A Selected List
Graves, Elizabeth Minot
CHILDREN'S BOOKS E l i z a b e t h Minor Graves To See the World A/resh is both the title and theme of a compelling anthology of modern poetry compiled by Lilian Moore and Judith...
...How each religion has been shaped by its peoples' land and culture, and in turn shapes them...
...Fortunately, new editions of old favorites have partially eliminated the necessity for new writing...
...There are anthologies, among them Virginia A. Tashjian's With a Deep Sea Smile (6-11...
...By the author-photographer of the equally beautiful cultural tour of The Ganges...
...Pleasing repetitions...
...is a stirring, complex and beautiful novel of a girl (blind) and a mother (widowed, heartbroken and alcoholic) fighting seemingly insurmountable problems...
...4.95...
...6adult...
...It is urgent today," say the compilers, " in a world polluted by the synthetic to find a place for the genuine...
...5.95...
...4.95...
...I11...
...My Special Best Words, written and illustrated by John Steptoe (Viking...
...4.95...
...5.95...
...Each 11 up...
...Text & Photos by Edward Rice...
...Rather than wondering what will sell, the authors have burst forth with their vision of life...
...There's also a bevy of paperback reprints for 9-12, stories with meat, humor and imagination, such as Henry Reed, Inc...
...7.95...
...4.95...
...There are handsomely illustrated editions of individual folk and fairy tales...
...Squirrel's very special Christmas presents for his friends and the joy of giving...
...Why such a bland, mediocre output...
...6.95...
...Excitingly enough, the fresh new writing this year is black books by talented black writers and artists...
...And how pleasing to have slories of happiness for a change in Happy Families collected by Barbara Willard (9-14...
...She Come Bringing Me That Girl by Eloise Greenfield, illustrated by John Steptoe (Lippincott...
...MacELIZABETH MINOT GRAVES is a ]reelance writer and children's books editor...
...Little Brown...
...Is it the recession in children's book publishing which has made editors afraid to accept anything but the most safe and salable...
...Macmillan...
...0 0 0 0 0 0 0 The Five Great Religions...
...With notable exceptions, the children's books this year are uninspired, imitative and synthetic...
...5.95...
...From "With a Deep Sea Smile" (Little, Brown) millan...
...A fine gift for anyone is Houghton's boxed collector's edition of J. R. R. Tolkein's magical The Hobbit ($15...
...tells of the loving, everyday relationship between two little children and their father...
...These themes have appeared many times before but the authors have breathed new vitality, tenderness and humor into them...
...24 things to make during Advent, such as holly-painted paper, and a breaddough manger, plus the story of the Christmas symbols...
...5.95...
...2.25...
...Parents Magazine Press is consistently successful with these...
...4.95...
...by Anita Lobel...
...To see the world afresh--that is what children's books authors have not been doing recently...
...6.95...
...By Jack Moore...
...In Walk Home Tired Billy Jenkins by lanthe Thomas, illustrated by Thomas di Grazia (Harper...
...Viking...
...captivating tales from many lands, silly rhymes, riddles and chants, with hilarious drawings by Rosemary Wells...
...It is also a triumphant story of love, courage, community solidarity and black pride...
...As a result the reader of any age and race becomes one with the characters and gains new insight into himself...
...This, like all these books, makes extremely effective use of the rhythms and images of black English...
...Sheed...
...an imaginative little girl transforms a weary hike...
...Written & I11...
...in which Lucille Clifton briefly, nostalgically describes the worries, bitternesses and delights of two 8th graders growing up black in the 1940s...
...Several are picture books...
...Harper...
...by Pat Hutchins...
...22 November 1974:192...
...For older children, there's In The Times They Used To Be, illustrated by Susan Jesche (Holt...
...Cartoons ]or New Children...
...Atheneum...
...By Carolyn Meyer...
...Another treat is Trina Schart Hyman's newly illustrated edition of Carol Ryrie Brink's prizewinning, family-frontier story Caddie Woodlawn (9-12...
...and The Changeling, all doubly welcome as so many exauthors for this eager age group have gone over into the new sex-and-neurosis novels for teenagers, some superb some merely shoddy and trumped up...
...describes a small boy, jealous of baby sister...
...Funny, provocative cartoons, liberating thoughts on God...
...Christmas Crafts...
...Is it Watergate fallout which has ,made writers lose faith in their worth and the world...
...8 up...
...4 Winds...
...Macmillan...
...A SELECTED LIST 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CHRISTMAS AND RELIGION The Silver Christmas Tree...
...What Is God's Area Code...
...CHILDREN'S BOOKS E l i z a b e t h Minor Graves To See the World A/resh is both the title and theme of a compelling anthology of modern poetry compiled by Lilian Moore and Judith Thurman, (10-adult...
...This black fiction all has unusual honesty, vigor, warmth and persuasion...
...And Steptoe's magnificent, vibrant paintings are a joy...
...Listen /or the Fig Tree by Sharon Bell Mathis (10-15...
Vol. 101 • November 1974 • No. 7
