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AUTHOR Haycock, Ken, Ed.; Haycock, Carol-Ann, Ed. TITLE [Canadian Literature. "Featuring: CanLit."] PUB DATE 84 NOTE 21p. AVAILABLE FROMDyad Services, P.O. Box 4696, Station D, London, Ontario, N5W 5L7 ($30 per year prepaid; $35 per year if billed; back issues and sample copies: $5 per issue). PUB TYPE Collected Works - Serials (022) -- Guides - Classroom Use - Guides (For Teachers) (052) -- Viewpoints (120) JOURNAL CIT Emergency Librarian; v12 n2 p1-26 Nov-Dec 1984

EDRS PRICE MF01/PC01 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Adolescent Literature; *Canadian Literature; *Childrens Literature; Elementary Secondary Education; *Literary Criticism; *Literature Appreciation; Novels; Picture Books; Poetry

ABSTRACT The feature articles in this journal issue deal with various aspects of Canadian literature. The articles include: (1) a discussion of who's who and what's what in Canadian literature; (2) reviews of worthwhile but overlooked Canadian children's literature; (3) a list of resource guides to Canadian literature and a short quiz over famous first lines of Canadian novels;(4) ideas for teaching Canadian poetry; and (5) annotations of approximately 80 fiction, nonfiction, and picture books byCanadian writers. (FL)

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the past for those gone but not TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES forgotten and to the future for the INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)." best for the 80's Dave Jenkinson profiles Jack Batten in this issue, Cohn Naslund reviews French language magazines for young people and John Politis evaluates more children's recordings than ever before. Joan McGrath appraises the latest in children's paperbacks and EL welcomes Chris Dewar as our specialiston Paperbacks for Young Adults EL also introduces another first the Emergency Librarian Bestsel- ler List a new regular feature compiled by Diane Woodman And, of course, the same quality of articles and reviews plus a designer centerfold. Read on!

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DITORIAL he Failed Mandate 7 The membership of the Canadian School Library Association asked for recommendations for change -- instead they got an ultimatum. FEATURES You Don't Have to Read Canadian, by Marjorie Harris 9 At cocktail parties everywhere, the literati are discussing, dissecting, and delighting Chris Dewar with Paperbacks in Can Lit. Be prepared! for Young Adults Too Soon Forgotten, by Sheila Egoff 13 A leading authority reminds us of the very good materials we have let pass away. Will we repeat our mistakes? Ten Best Guides to Canadian Literature and a Can Lit Quiz, by Keuin Harrington 15 Essential resources plus a short test on what you know about famous first lines. On "Doing" Canadian Poetry, by Fran Newman 16 Are you "poetry.happy"? Are you communicating it? Here are some ideas. Canadian Books for Canadian Kids, by Lois Harper 19 The critic's choice of almost 80 recent titles. Picture Books and Art Techniques, 25 by Pamela MakiCarolli deas for using picture book!, with o er stuentid-Ms a superb bibiliigTai.Trii." ter: A Beaver Tale for Can Lit. " S Professiona eading 31 Reviews on a van-of pertinent professional literature... Noteworthy 34 Short notes on the best w resources for teachers and librarians... Children's Recordings John Politis 37 EL's ultimate CanLit Quiz Recordings reviewed as to qua t popularity and circulation pot tal. Magazines for Young Peop by Colin Naslund 49 A look at consumer magazines en fro is. Paperbacks for Children, by JoancGrath 42 Old favoi'tes plus the newest releases are hight . here... Paperbacks for Young Adults, by Chr' -war 44 Chris Dewar joins EL as our specialist on y ng adumperbacks welcome! DEPARTMENTS Portraits, by Daue Jenkin . 46 Our newest EL column leaes Jack Batten, the VA author... EL Bestsellers 27 Diane Woodman c. mates the latest EL first a crosscountry checkup on the bestselleror young people. And Furth- ore... 50 New resoces, new ideas ... and tips for improvement. 54 Bac .k -ast word is yours. Letters from EL readers. - mwriraminunr111111111111211AN 11111117141112V unman

Donna Adrian, Library Consultant, Commission Scolaire Laurenval School Board, Rosernere, Quebec; LarryAmey, Associate Professor, School of Library Service, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scoti4: Jean Baptist, Reference and ResourceConsultant. Winnipeg School Dwisun #1. Manitoba; Shirley Blair, Teacher Librarian. Davie Jones Elementary School,Maple Ridge. British Columbia; Adele Faskk, Professor, I:aculty of Library and Information Science. University of Toronto. Ontario:Warren Grabinsky, Psst ... page 45 Supervisor of Instruction (Teaching and Learning Resources). School District 22, Vernon. British Columbia; MaeHarnbleton, Associate Professor. Faculty of Education. University of Regina. Saskatchewan; Donald Hamilton, EducationLibrarian, Faculty of Education. University of Vs. torm. British Columbia. Calie Israel, Head of Adult aid Childten's Services, Windsor PublicLibrary. Ontario; David Jenkitison, Associate Professor. Faculty of Education, University of Manitoba. Winnipeg, Ronald Jobe, AssistantProfessor, Facultyof Education, tkuversity of British Columbia, Vancouver; Roy Lundin, Head, Department of Librarianship and TeachingStudies, Brisbane College of Advanced Education, Kelvin Grove. Queensland. Australia. Marilyn Miller, Associate Professor. School ofLibrary Science, University of NOM' Carolina, Chapel Hill; Gwen North, Teachertibrarian, Scarlett High School, Calgary. Alberta; Ann Parker,Senior Assistant County Lbrarian (Education and Young People), Hertfordshire. England. Ken Roberts, Head ofChildren's Services, Richmond Public Library. 1' itrsh Columbia. Sandra Taylor Richardson, School Library Consultant.Provincial Library, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Virginia Van Vliet,114dren's Librarian. Etobicoke Public Library, Ontario Anita Wiebe, Teachertibranan, Cappy Smut Elementary School, Calgary, 3 NOVEMBERDECEMBER 1984

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The Failed Mandate

Oh dear. What does one say about the were used for the first time to guaran- Oh, yes. The focus of the annual meet 1984 annual meeting of the Canadian tee that only members voted. Not only ing itself was on fiscal control by CLA, School Library Association (CSLA)? were no recommendations brought poor financial reporting by CLA (it was This was the "biggie" where the forward about an independent associ reported that a "lengthy portion" of recommendations of the task force ation, but it was also made clear that Executive meetings continues to cen- investigating the financial, legal, and the only motion that would be enter- ter on this), the high cost of the periodi- professional implications of establish- tained on this subject would be to dis- cal index published by CLA, the need ing a national, independent school solve the CEA outright. Members for CLA to press for teacher-librarians libraryassociationweretobe were reminded of the Executive's posi- on advisory boards of the Nati-nal reported, and presumably debated, tion and the meeting opened with the Library,thefactthat"exec., ..,es and perhaps even resolved. Regretta- statement that those who wanted an change" and "memories fade" (even bly, none of this occurred. independentassociation were wel- though the CLA Executive Director come to start their own. The Presi- has been a member of the CSLA Exec- ELreaders will recall that the member- dent's Report included the paragraph: utive since 1976), the attempt by CLA ship motion to create a task force was to determine a need for Canadian passed at an annual general meeting, The relationship that CSLA has with accreditation of professional library rejected by the Executive Council, and CLA has been the subject of a great education (it was not mentioned that passed almost unanimously at another deal of attention and Executive Coun- CSLA is the only divisional affiliation annual general meeting, forcing the cil energy during the past few years. not represented on the study commit- Executive into action. The "national This has been so in a number of areas. tee), and the "ambitious" CLA contin- task force" consisted ofonelibrary The socalled Alternative National uing education program, with no schoolfaculty member --itwas SchoolLibraryAssociationTask report on its implications for CSLA's obvious where the Executive stood, Force has kept the "relationship" own- professional development pro- and the results could be anticipated. issue before us, especially so at the gram and/or why the two were not (Perhaps this is why the President's Executive Council level, but at the coordinated. In essence, the same address continued to refer to the "so- general membership level, too. The annual meeting concerns that have called" task force.) issue should be resolved atthis been expressed for a decade and Annual Meeting. The conference started out with an more. information session at which only But no recommendations were made, Obviously, the independent associa CSLA and CLA past presidents, and no motions introduced, no debate tion issuehas notbeen resolved. current Executive members, were engaged. Nothing was presented for allowed to speak. The session was resolution and CSLA members were held in a small meeting room with few left with a choice of essentially express- members even able to get in. The over ing nonconfidence in its Executive for flow crowd barely had room to pre-empting a decision or dissolving breathe, let alone debate. Each presi the division. dent was to speak once but the ses- sion began with the announcement In a rather bizarre turn of events, the that the "CSLA Executive Council has great membership debate took place una.147uusly voted in favor of the con- in a closed Executive meeting with no cept of school librarians remal; ing as a advance warning and no membership division of the Canadian Library Asso involvement. There was "information elation". So much for open debate. sharing", but no room for accommo- dation, compromise, or consensus At the annual meeting, voting cards building. NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1984 9 You Don't Have to Read Canadian The EL Namedroppers' Guide Will Do

