility cloak formerly belong?
a. Dumbledore b. Nicholas Flamel c. Harry's
father d. Snape
69. The Mirror of Erised is dangerous because it shows....?
a. what is true, whether beautiful or not
b. what is beautiful, whether true or not
c. what the watcher most desires
d. what is possible, not what is probable
70. Who is Nicholas Flamel?
a. Dumbledore's half-brother
b. a famous astrologer
c. only known maker of the Sorcerer's Stone
d. a wizard who joined Voldemort and was killed
by him
71. Hermione begins fretting about exams when they are still
a. a week away b. six weeks away
c. almost ten weeks away d. almost a
year away
72. The Warlock's Convention of 1709, strictly prohibited
a. association with Muggles b. use of the
sorcerer's stone
c. dragon breeding d. killing
unicorns
73. Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback hatched from an egg that Hagrid
got
a. by mail order from Norway
b. when having drinks and playing cards with a
stranger in town
c. from Ron's brother Charlie in Romania
d. from Dumbledore
74. In the forest, Harry and Hermione are introduced to Roman, Bane
and Firenze, all three of them are
a. trolls b. unicorns c. goblins d.
centaurs
75. For their year-end exams, the Hogwart's students are provided with
special quills, bewitched with
a. an anti-cheating spell
b. an ever sharp point
c. the power to prevent weariness
d. the ability to make misspelled words appear in
lurid red
76. What color did Ron try to turn Scabbers?
a. purple b. yellow c. red d.
green
77. Who is the Hufflepuff ghost?
a. Nearly Headless Nick b. Hermione
c. Peeves d. the Fat Friar
78. What was the first line of the Sorting Hat's song?
a. Put me on. Don't be afraid.
b. I'm a thinking cap.
c. Oh, you may not think I'm pretty
d. I'll eat myself if you can find
79. what house was Mandy Brocklehurst in?
a. Ravenclaw b. Slytherin c.
Gryffindor d. Hufflepuff
80. Who does Mrs. Norris belong to?
a. Hagrid b. Ron c. Dumbledore
d. Filch
81. What position does Wood play in Quidditch?
a. seeker b. keeper c.
chaser d. beater
82. Where does Hary find the name Nicholas Flammel?
a. one of his chocolate frogs b. a book
c. a teacher d. Mrs. Norris
83. Who stuffs his/her wand up a Troll's nose?
a. Ron b. Hermion c. Dumbledore
d. Harry
84. What causes Uncle Vernon to board up his house?
a. heaps of letters Harry receives on a daily
basis
b. Dumbledore put a curse on Uncle Vernon,
causing him to lose his
mind
c. He was afraid Hagrid might return
d. He didn't want Dudley to attend Smeltings
85. What does Dumbledore see when he looks in the Mirror of Erised?
a. a pair of thick woolen socks b. a
foxy lady witch
c. all the cauldrons money can buy d. clean
floors
86. How much do glittery black beetle eyes cost?
a. free to you, fine sir b. five
Knuts a scoop
c. an arm and a leg d. the same as a
tawny owl
87. Who is the Minister for Magic?
a. Cornelius Fudge b. Frank Dobson
c. Zebedee O'Fitch d. The Revd Ian
Pasiley
88. What is the name of the wand shop in Diagon Alley?
a. Wandy's Wanderful Wand Emporium b. Mr.
Kaboozle's
c. Witchyboots Supplies Ltd d. Ollivanders
89. What was stored in vault 713 of Gringott's Bank?
a. All Harry's worldly goods b. Shergar
c. a golden-toothed inkbat d. The
Sorcerer's Stone
90. Which of the following is not involved in the game of Quidditch?
a. Fourteen players on broomsticks b.
six tall goalposts
c. four flying balls d. five gold
rings
91. Harry's first encounter with Lord Voldemort left him with a
a. scar b. limp c. wheeze d.
pimple
92. What is a muggle?
a. a nontransformed werewolf b. a dance
step
c. a bottle d. a nonmagical person
93. What is Headmaster Dumbledore's first name?
a. Rubeus b. Albus c. Alvin
d. Simon
94. Which creature did Harry accidentally set free at the zoo?
a. gorilla b. alligator c.
snake d. tiger
95. Professor McGonagall, a registered animagus, can shape change into
what animal?
a. dog b. cat c. owl d.
monkey
96. Moaning Myrtle lives in a
a. turret b. dungeon c. bathroom
d. tearoom
97. What do the Weasleys call the family home?
a. The Burrow b. The Rat's Nest c.
The Mansion d. The Alcove
98. If you were looking for Hagrid's wand, where would you most likely
find it?
a. cupboard b. cauldron c. umbrella
d. drainpipe
99. What creature is Neville Longbottom always losing (then trying to
find)?
a. toad b. lizard c. rabbit d.
owl
100. Neville is subjected to the "full body bind" towards the end of
the
book when the magic spell is spoken by...
a. Hermione b. Quirrell c. Peeves d.
