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INSLIE MANSON is

having a private

chuckle in the
basement of her West Van-
couver home, which dou-
bles as a working studio.

The local children’s author
doesn’t consider herself an expert
on anything, and yet time and
time again reviewers eagerly refer
to her as an historian.

“V’ve been amused by it,” says
the Montreal native with a smile.
“Y've always been interested in
history, but | don’t consider myself
an historian.”

And her readers are grateful she
doesn't write like one either.

Unlike the history of mind-
‘numbing facts and footnoted
details (not to mention textbook-
dull illustrations), Manson’s new a
historically based children’s book, eS EA : ° an
A Dog Came, Too, is a refreshing, ; NEWS photo Mike Waketleid

finely crafted sirnpte tale that re- : .
counts the true adventures of a WHO SAYS history. has to be boring? West Vancouver children’s

charismatic pouch. author Ainslee Manson has created a wonderfully refreshing

Four years ago Manson publish- _ book for kids.
‘ed a biography of Canadian ex- under the slats, not under a kitch-.. canoes but ran along shore.
plorer Alexander Mackenzie and en table. Fle had never had his As kids follow Our Dog's
through her research discovered dinner served to him in a dog dish. journey to the Pacific, they get a
that Mackenzie’s big brown dog, He had never worn a collar or had glimpse of the challenges the ex-
_ referred to simply as “Our Dog” a family to call his own, . plorers faced in the wilds and
in his journals, accompanied the Somehow, this stand-by-your- learn of their dependence on the
_ voyageurs on their arduous ° “man mut miraculously trekked natives for directions through the
journey across the continent in alongside the voyageurs all the Mountains anc streams.
1793, ‘ . : way from the St. Lawrence River They can also glean from White
Manson writes of Our Dog: ~ to the West Coast and back. . Rock painter Ann Blades’ delicate,
«. He was nat a pet. He was a work- Most amazing of all, he never. : .
" ing dog. Alf his life he had slept. ‘travelled,as a passenger in the ; See Journey page 38

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