"been showing some renewed

. interest.in the book.
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Timmy just happens to be a main character, a tug’: and his many admirers,

boat, in one of the most successful children’s .Moray was able to see that

the kids liked the book and
he was able to hang tough
until he put together his own
publishing and distribution

books to come out of the west coast in a number
of years. -

The adventures of Timmy the B.C, Ministry of | system,
7 the "West Coast Tug. Matilda Education, the normal Timmy is a tug from
the Cat and Simon the - writer would have taken the’ “Granville Island who

coy ‘Seagull. have been read by hint.. But not Moray. The’., operates up and down the
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doing yery-well.. - put ‘their: money up front to, { mot have broad’ enough |
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the ‘stubbornness of. author publishing company. _ ** not on the west coast. With
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his. ‘adventures. would have

venture, worked and the first’ that many of the famous
“pied in'a drawers:

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Canada,’ and’ rejected with: ‘And there have. been’ And it Was the west coast
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‘various familiar locations.: as
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_setting.which, bothered the.

Ministry of
especially since names like
Powell River and Queen
Charlotte Islands were
mentioned. Too big, you
know. Those kids in grades
three and four wouldn't be
able to pronounce those
names, even if they lived ~
there. At least that appears’ '
to be the
rationale.

Mind you, Jeremy Moray

had. put Copies | of his
“Manus sipt : out- into schools
‘and the response -had been
great, both. from the kids and.
the teachers, ne

And oh yes, ‘there were
the illustrations by Dee Gale -
from Saltspring Island. Nice

illustrations, bright, big,
colorful, but,..,
Good. grief,. the cat

Matilda, was sitting on the
rail of: Timmy. And; again
according to the Ministry,

Education,’

Ministry’s

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