From: Jones, Caroline E <cj24_at_txstate.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 19:03:11 +0000

Thanks to all who responded: here's the skinny from Jennifer Crow!

Again, thank you for all the prompt help! Caroline

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From: Jennifer Crow <jcrow_at_csufresno.edu<mailto:jcrow_at_csufresno.edu>>
Date: Monday, November 18, 2013 12:57 PM
To: Caroline Jones <cj24_at_txstate.edu<mailto:cj24_at_txstate.edu>>
Subject: Re: [ccbc-net] Book request
Hi Carolyn,
Did the patron say if this a chapter book? Could it be Beyond the Open Door by Andrew Lansdown? The uniform title for this book is With My Knife. There are 6 listings in World Cat. Glendora Public Library is the closest. There seem to be dragons in this book so not sure it would be the same but perhaps worth a chance.
Hope this is helpful,
Jennifer
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Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children's Literature
Henry Madden Library
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From: "Caroline E Jones" <cj24_at_txstate.edu<mailto:cj24_at_txstate.edu>>
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Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 10:39:29 AM
Subject: [ccbc-net] Book request
(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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