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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
DATE: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:28:57 EST

Hi!

A colleague and I were discussing compiling a senior citizen
readaloud list for book talking at nursing homes.

Book excerpts thus far have included James Herriot, All my
Patients are under the bed by Dr Camuti, The Ugliest
Pilgrim by Doris Betts and Lee Smith's Me and My baby View the
Eclipse.

I would be happy to compile a list and post it...do any of you have
any favorites or web sites you would recommend...

Thanks!!!

Janet Morley
East Regional Library
946 Steeple Square Court
Knightdale, NC 27545

FROM: Barry Trott <[removed]@mail.wrl.org>
DATE: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 18:04:54 -0500 (EST)

Perhaps some writers of short fiction -- Bailey White, Garrison Keillor
(Lake Woebegone Days, etc.), Henry Mitchell (nonfiction essays on
gardening).

Barry

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Barry Trott 7770 Croaker Rd.
Readers' Services Librarian Williamsburg VA 23188
Williamsburg Regional Library Phone: 757-259-4050 or
[removed]@mail.wrl.org 757-259-7720
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On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 [removed]@aol.com wrote:

> Hi!
>
> A colleague and I were discussing compiling a senior citizen
> readaloud list for book talking at nursing homes.
>
> Book excerpts thus far have included James Herriot, All my
> Patients are under the bed by Dr Camuti, The Ugliest
> Pilgrim by Doris Betts and Lee Smith's Me and My baby View the
> Eclipse.
>
> I would be happy to compile a list and post it...do any of you have
> any favorites or web sites you would recommend...
>
> Thanks!!!
>
> Janet Morley
> East Regional Library
> 946 Steeple Square Court
> Knightdale, NC 27545
>
>
>

FROM: Jeanne Etling <[removed]@ccs.nsls.lib.il.us>
DATE: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:11:28 -0600 (CST)

Janet,

Here is an exerpt from Cordelia Underwood or the Marvelous Beginnings of
the Moosepath League by Van Reid. I have the Viking Hardback and it
starts on page 178, about halfway into chapter 34. Two bullies pick on a
youngster and a young man watching the whole thing gets the better of one
of the bullies. The whole book is like that and I did read this segment
to a group of senior ladies who were all laughing by the end.

It starts out: The sun continued to assert itself, and soon it held a
substantial portion of the sky. It ends at a section break on page 183.

This is really a great idea and I will look forward to the list.

Jeanne Etling
Dundee (IL) Township Public Library District

FROM: Lynda Whitton-Henley <[removed]@intcomm.net>
DATE: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 11:28:22 -0600

Where the heart is by Billie Letts.

Lynda Whitton-Henley

[removed]@aol.com wrote:

> Hi!
>
> A colleague and I were discussing compiling a senior citizen
> readaloud list for book talking at nursing homes.
>
> Book excerpts thus far have included James Herriot, All my
> Patients are under the bed by Dr Camuti, The Ugliest
> Pilgrim by Doris Betts and Lee Smith's Me and My baby View the
> Eclipse.
>
> I would be happy to compile a list and post it...do any of you have
> any favorites or web sites you would recommend...
>
> Thanks!!!
>
> Janet Morley
> East Regional Library
> 946 Steeple Square Court
> Knightdale, NC 27545
>
>

FROM: Viccy Kemp <[removed]@ci.carrollton.tx.us>
DATE: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 08:18:34 -0600

I highly recommend the novella by Truman Capote entitled "A Christmas
Memory." I read this to my group and we were all in tears by the end. Also,
if you use the James Herriot stories that are illustrated, such as "Only one
woof," "Bonnie's big day," or "Oscar, cat about town," you can let the
seniors pass the book around and look at the pictures, too. These can be
found in your juvenile fiction area. I also had a successful reading of
poetry; they loved Keats, James Whitcomb Riley (best if read with a deep
Southern accent), Edgar Lee Masters, etc.
I look forward to seeing your list. It will give me some new ideas.
Viccy Kemp
The opinions are my own; the library wouldn't want 'em!

> -----Original Message-----
> [removed]@aol.com [[removed]@aol.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 4:29 PM
> [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
> Subject: Senior Citizen read alouds
>
> Hi!
>
> A colleague and I were discussing compiling a senior citizen
> readaloud list for book talking at nursing homes.
>
> Book excerpts thus far have included James Herriot, All my
> Patients are under the bed by Dr Camuti, The Ugliest
> Pilgrim by Doris Betts and Lee Smith's Me and My baby View the
> Eclipse.
>
> I would be happy to compile a list and post it...do any of you have
> any favorites or web sites you would recommend...
>
> Thanks!!!
>
> Janet Morley
> East Regional Library
> 946 Steeple Square Court
> Knightdale, NC 27545
>
>

FROM: Jaffe <[removed]@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
DATE: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:49:38 -0500 (EST)

Hi,

A loving voice: a caregiver's book of read-aloud stories for the elderly
edited by Carolyn Banks and Janis Rizzo would be a good choice.

