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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, October 15, 2003 10:01 PM
Subject: PUBYAC digest 1242

    PUBYAC Digest 1242

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) Publishers specializing in health/medical books for kids
by Mireille de Vidas <mireille_de_vidas@parade.com>
  2) RE: Stumper:  lazy dog with couch
by "Tobin, Renee" <Rtobin@ci.rancho-cucamonga.ca.us>
  3) Stumper - Frog and dragonfly
by Connie Charron <cvcharron@yahoo.com>
  4) Retirement program for Kay Vandergrift
by Mary K Chelton <mchelton@mail.optonline.net>

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From: Mireille de Vidas <mireille_de_vidas@parade.com>
To: <PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
Subject: Publishers specializing in health/medical books for kids
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:14:36 CDT

Good Morning,=20

I was wondering if I could tap into some of your expertise with regard to =
publishers of children's books.  I'm specifically trying to generate a =
list of publishers who specialize in health and medical books FOR kids.  I =
was able to locate a few in Gale's Publishers Directory and I found a =
great list on the Children's Book Council's Web site.  Unfortunately, =
subject information is not readily available in the summaries provided on =
the CBC's site without having to link to each individual publishers page =
and read further.  Do any publishers jump to mind? =20

Thank you all for any suggestions you may provide.  Feel free to respond =
to me off-list or on. =20

Mireille
--=20

_____________________________
Mireille de Vidas
Senior Librarian
Mireille_de_Vidas@parade.com
(212) 450-7149
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From: "Tobin, Renee" <Rtobin@ci.rancho-cucamonga.ca.us>
To: PUBYAC <PUBYAC@prairienet.org>
Subject: RE: Stumper:  lazy dog with couch
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Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:18:43 CDT

Thank you to everyone who responded.  It was indeed the Amos books and we
have them in our collection.

Renee

-----Original Message-----
From: Tobin, Renee [mailto:Rtobin@ci.rancho-cucamonga.ca.us]
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 8:23 PM
To: PUBYAC
Subject: Stumper: lazy dog with couch


Yaccers to the rescue,

Does anyone recognize the following book from the patron's recollection of
the plot?  She read it to her children about 5 years ago but it was not from
our library's collection.

A family has a very lazy dog and when they take the dog with them camping or
anywhere they bring along the couch for the dog.

We've tried our own catalog, and A to Z with no luck.  Thank you.

Renee Tobin
Rancho Cucamonga Public Library

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From: Connie Charron <cvcharron@yahoo.com>
To: pubyac@prairienet.org
Subject: Stumper - Frog and dragonfly
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:19:13 CDT

I'll try this again since the first E-mail apparently didn't go through.

I'm posting this for another children's librarian within our system.  Please
let me know if this sounds familiar to anyone.

"I have a patron looking for a picture book she remembers being read to
school children (up to 5th grade) which begins with a frog eating a
dragonfly. Cause and effect events continue until someone has a heart attack
and the person is saved. Somewhere a red hat figures into the story. At the
end of the story it is clear that if the frog had not eaten the dragonfly,
the circle of events would not have begun, and the person who had the attack
might not have lived. The patron is not sure about the publication date of
this book, but she thinks it might be older."

If this sounds familiar to any of you, please e-mail me directly at
cvcharron@yahoo.com.

Thank you in advance for any help you may provide.

Connie Charron, Children's Services Sup.

Haggard Library

Plano, TX

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From: Mary K Chelton <mchelton@mail.optonline.net>
To: alsc-l@ala.org, yalsa-l@ala.org, pubyac@prairienet.org,
 Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum <JESSE@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU>
Subject: Retirement program for Kay Vandergrift
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:22:00 CDT

A Celebration of Youth Literature and
Youth Literature Research
In Honor of Dr. Kay E. Vandergrift

Sunday, November 16, 2003
Hilton, East Brunswick, NJ
3:30pm to 4:30pm
(Woodbridge/Piscataway Ballroom)
at the 2003 Annual Conference of the
Educational Media Association of New Jersey

Professor Kay E. Vandergrift has transformed the study of children's
literature for a generation of librarians, teachers, and students
through her classes at Columbia and Rutgers Universities and her
extensive award-winning websites which are visited by thousands of
people monthly.  This session, honoring Kay as she retires from
Rutgers University, is a panel discussion by colleagues and former
students of hers on topics related to youth literature and youth
literature research.  The panelists and topics are:

Dr. Mary K. Chelton Not Shooting Yourself
in the Foot, Etc.
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information
Studies, Queens College of the City University of New
York, Flushing, NY

Dr. Hilary S. Crew Feminist Scholarship
in Children's
Graduate Coordinator, Masters in Educational Media Literature
Specialist Program, Kean College, Union, NJ

Michael Joseph Running Late: Kay
Vandergrift on
Special Collections Librarian, Rutgers University Broadway
Libraries, New Brunswick, NJ

Bonnie Kunzel First Contact  with
Kay Vandergrift
Youth Services Consultant, New Jersey State Library,
Trenton, NJ

Grace Oliff Book Reviewing, or A
Steel Fist in a
Librarian, Ann Blanche Smith School, Hillsdale, NJ Velvet Glove

Kimberly Paone Eye on the Prizes, 2003
Teen Services Librarian, Elizabeth Public
Library, Elizabeth, NJ

Enola Romano The Birth of the Petra Project
Information Specialist, Montclair Public To
see the Petra Project, go to
Library, Montclair, NJ
http://eclipse.rutgers.edu

Moderator: Karen Hundert Novick, Director of Professional Development
Studies, Rutgers University's School of Communication, Information
and Library Studies,  New Brunswick, NJ

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