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FROM: "Frances Morgan" <[removed]@cals.lib.ar.us>
REC'D: 2/27/01, 11:29 AM

Help, please?

I'm searching for a children's book with the above title (the patron
*thinks* that's the title). Not sure of the spelling. Maybe two words?

She read it when she was about 10 years old; she's now 86! Patron wants to
read, but failing eyesight and difficulty concentrating keeps her from it.
She has decided to try books she remembers from her childhood; this was her
favorite. Hope you all can help--reading just might help this patron in
more ways than she realizes!

Thanks!!

Frances Morgan
Institutional Services
Central Arkansas Library System

FROM: Sherri Lazenby <[removed]@dallaslibrary.org>
REC'D: 2/27/01, 11:59 AM

Our catalog shows a book called "Honey Bunch, her first visit to the
seashore," by Helen Louise Thorndyke published in 1924.


Sherri L. Lazenby
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Branch Manager
Audelia Road Branch Library
Dallas Public Library System
10045 Audelia Road
Dallas, TX 75238
(214) 670-1350
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-----Original Message-----
From: Frances Morgan [[removed]@cals.lib.ar.us]
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 11:45 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Honeybunch

Help, please?

I'm searching for a children's book with the above title (the patron
*thinks* that's the title). Not sure of the spelling. Maybe two
words?

She read it when she was about 10 years old; she's now 86! Patron
wants to
read, but failing eyesight and difficulty concentrating keeps her
from it.
She has decided to try books she remembers from her childhood; this
was her
favorite. Hope you all can help--reading just might help this
patron in
more ways than she realizes!

Thanks!!

Frances Morgan
Institutional Services
Central Arkansas Library System



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FROM: "Dusty Gres" <[removed]@mail.toombs.public.lib.ga.us>
REC'D: 2/27/01, 11:59 AM

I am sure you will get many responses..the Honeybunch series by Helen Louise
Thorndyke was an early series, similar to the Bobbsey Twins.

***
Dusty Gres, Director
Ohoopee Regional Library System
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From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org
[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of Frances Morgan
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 12:45 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Honeybunch


Help, please?

I'm searching for a children's book with the above title (the patron
*thinks* that's the title). Not sure of the spelling. Maybe two words?

She read it when she was about 10 years old; she's now 86! Patron wants to
read, but failing eyesight and difficulty concentrating keeps her from it.
She has decided to try books she remembers from her childhood; this was her
favorite. Hope you all can help--reading just might help this patron in
more ways than she realizes!

Thanks!!

Frances Morgan
Institutional Services
Central Arkansas Library System

FROM: Lynne Welch <[removed]@oplin.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 2/27/01, 12:10 PM

See <http://www.quigleysbooks.com/honeybunch.html> for a cover shot from
HONEY BUNCH: HER FIRST LITTLE TREASURE HUNT by Helen Louise Thorndyke.

Also <http://www.seriesbooks.com/honeybunch.htm> has a page (together with
titles!) on the series which starts:
"This highly successful 32 title Stratemeyer Syndicate series was in print from
1923 through 1955. Both Mildred Wirt and Josephine Lawrence are credited as
two of the ghostwriters who contributed to this series. Like most Stratemeyer
series, Honey Bunch was published in a variety of formats. ..."

Perhaps you could try local thrift shops or used-book stores?

Hope this helps! Lynne

At 11:45 AM 02/27/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>Help, please?
>
>I'm searching for a children's book with the above title (the patron
>*thinks* that's the title). Not sure of the spelling. Maybe two words?
>
>She read it when she was about 10 years old; she's now 86! Patron wants to
>read, but failing eyesight and difficulty concentrating keeps her from it.
>She has decided to try books she remembers from her childhood; this was her
>favorite. Hope you all can help--reading just might help this patron in
>more ways than she realizes!


Lynne Welch, Reference Librarian
Herrick Memorial Library - Wellington, OH 44090
tel. 440-647-2120 fax 440-647-2103
e-mail [removed]@oplin.lib.oh.us
<http://www.wellington.lib.oh.us>

FROM: "Cindy Westphal" <[removed]@eauclaire.lib.wi.us>
REC'D: 2/27/01, 12:10 PM

I have the book, Honey Bunch Her First Little Club by Helen Louise Thorndyke. Published by Grosset & Dunlop, 1938. WISCAT, our state library catalog, lists many others in this series.

Hope you can find some titles for your patron.

Cindy Westphal
L. E. Phillips Memorial Public Library
400 Eau Claire St.
Eau Claire, WI 54701

FROM: Hollie Rice <[removed]@mission.mvnc.edu>
REC'D: 2/27/01, 12:21 PM

Might be the series by Helen Louise Thorndyke. I found both
"Honeybunch" and "Honey Bunch", but "Honey Bunch" seems to used more
frequently.

Hollie Rice
Mount Vernon Public Library

Frances Morgan wrote:
>
> Help, please?
>
> I'm searching for a children's book with the above title (the patron
> *thinks* that's the title). Not sure of the spelling. Maybe two words?
>
> She read it when she was about 10 years old; she's now 86! Patron wants to
> read, but failing eyesight and difficulty concentrating keeps her from it.
> She has decided to try books she remembers from her childhood; this was her
> favorite. Hope you all can help--reading just might help this patron in
> more ways than she realizes!
>
> Thanks!!
>
> Frances Morgan
> Institutional Services
> Central Arkansas Library System
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
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FROM: "Marsha Valance " <[removed]@mpl.org>
REC'D: 2/27/01, 12:32 PM

Honeybunch was a golden-haired 7-year-old in a series of books by Helen Louise Thorndyke, written for the Stratemeyer syndicate.


