A programme for children under five
Today Catherine Edwards returns for her next four weeks as story-teller for our under-fives. This week she includes two favourites, Jean Sutcliffe 's story about Charlie and his big red bus tomorrow, and on Friday, ' Tumpy the Circus Elephant,' by Margaret Wallace. We have commented before on how our small listeners imagine their story-tellers in relation to themselves. They are a'so, we find, deeply interested in them as people-' Where do they live? Have they any little girls and boys and can they all come to tea ? ' Their interest extends also to the rwo singers. For many, George Dixon is ' the daddy ' and a small boy seeing a picture of Eileen Browne thought her ' a very nice little girt.' They feel concern for the welfare of all. One small boy hopes that the story-teller is not dead during her time off, while a five-year-old girl, hearing of someone who died from a fall in the frosty weather, worried lest the same should happen to any of our story-tellers. Her sister allayed this fear—' George will look after our ladies,' she said. ' You see,' adds the writer of the letter, the twins think you are George's wives I
Elizabeth A. Taylor