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Of Mice And Men

FROM Aesop onwards, animals have been used to depict human problems, vices and virtues, strength and weakness. This seaion's crop of picture-story books owes a great deal to the......

Who's For Golliwogs?

I DIDN'T think that in 1965 they would still be writing stories about golliwogs. But that's what Ruth Ainsworth has done in Rufty Tufty Makes A House (Heinemann, 9s. 6d.). This......

Heroes Assorted

Gandhi : A Story Biography. By Taya Zinkin• (Methuen, 12s. 6d.) dens thor Sea Captains and their Ships. By Kenneth A (Odhams, 13s. 6d.) I len. Enemy of Rome. By Leonard......