The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-13
:. WONAN,S REALM -
Your
 Children
By Olive Roberts Barton

This iS the last of six articles
 by Olive Roberts Barton in con-
 nectlon with Chlldren's Book
 Week.. ,l
 In the especially selected lists I have been giving you, as a general guide to book buying, for children of all ages under fifteen, have omitted two things. One is 8 list for high school students, the other classics of long standing.
 The required reading in high school is carefully chosen by in- structors. Not only this, but the thousands of adult books are at the youthful readers command. After sixteen, the boy and girl have an unlimited wealth to draw from. Lists are inadequate and largely. unnecessary. Parents may supervise to a certain extent, but should ale low much personal choice.
 Old favorites for children of all ages are known, 50 they need no further glory here. In most cases, however, they are the foundation of the child's library and to omit them would be like emitting the crown at a coronation. So here are a few reminders.
 4. "Allce" Is Good Start
 WeIl begin with the immortal "Alice in Wonderland" and go on from there. There are "Heidr and for the child around eight or ten. Hans Brinker" and "Pinocchio," "rom, the Water Baby" will prob ably greet you as you enter the store, dressed in raiment far re- moved from the ragged garments of the chimney sweep. Which reminds us of rom Sawyer" and "Huckle- berry Finn"
 But we are getting ahead of our- selves. Tiny people have many friends, too, among the classics. Kenneth draheme's "WinH in the Willows" A. A. Mines "Christo- pher Robin Story Book" and Win nie the Pooh" (series) are books to grow on, as well as the Mary Pop pins" books ana Nesbit's "The Bastable Children" 'Kipling's Jun gle Book" and "Just So Stories" are as fresh and delightful as ever. Nights with Uncle Remus" by our dearly beloved Joel Chandler Har- ris Is ageless; as Brer Rabbit has followed me through the years, he will you and your children. Speak ing of Brer Rabbit the Peter Rab- bit" stories of Beatrix Potter have joined the classics for all time.
 Then there are James Whitcomb Riley of Man in the Moon" fame, and Field, whose Little Boy Blue" deserved monument and got 1t. Include Rose Tyleman, whose poems of fairies are here to stay. Sheven- sons "Child's Garden of Verses" Is Q volume for the ages.
 More Classics
 Behind the King Arthur books with the Round Table already part of our own upbringing. Howard Pyle did several volumes of the fa- nous knight, but others have taken him into older worlds, as has Sir Thomas Mallory in his "King Arr thur and His Knights"
 There are the Little Colonel" books, as popular today as when first written. The Little Colonel has @ fixed place in children's hearts, and she will always be here, just as "The Five Little Peppers" will never be neglected. Or Lucy Fitch Perkins famous Twin" series.
 There are the "Dr. Doolittle" books by Hugh Lofting. Look them over and possess one.
 On we 90 to Robinson Crusoe," Swiss Family Robinson" and 10000 Leagues Under the Sea-"
 "The Three Muskoteers," "Ivan- hoe," "The Count of Monte Cristo," Treasure Island" Arabian Nights" the Alcott books, Jane Eyre" Lorna Doone," Hawthorne's "Won- der Book" Lambs "Tales from Shakespeare" Bible Stories," Scot tish Chiefs," "Kim," are all real possessions. Go and see old friends in new apparel. Buy an old book with @ new. This is the best way to build 0 library for any child.
 Copyright, 1887, NEA Service, Incl