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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER, 20, 1958.

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THE BOOK PAGE poses a question that will disturb every parent now buying the children's Christmas presenti,

Christmas-Val Parnell But can the little

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gets in the business!

HE battle of the recording heavyweights is on. ATV has just obtained what is described cautiously as "a substantial interest" in Pye-Nixa, This incans that the three-year-old Pye-Nixn, up to now merely a fast bantamweight with a handy punch, will have the poundage to take on the really big boys in the game.

Men behind the Pyc-Nixa build-up are Val Parnell, managing director of ATV, and those talent promoters Law and Leslie Grade.

the Big Three of Show Business,

Who said that the boom in records was finished? This latest development not only confounds the prophets of doom, it promises to revitalise the British recording secne.

Chance for British

to

wilt be Val Parnell

off 10 America for talks with

He hopes American recording concerns. LWO major pull off a deal that will bring some of the biggest star names in the world to the Pye-Nixa label.

interests

is

Petals

"We intend to promote the tablished winners

of British artists as Clark, Lotante Donegan, und well, both for the well-being of Edmund Hockridge, the company and also to enable The situation is fraught with cur stors to compete on some- interest even in these carly days, thing like equal terms with I cannot wait to see the reaction their American counterparts," *[ that titanie trio, E.M.I. Mr Parnell told me.

Decea, and Philips.

Already Pyc-Nixa have made

darlings READ?

this LL A

week in Britain's bookshops the massed faces of a million aunts and uncles will be peering at the children's shelves.

What a neat colution to the Christmas problem those shelves seem to offer.

In December 1958 children's' books дте botter produced than they have ever been before. They glow with brillance and colour.

Only one drawback exists. When the books are wrapped In holly paper and the postman brings them to your door, isn't it just possible that you may While they are fighting it out ask yourself: Will they ever with Pye-Nixa to bring us the get read?"

a bid to capture their first castle -- now fome in a night best of entertainment on record, comedian and singer Roy Castle you, the record buyers, arc --to add to their impressive bound to be on the winning roster of stars. He Joins such

wide.

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Bill Haley back with a riot

WE

E said that Bill Haley 15 dead but he does not seem lio down. Last week he urned up with his band Paris. Result: rockers in

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Martia

THE CAT

and DOG

different professors. He doesn't really so-called will be repeated in against the

again and again, notice the individual letters at "modern" methods of teaching sentences

Until the little boys and girls all. He glances quickly at the children how to read,

whole will bo able to recognise the shape of the word, or

words, and takes in word from its shape king before group of Above all they are the "Look-Say" method.

they have any idea of the the meaning at once. sounds which "a" and "p" and "1" stand for.

CAN YOUR CHILD REALLY the gleaming BEAD? While new schools rise in every town, II And that мого and more parents of young children are unable 10

confident give a answer.

ed

in

available

too.

in-

Aghting

follows an uns cher who

NOT LOGICAL

What is the reasoning behind this method?

invented it before the war pro-

Let the children do the same, said the professors. Let them took and then sau. It can be us simple as that.

minor riot at the Olympia Musk THE NEW DISCS side? Is he learning the most

Mr Dac important thing of ail?

Halt

Teenagers who decided that he had given them short measure ripped out seats

mashed bottles.

*** NAT "KING" COLE:

Dimenticar” (Capitol). "Noh Cole, top singer, has not had

THE VIEWS

You have never heard of it You ought to have done. 2 CAN YOUR CHILD REALLY is the method used for young children in nine out of ten If you do not like it, remem- READ7 The schools

saying: ber the old

"Don't to him may look magnificent, State schools in Britain today. He's doing Even the raflings may be paint-t is used in most private schools

smart contemporary

Let me explain how Look-Say

The American professors who shades. But what goes on

follows the method completely duced these two knock-down will not talk about the alpha- arguments:--- het to her children at all. She will not mention ABC or even "Er, Ber, Cer. Der." She will That and a lop hit for too long. And this

question, I believe, 15 start them straight away sont,

sophisticated worrying thousands of parents whole words even on Iazlly

whole Italian balled,

quite today. If is 'worrying employers. sentences. made the bit parade before.

And lodny in the midst of But this dig should beat both

children's book season I hoodoos. Cole, with his smooth the blend of caressing voice and report the views of two experts casual siyle, can still show his who say that there is guud cause Imitators a few things, Tho to worry. sung is worth while, too.

They are the British educa *** JOHNNY OTIS SHOW: tionists, J. C. Daniels "Willie DIE the Cha Cha"

Hunter Diack. (Capitol) Best of the current

Together in big crop cashing in on Cha Cha America they have with a rock flavour.

John Lambert

So if Haley cannot claim to ave broke into the Best Sellers fately, at least ho can assert: "We were a riot!"