Malfoy
HP QUIZ ANSWERS
1. C. Lily and James
2. d. lightning bolt
3. b. Errol
4. a. Brazil
5. b. Nicholas Flamel
6. b. Professor Flitwick
7. d. seeker
8. c. third
9. a. Works at the Ministry of
Magic
10. a. Draco Malfoy
11. b. Hermione Granger
12. b. Ron Weasley
13. b. Rubeus
14. b. Pidwidgeon
15. c. 11 a.m.
16. d. Hagrid
17. a. Nicholas Flamel
18. a. Gringott's
19. b. Bill
20. d. Nimbus two thousand
21. c. Gryffindor
22. b. Voldemort
23. c. Quirrell
24. b. Filch
25. a. charms
26. b. Hedwig
27. a. Snape
28. c. Fang
29. d. a package
30. b. Slytherin
31. b. West Ham
32. c. snitch
33. a. the dungeons
34. b. Hagrid
35. c. Quidditch
36. a. Nick
37. b. McGonagall
38. b. Grunnings
39. d. four
40. c. a bag of chips each and four bananas
41. c. Halloween
42. c. goblins
43. c. The Leaky Cauldron
44. c. 29
45. c. Flourish & Blotts
46. c. 382 B.C.
47. d. King Cross Station
48. c. six
49. c. Scabbers
50. a. Gryffindor
51. c. Hufflepuff
52. d. Ravenclaw
53. c. Nitwit. Blubber. Oddment. Tweak
54. a. causes a sudden flash of pain in
Harry's scar
55. b. The Bloody Baron
56. b. caput draconis
57. c.142
58. d. July 31
59. c. A glass ball full of white smoke that
turns red if your forget
something
60. d. pig snout
61. d. alohomora
62. a. two
63. a. a troll
64. c. Marcus Flint
65. d. Terrence Higgs
66. a. Greek chappie
67. a. giggles and blushes
68. c. Harry's father
69. c. what the watcher most desires
70. c. only known maker of the Sorcerer's
Stone
71. c. almost ten weeks away
72. c. dragon breeding
73. b. when having drinks and playing cards
with a stranger in town
74. d. centaurs
75. a. an anti-cheating spell
76. b. yellow
77. d. the Fat Friar
78. c. Oh, you may not think I'm pretty
79. a. Ravenclaw
80. d. Filch
81. b. keeper
82. a. one of his chocolate frogs
83. d. Harry
84. a. heaps of letters Harry receives on a
daily basis
85. a. a pair of thicken woolen socks
86. b. five Knuts a scoop
87. a. Cornelius Fudge
88. d. Ollivanders
89. d. The Sorcerer's Stone
90. d. five gold rings
91. a. scar
92. d. a nonmagical person
93. b. Albus
94. c. snake
95. b. cat
96. c. bathroom
97. a The Burrow
98. c. umbrella
99. a. toad
100. a. Hermione
Richard Bryce
West Milford Township Library
973-728-2823
bryce@palsplus.org <mailto:bryce@palsplus.org>
"All it takes is one good deed to change the world for good."- Rabbi
Menachem Schneerson
"So many things have made living and learning easier. But the real
things
haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the
most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and to be cheerful
and have courage when things go wrong."- Laura Ingalls Wilder
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From: Inge Saczkowski <isaczkow@niagarafalls.library.on.ca>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Political Opinions/Jokes`
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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 11:16:09 CST
I have to tell you that we Canadians just adore your politics! We don't
have
much passion for our own politicians, just a cynical eye and downtrodden
spirit. But we love your passion for all things Dubya. So keep the
jokes
and
opinions coming, making fun of, questioning or even ridiculing our elected
officials is not only our right, it's our responsibility!
Kim Heikkinen wrote:
> Just adding my two cents:
>
> This is a moderated list, and if Shannon lets a post go through, then it's
> up to YOU to hit "delete", or skip over, or whatever. I'm
personally HAPPY
> as all get out she is letting us discuss this topic freely--in the spirit
> of public libraries! Political associations aside, I think we can all
agree
> these are dark days for our country--not one of us is happy about war,
> whether we feel it is justified or not, methinks. Thus, joking around is a
> mood lightener--to me at least, and I personally have found ALL the jokes
> amusing.
>
> That said, I am the ORIGINAL, card-carrying, bleeding-heart, Gore-voting
> liberal, and when I originally read Al's statement about inventing the
> internet, I roared with laughter! :) :) I try not to take
myself too
> seriously, difficult though it is sometimes! :)
>
> Let's try to lighten up, ALL of us, no matter what brand of politics you
> hold dear...
>
> Kim
>
> *******************************************************************
> Kim Heikkinen catlover@netwrx1.com
> "I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure seeker, or
a
> gunfighter...but I am proud of what I am...I AM A LIBRARIAN!!!"--The
Mummy
> "Dubya: Out the Door In 2004" http://www.fight4choice.com
> It's hard to be angry when a cat is sitting in your lap...
