Pacific Life for Young Readers

Neatly produced little reading books for Pacific Islanders who want to improve their English—or for children anywhere who like to read are being issued more and more frequently.

THE latest two to reach us are the work each of husband and wife—Percy and Renata Cochrane, of Port Moresby.

Percy Cochrane has written Vagi and Varo, Children of Papua, a 56page illustrated book dealing with the local scene; Renata Cochrane has written Houses, as part of the Oxford

series “Life in the Pacific”. Th 28 pages describe native housing ii Papua, including the Trobriands, th Gilberts, Fiji, Samoa and the Cooks and each house is illustrated.

Both books are clearly printed straightforward and useful. (VAGI AND VARO, 5/6; LIFE IN TH PACIFIC: HOUSES, 4/-. Both publishe by Oxford University Press.)

One of the illustrations from "Vagi and Varo"