Author: Holly
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Don’t Call Me Fatso
Don’t Call Me Fatso Philips 1993 Submitter: This is a “sensitive” story about Rita who is overweight. Rita has to face being weighed in front of her entire class and being told she needs to go on a diet. She then is bullied by her classmates in art class and…
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Housebuilding for Children
Housebuilding for Children: Six Different Houses that Children Can Build By Themselves Walker 1977 The six houses featured in this book are: The Post and Beam House The Tree House The Factory-built House The Junkyard House The Glass House The Wood Frame House It caught my eye when a patron…
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Floating Baby Heads!
Baby Hand Knits Rembrandt Yarns 1946 Submitter: This publication from 1946 by the Wool Novelty Co., Inc. of New York, NY, came in with a very large donation of women’s handicraft magazines. Maybe because it’s Friday, I found the floating baby heads on the cover particularly entertaining…. Holly: Collectors would…
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How to Write and Sell Confessions
How to Write and Sell Confessions Feldhake 1980 Submitter: From a large public library that recently weeded the 800s/authorship how to’s. This had circed in the last 5 years, which is surprising considering that these “true confessions” magazines don’t really exist as a phenomenon anymore (though at least one of…
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Jamming on the Harpsichord
The Harpsichord Owner’s Guide: A Manual for Buyers & Owners Kottick 1992 Submitter: Zero circs in about 9 years. Why on earth does this need to belong in a rural medium-sized library? Holly: This was published in 1992?? Was there some sort of harpsichord revival that I missed?
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Wonders of Dust
Wonders of Dust McFall 1980 I can just picture the publisher pitch meeting: “What we really need is a book about dust!” It just seems like a random topic that you wouldn’t need (or care) to read a book about. Sort of like this book about wax. It’s not…
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