[bksvol-discuss] Re: please validate short book for wishlist
- From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 22:10:10 -0700
Done, Lissi. Validated & awaiting incorporation in2 the collection.
On 3/4/08, Estelnalissi <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear Booksharian Friends,
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> I've just uploaded
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> And Twelve Chinese Acrobats
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> by
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> Jane Yolen
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> which was requested on the wish list.
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> I'm hoping one of you will volunteer to carefully validate it for me.
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> It's 54 pages long, 10 of which are full page illustrations which I couldn't
> see to describe but which aren't necessary to enjoy the story, so it won't
> be a long project.
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> Someone really likes Jane Yolen, because I think they requested all or most
> of her over 150 books.
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> If you are a Jane Yolen fan you will like this book especially because the
> story is based on her father's true account of the rough patches his older
> brother had staying out of trouble in 1910 in Ukraine. He turned out to be
> the first of her family to come to the United States where he was a writer
> like his niece, Jane, was destined to be.
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> There are no headers. The pages are numbered at the tops of the pages with
> blank lines above and below. The 5 chapters are also formatted correctly so
> there'll be no stripping!
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> Below my signature are the short and long synopses. I wrote the short one,
> and added some to the book jacket information for the long one. All
> Bookshare rules have been respected. And, all of the foreign words and names
> are accurate. I have the print book and left my e-mail address in case you
> have questions.
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> Thank you, whoever you are!
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> Always with love,
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> Lissi
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> short synopsis
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> Tale of family love set in Ukraine, Wolf misses his lovable, troublemaking
> brother Lou, away at military school. Lou returns with more trouble, 12
> amazing companions. Finally succeeding in America.
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> long synopsis
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> For Wolf, there is no one in the family-or in the whole village-quite like
> his own oldest brother, Lou. It is Lou who filches ribbons at the fair for
> the serving girls, and Lou who steals raspberry pies from Mama's garden to
> share with the peasants. But when Lou lets the lambs loose in the village,
> and they get into the mayor's garden and eat everything up, Papa has had
> enough. He sends Lou away to military school. Before long, Lou's letters
> back home stop, and the family finds out Lou has run away. Wolf worries and
> waits, and is richly rewarded when his brother finally comes home-along with
> a tumbling, flipping, rollicking surprise.
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> This retelling of the author's father's large family's life in the Ukraine
> before Lou was the first of them to establish himself in the United States
> where he became a reporter, married and had children reads like a folk tale
> though it is based on fact. It is about the difficulties to fit in and
> survive of a lovable boy who can't conform, but ultimately demonstrates his
> ability and strength of character. Family life of a Jewish family living in
> Ukraine in 1910 is showcased. It's a wonderful tale to be read or read aloud
> by older children to adults.
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