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The University of Chicago Library - Center for Children's Books VOL. V January, 1952 No. 5 BULLETIN of the Children's Book Center. overcome his weaknesses, Ricky Scott leaves Published by the University of Chicago Library, his wife and the game and returns to the oil Center for Children's Books. Mary K. Eakin, fields where he had worked summers while in Librarian. college. There he meets Kern Burke, a veteran who lost one arm during the war, and The book evaluations appearing in this BULLETIN is goaded are made with the advice and assistance of by Burke into returning to semi-pro members of the faculty of the Graduate Library ball. Eventually he works his way back to School, the Department of Education, and the the big leagues and his wife. Characters and University dialog are stilted and unrealistic and the Laboratory School. whole story is too filled with sentimentality. Published monthly except August. Subscription Not recommended. price is $1.75 a year. Checks should be made payable to the University of Chicago Library. Brewster, Benjamin pseud. The first book Correspondence regarding the BULLETIN should be of firemen; pictures by Jeanne Bendick. addressed to the Center for Children's Books, Watts, 1951. 40p. $1.75. Gr.4-6. University of Chicago, 5835 Kimbark Avenue, Easy text and clear pictures describe the Chicago 37, Illinois. work of firemen in city and country, on fire- boats, and in forests. There are brief New Titles for Children and Young People sections on ancient methods and equipment used in fighting fires, on firefighting around Adrian, Mary. Garden spider; illus. by Ralph the world, and on firehouse pets. The book Ray. Holiday House, 1951. 38p. $2. Gr.2-4. makes entertaining reading for anyone The life cycle of the garden spider told in interested in fire fighting and will also be simple, easy prose and colorful illustrations. useful for units on city life and on Accurate information and an interesting style occupations. Some of the important illustra- will give the book appeal for children who are tions are on the end-papers and will be lost beginning to be interested in nature study. in re-binding. Ayme, Marcel. The wonderful farm; trans. from Bright, Robert. Me and the bears. Doubleday, the French by Norman Denny; illus. by Maurice 1951. 31p. $1.25. Sendak. Harper, 1951. 182p. $2.50. A small girl whose favorite animals at the A modern fantasy of two small girls living zoo are the baby bears dreams about them one on a farm in France. The animals on the farm night. They come to visit her and she plays talk to adults end children alike and take an with them until the mouse wakes uo and then active part in the family affairs. The episodes they all go to sleep. The story and illus- have some of the characteristics of the fable trations are amusing but the constant repeti- but are too long for fables and lose much of tion of the phrase "me and the bears" gives their interest because of their excessive length. too much emphasis to a grammatical construc- Also there is a certain sameness to the episodes tion that teachers and many aprents try to that becomes monotonous and they are too slow- correct. It can only be confusing for a child paced to hold the reader's interest. Not to be corrected every time he uses the phrase recommended, and then have it repeated many times in his picture book. Very young children are not Bechdolt, John Ernest. Mystery at Hurricane sensitive enough to grammatical constructions Hill. Dutton, 1951. 189p. $2.5 to recognize that the author is using the A mediocre mystery story involving a country phrase for humorous effects. Not recommended. inn in Connecticut and the guests and employees found there. The characters are types and Brown, Margaret Wise. A child's good night completely lacking in reality. Stock situations book; illus. by Jean Charlot. W. R. Sdott, and a trite plot further weaken the story. Not 1951. 32p. $2. recommended. New edition of a book first published in 1942. Too slight to offset.the uneven quality Bishop Curtis. BanlJo hitter. Steok, 1951. 204p. of both text and illustrations. Not 12. recommended. Mediocre sports story about a spoiled young player who makes a phenominal success as a rookie but fails to make good in the major leagues. Unwilling to face his failure squarely and try to 4ft36 - - 36 -

Brown, Paul. Silver Heels. Scribner's, 1951. Dillard, Maud Esther. A farm for Juliana; 121p. *2.50. illus, by Albert Orbaan. Dutton, 1951. 189p A mild slow-moving story of a pony and the $2.50. children who helped raise him. The characters Nine-year-old Juliana came with her family are not well-developed and the story is too from Amsterdam in the 17th century to find a slight for the price of the book. Not farm in New Netherland. The story of their recommended. sea voyage and their efforts to find a suitable farm is told with a lavish use of Caffrey, Nancy. Somebody's pony; illus. by Dutch words that are not fully explained in Jeanne Mellin. Dutton, 1951. 