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CHILDREN'S STORY HOUR
Saturday views by Jenny
By Janaan Manternach
NC News Service
It was Saturday. Jenny’s best
friend, Alice, was sick. None of
Jenny’s other friends were around.
“It’s so nice outside,’’ Jenny
thought as she stood by the open
door. “I don’t want to stay inside
all day.’’
She turned off the television
and went to her room. She open
ed her closet and found the
camera her grandparents gave her
for her last birthday.
“Maybe I’ll just go out and take
pictures,” she said to herself.
“That’s better than sitting here all
day.”
So she went out into the back
yard. She noticed a beautiful red
rose on one of the bushes her
mom had planted a few weeks
before.
“I wonder what the rose looks
like to a caterpillar,” she thought.
So she lay down flat on the
ground near the rose and took a
picture of it from below.
“How does it look to our dog?”
she wondered. So she knelt down
near the rose and took a picture
from the side.
Then she walked down the
street looking for things to
photograph. She saw Tom, a
classmate, cutting a lawn.
“Tom,” she called out, “let me
take your picture with my new
camera.”
Jenny took a picture of Tom
pushing the lawn mower. He stop
ped and she walked over to him.
“Smile!” she said. Tom stood
there trying to smile. Jenny click
ed the shutter when she saw just
Tom’s face and shoulders through
the lens.
“Go take my dad’s picture,”
Tom suggested with a laugh. “He
broke his leg playing softball.”
Jenny saw Tom’s father sitting
on the front porch. She went over
and snapped his picture. “Take a
picture of my leg and cast,” he
said. Jenny sat down on the step,
bent over his broken leg and took
the picture.
Just then it began to rain. Jenny
ran home. A real storm was blow
ing up. She watched through the
rain-splattered window. “Maybe I
can take a picture through the
window,” she thought. It seemed
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HOW ABOUT YOU?
□ Did Jenny and her family discover any good points about other peo
ple by looking at photographs? Do you think that some of the best
aspects of your personality are sometimes overlooked by other people?
Children's Reading Corner
“Emma,” by Wendy Kesselman, tells about a woman whose fami
ly gave her a painting of her village on her 72nd birthday. But it wasn’t
how Emma remembered the village. So she bought paints, brushes
and an easel and painted her village as it was pictured in her memory.
One day one of her grandchildren noticed a painting she had done.
Then the whole family wanted Emma to paint another. From that day
on Emma painted everything she saw and remembered. Read the
story and talk about it together. Talk about why we treasure the pic
tures in our memories. Do we learn something from these memories
— about ourselves and about others in our lives? (Harper and Row,
10 E. 53rd St., New York, NY 10022. 1980, paperback, $4.95.)
too dark but she tried it any- 7
way.
When the storm stopped, V
Jenny took the film to the drug
store. Two days later she picked
up the pictures. She looked at
them with her mom and brother
during dinner.
“Look at that rose!”
her mother said. “I never
saw how beautiful a rose
could be from below.”
“Look at Tom,” Jen
ny’s brother said. “He /
looks so stiff. And he
looks sad. I never notic
ed that before.
Maybe he feels
lonely.”
“And there’s
his dad.
liven with that
broken leg
he’s smiling,”
Jenny’s mom
observed.
“I’m going to take more pic
tures,” Jenny decided. “Taking
pictures helps me notice
things I don’t see otherwise. That
picture through the window dur
ing the storm is beautiful.”
(Ms. Manternach is the author
of catechetical works, scripture
stories and original stories for
children.)
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