[Art_beyond_sight_theory_and_research] Living Paintings Trust

[Lisa Yayla]

Book's a joy for blind children

SALISBURY based actor and broadcaster Joe McGann has teamed up with 
local sculptress Rose Eva to help make a new book accessible to blind 
children.

Mr Wolf's Pancakes, written by Jan Fearnley, is now available on audio 
tape through the Living Paintings Trust, a charity which specially 
adapts children's books for blind youngsters.

Mr McGann volunteered his voice for the tape and Ms Eva, who is a 
long-time supporter of Living Paintings, wrote the script.

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Mr Wolf's Pancakes is a delightful story about a wolf's endeavours to 
make pancakes despite his unhelpful, mean neighbours. It is the 105th 
book produced on tape by Living Paintings and comes complete with raised 
"feely picture" illustrations of Mr Wolf and the houses of his various 
neighbours: Chicken Licken, Wee Willy Winky, Gingerbread Man, Little Red 
Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs.

An audio description navigates the fingers over the images, explaining 
the details so that visually impaired children can "see" them and enjoy 
them.

Living Pictures provides a variety of touch and sound books and packs, 
including illustrated Braille-adapted children's storybooks, educational 
topical packs, resource packs for students and teachers used during 
classroom study and a variety of adult interests such as art, gardening 
and architecture.

They are distributed by way of a free, postal library service so that 
anyone living anywhere in Britain and Ireland can become a library 
member and benefit from the service.

Ms Eva, whose works include the Deeper than Skin sculpture that is now 
in the Salisbury District Hospital dermatology unit, said: "The whole 
joy of children's books is in the illustrations. In a book adapted by 
the Living Paintings Trust every picture is described, so blind children 
don't miss out.

"As a sculptress working with my hands, the feel of things is very 
important to me, so the Living Paintings Trust is a charity close to my 
heart."

9:00am Sunday 20th August 2006

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