A programme for children under five
Nursery rhymes, stories, and music
' May I,' wrote a mother, send a request for a story about the little girl who swung on a garden gate and said sometihing like this: " One big orange, two red cherries, three fat plums "? '
Though this description does not quite exactly fit the words of Amy Smith's story 'The Little Green Gate' (to be heard again tomorrow from Dorothy Smith), it does seize on its characteristic spirit, tale pleasure in rhythms and patterns of sound, which makes it so satisfying to young children. It is a pleasure to be enjoyed several times this week, both in the poems and jingles to be heard each day, and in today's story by Hilda Rostron, 'The Whistling Wind' (storyteller, Dorothy Smith) and in tomorrow's 'The Roller that Made a Good Road' by Eileen Matthias (storyteller, Daphne Oxenford).
The two remaining stories for the week have a different kind of appeal. They are 'Teddy Bear and Baby Mouse,' by Violet Statham, to be told on Wednesday by Dorothy Smith, and ' Spoon Faces,' by Irene Hope, to be told on Thursday by Julia Lang. Catherine Edwards introduces the programmes for the next two weeks.