SHORTER NOTICES
Cinderella, illustrated by Roland Pym. Goldilocks and the Three Bears, illustrated by Patricia Turner. (Chatto and Windus: Peep- show Books: 7s. 6d. and cs. respectively.) Feed the Animals, By H. A. Rey. Where's My Baby ? by H. A. Rey. (Chatto and Windus. 3s. each.) INSPIRED perhaps by the Victorian peepshows, Messrs. Chatto and Windus have produced some unusually intriguing children's books. A new and complicated method of binding has been evolved by which a series of three-dimensional pictures can be presented like stage scenes, the story being briefly told under each picture. Mr. Roland Pym, displaying faultless taste, has devised a delightful Cinderella which will be admired by grown-ups as well as children ; his Rex Whistler-ish garden scene is particularly successful. Miss Patricia Turner has a smaller format, and is less ambitious, but she gives a homely setting to Goldilocks which will be fully acceptable in the nursery. The books should prove highly stimulating to children of artistic sensibilities ; but they must be taught to respect them and not pull them to bits ; for of all books these would dis- integrate the most catastrophically. Mr. H. A. Rey speaks in simpler terms to a younger audience, but his folding pictures (not peepshows) are always ingenious and often surprising and amusing. Aunts and uncles wishing to please children of almost any age would be well advised to buy all these books and distribute them according to the individual capacities of the children, taking care to admire them themselves before they part with them.
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