Marsha Valance
Regional Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233
1.800.242.8822 [in-state]
<[removed]@mpl.org>

>>> [removed]@cals.lib.ar.us 02/27/01 11:45AM >>>
Help, please?

I'm searching for a children's book with the above title (the patron
*thinks* that's the title). Not sure of the spelling. Maybe two words?

She read it when she was about 10 years old; she's now 86! Patron wants to
read, but failing eyesight and difficulty concentrating keeps her from it.
She has decided to try books she remembers from her childhood; this was her
favorite. Hope you all can help--reading just might help this patron in
more ways than she realizes!

Thanks!!

Frances Morgan
Institutional Services
Central Arkansas Library System

FROM: "Trish Rucker" <[removed]@bellsouth.net>
REC'D: 2/27/01, 12:32 PM

I have seen these books often on www.bibliofind.com and eBay -- I hope your
patron finds the book she remembers!

Trish in Atlanta
Book Soup Maillist: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BookSoup
Retrotown Maillist: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Retrotown
My Retro Fun homepage:
http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/atl/r/e/retrotr/retrofun.htm


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FROM: "Katy Demcak" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/27/01, 12:43 PM

Found a series of books by Helen Louise Thorndyke (pseudonym of Josephine
Lawrence) called "The Honey Bunch Books." They appear to be about a little
girl named Honey Bunch and have titles like "Honey Bunch: Her First Visit to
the City" or "Honey Bunch: Her First Little Garden." They were published
between 1923 and 1955.

There's a list of all the titles here:

<http://members.tripod.com/ddj9999/honbun.htm>


>>>Help, please?

I'm searching for a children's book with the above title (the patron
*thinks* that's the title).  Not sure of the spelling.  Maybe two words?

She read it when she was about 10 years old; she's now 86!  Patron wants to
read, but failing eyesight and difficulty concentrating keeps her from it.
She has decided to try books she remembers from her childhood; this was her
favorite.  Hope you all can help--reading just might help this patron in
more ways than she realizes!

Thanks!!

Frances Morgan<<<
Institutional Services
Central Arkansas Library System
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FROM: "Frances Morgan" <[removed]@cals.lib.ar.us>
REC'D: 2/27/01, 1:04 PM

Thank you, thank you!

I *knew* you guys would make this easy for me! Just called the patron and
she is *very* excited!

Frances Morgan
Institutional Services
Central Arkansas Library System

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 2/27/01, 2:06 PM

In a message dated 2/27/2001 12:27:17 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@cals.lib.ar.us writes:

<<
Help, please?

I'm searching for a children's book with the above title (the patron
*thinks* that's the title). Not sure of the spelling. Maybe two words?

She read it when she was about 10 years old; she's now 86! Patron wants to
read, but failing eyesight and difficulty concentrating keeps her from it.
She has decided to try books she remembers from her childhood; this was her
favorite. Hope you all can help--reading just might help this patron in
more ways than she realizes!

Thanks!!

Frances Morgan
Institutional Services
Central Arkansas Library System

>>

A search of <www.Bibiofind.com> with <honeybunch> as search term turned up
the following titles. I think this might fit your time frame. Margaret
Zemach also wrote books with "honeybunch" in the title, but they were done in
the 1980's.

Entries below from Bibliofind.

Helen Louise Thorndyke: Honeybunch:Her First Visit to the Seashore ; New
York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1924.

Helen Louise Thorndyke: HONEYBUNCH AND NORMAN TOUR TOY TOWN ; New York:
Grosset & Dunlap, c 1951. reprint, sl shelfwear, corners bumped else vg,
5x7.5, boards, 180, Honeybunch and Norman #3 lists to self, originally
published as Honeybunch Her First Tour of Toy Town in 1951, juvenile series
(UR#:BOOKS010952I)

Thorndyke, Helen Louise: Honeybunch: Her First Winter at Snowtop ; New York:
Grosset & Dunlap, 1946. Hard Cover, Good/Good -, the binding has edge wear
and bumping, the dust jacket also has edge wear, there is rubbing along the
front and back cover dust jacket, there are several tears along the front
cover dust jacket, the tip of the dust jacet spine is torn, soldbooks 10/00
Children s Fiction (UR#:wc0578)

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 3/1/01, 9:08 AM

I had "Honeybunch and Norman in the Castle of Magic"-I imagine this was the same character, but in a later (1050's) incarnation.

FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 3/1/01, 9:59 AM

At 09:59 AM 3/1/01 EST, you wrote:
> I had "Honeybunch and Norman in the Castle of Magic"-I imagine this was
the same character, but in a later (1050's) incarnation.

The original HONEY BUNCH (two words, not one) series by "Helen Louise
Thorndyke" (a Stratemeyer syndicate pseudonym/house name) ran to 32
volumes, 1923 through 1955. Twelve volumes appeared 1957-1963 under a
new series title, HONEY BUNCH AND NORMAN. Of the "new" twelve, numbers
2, 5, 6, and 7 were reissues of numbers 27, 30, 31, and 32 of the first
series (two of them with title changes). The other 8 were new stories
(so that there are 40 in all); HONEY BUNCH AND NORMAN IN THE CASTLE
OF MAGIC was number 8, published in 1958.

The "1050s" incarnation of HONEY BUNCH presumably included such
titles as HONEY BUNCH AND BEOWULF FIGHT GRENDEL'S MOTHER and HONEY
BUNCH GOES A-VIKING, followed by a shorter series under the general
title of HONEY BUNCH AND THE NORMAN INVASION. I don't seem to
have any of those. . . .

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 3/1/01, 4:02 PM

Boy is this a tough crowd-you'd think you could make one itty-bitty typo every once in a while-but noooo.
You did give me a good laugh, Denis; I might start making errors on purpose.

Maureen Garvey

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