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Number 14
(September 2008)
THEMAGIC MIRROR
ANCA, the Arne Nixon Center Advocates, invite everyone
to their annual meeting, to be held Friday, October 24, at
The Smittcamp Alumni House, 2625 East Matoian Way
(enter from Shaw and Maple, then turn
right) on the Fresno State campus. A
reception will be held at 6 p.m., followed
by a talk at 6:30 p.m. Free parking is
available in Lots C and V.
The speaker will be author Susan Yost-
Filgate, co-creator of the Rip Squeak®
series, which she and her husband, illus-trator
Leonard
Filgate, began in
1997. These pic-ture
books fea-ture
Rip Squeak,
an adventurous
mouse, his sister
Jesse, and their
friends, Abbey
the kitten and
Euripides the
frog. The Filgates,
who moved to
Fresno three years ago, first sold their books through a
German publisher who exhibited them at the Frankfurt
Book Fair, where they were discovered by an American
publisher. Now the books, art prints, and numerous
products are sold in bookstores throughout the U.S. and at
Rip Squeak Galleries in Carmel, Monterey, San Diego, and
San Francisco, California, and Lahaina, Hawaii. Plans to
open additional galleries in other locations are in the
works. The books and galleries have proved so successful
that the Filgates have recruited additional artists and
writers to help with production. For more information,
see the web site at www.ripsqueak.com.
The original three Rip Squeak books will be available
for sale and autographing at this event. Admission is free,
but seating is limited. Please call (559) 278-8116 or send
e-mail to mrianto@ csufresno.edu to make a reservation.
Thanks to award-winning author/artist
Aliki for her latest, greatest, most
amazing gift to the Arne Nixon Center:
21 pieces of original art for the Center’s
web site. These colorful pictures fea-ture
dozens of charming and playful
cats, plus a few birds and mice, too, as
only Aliki can portray them—writing,
painting, partying, working, and reading,
reading, and reading some more. The cats, who
were born in Aliki’s London studio, will soon have an
American address at www.arnenixoncenter.org.
Aliki has donated six of these paintings to the Center,
where they may be seen with other original art from
three of her picture books, donated in 2005. A finding aid
to her works in the Center may be found on the web site.
Aliki, who has written and/or illustrated more than
200 books, worked on the cat pictures between other
projects, including her forthcoming picture book, Push
Button. This features a little boy, based on her toddler
grandson, who loves to push buttons. When his finger
gets tired, he finds another way to amuse himself (hint: it
involves books).
T h a n k s
to Aliki for
this generous
and artistic do-nation.
Her daz-zling
pictures, celebrating
the Center’s collections, pro-grams,
and services, will
shape the way people
around the world perceive
the Arne Nixon Center. Her
beautiful art serves also as
a fitting tribute to her
friend and colleague, the
late Professor Arne Nixon.
Wowie! Meowie! There’s a new mouse in town!
y dear Freda [Moore], Because you are fond of
fairy-tales and have been ill, I have made you a story all
for yourself—a new one that nobody has read before. And
the queerest thing about it—is that I heard it in
Gloucestershire, and it is true! At least about the tailor, the
waistcoat, and the ‘No more twist’. —Beatrix Potter,
Christmas, 1901.
“In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted
coats with flowered lappets—when gentlemen wore
ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and
taffeta—there lived a tailor in Gloucester.”
So begins Beatrix Potter’s The Tailor of Gloucester.
Not the typical opening to a tale written for children.
Potter enjoyed words and did not talk down to children.
It’s my favorite of Potter’s 23 tales and was her favorite,
too. Perhaps we like it because it combines so many
beautiful elements in the illustrations such as fine china,
textiles, and elegant fashion.
It’s a charming and humorous tale set in Gloucester at
Christmastime. The tailor has been commissioned to make
a waistcoat for the mayor for his wedding day on
Christmas Eve but runs out of twist for the buttonholes
and falls very ill before it is completed. His cat, Simpkin,
could be helpful if he weren’t so concerned about trapping
mice for himself.
