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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, October 24, 2003 10:01 PM
Subject: PUBYAC digest 1249
Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Lava Lamp Stumper by Mairi Quodomine <mquodom@mail.pratt.lib.md.us> 2) re: two stumpers by Georgi Sandgren <ivylane3@yahoo.com> 3) Oh no, oh yes stumper by "Jenny Sullivan" <sullivje@oplin.org> 4) stumper...John Chapman story by Ann-Marie Biden <AMBiden@ci.upland.ca.us> 5) ALA Graphics Photo Search: WIN five posters of your choice by Stephanie Stokes <stephanie@ssdesign.com> 6) Wired: Three R's: Reading, Writing, RFID by "Don Wood" <dwood@ala.org> 7) Looking for titles by <kalayjia@bellsouth.net> 8) STUMPER by "Webster, Lisa" <LisaW@ci.mount-vernon.wa.us> 9) animal sounds in other languages stumper by "Ahern, Kathleen" <Kathleen@neill-lib.org> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mairi Quodomine <mquodom@mail.pratt.lib.md.us> To: PUBYAC: PUBlic librarians serving Young Adults and Children <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: Lava Lamp Stumper MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 16:42:39 CDT Hi everyone, I am looking for any children's/YA title (besides science books) that somewhere in it mentions a lava lamp. It can be a very brief mention ie "I noticed she had a lava lamp in her room". Anything would be fantastic. I'm doing a science magic program at my library and all my other "tricks" have books kids can read but this one. Thanks in Advance, Mairi Ellen Quodomine Enoch Pratt Free Library ------------------------------ From: Georgi Sandgren <ivylane3@yahoo.com> To: pubyac <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: re: two stumpers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 16:43:04 CDT Thanks very much to Mary Peverada and Diana Norton for their quick responses. The two titles are Mrs. Purdy's Children by Ruth Loomis, and Tistou of the Green Thumbs by Maurice Druon. PUBYAC does it again!, Georgi -A boy (Titou?)was born to a wealthy family. Father owns a munitions factory. Point of view is that of the boy's friend. The boy is a very gentle soul, and can make anything grow. Near the end, the boy causes flowers and plants to grow all around the munitions factory, immobilizing it. He then plants seeds which grow into trees with a vine growing between them as a ladder. He climbs it to heaven. I thought the last line of the book was "Titou was an angel" A family with a large number of children has a vine which bears the most amazing fruit. The mother prepares pies and similar items with the fruit and sells them. But, every so often, one vine grows a different kind of fruit - a baby. The mother just raises the child as her own. But the townspeople become shocked when they count backwards and realize that her husband, presently away on a long business trip, would have been out of town during the time of "conception". I thought the title was something like Mrs. Purdy's Children.- ===== Georgi Sandgren Children's Librarian East Islip Public Library 381 East Main Street East Islip, New York 11730-2896 631-581-9200 ext. 6 ivylane3@yahoo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------ From: "Jenny Sullivan" <sullivje@oplin.org> To: <PUBYAC@prairienet.org> Subject: Oh no, oh yes stumper Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 16:43:26 CDT Hey everyone, I have a patron looking for a book that she says has something bad = happen on one page and it reads "Oh no!" and then something good happens = as a result of the first event, and it reads "Oh yes!" I found the book = Unfortunately by Charlip and she said it has the same concept but is not = the title she is looking for. I also am reserving It Could Have Been = Worse by Benjamin although she doesn't think that's it either. Any = ideas? Thanks in advance for all your help. You can e-mail me directly at sullivje@oplin.org Jenny Sullivan Children's Specialist Greenville Public Library Greenville, OH ------------------------------ From: Ann-Marie Biden <AMBiden@ci.upland.ca.us> To: "Pubyac (E-mail)" <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: stumper...John Chapman story MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:08:20 CDT Hello all, I received a request from a patron for a book published in the 50's, she believes, that is a fictional story about John Chapman, NOT a biography. Both she and her mom remember it as a white cover with a big tree on it as well as a picture of a man with a pot on his head. She thinks it is around 2nd grade reading level. I've checked A to Zoo and of course our catalog as well as Amazon but cannot locate anything like it. Does anyone have a clue? Thanks very much. Ann-Marie Biden Children's Librarian Upland Public Library (909) 931-4215 ambiden@ci.upland.ca.us ------------------------------ From: Stephanie Stokes <stephanie@ssdesign.com> To: pubyac@prairienet.org Subject: ALA Graphics Photo Search: WIN five posters of your choice Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:09:53 CDT Posted by Stephanie Stokes, "Library Media & PR Online" Show your best stuff and win five FREE