Babies ¦ Christmas ¦ Keeping Clean ¦ Rubbish

Titles published under a series imprint are so often uneven in quality that it is heartening to report that these new volumes maintain the standards set by their predecessors (see BfK 64, Sept. 1990).

The lively approach and attractive format will be especially welcomed by teachers seeking stimulating National Curriculum resource material, whilst young people should find the comparisons with life at the turn of the century equally appealing. Any smugness they might feel about advances in hygiene and child-rearing, however, should be offset by the sobering thought that even if Grandma wouldn't be too dismayed at the commercialism of Christmas she would undoubtedly be appalled by our casual attitude to waste materials and rubbish which she recycled so efficiently.