DORCAS PORKUS

Another of those beguiling stocking books, called by Oxford "Calico Books" from their gay calico bindings. This is one of the best, not only because of the entertaining pictures and story of the pet pig that jumped out of the tub and broke into the church quilting bee, but because — from the manufacturing point of view — this is the best job of reproduction, with none of the blurred edges that narred some of the others. One could wish that Tasha Tudor would be a little less whimsical (I don't like her Mimmsy and Grandmimmsy). But that is a minor matter.