Karen Jaffe
Comsewogue Public Library
Port Jefferson Station, NY

FROM: "Natalya Fishman" <[removed]@nslsilus.org>
DATE: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 09:56:44 -0600

You can find "Books to Read Aloud to Adults" booklist in Fiction_L archives
at http://www.webrary.org/rs/FLbklist7.html#Old. It was compiled in 1998,
though.

Natalya Fishman
Fiction_L Manager
Morton Grove Public Library
Morton Grove, IL 60053
(847) 965-4220
[removed]@webrary.org
http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
Opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect
official Library policy.

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>From: [removed]@aol.com
>To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
>Subject: Senior Citizen read alouds
>Date: Mon, Mar 20, 2000, 4:28 PM
>

> Hi!
>
> A colleague and I were discussing compiling a senior citizen
> readaloud list for book talking at nursing homes.
>
> Book excerpts thus far have included James Herriot, All my
> Patients are under the bed by Dr Camuti, The Ugliest
> Pilgrim by Doris Betts and Lee Smith's Me and My baby View the
> Eclipse.
>
> I would be happy to compile a list and post it...do any of you have
> any favorites or web sites you would recommend...
>
> Thanks!!!
>
> Janet Morley
> East Regional Library
> 946 Steeple Square Court
> Knightdale, NC 27545
>
>
>

FROM: Anne Kabel <[removed]@metronet.lib.mi.us>
DATE: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:16:48 -0500 (EST)

I think any of the books by Fred Chappell, novels which tell the story of
a boy growing up in the hills of Appalachia, would be wonderful to hear
aloud. Funny and tender.

Anne Kabel
Adult Reading Librarian
Baldwin Public Library
300 W. Merrill
P.O. Box 3002
Birmingham MI 48012-3002
248- 647-1700

FROM: Kiesha Crawmer <[removed]@clsn1269.cumberland.lib.nc.us>
DATE: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 12:11:08 -0500 (EST)

I think _The Education of Little Tree_ by Forrest Carter would be an
excellent "read aloud" for a seniors group.

Kiesha Crawmer
Circulation Services
Cumberland County Public Library, Cliffdale Branch

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
DATE: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 06:25:47 EST

What a wonderful set of responses!!! Thank you all so
much for your great enthusiastic answers!

I have gotten all the responses to my colleague and she
is utterly delighted!

I will be organizing this list and posting it for the group,
probably over the weekend/early next week.

Thank you all so much!

Janet Morley
East Regional Library
946 Steeple Square Court
Knightdale, NC 27545

FROM: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@nslsilus.org>
DATE: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 09:37:39 -0600

How about the Patrick McManus books including Never Stiff a Gift Fish and
The
Grasshopper Trap. They are very funny and might appeal to the men in the
audience.

Sallie Brodie
Cromaine District Library
Hartland, MI 48353

Anne Kabel wrote:

> I think any of the books by Fred Chappell, novels which tell the story of
> a boy growing up in the hills of Appalachia, would be wonderful to hear
> aloud. Funny and tender.
>
> Anne Kabel
> Adult Reading Librarian
> Baldwin Public Library
> 300 W. Merrill
> P.O. Box 3002
> Birmingham MI 48012-3002
> 248- 647-1700

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
DATE: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 10:00:38 PST

>From: Viccy Kemp <[removed]@ci.carrollton.tx.us>
>Reply-To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
>To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org'" <[removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org>
>Subject: RE: Senior Citizen read alouds
>Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 08:18:34 -0600
>
>I also had a successful reading of
>poetry; they loved Keats, James Whitcomb Riley (best if read with a deep
>Southern accent), Edgar Lee Masters, etc.
>I look forward to seeing your list. It will give me some new ideas.
>Viccy Kemp
>


Robert W. Service ("The Shooting of Dan McGrew," "The Cremation of Sam
Magee"), John Hay ("Jim bludso of the Prairie Belle," etc.), and other
"story-telling" poets might also be enjoyed. Try looking in your Juvenile
section under "ballads" or "story-telling poems." (There's a lovely one
about the Dunkirk Evacuation the title of which I can't recall; the ending
goes something like: "...And close at his side sat Francis Drake,/And held
him true and steered him home.")
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