Marjorie Harris

The publishing season is in full swing: read their work out loud a lot and we absorbing that he, too, has tenure. love listening to them. If you missed Writers are crisscrossing the country, The real jockeying is among those of plugging their latest books on TV and the gig at the local high school gym, you can always catch it on CBC's the Atwood Generation, as it's affec- radio talkshows and at promotional tionately known. Dozens of talented blasts. At cocktail parties everywhere, "Morningside." writers emerged in the late '60s and the literati fueled as much by the have kept on producing good stuff. new releases as by their dry martinis Who Is on The Bus Many of them survive on Canada arediscussing,dissecting and Who of Canadian litera- Councilgrantsoraswriters-in- delighting in Can Lit. Should you find TheWho's ture is a finite entity that has been residence at universities. Dave God- yourself in the midst of such a gather. frey, Hugh Hood, W.D. Valgardson, ing, be prepared, with the aid of this likened to a bus. There are only so many seats available. When a new per- Clark Blaise, Mat Cohen and the iate handy compendium, to show that you, son gets on, someone else gets tossed Alden Nowlan Al published fiction in too, have had your Can Lit conscious- off. A publishing explosion took place the late '60s and early '70s. Those who ness raised. in the mid-to-late '60s, and the publish- camelaterinthe'70s,Michael A Few Rules of Thumb ing industry believes that we started Ondaatje,JackHodgins,Carol reading more indigenous works, per Shields, Leon Rooke and Susan Mus- Never refer to Can Lit as Can Lit. capita, than they do in the United grave, maneuver for position. Matt The term offends authors, academics States.But thesizeof the bus Cohen is a perfect example. He wrote and, most of all, publishers. (They remained the same in terms of who his first novel,Korsoniloff,in 1969. He show up in droves at these events.) could be In or Out. was considered up-and-coming.He's But it's okay to think Can Lit. Students written eight novels since then, been and journalists do, and there are more Morley Callaghan (author ofMore Joy well reviewed and is still considered of those than anyone else in literary inHeaven and, most recently, A Time up-and-coming. It is a burden all wri- circles. for Judas)considers himself, at 80, ters of this generation share. Take note of foreign acclaim. We classic but neglected. Nonetheless, regard our literary stars seriously only this writer of short stories and novels The CanLit Hit Parade witha psychological/moral bent when they've been recognized outside If you familiarize yourself with this list, appears on all CanLit courses and will the country. The highest accolade pos- you'll have an aura of being well-read never lose his seat on the bus. Hugh sible is a review in the Sunday New and can ward off any potentially deep, MacLennan (he wrote TwoSolitudes YorkTimes Book Review.Mordecai analytical conversations. The literati and The Watch That Ends The Night) Rich ler, Robertson Davies, Margaret do not discuss this information, they Laurence, Alice Munro and Margaret is also significant and also feels slight- it. They'd rather discuss the ed. He is theimportant,if not widely know Atwood are always reviewed, usually advances, both monetary and amor- read, author of very earnest, national- with favor. Atwood can be dumped on ous, being made in their circles. by every reviewer in Canada and get ist novels, who's won five Governor raves in New York accompanied by General's awards. These writers of All you have to do is begin enthusiasti- long and thoughtful pieces on her longevity tend to get The Order Of cally, "Well, I think the best short sto. oeuvre. Canada (Morley turned it down when ry (say) in Canadian literature is ... " Use familiar names as often as possi- they made him a mere Companion) It's guaranteed that you will be cut ble. It's always Peggy (Atwood) or Tiff and the $30,000 Molson Award. W.O. short, but respected. Your attempt will (TimothyFindleyanother New Mitchell's lyric celebrations of life on have filled in any awkward conversa- York Times favorite since his most the Prairies (including WhoHas Seen tional gaps. Mostly, you'll be able tocip recent novel,Famous Last Words, The Wind?)assure him of a perman- your drink andlistento Peggy, was published). It indicates that you ent seat at the age of 69, Robertson Mordecai or Farley. know their work or had dinner with Davies (The Fifth Businec's, The Man- someone who was at a reading by one ticore) looks so right at 70 and his Most-Neglected Fine Novel: Green of these artists. Canadian authors intricate, psychological novels are so Water, GreenSky by Mavis Gallant 10 EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN. 12:2