The waistcoat is completed. “The stitches of those
button-holes were so small—so small—they looked as if
they had been made by mice.”
I have long wanted to visit Gloucester where this tale is
set and the opportunity presented itself.
I was in England for the Beatrix Potter Society’s 13th
biennial study conference held in Cornwall, Devon, and
the Lake District. With Connie Neumann, also on the tour,
my travel companion, Linda Spalding, and I had the
opportunity to make a side trip to Gloucester.
Shortly after we arrived at The World of Beatrix Potter
shop in Gloucester, a certified city guide stopped by and
asked if anyone would be interested in going on a Beatrix
Potter-oriented city tour. Emphatically, yes! The guide
gives this tour once a week on Wednesdays at 2:00 p.m.
How serendipitous was our timing!? We felt as fortunate as
the tailor whose waistcoat for the mayor was finished
except for one buttonhole while he slept.
And surely, young Miss Freda Moore must have felt
nearly as happy to receive this story in the form of a get
2 well picture letter in 1901.
Tales & Tidbits
from ANCA
(Arne Nixon Center Advocates)
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by Denise Sciandra, ANCA President
Eric Shanower bookplate
honors Michael Cart
hanks to Eric Shanower (below) for designing a book-plate
to honor his friend Michael Cart. Shanower is the
award-winning author and illustrator of The Age of
Bronze series of graphic novels: A Thousand Ships, Sac-rifice,
and Betrayal. He is known also for his graphic Oz
novels, including Adventures in Oz, a 2007 compilation.
His web site is www.ericshanower.com.
Michael Cart, a founding mem-ber
of the Arne Nixon Center’s
Governing Committee, is a well-known
author, librarian, lecturer,
book reviewer, and columnist, and
he is the country’s leading expert
on young adult literature. As
director of the Beverly Hills Public
Library he hosted a television
author interview series, “In Print.”
As president of YALSA, the Young
Adult Library Services Association,
a division of the American Library
Association, he led that organization to establish the
Printz Award for young adult literature. In an ongoing
donation, he is giving his papers and his extensive book
collection to the Arne Nixon Center. The plates will be
added to the 9,200 books he has given to date, and to
other books as he donates them.
The bookplate
features Cart’s fav-orite
literary char-acter,
Freddy the
Pig, based on Kurt
Wiese’s illustrations
for the series by
Walter R. Brooks.
Freddy is shown
typing in front of a
bookcase filled with
the books written
by Michael Cart. It’s
a fitting gift from
a proud member of
The Friends of
Freddy (Eric Shan-ower)
to the past
president (Michael
Cart) of that illus-trious
group .
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by Angelica Carpenter
CORNER
CURATOR’S
ichael Buckley is the author of the bestselling
Sisters Grimm series. I met him in July when he
spoke at the Winkie Convention (the western
regional convention of the International Wizard of
Oz Club) in Monterey. Buckley’s middle-grade novels
feature sisters Sabrina and Daphne Grimm, fairy-tale
detectives who live with their grandmother in Ferryport, New York. Here
fairy-tale characters, called Everafters, live on after their famous stories have
been told. In Ferryport, Snow White teaches school, Prince Charming is the
sleazy mayor, and Jack the Giant Killer sells suits at Harold’s House of Big and
Tall. Oz characters are also well represented.
Buckley has a cherubic face, a wicked sense of humor, and a comedic
delivery that reflects his first career as a stand-up comedian. Later he interned
with David Letterman, then wrote for “Beavis & Butt-Head,” “SpongeBob
SquarePants,” “Rugrats,” and “The Fairly OddParents,” before he turned to writ-ing
children’s novels. Not surprisingly, The Sisters Grimm stories have been
optioned for the movies.
“No single writer has suffered more at my hands,” Buckley told the Winkies,
“than L. Frank Baum. I get lots of complaints from kids because the Wizard of
Oz is the villain in the fourth book.” In Once Upon a Crime the Wizard is a
Manhattan window dresser (this got a laugh from the Oz-savvy crowd, who
knew that L. Frank Baum was once a window dresser and that he had written a
book on the subject before he turned to writing children’s novels). Buckley’s
Wizard creates Christmas displays with murderous robots.
