NATURE FOR CHILDREN
COUNTRYSIDE STORIES. By Nancy Ww. Stevens. George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd. OUNTRYSIDE Stories is nature study made easy and pleasant for children. It is calculated to make them observant without telling them in so many words to use their eyes and ears and noses. Animals, flowers, and fishes talk, but only to tell their own natural histories. There are fairies and elves but they are really only children, neither whimsical nor sweet, and they only appear occasionally to give variety and to tell a story too difficult for the birds and bees. There is no "talking down"; the language is restricted to the eight-to-10-year old’s vocabulary, but Miss Stevens is not afraid of using a big word where a big word is the only right one; and though there is a moral to most of the stories it is pointed, never punched. The book is excellently set out with big print, short chapters, clear headings, and delightful -wood-cuts.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 473, 16 July 1948, Page 33
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161NATURE FOR CHILDREN New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 473, 16 July 1948, Page 33
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