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October 7, 2006
Alma Flor Ada and Isabel Campoy,
Student Recreation Center, 11 a.m.
October 21, 2006
Margarita Engle, Arte Américas, 1-3 p.m.
March 2, 2007
ART, Authors/Reader’s Theatre
with Avi, Sharon Creech,
Walter Dean Myers, and Sarah Weeks.
Roosevelt High School Auditorium, 6:30 p.m.
March 27, 2007
Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler),
Satellite Student Union, 7:30 p.m.
April 15, 2007
Secret Garden Party, 3-5 p.m.
Number 10
(September 2006) “It is the function of some people to be a lamp and some to be a mirror. I have
been very pleased to function as a mirror of others’ work.” – Arne Nixon
THEMAGIC MIRROR
In the Garden
A new book to be published in October celebrates scholarly
activity in the Arne Nixon Center. In the Garden: Essays
in Honor of Frances Hodgson Burnett, edited by Angelica
Carpenter, will be published by Scarecrow Publications, Inc.
The book was inspired by the Center’s 2003 international
conference about Frances Hodgson Burnett. This first-ever
conference about the famous author brought scholars and
fans to Fresno from many parts of the globe.
Frances Hodgson Burnett, author
of The Secret Garden, A Little
Princess, and Little Lord Faunt-leroy,
was one of the most suc-cessful
and controversial women
of her time. Her flamboyant per-sona
and unconventional lifestyle
made her a contentious figure in
Victorian society, and for gener-ations
after her death, her own
family refused to acknowledge her.
She began her career writing best-selling
adult novels with serious
themes: working women, abusive
(See October on page 2)
(See Burnett on page 6)
The Arne Nixon Center Advocates invite everyone to their annual meeting on Saturday,
October 7, at 11 a.m. at the Student Recreation Center at California State University, Fresno.
This program is co-sponsored by Jumpstart for Young Children and Associated Students. The
featured speakers will be Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy (pictured at right respectively),
writing partners and the prolific authors of hundreds of prize-winning children’s books.
Alma Flor Ada is a renowned author, translator, scholar, educator, and advocate for bilingual and multicultural
education. Born in Cuba, she obtained her Doctorate at Universidad Catolica del Peru. This Emeritus Professor at the
Education Department of the University of San Franciso now lives in Mill Valley.
The author, whose Web site is www.almaflorada.com, has won many literary awards for her 200+ children’s titles.
Her books, published in English, Spanish, and bilingual editions, include Dear Peter Rabbit, Gathering the Sun, The
Lizard and the Sun, and Where the Flame Trees Bloom. Her autobiography, Under the Royal Palms: A Childhood
in Cuba, won the 2000 Pura Belpré Award, presented by the American Library Association and REFORMA, the National
Association to Promote Library Services to the Spanish Speaking. This award honors Latino writers and illustrators whose
work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in a children’s book.
Ada and Campoy: featured speakers in October
Mark your calendars!
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Tales & Tidbits
from ANCA
(Arne Nixon Center Advocates)
C an stories published in 1865 and 1901 be enjoyed by
21st-century children? Two literary societies think so.
The Lewis Carroll Society of North America sponsors
the Maxine Schaefer Memorial Reading, named for a
longtime secretary of the club who loved to get Alice in
Wonderland into the hands of children. The reading is
offered twice a year in different cities to two 4th grade
classes, often at a school in a low economic area. Every
child receives a hardback Alice book to keep.
This program had its beginnings when professional
actor and society member Andrew Sellon was a senior in
graduate school and had to create his own Carroll play.
For the readings, he performs a scene from Alice, such as
the Mad Hatter’s tea party or Alice’s dialogue with Humpty
Dumpty, changing voices with each character. After the
reading, Sellon adeptly draws questions and concerns from
the children regarding Alice’s predicaments and her
interactions with the often rude inhabitants of Won-derland.
They leave the session reading, hugging, and even
stroking their new books.
The international Beatrix Potter Society sponsors a
Reading Beatrix Potter (RBP) program. The society consid-ers
this program to be one of its most important activities.
