Children explore sea books
By ROBERT LEE
Campus Reporter
Many children may never see the
ocean or the Great Lakes, but they
can travel the seas in their imagina
tions, through literature.
For two days last week elementary
school students and teachers had a
chance to do that at the Fifth Annual
Children’s Literature of the Sea
seminar at Texas A&M University.
The seminar, sponsored by the
Sea Grant Program and the Depart
ment of English, was developed to
“make children aware of the marine
environment,” said Norma Bagnall,
director of the event held in Rudder
Tower.
Inland children should not be “de
nied the opportunity of learning the
beauty, mysteries and importance of
the sea,” said Bagnall, an English
research assistant at Texas A&M.
According to a seminar booklet
Bagnall wrote for educators, “Amer
ican education has concentrated pri
marily on land. It has not stressed
the importance of our marine re
sources.”
The booklet contains a guideline
for teachers on how to integrate
marine-related children’s literature
into the classroom. By combining
readings on the sea with educational
games and even a hurricane tracking
map, the booklet makes a compre
hensive marine teaching plan for
elementary and secondary school
educators.
In addition to educational aids, the
seminar featured two well-known
children’s authors and some good
times for area grade school students.
Peter Spier, an artist and author,
opened the seminar Thursday morn
ing with a presentation on his home
land entitled, “Holland: Carved
from the Sea.” Spier won the Calde
cott Medal in 1979 for best chil-
dren’s-book illustration for “Noah’s
Ark.”
Friday morning he held an auto
graph party for over 300 children
from South Knoll Elementary School
in College Station. So many young
people came that an afternoon ses
sion had to be added to the program.
Between the morning and after
noon parties the children created
marine-related pictures using sea-
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Staff Writer
All the rights of the Taiwanese
people have been restricted by the
Taiwanese government, Linda Arri-
go Shih said in a speech Sunday
night.
Arrigo is the wife of noted
Taiwanese dissident Shih Ming-teh,
who is currently imprisoned in
Taiwan and charged with plotting
against the government.
Arrigo, speaking before approxi
mately 150 people in the MSC, said
the Taiwanese government is re
sponsible for numerous arrests of
opposition supporters, and has “very
structured and tight control of all in
formation” in the country.
“All the rights have been abro
gated by martial law,” she said.
“Much of the population knows the
things they are being told are not
true.”
Arrigo said several noted
Taiwanese people formed an opposi
tion coalition in 1978 to voice their
disapproval of governmental actions
and support their own candidates for
governmental offices.
One of the main topics of the dis
cussion was a December demonstra
tion in Kuoshiung led by the opposi
tion-founded Formosa Magazine.
The demonstration turned into a
riot, leaving several policemen in-
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The charge is up considerably
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In protest, Hackett said he has
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jured.
Arrigo said reports that only
policemen were injured in the riot
are false.
“The situation here is the fact that
any injured civilians are not going to
report their injuries to anyone,” she
said, “because they know they will
be arrested for participating in the
riot.
Arrigo said reports that the leaders
of the riot urged the rioters to injure
police are also false.
“I heard no person tell anyone to
injure any police,” she said. “The
magazine stopped the fighting after
ten minutes.”
Arrigo, who spoke for 70 minutes,
said the Taiwan people are currently
enjoying higher standards of living
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The other prominent children’s
author at the sea seminar was Ber
nice Kohn Hunt. She has written
over three dozen young people’s
books.
As a children’s writer, Hunt said
she speaks to children in a way they
can understand. She never talks
down to her readers. Instead, she
gets them interested in what whe is
talking about in her first paragraph.
“It’s important to grab a child’s in
terest early with a book,” Hunt said.
Hunt, who lives in New York, said
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