(1922), famous for her New Yorker Hood (1928- )is in a category of such ugly novels as William Bur- short stories.This is one of her two himself. He firmly believes he is Proust roughs' A Naked Lunch and Hubert novels (the other is A Fairly Good and is in the midst of publishing a ser- Selby's Last Exit To Brooklyn -- raw, Time). Her specialty is the angst of the ies taking in the whole history of gritty views of the darker side of life. expatriate (indeed, she has lived in Canada andrevolving arounda The Best Novel of Immigrant Pads for 30-odd years). Her volumes number of families called The New Experience: The Sacrifice by Adele of short stories are among the most Age. Three have been published; Wiseman (1928 ), another unfairly brilliant by an English Canadian. there are nine to go. It may take the neglected novel. No one else in our Best Volume Of Short Stories Not rest of his life (he's 55), but he will literature has described so sensitively By Mavis Gallant: either Dance Of reveal all. the isolation, pain and loss of coming The Happy Shades or The Moons of Most Schizophrenic Historical to an alien culture. Jupiter by Alice Munro (1931- ). It is Novel: Wacousta by Major John Most Prolific Canadian Writer: always safe to refer to Munro as the Richardson (1796-1852). It was first Margaret Atwood (1939). She never star of Can Lit. She has refused all published 1:1932 and reissued in 1967. seems to leave the typewriter unless offers but one of writer-in-residence, It'sstriking that the rather Gothic, it's to attend to her daughter, Jess. preferring to live in Clinton, Ontario, romantic plot, about emigrants from (The father and Atwood's covivant, and get on with writing her sensitive the British Isles and English Canadi- Graeme Gibson, is also a novelist; his portraits of small-town women. Wise, ans, is very wooden. But the material most recent work, produced in 1983, witty and wonderful are always useful dealing with the Indians is quite fresh. isPerpetual Motion.) Because of adjectives when commenting on her Atwood's protean talent, she irritates work. most of the literati, but they can't The Most Impenetrable Novel: The ignore her. She is a poet, novelist (Sur- New Ancestors by Dave Godfrey If you familiarize facing,Life Before Man), essayist, (1938- ). John Moss, in his A Read- critic, editor, embracer of causes and er's Guide To the Canadian Novel, yourself with this travel writer (she can also be found in says of this work: "The more one list, you'll havean foreigncountriesas a writer-in- reads or rereads, for this novel can- residence).Atwoodispowerful not possibly be comprehended or fully aura of being enough to write a funny review of her appreciated on the first reading the own book for The Globe and Mail, more complex and obscure the novel well-read andcan and draw a cartoon strip on occasion becomes, and yet more is revealed of ward off any that has a fuzzy-haired heroine who form, story and theme.'r It's hard to looks not unlike herself. Literary types slip that into a conversation gracefully, potentially deep, love to mutter such things as "I much but you get the drift. prefer her poetry." Or: "She's lost the The Most Neglected Novel of analytical dazzle of her early novels Harlequin Ideas:The Imperialistby Sara Romances for people with M.A.s." Jeannette Duncan (1861-1922). It's a conversations. Success and beauty can be hard to sophisticatedpoliticalanalysis of accept. where we come from historically. Pub- lished in1904, it studies L'ne forces The Most Coherent Historical PUBLISHERS from the United States that threaten Now I: The Wars by Timothy Findley. You should also have a few publishers' to dominate Canada economically and The n, vel operates on two levels: as a names under your belt. The biggest culturally. You can always refer to her graphic evocation of the atrocities of and most Canadian is McClelland and as a great prophetess or seer, some- World War I, and also as a perfect Stewart. Itis always on the brink of thing a lot of other novelists have not realization of family relationships in disaster and somehow has managed berm since then. Old Toronto Society. Best Volume of Canadian Short The Most Overrated (Or Under- to survive for 77 years. The other big Stories Not By a Canadian: Hear publishers of CanLit are Macmillan, ated) Novel in CanLit: The Diviners General Publishing and Talonbooks. Us 0 Lord From Heaven Thy Dwel- by Margaret Laurence (1926 ). It's The most aggressive and imaginative ling Place and Dark As The Grave either blasphemous, sexually disgust- of the medium-sized houses is Lester Wherein My Friend Is Laid by Mal- ing and obscene, or a profound work & Orpen Dennys. Its reputation for colm Lowry (1909-1957), who was of theology. Laurence is the Great producing good lists grows by the sea- born in England and lived in Mexico Aunt of Canadian Literature, highly son. Now itis handling big names, for awhile before moving to Dollarton, regarded by her peer group. She is such as Graham Greene (Louise Den- B.C., where he did most of his writing. personally popular, contentious ;quit nys is his niece) and D.M. Thomas in Getting thefulltitleis just about the Writers Union of Canada) and the Canada. enough, and you can counter discus- literati are divides about the extrava- sions of his best known work, Under gance of her talent. It's okay to be But it was the little houses that kicked The Volcano, a tale of drunkenness, confused. off the publishing revolution in the despair and hard living that achieved The Most American Canadian early '70s and produced the Atwood cult status among the undergraduates, Novel: Beautiful Losers written by Generation. Most notable was The by proclaimingthisasyour Leonard Cohen (1934- )after he House of Anansi. It was founded by preference. was a poet and before he became a two writers interested in the avant- Most Ambitious Novelist: Hugh pop singer. This is in the U.S. tradition garde and not likely to be published by EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN, 12:2 11 anybody else. The writers were Den. with a malfunctioning toilet, has to that she never writes a bad sentence. get rid of a turd. On a more gentle nis Lee (a major poet and editor who You might also refer to Morley Tor. now works for M&S) and Dave God- plane, but scathing in Richler's satiric way, there isthe meeting of the gov's A Good Place To Come From, frey, the novelist. (Godfrey now has or Robert Kroetsch's Studhorse Man. his own publishing company, Press Mackenzie King Society in Joshua Then and Now. Richler loves to com. But the best is last: Sunday's Child by Porcepic.) Their supporters included Edward Phillips. It's a sophisticated, Graeme Gibson and his then-wife plain about the repressiveness of Canadian society in American maga- sly look at the nether side of Mont- Shirley (a poet), Atwood and her then. real's gay world, ironically combined zines, but we did supply him with his husband James Polk. It is a small liter- with the WASP upper-middle class. ary pond. mordant sense of humor. Then, Jack McLeod, a crusty academic, took on It's only students and journalists, those Familiarize yourself as well with Coach his own kind in Zinger and Me, and lovers of all things foreign, who don't House Press (Toronto), Deneau Pub- revealed that Saskatchewan can be seethehumor rampantinthis lishers and Oberon Press (Ottawa), funny. That is some kind of risible country. and the tiny houses of quality such as achievment. Or you can mention MURDER MOST CANADIAN FireflyBooks(Scarborough) and John Metcalf's(1938. ) novel, Canadian crime-fiction writers always Black Moss Press (Windsor). General Ludd. It's about writers-in- used to try to keep their settings ano- residence, that occupational hazard The latest wrinkle in the commercializ- nymous or outside the country. Just ing of CanLit is the book packager. waiting for an American movie con- Key Porter, for instance. At the helm is tract to come along, you might sur- Anna Porter (who used to be with Ours may be the mise. John Reeves (1926- ) M&S, then Seal Books, and is consi- changed things with Murder By Micro- dered c.ne of the most beautiful and only literary phone. It was set in Toronto, at the bright people of the Canadian literary culture without CBC (home territory for Reeves). world). Then there's Madison Press Then along came Howard Engel. He Books, owned by Al Cummings. Book anyinstantly used to be married to Marian Engel packagers get the authors and have and has spent a good deal of his life the books designed and put together. identifiable heroes working on literary radio shows for the Then they let publishers market them. CBC. His hero, Benny Cooperman, orheroines. We works out of Grantham, but we know LITERARY CRITICISM have no Hamlet, it'sreallySt. Catharines, because Most writers and publishers despair that's where Howard grew up. Tim that there is no tradition of great liter- Huck Finn, Don Wynne-Jones in The Knot has his ary criticism in this count!" We have hero go to meet his good friend Benny in our midst Northrop Fry k1912- ), Quixote or Tess. Cooperman for advice. Sometimes one of the giants in this area, but he's things literary get awfully cute. either in university quarterlies or in Whether that's hardback books (Anatomy of Criti- good or bad, it is You should know that L.A. (Larry) cism, The Great Code). After that, we Morse won the Oscar of the crime get to reviewers, The Globe has some- highly world, an Edgar, for his novel The Old one considered to be the dean of Can- Dick (set in Los Angeles); that Sara adian reviewers, William French, but controversial. Woods lives in Niagaraon-the-Lake, no one ranks what he writes as literary Ontario, and writes such terribly Eng- criticism. Most newspapers get aca- and necessity for any Canadian lish books (Exit A Murderer) no one demics to review heavy books and will believes she is here; and that Eric author who wishes to survive. If you Wright, a newcomer, actually uses haul someone off the sports desk or want to find out more about survival entertainment pages to do anything Toronto locations in The Day The in academia, read Metcalf's Kicking Gods Smiled. He, too, is an academic else. The attitude is that you can get Against The Pricks. It's a very funny into journalism by starting with book and once wrote a story for The New look at anglais authors of Quebec Yorker. reviews and then moving on to some- who seem to get through on gener- thing better. It is quite the opposite in ous lashings of gin, red wine and IIETURN OF THE NATIVE New York, which explains why itis Moosehead beer. Many Canadian writers feel much really serious to get reviewed outside of course, Marian Engel more comfortable going away to write the country. There is, (1933- ), famous for Bear, a love about Canada. Margaret Laurence COMIC RELIEF story between a woman and an animal went to Africa, Mordecai Richler to The impression you get at literary ( a conceit that is pretty funny in itself). England, Marian Engel to Cyprus and bashes is that we are not a barrelful of Engel's novel Lunatic Villas not only Mavis Gallant to Paris. Richler and laughs.Untrue.MordecaiRichter identifies Toronto locations some- Laurence came back to live and write (1931- ) wrote one of the longest thing most Canadian writers avoid in Canada and have seldom been dirty jokes in literature in Cocksure. with a passion but also mocks Engel writers-in-residence. Engel came back Then you could mention the moment herself, her generation and her situa- and she's survived on w-in-r. Gallant in St. Urbain's Horseman when the tion ( a middle-aged, single parent just returned this fall to be at the University protagonist, trapped in a bathroom muddling along). You can always say of Toronto. 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THE GLEN FORD-YVONNE DE THE TEST OF A TRUE BLUFFER CARLO SYNDROME Last but not least, you should know NEW!!! You might want to get into the conten- that ours may be the only literary cul- THE RESEARCH BOOK tious issue of just who is, and who isn't, ture without any instantly identifiable FOR GIFTED a Canadian writer. Up for gabs in heroes or heroines. We haveno PROGRAMS K-8 some circles are Malcolm Lowry and Hamlet, no Huck Finn, no Don Qui- by NANCY POLETTE Saul Bellow (Humboldt's Gift), who Quixote, no Tess. Now this can bea r----THE was born in Lachine, Quebec but left good thing (leaves room for the future; IRESMOH BOOK the country when he was nine months no stifling images or ancient arche- tw old. He lives and works in Chicago. types to buck) or a bad thing (nothing But Brian Moore (1921- ) taps the to fall back on; nothing for future gen- list. He's one of the great novelists of erations of novelists to react against). NW PON this century and any country would It's a controversial topic. And ifyou gladly scoop him up. But can we? He can come up with a convincing argu- 101141 was born in Ireland, lived in Canada ment either way, you'll leave the lite- Over 150 separate research long enough to acquire a passport and rati in stunned, silent admiration, and projects! write The Luck Of Ginger Coffey, go to the head of the CanLit class. Primary-Middle-Upper Grades then moved swiftly to Malibu, Califor- Specifically for Gifted nia. He returns regularly to collect Marjorie Harris is a freelance wri- Stimulate Curiosity awards, be a writer-in-residence and ter living in Toronto. Develop Research Skills Enhance Productive and see his buddies. They include Kildare Critical Thinking Skills Dobbs (1923- ) and Richard Wright Independent Study Units (1937- Ready-to-Use Black Line ), both of whom write fine Masters novels and have never been writers-in- 176 pp 81/2 x 11 illus. residence. Dobbs (Running To Para- $12.95 US dise) survives on travel writing, while Free postage on prepaid orders Wright (The Weekend Man) worked BOOK LURES, INC. for years as a teacher at a boys' school. P.O. BOX 9450 O'FALLON, MO The burden of staying at home. 63366

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Sheila Egoff

Not all fine books achieve a wide popu- when so much of children's literature story as do the Alpine mountains in larity. Indeed, sometimes their very is curiously devoid of such a quality Joanna Spyri's Heidi. Sajo has other special qualities limit them to a small (there are few books such as Virginia points in common with Heidi moth- but appreciative audience. In English Hamilton's Sweet Whispers, Brother erless children with a fierce attach- children's literature, for example, ! Rush), a book that can set the tear menttotheirenvironment, tribulations to be suffered and over- thinkof T.H. White's Mistress ducts flowing for an unselfish reason is Masham's Response, T. Kendrick's surely not to be despised. And any- come, and a feeling of a child's desola- Great Love for Icarus and, more way, there are still children who like a tion in the face of adult actions, no recently Lucy Boston's Children of the good cry. matter how necessary. But Sajo has a House, among others. But Canadian tighter, more dramatic plot, children's literature seems to have L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green interspersed with authentic animal more than its fair share offorgotten or Gables remains our best-known child- lore. It would seem that only a lack of neglected books. With a smaller body ren's book. Montgomery herself felt acquaintanceship with the book has of literature than a country of compar- that Emily of New Moon (1923) and its led to its neglect. able population, such as Australia, or sequels, Emily Climbs and Emily's even smaller countries, such as Nor- Quest were her finest works, and As our first genuine writer of fantasy, way or Sweden, this is a matter of heartily agree with her. Montgomery Catherine Anthony Clark held a spe- some concern. We cannot afford to experts consider the trilogy to be cial place in our literature for many lose even one book that has some- highly autobiographical and this belief years. That time now seems over, may account for their intensity and since not one of her books is listed in thing to say to children and that says it the current Canadian l'ooks in Print. well. The following titles are my choi- realism. I think that the Emily books could still be cons;jered as part of the If only one of her books were to ces of such worthwhile, yet over- reprinted, I would make a special plea lookednovels,listedin order of mainstream of today's children's litera- original publication date, with some ture in their portrayal of a lonely girl's for The One Winged Dragon (1955). It has Clark's usual delicate combination thoughts on why they should be given struggle against entrenched adult atti- more attention by those who select tudes and beliefs.While of the real and the unreal, the natural and publicize children's books. Lists mery's Anne is really a cousin to Kate terrain of Fritish Columbia peopled with Indian spirits, all of which act as a are like anthologies; they never man- Douglas Wiggin's Rebecca of Sunny background for her not too obtrusive age to please everyone. Soperhaps Brook Farm (1903), her Emily is kin to the readers of Emergency Librarian modern female protagonists in such moral values. But The One-Winged Dragon has an additional dimension in would like to submit their own sugge- books as Jane Gardarn's A Long Way itsappreciativelookatChinese tions for inclusion or exclusion. to Verona and Mollie Hunter's A Sound of Chariots. Emily, too, wanted mythology and culture which should MarshallSaunder'sBeautifulJoe to be a writer. make it a natural for our multi-cultural (1894) was certainly not neglected in society.Italso has afeistygirl its day. Within ten years of publication, We have many fine animal stories but prchagunist. this purported autobiography of a none show themysticalbonding homely, mistreated little dog became between child and animal as well as Farley Mowat's The Black Joke (1962) an international bestseller. Like its Sajo and Her Beaver People (1935) by has never been as popular as Owls in English model, Anna Sewell's Black George Stansfeld Belaney, otherwise the Family, Lost in the Barrens or The Beauty, it can rightly be described as a known as Grey Owl. Sajo is really a Dog Who Wouldn't Be. The ingre- "hanky" story. Why try to revive such love story the love of the little Indian dients of the story are fairly common an obvious piece of sentimentality? girl, Sajo, for her beaver pets and the brave seafaring boys pitted against Chiefly, I think because Beautiful Joe love of the beavers for one another. As dastardlyvillains,afine schooner can still remind us of one of the chief backdrop is the northern Ontario wil- shipwrecked but brought safely to aims of literature, which is to arouse derness complete with forest fire port. It is all high adventure and told emotion here, that of pity. In an age participating as emotionally inthe with Mowat's usual ebullience. Its set- 14 EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN, 12:2

