CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Abbott, Lysla I.
Children's Books By LYSLA l. ABBOTT IN 1740, 211 years ago, John Newbery of London began to publish books for children. He called his shop the Juvenile Library. They were gay little books bound in...
...Just as interesting as the Moffats...
...Both medals were established and endowed by Frederic G. Melcher, editor of Publishers' Weekly...
...Doubleday...
...Progressive schools now hire full time librarians...
...The United States has the greatest public library system in the world...
...Nap and Winkle...
...This book was a result of the many questions a young son asked his father, the author, who is a teacher at the Brooklyn Technical High School...
...A very distinguished Christmas picture storybook shows what happens when Santa falls asleep and Mr...
...The man is a Methodist minister, the mountain is Mount Washington...
...Smeller Martin, by Robert Lawson...
...This is the story of twelve-year-old Walter Tell, the apple, and Switzerland's struggle for freedom...
...One has only to look at any of these early works to realize what great improvements have been made in children's books, not only in content but in format...
...Jack Corwin had come from California to Connecticut...
...On the contrary, it expressed their awed admiration for his truly amazing sense of smell...
...Jeanne Marie Counts Her Sheep, by Francoise...
...Finders Keepers, by William Lipkind...
...Illustrated by Alois Carigiet...
...Grandmother and the children make a decorated egg tree...
...Prairie School, by Lois Lenski...
...Harcourt, Brace...
...Educators are using every means to bring these books and their youthful readers together...
...Conrad Buff has done the beautiful pictures in color and in black and white...
...Little Leo, by Leo Politi...
...Wilcox & Follett Co...
...Every parent, teacher, and anyone working with children should take full advantage of all these resources...
...2.25...
...by Selina Chonz...
...Up and Down the River, by Rebecca Caudill...
...Roman Eagle, by Stephani and Edward Godwin...
...In 1951 it was given to Elizabeth Yates for Amos Fortune, Free Man...
...A Boat For Peppe, by Leo Politi...
...Atoms at Work, by George P. Bischof...
...Oxford...
...It has many helpful drawings and a clear explanation of molecules, atoms, and electrons...
...He lives in Los Angeles and catches the beauty and color of California in his books...
...This is a situation that produces a most interesting tale...
...Harper...
...Up to that time, if children had any books at all, they were horn books, their parents' books, or the Orbis Pictus (the world in pictures...
...Illustrated by Roger Du-voisin...
...The Apple and the Arrow, by Mary Marsh Buff and Conrad Buff...
...An interesting project and a beautiful book...
...Stories for Younger Children (Ages 6 through 10) Dollar For Luck, by Elizabeth Coats-worth...
...Most dramatic is their arrival in Jerusalem at the time of Jesus' crucifixion...
...Fox and his friends help him out...
...2.50...
...Contains 30 flowers in color with interesting and unusual facts about them...
...Illustrated by the author...
...Macmillan...
...Harcourt, Brace...
...A Bell for Ursli...
...The Little Red Horse, by Ruth Sawyer...
...Illustrated by the author...
...Smart publishers are employing smart men and women as juvenile editors...
...Lippin-cott...
...Opposite is an indistinct black and white picture of a mother, two children, and a dog...
...Peppe lives in Monterey, California and longs for a boat of his own...
...Double-day...
...Children adore it...
...John Newbery's name has been honored by attaching it to the medal which has been awarded every year since 1922 to the author whose book is "the most distinguished contribution to American children's literature of the year...
...The horse "stood just a man's hand high, red as a ripe cherry...
...This is another gay and vivid book...
...This author certainly can write with humor and understanding...
...The third in a delightful trilogy about the author's childhood in Kentucky...
...Gay and enchanting...
...It is presented "for the most distinguished American picture book for children of the year...
...2.50...
...Melcher are giving tangible aid to great children's books...
...Winner of the Herald-Tribune Award...
...Harcourt, Brace...
...This is based on an incident in the author's childhood...
...Father and the Mountains, by Gertrude Robinson...
...Illustrated by the author...
...Everything he did was wrong, even to wearing his best gray flannels when every other boy wore blue jeans...
...In 1937, Dorothy Lathrop received the Caldecott Medal for Animals of the Bible...
...Partners: United Nations and Youth, by Eleanor Roosevelt and Helen Ferris...
...They were gay little books bound in wall paper...
...The outstanding artists are illustrating these books for the young...
...Viking...
...II Here are your answers to comic books, television, and the other contraptions that lure children away from reading...
...Oxford...
...This starts before the War between the States and goes through the origin of the Jubilee singers who were so popular in London in 1873...
