[bksvol-discuss] Re: Adventures of a Brownie was Re: Re: Old Books
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 20:02:23 -0800 (PST)
Thank you!!
Cindy
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--- On Sat, 2/7/09, Shelley L. Rhodes <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Shelley L. Rhodes <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Adventures of a Brownie was Re: Re: Old Books
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, February 7, 2009, 7:43 PM
> Hi Cindy,
>
> if you can get it and if I can get it requested it, but...
> I can get the copy of this book, i is the one that has the
> Lame Prince with it. But we can put it in the collection.
> We shall see if Erie can find it.
>
> Shelley L. Rhodes, M.A., VRT
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> The people who burned witches at the stake never for one
> moment thought of their act as violence;
> rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated
> righteousness.
> The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have
> ever committed. -Gil Bailie, author and lecturer (b. 1944)
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy
> Rosenthal" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 7:10 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Old Books
>
>
> >
> > Speaking of books like like the ones Ilene menations,
> I'd love to see, and would be happy to proofread, The
> Adventures of a Brownie by Dinah Mulock Craik. She also
> wrote The Little Lame Prince, among other things. That book
> is in our collection, though I don't know how good it is
> because it was added in 2002, and it is in PG, but The
> Adventures of a Brownie is not.
> >
> > My library has copies of the two books in one volume
> and Adventures of a Brownie by itself; most of the copies
> are in reference, but there are some I can get so I can
> proofread and reread it. It was one of my favorite books as
> a child. I wonder if it's where the authors of the
> Littles got their idea. Of course if anyone else wants to
> proofread it, that's fine. I'd just like to see it
> in the collection because I think children would enjoy it.
> The English family and the brownie who lives in their house
> or garden, gets into mischief, but all works out well, if I
> remember correctly.
> >
> > Cindy
> >
> > --- On Fri, 2/6/09, Ilene Sirocca
> <ilenesia@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Ilene Sirocca <ilenesia@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Old Books
> >> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Date: Friday, February 6, 2009, 3:43 AM
> >> Regarding Mickey's comment that books'
> being old
> >> doesn't make them bad: Not onlydo I agree,
> but I make
> >> it my business to find old books to scan and
> submit. I like
> >> to share books that I read when I was a child or
> books that
> >> were made into classic movies. Not everyone will
> remember
> >> the same favorites, and it's fun to make them
> accessible
> >> to Bookshare users. It's great to have the
> newest
> >> bestsellers, but we know that the in-house
> Bookshare people
> >> process a lot of those, and many volunteers also
> decide to
> >> obtain them. And old books often have lovely
> margins too.
> >>
> >> So let's hear it for old books as well as new.
> A good
> >> book never loses its charm.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Ilene
> >>
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