ting is unusual, though the Depres- neither strained nor shrill. John Craig social significance, at least as a change sion of the 1930's in the outports of is a craftsmanthe incidents are con- from the usual problem-oriented fare. Newfoundland. The harsh economic vincing, the protagonists both adult For the first year after its publication it facts of period and place are deftly and young, are realistically portrayed, seemed equally popular with children. woven into a larger-than-life tale.It and the whole is greater than the sum And why not? It certainly has a page- deserves a new look. of its parts. turning plot. On Oak Island in the 18th century, a truly villainous pirateis When William Stevenson's The Bush- In 1976, Mgra Paperny's The Wooden found storing treasure rather than dig- babies was published in 1965, it was People won the first Canada Council ging it up. Now the reader knows why recognized as an outstanding book. It award for a children's novel in English. Oak Island is still a haunt for treasure- was even suggested for an award. It The adage, "the first shall be last", app- seekers. The details of the inventive, was not eligible for a Canadian Award, lies here, for the book has hardly been underground chamber are based on however, because it was published in heard of since. It perhaps has some research, but this in no way impedes minuses from a child reader's point of the United States and it was not eligi- the flow of the hair-raising events expe- ble for the Newbery Award because it view. It is set in the 1920s in a small rienced by the two boys, one English town in northern Alberta and its plot is was written by a Canadian. But it has and one Indian. The first flush of enthu- rather episodic. Still, it has a family of quite disappeared now, and one can siasm forthisCanadian Treasure only wonder why. The real bushbaby very believable children who manage Island seems to be over, but it will be in the story is the tiny African lemur. to hide their artistic puppetry skills too bad if it too falls into the pit of from a seemingly authoritarian father. The other two the white girl Jackie oblivic n. and the African headman, Tembo are really innocents abroad in a racist Very good novels have been written society. Abroad is the Kenyan jungle for children by Canadians but unless through which they are making a dan- Very good novels you, the reader, buy them and pro- gerous trek to return the lemur to the mote them to teachers and students place where he was first captured. have been written they will indeed be soon forgotten. Dangerspileupondangers,but for children by Sheila Egoff .3c1 authority on through it all is the growing friendship children's liter and professor and understanding between white and Canadians but emeritus at the University of British black, the elder and the younger, and Columbia School of Librarianship. theexperienced and theinexpe- unless you, the rienced. In its delicate probing of these reader, buy them relationships, it is certainly a book for WINTER REAlalt.1G the 1980s. and promote them

David Walker's Pirate Rock (1969) to teachers and appeared to have more ingredients for students they will popularity than his earlier Dragon Hill (1963) which was a very special book indeed besoon indeed. Pirate Rock had a stronger plot, a simpler style and a more care- forgotl: Bibliography fully delineated setting the bay of Fundy -- than Dragon Hill. Indeed, its Clark, Catherine Anthony.The One. Winged plot seems right out of James Bond, or Dragon. Macmillan,1955. Not one of Catherine This aspect of the story is resolved Anthony Clark's books is listed in the current atleast John Buchanan, as three altogetherhappily,butitis what Canadian Books in Print. young people (two boys and a girl) foil happens on the way to the end that is Clark, Joan. TheHand of Robit. Squires. Clarke, Irwin, 1981. Also in paperbacr: also an a Nazi plot. This latter aspect may important. In its subtle look at racial seem to date the book, but Walker educational edition. discrimination rather than persecu- Craig, John. No Wordfor Goodye.PMA adds a higher moral dimension to the tion, its childlike view of adult author- Books, 1969. Paperback. story as the boys debate the betrayal ity, and itsglimpse of small-town Grey Owl (pseud.) Sajoand Her Beaver People. Jf a personal trust for a larger cause. Macmillan, 1977. LaurentianLibrary prairie life, it has the charm and perspi- The conclusion is left to the reader. Paperback. cacity of Fredelle Maynard's Raisins Montgomery, Lucy Maude. Emilyof New and Almonds. Moon. McClelland & Stewart, 1925. Canadian There is no word for good-bye in Ofib- Favourite Series Paperback. Also Seal Books. way. John Craig's No Word for Good- The 1960s saw a dramatic decline in Mowat, Farley.The Black Joke.McClelland bye (1969) is a bitter-sweet story of the what is termed the "adventure story" and Stewart,1962. Paperback. Also a text friendship between an Indian boy and in favour of books with "social rele- edition. Paperny, Myra.The Wooden Peon 1^.Little, a vhite boy whose natural interests in vance". When Joan Clark's The Hand 1976. Out of print. the out-of-doors have drawn them of Robin $quires appeared in 1977, Saunders, Marshall.Beautiful Joe.McClelland together. Since the rather loose plot critics rejoiced over it as "a captivating & Stewart, 1972. Canadian Favourite Series involves the subject of Indian land mystery", "a fast-moving story that Paperback. claims, No Word for Good-bye is the has no pretensions about it", "a good Stevenson,William.The Bushbabies. Houghton Mifflin, 1965. most socially and politically relevant read." The critics seemed to be saying Walker, David.Pirate Rock.ScholasticTab, book on this list. But its message is that they welcomed a book without 1974. Paperback. NOVEMBERDECEMBER 1984 15

A Can lit Quiz. Ten Best* Keuin Harrington Guides to

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ..." There are few readers who Canadian don't instantly recognized the first sentence of a Dickens novel. Do these 10 first sentences tell you what Canadian novel is suggested? Literature for First Sentence of the Novel Author/Title of the Novel the Teacher- A. "My lifelong involvement with Mrs. Atwood: Surfacing Dempster began at 5.58 o'clock p.m. Librarian on the 27th of December, 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven Kevin Harrington months old." B. "In the daytime her frail and ever-so- BeresfordHowe: Book of lightly hump-backed mother, or so Eve 1. Survival, by Margaret Atwood. they described her to blind Danile House of Anansi, 1972. before they rushed them off to be 2. Women in Canadian Literature, married, used to take Hoda along with edited by M. G. Hesse. Borealis, her to the houses where she cleaned." 1976. 3. A Reader's Guide to the Cana. C. "I can't believe I'm on this road again, ____Craven: I Heard the Owl Call dian Novel, edited by John Moss. twisting along past the lake where the my Name McClelland & Stewart, 1981. white birches are dying, the disease is 4. Another Time, by Eli Mandel. spreading up from the south, and I Press Porcepic, 1977. notice they now have seaplanes 5. Canadian Fiction: An Annotated for hire." Bibliography. by Margery Fee and D. "The doctor said to the Bishop, 'So ___Davies: Fifth Business Ruth peter Martin, 1976. you see, my lord, your young ordinand 6. An introduction to Teaching Can- can live no more than three years and Adian Literature, by Alice K. doesn't know it.' " Hale. Atlantic Institute of Educa- tion, 1975. E. "Northwest of Montreal, through a Engel: Bear 7. Spotlight on Drama: A Teaching valley always in sight of the low and Resource Guide to Canadian mountains of the Laurentian Shield, Plays.Writers' Development the Ottawa River flows out of Trust, 1981. Protestant Ontario into Catholic 8. The Canadian Novel Here and Quebec." Now: Critical Articles..., edited by John Moss. NC Press, 1978. F. "Toward noon, Florentine had taken Findley: The Wars 9. Taking Stock: The Calgary Con- to watching out for the young man ference on the Canadian Novel, who, yesterday, while seeming to joke edited by Charles Steele. ECW around, had let her know he found her Press, 1982. pretty." 10. Starting The Ark in The Dark, by G. "In the winter, she lived like a mole, Hemon: Marie Chapdelain Ian Underhill / The Country of the buried deep in her office, digging Young, by Don Gutteridge. Uni among maps and manuscripts." versityofWesternOntario, Faculty of Education, 1978. H. "The real surprise to me anyway MacLennan: Two Solitudes was not really what I did, but how Criteria I felt afterwards." most relevant to 'CanLit' courses, especially in high school. I."The door opened, and the men of Roy: The Tin Flute written in a style that is popular the congregation began to come out rather than scholarly. of the church at Peuikouka." emphasis on contemporary litera- J. "She was standing in the middle of the Wiseman: Crackpot ture, especially the 20th century. railroad tracks." providing thematic and regional interpretations. Kevin Harrington is Head of Library Services at Agincourt Collegiate Insti- incorporating teaching and study tute in Scarborough, Ontario. methods. 16 EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN, 12:2

