Storytime
ISS MARGARET BAKER, who conducts a session of Children’s Book Reviews from 2ZB on Sunday nights, takes her seat firmly on the Plot Revelation horn of the reviewer’s dilemma, a natural position for one who addresses the very young, on whom presumably any talk of stylistic achievement or philosophic framework would be wasted. But I feel that she perhaps took undue advantage of her position the other Sunday when she allowed the author of her second book Artie and the Princess to assume the _ responsibility for at least two-thirds of the session, she herself taking on the minor tole of Tusitala. The result was a very pleasant little quarter-of-an-hour (Miss Baker has a clear and delightful voice, not yet perhaps the Voice of Experience but none the worse for that), but I feel the purpose of the session would be better served if more books were included and the available time divided nore equally between them. As it was ‘Parachute Pup ("Is full of fun") had little chance of pitting his probable charms against the more publicised amiability of Artie, the Endearing Dragon.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 401, 28 February 1947, Page 13
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184Storytime New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 401, 28 February 1947, Page 13
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