In the News
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From the North Renfrew Times: December 18, 2002
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Having no children of her own, Beth Shields has found a different way to populate the United Townships of Head, Clara and Maria, and it's not a relocation program for nuisance animals, although when you read on, you may wonder.
Inspired by the birth of her only nephew, Shields has written a number of stories that children and other artists can illustrate themselves. Her "Auntie Beth Books" feature |
FP Newt aka NP Fox aka FN Pike; Ya Fun; Turklump; Bert T Bird; Dear Mouse; The Dullops; Cerridwen; and, sometime in the near future, Rusty.
These newcomers to Stonecliffe are all characters in what Shields believes is a new concept in children's books - limnables. The dictionary says limn (lim) is a verb that means to draw or paint or to illuminate (manuscripts). That is exactly what readers are invited to do - limn Shield's char- |
characters as they solve problems that most children will recognize.
The characters have taken up permanent residence in Stonecliffe but they are beginning to venture east. You may run across them in Stonecliffe, Mackey, Point Alexander, Deep River or Chalk River, but they're not so easy to recognize. Their appearance is a[s] varied as the number of readers that limn them... |
