The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-06-19
MANY New Children's Books Come to Library

"You haven't told me yet why
you look so unhappy. Peter saiC
Spooky, the Screech Owl,
Isn't an empty stomach enough
to make any fellow unhappy" re
tOrted Peter, rather shortly.
Spooky chuckled, give got ar
empty stomach. myself, Peter
said he, "but it isn't making me un
happy. l have a feeling that
somewhere there is big,fat mouse
waiting for me"
This is just tiny, tiny, bit of all
the happy aed unhappy Qor Peter
Rabbit was very unhappy just
thenD things that Mr.. Thornton
w. Burgess tells us about in his
beautiful new light blue book.
which has just been purchased by
the library for the childrens de,
partment The books name is
The Burgess Bird Book" And,
what is especially interesting
about its dedication is that it is
dedicated by the author to all the
birds and children of America. 1t
is always considered an honor to
person to have a book dedicated
to him; that is, if the book is a
good one; so, you children and all
of Americas children ought to
feel hOnOred by Mr.. Burgess, the
| well loved writer of the Peter Rab
bit stories and many other stories
! for children. Mr.. Burgess has
named all the bird friends which
appear in his book There are.
Sweet Voice. the English Sparrow,
! Little Friend. the Song Sparrow;
Bully, the English Sparrow: Teeter
the Spotted Sandpiper; Sammy
Jay. Fidget the Myrtle Warbler
and funny blinking little Spooky,
; the Screech Owl, and many others.
About $50 new books have been
! added to the childrens room during
this past month scout books. Ind
ian books, travel tales and fairy
stories, new serial stories by Annie
Fellows Johnston and Ralph Henry
, Barbour, stories of adventure, and
dolls and pictures and funny little
poems, and books about almost all
, kinds of things.
There is the Mary Frances Gar
den Book that looks like a garden
itself with its green and red and
sometimes brown illustrations and
the green ink in which it is printed.
Such times as Mary and Billy and
. Eleanor have, planning and making
their gardens!
Another book by Jane Eayre is
the Mary Frances Housekeeper or
Adventures among the Doll People,
with a great big family of dolls and
"a house all carefully planned out
"a real house. and lots of beauti-
full furniture. Being in Doll Land
1t is quite natural that the people
in this story should be paid in gin
gerbread cookies That is so much
more interesting looking than a dol,
lar, isn't it?
Jane, Joseph and John. Their
Book of Verses by Ralph Bergen
gren, in which Mr.. Maurice Day
drew some splendid looking pic
lures reminds us little bit of Rob,
ert Louis Stevenson's A Childs
Garden of Verses.
Then there is the new John Mar
tins Big Book which is as packed
full of all kinds of funny and inter
esting things as most people's
trunks are, when starting on a va.
cation.
There are many Boy Scouts
Books. one whole new series of
them. And Indian Stories. Yes
real ones. One is Running Eagle,
and was written by James Willard
Schultz, who lived with the Indians I
for several years.
Two new books of interest are
Our Humble Helpers and Field For,
est and Stream, by Jean Henri |
tabre. These books were written
in France first and were translated
from the French language into ours
so that American children could !
read them. too. Do you know why |
a dogs footstep is heard and a cat's
Is not, when both have cushioned
feet? This is only one of the MANY