Evening star., 1937-11-13
BOOKS FOR YOUNG REVIEWED
Chden Book Week Rolls Around More Editor Looks
Over Picture Books, Travel Books and Nature Books
and Finds Most of Them Charming.

tractive. As for the mental age meant 4
to be reached by Mr.. Holmes work,
the reviewer can say only that IL she
had the remotest idea that she could
ever learn to draw eggs she would
buy the Art Book" to tell her how to
proceed.
Other books of the Institutional
kind are "Termite City" by Alfred
E. Emerson and Eleanor Fish, illus
trated by Keith Ward. published by
Rand McNally Co., telling the young
a great deal about the habits of ants
DR.. William Beebe has thought
enough of this work to write fore
word for it; Tin Lizzy" by Adam
Allen, published by Stackpole Sons,
telling the elements of automobile re-
pair; THE Adventures of Jimmy Mi
crobe" by Virginia Budd jacobson
and Lyman L. DANES, illustrated by
Kay Russon, published by Reilly and
Lee, telling. rather horrihcally, how
to outwit germs; THE Speech Fam
lily" by Lillian ]. Keating, published
by the Meador Publishing Co., telling
how to identify the parts of speech,
and "A Story Of Pioneers and Their
Children and Some Pioneer Things
You Can Make" by Marcelline Flora
Myers and Louise Embree, illustrated
by Clothilde Embree Funk. published
by Bobbs Merrill, telling. with dia-
grams, how to construct miniatur
covered wagons. log cabins. hooked
rugs and the like, together with a
story text relating to these manufac-
lures.
THE reviewer confesses that the SIM
plicity of her own mind inclines
her more to works for the very young
than to those for sophisticates of 10 or
IL years of age. Indeed, she has
sometimes wondered how it is that
books of great charm and goodness
are made in numbers for tots, and
drivel, as a general thing, dispensed
for the child approaching adolescence.
For, with good book designed for the
very young, any intelligent adult can
be entertained. But those mid-age
things which tell about the Bubble
Girls at Sweet College or the Noble
Boys Among the Bad Boys. cannot
be tolerated by anyone except the !
youths for which they are written.
The reviewer remembers that she
could not tolerate them even when
she was at the age to do so; there
was a ghastly epidemic of Little
Colonel reading, she recalls, at about
the time she was in the seventh
grade. She tried to string along, but
it was no go. She could pour over
THE Wizard of o." she remembers,
but she seems to have gone straight
from that to Dickens and Mark
Twain. Well, maybe Dickens and
Mark Twain are not total loss, after
all.
All this is by way of saying that
there are quite a number of older
young folks books. but that they are
regarded more or less as duty. Here
are some of the outstanding ones:
Wilderness Road" by Katherine
Clugston and Richard Stevens. pub
lished by Reynal and Hitchcock, be-
ing story about Daniel Boone; New
World Builders" by Blanche w. More
head, published by John c. Winston
Co. and telling of the explorations
of Lewis and Clark; King Richards 4.
Squire" by Regina Kelley, illustrated
by Russell Hamilton. published by
Thomas Y. Crowell Co. and telling
a story of Chaucer's England; "Al-
bum of the Great" by Rolf Klep, pub
lished by Alfred Knopf, collection
of brief lives Of famous men and
women; "Susannah Of the Yukon
by Merle Denison, illustrated by
Marguerite Bryan, published by Dodd.
Mead & Co.; wagons Westward" by
Armstrong Sperry, published by John
c. Winston Co., telling story of the
old Santa Fe Trail; Corporal Corey
of the Royal Canadian Mounted" by
Jack O'Brien. illustrated by Kurt
Wiese. published by the John C. Win
ston Co., fictional account Of the
famous police; Riding West on the
Pony Express" by Charles L. Skelton,
illustrated by Paul Quinn. published
by the Macmillan Co., a story Of two
boys on the old mail route; Pigeon
Post" by Arthur Ransome, published
by Lippincott, work of fiction in
which some young people solve
mystery; IN Secret Service" by Jean
Rosman, published by Lippincott Co.,
a mystery of the court of Napoleon.
And that closes the tale. Book
week, cheese week (also fur week, If
you are going to be a purist) is past
once more. Will you buy a book?
Or will you take Camembert? Or
would you rather have 4 sable?