“How could I make Oz the bad guy?” Buckley asked, and then answered himself:
“L. Frank Baum did! The Wizard is mean! He sends a child on a suicide mission!”
“But,” Buckley continued, “Dorothy is the true villain of The Wonderful
Wizard of Oz. She commits two murders—well, involuntary manslaughters, at
least. What do you do when someone is melting? Do you stand there and watch
or do you call 911? Then she steals the flying broom. Any idea what those
babies sell for on eBay? Then she goes home, leaving the Scarecrow in charge. I
think we as Americans know from the last eight years what happens when you
leave a country in the control of someone who doesn’t have a brain.”
He was joking about Oz, but serious about politics. “We fear wonder and ideas
now,” he said, despairing of the trend. “We shun intelligence.”
Later, at the Winkie party, he went farther. “No Child Left Behind is a plot to
undermine our public school system,” he told a smaller group there. “It drives
out good teachers and forces the bad ones to fail.”
Readers of this column will know that I share his
opinion. I checked with Michael Buckley to see if I
could quote this informal conversation.
“Go right ahead.” he e-mailed. “Mention that the
President’s brother Neil runs a charter school
corporation. With these guys in charge, public edu-cation
becomes a joke.”
Thanks to Michael Buckley for speaking out
against a system that teaches children that reading is
a mind-numbing chore. To reaffirm that reading is
fun, check out The Sisters Grimm books and
www.sistersgrimm.com.
The Arne Nixon Center for the
Study of Children’s Literature
Henry Madden Library
California State University, Fresno
5200 North Barton Ave. M/S ML34
Fresno CA 93740-8014
Phone: (559) 278-8116
Please call for an appointment.
Web site: www.arnenixoncenter.org
Angelica Carpenter, Curator
E-mail: angelica@csufresno.edu
Jennifer Crow, Library Assistant
Mila Rianto, Library Assistant
Matt Borrego, Student Assistant
Angelica Carpenter, Editor
Janet Bancroft, Designer
Peter McDonald
Michael Cart
Maurice J. Eash
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Published by
Staff
ANCA Board of Directors
ANC Governing Committee
Alma Flor Ada
Steven Mooser
Magic Mirror
Denise Sciandra, President
Phone (559) 229-5085
E-mail: denises@comcast.net
Jessica Kaiser,
1st Vice President, Programs
Jackie Sarkisian,
2nd Vice President, Membership
Audry Hanson,
Corresponding Secretary
Angelica Carpenter,
Recording Secretary
Cynthia MacDonald, Treasurer
Laurel Ashlock
Ruth Kallenberg
Jo Ellen Misakian
Judith Neal
Kristene Scholefield
Ellis Vance
ANC Advisory Committee
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Author Michael Buckley 3
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Beatrix Potter conference
he Arne Nixon Center will host a conference with the
Beatrix Potter Society on April 18–19, 2009. Speakers will
include the Society Chairman, Judy Taylor, author of
Beatrix Potter: Artist, Storyteller, and Country Woman;
Beatrix Potter: The Artist and Her World; and two
National Trust Guides: Beatrix Potter and Hilltop and
Beatrix Potter and Hawkshead. Also featured will be
Katherine Paterson, who twice won the Newbery medal
for her novels Bridge to Terabithia and Jacob Have I
Loved. She is also the co-author of a musical play based
on Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck. A
performance of the musical, as produced by Associate Pro-fessor
J. Daniel Herring of Fresno State’s Theatre Arts
Department, will be included in the conference which will
also incorporate the Arne Nixon Center’s annual Secret
Garden Party. The registration fee and other details will be
announced in the spring issue of The Magic Mirror and
on the web site.
