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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1950.

The BOYS

BOYS and

Sta

and GIRLS PA

THIRTEEN BOOKS ZOO'S WHO

FOR THE 25th

F. G. Prince-White picks some winners for Christmas reading

WHE

1X7HEN Christmas is just fact fight in their minds for round the corner, and supremacy, and fancy generally gets the worst of it. Luckily, it's time to choose books as

more and more writers of presents for schoolboys and juvenile fiction are now pro girls who will all be expect ducing mystery and detective stories, and sea yarns and tales ing something "really

of adventure which indicate in- super,"

"I seem to hear them creased respect for the develop- whispering: "What cheek ing young intelligence. A good for any grown-up person to example of this new attitude is "The Poisoned Pilot," by Captain decide what we'd like to A.O. Pollard, V.C. (Hutchinson, read!"

65.); and Captain WE. Johns seems destined to be as enor- mously successful with "Gimlet" as with "Biggles," His latest narrative of the'exploits of the resourceful Commando leader, In "Gimlet Bores In" (Brock-

hampton Press, 6s.), is certain of being accepted with alacrity.

But I flatter myself that, if they walked into the bookshop with me, they would plump for the very books I had thought of for them

I am particularly happy about

"The my choice

Children's Ship" (Barrie, 12s. 6d.), com- piled by Lady Cynthia Asquith. The title puzzled me at first, for there is nothing at all concem- ing ships in the book. After I had dipped well into it, how ever, I realised that it might with good reason have been called

Children's Ship "The Comes Home," for it is loaded

silver and gold with

In the shape of stories and rhymes and sparkling accounts ot the habits of birds and a variety of other attractive matters written by some very famous people.

Pigs In Clover

Miss

iss NANCY PRICE would alone make, the book Д treasure with her memories of animals that have appeared on the stage with her. Of one of these, a piglet, she recalls:

"He used to nuzzle against me, squeaking with delight when I came into the theatre, and wag the whole of his little body; he would follow me about exactly like a dog, and lie on the rug by the stage door- keeper's feet and nibble his boots.

There

is a spate of animal stories. I do not welcome all of them; too many of their authors. fall into the error of making four-footed characters bewilder- ingly human. The best of them are boons and blessings, for they appeal strongly to girls as well as boys.

LITTLE BLUE HERONS ARE NOT LITTLE... THEY MEASURE

2 FEET IN LENGTH...

GCRAM

KANGAROOS ARE NOT POPULAR WITH AUSTRALIAN FARMERS, SINCE THEY COMPETE WITH DOMESTIC LIVESTOCK FOR CRASS AND

AND OTHER CROPS.

BIGHORN SHEEP DON'T

| ALWAYS BATTLE BY CRASHING |HOW TO HORNÝTHEY SOMETIMES STAND CLOSE AND STRIKE UPWARD | BLOWS AT THE OPPONENT'S ›

STOMACH....

Ocean-to-Ocean Telephone

-Hanid Received a Distress Call On It-

'By MAX TRELL

In this category I place "Great- heart," the history of a shepherd dog that became a blind man's guide, by Joseph E. Chipperfield

(Hutchinson, 8s. 6d). It first-rate black-and-white lus- trations by C. Gifford Ambler.

Remarkable among the animal books is one by Jane Gaymer, who is only 10: "Brownle" (Hollis and Carter, 158.), a sensitively written story about horses. The young author supplies her own wasn't the illustrations, which tonishingly literary style.

and Hanid, tho hasKNARF

Shadows with the turned- about names, had a large sea- When-as shell in their room. often happened-they put it to

listened, their cars and

they fancied they could hear the sound of the waves. Perhaps it sound of the waves are as as-at all that they heard, But that's mature 09 her what it sounded like.

Something To Make THERE is never any doubt about the rightness of ME

Folly" (Bodley Head, Bs. 05.),

King Nep, who once used to be called King Neptune because, in olden days, he was the Ruler of the Seven Seas, told them phone from all the oceans in the that the sea-shell was a tele-

Atkinson's stories; "Steeple world. Only King Nep wasn't King Nep used to be a'famous

king.

This little pig eventually went will be hailed with joy by all important any more. Instead of being the Ruler of the Seven Miss who have read. "August Adven-Seas, he was now hardly even Then a big wave to u farm in Yorkshire, Price stipulating that he should ture" and "The Compass Points the ruler of the little brook that high on it and he can't swim

"never become bacon." She says he was "driven there in a Rolls- Royce and had a royal farewell, the whole company gathering round, very near to tears

Another actor-piglet-in her production of "Alice in Won- derland"-wns adopted by Lewis Carroll's grand-nieces. When he had grown to 400lb, they reported: The only use ful thing he does is to waddle leisurely about at charity fetes enabling people to have sixpen- ny guesses at his weight.”

Boys Want Facts TT is not easy to choose books for boys in their 'teens; they are at a stage where fancy and

Everyone at Rediffusion joins in this warm Yuletido greetings to our subscribers and to those who, next year, will become our subscribers, May 1951 bring you all succEKS

the t

and Ferfect Listening.

