Evening star., 1945-12-02


TO fiction. Americas great military
leader has a portrait in Helen ,Nico-
lays Born to Command, the Story
of Gen. Eisenhower" the command
er who lin spite of his high rank
and responsibility has remained as
American as corn on the cob. !"
Another great hero in mans age
long struggle for freedom is the ro-
mantle "Garibaldi, Knight of Lib
erty." subject of new biography by
Jean Burton.
In the countries to the south of us
while Brazil was still monarchy a
child came to the throne at the age
of years and grew up to be a
warm-hearted and beloved leader Of
his people Mildred Criss tells his
story in Dom Pedro of Brazil"
Out in the Philippines, in the days
tields, at sea and on shore. nurses
w>re the heroines Of the war. In
Brave Nurse" Newcomb Ellsworth
tells 10 true stories of these women
If our own and other countries.
Laid in that pleasant borderland
between biography and fiction, his
torical fact and Imaginative narra-
tive, is a robust story of Elizabethan
England, Sturdy Rogue" by Mag
dalen King-Hall, whose hero takes
part in the battle of the Armada
Comanche warriors, buffaloes, cow
boys and rangers enliven a Western
story of post Civil War days for
Young boys: "Stocky. Boy of West
Texas" by Elizabeth Whitemore
Baker. Another story Of the In
dians, this time for girls and laid in
the Canadian North woods, is Kath-
crime Pinkel tons "Windigo." tale
Of conjuring which makes Wen-da-
ban, young Indian hunter, believe
he has become an evil spirit.
Around the Globe
Yesterday the child lived In his
town, State and country, today he is
a citizen of the world. He adven-
lures in Latin America through
Katherine B. Shippen's "New-Found
World" or Alice Roger Hager's
Brazil Giant to the South; fol-
lows the mysterious ocean currents
in Ruth Brindze's Gulf Stream"
happy combination of history, ad-
venture and science. Even the young
child goes abroad happily and nat
urally to sympathize with Russian
"Ilenka," written by Kingman Lee
and pictured by Arnold Edwin Bare.
A Chinese girls childhood spent in
foreign lands made a citizen of
the world" Of Mai-mai SEE, whose
Echo of a Cry" tells "a story which
begins in China" Born in India Of
missionary parents, Jean Kennedy
returned there to teach after being
educated in America. Out Of her
experience she gives older boys and
girls in Here Is India" an informal
account Of people, customs. religions
and castes.
The Busy Child
The old adage about the devil and
Idle hands is practically formula
for juvenile delinquency. The busy
child, however, is not a delinquent
child. Happy and far too occupied
for mischief is the youngster who
finds in books instructions for Great
ing along the lines of his hobbies
and interests.
Endless possibilities for making
things are opened up in the inge-
nious Scrap Fun for Every One," by
Evelyn Glantz. and in "A Child's
Treasury of Things to Do" by Caro-
line Horowitz, while smaller children
will find occupation for busy fingers
in Mother Goose Handicraft," by
Nina r. Jordan.
Boys, always airminded, will gain
instruction and many occupied hours
from perusal of Richard Chicks
First Book of Model Aircraft" and
Junior Model Planes," by Edward
Clarke.
For the child who loves nature,
Margaret McKenny's beautiful
Book of Wayside Fruits" uniform
with her earlier wild Flowers"
should provide direction in Identify
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