Lucky Dip

by Ruth Ainsworth, Geraldine Spence (Illustrator)

Stories and verses from the BBC radio series Listen with Mother.

108 pages, Paperback

First published September 25, 1965

About the author

Ruth Gallard Ainsworth was a British writer, of over seventy children's books and numerous radio scripts.

Reviews

[Nicholas Whyte]

http://nhw.livejournal.com/160332.html[return][return]Lovely little collection of stories for the under-fives. Could never sell today as it doesn't have enough pictures.

[Michele Brenton]

This was one of the very first books I read as a child. I had my copy when I was about five when it was first published and I still own that very dog-eared copy and I still re-read it sometimes or get my husband to read Charles is Cross to me as a bedtime story when I am feeling poorly or out of sorts.

I had a quite privileged childhood so Charles' experiences matched mine closely and that made these stories all the more delightful to me as a child. They are very uneventful but cosy and comforting - like a bowl of tomato soup and a slice of buttered white bread on a cold afternoon.

[DW]

Disappointed that the same ISBN was used for a radically different book! I read this book but it was written using the 'Initial Teaching Alphabet ', a script designed to make literacy easier for children in the 1960s. It was a dismal failure but the experience was a trip. The i.t.a. version has a bold bright yellow cover. This book would be a snore but for the i.t.a. mixing it is up so try to find the i.t.a. version if you read it.