For Younger Children

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23203, 14 December 1940, Page 14

For Younger Children

AUSTRALIAN FAIRIES

PUZZLE AND PAINT

Bumper Book of 80 Pictorial Crossword Puzzles and Stories. By John Tombs. Angus and Robertson Ltd. 171 pp. (4/9.)

Boys and girls who enjoy puzzles will be delighted with this wellillustrated volume. The pictures are not only good to look at; they can be painted to the young readers fancy. Every puzzle is accompanied by a story that helps the reader to work out '■he problem.

Pixie O’Harris Story Book. Written and illustrated by Pixie O’Harris. Angus and Robertson Ltd, 159 pp. (4/9.)

Many little boys and girls who like fairy tales already know how

good Pixie O’Harris is at writing them; and these are more of her best. Her gift for apt illustration is charmingly exploited; ai ?£ imaginative child will find almost as much entertainment in her dainty pictures as in the pretty and lively stories they accompany.

THE YOUNG HARE

Jeremy Jack. By Cicely Englefleld. John Murray. 41 pp. (2/6 net.) This happy little story of Jeremy Jack, the lazy young hare, will be a boon to parents and others appealed to for a story by younger children, Jeremy Jack is a charming little fellow, even though he is so terribly lazy. Whether his adventures teach him a lesson every little reader or listener will be anxious to discover.