CHILDREN'S BOOKS FOR THE TRAIL
Graves, Elizabeth Minot
with Jonathan's nature, we would have thought, than with Ripley's own. In several scenes there are moments when Ripley exclaims how confused he is about himself, and it is his association with...
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...I think our immediate instinct is to give all our sympathy to Ripley at this moment and feel that Jonathan has betrayed him, even though the plain truth is that Jonathan has only assumed at last those values by which Ripley has been living right along...
...The new edition can be found at camping stores or by writing to the A.M.C...
...The first fresh hepatica, the last brilliant partridgeberry, a loon diving into a sunset-dappled lake, these are filled with wonder...
...it helps one quickly zero in on just the sort of specific information a hiker might want...
...Each $5.95...
...It is illustrated with handsome photographs...
...All ages...
...10 up...
...Exotic butterflies flew about the library, hatched from cocoons sent by mail from South America...
...Our house was filled with books on birds and ferns, mushrooms and flowering plants...
...Although officially published by Crowell's junior books departmerit, the poetic text which captures the essence of each season and the rhythms and renewals of the world of nature will appeal almost more to adults...
...In an attempt to "bring young people books about the earth, its creatures, and man's role among them," the Sierra Club in conjunction with Scribners is developing a group of special books for children...
...He was a professor at the Harvard Medical School, and it was his boyhood love of wildlife and wildflowers, his keen curiosity and meticulous eye, that led him from nature's mysteries to the unraveling of medical mysteries, the discovery of the cure for pernicious anemia and the Nobel Prize...
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...He may have gotten Jonathan into this mess in the first place...
...One plus of nature books for Christmas is that they are gifts that parents and children can share, and the sharing becomes an extra gift as do the hikes and family outings they lead to...
...Boston, which puts out trail guides to other New England states as well...
...Mischievous raccoons are widespread and popular...
...My father would have enjoyed Trails to Nature's Mysteries (Dodd...
...Fire]lies by Joanne Ryder describes the lifecycle of this insect, so popular with boys and girls...
...A Walk in the Forest by Albert List, Jr...
...by Wyatt Blassingame, illustrated with endearing photos, pictures their seasonal activities, their cleverness and, alas, their unruliness as pets...
...Ross's enthusiasm for the wild and for his work are infectious, and his over 110 photographs are striking...
...The difficulty we have judging the characters in this film stems partly from the fact that Ripley's volunteering as he does here is the only magnanimous action anyone ever takes...
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...He took my sister and me to hunt for wild Maine orchids and Pitcher Plants, to watch for birds...
...Wonders o] Raccoons (Dodd...
...By the time the film is over, we can never tell where the line is between exploitation and friendship or respectability and criminality...
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...Source Book compiled by Explorers, Ltd., edited by Alwyn T. Perrin and published by Harper...
...Flowers were my father's special love and remain mine...
...plus a wealth of information about wildlife-a detailed entry and a drawing for each day of the year...
...This is but one of many fine Dodd "Wonders of . . ." nature titles...
...Little children, so close to the ground, have superior views of toadstools and tiny toads...
...The Hidden World: Li/e Under a Rock (Macmillan...
...Putnam...
...There are lovely pictures of trout lilies, wild strawberries and veronica, pictures to cherish...
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...My father, Dr...
...This has big fullcolor photographs of prairie dogs, sparrow hawks and honey bees etc...
...by Laurence Pringie, illustrated with many large, clear photos, details the multitude of tiny animals--even plants--hidden under rocks and logs, fascinating ecosystems on both land and water waiting to be discovered...
...It is never too early to take a child on a nature walk...
...in I I I ELIZABETH MINOT GRAVES, a previous contributor, is a freelance writer and children's book editor...
...and illustrated by Martha Weston, is a pleasingly, old-fashioned-looking 350page volume giving a lot of basic nature facts as well as gardening instructions...
...Three-color illustrations by Don Bo!oguese enhance the pages...
...but the very convolutions he has produced in Jonathan's life so remove us from Ripley's responsibility for it, we find it hard to keep his guilt in mind...
...As a special treat, we could leaf through a portfolio of valuable Audubon animal prints...
...There's also a 10page how-to section of nature crafts and hobbies...
...Harper & Row has some actractive science books, among them this year's Look /or a Bird, identification hints by Edith Thacher Hurd and appealing watercolors by Clement Hurd...
...As one who always had a garden as a child, I feel this book could lead to a lifetime of pleasure...
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...It lists many trail and walk guides available for all parts of the United States, including suburban areas, as well as books and magazines devoted to every kind of outdoor exploration...
...could be teacherish but isn't...
