New children’s book series

Press, 8 March 1988, Page 11

New children’s book series

The British actor Stephen Moore presents a new children’s series, “The Book Tower,” which screens this afternoon at 4.30 op Two. : j Each w ?ek, he introduces your ger viewers to six very cifferent books — from ftntasyiand fiction to action arid adventure to drtma and do-it-yourself. Favourite classics such as “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” are re-read and there is news on exciting developments in the children’s boojk scene. Moore Ireads selected passages from each book

and introduces dramatised extracts. He features in many of these himself, appearing as anything from a Roman jsoldier on horseback to a man surrounded by cats when mice ake over the world. . . In thi s afternoon’s programme, Moore reads from Bamber Gascoigne’s first I children’s jbook, “Why the Rope Went Tight/’ as well asja ghost story by Penelope Lively set, on a new hobsing and a story about the ancient country custom of wassailing the apple trees.