THE "CHATTERBOX" SERIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15482, 13 December 1913, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE "CHATTERBOX" SERIES.

ILLUSTRATED ANNUALS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. The "Chatterbox" Annuals: (Wells Gardner. Darton and Co., London) have for many years been famous among the children of the Empire; the 1914 publications timely for the holiday season and now to be seen at every stationers, not only justify but increase the enviable repntition. 'Hie new "Chatterbox" itself is of exceptional value, all old features being retained and new attractions added. There are twelve fine coloured plates and over 250 original black and white illustrations. It is good from cover to cover and is a marvel of cheap and -class work. Serial stories, short stories, adventure, games, humour, poetry and a hundred delightful features make a volume which all children will greet with whole-hearted pleasure. The smaller but not less attractive annual "The Prize," contains twelve fine coloured 'pictures and over, 100 excellent illustrations. For young children it is unique of. its kind, combining instruction with enjoyment in a manner difficult to improve upon. "Sunday and Everyday,"-, as its name indicates, is a popular and splendidly compiled volume for Sunday reading by the children. With four coloured plates and over 250 illustrations the 1914 volume of "Sunday" is undoubtedly among the best publications .ever issued for the young. "Leading Strings," the best annual published for very young children is a worthy prelude to the inimitable "Chatterbox!" It is beautifully bound, full of bright pictures and abounding in animal and other stories. Darton's "Fine Art Series," has been worked upon by the best of popular artists, and deals with such attractive subjects as: "The Seven Champions of Christendom," "King Arthur and His Noble Knight," "Stories from the Faerie Queen," "Captive.: Royal Children," "Fairy Tales from Hans Andersen," "A Book of Discoveries," (by. John Masefield) and many others of similar character. Taken together Wells Gardner, Darton and Co.'s publications are a 'credit to the children's book-publishing trade.