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Re: Looking for a Childhood Book? Here's How.

soonguy — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 05:26:46 -0000

I'd love to reconnnect with this children's book we had from our
local library, but despite extensive online searching, can find no trace
of it, as cannot remember or even guess at the title.

Illustrated short children's book from c. 1990, for readers perhaps 5 - 9. The
young heroine (age 8-ish, possibly named Anna) is not good at timekeeping, and is often late
for tea. She therefore observes that 'time is a monster, marching on'. She
meets the clock-keeper of the town hall clock, asks him
about the nature of time, and he kindly on one occasion puts the clock
back about 5 minutes, so that she does not seem late home for tea. The
story and pictures have a mainland European feel to it. May have been have been set in Switzerland. So is almost certainly a translation into English.

Re: Looking for a Childhood Book? Here's How.

soonguy — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 17:21:33 -0000

That sounds as if it could be a book published by Medici, possibly was republished by Scholastic?

Re: Looking for a Childhood Book? Here's How.

soonguy — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 16:49:04 -0000

have you tried ebay, abebooks and amazon? If you are registered on ebay, you can also put on a wanted item, so you get notified if one comes up.

Re: Looking for a Childhood Book? Here's How.

soonguy — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 16:42:57 -0000

The first one sounds a bit like When Marnie was There, by Joan G Robinson

Re: Looking for a Childhood Book? Here's How.

soonguy — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 16:41:52 -0000

This sounds a bit like The Silver Crown by Robert O'Brien.

Re: Looking for a Childhood Book? Here's How.

soonguy — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 15:48:48 -0000

I'm searching without success for an illustrated short children's book from around 1990, for readers perhaps 5 - 9. The young heroine (age 8-ish, possibly called Anna) is not good at timekeeping, and is often late for tea. She feels therefore that 'time is like a monster, marching on'. She asks the clock-keeper of the town hall clock about the nature of time, and he kindly on one occasion puts the clock back 5 minutes, so that she does not seem late for tea. The story and illustrations have a mainland European feel. Possibly it was translated from the Dutch.

I'd love to reconnect with this charming book we had from our local library, but despite extensive online searching, can find no trace of it, as cannot remember or even guess at the title. Does anyone remember it?

Re: Christians and Humor: Thoughts on Making It Work

soonguy — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:56:52 -0000

I can see Jesus using the satirical approach on various occasions, but also the whimsical observations/stories (which Doxy compared with Garrison Keillor. I think the value of humor in any communication situation is that it is memorable and smuggles truth past our defenses.

I did actually write a page about this, along with some links to several free ebooks on humor and the Bible - see www.IEDay.net/humor.php

Re: Let's Keep Spreading The Gospel With Social Media!

soonguy — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:52:45 -0000

Thanks for this post - social media are hugely significant. At Internet Evangelism Day we have writting a page on this:
InternetEvangelismDay.com/s...
and value more examples to add.

Blessings

Tony

Re: Twitter at church

soonguy — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:07:14 -0000

At Internet Evangelism Day we have done a page on Twitter at InternetEvangelismDay.com/t... and would love to hear of different ways that people have found Twitter useful in ministry and evangelism.

Blessings

Tony