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Tove Jansson, Sculptor's Daughter

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TooTicky · 10/06/2006 19:32

I see nobody has bought the one on ebay yet. I have been scouring the charity shops for it. Apparently it was on the radio earlier this year but I missed itSad
BUT this must mean the BBC have a copy - I wonder if they'd sell...

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TwoIfBySea · 12/06/2006 21:57

Reminds me, why don't they show the Moomins anymore? Dts watched it in Belgium and loved it and I have the books.

Now this, haven't heard of it, is it her autobiography?

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TooTicky · 10/06/2006 22:56

Then get rid of the book before he can read or you will be unmasked as a fraud (or an incompetent reader!).
I tend to change the words when reading a badly written or overly complicated book - but it's a humbling moment when small child pipes up: "That's not what it says, mummy!"

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Fillyjonk · 10/06/2006 22:51

oh god, tell me about it, ds has a book called "the tractor year" it is just awful. There is a bit that goes something like "and now it is spring and all the corn flowers have come out. Insects land on the flowers and start to eat them. Farmer Joe decides to kill the insects with insecticide"...

and then about 2 pages of discussion on the mechanics of this pesticide use...I actually will not read it to ds.

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TooTicky · 10/06/2006 22:44

It's a fascinating book - for a complete obsessive!! There's only so much you can say about the different yet subtly similar engines. And there were pages and pages of them...

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Fillyjonk · 10/06/2006 22:42

tell them and they might sell it to you. i'm sure you'd be glad of such a book...

or just get an eo card.

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TooTicky · 10/06/2006 22:40

I'd be amazed if that traction engine book was still in print - must've slipped the net!

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Fillyjonk · 10/06/2006 22:36

sorry, said that wrong, out of print books that are over 8 years old must be got rid of.

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TooTicky · 10/06/2006 22:06

ds2 borrowed a book about traction engines recently that was much more than 8 years old!

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Fillyjonk · 10/06/2006 21:52

I bet they know all about these he'rs tickets, I bet they just enjoy charging whopping fines on books that they have to go down to the storeroom to get because no-one else wants them. and all those great childrens books...oooh but i would like to be a librarian, that would be sooooo cool.

did you know that they have to sell off all books that are over 8 years old?

FrannyandZooey · 10/06/2006 21:44

It is a bloody superb thing to have, FJ, I too was one of the library's main sources of revenue before I got it

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TooTicky · 10/06/2006 21:44

Bargains are relative...

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Fillyjonk · 10/06/2006 21:43

God, that actually sounds like a bargain, tt.

Fillyjonk · 10/06/2006 21:43

lifelong, you say?

So when I'm a granny and a dietician, I'll still be getting free cds...

interesting....this might be worth pursuing...

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TooTicky · 10/06/2006 21:42

But there's one for 139.87!

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Fillyjonk · 10/06/2006 21:42

interesting.....interesting...

Mr Fillyjonk does not have any fines, such is his way (as in, oooh, 3 weeks have past since I took that book out, I'd better return it...weird...)

interesting...

Of course I've lost my EO card. Of course...but maybe I can blag it...

FrannyandZooey · 10/06/2006 21:39

No, you get the ticket in your name. They don't ask for proof the children are being Home Edded, or ages or anything. In our area it helps to have an EO card though, but it's well worth one year's membership fee to get lifelong library perks :o

Fillyjonk · 10/06/2006 21:33

Whoah! Its going for \link{http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&an=tove+jansson&y=0&tn=sculptor&x=0&sortby=3\£1000 here!}

Fillyjonk · 10/06/2006 21:31

hmmm. well they havent actually heard of he-ing. i keep meaning to take it up but only remember when my fines approach triple figures, when it would look a bit obvious really. can you actually get a HE ticket for under 5s? Who are actually in playgroup on morning a week anyway?

Hmmmm. I always assumed that the interlibrary loan system was a form of magic, like CATing. Clearly not.

WTF is it rare anyway?

FrannyandZooey · 10/06/2006 21:26

What? How do you mean, they don't do them? I thought they had to do them?

sorry to disappoint you but you are very very unlikely to find a rare book like that on interlibrary loan. You could probably go and have a look at one at the British Museum.

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TooTicky · 10/06/2006 21:14

Stories for children. So much more scope than adult stories and no nasty bits. That, and the fact that I've never really grown up!Grin

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Fillyjonk · 10/06/2006 21:02

No! They don't do them here!

But its probably for the best, the library would sink without my fines.

I have just had a truly fantastic idea. Maybe I can get the book on interlibrary loan

(I owe them £30 though...)

FrannyandZooey · 10/06/2006 20:57

Fillyjonk Shock

what are you doing paying library fines? Get a Home educators' ticket! You get extended loans, no fines ever, free holds and free cds and dvds

:o :o :o

Fillyjonk · 10/06/2006 20:56

no, but the amount I pay in fines (purely through my own crapness, I might add, I think fines are fair enough) must be helping keep them afloat.

Are you really an aspiring writer? Am impressed. I was once an aspiring writer but now just aspire to sleep. What do you write?

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TooTicky · 10/06/2006 19:54

As an aspiring writer, I have to say that sounds cool!
I'm still amazed that libraries are funded as much as they are - you'd expect mean, stingy governments to do away with them. So glad they haven't!!

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Fillyjonk · 10/06/2006 19:45

Probably. I can't deal with such big amounts of money for a book, I just can't. Books should be free and writers should be paid by a state stipend. Like in Norway Wink

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