Books for
young readers

Paula Fox is a skilled observer and interpreter of
human relationships. Nowhere is her skill more truly
or touchingly displayed than in ‘‘One-Eyed Cat”
(Dell Yearling: $4.25), a Newbery Honor Book in
1984.

by Andrea Deakin
Terrace Book Reviewer

Ned lives with his minister father and invalid
mother in a small village outside of New York. His
uncle, a rare and well-travelled visitor, brings him a
gun for his thirteenth birthday, but his father takes it
away, believing the boy is too young even to use it for
target practice.

Ned annoyed at his father’s ban, takes the gun:

from the attic at night, and fires at a moving shadow.
Later, helping a neighbor, he sees a one-eyed cat and
blames himself. The story continues through fall and
winter as he helps his neighbor care for the wounded
animal.

As time passes we watch his relationship with his
parents, the overbearing housekeeper, and the old
man — his neighbor, gradually revealed. A beautiful-
ly crafted story, it is impeccably true to the nature of
its characters and the realities of human experience.

Kit Wright, former Education Officer for the
Poetry Society in the United Kingdom, has selected
two interesting anthologies — ‘‘Poems for One-Year-
Olds and Under’’ and ‘‘Poems for Over Ten-Year-
Olds’? (both Puffin, $3.95 each). In both cases he has
brought imagination to his selection which cover a
wide range of traditional and modern work.
_ Here is Toad bowling along the road in the

notorious car, Lear’s Jumblies, the man who tried to
do The Thing That Couldn’t Be Done (one of my
favorites) and nonsense from Ogden Nash and Spike
Milligan. The selection for older children introduces
Keats and Shakespeare, blending the poetry with the
mystery of ‘‘Flannan Isle’’ and Paul Dehn’s hilarious
‘Alternative Endings to an Unwritten Ballad’’.
These are wise and well-balanced anthologies, full of
joy.

Naomi Lewis, writer, critic and broadcaster, has
won the Eleanor Farjeon Award for distinguished
services to children’s literature and has been elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Poetry,
she has said, is the best of all languages, and has been
since she could first read and speak. This love, and
her many gifts, have been joined in an outstanding
collection of poetry for readers of 11 and up,
“‘Messages’”’ (Faber/Puffin: $18.95 hardback, $6.95
paper). ;

In her introduction she comments that ‘‘too many
anthologists casually lift the same poems from one
book into another, without ever looking at the
author’s not-so-familiar works... that every day new
exciting poems are written, many by poets not yet
known at all, and that some of them should be here.’’
This is the basis of an anthology which combines the
well-known and loved, with the new and exciting.

Above all it is how this choice is arranged which
gives an added dimension to the collection. The total
effect of two or three poems read together outweighs
their individual impact, and in tone, content or color
they balance or challenge each other like the com-
ponents of a great painting,

Scattered throughout the anthology are wonderful
poems by young writers, 11 year old Baljit Kang’s
“Midnight’’, or an 8-year-old’s sensitive observa-
tion, ‘‘The Old Man at the Window’’. This is a
superb collection, one to delight everyone,

Workshop scheduled

20 Terrace Review — Wednesday, April 16, 1986.

TERRACE — In
celebration. of National
Book Festival Week the
Terrace Public Library
proudly presents,
children’s writer Gordon
Korman who will give a
free public reading
Thursday, April 17 at
7:30 p.m. in the library.

Gordon Korman is the
author of a popular and
humorous series about
the antics of two ‘‘pro-
blem’’ students ‘‘Bruno
and Boots’’. He wrote
his first book ‘This
Can’t be Happening at

Children’s author

to

give free

public reading

and This can’t be hap-

pening at Macdonald
Hall.

Admission is free.
Everyone is welcome.
For more information,
call the library at
638-8177.

TERRACE — On Friday
morning April 18 at 8:45
a.m. a Young Writer’s
Conference will be held
at Caledonia Senior
Secondary School.

Canadian authors
Francis Duncan, Ann
Walsh and Gordon Kor-
man will be giving
readings to about 80
students in the Lecture
Theatre at Caledonia.

Writing workshops will
be conducted by the

children’s authors later
that day at Northwest
Community College.

April 12-19 has been
proclaimed National
Book Festival Week all
across Canada. To pro-
mote an interest in Cana-
dian authors and their

books, the Canada
Council has provided
funds for various

authors to tour the coun-
try during this time.

About Gordon
Korman |

To be the author of a
bestselling book is an ac-
complishment at: any
age. Korman (a recent
graduate of New York
University’s Dramatic
Writing program) wrote
his first book, This Can’t
Be Happening at Mac-
donald Hall, for an
English assignment. He
has now seen 10 books

Macdonald Hall’’ at the
age of 12. It was an im-
mediate success. Since
then Korman. has
published many more. |

The following books
are available at the Ter-
race Public Library:
Beware the fish; Don’t
Care High; Go jump in
the pool; I want to go
home; No coins please;
The war with Mr, Wiz-
zle; Who is Bugs Potter;

Inuit life

The Inuit people of the Barrens, removed from the
sea, have depended on the caribou for food, clothing
and tools. In the late 1950’s their communities faced
starvation and relocation from their homes because
of the destruction and suffering of this upheavel in
“Qikaaluktut: Images of Inuit Life’? (Oxford:

$24.95); rather she presents us with a recreation of
what life was like for those communities beforehand.

by Andrea Deakin
Terrace Book Reviewer

The title of the book translates as ‘‘the sounds of
people passing by, perhaps outside your iglu, heard
but not seen’’ and the scenes picture just that — the
old ways. Each pencil drawing, colored with pencil
crayon, is filled with lively detail. The 45 drawings
depict the building of a new iglu; the gathering at the
fishing hole, the joy of giving birth or a successful
hunt and the suffering of hungry people. There is a
simplicity and vitality in these drawings, and a sad
comment on lost ways in the brief text which accom-
panies each picture.

