Christooher Robin And Peter Pan.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19118, 10 July 1930, Page 8

Christooher Rob i n And Peter Pan.

A Woman's View .

TN the house of a friend it is the birthday of the son and heir today. He has outgrown the piggy-went-to-market stage, and his “story Daddy?” before he slips off to bed o’ nights is now an A. A. Milne, Christopher Robin one, and of course Christopher Robin hoppety-hopping his way into dream-land is always the little boy on Daddy's knee. Now, there is also a smaller daughter in that house, and books are cheap just now, so that when out of a sale-time pile “Peter Pan and Wa»dy” looked invitingly up to solve the perplexing question of a present to children who have a cupboard already full of toys, I blessed the dear man (seventy or more now) who had thought such whimsically childish beautiful things. James Barrie and A. A. Milne have, between them, given the children such lovely playmates. Their books make the perfect contribution to the little family good-night, and I hope—since I have posted one—the perfect present. On the subject of presents, A. A. Milne has suggested that for the man, we ought to make it, this year, braces instead of cigars; but they must be blue ones. B.E.S.