[bksvol-discuss] Christmas scans acomin and more for us to do
- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:16:27 -0500
Dear Cindy and Booksharian Friends,
A dentist held me hostage four hours confined to a recliner today so I'm
too tired to be writing this, but the time has come for us to get serious
about getting serious, like Sue and Larry about scanning books for
Christmas.
I'll be validating the books below
Tiffany Jesse has scanned Kissing Christmas Goodbye by ME. C. Beaton for old
and new fans of the silly Agatha Raisin series . I'll have This cozy mystery
ready for the collection by Friday morning. From my perspective this book is
a Ho!! Ho!
Mayrie Renee will be Scanning Sammy Keyes and the Christmas Elf and another
book called Christmas Ghost with a different author.from The Christmas Ghost
we had approved a few days ago.
Anastasia will be helping with
Felicity's Surprise A Christmas Story Book 3 Ann American Girl Collection
Laura's Christmas Star by Klaus Baumgart, a lovely picture book
Kristen's Surprise the American Girls collection, where we see the little
girl carrying out the Swedish tradition of being Saint Lucy
The Christmas Doll, by Carol Beach York RL 3 ages 8-11
A Country Christmas by Bonnie Lou Risby ages 6-9
Franklin's Christmas Gift by Paulette Bourgeois RL 2 ages 47 Pretty read
aloud picture book. Franklin is a turtle who appears in about 20 books in
a series featuring him.
Evan will tackle
Merry Christmas What's Your Name by Bernice chardiet RL 2 ages 4-8
Ice is Nice preschool read-aloud
The Santa Solution by Linda Ford RL 4 ages 8-12
Winnie the Pooh's Stories for Christmas a family read aloud for young
children
Evan or Anastasia will take on the oversized The Stable Rat and other
Christmas Poems an artistic and heartfully written book
Back to Evan
Christmas Horse by Glen Balch 5th through middle school, cowboys, cows, 252
pages
Hard Christmas, a Cat Marsala Mystery by Barbara D'Amato 270 pages probably
for adults and high schoolers
Paddington Bear and the Christmas Surprise by Michael Bond another colorful
read aloud
Christmas customs Around the WorldRobert H Wernecke 200 pages including
index. looks fascinating
for adults and for adults to share with kids.
The Christmas Cat Isabelle Holland oversized pretty picture book about the
meaning of Christmas can become a family tradition.
Here are some books that I'd be oh so grateful if anyone could quickly find
at their libraries and scan and hold for me to validate. I bought them for
full price from one of the major bookstores before Christmas last year
hoping I'd find willing scanners.
My first choice Shrouds of Holly by Kate Kingsbury, a Christmas mystery for
adults 288 paperback.
Blue Christmas by Mary Kay Anderson author of Savannah Breeze, Says it's a
New York Times best seller...maybe we have this one already Oxford Book of
Christmas Stories , Not for the faint of heart but the scanner with a heart
for reading
Christmas Wisdom Criswell Freeman, I'll need a validator for this collection
of Christmas witticisms
The Last Noel by Heather Graham. it says tis the season to be terrified and
shows blood on the snow. 337 short pages Ooo I can't wait to validate this I
hope somebody's library has it.
Here's a book which should be easy to scan and wouldn't need to be finished
by Christmas as it talks about holiday legends and customs from the New Year
through Christmas. I'd have a ball validating this one since I love
holidays. The book is called Holidays of legend from New Years to Christmas
by Mildred H. Arthur. The Oxford Book of Christmas Poems. I'd do the
formatting. I'd even scan, but many of the poems are on busy backgrounds and
have haphazard placement on the pages. Oh My I want to read this book and
make it lovely for everyone else to read.
The Night The Stars Sang The Wonder That Is Christmas An oversized hardback
of heart warming songs and stories This is a lovely book told with respect
and faith.
Christmas the World Over How the Season of Joy and Goodwill is Observed and
enjoyed by peoples here and everywhere by Daniel J. Foley This might not be
too difficult for a blind submitter. It's got gobs of customs from places
like Venezuela, Ireland and Scotland, of course, France, Italy, and Puerto
Rico.
At Christmas Time a Treasury for the festive season Poems, stories and
songs, known and unknown, much of it in large print and a treasure for a
family to share at Christmas. gaily colorful. Recipes and customs, too. If
you are romantic of heart, go to the last page and build yourself a kissing
bush with 2 large wreaths, red ribbon, and a sprig of holly and and the
holiday romance will flow!
Finally the last book, until i find more, is A Year Goes Round poems for the
months. Here's another one, by Karen B. Winnick, which doesn't have to be
ready for Christmas as it can be taken up at any time. It's an overlarge
picture book with very short poems many of them only 8 short lines long
like My Shadow, Disguises , Parade, Welcome back, City Summer, Sand Picture,
first snow. We may be able to manage this one without help because the poems
seem to be at the bottoms of pages, but the backgrounds are busy so I'm not
sure if scanners can capture all of them. I love reading clear poems and
formatting them.
As long as you can find some of these books, are willing to put them on the
fast tractk and will kindly save them for me, I promise to clear my queue
and validate for Christmas day and night.
We can expect some swapping around with this list and some adding and
removing books. It can only evolve even better than it already promises to
be and that's a Merry Christmas Wow!
When I was sad, I could feel reverent at Christmas. Since being involved
with Bookshare has brought so much love and friendship in to my life, I'm
about ready to relocate to The North Pole by way of Bethlehem!
Always with love,
Lissi
Jared's Gift by Marguerite Vance, 42 pages long. I have 2 so who ever will
scan and hold this one for me can keep the book I send you to scan. A
Christian will probably like working on this book best. Guinness book of
Christmas by Tom Hartman. This would be so much fun, but because it has
pictures and columns and dark writing on dark background, I suspect a
sighted submittor would have the best of luck with this one, but it would be
such fun to read, a different take on Christmas from the other books in this
list. I wish Santa would send us an elf to do a little scanning for our
Christmas books.
Other Christmas books which would probably be most easily managed by sighted
scanners are
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