Lost for more than 40 years and rediscovered during the days of the pandemic, a childrens乌鸦传媒� book written when a Kelowna resident was just 19 years old has now been published.
Pamela Reesor had forgotten that while living in East Africa all those years ago she had written about eight or nine pages of a book, inspired by a 乌鸦传媒榖eautiful baobab tree乌鸦传媒� and her favourite girls乌鸦传媒� name, Lisa.
After going through some memorabilia during the long days of stay-at-home orders, Reesor found a notebook with the tale of a young girl who lives in a forest with no parents and no human friends.
乌鸦传媒淚 sent the book to my friend Catherine-Anne Tower, who lives in Mexico, who is the grand-niece of Emily Carr,乌鸦传媒� explained Reesor. 乌鸦传媒淪he does some artwork and designs bags, tabletops and things like that.乌鸦传媒�
Tower read the book of seven-year-old Lisa, with blue eyes and amber-coloured hair, who lives at the base of a large tree with a group of animal friends. She then returned the book along with digital paintings to go with each page, depicting Lisa, her owl, bunny and tree companions.
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It was then that Lisa乌鸦传媒檚 World became reality in a 13-page, colourfully designed book that touches on fear, jealousy, loneliness and above all, the power of friendship
乌鸦传媒淏etween us, we have learned how to illustrate and publish a book, not that I have another one in me,乌鸦传媒� laughed Reesor.
Despite the many years between writing and publishing the book, Reesor said it was a story she felt needed to be told.
乌鸦传媒淚 thought it is very apropos, for its time, but I thought it is kind of an interesting story and good for kids to hear a little bit of this,乌鸦传媒� said Reesor.
Especially the end of the book where, 乌鸦传媒淥nce again, their little part of the world was happy乌鸦传媒�.
This isn乌鸦传媒檛 Reesor乌鸦传媒檚 million-dollar idea, with only 150 copies of the book printed. Instead, she hopes it serves as a tale that will resonate with her grandchildren as well as others.
The book is soon to be on the shelves of Mosaic Books downtown Kelowna on Bernard Avenue.
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