On "Doing" Canadian Poetry

Fran Newman

RecentlyIreceived a last-minute it. Thus the class had experienced no nell and I both quoted "Tomorrow and summons to cancel my morning poetry lessons that year but the prev- tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in library schedule and take over for the ious year I had taught them Language this petty pace from day to day..." principal in Grade Eight. This will Arts and we had listened, enjoyed and Now that's teaching! sound familiar to teacherlibrarians written so often that this class felt very in small schools! There were not writ- comfortable with the subject. There Not everyone was that fortunate, and ten daybook instructions I disco- was no threat; each child had exper- for some teachers and librarians, a real vered later that he had leftoral ienced success before and knew that, effort must be made. The obvious directions with the students for his even though today they might not be questions are: how to get started and math and spelling.Itis interesting wonderful, their efforts would be valu- how librarians can help. Many teacher- that no one mentioned this when I able. Isn't this a worthwhile goal for any librarians are part-time, like myself, announced that we would be having class? and can begin in our classrooms as something different a poetry well as in the resources centre. Full- "write-in". The response from the time teacherlibrarians certainly have a students was very positive, paper role. And even if you arc fulfilling the was handed out, motivation pro- requirements of encouraging poetry vided and results at the end of the How many happiness yourself, are you doing double period ranged from good to enough to help those staff members excellent: classes in your who are not at ease with the subject? For the very takethembythehand How to Eat with Chopsticks school are poetry teachers, there is a book called Poetry First grab both of them, happy? And how Power Pack which I wrote for Scholas- tic which explains five easy poetry one in each hand, lessons for each school month. It is a holding them with three fingers. many are poetry No that's wrong. Try grabbing little sister to the larger poetry unit that deprived? they have made available. But anyone both chopsticks with one hand... can begin a worthwhile unit on poetry now what? Just do it like this: by getting together a group of books and reading them aloud to children for ask for a knife and fork. their enjoyment. Mike Bustos How many classes in your school are poetry-happy? And how many are My focus is Canadian. And you ask: is Dear Child-to-be, poetrydeprived?,We have a small staff there enough material? We wondered ten teachers, and twc of us regu- that when I first began to search out I hope you like diapers, larly "do" poetry. For the rest, it is poems for a children's anthology. I because you're going to have lots of incidental, totally ignored or absolutely browsed through readers, .old and them, dreaded. Perhaps this is not a true new, the adult poetry section of many and I hope you like toys and rattles representation; I would hope it is not. libraries and countless periodicals and because you will have them too; It all depends on the staff, of course, came up with more than enough. The but most of all I hope and their exposure to the subject ear- result was Round Slice of Moon. It is you like love because that's what you lier. I was fortunate to be taught high- an excellent collection because it has will get most of. school English in my small Alberta selections on so many areas of interest Robert Van Drie town by a lady called Miss Sellon. She to children and the authors range from Everyone felt satisfied at the end of is still there in my mind, quoting Sha- a four-year-old to adults, both famous and unknown. There is humour, a the class. kespeare and Shelley and Keats. We had no opportunity to write poetry good starting point for any program; How did this come about? The other with her, and I did not begin until I was animal and bird poems are plentiful; Grade Eight teacher had told me in my mid-thirties. But last summer, adventure and narrative poems of earlier that he did not "do" poetry and when we attended a performance of interest to middle and older classes are by all means I should use the time for "Macbeth" at Stratford, Nicholas en- there, as well as descriptive poems, NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1984 17

and so many of the poems can be the do not "do" poetry, take their class for The teacher-librarian is in a unique starting pointof interesting a visit to the800sand delve into the position to encourage young authors. discussions. treasures there. If another staff person She or he can make a section in the is poetry happy, take his or her class resource centre for student work to be Look alsofor Mysterious Special while a deprived class (and teacher) displayed and loaned. (Always ask for Sauce published by the Canadian benefit from the former's expertise an "About the Author" page.) The stu- Council of Teachers of English. The and enthusiasm. dent council can be approached to authors are all children; the poems are sponsor poetry contests. The winning set in sequence by age, beginning with While there are some natural poets in and good poems can be made into a six-year-old writing about his friend your school, the majority ofchildren another book which will become popu- George and ending with an ode to will begin to write fairly well only after lar as part of the collection. You might McDonald's from which the titleis having been exposed to many hours of be fortunate enough to get a poem like taken. Read that poem first! listening.Most primary poetryis this one: rhymed but all children need to hear Sunflakes and Snowshine was written because I could not find Canadian Hallowe'en and Harvest Moon poems about our seasons and Full harvest moon, months. And if you haven't seen Mary Canadian October late afternoon; Blakeslee's It's Tough to be a Kid The sky silhouetted with black wicked then you have to order it immediately. publishers like witches, The title says it all. Lola Sneyd's The The ground disguised by circling Asphalt Octopus is good for younger Scholastic and leaves. children. Sean o'huigan kept a Grade Annick say that The night falls black with cloud, 5 class enthralled when I read his The air with scent of pumpkins; Scary Poems for Rotten Kids. Older poetry doesn't The pond mist rises to our curious classes will find much to identify with in noses. Dear Mom, Dear Dad. You already sell. If every My costume: a sheet of white, have Dennis Lee; if you are lucky, you Two holes cut out for eyes. have on your shelf an old but very teacher-librarian With bag in hand, a shroud, good book by Jean Little called When decided to buy at I beg Hallowe'en delights. the Pie Was Opened. There are other Janelle Ring, Grade Seven books that are not always first rate but least one usually you can find several that you You can sponsor a Young Authors' like. The books mentioned will form a Canadian poetry Conference for your students and core that will provide children with those in neighbouring areas. Invite a many valuable experiences. book each year, poet to come and give a reading to interested students. Publish poems in Have you ever wondered why Cana- perhaps we could your local newspaper, take some to dian adult poets are world-famous but alter that Education Week displays and watch children's poets (aside from Dennis for contests in children's magazines. Lee) are so scarce? Canadian publish- situation. Set up a poetry bulletin board for ers like Scholastic and Annick saythat young authors' work. Suggest an old- poetry doesn't sell.If every teacher- fashioned elocution contest in one librarian decided to buy at least one class or more, with a book of poetry as Canadian poetry book each year, per- and understand that free verse is lan- guage especially chosen to say some- a prize. See if an interested school haps we could alter that situation. board consultant would co-ordinate a Look at your poetry shelves. How thing in a different, interesting and valuable way. It is interesting that few district-wide poetry anthology. many books are American? When you children can rhyme easily and there is do purchase a worthwhile book that is Watch for good ideas at professional Canadian, share itwith your staff. no reason why they should bemade to days, in teaching magazines and at do so. When they begin to write, they Watch for reviews in publications like other workshops. Begin a file to share CM; Canadian Materials for Schools will form paragraphs. They will need with staff members. Have volunteers and Libraries and note books with assistance to set the words in a mean- or older students make a subject index good comments. Ask the representa- ingful, poetic way on the page....There of your Canadian poetry so that you will generally be a few talented children can easily find one to fit any topic being tives at book displays to show you in the group; print their finished work their Canadian books. If they don't studied. Keep a watch for poems in have any, ask why. Do the same at on chart paper or overheads so all may placeslike Canadian Children's see how itis writtten. Once poetry book stores. Annual and magazines, both adult and writing is underway, collect several to for children. if you are a teacher-librarian involved make into an anthology. Or take the in co-operative planning, plug in a best poem each child has written and If you are involved with enrichment poem or two to fit any unit of study. have the collection made into a book programs, it is even more important to Plan a language-arts unit and include a called The I Can't Believe Kids Wrote make sure these children get the poetry session centres work well This Poetry Book. Send it home with a opportunities to use and enjoy lan- here. If you are aware of teachers who space for parents to comment. guage. As their lives become more r3 18 EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN, 12:2 technological, they will need to know their aesthetic capabilities and that computers can be wonderful for play- NATIONAL CONFERENCE EDUCATORS ing with words. Make effective use of your Apple computer with one program that satisfies a variety of your Just last week, I had some children in needs. Book Lures, Inc. and an enrichment group write poetry SUPER FILE CABINET LINDENWOOD COLLEGE Data lase Management System for the after having been motivated by other APPLE Computer effective, economical, and easy to use. Designed Present authors and afterI had suggested for the novice user. some patterns they might try. In the potential applications are virtually limitless: student registration and attendance NON-FICTION, first poem below, I took out the word clan schedules, class lists, student scores "for" in the last line. In the second one, bibliographies, overdue lists, and other media INDEPENDENT STUDY and center uses Cathryn had written about a goldfinch mailing lists, mailing labels, custom reports THE GIFTED STUDENT and I suggested a red bird might be budgets, inventory, payroll, ledgers a complete package. No need to purchase K-12 better. The rest is as I received it: additional programs. professionally prepared, comprehensive user Where do spiders dwell? manual 24.26 March 1985 compatible with data disks created with the Maybe, original FILE CABINET program. Westport Inn, St. Louis, MO when they warp their webs Bendchecksorpurchaseorder to: in dewy places, well hid, ABACUS it's home. $69.95 + $2.00 shipping COmPUtiNG Purpose: Leslie Chambers N.Y. State add 7% 19E Beilflower Circle Grade Four sales tax. Fairport, NY 14450 Differentiate Research Skills for The clumsy cardinal Gifted Students stumbled over a branch Promote Independent Study and that fell in the snowstorm Self-directed Learning with Gifted at the front of my house, Students then blazed away like a flame of fire. Cathryn Hansen Outstanding Presenters Grade Four Nancy Polette Now that's poetry! Dr. George Betts Jean Craighead George Fran Newman is a Grade 4 David Collins teacher and teacherlibrarian at Paula Montgomery Spring Valley Public School in George Shannon Brighton, Ontario and the author of several collections of poetry for And many others children. Topics Gifted Learner Curriculum Development Research Skills/Projects Independent Study Autonomous Learning And much more!

