A programme for children under five
Nursery rhymes, stories, and music
A small child loves to be useful as many a harassed mother knows. It gives him a place in the world, and when it draws the kindly approval of adults self-esteem is assured. Today's story by Betty Coombs , about a girl who had ' Nothing to do ' but found herself spending a useful and well-rewarded afternoon, touches this chord of feeling. Dorothy Smith tells the tale, and also those for Wednesday and Thursday, ' The Mouse that Ran up the Clock ' by Ann Elliott , and ' Goog's Ride to London ' by Carol Woollcombe. The latter -told about himself by a mother to her little boy-is an expression of the need for dreaming dreams to compensate for the things that cannot really be done. On Tuesday and on Friday Daphne Oxenford is the storyteller, and the stories are ' Wonga and the Tom-Tom ' by Anne Reed , and ' Five Ducks on a Farm ' by Leila Berg. They are as widely contrasted as their tides suggest. Wonga lives in Africa and the five ducks on a homely farm, but the motives of little boys are similar all the world over, and ducklings always like the rain Elizabeth A. Taylor