The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-13
SOME BOOKS EVERY.
CHILD SHOULD KNOW
List and Description of Books That Will Fill Childhood
with Joy and Give Pleasant Memories for Old Age
First of Series of Three Articles.

the picture book enters seriously into
the child s first years, as does the move
ment of life later on. = The Importance
OF beautiful color and design as factors
in education has long been recognized,
there only remains The discrimination,
and selection. X. 80. s.
$780,. Gifts Of Illustration.
/, This generation has showereds MANY
rich gifts of illustration and fancy
upon the children 8 books, and the ugly
little. dummies that display themselves
in the .Chatterbox and kindred litera-
ture, have been replaced by the de-
lightful sketches as shown in the Cal
dicott. picture books, in = All the World
Over and Rag Tag and Bob Tail y
Edith Farmeloe; IN ''fhere Was an Old
Woman Who Lived in a Shoe' illus
trated in color by &. J. Henall, and
=" Cock.A-Doodle-Do =" by Cecil Adm;
% Children of Our Town." illustrated
by E. Mars and NJ. H.. Squire; 1sChild-
hood'' by Katherin Pyle, illustrated BY
Sarah Stillwell. .-,...,-.s,:.-, .-..>. -. ::
The Kate Greenaway books are al
ways favorites, as also Walter Crane s
illustrations, which are beautiful in
color and design. " Here are few Of
the latter: TThis Little Pig Went to
Market = "Mother Hubbard, .
Beauty and the Beast - Cred Riding
Hood, :" and his '"Flora's Feast. y - A
MMasque Of Flowers, =" gem Of beauty;
Peter Newel's "Topsys and Turveys,'
and Pictures and Rhymes, the latter
illustrated in black and white with a
preface by John Kendrick Bangs, are
full Of delicious hlmor,a while "Joan of
Arc /" by G. NJ. Boutel de Monvel is SO
beautiful that a child is fortunate to
have grown up with it.. One of. the
modern favorites is little book called
Nanny, - illustrated in color by T. 81.
Butler, which is full of quaint and
laughable rhymes. The old-fashioned
one called "Slovenly Peter BY IT.
Hoffman is another favorite, altho /
could never discover why, unless it is
due to subconscious fellow-feeling with
Peter s delinquences.
Beatrice Potter's Books.
Beatrice Potter is another modern
illustrator and her 1 IA Tale Of
Peter Rabbit, J, e.The Tale Of Squirrel i
Nutkin," and "The Tailor of Glouces-
ter make attractive and holdable
books, and the little brothers there are
drawn with life and sympathy. The
picture book is the story without words.
the story with the preaching left out.
Association with pictures like these will
unconscionsly develop the child IS taste
for harmonious lines and color, and
open up later the great book of nature,
not that false aspect that depicts tad
poles as Eliminating on their trans
morphoses, or caterpillars reasoning on
their future existences, or the inane
| conversations INDUCED in by mama
this and papa that, but nature with its
transcendent color scheme, it's silent
| voices, it's obedience to law, tracing
| with its gracious finger the hanaiwork
! of God. q S.
The Primers Place.
Allied to the picture books should be
| the primer, but unfortunately, think
| the artistic is too often sacrificed ia
| the desire to talk, which after all might
as well be illustrated BY something
Primer, the Art Literature Stories
| and !" Folklore Stories by .E. o.
Grover fill the need fairly well, but to
| my mind there is an Opportunity for a
4 beautiful and practical art primer,
There are few books Of a miscellaneous
nature that lend a charm to every day
IN a. child Is first years. One Of these
is FOLKLORE Stories and Proverbs,
by b. s. Wiltse, which is rare adap-
ton of old legends, and its illustrations
tell the story even better than the
words. j. II. Haaren is another ac-
/ ceptable compiler, his Rhymes and
/ Fable" and ssBallads and Tales, are
SYMPATHETIC, and have nothing of that
writing down = character that is an
abomlnat1on and always to be avoided