WOULD YOU LIKE ONE OF THESE?

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22895, 16 December 1939, Page 3 (Supplement)

WOULD YOU LIKE ONE OF THESE?

Christmas Books From Whitcombe & Tombs ' 1

r “Baby’s Own” Yes, there is an annual for baby now. Its pictures are big and the brightest ever. Every page is coloured. Any tiny tot from 18 months to four will love “Baby’s Own.” “The Golden Treasure Book For Boys” It’s a big jump from baby to the boy of, say, 10-14, but here is a

book that any boy of that age will enjoy. Adventure stories? Yes! School stories? Yes! Don’t miss “The Golden Treasure Book lor Boys.” “The Big Book For Girls” The “Big Book for Girls” IS big. In fact, it’s really fat. It contains schoolgirl stories, adventure stories,

owawn most of them illustrated. There is no particular age for “The Big Book.” Every schoolgirl will rush it. “Jingles Annual” And here’s “Jingles Annual.” It. too. is for girls and boys 6-10 or

When you wake up on Christmas morning perhaps you’ll find a wonderful Christmas annual in your stocking. There is nothing quite so satisfying as a book for Christmas is there? Here are some books that are quite new, and big and fat and interesting. They are all to be bought at Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd., and Santa Glaus sent Lady Gay the list, so that she could help father and mother,' and you yourself choose.

thereabouts, and it has P ict^f? -sa £rsss~ s, r& s sg coloured pictures, too. “Chick’s Own Annual” What’s this? Why, if it isn’t the “Chick’s Own Annual.” It is beautifully bound, with stiff covers • , and is printed on thick, good paper.

There are lull-page fairy stories, in big type and wonderful illustrations. I "Easy To Learn” i “Easy to Learn" is that rare thing, a book with stories that really tiny children will appreciate. » it has big, coloured pictures, -and r very short, very simple stories.

“The Schoolgirls’ Own” A wild shriek of welcome from all schoolgirls. Every schoolgirl

knows “The Schoolgirls’ Own,* with' its exciting stones of school life. There are short articles of interest to girls, too, written in a style that girls will enjoy—and this is not ordinary. Two hundred and twenty-three pages to “The Schoolgirls’ Own.” “Tuck-a-Bed Tales” And last, “Tuck-a-bed Tales," with a story for every night and every morning in the year, with a few over. “Tuck-a-bed Tales” is a wonderful book that any child will love, and mother will welcome. Fat! Why, it’s really bulging. “The Big Budget For Boys” With a picture of a cowboy on the cover, and stories such as “Pirates’ Loot.” Boys from nine to

“Puck’s Annual” You all know “Puck.” Every child does. “Puck’s Annual” is for girls and boys 7-10, but older ones

will read it, too. Make no mistake about that. There are gay pictures, and thrilling stories. “Splendid Stories For Children” Has big, full-page coloured illustrations, and the stories »e » a high standard. There are funny

14 will seize on this book, read it and re-read it It’s fat, too, with many stories. In fact, big brother* —and father, too, will borrow “The Big Budget,” and forget to return it, perhaps.

K _ fairy stories, and stories of everyday doing.

■ YOU’LL LIKE THEM You’d like to be on board “The Press Ship” looking at this wonderful new-book-smelling pile of books. Uutthey V" a re all at Whitcombe & Tombs, too, and perhaps you ll receive one of them yourself on Christmas morning.

OLIVE OIL FOR FRISKY Frisky, our cat, has grown a big cat now. We give him olive oil every Saturday; he doesn’t like it MWMBO

c , at all, so we have to hold him. He is too big now for one person to do it all, so now my sister gives it to him while I hold him. Olive oil is good for cats and makes their fur shiny, too. Although Frisky has grown-up he is still as playful as when he was a kitten. —ISOBEL COCKERELL, Opawa.

How many balls of string would you need to reach the sky? One if it werp long enough. —ELIZABETH SMALE, Parnassus.

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Ma: Did you wash your hands VERY TRUE! , a before you sat down to tea. Tam the on i y on e in standard Mat: Oh, no, mummy. As we £ VJi so j will be able to come first were having brown bread I did not and last thI.TSEN s^at.v. think it would matter. —KATHLEEN SMAUfi.

OH, DARKIE! One day my brothers. Say and John, went looking for rabbits. They came home with two baby rabbits; they had fur on. We put them in-a box with straw ana grass, and put tin over the box with holes in. Next morning when we went to feed them, we were

surprised to find one missing, and in its place my big black cat, Darkie, was sleeping beside the other rabbit. Of course we knew where the other rabbit had gone. —MARGARET MAYO. A 3. Caged ID. ft What has no wings yet flies? • (* Dust. hZI/ —’MATE SIVTERA.