A programme for children under five

'He said "So-long, mate," and I said it too,' says the four-year-old hero of Diana Ross's story, 'William and the Lorry.' And William's words indicate an element in this story for our under-fives. In these days of mechanical things, reflected in our children in their intense interest in trains and motors, a story about a lorry makes an initial appeal, while to have a lorry-ride, as happens in this tale, must be a wonderful adventure. But to be acknowledged, as William is, as equal with the lorry-driver himself - that crowns the experience, for that is what gives to William a conviction of his own importance, a conviction very necessary to an under-five in a world of grown-ups where he easily senses his own inadequacy and insignificance. This story will be told again today and tomorrow by Catherine Edwards whom we welcome back once more for her next turn as a storyteller. On Wednesday and Thursday come the tales of 'The Three Bunnies' by June Colbourne, and 'The Nest' by Elizabeth Gardner, and on Friday, 'The Old Black Kettle' by Lilias Edwards.
(Elizabeth A. Taylor)