> *******************************************************************
--
Inge Saczkowski
Manager of Children's Services
Niagara Falls Public Library
4848 Victoria Avenue
Niagara Falls ON L2E 4C5
Phone: 905-356-4053 Fax:905-356-7004
http://www.nfpl.library.on.ca
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From: "Jennifer Murphy, Head of the Children's Library"
<murphyj@uhls.lib.ny.us>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Janeway bags & hooks
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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 11:16:17 CST
Does anyone use the REALLY large Janway bags with the large hooks? I have
a
floor rack (about 4 feet high) to hold the extra large media pouches. The
hooks
are a bit of a pain to get the bags on and off. I read one of your
suggestions
about crimping them to the rack and I'll try it. But the bar is so much
bigger....
-Jendy Murphy
"Keeney, Scott" wrote:
> Crimp the hook to your in-house storage rack; circulate the bags without
> hooks. These bags do endure.
>
> Scott
> _________________________________________
> Scott Keeney
> Children's Librarian
work 541-917-7591
> Albany Public Library
fax 541-917-7586
> 1390 Waverly Dr SE
> Albany OR 97322
skeeney@ci.albany.or.us
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Engelfried [mailto:sengelfried@ci.beaverton.or.us]
> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 8:14 PM
> To: "PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and Children"
> Subject: Janeway bags & hooks
>
> We just got a bunch of those nice Janeway bags to use for our
cassette/book
> sets. These are the colored ones with a transparent front and a
zipper
(you
> can also get them through Demco). Our question is about the hooks.
They
> come with metal "S" hooks that you use to hang them on a metal
rod. And
> we're not sure if we should attach hooks to the rod, then circulate the
> bags, or attach the hooks to the bags and let them check out along with
the
> bags. We're concerned about safety...will those hooks on the bags
cause
> injury to kids at home. But we think shelving and arrangement will be
> easier without a bunch of hooks without bags hanging on the rods. If
anyone
> is using these, which option did you choose and how is it working?
Thanks
> in advance...
>
> Steven Engelfried, Children's Division Librarian
> Beaverton City Library
> 12375 SW 5th Street
> Beaverton, OR 97005
> 503-526-2599 sengelfried@ci.beaverton.or.us
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From: gabe <gabeny13@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Harry Potter programs-Just say NO
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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 11:16:35 CST
May I opine that I am declaring a total
moratorium on HP programing. That after 4-5
years of wands and brooms and jelly beans my
brain is going to IMPLODE. That it does not get
kids to read anymore than if they come to any
other program. That if I cannot lure kids to the
library for some other reason I am not a very
good programmer. That I have done NO HP programs
for a year now and I had over 3000 children
attend 200 other programs. We learned about
China and made dragons and cooked African food
and had a Captain Underpants party. We read
monkey books and holiday tales and poetry. We
wrote, illustrated and printed our own book. We
read lots and lots, including HP. But we have
moved on to the other side...there are books out
there and I do not need HP to promote them.
Sendak and Nix and Pilkey and Van Draaen and the
endless list of authors and illustrators that
stand on their own.
All that whining aside I must point out that I
love the Potter books, my children adore them, we
WERE in line at midnight the last time for the
new one and probably will be this time. However,
in terms of enticing readers and using my
worktime and energy on it....I need to stop for
my own creative sanity. Next I will start
wearing those little jumpers and theme sweaters
to work and all will be lost.
Lisa Dowling
Horseheads Library
Horseheads, NY
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From: MzLibrary@aol.com
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Boys and Reading
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 11:16:44 CST
I have just arrived back from a two-week trip to Cuba and am catching up on
reading my PUBYAC digests Jan 1-18. Please excuse the delayed response.
In response to Gail Roberts and her question regardings boys, reading or
their lack of interest in it:
I purchased Great Books for Boys by Kathleen Odean (ISBN 0345420837) last
year and she discusses this issue in the book. I found this helpful when
writing a newspaper article.
Original Post - "From: "Gail Roberts" <groberts@sailsinc.org>
To: "PUBYAC" <pubyac@prairienet.org>
Subject: Kids turned-off reading
This is a question that has been puzzling me of late, and I'd like to see
what the group thinks. What is it that turns a kid off of reading?
When we
get them in the first grade (or even earlier), they are eager and excited to
get books and start reading. But 3-4 years later, some kids would rather
be
hung by the neck for a few minutes than be caught with a book. What
happens
in the meantime? Why is it mostly boys? I've read what Jim Trelease
thinks
(worksheets, lack of role models, etc.), but some kids seem to be able to
rise above all that and love reading. And some have a house full of role
models, yet refuse to read. I'm still formulating my ideas, but would like
to see what a discussion brings. I've been a children's librarian since
1978, 14 years in my current position, and it seems to be getting worse.
What do you think? You can respond to me, but it might be better if you
respond to PUBYAC.
Gail E. Roberts
groberts@sailsinc.org"
Charlotte Rabbitt, Children's Librarian
Peterborough Town Library
Peterborough, New Hampshire
mzlibrary@aol.com
crabbitt@townofpeterborough.us
http://townofpeterborough.com/library
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