Verse
Vazakas, Byron
the others in the film. Just as all the episodes I have mentioned are about the paradoxes of seeing and not seeing, so too do all involve us in the audience in their act of vision. When we see a...
...Ages 3-6 $4.75 WHERE ARE YOU, JASON...
...Books for growing milch...
...But then all filmmakers are also voyeurs, not only by nature but by profession...
...Young Readers A TOAD FOR TUESDAY by Russell E. Erickson Illustrated by Lawrence Di Fiori While skiing through a wooded valley, Warton the toad is captured by George, a mean and nasty owl who threatens to eat him...
...COLIN L. WESTERBECK, JR...
...by Greta Matus Illu.~trated in two colors by the author Young readers who value their privacy will applaud Jason's inventiveness in finding places, imaginary or real, where he can hide and "get away from it all...
...Times Book Review THE BOY WHO WAS A RACCOON bySalMurdocca Illustrated in two colors by the author One fine morning a boy says to himself, "1 think rll be a raccoon today" and sets out to meet one in this delightful tale about a mysterious and beautiful forest world...
...Though empty halls tick off a tenement, a longer shadow than the evening falls across the mystery of what was here...
...This neat, humane toad is thoroughly lovable--and full Of surprises...
...Lee & Shepard...
...Valuable lessons about life, love, and friendship...
...Ages 10-14 $5.50 Commonweal: 191...
...and afternoon dissembled the debris of what was left, of what had flashed like flame then ashed into forgetfulness, as burnt out as a vagrant warmed upon, a vacant lot by selfsame fires that save him just for this...
...As Bunuel's treatment of the scene between the old woman and her young lover demonstrates, he is not moralistic about voyeurism...
...Ages 10 up $4.50 SYCAMORE YEAR by Mildred Lee Wren Fairchild is suddenly confronted with the complexities and contradictions of adolescence when her best friend becomes pregnant...
...Maybe this apparent liberality only reflects the vitiated desires of an old man, but I doubt it...
...Clearly Bunuel is one of these...
...Yet another trap is set for our sensibilities when we expect to see a dinner party and wind up watching people evacuate their bowels instead...
...In like manner, by not letting us see the postcards that the little girl brings home to her parents, Bunuel gets us to infer their pornography...
...Hands thumbed the graining of the banisters...
...0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 BYRON VAZAKAS THE INADMISSIBLE EYE Even the slummers of this hung up on poverty, keep to foursquare acres of the skidrow gray, moving on better life...
...When we see a body so lovely and erotic as this old woman's, we are forced to take seriously, in a way we had not thought to do, the boy's desire for her...
...Whatever their age, the greatest filmmakers are almost certainly those who never feel guilty about their voyeurism of life: those who can accept their talents as talents and take a certain playful delight in their visions...
...Ages 5-9 $4.25 --N.Y...
...And so to blot out stains that will not wash with sly evasions of not looking where this man or that sprawls drunken on a stoop...
...Ages 6-10 $4.50 Older Readers PEACHES by Dindga McCannon Illustrated by the author This story about growing up in Harlem brings the setting and a wonderful cast of characters vividly to life through the eyes of a young black girl...
...Bunuel knows only too well that we moviegoers are all voyeurs by nature, enjoying the mere vision of life as if it were the fullness of it...
...Ages 3-6 $4.50 KING OF THE DOLLHOUSE byPatriciaClapp Illustrated by Judith Gwyn Brown King Borra Borra, his eleven royal babies and occasional visits from the adventurous Queen Griselda turn EIlie's dollhouse into a temporary palace and her life into a state of confusion...
...As a parable on friendship it will serve its readers any day in the week...
...Thus Bunuel makes us unwitting accomplices to his own imagination...
...and then when he does show us the cards, our attitude towards pornography is transferred, for the confused moment, to these monuments of high civilization...
...Ages 6-10 $4.75 DORRIE AND THE AMAZING MAGIC ELIXIR by Patricia Coombs Illustrated in one and three colors by the author Dorrie and her cat Gink, guardians of the Amazing Magic Elixir, have to use all their brains to outwit the Green Wizard and squash his evil plan in the newest of the delightful Dorrie adventures...
...Kirkus Reviews "There is a buoyant quality to this little book--and its spirit is so basically loving...
Vol. 101 • November 1974 • No. 7
