THE BIG BOOK TO GROW ON

A book of songs, stories, poems and pictures, this is directed at children of all ages. Every mood and experience is embraced and the continuous story of some Austrian children (the book was published first in Austria) ambles on at a natural pace so that its characters seem like familiar friends to the reader who encounters them in various episodes throughout the book. Illustrated by the author and printed with variations in the typography, this is an ambitious publishing job, but somehow despite the various experiments employed here, does not seem to contain much material that is distinctive or interesting.