...But she managed finally, thanks to her plan...
...Illustrated by Nicholas Mordvinoff...
...Winston...
...A very convincing story of a boy and girl who changed places, the boy to travel by boat up and down the coast of Maine, the girl to stay in a real home...
...Scribner's...
...2.50...
...Scribner's...
...Illustrated by the author...
...Scribner's...
...1.75...
...A story based on the experiences of real children, illustrated with drawings...
...Aladdin...
...2.75...
...Rachel, Jerry, good-natured Uncle Bennie, and the dog Ginger Pye are the principal characters in this story...
...Compare these books with the excellent books coming out today, and you realize how fortunate the 20th Century child is...
...2.50...
...Abingdon, Cokesbury...
...Picture Books (For the preschool child) The Two Reds, by William Lipkind...
...2.50...
...He tells what happened when Leo, in a new Indian chief suit, went from San Francisco to live in Italy again...
...Rosa was too little to jump rope, roller skate, even to join the library...
...Any book store or library can supply the entire list...
...He finally gets one...
...The author-illustrator is a children's librarian in a branch library in New York City...
...This is the story of a small boy and the Mummers' Parade which takes place every New Year's in Philadelphia...
...2.25...
...In 1937 the Caldecott Medal award was established...
...Viking...
...Smoke Above the Lane, by Meindert De Jong...
...2.25...
...2.50...
...In 1922 the medal was given to Hendrick Van Loon for his Story of Mankind...
...Interesting Non-Fiction (Ages 10 through 15) What Wildfloiver Is It?, by Anna Pistori-us...
...Yes —that is actually the title page...
...Books for Older Boys and Girls (Ages 10 through 15) Chariot in the Sky, A Story of the Jubilee Singers, by Arna Bontemps...
...The New Boy, by Mary Urmston...
...Harcourt, Brace...
...Winston...
...It is the experiences of a 16-year-old Roman boy and his forbidden marriage with a H-year-old Spartan Jewish girl...
...Rosa-Too-Little, by Sue Felt...
...In the paragraphs below I have listed some recommendations of fine children's books for this holiday season...
...Ginger Pye, by Eleanor Estes...
...This time it is the story of two dogs...
...The name Caldecott comes .from the 19th Century English artist, Randolph Caldecott, the first and one of the most famous illustrators of books for children...
...Scribner's...
...Oxford...
...One hundred years later John Newbery published "A little pretty pocket-book intended for the instruction and amusement of Little Master Tommy, and Pretty Miss Polly with two letters from Jack the giant-killer and also a ball and pin cushion...
...The other books are Happy Little Family and Schoolhouse in the Woods...
...These are the books to look for each year...
...the use of which will infallibly make Tommy a good boy and Polly a good girl to which is added a little song book being a new attempt to teach children the use of the English alphabet by way of diversion...
...Libraries have children's rooms and children's librarians...
...The author-artist lives in Philadelphia and has done a wonderful job with this colorful parade...
...This is the first book to tell the dramatic story of the United Nations in action for and with the youth of the world...
...The story begins in Galilee and goes to Rome, northern Gaul, and Jerusalem...
...This is a beautiful and interesting book of Red the boy and Red the cat...
...Scribner's...
...John Wesley, by May McNeer and Lynd Ward...
...In the wood there was a tramp—making pancakes...
...The story of a small boy in Switzerland and the bell he eatns to wear in the Spring Festival...
...The Egg Tree, by Katherine Milhous...
...Houghton Mifflin...
...2.50...
...Illustrated by the author...
...Michael loved him and would do anything to have him for his very own...
...In the 17th Century Johann Comenius of Moravia stated the purpose of his books was to "entice witty children" and "to remove scarecrows from wisdom's garden...
...2.50...
...Doubleday...
...The Christmas Forest, by Louise Fatio...
...And in the wood there was a little skunk, sitting in a hollow stump—watching the tramp...
...Far-sighted citizens like Mr...
...Patrick and the Golden Slippers, by Katherine Milhous...
...A fascinating book, beautifully illustrated, about "God's good rider," who said, "I look upon all the world as my parish...
...The book gets its title from William Blake's "Great things are done -when men and mountains meet...
...The nickname 'Smeller' which his schoolmates bestowed on young Davey Martin was not intended to be in any way insulting or uncomplimentary...
...Beautiful for its color and simplicity...
...In 1951 it was given to Katherine Mil-hous for The Egg Tree...
...Politi won the Caldecott Medal in 1949 for Song of the Swallows...
...The picture is labeled, "Instruction with delight...
...A book which should be in every child's library...
Vol. 15 • December 1951 • No. 12
