For You To Read

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 9, 5 October 1940, Page 18

For You To Read

Kiwi's Book Suggestions

TJEADING books is like travelling far On a ship you have chosen yourself. So many hobbyhints and poems and tales All in a row on one shelf'

“Let’s Make It,” a book of hobbies by eight authors (London; George Allen and Unwin).

This is a varied collection of “things to do” which embraces a wide field, including detailed directions for making dolls, lantern slides, jig saws, miniature gardens, model aircraft and toys. This book should open up countless fresh fields of exploration on wet afternoons and weekends —specially for the young people to whom the word “hobbies” conveys nothing more than stamp-collecting or mere scrapbook pasting. Originally, it was compiled from a'number of talks broadcast over the 8.8. C. Children’s Hour. In response to public demand, the best of these talks have been rewritten, enlarged and enhanced by the use of diagrams and illustrations. Evacuated children overseas have found a fund of interesting pastimes between its covers. There are fewer people to make our toys now, and there is less material for their manufacture, —consequently, the “Let’s Make It” book should also serve as a very popular and practical guide for New Zealand teachers and parents and boys and girls.

'The Chalet school in Exile,” by Elinor Brent-Dyer (London; W. and K. Chambers).

Some of our girl members will know the Chalet School series of books. This new one is an up-to-the-minute addition, for it tells of the adventures of the school when it has to hurry away from the chalet in the picturesque Tyrol when the Germans marched into Austria. The Chalet School was always an International one, where mistresses and pupils alike came from all over Europe, and Germans. Swiss, French and English mingled happily. The heartbreaks of tile'divisions caused by the Nazi invasion and the adventures when the school was watched bv Gestapo agents all make interesting reading, and there are some lovely descriptions of the French islands to which the school Is exiled. It Is a school story of the Tory best kind.

AjTANY inquiries have come to hand regarding “Greenwood” (a volume of verse), which is issued by The Little Poetry Society. Many of our members are already familiar with its green covers and delicate line decorations, but those who are still seeking information, and who would like to receive their copies, are requested to write to the President, Mary Greig, 25 Purnell Street, Wanganui.