Readers receive a 14” by 18” big book of The Tale of
Peter Rabbit plus items to give to the children.
As an RBP reader, I arranged a Scottish and English
reading of The Tale o Peter Kinnen and The Tale of
Peter Rabbit in April at the Norelma Walker Youth
Library at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno.
Linda Spalding, a Scots woman who has portrayed Beatrix
Potter, would read one page in Scottish and I would follow
her reading the same page in English
Spalding was born in Edinburgh and grew up speaking
English with an old Scots influence. The Tale o Peter
Kinnen is written in old Scots, and since its publication,
has been touted as “a powerful literary ally” in keeping
this ancient language alive.
On April 23, 2006, she was dressed in plaid kilt, vest,
and tam o’shanter. The audience of 42 children and adults
listened attentively to her delightful accent, laughing over
sentences such as: “dinna git intae deviltrie” and “Peter got
doon verra quate-like aff the hurlie-barrow.”
The audience left smiling, and in their newly learned Scot-tish,
were saying things like, “Am gaun oot” and “Rin alang noo”.
Three passionate performers brought Alice’s Adven-tures
in Wonderland and The Tale of Peter Rabbit
alive for children and adults more than 100 years after
they were first published.
by Denise Sciandra, ANCA President
F. Isabel Campoy is the Spanish-born author of more
than 100 children’s books on poetry, biography, art,
culture, and language acquisition. Her poetry and plays
appear in dozens of anthologies in both English and
Spanish. She received the Reading the World Award from
the University of San Francisco and the San Francisco
Library Laureate Award in 2003. Her books include Rosa
Raposa, Authors in the Classroom, and the collections
Gateways to the Sun and Celebrations. With Alma Flor
Ada she has written the Harcourt Language Arts series in
Spanish and many books including Colors of Mardi Gras,
Mamá Goose: A Latino Nursery Treasury and ¡Pío Peep!:
Traditional Spanish Nursery Rhymes. Their newest
book is Tales our Abuelitas Told. Isabel Campoy’s Web
site is www.isabelcampoy.com.
Both authors have agreed to donate their papers to the
Arne Nixon Center and
Alma Flor Ada has made a
good start by giving 15
boxes of materials which
are currently being pro-cessed
for use by re-searchers.
The Kennel Bookstore
will acquire and sell the
authors’ books at this
event. There is no
admission charge and
no reservations are
required. Seating is
available on a first-come,
first-served basis. Children aged 8 or older are welcome if
accompanied by adults. The authors’ books will be
available for sale and autographing starting at 10 a.m. The
talk will be from 11 a.m. to noon. The authors will
continue signing after the talk.
The event will be held in the Peters Educational Center
Auditorium in the new Student Recreation Center, direct-ly
west of and adjacent to the Save Mart Center. The street
address is 5010 N. Woodrow Avenue (northeast corner of
Woodrow and Shaw). Enter the Recreation Center on the
west side of the building.
Free parking is available
in Lot V, just west of
Woodrow Avenue.
October, from front page
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by Angelica Carpenter
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ne of America’s most valuable exports can’t be
measured in dollars, bushels, or tons. L. Frank Baum’s
classic American fairy tale, The Wonderful Wizard
of Oz, is known and loved around the world. As the
bestselling children’s book of 1900, it inspired a hit
musical that took Broadway by storm in 1903. When
L. Frank Baum walked into a hotel dining room in
Cairo, Egypt, in 1906, the orchestra greeted him with selections from the show
and he was approached for an autograph by a shy little girl who had carried her
precious copy of the book across the desert in a camel caravan, never dreaming
she would find its author at her journey’s end.
Though American critics were mind-bogglingly slow to recognize the story’s
literary value (a mistake that has been righted in the last twenty years), kids
loved Oz. Parents loved Oz. Puppeteers, playwrights, and political cartoon-ists
loved Oz. Toy manufacturers, advertising agencies, and Baum’s publishers
really loved Oz. Sequel followed sequel as new adventures continued the series.
