'When John Cartwright set out to write a children’s book, the Patchwork Planet, little did he dream the situations it would involve him in. His active mind created vivid characters that finally stepped out of their fantasy world to tell him of their very real troubles. Author M. Noonan has handled the delightful fantasy of My Heart’s a Broken Music Box with deftness and assurance, creating the final scenes with a poignant realism. For Mr. Magnificent from Patchwork Planet is a living person to John Cartwright; in fact his greatest creation. Therefore it is only right that he should fight desperately to keep him from harm, even at the cost of his own well-being.'
Source: 'For Next Week', ABC Weekly, 27 January 1951, p.27.
Broadcast by 2UE in Sydney on 30 January 1951, from 8:30pm.
