From: Marsha Valance <Mvalan>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 08:02:41 -0600

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"
Received on Wed 22 Dec 1999 08:02:41 AM CST