Patron question about Urquhart book
Dates: 6/25/03,10:58 AM through 7/3/03,3:50 PM (6 postings)
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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 6/25/03, 10:58 AM
FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 6/26/03, 5:35 PM
WorldCat shows two UK children's books, both from Collins, dated
respectively 1990 and 1991, titled HORACE THE DRAGON HAS HICCUPS
and HORACE THE DRAGON HAS TOOTHACHE. But the author is "Gina"
(who apparently uses just that name) and not an Urquhart, and the
books are small (32 pp.) rather than chapter books. Not sure if
these are relevant or not, but found no other candidates.
Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu
FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 6/26/03, 8:50 PM
>From: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Re: Patron question about Urquhart book
>Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 17:33:35 -0500
>
>At 11:50 AM 6/25/03 -0400, you wrote:
> >Dear Fiction-L'ers,
> >I have a patron who remembers a book by someone called Urquhart about a
>boy whose father was an airraid warden in WWII Great Britain. The boy falls
>in the water and meets Horace who is either a dragon or a dinosaur. Boston
>Public used to have the book, he says, but now we can't find any
>information about it. We wonder if we have the author or title (Horace the
>dragon) wrong.
> >Thanks,
> >Maggie Holmes
> >North Attleboro, MA
Your patron is mildly confused. There is such a book, and it is titled
"Horace," after the dragon character. He lives under a bridge (sort
of--probably when you fall off said bridge you slip through some kind of
dimensional warp). The human character is a *girl*, not a boy, and the
point of the tale is that at night all the statues in London wake up and
walk about--and St. George's statue has somehow mistaken Horace's father for
the kind of dragon he used to slay. The one you probably want is by
*Elizabeth* Urquhart and has a date of 1951. I remember reading it myself,
out of the Verona Public Library in the early 60's. ABEBooks doesn't have
it, but the Library of Congress does!
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FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 6/27/03, 9:39 AM
Horace: illustrated by Rosita Pastor.
by Urquhart, Elizabeth.
New York, Dutton, 1951
Description:
115 p. illus. 21 cm.
Edition:
[1st ed.]
Notes:
OCLC number: ocm01618178
Copley - Special Collections
Jordan
PZ8.U925
Ho
c.1
In Library
Use Only
WorldCat shows some 60 libraries that hold it; aside from Boston Public,
the only ones in Massachusetts are "C/W Mars" and "Clams,Inc." Don't
know what either of those are...
Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu
At 01:45 AM 6/27/03 +0000, you wrote:
>>At 11:50 AM 6/25/03 -0400, you wrote:
>> >Dear Fiction-L'ers,
>> >I have a patron who remembers a book by someone called Urquhart about a
>>boy whose father was an airraid warden in WWII Great Britain. The boy falls
>>in the water and meets Horace who is either a dragon or a dinosaur. Boston
>>Public used to have the book, he says, but now we can't find any
>>information about it. We wonder if we have the author or title (Horace the
>>dragon) wrong.
>> >Thanks,
>> >Maggie Holmes
>> >North Attleboro, MA
>
>Your patron is mildly confused. There is such a book, and it is titled
>"Horace," after the dragon character. He lives under a bridge (sort
>of--probably when you fall off said bridge you slip through some kind of
>dimensional warp). The human character is a *girl*, not a boy, and the
>point of the tale is that at night all the statues in London wake up and
>walk about--and St. George's statue has somehow mistaken Horace's father for
>the kind of dragon he used to slay. The one you probably want is by
>*Elizabeth* Urquhart and has a date of 1951. I remember reading it myself,
>out of the Verona Public Library in the early 60's. ABEBooks doesn't have
>it, but the Library of Congress does!
FROM: "Linda Chapman" <[removed]@acpl.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 6/27/03, 10:01 AM
Linda Chapman
Reference Librarian
Readers' Services Department
"The views, opinions, and judgments expressed in this message are solely those of the author. The message contents have not been reviewed or approved by the Allen County Public Library."
FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 7/3/03, 3:50 PM
C/W Mars or Clams (that's Cape Cape's system) and they can
send it in
delivery since Mass. shares delivery services among the
regions. My
patron
will be
very happy.
Maggie Holmes
North Attleboro, MA
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