DEAREST LITTLE PEOPLE,

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19941, 27 October 1934, Page 22

DEAREST LITTLE PEOPLE,

Don’t you love our Baby Page? I have had a wonderful time reading your poems, stories and letters about the babies y ou like best, and wish there had been room for every one of them in our Page to-day. When I was a very-small person, about as old as you are, I was given one of the finest “Baby” books I have ever seen. How I loved that book! I read it and re-read it; and even now, though the cover is torn and several pictures are missing, it still occupies a treasured place among my books. I wonder how many Circlians have read and loved it. It is called “The Cradle Ship,” and was written by Edith Howes. It tells the story of a trip to Baby land. Win and Twin, on their return from their journey with the Fairy Rings, were delighted to find that they had a little new brother. They asked their Fairy Mother where babies came from, and she said she would take them to Babyland, where they could find out for themselves. She touched baby’s cradle with her hand, and it became a large, winged ship. They stepped inside, and there were seats for them all. Fairy Mother, with baby on her knee, sat in front to steer. The walls opened to let them through, and the magic ship sailed out of the house and over the hills to Babyland, where the twins had many strange adventures, saw many wonderful sights, and learnt many beautiful, interesting things. They saw flower babies, insect babies, fish babies, bird babies, and animal babies; and then, in a little house in a pretty garden, on the edge of Babyland, they found the loveliest baby of all—a little baby girl—as sweet and beautiful as the baby sisters and brothers so many of you have written about. You would all enjoy “The Cradle Ship.” It is a beautifully written book; a book you would want to open again and again; a book you would never forget; a book that every girl and boy should read. 'VCrJ LOVE ' AM*- I CL*.