There Will Be Wolves by Karleen Bradford

The Joyous Story of Astrid, while not predominantly religious or philosophical, does present tales from Asian traditions to the young Canadian reader. Adams Beck” was used primarily for writings dealing with Eastern mysticism and religion, which she studied intently. Moresby Island, in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia, is named after her paternal grandfather. Beck was from a prominent British imperial family, and travelled extensively in the Orient before settling in Victoria, BC. Moresby,” which she used for non-fiction. Barrington,” which she used for historical fictional biography, and “L. Adams Beck” is one of the three pseudonyms used by Elizabeth Louisa Moresby Beck the others are “E. Back to top B Lily Adams Beck The Joyous Story of Astrid (1931)

If my children were younger, I would want a copy to keep, for it is a fine combination of art, simple poetry, and tribute to the valley I was born in. Description of the volume requires words that are sweet and diminutive: it is truly a “fairy book” of flowers, in tone and content, visually and poetically. The poetry is sometimes shaky in rhyme or meter, but at other times perfectly lovely. I can well imagine, and modern readers will be surprised by some of the choices she has made: frittillary, kinnikinnick, pentstemon, urtica, and zygadena are not flowers I remember from my Okanagan childhood! The flowers she does include are all local wildflowers: no orchids or jasmine adorn these pages. Helena Parham (Botanist, Vaseux Lake), who has taught us so much about the flowers of the Okanagan Valley.”Īs an alphabet, the author tells us, it was difficult to find the right flower for each letter: some were hard to come up with, and for some letters there were too many options. The author thanks in her dedication a “Mrs. The copy I have in my hand is signed not by the author, but by the illustrator, Janet Macmillan, whose name when she signed it was Janet Macmillan Blench. The cover, title page, and poems are decorated by delightful wood-cut prints, with a lithe little fairy flitting about the flowers.

The volume itself is comprised of 28 short poems: an introduction, the 26 letters of the alphabet, and a farewell. Dorothea remained involved in North Okanagan community affairs for the rest of her very long life she died in 1981, at the age of 103. She had accepted a teaching position in Okanagan Centre, but when the couple married in December of 1913, she gave up her position (as was required of married women at the time) but stayed involved in education and other community services in the Kalamalka area. While in Oyama, she fell in love with her cousin’s neighbour, Robert Allison. She came to Canada in 1912 to visit her cousin, as part of a round-the-world tour that began with visits to her sisters in Burma and India. This captivating little book was written by a teacher in the North Okanagan Valley. A Dorothea Allison A Fairy Garland of BC Flowers (194-)

There Will Be Wolves by Karleen Bradford