Children
p. 97 · Read in the full issue
Two For The
TWO new books for children, Turi, by Lesley Cameron Powell, and A Day at the Zoo, by Carol Odell, are two departures from usual in that they are illustrated by real photo graphs.
Turi is a Maori boy. When he was born his mother, in true Poly nesian fashion, said: “Poor Granny has no children to laugh and play at her feet now she is old. I will let her have this little one to make her happy in her old age”.
So this is really the story of Turi and his Granny and all the things that go to make up the life of the modern New Zealand Maori. The photographs are by Pius Blank.
The zoo in A Day at the Zoo is Sydney’s Taronga Park. There is a foreword from Sir Edward Hallstrom, the zoo’s honorary director, and some excellent black and white photo graphy. (TURI and A DAY AT THE ZOO.
Published by Angus and Robertson Ltd.
L 6- and 19/6 respertively.)