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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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