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From: Jones, Caroline E <cj24_at_txstate.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 18:39:29 +0000
(Please forgive cross postings!) The following was forward from the IAFA list, and a friend on that list thought these lists might also be good resources. If you know what the book is, please contact me offlist and I'll forward through channels! Caroline
My partner told me she wants a particular book for Christmas that she remembers reading when she was a child.
She remembers the title as "Through the Open Door," but I can't find it under that title. She doesn't remember the name of the author.
It's about a small boy on a farm, motherless, who is given a knife that turns out to be magic. He uses it to cut potatoes, then discovers he can cut openings to another world with it, and does so.
(She is _not_ thinking of Phillip Pullman. I made sure. This was definitely a kid's book. A chapter book, but not YA.)
In this other world the protagonist discovers his mother is alive, or was alive, and was either a queen or some sort of savior/heroine to the locals.
Does this sound at all familiar to anyone?
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 18:39:29 +0000
(Please forgive cross postings!) The following was forward from the IAFA list, and a friend on that list thought these lists might also be good resources. If you know what the book is, please contact me offlist and I'll forward through channels! Caroline
My partner told me she wants a particular book for Christmas that she remembers reading when she was a child.
She remembers the title as "Through the Open Door," but I can't find it under that title. She doesn't remember the name of the author.
It's about a small boy on a farm, motherless, who is given a knife that turns out to be magic. He uses it to cut potatoes, then discovers he can cut openings to another world with it, and does so.
(She is _not_ thinking of Phillip Pullman. I made sure. This was definitely a kid's book. A chapter book, but not YA.)
In this other world the protagonist discovers his mother is alive, or was alive, and was either a queen or some sort of savior/heroine to the locals.
Does this sound at all familiar to anyone?
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Dr. Caroline E. Jones, Editor
Alice’s Academy
The Looking Glass: New Perspectives on Children’s Literature
www.the-looking-glass.net
Department of English
Texas State University-San Marcos
San Marcos, TX 78666
512-245-3785
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