The Archive · 1935

Books for Children

Tue Prctume Book or Teatns—Ward Leek, London.

This is one of the series of Opal Picture Books and unlike several of fits predecessors which contain pi tures only, it possesses reading text printed in a large bold type which makes it doubly interesting to boys of from six to ten years of age. Twenty-four colour plates and numerous illustrations depict very inst tive, amusing and unusual incidents, with "reproductions of original re. conditioned locomotives. This is 3 book which should be on the book= Shelf of any boy and we venture to say his paternal parent will find it Tue Prcrome Book of Gastes—Ward Lock, London.

The Picture Book of Games denotes Its title, for it contains throughout games which all children of any age have played from time immemorial—from "Oranges and Lemons" to "Toboggening.", It is suitable for both boys and girls of six to eight years of age and contains 16 plates in full colour, silhouettes and other ilustrafons. "With Christmas so. near hand the fond parent will find this bookt a happy solution to the perennial question of "What to buy.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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