13 NOVEMBER 1964, page 29

The World Before Six

BY the time the modern child goes to school, he may well have a nodding acquaintance, through picture-books, with much of the world, without having been much farther than the......

Please Yourself

The Island of Fish in the Trees. By Eva-Lis Wuorio. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. (Dobson, 15s.) Colonel Sheperton's Clock. By Philip Turner. trated by Peter Forster.......