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Pictures Munsch, Robert. Jonathan child explains why she likes red. Cleaned Up, Then He Heard a "I can jump higher in my red athousand words Sound or Blackberry Subway stockings." K-3 Jam.Toronto:AnnickPress, Wallace, Ian. Chin Chiang and the 1981. Day,Shirley,Ruthie'sBigTree. Dragon Dunce. Toronto: Dou- A subwayentersJonathan's glas & McIntyre, 1984. Toronto: AnnickPress,1982. highrise and passengers disem- Ruthie valiantly tries to save the This year, Chin Chiang is to help bark,leaving a mess behind. his grandfather with the Dragon old willow tree when the neigh- Jonathan visits City Hall to ask bour wants to cut K3 Dance. When the time comes, why and develops an ingenious he finds someone to help him Day, Shirley.Waldo's Back Yard. plan to solve the problem. K-6 overcome his fear of making a Toronto: Annic'i Pass,1934. Munsch, Robert, Murmel Murmel mistake. K-6 Mr. Tester doe; not get along Murmel. Toronto: Annick Press, Waterton, Betty. Pettranella. Van- wil children next door, until 1982. couver:Douglas & McIntyre, he needs help and Ezhbeth What do you do with a baby you 1980. A pioneer girl loses the saves his life. K-3 find down a hole in the sand flowerseedsthathergrand- Fernandes, Eugenie. A Difficult Day. when you are only five years old? mother has given her. She finds Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1983. K-3 them later in a surprising place. Even children have "difficult Munsch,Robert.The Paperbag K-6 days"! K-3 Princess.Toronto: Annick Wynne-Jones, Tim. Zoom At Sea. Galloway, Priscilla. When You Were Press, 1980. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, Little and I Was Big. Toronto: Elizabeth uses clever psychol- 1983. A gentle book about a Annick Press, 1984. ogy to outwit a dragon to save cat's visit to Maria. She turns a Daughter and mother change her prince. K-8 crank and the sea mysteriously comes into the room. K-3 placesasthedaughterdes- Munsil,Janet.Dinner At Auntie cribes the mother she would like Rose's. Toronto: Annick Press, Zola, Meguido. Only the Best. Lon- don: Julia MacRae Books, 1981. to have. K-3 1984. Harrison,Ted. A Northern For every child who has been A father, searching for the per- Alphabet. Montreal: Tundra given'marching orders' when fect gift for his newborn child, Books, 1982. the family goes out for dinner. discovers that giving oneself can Each vivid painting of a northern 8 be the best gift of all. K-6 scene features objects oeginning with one letter of the alphabet Pitman, Al. One Wonderful Fine Day and is bordered by names of For a Sculpin Named Sam. St. Non-fiction Winners northern places beginning with John's, Nfld.: Breakwater, 1933. Climo,Lindee.Chester'sBarn. the same letter. K-S Sam cannot understand why the Montreal: Tundra Books, 1982. otherfishdon'tlike him. He Chester has a farm on Prince Moak, Allan. A Big City AEC. Mont- finally meets Sara, another scul- real: Tundra Books, 1984. Edward Island. He lovingly looks pin who thinks he is beautiful. after his animals as he feeds and Paintings of the Toronto scene K-6 illustrateeachletter.Informa- tends them. K-6 tion is given about location of Spray,Carole.The Mare's Egg. Gryski, Camilla. Cat's Cradle, Owl's each picture. K-6 Toronto: Firefly,1981. A sim- Eyes: A Book of String Games. pleton tries to hatch a horse by Munsch,Robert.David's Father. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1983. sitting on top of a huge pumpkin. Step-by-step illustrations help to Toronto: Annick Press, 1983. K-8 Another priceless Munsch book. solve the intricacies of 21 string David's father just happens to Stinson,Kathy.RedisBest. games. Notes on the sources of be a giant (and scary). K-6 Toronto: Annick Press, 1982. A the games are fascinating. K-8 15 20 EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN. 12:2

