Smaller Fry

Something For The Smaller Fry

and Fireman, by Caroll Odell, is a story in pictures andl text for older children wanting toi know just how the Australian fire: brigades do their job. Many of the; illustrations are Press photographs of real fires and help tell a graphic story of the fire brigade at work., It is ideal for the school library. (FIRES AND FIREMAN. Angus andl Robertson Ltd. 21/-,) COLIN THIELE has written am unusual tale about Storm Boy „ who lives on the wild sandhills near the Murray River’s mouth, Southi Australia, and who befriends a pelican named Mr. Percival. Black: and white drawings by John Baily are: in sympathy with the wild and lonely background. Early teens will find it fascinating. (STORM BOY. Rigby Ltd. 17/6.) FROM the same publisher as Storm Boy comes an unusual picture book in the Alcheringa TV Series called The Boomerang-Maker. It is the work of Frank and Betty Few— Frank Few is Walt Disney’s photo correspondent in Australia—and the brief text and the full page photo graphs illustrate the making of a boomerang by Nambruk for his two children, Kirri and Jeenga. This book is good stuff for anybody old enough to be read to.

(The Boomerang Maker. Rigby

Ltd. 15/-.) qne Sunday Morning Early is a book of modern verse for the children by Irene Gough, prettily illustrated by Noela Young. It’s for all ages. There are poems about Tabbies, The People Upstairs, Our House and Adelaide, and one called Jets. It goes: Listen-listen The planes go over! (Silent the bees In the clouds of clover) Faster than sound, Miles in the sky Like bees about Heaven The bright jets fly.

(One Sunday Morning Early. Ure

Smith, Sydney. 19/6.)