Baum died in 1919, 20 years before M-G-M released its movie version of his
first Oz book. Many believe that this film is the most-watched movie in history.
But it is important to remember that without Baum’s story, some other film
would claim this title.
The Wizard was first translated into French in 1932. By the 1940s it was
available in Bulgarian, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Even comic-book
editions of the story went global; a 1957 “Classics Illustrated Junior”
version appeared in Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Swedish, and
in eight different languages in India. Private collector Richard Rutter owns Oz
books in 47 languages including Macedonian and Albanian; he’s looking for
Burmese and Tagalog.
Oz is especially beloved in Russia. Alexander Volkov first translated Baum’s
tale in 1939 and soon published a retelling of the story crediting himself as its
author. Volkov’s work was further translated into Armenian, Chinese, Czech-oslovakian,
German, Kirghiz, Latvian, Lettish, Lithuanian, Serbo-Croatian, and
Ukrainian. Next he wrote original sequels, mixing Baum’s characters with
creations of his own. In this alternative Oz, the Munchkins really munch; they
are the chewing people. Volkov’s stories, which were made into stage, screen,
and television productions, became even better known in Eastern bloc countries
and China than Baum’s. Since Volkov’s death in 1977, Russian author Sergei
Sukhinov has continued the series with 20 original titles. The Soviet Union
broke up, but Oz kept right on going!
In 2006 the Russian Oz Club joined the American-based International Wizard
of Oz Club (www.ozclub.org) in celebrating the 150th anniversary of L. Frank
Baum’s birth. As President of the American Club, I’ve been on the Yellow Brick
Road all summer, attending many Oz-related events. No one person could attend
all the public Oz festivals, academic symposia, art exhibitions, conventions, mu-seum
talks, and library lectures that were scheduled.
New York State Senator Hillary Clinton has joined the campaign to get L.
Frank Baum, native son of Chittenango, New York, and the Oz books (not just
the movie!) onto a postage stamp.
Oz has morphed into many formats: Muppet musicals, Australian ballets, a Turk-ish
movie, French graphic novels, and, 100 years after the first, another hit Broad-way
show, “Wicked.” But let’s not forget the original book and its brilliant
author in this his sesquicentennial year: Happy birthday, dear Frank!
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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
Web site: www.arnenixoncenter.org
Please call for an appointment.
Angelica Carpenter, Curator
E-mail: angelica@csufresno.edu
Alan Stein, Specialist Cataloguer
Jennifer Crow, Library Assistant
Matt Borrego, Student Assistant
Maria Carrizales, Student Assistant
Angelica Carpenter, Editor
Janet Bancroft, Designer & Co-editor
Michael Gorman
Michael Cart
Maurice J. Eash
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ANCA Board of Directors
ANC Governing Committee
Alma Flor Ada
Steven Mooser
ANC Advisory Committee
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
Local author wins Edgar Award Donations of books
and materials
(January through July 2006)
ongratulations to D. James Smith (the “D” stands for
“David”) whose book, The Boys of San Joaquin (Simon
& Schuster, 2005), won the 2006 Edgar Award, presented
by the Mystery Writers of America for the year’s best juve-nile
mystery. Smith, whose book topped Carl Hiassen’s
Flush in the category, was pleasantly surprised by the win,
especially since he did not write the novel as a mystery.
This touching, hilarious story is set in Smith’s home
town of Fresno (called Orange Grove City) in the summer
of 1951. It begins when Rufus, the O’Neil family’s dog,
comes home with part of a twenty-dollar bill stuck to his
teeth. Twelve-year-old Paolo tracks the bill to its source,
sometimes scared spitless, flirting with danger and girls.
“With this book,” said the Washington Post, “Smith joins
Richard Peck and Bruce Clements in the select company
of latter-day YA [Young Adult] writers who can be men-tioned
in the same sentence as Mark Twain.” In the sequel,
Probably the World’s Best Story about a Dog and the
Girl who Loved Me, Paolo solves a dog-napping (his
publishers are keen on mysteries now, Smith reports) and
a third book in the series is in the works.