Hacker, Carlotta. The Book of Can- A book of humorous poetry that loving father deteriorates. He tries adians: An Illustrated Guide To your students will love. K8 to make new friends and a home Who Did What. Edmonton: Hur- for himself and his dad. Grades tig,1983. Short biographies of 4-8 many famous and not-so-famous Canadians. Many photographs. Harris, Dorothy Joan. Don't Call Me Grades 4-8 On Growing Up Sugarbaby! Toronto: Scholastic- Alderson, Sue Ann.The Not Tab, 1983. Lee, Dennis. Jelly Belly.Toronto: Impossible Summer.Toronto: A teenage girl faces the problem Macmillan of Canada, 1983. Lee Clarke Irwin, 1983. of diabetes with anger and then winsagain with humorous, Vacationing on a Gulf Island with with courage. Grades 4.8 rhyming poems for young child- her writer mother, Jenny learns ren. K-6 Hughes, Monica. Hunter in the Dark. what itis to teach an adult to Toronto: Clarke Irwin, 1981. A Linton, Marilyn. The Maple Syrup read, to look after animals and to sensitive novel in which 16-year- Book. Toronto: Kids Can Press, make and keep friends. She finds old Mike Rankin must first force 1983. that many things are hard, but hisover-protectiveparents to These questions (and more) are not impossible. Grades 4-8 acknowledge the truth, that he answered. What is this wonder- Chetin, Helen. The Lady of the Straw- has leukemia. On a solitary hunt- ful food we pour over pancakes? berries. Agincourt, Ont.: Book ing trip Mike faces his own mortal- How and when was it discovered? Society, 1982. ity. Grades 7.8 Grades 4-8 Ten year old Jessica loves the Hughes, Monica. My Name is Paula Maloney, Margaret C.The Little Alberta farm where she lives with Popowich! Toronto: Lorimer, Mermaid. Toronto: Methuen, her father and little brother, but 1983. 1983. Laszlo Gal has again done she misses her mother who has Paulaisupsetbecauseshe beautiful illustrations to accom- retuned to Toronto. K-8 doesn't looklikeher mother. pany the sad but triumphant Craig, John. Ain't Lookin'. Toronto: When they move from Toronto to story of The Little Mermaid. Scholastic-Tab,1983. Originally Edmonton, she findsthat her Grades 4-8 titled Chappie and Me. John father was Ukrainian. She begins Muller, Robin. Mollie Whuppie and Craig describes his summer with to understand her mother's need the Giant. Richmont Hill, Ont.: Cnappie's Coloured All Stars, a forhappiness and she learns North Winds Press, 1982. black team of superb baseball about her Ukrainian heritage. This is the retelling of an extraor- players. He tells of the prejudice Grades 4-8 dinary fairy tale. The heroine is that existed in the 1930s. For Mackay, Claire. The Minerva Program. clever,brave, strong and senior students. Grades 7-8 Toronto: Lorimer, 1984. resourceful. K-8 Doyle, Brian. Up to Low. Vancouver: Minerva who is a `klutz' in Phys. O'Huigin,Sean. Scary Poems for Douglas & McIntyre, 1982. Ed. is a whiz at math. When she is RottenKids.Windsor:Black Tommy goes with his father and picked to do a special computer Moss Press, 1982. his father's hard-drinking friend to course, she quickly learns how to Focuses on the scary and mon- the old farm at Low, in the Gati- program. When she is accused of strous epiuodeb in an ordinary neau Hills. This is a comedy, a first changing her exam mark, she child's lifetime. K-8 love story and an account of grow- develops a program to catch the ing up. Grades 4.8 real perpetrator. Grades 4-8 O'Huigin, Sean. Well, You Can Imagine. Windsor: Black Moss Halvorson, Marilyn. Cowboys Don't McNeil, Florence. Miss P and Me. Press, 1983. Cry. Toronto: Clarke Irwin, 1984. Toronto:ClarkeIrwin, 1982. An omnibus edition from The When Shane Morgan inherits his Story of the problems of a girl who Trouble Ist, Stitches and Poe- grandfather's farm near Calgary, wants to be a dancer, but whose Tree: An Introduction to Experi- his relationship with his rodeo- talents lie elsewhere. Grades 4-8 mental Poetry plus some new poems. K-8 Raffi. Baby Beluga Book. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1983. Based on Raffi's popular album Baby Beluga, the book contains lyrics,music,illustrationsand information appropriate to each of the album's 13 songs. Child- ren will learn about belugas and how to create their own music. K-3 Sneyd, Lola. The Asphalt Octopus. Toronto: Simon & Pierre, 1982. 16 22 EMERGENCY LIBRA ?IAN, 12:2 Morgan, Allen.Beautiful Dreamer. Calling All Science a way to the outside world which Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1983. he has never seen. Grades 4.S A young Vancouver girl tries to Fiction Fans prove to her family that she can Hughes, Monica. Beckoning Lights. contribute to the family finances. Edmonton: Le Bel, 1982. Grades 48 When a spaceship lands and her Humour brother and fatherare kid napped by the 'creatures', Julie Alderson, Sue Ann. Como 'sTale. Reid.Malcolm.Salut,Gadou! TreeFrog Press, is able to help by using mental Edmonton: Toronto: Lorimer, 1983. 1983. Students in Quebec City fight to telepathy. Grades 4-8 By the author of the Bonnie save their clubhouse "Monde des Hughes,Monica.Guardian of McSmithers series. Wanda, Willy, Jeunes". When the owner cuts Isis. Toronto: Clarke Irwin, 1981. and Walterllwin over Aunt down their huge elm tree the bat- In this sequel to Keeper of the Tweedle, capture crooks, and tle lines are drawn. Grades 4.8 Isis Light it is 2136 A.D. Life has save the city pound. Children will gone backward rather than for- enjoy the dog named Transzig Richmond, Sandra. Wheels for Walk- ward. The president has fright- gidy who loves rosehip soup and ing. Toronto: Douglas & McIn- ened people with 'taboos' that chocolate. 6 tyre, 1983. keep them in one valley. Jody Bradbury, Raymond. The War at Fort Sally is driving her friend's car on N'Kumo questions everything an icy mountain road when she and is banished. He must find Maggie. Toronto: Kids Can Press, has a terrible accident. A moving, 1982. Guardian to help his people. Have you ever been on a disas- unsentimental look at the life of a Grades 4.8 quadriplegic.For seniorstu- trous field trip? You will enjoy the dents. Grades 7-8 Hughes, Monica. The Isis Pedlar. way this book iswritten with Toronto: Fleet Publishers, 1982. tapes, notes taken by students Smucker, Barbara. Amish Aduenture. Sequel to two earlier books, it who are reporting on the trip. Toronto: Clarke Irwin, 1983. tells how the people on Isis are Grades 4-8 A twelve-yearold boy from Chi- almost led to annihilation by a Duncan, Frances. The Toothpaste cago is a passenger in a car that smoothtalking visitor. Grades Genie. Toronto: Scholastic-TAB, 4.8 strikes an Amish buggy in Water- 1981. loo. He learns about farming and Hughes, Monica. The Keeper of the What would you do if a grumpy about himself from the Amish Isis Light. Toronto: Clarke Irwin, purple genie came out of your farmer who takes him in. Grades 1981. toothpaste tube? He does like to 4-8 For sixteen years Olwen has grant wishes. ..Grades 48 lived on the planet Isis with only Howard, Mary. Could Dracula Liue in Truss, Jan. Jasmin. Toronto: Ground- Guardian to look after her. What wood Books, 1982. Woodford? Toronto: Kids Can will happen when eighty space Press, 1983. As the eldest in a large family, Jas- colonists land? Grades 4-8 min's burdensome responsibilities When Sam, a sheep dog, moves and fear of school failure prompt Hughes, Monica. Ring-Rise, Ring- to another town, she thinks she her to run away 'forever' to the Set.Toronto:ClarkeIrwin, will never find a friend. The neigh- wildernessnearher home. 1982. bour girl, who walks Sam and who Grades 4-8 TheIceAge hasreturned ultimately can hear what Sam is because a ring of ice particles thinking,leadsthemintoa mystery-adventure. Grades 4-8 Yee, Paul. Teach Me to Fly, Skyfigh- has formed around the world. Space scientists work feverishly ter. Toronto: Lorimer, 1983. Korman, Gordon. Bugs Potter Liue at These four stories are based on to dispel the ring. Grades 4-8 Nickaninny. Toronto: Scholastic- the experience of four Chinese Hughes, Monica. SpaceTrap. TAB, 1983. children in Vancouver. Some are Toronto: Groundwood, 1983. Bugs Potter goes with his parents secondgeneration Canadians, Three children explore a maze on a wilderness camping trip. In others are recent immigrants. The and are stolen away to another spite of the isolation, Bugs mounts differences in their attitudes are planet. All are caged like zoo a rock concert. Grades 48 focal points in the book. Grades animals and sent to a zoo, a Korman, Gordon. Our Man Weston. 48 home as a pet and a labora- Toronto: Scholastic-TAB, 1982. tory as a specimen. Grades 48 "How could anything possibly Yerou, Aristides, and Dickson, Barry. Martel, Suzanne. The City Under 'come up?' Tom demanded of his The FriendshipSolution; My Ground. Vancouver: Douglas & innocently smiling twin, Sidney. Father's Ghost. Toronto: Lor McIntyre, 1982. "Thisisa vacationparadise. miner, 1984. This is a re-issue in paperback of There are no plots, no crimes, no These two stories describe inci- Martel's excellent science fic- murders, nospies,nogreat dents in the lives of Greek child- tion novel. An entire city lives wrongs that need righting. Nc one ben in a Toronto neighbourhood. underground in the year 3000. willbe doing anything Grades 46 One venturesome boy discovers There will be no reason for you to NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1984 23

investigate anything." Hah! Grades Fantastic! bus finds herself suddenly carried 4-8 along in a driverless carriage. She is brought to Eladeria and faces Korman, Gordon. The War With Mr. Hutchins, Hazel, J. The Three and magic and fear. Grades 4-8 Wizzle. Toronto: Scholastic-TAB, Many Wishes of Jason Reid. 1982. Toronto: Annick Press, 1983. Walsh, Ann. Your Time, My Time. Mr. Wizzle, the computer expert, With the help of a magic glove, Victoria, B.C.:Press Procepic, makes many unwanted changes Jason becomes a star baseball 1984. at MacDonald Hall. Grades 4-8 player. How Jason uses his last Elizabeth is 'stuck' in a small town wish is important for the whole near Barkerville. When she dis- Palmer, C. Everard. A Dog Called community. K-6 covers a ring in the graveyard, she Houdini. Toronto: Scholastic- is transported to the 1870s. While TAB, 1980. Kellerhals-Stewart,Heather. Stuck in the time warp, she falls in love A dog that disappears whenever Fast in Yesterday. Vancouver: for the first time. Grades 48 the dog catcher tries to find him Douglas & McIntyre, 1983. causes hilarity in a small northern Jennifer,whilevisitingthe community. Grades 4.8 museum becomes lost in a store- room and falls into a time warp. Trial and Turmoil Stren, Patti. Mountain Rose. Toronto: She becomes part of a family in Bilson, Geoffrey. Death Over Mont- Clarke Irwin, 1982. the early 1900s. Grades 4.8 Mountain Rose is so big that she real. Toronto: Kids Can Press, needs a zip code of her own. She Lunn,Janet.The RootCellar. 1982. becomes a champion wrestler. Toronto: Lester & Orpen Den- Jamie and his parents come to K-6 nys, 1981. Montreal from Scotland in the Twelve-year-old Rose finds adven- early 19th century. They find the Wilkins, Mike, Harold Greenhouse to ture and excitement when she is city in the grip of a choiera epi- the Rescue. Toronto: Scholastic- transported back in time to the demic. Their new life is more prec- TAB, 1982. American Civil War. Grades 4-8 arious and eventful than he had Thisisthe second unwanted expected. Grades 4-8 adventure of Harold Greenhouse. Sullivan Nick. The Seventh Princess. Harold and W. Duckworth-Street Toronto: Scholastic-TAB, 1983. Bilson, Geoffrey. Goodbye Sarah. III attempt to rescue their par- This fantasy abounds with kings, Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1981. ents who have been kidnapped witches, dwarfs, and spells. Jen- This perceptive story not only and taken to Greenland. K-8 nifer on her way to school in the documents the Winnipeg strike of 24 EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN, 12:2

