CIG BOOKS FOR CHILDREN
There is no dividing line between picture bcoks and story books and these are primarily meant for one person to read aloud while the other look's at the pictures.
Orlando, the Marmalade Cat, by Kathleen Hale (Country Life, 6s.), is biggest of all. Orlando and his wife Grace and their three kittens go camping, and we see all the important details of their holiday ; even Orlando spraying Flit in the tent to get rid of the gnats. One or two of the full-page drawings are too vague and spreading to be perfect, but it should be very popular. Edward Ardizzone's illustrations are gloriously comic and alive : His Tim and Lucy Go To Sea (O.U.P., 6s.) has a good story too, with' ph at and domestic affairs. It is labelled " ages 4 to 7," but everyone else will enjoy looking at it.
Sheila Hawkins has made two books with beautiful, -funny drawings. In Pepito (Hamilton, 75. 6d.), a Spanish boy and his donkey and a little girl have exciting adventures with gipsies, live in a fish shap and then in a garage, and finally go home in a big bus. Appleby John (Hamil-
ton, 7s. 6d.), is a Miller's Boy who does very silly things, but makes everyone laugh so much_ that he is forgiven.
Black Bramble Wood, by Mollie Kaye and Margaret Tempest (Collins, 6s.), is an animal fairy story in the Beatrix Potter tradition. A little pig gets into danger and his friends have a lot of trouble in rescuing him. There are charming pictures and blackberry. coloured script. A- Day in Animal Town, by Freda Derrick (Blackie, 3s. 6d.), has vividly coloured pictures-
of atnnals-in-schdol and at their-Christmas party. - - -
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