Thanks to Smith for agreeing
to donate his papers to the
Arne Nixon Center “in-stead
of just throwing
them away” the way he
usually does!
Cyril P. Athans: 36 books
Lisa Black: 1 book
Nick Bruel: 1 original “Bad Kitty” art piece
Marjorie Burgeson: 236 Cricket &
39 Ladybug Magazines
Angelica Carpenter: 21 books
Michael Cart: 130 boxes of books
Children’s Book Press: 5 books
Mirja Covarrubias: 1 book
Sharon Creech: 40 foreign language editions
of her books
William Crumpacker: 5 books & 39 figurines
Louise Feinberg: 8 books
Michael Gorman: 1 book & 1 statue
Henry Holt: 24 books
Holiday House: 38 books
Houghton Mifflin: 47 books & 5 posters
Rosellen Kershaw: 10 books
Kathy Kline: 6 books
Lerner Publishing Company: 13 books
Terry Lewis: 2 books
Peggie Morgan: 1 poster
Blossom Norman: 5 books
Oakland Public Library: 44 books & 6 pamphlets
Bette Peterson: 1 book
Linda Peterson: 401 books
Tamora Pierce: 8 books
Paul Politi: 51 Leo Politi postcards
Random House: 81 books
Roaring Brook Press: 12 books
Sagaponack Books: 1 book
Scholastic: 58 books
Denise Sciandra: 2 books
Science, Naturally!: 1 book
Byron Sewell: essays & parodies of the works
of Lewis Carroll
Shenanigan Books: 2 books
Dr. and Mrs. Allan Shields: 2 books
Gary Soto: 3 books
Ray Steele: 12 German books
Al Stein: 1 decorative cat tile
David Ezra Stein: 1 copy of his book,
Cowboy Ned and Andy
Edith Stock: 13 German books
Ten Speed Press: 2 books
Tricycle Press: 11 books
Dave Tyckoson: 4 books & 5 posters
Johan T. Van der Noordaa: 5 books
Jacklyn Williams: 6 of her books
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Thank you,
all!
And Tango Makes Three by
Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
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Under the Royal Palms: A Childhood
in Cuba by Alma Flor Ada
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AAnswers to quiz:
1The Boys of San Joaquin by D. James Smith
2A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Donors and Life Members (for the period June 1, 2005 to July 31, 2006)
Life Members
Laurel Ashlock
Donna Bessant
Shirley Brinker
Tina Bruno
Michael Cart
Delbert Crummey
Maurice Eash
Fresno Area Reading Council
Nancy Hill Gilchrist
Robert and Linda Glassman
Pamela Goodrich
Carmen Farr Gregory
James and Coke Hallowell
Nancy Hatcher
Joy Heisig
Christy Hicks
Scot Hillman
Pat Hillman
John and Lollie Horstmann
Rosellen Kershaw
Priscilla Ketscher
Mrs. Deran Koligian
Marion Kremen
Harold and Eleanor Larsen
Don Larson
Jean Ray and Frank Laury
Warren and Susan Lev
Barbara Marsella
Brenda Martin
Helen Jane McKee
Roxie Moradian
George Pappas
Alice Peters
Bette Peterson
Patricia Pickford
Debbie and Chuck Poochigian
Joe and Susan Pressutti
Jim and Kay Provost
Tom and Louise Richardson
Evelyn Sanoian
John and Kristene Scholefield
Lisa Schoof
Denise and Salvatore Sciandra
Harold Silvani
James M. Smith
Edith Stock
Sandy and Dennis Stubblefield
Jerry and Lois Tarkanian
Juan and Clara Touya
Bill and Lise Van Beurden
Benefactors
The Henry J. Fox Trust
Claribel Lagomarsino
Cynthia Merrill School
of Performing Arts
Rudolph and Margaret Najar
Jerry and Geraldine Tahajian
Patrons
Katherine B. Alves
John and Nancy Baker
Shirley Canales
Eddie and Mimi Fanucchi
Beanie Irola
Daniel and Debra Jamison
John and Ruth Kallenberg
Lydia Kuhn
Patience Milrod
Jo Ellen Priest Misakian
Marcie Morrison
Robert and Shirley Valett
Ellis Vance
Howard and Chris Watkins
Lawrence and Shirley Wilder
Paul and Jane Worsley
Sponsors
Loren Alving and Dzung Trinh
Paula Ametjian
