A Page of Pictures

{The English text for this page in not quite good enough for the German authors to begin working on the translations, but they are welcome to do so if they want. I began this as a Kinder seite, but got interested in trying to make it interesting for older students. Maybe we can use {} to enclose editoral notes while we are writing our pages.}

Meine Katze Seite

Dieses ist mein Katze. Er mag laufen. Er ist weiss. Er kann nicht Deutschen lesen. Meine Katze schläft. Meine Katze ißt Mäuse. Kranke Katzen essen Gras. Ein Kitten ist eine Babykatze. Löwen und Tiger sind große Katzen. Löwen wohnen in Afrika. Löwen leben in den Dschengeln von Afrika. Tiger Wohnen in Afrika und in Asien. Ich habe vor Tigern Angst, aber sie sind hübsch. Was ist eine Leopard? Ist es eine Katze? Ja, eine Leopard ist eine große, beschmutze wilde Katze. Leopardjagd während der Nacht. {this looks wrong} Leopardschlaf in den Bäumen während der Tageszeit. {The English translation of this text is located below.}

This is my cat. He likes to run. He is white. He can't read German. My cat is sleeping. My cat eats mice. Sick cats eat grass. A baby cat is a kitten. Lions and tigers are large cats. Lions live in Africa. Lions live in the jungles of Africa. Tigers live in Africa and Asia. I am afraid of tigers, but they are pretty. What is a leopard? Is it a cat? Yes, a leopard is a large, spotted wild cat. Leopards hunt during the night. Leopards sleep in trees during the daytime.

I got carried away using Babelfish while writing the above. The above would be nice for the late pages of chapter 100 or early Chapter 300. Nadine, Gabrielle, or Talia, I could go to a better translator or try to insert my own German, but I am short on time today. I will present this as an example. This did not take long and makes me excited that it may not be so difficult to write some illustrated pages after all. However, I should hope our final pages look better than this. I do not like the large print. But I made it large for small kids. Of course, the page is too crowded for young kids. Nadine, it is possible for your kids to edit this page before you do? It would be valuable to have their input. I guess you don't have WWW at home, but perhaps they accompany you to your office sometimes. I know a professor at University of Illinois who carried her 8 month daughter to her classes, on her back as Indians do. I never heard a word of criticism from faculty or students. She taught horticulture, held a doctorate and was about age 27. I never heard the baby cry or demand attention.

Below is the page that I originally began to write. I am just using figures that I already had in my directory.

Meine Bilter Seite Für Kinder

{I do not have many pictures for kids. I just used what I had. Using Graphics Workshop, I should be able to enlarge some figures and reduce others so that the figures are neared the same size. I will probably keep this page for a while as a horrible example and then improve it and save that as a different page for Demo. At present I do not have Grapics Workshop installed and can't work on the pictures. The main effort now is to look for pictures. Do not discard pictures because we need pictures for preschool kids and Gymnasium students. I did check my spelling on this page.}

{It is immediately clear that we could have lots of picture pages for kids and adults. Suggested pages: gemusen/(vegetables, animals/tiere, plants/ , buildings: churches, home, shed, school; ...}

Link	bombe	Vorsicht
link	bomb	caution sign	man working
		das Welt	das Maus
bacillus shaped bacteria	a wild hacker	A map of the continents	a mouse
erdnuss	Rathaus	St. Nicklus	Giffte
peanut	town hall	Santa Claus	Poison
	der breif	Rose	insekten
smile	letter	rose	insects

This is a demo page to test the best design for a picture page. Don't forget that large pictures can

This is a demo page to test the best design for a picture page. Don't forget that large pictures can take up 2 or more squares. long texts can also use 2 or more cells.

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