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Description: FRONT COVER FEATURES THE IMAGE OF A PARACHUTER WITH A PLANE IN THE BACKGROUND AND READS "ALLEN PIKE OF THE PARACHUTE SQUAD U.S.A." "THE BETTER LITTLE BOOK". BACK OF BOOK GIVES INSTRUCTIONS (WITH ILLUSTRATION) ON HOW TO VIEW FLIP BOOK. BOOK IS NUMBERED TO PAGE 424. EVERY SECOND PAGE OF BOOK IS ILLUSTRATED, AND IN TOP RIGHT HAND CORNER OF THESE PAGES IS A SMALLER PICTURE THAT IS PART OF THE FLIP BOOK FEATURE. STAMPED INSIDE FRONT COVER, AND ON FIRST AND LAST PAGE IS "REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA SLOCAN CITY, B.C.". ALSO INSIDE FRONT COVER IS A PIECE OF BROWN TAPE THAT HOLDS IN A SLIP OF PAPER THAT HAS BOOK TITLE ON IT AS WELL AS AN EMPTY TABLE.

History: DONOR'S BROTHER, TIMOTHY, CREATED A LITTLE LIBRARY FOR FRIENDS, AS THERE WAS NO LIBRARY IN SLOCAN. TIMOTHY NOW LIVES IN SEATTLE. BOOKS WERE BROUGHT BY DONOR'S PARENTS FROM VANCOUVER TO SLOCAN CITY IN 1942. USED BY DONOR AND HER SIBLINGS. DONOR HAD BOOKS ON BOOKSHELF BEFORE DONATION. THE FOLLOWING IS A QUOTE FROM DONOR'S BROTHER TIM : "I THINK OUR PARENTS ASKED US WHAT WE WANTED TO TAKE WITH US. JOY AND I MUST HAVE CHOSEN THOSE PARTICULAR BOOKS. SUCH MATERIALS WERE SCARCE DURING OUR "CAMP" LIFE, AND IN THE IMMEDIATE POST-WAR YEARS WE SPENT IN COALDALE. I REMEMBER THE 3 TITLES YOU MENTION. OUR FATHER, THE REV. GORDON GOICHI NAKAYAMA, MUST HAVE PICKED UP THE USA BOOK IN ONE OF HIS TRAVELS AND INSCRIBED HIS NAME IN IT. THE OTHER BOOKS, ONE WITH JOY'S NAME, AND THE OTHER WITH MINE, WERE OUR TREASURES THAT WE LEAFED THROUGH REPEATEDLY AND ENJOYED IN THE LOG CABIN WHERE WE LIVED IN SLOCAN CITY." THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY WAS ORIGINALLY FROM VANCOUVER AND WERE INTERNED IN SLOCAN CITY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR. FOLLOWING THE WAR THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY MOVED TO COALDALE, ALBERTA. AT COALDALE DONOR'S FATHER, REVEREND NAKAYAMA, FOUNDED THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION WHERE HE WAS RECTOR FROM 1945 TO 1970. SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.