Two Irish Stories Follow—george Nash's Tale Of A...
Timothy John and Mr Murphy (Collins, 10s. 6c1.), and Walter Macken's Island of the Great Yellow Ox (Mac- millan, 16s.), a story of Druid treasure and mysterious yachts. This......
Josef Carl . Grund's Vendetta (chatto And Windus, 15s.) Is
set in Corsica and, as the book's title suggests, it is concerned with the passionate griefs, quarrels and jealousies that seem to happen only in Corsica or Sicily. These are......
Few Of The Stories In The Present Batch Operate On
all these levels, though most contain at least a hint of the fabulous. Robert Nye's book of short stories, March Has Horse's Ear (Faber, 15s.), makes great play, and fun, with......
Mother's Pouch By Two Children On Holiday. They Rear Him
on milk, and• anything else he can steal, but when they return to the city there is an added hazard : Tab the cat. This becomes such an anxiety that eventually they take -Ring-......
The Two Next Books Are Altogether More Matter-of-fact And...
than most of the others under discussion. Margaret Storey's The Smallest Doll (Faber, 12s. 6d.), is concerned with a Sunday School play; an element of fantasy is introduced,......
Edith Fisher Hunter's Child Of The Silent Night...
6d.) deals with a painful subject subtly and sometimes profoundly. It is also a brave story, since it concerns the first blind and deaf child to 'talk' and 'hear.' Laura is the......
Danny Dunn On The Ocean Floor, By Jay Williams And
Raymond Abrashkin (Macdonald, 13s. 6d.), is much more pedestrian, though it uses exciting material, such as all-wise professors and the strange fish to be found in the depths of......
Tale-telling
STORIES for children—at least all successful and lasting ones—nearly always work on several levels. There is, firstly, the level of pure narra- tive—accurate and usually......
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