Show W'0 W I T Standard-Examine- 5E Sunday March 4 1990 r HorizonsBooks Beattie had to juggle with Associated Press NEW YORK — Ann Beattie loves children’s drawings She finds them wonderful even radical and regrets that those qualities are usually lost in the art rooms of local schools Her own work is a careful balance between the untutored joy of a nursery schooler’s fingerpainting and the polished craft of a professional portrait It’s a process the author says: writing and editing the secrets and surprises of first putting the words on paper and the often chilly task of elimination and alteration that follows two-ste- p Will" (Random House $1895) her first novel in four years is the final product of a frustrating juggling act that saw 15 chapters and several working titles lie crumpled in a nearby wastebasket the result of a creative process with several unexpected agonizing plot twists “Unless you intuit correctly whether as an adult or a child you’ve just got to revise it and fix it to make ft a work of art" explained Beattie 43 whose work includes the novels “Chilly Scenes of Winter” and “Falling in Associated Press Author Ann Beattie poses in her New York hotel room following an interview last month as she promotes her new book ‘Picturing Will’ Here are the best sellers for the week ending March 2 compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide “You’re not going to die are you?” asked Charlie Brown “Good grief” said Linus “What kind of question is that?” It’s the kind of question that children — and adults — want to ask when a friend becomes ill especially when that friend has cancer “Why Charlie Brown Why? A Story About What Happens When a Friend Is Very 111” (Pharos $1295) by Charles M Schulz vyas developed in cooperation with the American Cancer Society “with special thanks” to the California Division American Cancer Society and Sylvia Cook of Stanford’s Children’s Hospital It tells the story of Janice who is diagnosed with leukemia Janice and Linus are good friends and after a visit to the hospital Linus asks the Charlie “Why question Brown why?” Charlie Brown has no answer The book talks about the fear that cancer is contagious and shows the reaction of classmates and siblings who feel Janice is getting too much attention There is even an “obnoxious-looking boy” who knocks Janice’s new pink cap from her head revealing that she is bald the result of her cancer treatments Schulz has interspersed the story with humorous moments including Snoopy racing up and down the hospital steps dressed as “the world famous surgeon” The publisher says a specialist in childhood illnesses first suggested the book to Schulz as an educational film Schulz worked with Pharos Books the American Cancer Society and CBS-Tto produce the trade paperback book animated and a Books-Topp- er full-col- V te or television show (The tentative air date for the CBS-Tspecial is Friday March 16) Charlie Brown “Why Why?” features 32 pages of original watercolor paintings e glosby Schulz and a sary of terms provided by the National Cancer Society and the US Department of Health and Human Services The book’s introduction is written by actor Paul Newman founder of The Hole in The Wall Gang Camp in Conn a camp for children with cancer and serious blood diseases The American Cancer Society estimates there will be 7600 cases of new cancers among children under the age of 15 in the United States this year Even though it is statistically rare as a childhood disease cancer is the second-leadin- g cause of death among children Accidents rank first ages Overall however mortality for childhood cancer has declined from 83 per 100000 in 1950 to 35 per 100000 in 1986 The decline is especially due to improvements in survival for leukemia kidney cancer and Hodgkin’s disease The American Cancer Society says books by Schulz and authors Erma Bombeck (“I Want to Grow Hair I Want to Grow Up I Want to Go to Boise”) and Fred Rogers are helping children with cancer and their families friends and classmates cope with the ramifications of the disease “Projects such as ‘Why Charlie Brown Why?’ can also enlighten the public about how to respond to children with cancer and raise the awareness and sensitivity of all who are in contact with these children" the American Cancer Society concludes V Hardcover fiction The Bad Place Dean R Koontz Putnam $1995 2 Devices and Desires PD James Knopf $1995 3 A Ruling Passion Judith Michael Poseidon $1995 4 Counterattack WEB Griffin Putnam $1695 5 Cold Harbour Jack Higgins Simon & Schuster $1995 6 Vineland Thomas Pynchon Little Brown $1995 7 Daddy Danielle Steel $1995 8 Clear and Present Danger Tom Clancy Putnam $2195 9 Hollywood: A Novel of America in the 1920s Gore Vidal Random House $1995 1 two-pag- Dela-cor- Seuss $1295 Hardcover non-fictio- Megatrends 2000 John and Patricia Aburdene row $2195 1 Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street Michael M Lewis Nor 3 DESIGNER LENGTH RAYON SOLIDS 60" SOLID $287 PASTEL 2” PANTWEIGHTS P0LYC0TT0N BROADCLOTH 100 377 JUNGLE PRINTS SPRING COTTON STRIPESDOTS11 6 0Z DRESSWEIGHT 60" DENIM ASSORTED gqgy !99 ton $1995 4 It Was On Fire When I Lay Down on It Robert Fulghum Villard $1795 5 Wealth Without Risk Charles Givens Simon & Schuster $1995 Diet Martin 6 The Katahn Norton $1895 7 The Tempting of America Robert Bork Free Press $2250 8 Toxic Parents Dr Susan Forward with Craig Buck Bantam $1895 § The Cuckoo’s Egg Clifford Stoll Doubleday $1995 10 How to Make Nothing But Money Dave Del Datto Simon & Schuster $1995 V j A $595 This Feather-lit- e wig weighs barely over IV2 ounces It has a new blend of coloring for a distinctively natural look £22 esse WHITE 3-SPOOL 4 004 s©850 “wig shoppe i- 393-900- 3 VERTICAL BLINDS PLEATED SHADES EL Doc-tro- A Geer C & Mirages Sturta ridge SHOW SPECIAL WOVEN WOODS DRAPERIES SHUTTERS WOOD BLINDS OGDEN w OFF 25-4- 0 4308 8 SALT LAKE 6 479-166- Hurtae BM Ceut rf BiO Plm 487-566- 3433 2 Soetfc State ' $495 i LINEN PRINTS P0LYC0TT0N INTERLOCK SOLID gs 07 PASTEL-BRIGH- T FIEECE5" WDE $197 EASY KNIT 60" THOMPSON CHILDREN PRINTS OA7 tn'jl CHINTZ-PASTE- L DRESS PRINTS TR0PICALNE0N 1" JAM PRINTS JAMS YDSZUU 5 ELASTIC r FAMILY HAIRCARE SAVINGS! 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