Children’s Corner
(CHILDREN’S sessions, must be the most difficult of all programmes to run well, when we consider the varying ages of the listeners and the need to find fresh ideas every day. To be successful, they require an outstanding personality in charge, whbd combines the patience of an infant mistress with the tact of a welfare officer. One such is Cinderella, the perennial spirit of 1YA’s
Children’s Session," who, over more years than it would be polite to record, has retained © her. youthful infectious manner and her gentle, lilting voice, and who emerges daily unruffled from the floods of cortrespondence from _ her loyal legions. Recently returned from
a holiday in England, during which, despite the valiant efforts of a locum tenens, her absence was sorely felt, she now painlessly injects doses of historical and geographical information into her ses¥ sion. I am able anew to admire the skilful way she combines admonitions about spelling, writing, manners and morals with sympathy and unaffected interest in her listeners. She is ably seconded by a host of "uncles," notably the recently-acquired "Tim," an interesting speaker with a critical brother, and "Grandad," whose original rhymed fairy tales strike me as good enough to make an excellent children’s book.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 536, 30 September 1949, Page 11
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207Children’s Corner New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 536, 30 September 1949, Page 11
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