Here's a follow-up on the Mrs. Dewey's Difficult Child story and a further
question. First off, I heard from intrepid LM_NET librarian and fellow Jersey
Girl, Shayne Russell, who wrote:
> <<Judy,
> I recognized this story-- it's in Skills for Life: Library Information
> Literacy for Grades 6-8 published by Linworth in 1994. It's
> attributed to Janet Hofstetter, who at the time was at California R-1
> High School in California City, Missouri according the Acknowledgments
> page.>>
>
> I Googled around a bit and found Janet Hofstetter's e-mail at her school,
> and wrote to her, but alas, the e-mail just bounced back. Does anyone have
> contact info for Janet?
>
Thanks for any light you can shed. (If not, my next step will be to call
Linworth tomorrow. Ah, my librarian detective skills are kicking in!)
Judy Freeman
Children's Literature Consultant
Author of the forthcoming Books Kids Will Sit Still For 3
(Libraries Unlimited, 2005; www.lu.com/winners)
65 North Sixth Avenue
Highland Park, NJ 08904
732-572-5634 / BKWSSF@aol.com
www.JudyReadsBooks.com
In a message dated 8/10/05 8:27:58 PM, LISTSERV@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU writes:
>
> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 13:10:48 EDT
> From: Judy Freeman <BKWSSF@AOL.COM>
> Subject: Dewey Difficult Child activity
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> Many years ago, I found a terrific Dewey story that I adapted for my=20
> students--Mrs. Dewey's Difficult Child. It started:
>
> ________ 's real name was Arthur, after the king in the
> (700-709)
>
> __________________ , but they called him _________ for short.
> (398.2) (700-799)
>
> He wasn't a bad boy when left to his own devices. He didn't steal
>
> __________ . He never dirtied his ___________ because he was too
> (332.4) (685)
>
> lazy to climb _______ . Experimenting with __________ , playing
> (582.16) (540)
>
> with the ______ , watching _______ , or listening to ______ music
> (636.7) (791.45) (552)
>
> were his ideas of a good _______ .
> (529)
>
> In case the formatting comes out weird in this posting, the numbers go under
> the lines. Kids had to go to the shelves, find each number, figure out the
> subject, and write it in the blank so it fit the contecxt of the sentence.
> (Example: "...listening to ___ music"--they'd find that 552 is rocks, but
> "rocks
> music" makes no sense, while "rock music" does.)
>
> I'd love to use this story in the text of my new book (Books Kids Will Sit
> Still For 3), but I can't find the source/author for permission. Does anyone
> know whose story it was?
>
Judy Freeman
Children's Literature Consultant
Author of the forthcoming Books Kids Will Sit Still For 3
(Libraries Unlimited, 2005; www.lu.com/winners)
65 North Sixth Avenue
Highland Park, NJ 08904
732-572-5634 / BKWSSF@aol.com
www.JudyReadsBooks.com>>
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