The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-11-14
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It used to be taken for granted that small children liked to be told stories rather than be read to. They still like it, but the fer tility of the average parent m producing fiction suitable for ba- bes is lacking in the funny, fear less and even moralizing tales that delight these youngsters SO.
 Besides children love to own book. They like to look at the pictures, and to carry a book around. It is, they are smart enough to know, a sort of magic box that opened on mothers knee, keeps them happy and interested.
 I give here a short list of books suitable for babies of two or three and then on up to six. There are hundreds of others that are just as good but I have gone in for variety.
 If the title sometimes sounds grown-up, it is unfortunate In this list all are decidedly for very young children. The authors names follow the titles.
 For Baby
 Rag and Linen Books: Baby's First Book; Baby's Picture Book; Our Pets: Alphabet of Toys; Farmyard Friends; Little Red Hen.
 From Three to Six
 Bear Twins, Hogan; Tale of Peter Rabbit, Potter; Tale of Beniamin Bunny, Potter; A B c Bunny, Gag; Tim Tadpole and the Bpllfrog, Flock; Mother Goose; Story of Mrs. Tubbs, Lofting; Pic ture Tales for Tiny Tots, LeGron and Jewett; Goops and How Not to Be Them, Burgess; Chimp and Chump, Carroll; Beast, Bird and Fish, Morrow; Nicodemus and The Little Black Pig, Hogan.
 Johnny Crows Party, Brooke; Chicken World, Smith; The Lit tie Wooden Farmer, Dolgliesh; Nonsense A B c, Lear; Bobby and Donny Were Twins, Brann; Fairy Circus, Lothrop; A Train, a Boat and an Island, Kuh; Tales of Wise and Foolish Animals, Carrick; A B c for Every Day, Sewell; Short Stories for Little Folk, Bryce; Butterfly Land, Offers; The Pony Tree, Brate; Little Black Sambo, Zimmerman; Adventures of Pud- dle Muddle, Bonner.
 General Suggestions
 Most of the Sseries books that carry one character, or two through their pages are enjoyed by small children, if they are es- peciaily written for them to un- derstand.
 Authors know, nowadays, to leave out the frightening" ad- ventures for the little boy and girl.
 I advise the out-of-the-way mother beyond reach of shops, to write to publishers, stores, large city libraries or child-study' asso- citations for lists or catalogues. Sometimes friend or club-woman or local librarian can furnish the names of publishers of childrens books, and the cities they are In.
 Then keep them-never lose a book list.
 For Older Children
 Please understand, the follow. ing list Books for Boys" is not any such thing. Girls like the same books, often prefer them to those written specially for girls; besides children young and old seldom play favorites.
 Age knowing no boundarles when it comes to books, let us go at it this way. The first are for children of say six or seven. The scale gradually rises to ten.
 It is impossible to name third or a tenth of the good books for children today, so I reach into the grab-bag blind-folded and do the best I can.
 Six to Ten
 Adventures of a Brownie, Null ock: The Terrible Nuisance, Ba- con; Mister Penny, Hallet; Jun ket Is Nice, Kunhards; And That's Why, Reed; The Train Book, Pry- or: The Fire Engine Book, Pryor; Sugar-Plum House, Lenski; Stor- ies for the Seven-Year-Old, Chis- holm & Quinn; Stories for the Eight Year Old, Chisholm & Quinn; Pappy King, Weaver; The Big Tent, Garfield; The Good Friends, Bianco; Green Outside, Cooley; Pamaica Johnny, the Haders.
 Black Beauty, Sewell; Queenie,
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