{"id":18513,"date":"2019-11-06T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=18513"},"modified":"2019-11-04T11:27:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T19:27:48","slug":"camosun-instructor-kari-jones-publishes-new-childrens-book-on-resource-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2019\/11\/06\/camosun-instructor-kari-jones-publishes-new-childrens-book-on-resource-strain\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun instructor Kari Jones publishes new children\u2019s book on resource strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Camosun College English instructor Kari Jones recently had her most recent book,<i> Ours to Share: Co-existing in a Crowded World<\/i>, published by Orca Books. The book, Jones\u2019 seventh, looks at how having almost eight billion people on Earth puts strain on resources. Still, despite the heavy subject, Jones remembers her audience\u2014the book is for ages 9 to 12\u2014and practices what she preaches to her students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI try not to talk down to my readers but just to be a little bit more explanatory so they understand what I\u2019m saying,\u201d says Jones. \u201cAnd that\u2019s what I\u2019m always telling the students: just remember the reader.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18514\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18514\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/72DF5F80-0AF8-4D4C-B6D8-E6F901652740.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/72DF5F80-0AF8-4D4C-B6D8-E6F901652740-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/72DF5F80-0AF8-4D4C-B6D8-E6F901652740-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/72DF5F80-0AF8-4D4C-B6D8-E6F901652740.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camosun College English instructor Kari Jones\u2019 latest children\u2019s book tackles big subjects (photo by Eli De la Cruz\/<em>Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Getting recognized for her work\u2014such as a 2017 nomination for the Bolen Books Children\u2019s Book Prize\u2014is important to Jones, but she emphasizes how rewarding it is to hear feedback from friends after their kids read her books. She particularly enjoys this personal connection with her young readers.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy cousin told me that her daughter wasn\u2019t really a reader and then she read one of my books and now she wants to read all of my books,\u201d says Jones. \u201cThat\u2019s really nice when you realize you\u2019ve had an impact on a child\u2019s life; I think that\u2019s, for me, the biggest thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones has had her books translated into several different languages; she laughs at the fact that she can\u2019t read Finnish, for instance, and can only hope that the translation is accurate. Mostly, though, Jones is intrigued by how her work is perceived by readers abroad.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe one that was translated into most languages is set on the coast here and I don\u2019t know how people in other countries will see it,\u201d she says. \u201cI can really visualize it because I live here, but I just wonder what they see when they read that in another country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones\u2019 appreciation for various perspectives goes even further, especially in terms of realizing that there are other ways of living. Jones says that this recognition allows for different approaches to some of the crises that we are in; part of that recognition is acknowledging privilege.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to understand that privilege has a responsibility that goes along with it, which is to care for the world and to care for people who are less privileged than ourselves,\u201d she says, \u201cand maybe even sometimes to give up some of our privileges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Acknowledging privilege relates to the concept of sharing and big-picture thinking that Jones discusses in <i>Ours to Share<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think if we go into the world thinking about sharing then we are less likely to try to protect our own little spot,\u201d she says. \u201cWe are more likely to think about the world as a large place that we all need to participate in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones says that anybody can be successful when there is passion and a lot of commitment involved. She is inspired by young activists such as Greta Thunberg and Jones\u2019 friend Mira, to whom she dedicates <i>Ours to Share<\/i>. Mira is a 15-year-old girl who has been involved with trying to get the voting age lowered in British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think if you just have the idea and the commitment you can really make a difference,\u201d says Jones. \u201cThat\u2019s really the message that I hope that young people reading the book would go away [with]\u2014if you want to change something, you can work for that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camosun College English instructor Kari Jones recently had her most recent book, Ours to Share: Co-existing in a Crowded World, published by Orca Books. The book, Jones\u2019 seventh, looks at how having almost eight billion people on Earth puts strain on resources. Still, despite the heavy subject, Jones remembers her audience\u2014the book is for ages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-november-6-2019"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18515,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18513\/revisions\/18515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}