DEAREST LITTLE PEOPLE,

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21090, 16 July 1938, Page 1 (Supplement)

DEAREST LITTLE PEOPLE,

*:* Winter time is reading time. The long nights end X * the snug fires erg aloud for the fricndlg comfort of a X X good booh. J sometimes think of old friends on mi/ *•' X bookshelves—friends that here Liken -me joiSSm gs into X k* the Kingdom of Makcßcliere. Here arc a fem of llii-m. X X /In: they friends of yours? T hope so. X X First on nig list, of course, is ••Peter Pun,” Sir X ,T. M. Rarric's story of the boy who refused to grow up. X X Here you followi-il him and his friends into the Never- X X hind? Do gou I,mom Wendy. Captain Hook, Tinkerbcll, * X Michael, .John, Nanna, and the oilers? If you do not X X know these people, Winter is the season for meeting them. X lias Kipling ever I'lilcrtiiiiied, gou mt night with X X the wisdom, wickedness, stupidity and lorn lit eness of his X X animal heroes in the •■■lust x„ Mories," •■■liniglc Rooks,” X * and, ‘‘Thy Servant a Dog?” It certainly is a very X k* important thing to know how the elephant got his trunk X X and how other animals girl various things that make X X them, themselves and not someone else-—most im nortant k* X indeed! ;i; X -I- Milne is a very firm friend of mine. You X st i, he prov id cd me with ** 11 hen II i- 11 ere Yer if Young,” k* X Now lie Arc Ei.r, "Il innic the Pooh,” and other fire- * X side friends. II innic is th'' most charming bear in X * Rookland. Poor soul, he has a, rerg dull bruin hut a * eery loriible, heart. X k* must not forget Mr Toad of Toad Hull—rain, X X boastful, yet a, rather likeable chap. Of course his story X * really belongs to Kenneth (Irahum's immortal ■■Wind j'n * X 'The Willows:' * X . , 11 slue you all know Alice and her advent lives X X in 'Wonderland and Through the J,coking (Hass. J must X X confess that, [ hare not get grown tn feel vrn/ fund of X X the Duchess or Hie Queen, hut the While. Rabbit anil X X ™ Mt t,l(1 ~t),r' l ' x ,lri ’ people who cun ohurin me still. * k* Such nonsense!” did. / hear someone sag? Yes, non- X X sense, hut WHA T nonsense! / Jwiris Carrol ’would X k" give me some -more. X t 'These are jus/ a few of the rerg precious friends ♦ X Of my bookshi'lres—friends that / liked, the. first time X X me met. Let me know some of your friends, little people, X X mid perhaps I shall find that thug are. fronds of mine, * X too. *♦* X Lovc toYnu x X 7-7,>0.1/ YOI.'ROWN I I X