In the Early World

New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 1964. Chipping to dustjacket spine extremities, mended internally with brown paper, covered with plastic to protect, previous owner's name in pen at top of front endpaper, otherwise in good secondhand condition.

All over the world small schools are more numerous than any other kind of school, but the literature upon them has remained meagre and often spiritless. For these reasons this book is especially welcome. It is about the discoveries of children in a small school set in the open-country community of Oruaiti in the far north of New Zealand.