Jean Beardsley
Desa Belyea
Robert W. and Elaine Bender
Dale and Barbara Blickenstaff
Hal and Janet Bochin
Tom and Vallorie Borchardt
John and Norma Bowles
Cheryl Caldera
Mark and Janet Cameron
Richard and Angelica Carpenter
Patricia Carriveau
Janet W. Claassen
Joan De Yager
Diane Dickerson
Virginia H. Dix
Don and Sheli Glasrud
Michael Gorman and Anne Reuland
Cherrill A. Gragg
Peter and Kristi Guadagnin
Sue Haffner
Merle and Audry Hanson
Kathy Haug
Heidi Hodges
Stephanie Horal
Joyce Huggins
Gray and Geraldine Hughes
Burton R. James
Gordon and Frances Johnson
Theresa Jonigian
Daniel and Jessica Kaiser
Elizabeth Knapp
Janice Maroot
Sylvia Miller
Diane Miniel
Dick and Wilda Moller
Arlene Motz
Alexis O'Neill
Stephen and Carmella Renton
Eugene & Mary Ann Richardson
Walt and Joan Russell
Jackie Sarkisian
Nora Schwartz
James and B. Lisa Scroggin
Sue Shannon
Ronald and Patricia Shein
Stan Sieler and Kathy Fulton
Sharon Smart
Mary Ellen Stuart
John and Patricia Taylor
Morva Taylor
Karen Tozlian
Roger Vehrs
Valerie Welk
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George and Anidelle Flint
Josephine Fox
Pat Hardebeck
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Bertina Richter
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Sustaining Members
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Burnett, from front page
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marriages, and single motherhood. For many years these
books have been overshadowed by the fame of her
children’s stories, but recently scholars have rediscovered
them and they have written about them in this book.
It begins with the conference’s keynote speech, by
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, whose biography, Frances
Hodgson Burnett, was published in 2004, and ends with
an interview with Penny Deupree, Burnett’s great-granddaughter,
who has inherited the family archive. In
between are essays by Pulitzer Prize winner Alison Lurie
and Burnett’s first non-family biographer, Ann Thwaite.
The articles, which are both scholarly and conversa-tional,
are in chronological order, based on the pub-lication
of Burnett’s books or on the production of plays
and movies adapted from them. The book, which includes
photographs and illustrations, costs $46 and can be
ordered from bookstores and online booksellers or from
www.scarecrowpress.com.
argarita Engle’s first children’s
book, The Poet Slave of Cuba: A
Biography of Juan Francisco
Manzano (Henry Holt, 2006)
has won starred reviews in
School Library Journal, Book-list,
The Horn Book Maga-zine,
and The Bulletin of the
Center for Children’s Books
and was praised in the Chicago
Tribune, Baltimore Sun, and
many other publications.
Manzano, who lived from 1797
to 1853, was born the slave of a wealthy woman who
denied him an education but appreciated his talent for
poetry. Manzano’s verses reflect the beauty of the world
and they also expose its hideous cruelty.
Margarita Engle tells his story in free verse, using many
voices—the poet’s, his mother’s, his father’s, and also
those of his owners. The book, illustrated by Sean Qualls,
includes examples of Manzano’s poems in Spanish and in
English translation.
Meet this Clovis, California, author at an event
co-sponsored by ANCA, the Arne Nixon Center Advocates,
on Saturday, October 21, from 1–3 p.m. at Arte Américas,
1630 Van Ness, Fresno, California, 93721. Admission is $3
for adults; $2 for seniors and students; free to children
under 12. The Web site is www.arteamericas.org.