FROM

REDIFFUSION

North."

A book that will get many

out of grown-up

a quandary and bring sweet peace to many

throws him

Grove. ran at the edge of the Pine Tree

himself of."

"But you're not going to leave

It was a curious thing. Knari

a home, has been written by and Hanid were sitting quietly hian there, King Nep!" said G. Warren Schlost, a former in their room. The canary had Hanid in alarm. "animator""

in Walt Disney's stopped singing, The cuckoo- studios. Its title is "What Shall I clock seemed all at once to stop

"Oh, no! I'll get him off. He's Do?" (John Murray, 7s. 6d.), and ticking, though the pendulum an enormous fellow, much, it tells, with the ald of scores of kept swinging. The humming much bigger than an elephant. photographs, how to make all fand buzzing and chirping of the Nobody can lift him. But I'll manner of toys and games, and msects outside the window In

perform simple but very mys-the garden became suddenly get him off."

tifying parlour-tricks.

to

hushed. Then Knarf, and the

Ocean Telephone

If you want to make absolute- next instant- Hanid, were aware and yet familiar ly sure of qulet hours in the of a strange Christmas holiday you must add sound.

this list the "Show Books" (Werner Laurie, 53, cach), fresh versions of that old delight, the cut-out "peepshow," which in clude Christmas Crib and a Noah's Ark, and will, I guarantee, engross the restless child.

scene

Glost

In A Few Lines...

"A Prince of the Willow," by ER. Home-Gall (Hennel Locke, 6s.); story of a boy batsman who' finally plays for England.

"Dolectives by the Sea" by Joan Henson (Faber and Faber, 8s, Ed.); a well-written mystery thriller,

"It's the ocean

telephone!"

Knaff exclaimed all at once.

Hanid listened for another in- stant, then rushed across to the table where the shell was stand- ing and put it to her ear.

What is it?" listening beside her.

Knari cald,

; Someone is in trouble!" Hanid said. She put the shell to Knarf's car. "Listen," she said, "Listen and you'll hear it."

Knart heard the voice dis- tinctly. It was saying over and over: I'm in trouble. Somebody "Eudoria's Broomstick," by Vic-help me. Come quick." tor Knowland (Eyre and Spot- tiswoode, 78. fd.); very exciting

"Who

Bro

you?"

tale about witches, with novel shouted into the shell. pictures.

"Adventure and Discovery Book" (Jonathan Cape, 12s. 6d.);

a "safo buy"" for any boy or girl.

Kourt

Thousand Miles

Knarf and Hanid both won- dered how King Nep was going to do it. "The rock where he's stranded is a thousand miles away from here," King Nep was "But I'll get him off. saying. Hand me that little pebble, please," he said to Knart.

Then King Nep did a strange thing. He took the little pebble and dropped it, plink, into the brook. The pebble made a little ripple. Knari and Hanid watched the ripple as it swiftly dowed down the brook and disappeared around the bend.

"Well," said King Nep, smiling again, "that's that! Leviathan will soon be off that rock and m deep water where he can swim."

.

But but King Nept Knari and Hanid both shouted, "How? How can that pebble-?” .

King Nep chuckled. "The pebble made

a ripple. The ripple will get bigger and

the bigger as it goes down brook-as it goes down the My name is stream-as it goes down the. I'm stranded on a river. When it reaches the ocean

"I'm Leviathan!"

"Who?"

"I'm a whalel Leviathan! rock!

"The Greenland Adventure," by George L Proctor (Harrap, 78. 8d.); four undergraduates on me!" an expedition get thrillingly in- volved in International, intrigue.

Puzzle Answers

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There was only one thing to

I can't swim. off! Help it will be a wave. The wave will go across the ocean, getting higher und stronger-higher and mightier-higher and do. Knart and Hanid did it stronger and mightier than the They ran immediately to the rock greater: than great brook. It was fortunate that Leviathan the Whale himself! It they came when they did. Little will lift him up. It will lift him King Nep was about to go off up: It will lift him up as though for a long. walk to the end of he were a tiny cork and toss the brook to see if all his tad- him for away into deep water poles were turning into frogs.

where he can swim. Well, as I And "Leviathan the Whole is in said before, that's that!" trouble!" Kaart sald. Then he King. Nep walked away told King Nep the rest of the When Karf and Hanld re- message, King Nep's face grow turned home and latened in dark. "It's the second time that the sea-shell again they heard this has happened. I warned him only a happy voice "saying: to keep away from that rock. "Thank you... thank you for But he always swims up to it. the wave, King Nep!"

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thought of blowing" somebody up a cow's bladder and using that fristead of digging · up skulla. The new "ball" wasn't BO gruesome, and it had more bounce. They still called the game: "Kicking the Dano's Head," and it wan trenien- dously popular, Whole villages would play, each side trying to kick the ball across the market square. Every man' and boy in : the village played on tho ["team," so it was a' mixry tree

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ahead at the Americ King's sheriff, and went right" ón kicking and goeding.

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