1919, but also shows how children Hewitt, Marsha, and Mackay, Claire. Growing up in Toronto just after are affected by essentially adult One Proud Swnmer. Toronto: the Great Depression, Booky des- pro blems. The close friendship of Women's EdLcationalPress, cribes the hillarious scrapes she Mary and Sarahiseventually 1981. gets into and her warm family ties. ruined because their fathers have Set in Valleyfield, Quebec, it tells SequeltoThatScatterbrain opposite political views. C...ades the story of a 13-year-old girl's Cooky. Grades 4.8 46 oart;cipationinthefightof employees to organize a textile Martel, Suzanne. The King's Daugh- Brockmann, Elizabeth.What's the ter. Toronto: Douglas & McIn- Matter Girl? Toronto: Harper & union during the summer of 1946. Grades 4-8 tyre, 1980. Row, 1980. Set in the 17th century, the story A girl's love for her uncle is chal- Hudson, Jan. Sweetgrass. Edmonton: tellsof the adventures of an lenged when he returns wounded Tree Frog Press, 1984. orphan girl sent by the King of from the Second World War. Fa: A sensitive story of a 15-year-old France to marry a Canadian senior students. Grades 7-8 Blood Indian girl, who longs to be settler. Grades 4-8 married but must prove herself to Cameron, Silver Donald. The Bait Montero, Gloria. Billy Higgins Rides chopper. Toronto: Lorimer, 1982. her father. She survives gun bat- the Freights. Toronto: Lorimer, tles and smallpox. Grades 4.8 Threeboysareinvolvedin 1982. attempts to organize a union for Hunter, Bernice Thurman. That Scat- Thirteen year old Billy Higgins fishermen. The conflict increases terbrain Booky. Toronto: joins the jobless men crowding when a boat is cut adrift by a 'bait. Scholastic-TAB, 1981. Vancouver streets. When they chopper'. Grades 48 A nostalgic look at a hardluck vote to ride the freights to Ottawa Hamilton,Mary.The TinLined family during the Great Depres- to demand jobs,Billyclimbs Trunk. Toronto: Kids Can Press, sion,throughtheeyesofa aboard. Grades 4.8 1981. spunky young girl. A fictionalized Two hungry street urchins are autobiography. Grades 4-8 Lois M. Harper is Assistant to the sent to Canada by Dr. Barnardo. Hunter, Bernice, Thurman. With Love Coordinator of Learning Resources This is the story of their survival. from Booky. Toronto: Scholastic. for the Scarborough (Ontario) Grades 46 TAB, 1983. Board of Education. 25 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1984

Picture Booksand ArtTechniques A Study Guide

Pamela Maki-Carolli

Picture books are often used only by winners so as to encourage children to To help the students to experience the importance of illustrations to a story, the youngest children, and librarians, become familiar with awards and the parents, teachers, and children them- books that have won them. Various the same story was read twice to them. The first time the illustrations selves are often unaware of the useful- interpretations of a single technique were not shown, and thesecond time ness and appropriatenessof picture have been selected to support the goal books for other purposes. Picture that children realize there are different the children viewed the illustrations ways of looking at linedrawings or while the story was being read. The books can be used, however, as a were asked whichthey method of studying art techniques in collage. Several titles with illustrations students by the same illustrator, such as Ann enjoyed more and why. During this not only the primary grades,but discussion the role of the illustrator higher grade levels as well. Blades, were included to allow child- ren familiarity with aparticular illustra- was explained and howthe artist trans- The effective use of picture books can tor and to study the development of an mits a message through illustrations. help the child: illustrator. Next, Margaret Laurence's Six Darn to appreciate the significance and Advance Planning Cows,withillustrationsby Ann function of reading Blades, was read to the students. Fol- to develop an interest and discrimi- Prior to embarking on this unit of lowing the reading, the children dis- nation in reading study,the classroom teacher and cussed how the story made them feel to begin to appreciate the artistic teacher-librarian worked closely and what they experienced while lis- qualities of book illustrations together to ensure that the students tening and viewing the illustrations. to appreciate the support and viewed the library as an extension of Many of the students said they felt a enhancement that illustrations pro- the classroom learning environment. little scared when the two children This was an vide to the story line This particularunitlasted several were alone in the woods. to appreciate the fact that everyone weeks and took place in both the ideal time to investigate what evoked does not view things in the same way library resource centre and the class- that feeling from the illustration. Dur- to develop visual awareness, sensi- room. The length of time spent on the ing this discussion, the students were tivity, and appreciation unit was determined by individual cir- introduced to correct terminology to become more observantand cumstances and the number of illustra- commencing with the medium used, more critical in thecompositon of vis- tors and interpretations covered. the use of space and balance of the ual arts illustration (children dwarfed by the to develop the ability to express tall, lean trees), use of color, expres- personal experiences and feelings in sion, centre of interest, and the contri- visual forms bution that the shape and line of the to develop the freedom ofthought trees made to the illustration. necessary for creativity to become familiar with art terminol- Once this initial illustration was consi- ogy as it is represented inillustrations, dered, the students turned their atten- such as texture, shapes, line, balance, tion to the next illustration and were movement,centreofinterest, asked to describe the mood. Their medium, and space. response that it was less scary prompted a discussion of the differen- Selection of Titles ces between the twoillustrations. The The titles suggested here do not con- use of space andbalance (the trees stitute a comprehensive list, but rather aren't as tall, the children are not dwarfed by the trees), use of color, are a representativesample, and some classed as picture (greater use of white, illustration not as are not technically dark), and the use of line, shape, and books. Many of the books are award 20 26 EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN, 12:2

expression which contributed to alter- When children are exposed to this Kurelek,William.PrairieBoy'sSummer. ing the mood were highlighted. To area, they develop an appreciation of Tundra Books, 1975. sum up this investigation, the story illustration and a preference for partic- Lim, John. At Grandmother's House. Tundra was reread while the students expe- ular illustrators' styles. They begin to Books, 1977. rienced the story and illustrations with Vincent, Felix. Cutlands/Pays de Chat. Tundra recognize the art work of particular Books, 1977. new insight. illustrators and, if allowkid freedom of Watercolours Anfousse, Gillette. The Right. Women's Press, As a follow-up to Six Darn Cows, the expression in their work, they will experiment with different techniques 1975. students were exposed to several Blades, Ann. A Boy of Tache. Tundra Books, and refine them to their own ability. other books illustrated by Ann Blades. 1973. Thus, as an extension and side benefit Discussions focussed on the interpre- Blades, Ann. Mary of Mile 18. Tundra Books, to this cooperative unit of study, the 1971. tation of the illustrations, differences ltani, Frances, Linger By The Sea. Brunswick and similarities, medium, and use of children begin to place a greater emphasis on illustrating their own sto- Press, 1979. color. Throughout the discussions, Laurence, Margaret. Six Darn Cows, illustrated ries and books. student comments were encouraged by Ann Blades. James Lorimer, 1979. - it was important to provide a sense Lunn, Janet. The Twelve Dancing Princesses, illustrated by Laszlo Gal. Methuen, 1979. that there is no right or wrong interpre- Pamela Maki-Carolli is a former school librarian who is now Head Macklem, Michael, Jacques The Woodcutter, tation. The goal was to help the stu- illustrated by Ann Blades. Oberon Press, 1977. dents developtheir own visual of the Central Children's Branch Stren, Patti. Bo, The Constrictor That Couldn't. awareness, to become more critical in of the London Public Libraries in Green Tree, 1978. London, Ontario Waterton, Betty. Pettranella, illustrated by Ann the compositon of visual arts. Blades. Douglas and McIntyre, 1980. Waterton,Betty. A Salmon For Simon, illustratedby AnnBlades. Douglas and McIntyre, 1978. Photography The goalwas to Allinson, Beverley. Groaning Ups. Methuen, Recommended 1977. help the students Titles Crayon Campbell, A.P. Albert The Talking Rooster, develop theirown illustrated by Andrea Campbell. Borealis Press, Collage and Mixed Media 1974. visualawareness, Cleaver, Elizabeth. The Miraculous Hind. Holt, Singer, Yvonne, Saru And The Apartment Rinehart & Winston, 1973. Building, illustrated by Ann Powell. Kids Can to become more Cleaver, Elizabeth, Petrouchka. Macmillan of Press, 1975. Canada, 1980. Pencil Crayons critical in the Lee, Dennis. Wiggle To The Laundromat, Vivenza, Francesca. Geranimal, Daddy Lion, illustrated by Charles Pachter. New Press, 1970. And Other Storiesillustratedby Frank Newfelt, Frank. Princess of Tomboso. Oxford Newfeld. Groundwood Books, 1978. compositon of University Press, 1960. Line Drawings Pasternak, Carol, and Sutterfield, Allen. Stone Allinson, Beverley. Mandy And The Flying Map, visual arts. Soup, illustrated by Hedy Campbell. Canadian illustrated by Ann Powell. Women's Press, 1973. Women's Educational Press, 1974. Allinson, Beverley. Mumbles And Snits, illustra Suddon, Alan. Cinderella. Oberon Press, 1969. ted by Ann Powell. Women's Press, 1975. Toye,William. How Summer Came To Arnold, Les. Harry Paints The Wind, illustrated Canada,illustratedbyElizabethCleaver. by Rosemary Devries. Applegarth Follies, 1975. Other illustrators and art techniques Oxford University Press, 1969. Cohen, Matt. The Leaves of Louise, illustrated Toye,William. can be introduced in a similar way. TheLoon'sNecklace, by Rikki. McClelland and Stewart, 1978. illustrated byElizabethCleaver. Oxford Gervais, Charles, How Bruises Lost His Secret, Appropriate terminology, comparison University Press, 1977. illustrated by Patrick Ryan. Black Moss, 1975. of the effectiveness and use of media, Paintings HowardGibbon, Amelia Frances. An Mustrated and different interpretations can be Harrison, Ted. Children of the Yukon. Tundra Comic Alphabet. Henry F. Walck, 1967. examined as they are encountered. Books, 1977. Kilbourne, Frances. The Recyclers, illustrated Kurelek, William. Lumberjacks. Tundra Books, by Ann Powell. Women's Press, 1979. For example, the collage technique 1974. Stren, Patti. Hug Me. Harper & Row, 1979. can be discussed as it is used by Eliza- beth Cleaver and then as used in col- lage compositons by other illustrators. It is important to highlight the differen- cesofinterpr :tation,storyline BTSB enhancement, and compositon of the Likes Happy Endings. collage. 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