Michael Heath
Having a three-year-old girl to read to, I've come across many interesting books this year. Ant and Bee and the Rainbow by Angela Banner (Heinemann, £4.99) has the gut-wrenching denouement that surprises still: 'Blue and yellow make green.' Just so.
Hurrah for Little Noddy by Enid Blyton (Collins, £3.99). To sense the really devas- tating feeling of alienation one has to read it in Portuguese. This can only add to the biscuit crumbs that are bound to get into the sheets. The Owl's Lesson by Nick But- terworth (Collins, £5.99). Is it an owl? Whom does the owl speak for ? Us? Koso- vo? Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (Bodley Head, £9.95). Yes, I know it's very Seventies. The Wild Things speak for the hidden fears about Vietnam and helped in a very real sense to end that hippy hell. In the middle of the night tears and fears can be banished by reading Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown (HarperCollins, £14.99). Shadows loom, a rabbit sighs in the night. Are we alone? I could go on, but my lids are dropping . • zzz . What, you want me to read them all again?
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