Watership birds
Dates: 4/16/04,3:38 PM through 4/19/04,9:41 AM (9 postings)
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FROM: [removed]@netscape.net (Ruth Richards)
REC'D: 4/16/04, 3:38 PM
A patron is looking for a fantasy book about birds. It is suppose to resemble Watership Down by Adams. It is suppose to have "birds" in the title and was suppose to have been featured on the Today Show. Any ideas?
Thanks a million,
Ruth Richards
St. Clair Shore Public Library
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FROM: "Pam Wheeler" <[removed]@npls.org>
REC'D: 4/16/04, 3:43 PM
Parmelee (Pam) A. Wheeler MSL
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Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 4:32 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Watership birds
Hi,
A patron is looking for a fantasy book about birds. It is suppose to
resemble Watership Down by Adams. It is suppose to have "birds" in the
title and was suppose to have been featured on the Today Show. Any
ideas?
Thanks a million,
Ruth Richards
St. Clair Shore Public Library
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FROM: [removed]@bloglines.com
REC'D: 4/16/04, 3:49 PM
Rose
--- Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org
wrote:
Hi,
>
> A patron is looking for a fantasy book about birds. It
is suppose to resemble Watership Down by Adams. It is suppose to have "birds"
in the title and was suppose to have been featured on the Today Show. Any
ideas?
>
> Thanks a million,
>
> Ruth Richards
> St. Clair Shore Public
Library
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FROM: [removed]@bloglines.com
REC'D: 4/16/04, 4:00 PM
But neither "Crow" titles are fantasy.
I did find this through a Google
search:
Bridge of Birds : A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was by
Barry Hughart
Bridge of Birds is a lyrical fantasy novel. Set in "an Ancient
China that never was", it stands with The Princess Bride and The Last Unicorn
as a fairy tale for all ages, by turns incredibly funny and deeply touching.
It won the World Fantasy Award in 1985, and Hughart produced two sequels:
The Story of the Stone, and Eight Skilled Gentlemen.
However, it's not
about birds in the same way that Watership Down is about rabbits.
Good
luck.
Rose
--- Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org wrote:
Hi,
>
> A patron is looking for a fantasy book about birds. It is suppose
to resemble Watership Down by Adams. It is suppose to have "birds" in the
title and was suppose to have been featured on the Today Show. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks a million,
>
> Ruth Richards
> St. Clair Shore Public Library
>
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FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 4/16/04, 5:33 PM
Is this a recent book? There's another of those "first novel written
by a teenager, sold to major publisher and getting big publicitiy
push" cases recently which is (from the rather twee and offputting
excerpt I saw) a fantasy about birds. Author's name and book title
refuse to stick in my head; sorry.
If it's an older title, THE STONOR EAGLES by William Horwood is a
"WATERSHIP DOWN with eagles" and I've got a "WATERSHIP DOWN with
owls" book around somewhere, but even if I can find the title, I
know it's too obscure to have appeared on TODAY. (As is probably
also the case with the Horwood.)
Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu
FROM: Susan Smith <[removed]@pub-lib.ci.arlington.tx.us>
REC'D: 4/17/04, 5:46 PM
I think the title the patron is looking for is One for Sorrow, Two for Joy
by Clive Woodall. It is not available in the US yet, as far as I know.
Here is a summary from amazon uk:
Synopsis
Welcome to Birddom - a land where Magpies rule. Dark forces are at work. An
evil intelligence is masterminding their inexorable rise. Dominance has been
achieved by systematic genocide and slaughter. In Birddom, blackbird and
sparrow have been exterminated. The magpie has replaced the pigeon in the
city and the starling in the garden. For small birds throughout the land,
survival is everything. Birddom needs a hero. A bird to fight in the
darkness, and bring light back to the land. But what can one bird do in the
face of such evil?
Susan Smith
Reference Librarian
Northeast Branch Library
Arlington Public Library System
1905 Brown Blvd
Arlington, TX 76006
(817) 277-5573
[removed]@pub-lib.ci.arlington.tx.us
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From: [removed]@bloglines.com
[mailto:inblackink.1127041@bloglines.com]
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 3:55 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Watership birds
Okay, they also did a book called The Way the Crow Flies on the Today Show.
But neither "Crow" titles are fantasy.
I did find this through a Google
search:
Bridge of Birds : A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was by
Barry Hughart
Bridge of Birds is a lyrical fantasy novel. Set in "an Ancient
China that never was", it stands with The Princess Bride and The Last
Unicorn
as a fairy tale for all ages, by turns incredibly funny and deeply touching.
It won the World Fantasy Award in 1985, and Hughart produced two sequels:
The Story of the Stone, and Eight Skilled Gentlemen.