Us

That gun-toting marshal of Tombstone, Arizona,

has with Anally caught up Wyatt Earp has burst into song. H.M.V. have just issuINI "The Legend of Wyatt Eur and "Down In The Meadow." Singer-actor Hugh O'Brian

He is better known to most of As the intrepid marshal.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

GREAT GRANDPA

JUST

PILED THE

FAMILY

INTO A

STAGE

COACH

HOOP

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nover

But how has Look-Say help- ed with chlidren's reading? That is where Mr Daniels and Dinck come in. They· Bad with some very clever

except children, and where teachers have reinforced by teaching the Look-Say sounds of letters-it has not helped at all.

English spelling, said the professors, is not logical (as on if we didn't know that already). The professors pointed out that

For ocveral years they have even simple words like "book" done research in Midianda

same schools.. and "boot" have the

pronounced in an en- vowels tirely different way.

child

That is why-if your goes to a "Look-Say" school- you will find his first text book such a puzzle. It will be full of pre.ty pictures. But it will not start with words like "eat" or "mat." Almost on the first and page there will be such impres

sive sentences as "Janet, tooic at the aeroplane."

Britain

and bean lead-

On page after page that word Ing a massive counter-revolu- "aeroplane," and a few others,

Christmas Preparations

--AND GRANDPA PACKED THEM ALL

IN THE FAMILY SLEIGH-COMPLETE WITH SLEIGH BELLS, BUFFALO ROBE AND SNOW.

SKIRTS

AND

ALL.

ALL ABOARD FOR THE CHRISTMAS REUNION.

LATER ON, POP TOOK

EVERYONE

ON THE

STEAM CARS- [('AND DON'T

FORGET YOUR

PACKAGES!

CRIED THE

CONDUCTOR.

COR THE WORLD EXCIOS SERVE

1997 BY STEAL PLATURES, MONEY

IF I GIVE THEM THIS WILL THEY APPRECIATE IT? WILL IT HAVE A

GOOD HOME ? WHY SHOULDNT THEY BUY THEIR OWN? WHATS

THE MATTER. WITH ME KEEPING Ite

- TODAY WHEN THEY GO TO THE REUNION, ALL GRANDPA DOES IS HOPE THAT GRANDMA WILL KEEP THE CAR DOWN TO FIFTY AND PAÝ

ATTENTION TO THE TRAFFIC LIGHTS.

WRAP 'EM AND FORGET EM.

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IN GETTING RID OF T LAST YEAR'S

PRESENTS

ITS BEST TO REMEMBER

WHO GAVE

THEM TO YOU,

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..THEY HAVE FOUND

Therefore--they orgued if teachers who are satisfied when you teach children the alphabet, their all pupils can pick out words like "look" and "Janet." you explain how the sounds "Aeroplane from shorter

words are built up with letters, it will only confuse the Httle dears.

of

Then look at a person who knows how la rend, sald the

By Harry Weinert

"ALL I ASK IS THAT YOU KEEP AWAY

FROM THE PUŃCH BOWL AND POLITICS !••* ̈

SUPPOSE THEIR

OPINIONS ARE ALL COCK-EYED —IT ISN'T UP TO YOU TO SET THEM RIGHT!S

BRIEFING SESSION.

IF YOU INSIST ON DOING YOUR

YOU INSIST

USUAL SANTA CLAUS

ACT YOU WILL NEED A NEW BEARD THE MOTHS

HAVE BEEN

WEARING

THIS ONE /

HOPING FOR.SNOW AND A SLED TO GO

WITH ITS SEEING HE HAS A

WILLING SLED DOG.

Sny Dantels and. Dlack; you might ds well get children to learn English by sorting out different lengths of string.

THEY HAVE FOUND a class of ordinary 10-year-olds who were being taught to pick out the word "cavern" from: a number of other words.

By the Look-Say method, they did it in a flash. But when they

write asked to

down were "cavern" from memory they produced these variations:' cur- ven, crane, cave, earven (six children wrote. It ké that), croven, corden, camren, men, wardren, carverm.

DISTURBING

Verm

Daniels and Dlack report some other disturbing things.

THEY HAVE FOUND train- ing colleges where future teachers spend for more. time on handicrafts than on learning how to teach reading.

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THEY HAVE FOUND schools where children are not taught reading at all before the age of seven on the grounds that they have not reached reading readiness."...

What then can you do about. it? Suppose you are worried by your child's reading progress, what action can you take?

First I advise you to get a copy of STANDARD READING TESTS (Chatto, 215.). They are hard going for the person who is doing the, testing, but they will tell you whether your child (at any age between six and ten) is below or above average for his 'years, and they will tell you just where his faults lic.

SO HELPFUL

And if your boy or girl 10 below standard?, Wall, Way Daniela and Black themselves can help you there. They have produced a series of reading books which you can úsq. at home yourself.

They use thas old letters- stand-for-Bounda “malhod-but they have improved on it enor- mously. They are careful to keep out the difficult sounds (such as that awkwardį,00) from the early stages. I can teslify that the results, aro' ex- cellent.

..

The name of the series: THE ROYAL, ROAD READERS (Chalto-Book. One. Ja|34; Books Two to Nino-from 28. tiet much). Theo PHI GILE BOOK which tells you how to use the series costa ds. AANA

can imaging few other. Christmas presents “whlets, bould bring such profit in the yORIE to come