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Books With Leap
Year themes...
Ask your local book store or
do a search online. And if you can, get one for
your local school, and/or, local library. They really need these
books!
Click on the book to be taken to more information about it.
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The Kangaroo
Who Couldn't Stop
PRC ID: 12895
Author: Cox, Robert
& Robins, Jim (ill.)
ISBN : 734406584 Publisher : Lothian,
2004
Annotation: Poor little
Keith has a problem.
Ever since he found his hop, he just can't stop.
Keith's mother takes him to see Dr Leapyear
who decides to try hop-nosis.
Will it work on
Keith, and stop his hopping? |
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Leap Year mentioned in books |
Leap Year in other media |
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THE
PIRATES OF PENZANCE
William S. Gilbert and Arthur S. Sullivan,
- (written in the
1870s)
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If you like musicals,
pirates that really aren't all that bad, and you are
into Leap Year Day, then
this book or movie is for you. The book is quite good, and
entertaining, but the film version with
Kevin Kline, Rex Smith and Linda Ronstadt was utterly delightful.
The perfect Pirate King,
Kevin Kline was subpurb. I did not realize he was so musically inKlined. I know
he's funny, but in
this, he was unmatchable. |
G.
Schirmer, Inc.
version of P of P by
Gilbert and Sullivan |
“When
Frederic was yet a little boy, his nurse (Ruth) was
told to apprentice him
to become a pilot. She heard the word incorrectly and
apprenticed him to a band
of pirates, remaining with them herself as a
maid-of-all-work. Although Frederic
loathed the trade to which he had thus been bound, he
dutifully served and, as
the curtain rises, his indentures are almost up and her is
preparing to leave the
band and devote himself to the extermination of piracy. His indentures
were to run
until his twenty-first birthday, and – as he was born on February 29
– he has
really has as yet only five birthdays. Obeying the dictates of his strong sense of
duty, he immediately rejoins the pirates.”
From
the G. Schirmer, Inc. version of Pirates of Penzance
by Gilbert and Sullivan.
It's
very funny. If you like musicals, this one is
wonderfully fun.
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The
Leap Year Girl
by Berta
Ruck, LY1924
Amy Roberta (Berta)
Ruck (1878-1978) was born in
Muree, India, and was the oldest of eight children.
Over the course of her 100 years she wrote more
than 100 books. They included novels and her family
history. Her books were modern-day romances. She
also wrote autobiographical works; Ancestral Voices,
(1972), was her last book.
In 1922, Ruck found her name in the Virginia Woolf
novel Jacob's
Room; the name "Berta Ruck,"
appeared on a tombstone. Woolf chose the name at random, and this coincidence lead to a
correspondence between the two authors.
In 1924 The Leap-Year Girl arrived in bookstores.
Another one of Berta’s romances. It's a delightful story
about the bravery a young woman has in expressing
herself. It is set in present time 1924. It was not
"proper" for a young lady to speak her mind. But
this
is 1924. Women should be able to do anything a man can do. Why
not? And, it's a Leap Year. |
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Glints
of Glengonnar,
A Series of Stories
There
are six pen & ink illustrations by Arthur
Ferrier.
Published in 1910 in Glasgow, Scotland, it is a 171
page hardback book that includes the following
stories:
Merlins
Cairn, Ragginhill Cairn, Easie, Hooin Tammy,
Aggie, Easies Ludger, Aggie in Love, The Dr's Visit,
Miss Johnston's First Fit, Henny & Houpie,
and...
A Leap Year Wooing. |
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The
Leap Year Book
by Barbara
Sutton-Smith, LY2000 |
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This
is the most comprehensive book on the subject yet.
From Legends and Folklore, to all about Leap Year cards
and postcards from the early 1900s. Significant events
that
happened in a Leap Year
as well as people born on Leap Day. |
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There is
even a picture of Raenell on page 60 (she was
born in 1960) where the Honor Society of Leap
Day Babies
is mentioned. The book is illustrated by Tina Holdcroft with beautiful color and
humor. |
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A
story
about a boy
named
Miles
who was born on
February 29
It's My
Birthday... Finally!
By Michelle Whitaker-Winfrey
On
Saturday Miles will be celebrating
his
birthday.
Although he is happy about his birthday
there
seems
to be some confusion about
how old Miles will
be.
Will
he be eight or will he be just two?
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LEAP DAY
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Sixteen-year-old Josie Taylor was
born on Leap Day, February 29,
and today is her fourth real
birthday, full of birthday
surprises, a
school play audition, her driver's
test, a scavenger hunt, and the
secret sweet-sixteen initiation at
the lake. Like any average teenager,
sometimes she wonders what other
people are thinking. But today
it's the reader who gets to find
out, by "leaping" into the minds and
viewpoints of Josie and everyone
around her, changing your
assumptions of people forever.
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www.wendymass.com/mass-leap-day.htm |
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Leopold's Long
Awaited Leap Year Birthday
by Dawn Desjardins
Leopold and his parents wait patiently
for his first birthday
February 29th to arrive,
but it just never seems to come.
Finally, the wise old doctor figures out why
the seasons
continue to pass without any
recognition of his special day…
Mother explains it as a “Peek-a-boo holiday…
“It’s there, it is just hiding”
Perfect for preschool to primary |
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Disney's
LEAP DAY
NO BOUNCING
JUMPING OR LEAPING
EXCEPT ON LEAP DAY. |
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