H.E. Bates Companion

As in an earlier review of books for children, Bates begins: "These books have been reviewed not only by me but, where possible, by my three children: i.e., two girls aged 6-1/2 and 5, and a small boy of 18 months, whose major interests in life at present are the broken works of a grandfather clock, a musical doll and as much to eat as possible, and to whom books, in so far as they mean anything at all, are objects to be scribbled on with coloured chalk or to be torn up. To the girls, on the other hand, books are already a passion and these thirty books, which for three weeks have been scattered over floors, beds, chairs, tables and anywhere else where children could pick them up or lay them down, have been pretty well exhaustively handled by them." In The New Statesman and Nation (December 10, 1938, p. 988, 990, 992).

Babar at Home, by Jean De Brunhoff
The Forest Pool, by Laura Adams Armer
Mr Heinie, by M. A. and A. S. Beistle
Niki Takes a Holiday, by R. Worley and Roberts Johnson
Perri, by Felix Salten
Mr Jones of the London Zoo, by Marguerite Buller
Buffo and Petro, by Alison B. Alessios and Theresa Kabal
Mumfie's Magic Box, by Katharine Tozer
Little Elephant comes to Town, by Doris Estcourt
Christmas at the Four Paws Club, by Abbie Phillips
Heyo, Brer Rabbit!, by Enid Blyton
Creatures Great and Small, by Theodora Horton
Bennie Black Lamb, by Cicely Englefield
Twin Kids, by Inez Hogan
Hedgehog's Holiday, by Geoffrey Ford
The Stage-Struck Seal, by James Hull
Plain Jane, by Mary Colville
Sambo and Susan, by Katharine Harrison Wallace
Bramshill, by Joan Penelope Cope
First Friends, by William the Great
The Fireman, The Baker, The Engine Driver, by M. C. Carey and Nora Lavrin
The Magic Train,
My Book about Trains, by John Anderson
The Little Sailing Boat, by Lois Lensky
Larky Legends, by Norman Hunter
Rudkin, by Yvonne Wingfield King
ABC & 123,
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