...The vignettes of 50 wildflowers help make this a book to be treasured and referred to through the years...
...In their I CAN READ Books for beginning readers 4-8 ($4.95...
...At the end of the film the two men have driven to a lonely beach to dispose of three other gangsters they have murdered together, but there Jonathan drives off and leaves Ripley stranded just as suddenly as Ripley showed up to help Jonathan on the train...
...COLIN L. WESTERBECK, JR CHILDREN'S ]BOOKS FOR THE TRAIL "' Wildflowers and the Stories Behind Their Names," by Phyllis S. Burch ; illus, by Anne Ophe~ia Dmoden (Scribners) ELIZABETH MINOT GRAVES "The trail leads uphill past farm buildings and bears right through an overgrown field . . . water is found one mile up at a brook crossing . . . . The view from the summing is especially fine...
...Dowden's superb paintings also distinguish The Golden Circle: A Book o/ Months by Hal Borland...
...All calendars Sierra/Scribners...
...life photographic closeups distinguish The Butterfly Cycle and Bees and Honey by Oxford Scientific Films...
...George R. Minor, taught my sister and me to love and observe nature...
...This is a treat with which to dream through the winter...
...Something I would have loved when young is the Explorers, Ltd...
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...The summer woods and water remained his greatest pleasure, relaxation, his "church...
...If the hiker will only take the time to really look about, there is so much to see...
...In several scenes there are moments when Ripley exclaims how confused he is about himself, and it is his association with Jonathan that has apparently brought on this identity crisis...
...It is the movies' perfect equivalent for so many of the collective guiRs and uncertainties we ourselves have come to feel...
...and Ilka List (Crowell...
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...Inside, the inscription reads: "From Father, for Christmas...
...in which Ross...
...The dark and illimitable atmosphere on the sets in these films always transfers itself to the morality in them as well...
...E. Hutchins 11 November 1977:726 describes his life as a working naturalist-photographer, beginning with his exciting boyhood on a Montana ranch and his trips into the mountains after butterflies and other insects...
...For reasons even he cannot understand, he feels so badly about having involved Jonathan with his gangster friends that he suddenly turns up to help on the train where Jonathan is to commit the second murder...
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...Even though many trails are closed during the winter snows, I can think of no happier gift for Christmas...
...A combination wilderness encyclopedia and catalog, it gives romantic (to me) and practical information about backpacking, ski and river touring, and all sorts of wilderness adventures and survival...
...The ambiguity that Wenders has created about his two main characters is, like the feeling of doom that hangs over their lives, classic film noir...
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...In addition, it has a wealth of shopping tips: where to buy climbing and caving gear, canoes, even dog sleds and parachutes...
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...Its straightforward question and answer technique (example: is an Indian Pipe a fungus...
...is a detailed guide to the woodlands of North America, attractively designed and illustrated with photographs and drawings by the authors...
...For those camping in the woods or fields at ngiht, indeed for anyone living in the country, Edward R. Ricciuti's Sounds of Animals at Night--frogs and toads, birds, insects, mammalsmmakes a reassuring and fascinating identification guide and an invitatior~ to become part of the night magic...
...We are never sure where the characters crossed from the one into the other...
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...is an exceptionally lovely book with sensitive paintings and drawings by an outstanding botanical illustrator, Anne Ophelia Dowden...
...Breathtaking, full-color, larger-than...
...hese words, which never fail to give me a thrill, come from the Appalachian Mountain Club White Mountain Guide...
...In all the films of this genre, including The American Friend, the glistening darkness that we see is in truth the dark night of the soul...
...It describes the different layers of a forest from the canopy to the ground cover and soil, and includes animal life...
...Nature books can help US "see...
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...It's easy to guess how Jack in the Pulpit got its name, but what about Quaker Rouge...
...My Garden Companion: A Complete Guide /or Beginners by lamie lobb (Scribners...
...Harper...
...Wild]lowers and the Stories Behind Their Names by Phyllis S. Busch (Scribners...
...There are captious for 4-8-year-olds plus a brief but fuller explanation for kids 7-11 in the front...
...All ages...
...This little book has stayed with me wherever I have lived and has gone up many a mountain with my children too...
...There's a plant glossary at the end plus ~g a list of places from which one can order seeds, even ladybugs...
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...Besides its Sierra Club Trail Calendar for 1978 to be hung on a wall-snippets of poetry and stunning color photos of mountains one longs to climb--and the Sierra Club Wilderness Engagement Calendar, equally tempting photographs, the Club, as part of its new children's program, has developed Little Creatures...
Vol. 104 • November 1977 • No. 23
