A programme for children under five
Nursery rhymes, stories, and music
'Is she coming while they play the music?' ask some of our under-fives. 'They wonder,' writes the mother of a family of small listeners to one of our storytellers, 'they wonder where you go when you say goodbye - do you catch a bus or train or go in a car? David is drawing you a bus.' Many children speculate thus about their 'story ladies.' They are on the look-out, too, for evidence: 'We listen every day after you have said "Goodbye until tomorrow" for your shoes to walk away, but you must go very quietly because we never hear you.' And sometimes, as with Peter, evidence is found: 'Peter says you are walking away down the path, and he can sometimes hear the gate close.' What tale will their storyteller have told this week before, each day, she creeps away, shuts the gate and boards her bus, train, or car) Today, 'Johnny and his Rainbow Bubbles,' by Catherine Morris, and on the following days: 'The Little Train's Big Day,' by A.F. Clement, 'The Little Green Gate,' by Amy Smith, and two stories of Lulupet and Toffee, by Jane Alan
(Elizabeth A. Taylor)