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  1 0 This sounds like Peter Dickinson's "The Lion Tamer's Daughter." Kirkus reviews: "Here is beauty with a shiver in it: four elegant, eerie stories from Dickinson ....). In "The Spring," a turnabout and darkling version of It's a Wonderful Life, a boy discovers what life would be like if he had a twin, and gets a glimpse of the world had he never been born. In "Touch and Go," a garrulous but engaging codger tells a tale of slipping through time and space. In "Checkers," a chilling tale of kidnapping taken from today's headlines turns into an oddly reassuring ghost story. The longest tale, which gives the book its title, mixes circus tales and the doppelgãnger archetype in ways not entirely satisfying; with its appealing characters, it will still find fans among those who see its supernatural elements as contrived. Regardless, Dickinson is a stylist par excellence: His limpid prose carries these stories through strange territory. (Kirkus Reviews, April 15, 1997)" David Wright answered in General Book Discussion about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 I think David is correct. I use the Abebooks Booksleuth forum for questions like this...it's well-stocked with incredibly knowledgable librarians and they're all wonderful. I posted your question for you, and the first response I got concurs with David! http://forums.abebooks.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=abesleuthcom&msg=24158.1&ctx=0 Sacrelicious answered in General Book Discussion about 1 year ago | Report 4 comments by David Wright, Sacrelicious, and David Wright… 0 0 So what am I, chopped liver? (Just kidding) - agreed, Book Sleuth is great, and another good resource (for children's books) is Loganberry Books (http://logan.com/harriett/stump-form.html) I've turned to these as well as some genre-related listserves myself when my fellow librarians and I can't come up with something. Or if you're in the Seattle area you can drop us a question at Ask a Librarian (http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=info_help_ask ) David Wright commented about 1 year ago | Report 1 0 I'm sorry, David! I didn't mean to usurp you. I've just gotten a lot of help from that site and I like to pimp it whenever I can. Thanks for the two additional links...I will definitely bookmark those and give them a try. I envy you your librarian listservs! Sacrelicious commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 I'm just joshing. The main librarian listserv that does a lot of book related stumpers is called Fiction_L (http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html) The Reference version of it is Project Wombat (http://www.project-wombat.org/). Neither are as fun as QuestionLand, though. David Wright commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 Cool. Thanks! Sacrelicious commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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