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Angelica Carpenter wins
University Award
rne Nixon Center curator Angelica Carpenter has won
the University Provost’s 2008 Award for Distinguished
Achievement in Research, Scholarship, or Creative
Activities. The award was pre-sented
at a campus re-ception
in May. Provost
Jeronima Echeverria cited
Carpenter for her con-ferences,
which have attracted
people to Fresno from all over the
world, and for her “cutting edge”
books on children’s literature.
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bby Weisgard, daughter of the late, Caldecott-winning
artist Leonard Weisgard (www.leonardweisgard.com),
visited the Arne Nixon Center recently with her husband,
Per Boelskifte. They were pleased to find that Arne Nixon
had collected many
of Leonard Weis-gard’s
now rare books
from the 1940s and
1950s. Their visit
came as ANCA, the
Arne Nixon Center
Advocates, completed
a fundraising project
to buy five Weisgard
paintings, original art
for his 1949 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and
Through the Looking Glass. The couple lives in Copen-hagen,
Denmark; Leonard Weisgard moved his family
there in 1969. Per Boelskifte, an architect, designed the
artist’s Copenhagen studio. Abby
Weisgard designs store windows
for top designers and until his
death in 2000, her father used to
help her annually with a Christ-mas
window.
Abby Weisgard visits Center
Abby Weisgard in the Nixon Center
One of the Weisgard paintings
purchased by ANCA
Copyright © Leonard Weisgard, 1949
hanks to author Robin Rector Krupp for donating her
papers and original art to the Arne Nixon Center. She is
the illustrator of seven books, three of which she also
wrote. This former teacher, who performs as
The Rainbow Lady (to match her book The
Rainbow and You) and as Senora Artista
(to go with Let’s Go Traveling in Mex-ico),
estimates that she has spoken to
more than 300,000 children. Her other
titles include Get Set to Wreck!, Let’s Go
Traveling, The Big Dipper and You,
The Comet and You, and The Moon and
You. Her web site address is www.childrens
authorsnetwork.com/author/RRK.htm.
Robin Rector Krupp
T he Arne Nixon Center will co-sponsor Reading the
World XI, a multicultural children’s literature conference,
to be held March 28-29, 2009, in San Francisco. This
conference is hosted by the Center for Multicultural
Literature for Children and Young Adults, School of
Education, University of San Francisco, and co-sponsored
by University of California, Davis. Speakers will include
Michael Cart, Rosemary Wells (www.rosemarywells.com),
Francisco Jimenez (www.scu.edu/fjimenez), Junko
Yokota (author of Children’s Books in Children’s
Hands), Theresa Breslin (www.theresabreslin.co.uk),
and Angelica Carpenter (www.angelicacarpenter.com).
Save the date and watch for more information in the
spring issue of The Magic Mirror and on the web site.
Reading the World
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Donors and Life Members (for the period July 1, 2007–July 31, 2008)
Life Members
Anonymous
Laurel A. Ashlock
B-K Lighting, Inc.
Donna Bessant
Shirley Brinker*
Tina and Gary L. Bruno*
Michael Cart
Maurice Eash
Fresno Area Reading Council
Nancy Gilchrist
Linda and Robert Glassman
Carmen Farr Gregory*
Coke and James Hallowell
Nancy Hatcher
Joy Heisig
Christy Hicks*
Scot Hillman
Patricia and Dale W. Hillman*
Lollie and John Horstmann*
Rosellen Kershaw
Priscilla Ketscher*
Mimi Koligian and Debbie
Poochigian
Marion Kremen
Eleanor and Harold D. Larsen*
Don Larson
Jean and Frank Laury
Susan and Warren Lev*
Barbara and Gary Marsella
Brenda Martin
Helen Jane McKee
Roxie Moradian
New Horizon Physical Therapy
George Pappas*
Alice Peters
Elizabeth J. Peterson*
Petunia’s Place*
Patricia Pickford*
Susan and Joseph Pressutti
Kay and James R. Provost
Louise and Thomas Richardson
Tina Richter*
Evelyn Sanoian
Kristene and John H.
