Evening star., 1948-11-14

away.
An obvious way to stop, or at lea
comic books is to give boys and gir
At least three carefully chosen books
should be included in every child's
Christmas gifts, and others should
be made available throughout the
year. To make sure that youngsters
have an ample supply of worthwhile
books all the year round, they should
be encouraged to use the Public
Library.
The time to begin developing a
child's liking for books is before he
enters school. Little boys and girls
love to paw through picture books
and to have their parents read aloud
to them From picture books and
read-aloud books to easy-to-read
books is but step for youngsters
of average intelligence. And from
easy-to-read books to more and
more mature ones is simply a part
of the process of growing up.
Many Are Outstanding.
To review all the childrens books
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to list all the better ones, is an OBJ
vious impossibility in this small
space. The best I can do Is to
mention a few of the volumes which,
for one reason or another, have i'm
pressed themselves upon me.
Among picture books and read
aloud books, I liked Toni Frissell's
Mother Goose" Harper); 'Buzzit%
by Rhoda McBain and c. Leslie
Crandall Hollow Tree); "The Pic
ture Story of the Philippines" by
Hester ONeill and Ursula Koering
Mckay, and Rosie the Rhino," by
Marion Conger and Kurt Wiese
abingdon -CokesburyO.
In the eaSy-to-read group, I was
impressed most Of all by an old
favorite which has been completely
revised and newly illustrated, THE
Picture Dictionary for Children by
Garnette Waters and S. A. Courts
(Grosset & Dunlap. Other books
in this class which I recall with
pleasure are "You and the Consti-
tuition of the United States" by
DR.. Paul Witty and Julilly Kohler
(Children's Press; THE Golden
Book of Nursery Tales by Elsa
Jane Werner and Timor Gergely
(Simon e. Schuster): Daisy and
Dobbin," by Gladys Taber CMacrae-
Smith, and "Appleseed Farm" by
Emily Taft Douglas Abingdon
Cokesbury)-
For a Good Library.
Every juvenile library should con-
tain a selection of biographical, his
torical and how-to-do-it books. In
the field of biogra ply, recommend
Luther Burbank: Boy Wizard" by
Olive w. Burt (Bobbs-M -Merrilp; !;
Buffalo Bill by Augusta Steven
son (Bobbs- Woodrow
Wilson," by Alden Hatch CHolt: ::
"Jef1erson's Daughter" by Mildred
Criss tDodd, Mead. and Jane by
Jean Gould CHoughton, Miff1inl.
The last is a biography of Jane
Austen.
In the historical field. I remember
"a Children's Color Book of Vir-
ginia," by Priscilla Hunt and F.
Richard Vranian (Dietz); THE Lit
tie History of the Wide World" by
Mable Pyne (Houghton, MifflinD ::
When America Was Young by
Mabel Anskey (CaxtonI, and
Shrine of Liberty" by Olga w.
Hall-Quest Dutton.
"Childs Book Of Carpentry" by
Jeanne Taylor (Greenberg); Nov
You're Cookin'," by Margaret Cos
sett and Mary Elting CWestmin-
ster); Fix 1t, Please" by Gertrude
Champion (Simon & Schuster), and
The Betty Betz Party Book (Gros-
set & Dunlap are excellent how
to-do-it volumes.
The Great Books.
Every boy and girl should. Of
course, read THE Adventures Of Tom
Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn" I
don't know of new Tom Sawyer
edition, but Grosset & Dunlap has
brought out a new Huck Finn which
is we'll worth owning.
Other great books of the past which
every one should read are included
in the "Lippincott Classics" de-
signed by Helen Gentry and illus
trated by such famous artists as
Anne Heyneman, Agnes TAFT, Garth
Williams, Charles Banks Wilson and
Robert Ball. So far, the series in
cludes ''Pinocchio," "Heide," Robin
Hood" Treasure Island" and Rob
inson Crusoe" Each volume has an
introduction by Angelo Patri, whose
articles on the education of chill
dren in the home and at school ap-
pear in The Star and other news
papers.
The surest way to keep boys and
girls from turning to the comic
books is to see that they have an
ample supply of adventures and (or
mysteries. Among the books in this
category that impressed me as be-
ing worthwhile were "The Long
Portage" by Herbert Best (viking !;
"At Snug Harbor Inn," by. Alta Hal
verson Seymour CWestminster); "Dr.
Doolittle and the Secret Lake." by
Hugh Lofting Gippincott); Bright
Horizons" by Anne Emery PUT