For younger children, about six to eight, there are two
new books in Collins's 'Panorama' series. Seal Bay, by Geoffrey Dutton and Dean Hay (12s. 6d.), tells, in simple text and large photo- graphs, how two small boys on an island off South Australia are led by a kangaroo to a colony of seals. They make friends with a delightful baby seal who leads them to a penguins' cave. Baby Seal makes such an im- pression that next day they try to find the bay by boat, almost disastrously. Inoke Sails the South Seas, by Ronald Rose (Collins, 18s.), has magnificent coloured photographs of life on a Fijian island. The text merely supplements the pictorial story of Inoke's life as a child : help- ing with the copra, feeding pigs, playing and studying. He takes part in a festival to welcome a chief, and eventually completes his schooling and achieves his ambition of joining the crew of the 'Ovulavula,' his friend's sailing boat.
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