Scholefield*
Lisa Schoof
Denise and Salvatore Sciandra*
Elizabeth and Harold Silvani
James Smith*
Edith Stock
Sandy and Dennis Stubblefield*
Lois and Jerry Tarkanian*
Clara and Juan Touya
Barbara Troisi*
Lise and William J. Van Beurden*
Lisa M. Walter and Edward Hanks
Lisa and David E. White
Judith and O. James Woodward III*
Benefactors
California Arts Academy
Jessica and Daniel E. Kaiser
Ruth and John K. Kallenberg
Claribel Lagomarsino
Geraldine and Gerald Tahajian
The Henry J. Fox Trust
Ellis Vance
Patrons
Katherine Alves
Mary Elin Kelly and Marc Ament
Barbara and Dale Blickenstaff
Shirley Canales
Angelica and Richard A. Carpenter
Jennifer Crow and John Hirstein
Mimi and Edward Fanucchi
Linda Fraley and John G. Nichols
Gateway Mortgage Services, Inc.
Sheldon and Donald H. Glasrud
Cherrill Gragg
Beanie Irola
Lydia Kuhn
Jo Ellen and Johnny L. Misakian
Marcie Morrison and Anthony Horan
Shirley and Robert Valett
Chris and Howard Watkins
Shirley and Lawrence Wilder
Sponsors
Susan Abair
Beverly Achki
Betty Aller
Loren Alvin and Dzung Trinh
Elaine and Robert W. Bender
Janet and Hal W. Bochin
Vallorie and Thomas Borchardt
Cheryl and Augie David Caldera
Janet L. and Mark Cameron
Patricia and Daniel P. Carriveau
Tessa Cavalletto
Janet W. Claassen
Therese and James E. Ewing
Jane and Bill B. Fischer
Kathleen A. Fulton and Stanley
Sieler
Lynne and Frank Glaser
Susanne Haffner
Audry and Merle A. Hanson
Ardis and Lyman Heine
Stephanie Hillman
Linda and Michael Hovsepian
Joyce Huggins and Wilbur Albright
Geraldine and Gray C. Hughes
Nancy J. and Peter Klassen
Elizabeth and George B. Knapp
Lee Lockhart
Patricia Hopper and Herbert Lyttle
Lyla T. Brewer and Gerald Mon Pere
Terri Monson
Rebecca Morse
Arlene Motz and Don Husband
Jo P. Murray
Anne and Stanley B. Neal
Alexis O’Neill
Grace E. and R.W. Pengilly
Joy Quigley and Peter McDonald
Carmella and Stephen Renton
Anne Reuland and Michael Gorman
Mary Anne and Eugene Richardson
Ann and Terry Sadler
Jackie and Edward Sarkisian
Blondina and Balzer Scherr
Lisa B. and James Scroggin
Patricia Semrick
Patricia and Ronald Shein
Jeanne and John Thomas
Barbara Threlkeld
Robin Tokmakian
Valerie Welk
Christine Williams
Susan Yost-Filgate and
Leonard Filgate
Advocate
Linda Aragon
Shirley and William Armbruster
Marcia and Stephen A. Becker
Patricia Bird
Frances and John Blair
Shirley and Robert J. Byrd
Elizabeth Calderwood
Linda and Brian Clague
Dorothy and G.W. Cowan
Jeannie and John W. DeGroot
Elizabeth Donaldson
Louise Feinberg
Anidelle and George Flint
Josephine Fox
Rutherford Gaston
Bernadette Griffith
Susan E. and Douglas Hansen
Dottie Harkness
Sylvia Hart
Patricia M. and Dana Heald
Clare and August Imholtz
Barbara Jeffus
Sloan and David A. Johnson
Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff and
Robert Pentacoff
Eunice Lawrence and Frederick
Paynter
Christina Lee
Patricia and Robert Libby
Jean Linder
Cynthia MacDonald
Patricia Moore
Carolynne Myall
Sylvia Owens
Sylvia Pethoud and Robert
Walker
George Pilling
Jean Piston
Christina and William Rogers
Sharon and Gary Rossi
Kathleen Scheer and Joseph
Koontz
Joan Schoettler
Bernice and Allan Shields
Susan Silveira
Mary and John P. Slater
Valerie and Edward Spongberg
Helen Teichman
Sheron and Johan T.
