Evening star., 1926-11-14
IDA GILBERT MYERS.


T'S tust ore thing after another
with us young ones nowadays.
We're not far from the Iront
page Of the news a good part oi
the time. as you can see Ior
yourselves. No sooner hao we ~
ished stunning this country ana
F,,,rope as public speakers than we
we're hustled into the job of hunting
I'm names for Hi-Boy and Dot, lest
this pair find themselves IN a new
home without even names to tneir
necks. And upon the heels OF TINS
business, Children's Book week came
hurrying along, and here we are WIN
a. bookroom for your Inspection. NOT
big room-thousands couldn't get
even a Iook-in-but a light, bright
room, not a bit like the dim end spooKy
hook corners that the old folks seem
to set such store by. Facing you op-
posite the door of this room is the
shining word
Adventure.
A ND from this point two live boys
"A step out to give you welcome.
kennett Rawson, IA, and David Put-
nam, 13. Both are real explorers,
having gone with separate companies
into the far North. Rawson was with
Macmillan in 1925 and is now again
with the famous explorer on another
expedition. A born scientist this boy,
maybe. He has already done work at
sea in a small schooner for the
Bureau of Fisheries. A born adVen-
turer, certainly. Young Putnam was
the Junior member Of the American
Greenland expedition of last year.
And he, too, had had sailings to the
South, to the Galapagos Islands OF the
equatorial seas. In the North their
experiences must have been much
alike. Cold enough for both--icebergs,
storms, Eskimos, bears, seals, whales,
Eskimo dogs. Pretty much the same.
with shipwreck to the account or
David. Both boys were armed. Their
prime weapon was the camera, though
upon occasion they turned savage
like the men and shot things up:
Not often, though. 1t was due to David
that the two bear cubs were brought
home alive to have a home In the
New York Zoo. The point here is
that both boys turned author. Each
set down in a book the things that
happened to him in those amazing
months. See for yourself.
4 BOY's.EYE VIEW OF THE
ARCTIC. BY Kennett Rawson
Macmillan.
DAVID GOES TO GREENLAND. BY
David Binney Putnam. Putnam's.
Attractive books--binding good, pic
lures excellent-written by these boys
about their own adventures. In both
cases 1t looks as II the elders had kept
hands off, and this Is one reason why
all the rest of the boys are going to
eat these stories up.
Under this shining word there are
other tales of adventure. Not, to be
sure, so entirely at first hand. but
straight adventure and straight boy
stuff, nevertheless.
THEsTREASURE SHIP. BY j. NJ.
Barrie and others. Scribners.
A famous ship of many sailings and
a thousand happenings and novel
sorts of treasure. You would guess
this from those who charted its course
and stored its cargo and manned its
sails and limited at the treasure it
was seeking Helping Mr.. Barrie here
are Walter de la Mare and Hugh Loft
ing and Hilaire Belloc and Compton
Mackenzie and P. G. WodehOuse. Fa
nous story tellers all are the mariners
with whom you here go a-sailing after
treasure.
A BOY OF OLD QUEBEC. BY Orison
Robbins. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard.
History and adventure come to-
gether in the story Of Jean Ribault,
come from France more than 200
years ago to live in the New World.
Not so many things for boy to do in
those days as there are now. But a
live boy always finds something. Jean
did. He learned the craft of the
woodSman. He came to know the
trees and their seasons, the animals
and their ways, the weather and its
moods. Along with an Indian lad he
became both hunter and guide. Once
the governor Of the province sent the
dam with message to Peter Stuyve-
SAINT, also governor Of his province.
And that was real adventure, some
thing to keep a reader on the edge
every step of the way. Here Is a fine
picture Of what the country looked
like 200 years ago and Of what people,
old and young, had to do to get along.
And that's history, the best kind, as it
is also boy adventure Of the best kind.
LITTLE BEAR: A Kickapoo Boy on
the Wabash. BY Elmore BARGE.
christopher Publishing House.)
The story of an Indian boy. who,
with the rest Of his tribe, suffered, as
the Indians in this country all suf.
fered under the tide Of progress that
caught them that overwhelmed them,
and sent them ever further and fur
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