Margarita Engle is a botanist, agronomist, and the
Cuban-American author of two adult novels about the
island, Skywriting (Bantam), and Singing to Cuba
(Arte Publico Press).
Her books will be
available for sale
and autographing
at the event.
Margarita Engle to speak
in Fresno on October 21
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San Souci donates papers
hanks to Robert D. San Souci, the prolific author
of more than 90 books, who announced recently
that he will donate his papers to the Arne Nixon
Center. “It’s an appropriate choice,” he said. “Arne
Nixon gave me and my brother [Daniel San Souci,
the well-known illustrator and author] our first
invitation to speak outside of local schools, and our
first connection to the wider world of children’s
literature.” The brothers spoke at a Fresno event
organized by Nixon in 1981 and they returned as
speakers for the Arne Nixon Children’s Literature
Festival in 2002.
Robert D. San Souci, who goes by “Bob,” is
pleased that he was able to dedicate his book The
Faithful Friend to his friend Arne Nixon shortly
before Nixon passed away. His titles include
Cinderella Skeleton, Little Gold Star, Two Bear
Cubs, Sukey and the Mermaid, The Legend of
Scarface, Cendrillon, The Talking Eggs, and
many other picture books, often based on tra-ditional
tales from varying countries and cultures.
His newest publications are a hardback reprint of
Sister Tricksters and paperback editions of The
Hired Hand and Feathertop.
The author’s Web site is www.robertsan
souci.com.
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Featured illustrations
from our collections
Front page: Mamá Goose: A Latino Nursery
Treasury, selected by Alma Flor Ada and F.
Isabel Campoy; illustrated by Maribel Suárez.
Page 3: Mamá Goose
Page 4: Rosa Raposa, written by F. Isabel
Campoy, illustrated by Jose Aruego and
Ariane Dewey.
Page 4-5 center: ¡Pío Peep!
Page 7: Who is Melvin Bubble?, written and
illustrated by Nick Bruel.
Back page: With Love, Little Red Hen,
written by Alma Flor Ada, illustrated by
Leslie Tryon.
Michael Cart donations
Nick Bruel donates art
ichael Cart, the well-known author, librarian, Booklist
columnist, and founder of the Printz Award for young adult
fiction, holds the all-time record as a donor of books to the
Arne Nixon Center. In the past four months he has donated
130 boxes of books, including many valuable first editions.
Each box holds about 50 books but the exact number is not
yet known as staff and volunteers are working box by box,
making lists of titles and sorting out other materials like
files, newspaper articles, and video cassettes.
Michael Cart is a founding member of the Arne Nixon
Center’s governing board and he has been one of the Center’s
strongest supporters since its inception. His leadership,
expertise, and now his collection are invaluable to the
Center’s mission.
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Thanks to Nick Bruel, author/
illustrator of Bad Kitty, for
donating an original piece of
Bad Kitty art (below) to the
Arne Nixon Center. Bruel’s new-est
book is Who is Melvin
Bubble?, about a boy who
strongly resembles his creator,
shown at left in a self-portrait.
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Can you identify book titles from these first lines?
(Answers on page 4)
Now, this is a story as true as I know how to tell it. There are those that would say it’s
not true, then, but they’d be wrong. I have a reputation for stretching things toward
the interesting, but only as to make my point, so you’ll understand that if this isn’t
exactly the whole truth, it is as close as you want it to be.
Once on a dark winter’s day, when the yellow fog hung so thick
and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted
and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an
odd-looking little girl sat in a cab with her father. . . .
Daily life in La Quinta Simoni started very early in the morning. The placid night
fragrances of jasmine and gardenias, which entered my bedroom from the garden,
were quickly overtaken by the acrid but friendly smell of coffee brewing.
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In the middle of New York City there is a great big park called Central
Park. Children love to play there. It has a toy-boat pond where they can sail
their boats. It has a carousel to ride on in the summer and an ice rink to
skate on in the winter.
Best of all it has its very own zoo.
Every day families of all kinds go to visit the animals that live there.