Van Der Noorda
Lucile Wheaton
Carolyn Yoder
Marion and William H. Young
Sustaining
Paul Beare
Anne Bennighoven
Mary Borders
Barbara Cutright
Elizabeth and John Dodds
Mary and Daniel Dougherty
Mary Fifield
Walter Gilgert
Robert Glim
Patricia and John Hardebeck
Bette and Bill Head
Robert Kittredge
Linda and Wayne Minier
Colleen Mitchell
Frances Neagley
Carolyn and John Nolan
Leo Pedretti
Susan Pennell
Josephine and Vincent
Petrucci
Michelle Poulton
Aidan Purtell
Marilyn and Russel Renna
Linda and Terry A. Scambray
Sinai Temple Library
Linda Spalding
Karen Thomas
Richard Tuerk
Tekla White
Other
Anonymous
Gaylee Amend
Clara Bousian
Joyce and Richard Hall
M. Joyce and Birger Johnson
United Way California,
Capitol Region
* Life Members who made
additional donations during
this period.
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Pam Muñoz Ryan to speak
on September 17
Leo Politi Centennial:
open house on October 5
he public is invited to “Central
Valley Libraries Resource Day,”
sponsored by book vendor Chil-dren’s
Plus, Inc. This program will
offer a talk for teachers, librarians,
and fans (fifth grade and older) by
Pam Muñoz Ryan, winner of the
Pura Belpré Award and many other
honors for her books Esperanza
Rising, When Marian Sang,
Riding Freedom, Becoming Naomi
Léon, and other titles for children
and young adults. Ryan, who grew up in Bakersfield,
California, has pledged her papers to the Arne Nixon
Center. Her web site is www.pammunozryan.com.
The free program will be offered twice on Wednesday,
September 17: at 10 a.m. and again at 2:05 p.m. at the Per-forming
Arts Center, Central Unified School District, 3535
North Cornelia, Fresno, 93722. It will also feature the Arne
Nixon Center, the Fresno County Public Library, and the
California School Library Association. For additional
information address e-mail to the Children’s Plus Central
Valley representative, Tamera Friesen, at iamthebooklady
@hotmail.com or call her at (559) 287-8438.
T The Leo Politi Branch of the Fresno County Public
Library, on the southwest corner of First and Bullard in
Fresno, will sponsor an open house on Sunday, October
5, from 1–5 p.m. The program, featuring readings,
entertainment, and refreshments, honors Paul Leo Politi
and Suzanne Politi Bischof, son and daughter of the late
Leo Politi, and Ann Stalcup, his biographer. Leo Politi,
who won the Caldecott medal for Song of the Swallows,
and who wrote and illustrated many multicultural
picture books, was born in Fresno in 1908 but lived most
of his life in Los Angeles. His friendship with Arne Nixon
was the inspiration for the Leo Politi Garden, which will
be constructed with funds raised by the Arne Nixon
Center Advocates, outside the new Library. For infor-mation
about the open house, call (559) 431-6450. For
information about other Politi Centennial events, see the
web site at www.leopoliti.com.
veryone is invited to join Avi, author of Crispin: The
Cross of Lead (winner of the 2003 Newbery Medal);
Crispin at the Edge of the World; Poppy; The True
Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, and dozens of other
novels for children and young adults, for a “grand liter-ary
conversation” at Fresno Pacific University in the late
afternoon or early evening of Wednesday, December 3,
2008. Avi’s web site is www.avi-writer.com.
This program is intended for pre-service teachers,
classroom teachers, librarians, and others interested in
the world of children’s literature. Books will be available
for sale and autographing. At press time, other plans were
not confirmed. Fresno Pacific University is located at
1717 South Chestnut Avenue, Fresno. For more in-formation,
address e-mail to Jo Ellen Misakian at
jmisakian@fresno.edu or call (509) 453-2291.
