From: Amy Stultz <AStultz>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 09:07:33 -0500

I have a precious wonderful perfect goddaughter named Kristen. She is 2 and a half now and loves reading. For Christmas I sent her No, David! by David Shannon; Bunny Bungalow by Cynthia Rylant; and If You Were Born a Kitten by Marion Dane Bauer.

I sent her No, David! because she's a rascal, Bunny Bungalow because it's sweet and she likes bunnies, and If You Were Born a Kitten because I liked it and it has such beautiful illustrations.

I always send her books. Other people give her plenty of toys and the usual fluffy books that are so heavily marketed in the stores. I like to be the one who provides her with literature. I can't wait till Christmas when I'll talk to her on the phone. She's a big talker and I hope she'll like them all (though I feel pretty confident about No, David!)

Thanks, Amy Stultz Children's Librarian Leesburg Public Library AStultz at ci.leesburg.fl.us

 Message----From: Marsha Valance [mailto:Mvalan at mpl.org] Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 1999 9:03 AM To: ccbc-net at lists.education.wisc.edu Subject: Re: ccbc-net digest 22 Dec 1999


This is only the beginning. I can go on almost forever on this subject. A book is a gift you can open again and again... and I was saying that LONG before it became a quote on a greeting card! Which books have you been giving as gifts during 1999? Which ones do you recommend as gifts?

Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education University of Wisconsin - Madison


I'm giving the following children's/YA titles, and recommend them all:

my 14-year-old niece is receiving Diana Wynne Jones's DARK LORD OF DERKHOLM;

my 12-year-old niece is receiving J.K. Rowling's HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN;

my 5-year-old niece is receiving Louise Erdrich's GRANDMOTHER'S PIGEON;

my 3-year-old nephew is receiving Tomie de Paola's NANA UPSTAIRS AND NANA DOWNSTAIRS;

my 2-year-old nephew is receiving Laura K. Melmed's JUMBO'S LULLABYE.




Marsha J. Valance Regional Librarian Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped 813 West Wells Street Milwaukee, Wi 5323336 Phone: 414/286010 FAX: 414/286102 Email:

"That All May Read"


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