[Publib] ] NYPL Staffer

Mon Oct 5 14:28:04 EDT 2009

Forwarded from the supervising librarian of the Children's 
Center NYPL:

GraceAnne A. DeCandido
Reader Writer Editor Reviewer ~ New York City
Part-time lecturer in children's and YA literature Rutgers SC&I online

Words are all we have  --Samuel Beckett

------- Forwarded message follows -------
Subject:	Re: (Fwd) [Publib] NYPL Staffer
To:	ladyhawk at well.com
Date sent:	Mon, 5 Oct 2009 13:01:20 -0400
From:	jepeters at nypl.org

Can't find any evidence of a NYPL connection. She doesn't
mention the library in her profile in Something About The
Author, and anyway seems to have spent much of her life
overseas. We do have her signature in our old guest book, so
she must have made appearances or been in the audience for
events in the Central Children's Room.

Best wishes,

John Peters, Supervising Librarian
The Children's Center at 42nd Street
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
The New York Public Library
Fifth Avenue & 42nd St.
New York, NY 10018
212-621-0206
jepeters at nypl.org

             GraceAnne                              
             Andreassi                              
             DeCandido                              To
             <ladyhawk at well.co         John Edward Peters   
                           m>                       
             <jepeters at nypl.org>                 
                              cc 
             10/04/2009 05:02                             
             PM                              Subject 
                              (Fwd) [Publib] NYPL Staffer   

             Please respond to                             
             ladyhawk at well.com                              

I sent this forward from PubLib

GraceAnne A. DeCandido
Reader Writer Editor Reviewer ~ New York City
Part-time lecturer in children's and YA literature Rutgers
SC&I online

Words are all we have  --Samuel Beckett

------- Forwarded message follows -------
From:                 Backwage at aol.com
Date sent:           Sun, 4 Oct 2009 16:26:02 EDT
To:                     publib at webjunction.org
Subject:              [Publib] NYPL Staffer

I am not a fan of children's books.  With some
exceptions--and those are simply not for children.  Such as
Esther Averill's Jenny Linsky books.  I mean, Jenny is
simply an excellent cat-- and I don't even like cats.

[side note:  I have had to empty the cat boxes at a friend's
bookstore all weekend while she is out of town. This perhaps
colors my feelings.].

Jenny is what a cat should be:  she travels the world,
dances the sailor hornpipe and never once does Captain
Tinker have to clean her catbox. Every adult should read
this book and teach their feline(s) to deal with their own
cat box situations.

I found a copy of Jenny Goes to Sea at a used book store
(interestingly, a religious bookstore, and I'm a
cat-disliking atheist) and had to have it. Also a copy of 30
Years in Sing Sing.  I mean, can you beat that?

And now the qualifying question (meaning the item which
qualifies this writing for publib):  Esther Averill is
reported to have worked in the New York Public Library. 
Doing what?  Somebody out there should know.  I sure as 
heck
don't.  Maybe I'll ask Jenny.  I do know that the author of
the Sing Sing book was the Reverend James Ingles, who claims
to have saved many a soul in that dank prison.  Excepting
perhaps those who went to the chair unrepentant.

M. M. [entered in the log as Jack Tar]

------- End of forwarded message -------(See attached file:
-)(See attached file: -)(See attached file: -)
------- End of forwarded message -------
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: -
Type: application/octet-stream
Size: 3727 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/attachments/20091005/4163487d/attachment.dll>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: -
Type: application/octet-stream
Size: 1393 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/attachments/20091005/4163487d/attachment-0001.dll>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: -
Type: application/octet-stream
Size: 2105 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/attachments/20091005/4163487d/attachment-0002.dll>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: -
Type: application/octet-stream
Size: 151 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/attachments/20091005/4163487d/attachment-0003.dll>