Avi to speak in Fresno
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Featured illustrations
in this issue
The mouse on the front page is
from The Treasure, illustrated
by Leonard Filgate.
All of the other images are part
of the 21 pieces of original art
donated by Aliki for use on the
2008: October 5 Arne Nixon Center’s web site.
Open house, Leo Politi Library, 1-5 p.m.
October 24
ANCA annual meeting,
The Smittcamp Alumni House, 6 p.m.
December 3
Avi, Fresno Pacific University
2009: January 30
New Library opens
March 28, 29
Reading the World conference, San Francisco
April 17
Life Members’ reception, Library, 6 p.m.
April 18, 19
Beatrix Potter conference, Fresno
April 19
Secret Garden Party, Fresno
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Mail to: Angelica Carpenter
California State University, Fresno
Henry Madden Library
The Arne Nixon Center
5200 North Barton Ave. M/S ML34
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Donations of books,
materials, and services
(as of June 30, 2008)
Alma Flor Ada: 3 boxes of her papers
Judy Baker: 6 pewter figures
Beverly Hills Public Library: 646 books
Reed Bilz: a copy of Willy Pogeny’s Mother Goose
Les Bohem: various Alice-related materials
Margaret Buckingham: 21 books and two board games
Angelica Carpenter: 27 books and other materials
Charlesbridge Publishing: 14 books
Margarita Engle: 127 books, her papers, two pieces of art
by Sean Qualls
Susan Yost-Filgate and Leonard Filgate: 4 books
Beverly Gherman: 9 boxes of her papers, 3 of her books
Carmen Farr Gregory and Carolyn Thomas: 3 books
Audry Hanson: 4 books
Pamela Harer: a first edition of Through the Looking-Glass
and What Alice Found There
Caroline Harnly: 134 books
Houghton Mifflin: 114 books
August A. Imholtz, Jr.: various Alice-related materials
Kane/Miller Book Publishers: 12 books
Kathy Kline and Jacklyn Williams: 6 books
Robin Rector Krupp: 3 boxes of her papers
Lydia Kuhn: 11 books and other items
Lerner Publishing Group: 87 books
Little, Brown and Company: 25 books
Collette Murray: 14 books
Oakland Public Library: 6 books
Sara Pagoulatos: 49 books
Elizabeth Partridge: 6 books
Linda Peterson: 3 boxes of books
Tamora Pierce: 6 books
George Pilling: 3 books
Random House: 274 books
Roaring Brook Press: 20 books
Robert D. San Souci: 8 boxes of his papers
Scholastic: 188 books
Marilyn Simons: 52 books
Linda Joy Singleton: 5 books
John Taylor: 19 books
Research news
ongratulations to Therese Ewing, whose master’s
thesis, Original Picturebooks and Houghton Mif-flin
Anthologies: A Comparative Analysis, re-ceived
the 2008 Outstanding Thesis Award from the
Kremen School of Education and Human Develop-ment
at Fresno State. Ewing also presented her
findings, which were based on research done at the
Arne Nixon Center, at the 29th Annual Central
California Research Symposium held at Fresno State
in April and at the 22nd annual CSU Student
Research Competition at CSU East Bay.
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The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies
by Beatrix Potter
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AAnswers to quiz:
1Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates
by Mary Mapes Dodge
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4 Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
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Can you identify book titles from these first lines?
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The day after my mother died, the priest and I wrapped her body in a grey
shroud and carried her to the village church. Our burden was not great. In
life she had been a small woman with little strength. Death made her even less.
Q3
On a bright December morning long ago, two thinly clad
children were kneeling upon the bank of a frozen canal in Holland.
Mr. and Mrs. Mallard were looking for a place to live. But every time
Mr. Mallard saw what looked like a nice place, Mrs. Mallard said it was no good.
It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is “soporific.” I have
never felt sleepy after eating lettuces; but then I am not a rabbit.
