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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: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 11:01 PM
Subject: PUBYAC digest 1130
PUBYAC Digest 1130
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) automated house stumper solved!
by "Elizabeth McKay" <ebuono73@hotmail.com>
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From: "Elizabeth McKay" <ebuono73@hotmail.com>
To: goodnightmoon-list@goodnightmoon.connix.com,
pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: automated house stumper solved!
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Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 10:22:49 CDT
A very big thank you to the MANY people who responded to my stumper about
the boy who lived in the automated house. The overwhelming response was
that the book in question was "Lazy Tommy Pumpkinhead," by William
Pene Du
Bois. We don't own the book, but I've contacted the patron with the title
and we'll try to ILL it. Thank you, thank you, thank you! My
original
posting is below.
Liz
<Secondly, this request came in at one of our branches, and none of us here,
both young and old, have been able to identify the book. This is the quote
from the patron:
"I'm looking for the title and author of a book that my parents used to
borrow from the New York Public Library when I was a child growing up in
Manhattan in the 1960s. It was a children's book, the illustration style I
remember being similar to Maurice Sendak's. Some people suggested it may
be
by one of the Pene DuBois family? The story was about a young boy who
lived
(by himself?) in an automated house that did everything for him. Dressed
him, fed him, etc. One night the house is struck by lightning and goes
amok. He is forced to learn how to do things for himself. Great
story,
good values. But I can't find it anywhere." >
Elizabeth McKay
Children's Librarian
The Ferguson Library
1 Public Library Plaza
Stamford, CT 06904
<elizabeth@fergusonlibrary.org>
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