posters! (A $75 Value!) Are you a librarian or teacher who uses ALA Graphics posters in your library or classroom? Send photos of kids and adults with Graphics products in use. If ALA selects your photo for a future ALA Graphics catalog, they will send you five posters of your choice -- free! Please send photos to: ALA Graphics Photo Search American Library Association 50 E. Huron St. Chicago, IL 60611 Rules: No Polaroid pictures, please. Photos should be no larger than 4" =D7 6", black & white or color, good quality 35mm prints. E-mail digital photos (300 dpi) to: graphicsmarketing@ala.org. All photos become property of ALA. ALA will return unused photos only if a SASE is provided. Search ends on December 15, 2003. Questions? Call Trish Cleary, Marketing Manager 800-545-2433, ext. 2426 ------------------------------ From: "Don Wood" <dwood@ala.org> To: <alsc-l@ala.org> Subject: Wired: Three R's: Reading, Writing, RFID Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:11:30 CDT "The school spent $25,000 on the ID system. The $3 ID tags students wear around their necks at all times incorporate the same Texas Instruments smart labels used in the wristbands worn by inmates at the Pima County jail in Texas. Similar wristbands are used to track wounded U.S. soldiers and POWs in Iraq and by the Magic Waters theme park in Illinois for cashless purchases." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Three R's: Reading, Writing, RFID Undeterred by fretful privacy advocates, a charter school in Buffalo has adopted RFID technology to track student attendance. The school's chief says it's all in the name of safety and efficiency. By Julia Scheeres. http://r.hotwired.com/r/wn_story_mailer/http://www.wired.com/news/technology /0,1282,60898,00.html ------------------------------ From: <kalayjia@bellsouth.net> To: <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: Looking for titles MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:12:38 CDT What is the best fiction YA book you have read on the following topics -- Teen pregnancy Teens wrestling with decision to have sex or not Teens dealing with parents' divorce Teen dealing with death of a family member or friend Send answers directly to me & I will post compiled list to pubyac. Thanks in advance for sharing your favorite titles on these themes! Marcia S. Kalayjian kalayjia@bellsouth.net (graduate student USC-SLIS) ------------------------------ From: "Webster, Lisa" <LisaW@ci.mount-vernon.wa.us> To: <PUBYAC@prairienet.org> Subject: STUMPER MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:14:33 CDT There was a book that was special to me, and I read it several times, = but can't seem to locate it anywhere. This time frame would have been = somewhere between 1971-76.=20 The book was a story about a girl and her sister/s, and they live in a = small town. Their mother abandoned them, and ran off with her creepy = boyfriend, leaving them to fend for themselves. The oldest had to deal = with not letting the town know that their mother had left, and feeding = and taking care of her sisters. They worked picking beans with other = kids for a local farmer, and that is how they were able to feed = themselves. The end of the book, has a car driving up the driveway, and = the girl thinks it's the welfare people coming to take her and her = sisters away, but it's actually her mother coming home.=20 For some reason, I feel like the name of the book is, ' A needle in a = haystack', but I've looked everywhere for that title, and can't seem to = find anything. I've looked in my local library system, and have come to = dead ends. I think this would have been a young adult section book, if = they had that kind back when I was growing up, but I'm pretty sure it = was in the regular children's section.=20 =20 Please respond directly to me at lisaw@ci.mount-vernon.wa.us Thank you! Lisa Webster Youth Services Librarian lisaw@ci.mount-vernon.wa.us Mount Vernon City Library 315 Snoqualmie Street Mount Vernon, WA 98273 (360) 336-6209 ------------------------------ From: "Ahern, Kathleen" <Kathleen@neill-lib.org> To: "Pubyac Pubyac (E-mail)" <pubyac@prairienet.org> Subject: animal sounds in other languages stumper content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:15:14 CDT I need your collective brain ... I'm trying to find a book (picture = book) that I remember from several years ago ... it is NOT Charlotte = Pomerantz's "I I Had A Paka", but resembles it in some ways. The book = I'm looking for featured a single animal (dog, pig, cat, etc.) on each = page and the "English" version of what is says ... dog ..bow wow - but = then, under the "English version", there was the sound that each animal = makes in about 7-9 other languages. I can see the illustrations, but = can't remember title or author or illustrator. I've looked in A-Z, but = didn't find it under "foreign languages". I'm sure someone will = remember this and have the title immediately ... TIA! Kathleen Ahern, = Neill Public Library, PUllman WA ------------------------------ End of PUBYAC Digest 1249 ************************* |
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