Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-11
NeN Books for
Our Readers
Books of Exceptional Interest Are
Reviewed Today and Call Attention
of Young Readers to Whimsical
Childish Humors in Fiction of supe-
rior Quality
BY FLoRENcE BosARD LAWRENCE

readers than "The Adventures of Pin
occhio." This book Is to be ranked
with "Gullivers Travels" Robinson
Crusoe," and "Alice in Wonderland"
1t is classic for the child, the teacher
and the parent. It is at first reading
a fairy tale, later 1t becomes book Of
fun, a serious book and guide to
common sense.
Pinocchio was a marvellous puppet,
carved from wooden stick by a clever
.cabinet-maker, and no sooner was this
wooden toy completed than 1t became
endowed with life. 1t laughed, talked,
ran away from home, leased its poor
amazed papa, and behaved in every
way like a most unruly child.
Many of his escapades would most
certainly have caused the death of an
ordinary boy, but Pinocchio has ribs of
good, hard wood. head of the same
durable material, and SO ordinary
blows and punishments have no terror
for him. Once when he was left to be
hanged by some assassins. he hung for
nearly a whole day. and finally, when
he was really about to die. a beautituf
fairy girl told large falcon to unite
the knot in the rope, and then sent
r. iarkabIe ioodle coachman with her
carriage to fetch Pinocchio to her
home. The poodle wore a cap with
three points that were embroidered
with gold braid, and blonde wig with
ringlets that covered his neck. He had
q chocolate-colored coat with diamond
buttons and two large pockets in which
to keep bones. He wore pair OF
crimson velvet breeches, silk stockings
low shoes, and at his back blue
satin umbrella case in which to carry
his tail in rainy weather. The car
rage was drawn by hundred pairs
of white mice.
Pinocchio travels far, and has ad-
ventures at every step. The tale has
been found profitable for third year
reading in the public schools. and the
lines with which the book opens snow
that 1t is equally welcome for the
reader of adult years.
"Once upon time there was a boy,
and there were a hundred thousand
other boys just like him. He had no
ears. He stuck pins in chairs; he kept
fire-crackers In his desk. He sent
comic valentines He counted with
out the fairy He was just a puppet.
Young man. you are grown up now.
You will take this book to your room
and laugh over 1t. Presently you VIII
shed tear and say, / used 10 act
like Pinocchio; wasn't / funny when
was a puppet?"
Adventures every child should know
Pfnocchio, by Carlo Lorenzini. Double
day, Page & CO., New York
Many children, especially those VINO
play much without other juvenile COM
partnership, have spirit playfeiiows.
Some mothers have wondered and
worried about this trait, and even at
tempted with their cold, grown-up Wis
dom to persuade the little one that
there was no such child. Occasionally
one finds mother who regards her
child as exceptionally imaginative be-
cause of the possession of this ficti-
tious friend.
Generally these Pigments of the child
ish Imagination dissolve as the tangi-
Bile companions appear and leave no
trace of the early attachment.
Joel Chandler Harris, who UNDER
stood the childish heart as few other
writer's have, touched upon this theme
in the last book which he wrote. The
Bishop and the Boogerman' has to DO
with the adventures OF an orphaned
child, Adelaide, who goes to live with
her uncle, and in his bachelor estab-
lishment takes for her companion lit
tie "CaIly Lou"
The book necessarily takes on pa
thetic note, with much tender wisdom
and a touch or two of the mystic
which follows the introduction of
"Cally Lou" as character in the tale.
But there is a great deal of the de-
lightful foolery which the originator
of Uncle Remus knew SO we'll how to
introduce Billy Sanders of Shady
Dale who looks to little Adelaide like
the Professionalism Bishop" Is a
source of never-ending amusement,
and his conversations with Nunky
Punky, the uncle whose home shelters
Adelaide, will bring JOY to the reader
of any and every age.
Aunt Lucindy. the cook, understands
Adelaide and her "Cally Lou" better
than any of the others in the story.
Not child and scarcely a mother
can read the book without wishing
that the little folk of the north and
west might have such faithful and
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