[bksvol-discuss] Make way for Christmas
- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:49:50 -0500
Dear Larry and Sue, Cindy and Booksharian Friends,
These are the books Evan will scan and I will proofread before Christmas.
Mostly for Children
The Return of Santa Paws, 164 pages, Santa Paws Come Home, 198 pages and Santa
Paws to the Rescue, 168 pages, all by Nicholas Edwards and adding to a series
Bookshare has started.
The Christmas Dolls by Carol Beach York pages ages 8-11
Christmas in the Forest by Marion Dane Bauer, RL 2.6 picture book
Holly, Reindeer, and Colored Lights by Edna Barth, nonfiction, The Story of the
Christmas Symbols, 96 pages. Very clear, fascinating text, great for family
reading or for kids to write reports about customs. Today I'm checking in
Turkeys, Pilgrims, and Indian Corn by Edna Barth on Thanksgiving symbols.
Bookshare has Barth's books we prepared about St. Patrick's Day and Easter.
I've bought the book for Valentine's Day. I think this is a fine series! Just
the Halloween and Fourth of July books left for me to buy.
Christmas Spirit , Two Stories by Robert Westall, probably of interest to boys
and girls, perhaps in that order, not sure yet, about 150 pages. I bought this
after proofreading Blitzcat by Westall. Blitzcat is one of the best books I've
ever read, set in the England of WWII. It's about 230 pages long and I highly
recommend it to Everyone!!!, touching and terrifying, informative to the mind
and heart, but not a mushy book or gratuitously violent. I've bought Christmas
Spirit with high hopes!
Santa S. O. S. by Linda Ford, humor, sequel to a book we prepared last year for
kids, 4th grade and a few years up. 75 pages
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adults
The Shepherd, The Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog by Dave Barry,
115 pages, but short because of the many pictures. I'm intrigued because the
picture on the front is of a little boy, maybe Dave Himself? and, I think a
yellow lab. I love Dave Barry almost as much as Andy Rooney. Try the Barry
wrote about his time in Japan with his wife and you'll never blow your nose at
the table again if Japanese people are within shouting distance!
The Christmas Letters, by Lee Smith, an author I admire, 127 pages, probably of
more interest to women readers. I bought it last summer after reading 'The Last
Girls about college girls rafting down the Mississippi River.
Christmas in my Heart compiled by Joe L. Wheeler 240 + pages short stories for
adults excellent to read alone or to family
Maigret's Christmas, over 400 pages police procedural in Paris short stories
NLS has lots of the novels in this series, many in braille, a little dry, but I
enjoy the altered slightly unique POV of the French police.
The Christmas Tree A Story of the Rockefeller Center Tree by Julie Salamon,
116 pages
A Cat's Christmas Stefanie Samek, Humor which I hope won't drive Evan crazy to
scan because of its whimsical pictures and scribblings swirls and doodles!
Always with love,
Lissi
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