Selected For The Young And Young-In-Heart

Christine Stewart And Julie

Yager who collaborated in writing Six Horses and a Caravan, were still only 19 and 17 respectively when their book was published. The idea for it and the title had come to them four years previously, when they saw a truck carrying six horses and pulling a caravan coming into Sydney for the Easter Show.

From this, the story of Joanne and Diana Kennedy grew—a story that tells of the adventures of this pair jf 18-year-old twins who were allowed to tour country shows for a /ear with their six horses.

Much of the authors’ own feelings about horses and love of the country lave gone into this imaginative »tory. Young horse-lovers, arm chair or saddle varieties, will love t too. Action illustrations are by ioseanne Fuller, a contemporary of he collaborators.

In 1964 Christine was studying \rts and Julie, Veterinary Science it Sydney University; Roseanne is m art student at East Sydney technical College.

(Six Horses And A Caravan

Fre Smith. 21/-.) A SMALL, paper-backed book of the school-reader type, called Vhere’s Peni has been produced •y the London Missionary Society,

London. It’s written by Brian Ranford.

It would be suitable for use in the Islands—and probably would be read there as an extra-curricular activity.

It would also be suitable in Aus tralian and New Zealand schools or their libraries.

Peni was an Ellice Island boy who worked in the office of the Ellice Islands . Church (LMS) in Funafuti, and who in the course of his duties travelled around in the mission ship John Williams to all the other atolls of the Ellice Group.

The descriptions of the kind of life Peni lives, and of the atolls he visits will be of interest to manv people-even grown-up ones (where is peni? Published by the L ° nd ° n Mlssionary Society - 5 /“ st e--) a .

A MORE expensive children’s book ,^ lth an Islands theme—but excellent value for money — is Lyndon ?° f S u’ S Tun S i o f the Big Reef. Tungi 18 the Son • a west Samoan fisher man wllo * s . to ° P° or to hold a big feast. Tungi turns to and lends a hand.

Mrs Rose is the wife r»f Prmalrl

Rose/of the AuiJralL Departrnem

of Territories, and she and her husband lived in Samoa for a time.

Both have books to their credit.

Tungi of the Big Reef is the work of a craftsman—an excellent story in fine prose, filled with local lore, and suitable for anybody old enough to read. There are some excellent black and white drawings but the artist is not identified. (TUNGI OF THE BIG REEF. Jacaranda Press. 19/6.) THE hero of Jimmy Hurley to the Rescue is, naturally enough, Jimmy Hurley, a 10-year-old Aus tralian boy with an older brother and sister, a father who is a doctor and a mother who went on a holiday.

Most of Jimmy’s excitement hap pened while mum was away and dad had most of his mind on his patients.

Jimmy was the kind of boy things happened to. No one was really sur prised when he ended up rescuing an aboriginal boy from a circus, getting his picture in the papers and being interviewed on TV.

The story, by Carol Odell, is designed for eight to 11 year olds.

It’s illustrated by astra lacis—in small letters.

(Jimmy Hurley To The Rescue.

Angus and Robertson Ltd. 16/-.)