Rupert and the Secret Path, a new story, started in the Daily Express on Wednesday 31st July. The story commences with Rupert meeting Sara, one of the few human characters to feature in Bestall’s Rupert stories. .It originally appeared in the paper in the summer of 1961, and was subsequently reprinted in the 1974 and 2022 Rupert Annuals.
The Rupert and the Rolling Ball story was concluded the day before after adventures involving Rupert meeting some strange men. I would have thought his mother would have warned him against speaking to strangers, but in Nutwood there is an innocence which unfortunately does not exist in our world today.