I believe that a fuller introduction might have
clarified for the general reader the background to the
drawings. We are not all as aware as we might be of
the recent history of the Inuit people, and it would
have placed the drawings more clearly in context.
Despite the sadness that underlines this depiction of
past times, the vitality and joyousness, the spirit of
the people comes through.

In 1964 June Callwood published ‘‘Love, Hate,
Fear, Anger, and Other Lively Emotions.’’ It was
received with enthusiasm and remained in print for
10 years. However, in the interim there have been
many new studies on the emotions and in the light of
this new research and new findings June Callwood
has revised her original text to incorporate these new
findings.

It has been found that while inheritance can in-
fluence temperament, strong fears and angers can set
early in life by experience and environment. Love is
now recognised as a learned behavior, one that we
can continue to learn and refine throughout life. It is
the most critical of all emotions, at one and the same
time the most creative and potentially
misunderstood and misused, the most distructive.

Physical growth and development are clearly
retarded when love and nourishing is absent in
childhood, children suffering when illness has re-
quired long periods in hospital or, alternatively,
flourishing in the care of compassionate and loving
nurses when removed from an uncaring mother.

June Callwood begins with the exploration of the
origin, growth and nature of emotions, and then ex-
plores each of the 10 basic human feelings — love,
hate, fear, anger, courage, guilt, ambition, depres-
sion, anxiety, and happiness. Ina practical, clearly-
written discussion she offers new insights into
understanding ourselves and our attitudes. ‘“Emo-
tions” by June Callwood is published by Doubleday
Canada at $22.95,

into print. Their sales
have totalled more than
one million copies in the
U.S. and in Korman’s
native Canada.

How does he explain
the success of his books?
‘“‘] think that the
knowledge of what ap-
peals to young readers
never had anything to do
with my being 12 or 13,”’
says the author. ‘‘I write
for myself. And in my
own education, I found
that many of the books
we read in school had no
relation to what we liked
to read on our own. |
write my books to be en-
joyed.” He still knows
how to reach even the
most reluctant reader.
**Kids’ tastes are very

specialized... but
everybody loves to
laugh.”’

Writing full time now
in New York City, Gor-
don still finds time to
tour Canada and the
U.S., visiting schools
and talking to children
about writing. In a re-
cent New York Times in-
terview, he revealed that
other types of writing
may be on the horizon —
television, film, theater.

Korman was born in
Montreal on Oct. 23,
1963; he is an only chiid.
His family moved to
Thornhill, Ontario when
he was seven years old,
and he attended German
Mills Public School
there.
school years were spent
at Thornlea High
School.

Why did this 15-year-
old excite junior high
students? Many of them

felt a strong sense of

continued on page 21

His secondary ~

Directory of

Terrace
Churches

4830 Straume Ave.

Sacred Heart
Catholic Church

Mase Times:
Saturday, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, 8:30, 10:00 & 11:30 a.m.

635-2313

4726 Lazelle Ave., Terrace

St. Matthew’s Anglican/
Episcopal Church

Phone 635-9019

Rector Rev. L. Stephens — 635-5855
Sunday services: 9 a.m., Family Communion
10 a.m., Church School
tta.m., Traditional Service

HRIST
UTHERAN
HURCH

Phone
635-5520

Sunday School
and Adult Class
9:45 a.m.

Sunday Worship - 11:00 a.m.
3229 Sparks Street, Terrace

Rev. Michael R. Bergman

3306 Griffiths

Terrace Seventh-day Adventist Church

— 636-3232

Saturday — Sabbath Schoo! — 9:30 a.m.
— Divine Service — 11:00 a.m.
Wednesdays — Prayer meeting — 7:00 p.m.

Pastor Ed Sukow — 635-7642

EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH
3302 Sparks Street, Terrace, B.C. PH: 635-5115

Pastors Jim Westman and Bob Shatford
Sunday School for ail ages — 9:45 a.m.
‘Sunday Services — 11:00 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.
Prayer Meeting — Wednesdays — 7:00 p.m.

KNOX UNITED CHURCH

4907 Lazelle Ave. — Sunday Morning Worship -- 11:00 a.m.

Phone: 635-6014

Minister:
Stan Bailey

Sunday School up to Grade 5 — 11:00 a.m.
Intarmediate Sunday Schoo! — 11:00 a.m,
Youth Group — Grade 8 & up — 4:90 p.m.
Adult study throughout the weak,

call the Church O

tice for times.

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and visitors to
Terrace of service times
and location.

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