C9 - Sunday News, December 28, 1980

PREPARING TO SING
one of her own com-
positions for a Channel
10 talentshow § is
Maureen Fitzsimmons.
The recent show

featured North Shore
performers from the
Nancy Davis School of

Pop Singing. (Ellsworth
Dickson photo)

West Vancouver library packs them in

Authors hosted

Situng beside a real live make mistakes. Use colorful
author is exciting if youare a = evocative language — young
child. “Now I have a picture — children will be hearing your
of her in my mind to go with books. rather than reading
the story,” said one young them.
admirer of Frances Duncan,
and her book, Cariboo Sue Alderson keeps a
Runaway. journal as a help to mind
blockage Ans intriguing
exercise she uses is the
“Spider Web word
association Put a word in
the middle of the page Say
you use the word ‘pole’
Write whatever comes to
vour mind —- barber. red.
vault. fishing, and pretty

Its yust as delicious if you
are an adult and this is your
chance to ask at least half a
doren oof the hundred
questions about how to write
for Children

In an informal rap session,
West Vancouver Memorial
Library recently hosted two

soon vou have a nice cluster

local authors Frances
of words and imapges

Duncan and Sue Alderson
The room owas packed Frances Duncan feels that
children were sitting on the there wot any fundamental
rece some adults were difference ino writing for
Standing All had a common children of adults Phe main
bond an interest i wring thing ws to be an honest
books

weitet and have an

abounding empath tor
Suc Alderson, author of B t y
people you hke Asa test ask
the beloved Bonnte Mce- ow ld Dh “
: yourse onule ave this
Smithers You're Driving Me ae
D character over for hunch
tthers, = shared ips oon

writing for children The The author should help the

Protaponist should always be
the hero of the story
whether at be a mean and

tcader by giving some sort of
cluc in the beginning as to

whatis going to happen later

Nasty island a toy, an on SUE ALDERSON READS from her book at the West Vancouver Memorial Library.
animal ora child Whatever As the whole session was

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