However, it's not
about birds in the same way that Watership Down is about rabbits.
Good
luck.
Rose
--- Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org wrote:
Hi,
>
> A patron is looking for a fantasy book about birds. It is suppose
to resemble Watership Down by Adams. It is suppose to have "birds" in the
title and was suppose to have been featured on the Today Show. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks a million,
>
> Ruth Richards
> St. Clair Shore Public Library
>
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FROM: "Leila Dooley" <[removed]@ci.carlsbad.ca.us>
REC'D: 4/18/04, 6:10 PM
After a flock of alcohol and tobacco addicted laboratory pigeons who
think they are human are set loose in San Francisco by animal rights
activists, they search for Sam Spade, hoping that he will return them to
their caretaker.
Just a guess.
Leila Dooley
Carlsbad City Library
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Carlsbad, CA 92009
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FROM: [removed]@netscape.net (Ruth Richards)
REC'D: 4/19/04, 8:21 AM
This is the title!! Thanks so much for responding. The patro is so thrilled.
Ruth Richards
St. Clair Shore Public Library
Susan Smith <[removed]@pub-lib.ci.arlington.tx.us> wrote:
>This book came up on another listserv I am on--
>
>I think the title the patron is looking for is One for Sorrow, Two for Joy
>by Clive Woodall. It is not available in the US yet, as far as I know.
>Here is a summary from amazon uk:
>
>Synopsis
>Welcome to Birddom - a land where Magpies rule. Dark forces are at work. An
>evil intelligence is masterminding their inexorable rise. Dominance has been
>achieved by systematic genocide and slaughter. In Birddom, blackbird and
>sparrow have been exterminated. The magpie has replaced the pigeon in the
>city and the starling in the garden. For small birds throughout the land,
>survival is everything. Birddom needs a hero. A bird to fight in the
>darkness, and bring light back to the land. But what can one bird do in the
>face of such evil?
>
>Susan Smith
>Reference Librarian
>Northeast Branch Library
>Arlington Public Library System
>1905 Brown Blvd
>Arlington, TX 76006
>(817) 277-5573
>
[removed]@pub-lib.ci.arlington.tx.us
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [removed]@bloglines.com
>[mailto:inblackink.1127041@bloglines.com]
>Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 3:55 PM
>To: Fiction_L
>Subject: Re: Watership birds
>
>
>Okay, they also did a book called The Way the Crow Flies on the Today Show.
>
>
>But neither "Crow" titles are fantasy.
>
>I did find this through a Google
>search:
>
>Bridge of Birds : A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was by
>Barry Hughart
>Bridge of Birds is a lyrical fantasy novel. Set in "an Ancient
>China that never was", it stands with The Princess Bride and The Last
>Unicorn
>as a fairy tale for all ages, by turns incredibly funny and deeply touching.
>It won the World Fantasy Award in 1985, and Hughart produced two sequels:
>The Story of the Stone, and Eight Skilled Gentlemen.
>
>However, it's not
>about birds in the same way that Watership Down is about rabbits.
>
>Good
>luck.
>
>Rose
>
>
>--- Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org wrote:
>Hi,
>>
>> A patron is looking for a fantasy book about birds. It is suppose
>to resemble Watership Down by Adams. It is suppose to have "birds" in the
>title and was suppose to have been featured on the Today Show. Any ideas?
>
>>
>> Thanks a million,
>>
>> Ruth Richards
>> St. Clair Shore Public Library
>
>>
>> __________________________________________________________________
>
>> Introducing the New Netscape Internet Service.
>> Only $9.95 a month --
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>Net You Need.
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>> ......................................................................
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FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 4/19/04, 9:41 AM
>If it's an older title, THE STONOR EAGLES by William Horwood is a
>"WATERSHIP DOWN with eagles" and I've got a "WATERSHIP DOWN with
>owls" book around somewhere, but even if I can find the title, I
>know it's too obscure to have appeared on TODAY. (As is probably
>also the case with the Horwood.)
>
>Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu
You found the title you sought, but for the record if anyone is
curious the "WATERSHIP DOWN with owls" book I was trying to
remember is THE ANCIENT SOLITARY REIGN by Martin Hocke (1989,
but published only in England). There's a 1993 sequel, THE
LOST DOMAIN, also published only in England.
Anyone fond of anthropomorphic fiction in general might consider
purchasing Fred Patten's ANTHROPOMORPHIC BIBLIOGRAPHY:
http://www.arclight.net/~yarf/YARF_BackIssues.html
Anthropomorphic Bibliography - Third Edition - $9
Over 500 anthropomorphic books listed and reviewed (84 pages)
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