| Description | Pen-and-ink drawings of: [top] a boy lying on his stomach on the floor, smiling at an array of mounted toy knights in front of him; [bottom] a woman in dark dress and white cap and apron throwing up her hands at the boy falling out of bed in front of her -- toys and a candle lie on the floor between them. Both are initialled in blue biro, lower left, and have captions written in pencil in Shepard's handwriting underneath, as well as printers' instructions, "p. 78" [top] and "p. 80" [bottom], and [underlined] "Prince Bravo and the Silver Soldiers" These appeared in ROYAL REFLECTIONS, a collection of stories for children by Shirley Goulden published by Methuen in 1956. |