Best in Juveniles
Evans, Ernestine
Best in Juveniles by Ernestine Evans *T1he I960 books for "juveniles"— -¦- roughly, ages ten to sixteen—are full of variety and color, and three or four of them will be marked as classics in a...
...A youngster has to buckle down to his required text books with his eye on examinations, but it is often supplementary reading, some footnote to history, the accidental discovery of some contradiction that kindles special interest to last an argumentative enquiring lifetime...
...to reach all those who are interested in classical and modern science...
...3) tells the story of an Eighteenth Century young German scientist employed by the Academy of Science in St...
...the essentially infinite complexity of life itself indicates that this search will continue unending," writes Clarence Zener in his introduction to this book...
...It's like a game to discover a place or a hero...
...The illustrations by Louis Darling are beautiful...
...Andrew Bluemle, who edited the book, says the intention of Saturday Science is to "extend the walls of the laboratories...
...The year has been full of buffaloes...
...The golden age of land exploration is past...
...it contains many reproductions of Blake drawings...
...Touched with Fire by Margaret E. Bell (Morrow...
...5.95), is a delight for any American child and a perfect Merry Christmas for a youngster overseas...
...William Blake is an interpretive biography of the poet by James Daugherty (Viking...
...When the fur trade dwindled he went down the Milwaukee River, became an American citizen, and competed with the Yankees...
...Buffalo and Beaver by Stephen W. Meader (Harcourt, Brace...
...Petersburg to explore in Siberia and Kamchatka...
...Taken on by Commander Bering, he made reports on the coast of Alaska...
...From Indian mounds and their artifacts, anthropologists and archaeologists construct their theories of Indian ancestry...
...The Buffalo Robe by Gardell Dano Christensen (Nelson...
...Few areas remain unmapped...
...or a fine writer, and then proceed to run down and devour a whole bibliography on a subject, or a complete set of one author's contribution...
...This year Houghton Mifflin has reissued The Trail of the Spanish Horse, The Quest of the Fish Dog Skin, and With the Indians in the Rockies, by James Willard Schultz ($2.50 each...
...4.95...
...It is a hefty 333-page book, with maps and charts, diagrams and photographs, and lectures and essays from fifteen of the scientists at Westinghouse Research Laboratories...
...Schultz wrote thirty-seven novels in the last century, and the reissue of three of his "westerns" about a vanished way of life is a challenge to today's TV fare...
...2.95) is a story set in 1827 about a youngster's journey with his father across the Great Plains when buffaloes and beavers were more numerous than Indians or white men...
...As one example, we are always inquiring into the detailed structure of atoms and nuclei...
...The most formidable and unique of the 1960 science books for young adults is called Saturday Science (Dutton...
...It is a glowing story of tragic hardships in the North Pacific...
...Best in Juveniles by Ernestine Evans *T1he I960 books for "juveniles"— -¦- roughly, ages ten to sixteen—are full of variety and color, and three or four of them will be marked as classics in a year or two...
...The more detail we need to see, the more powerful must be our tools, e.g., the higher the energy of our probing particles...
...Since no limit can be placed upon the energy of our probing particles, we can expect each succeeding generation to see finer and finer details of the structure of atoms, then of nuclei, then of nucleons, then of whatever is beyond...
...Those who are will seize upon this book and resolve to learn the language of science...
...Solomon Juneau, Voyageur by Marion Lawson (Crowell...
...Another notable biography by collaborators Rachel Baker and Joanna Baker Merlen is America's First Woman Astronomer: Maria Mitchell (Messner...
...The two pages of bibliography at the close of the book are an impressive listing of books about astronomy, astronomers, maps, clocks, telescopes, Nantucket, Vassar, whaling, and Maria Mitchell...
...3.50) describes an indomitable French Canadian from Montreal who paddled his canoe to trading posts in the Indian country and collected furs...
...Three of the new biographies are so well written and provide so much background on places in the news today about Russia, Alaska, and the Congo that I want to star them...
...3) is the life story of Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza after whom Brazzaville was named...
...American Indian, with text by Oliver LaFarge and illustrations by Andre Durenceau (Golden Press...
...2.95) tells the story of how the Plains Indians recorded their feats in life by drawing pictures of them on their buffalo robes...
...2.95...
...It is a love story as well as a story of struggle with jungles, disease, and the manners of army bureaucrats in the days when Europe was moving in on Africa...
...Congo Explorer, by Jeanne Carbon-nier (Scribner...
...Shag, the Last of the Plains Buffalo by Robert M. McClung (Morrow...
...2.95) is about a buffalo cub who was born just in time to perish in the cruel commercial slaughter of the herds...
...Christensen has prepared many exhibits over the years for the American Museum of Natural History and the National Park services...
...Such a practice is admirable and invites further reading...
...In contrast, science has no boundaries...
...Europeans have always been romantic and often envious about our Indians, with their ponies, tepees, and bows and arrows...
Vol. 24 • December 1960 • No. 12
