The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-08
BY WALTER ID. HICKMAN.

great new writers of America"
BY WALTER ID. HICKMAN.
TWICE a year at least, the Albert
j Whitman and Company sends
me quite a number of books for the
young and the very young.
And if YOU are among the very
young" Just ask your mother and
father to read these words TO you
and then use your best manners
TO have them visit the library or a
q book shop. You get the idea, 1
am sure.
First. want YOU to meet a new
hero and new kind of one that
children all over the country will
love. When I was a lad my
heroes were Jack of beanstalk
fame, rabbits, dogs and the Alger
bows
Now. the very small boys have a
new hero in smoky by Wilhelm
Schulz. And you never can guess
who or what smoky is. Well
Smoky is a lively locomotive.
Well. that sounds pretty crazy
No. not at all. because Smoky viii
take the very little boy as well rs
his very little sister trip over Ger
many.
Smoky slides down rails with a
swish and a roar with his mouth
closed grimly. Smoky talks TO him
self and he says. III teach that
COW to respect the rights of others.
And he grOwls to himself that ne
has used this track for years and
years and considers it his property
and not the COWS
So Smoky gave the COW "a gooo
b,Imp" but later on Smoky felt
sorry because he hit the COW.
Smoky was all worried and bothered
over a broken axle and the axle
made him cross.
Smoky is a philosopher because
he tells his little friends, Anyway,
COWS as well as people should learn
that engines are dangerous. Engines
can't always stop if they want to.
And Smoky has an eye because ne
looks at the rabbits. the deer and
other animals as well as little chill
dren at play.
And one time Smoky had to go to
the hospital Just like little boys and
girls.
Here is a book with its story and
splendid colored illustrations that
children. especially the very small
boy. will love. 1t sells for 81.
A IL very little girls all over the
IA world loves their paper dolls.
but 1 doubt if they know that
paper dolls in Toy Land have the
greater times at toy circus and
on toy merry-go-round. Well.
they do.
I discovered that in "TatterS and
Scraps" by Bortnyik Sander, pub
lished by the Whitman Company.
and sells for $50.
From a picture standpoint, this
book is a marvel. one Of the most
beautiful and brilliantly cOlored l
ever have seen. Some new color
process must have been used to give
these paper dolls such vivid colors-
Two paper dolls make q wonder
full trip to Toyland. Toy elephants.
bears. camelS. ducks and the like all
come to life and give the dolls all
sorts of surprises.
Here is certainly a wonderbook for
very young girls and even BOYS as
far as that goes. What great
Improvement in color as we'll as text
in the children's books of today over
what I had to endure when
youngster. really envy fortunate
children today.
Books like these really creates in
the child a desire to read and to
meet other characters in other good
books.
A favorite toy with very young
children in the rocking horse and
"horsey' is the hero Of Snip.
Snspp. Snurr." or The Magic
Horse !" This rocking horse takes on
wings or something and takes
number of children on a make-be
lieve journey.
This book by Major Lindman sells
for 81 (alSo another Whitman pub
licstion), will stimulate in the child
the right kind Of imagination.
have before me another Whit
man publication-"The Golden Cat
Head" by Marian King. Price.
$50. This book contains stories Of
Holland for older children.
Here you will find Dutch legends
and hero stories full of the quaint
and quiet charm Of Holland Here
are stories that the Dutch children
for wears have enjoyed. That same
endowment now may be scattered all
over America.
This one has been attractively IL
lustrated by Eleanore Hubbard
Wilson.
Give me the name Of a book TO
tead al nights when I return from
The Chicago fair2" Pretty hard TO
answer. but I would take with me
The Farm" by Louis Bromfeld-