72p. $2. the text and sometimes make the story impossi Jay and Jan wanted a pony but their parents ble to understand. The story shows evidence could not afford to buy them one. One day they of research but is too lacking in plot or found a pony in the lane in front of their farm, character development to have much appeal for took him home. cared for him, and entered him young readers. Not recommended. in the local Club's Annual Pony Show. There the pony won the Grand Champion award but the Downey, Fairfax Davis. Free and Easy; the children could not enjoy his success because story of a Narragansett Pacer; illus, by they had found his original owner. Several Frederick Chapman. Scribner's, 1951. 188p. weeks later, as the children were mourning $2.50. Gr.8-10. their loss, the pony was returned to them as a Somewhat slow-paced but interesting story birthday present. For the most part this is a of the Narragansett horses during the days run-of-the-mill horse story but the final when they were bringing fame and wealth to solution is too unrealistic to be acceptable. Rhode Island. Stella O'Dare and Jeffrey Hull The pony, Top Honor, was the best pony his saved a young filly from drowning.and as a owner had ever bred and was a winner in every reward Stella was given the horse as her own. show he had entered,. It is quite unlikely, The story is as much concerned with Stella's therefore, that the man would give away such a growing up and her love affair with Jeffrey valuable horse simply because he felt sorry for as with the rearing and training of the horse. the children. Not recommended. A good picture of Rhode Island in the early eighteenth century. Carroll, Lewis, upseud, Ad-ventures from the original Alice in Wonderland and Through the Du Bois, William Pene. Bear party. Viking, lookin g~1ass; adapted and abridged by MAroia 1951. 44p. $2. Martin; illus. after Sir John Tenniel by A story of the bears in Koala Park and how Laszlo Matulay. Grosset, 1951. 24p. $1, the wise old bear in the tallest eucalyptus Re-written version of Alioe in Wonderland tree settled their quarrels. The story is that is wholly without appeal in either text or contrived and flat and the book's only appeal illustrations. It seems unfair to Carroll, is in the illustrations which are colorful and Alice, and modern children to give such mutilated amusing. versions when there are plenty of fine editions of the original story available. Not recommended. Fatio, Louise. Anna the horse; illus, by Roger Duvoisin. Aladdin, 1951. 43p. $1.75 Chute, B. J. Teen-age sports parade; illus. by trade ed.; $2.25 library ed. Gr.2-4. William B. Ricketts. rosset 1951. 255p. $1. Sally is a small girl with a great love Mediocre collection of sport stories. The for horses and a strong desire to have one of humor is forced and overdrawn and the moralizing her own. Her father views horses as anachron- too obvious to have either value or appeal. Not isms and refuses to even consider buying one. recommended. How a heavy snowfall and a stalled oar change his mind makes a humorous story and one that Coggins, Jack. Rockets. Jets. guided missiles third grade readqrs can handle alone. Amusing and space shiD; by Jack Coggins and Fletoher illustrations add to the appeal of the story. Pratt. Random House, 1951. 58p. (1. Gr.5-7. The page set-up is rather poor as the irregular Well-written, interesting information about lines of type make difficult reading for the history, present use and probable future of children who are just learning to read and are rocket science. The section on space travel will accustomed to full length lines. be especially interesting to readers of science fiction. Illustrations are colorful and add to Flannery, Elizabeth. The foaling barn; illus. the appeal and usefulness of the book. Laminated by Vaughn Flannery. Barnes, 191. 28p. board binding. $2. Gr.4-6. Interesting and detailed description of Colver, Alice Mary Rose. Joan Foster in Europe. the foaling barn and of the first few days of Dodd, 1951. 243p. $2.50. a colt's life. The information is complete Latest title in the series of Joan Foster 'and accurate enough that the book could be used books. In this one Joan goes with a group of as a guide book both for equiping a foaling American students for a year's study in $witzerp- barn and for handling the mare before, during, land. There she has a misunderstanding with and after foaling. The full-page illustrations Todd Hunter her would-be fiano6, almost falls add greatly to the effectiveness of the book. in love with a young Swisse, and eventually announces her engagement to Todd. There are - Galt, Thomas Franklin. Peter Zenrer. fighter some interesting pictures of Paris, Italy, and for freedom; illus,. by Ralph Ray. Crowell, Switzerland but not enough to overcome the 1951. 242p. $3. Gr.7-9. (D57;D28). faulty grammar and unrealistic characterizations A timely and interesting biography of of the book. Not recommended. - 37 - Peter Zenger and the fight for a free press in neway, Elizabeth. The Vikings; illus. by America. The story brings to life many of the Henry 0. Pits. Random House, 1951. 175p. outstanding figures of the time and gives a (A landmark book). $1.50. Gr.4-6. good picture of the period. Of the three books about Leif Ericson that ave appeared this fall this one is'in some ways Granberg, Wilbur J. Johnny wants to be a the least satisfactory. (Ruth Cromer Weir, Lei policeman; illus, by Alison Cummings. Ericson. explorer Abingdon-Cokesbury, 1951. Aladdin, 1951. 79p. $1.75. Katherine Binney Shippen, Leif Eriksson. first Ten-year-old Johnny went to the police voyager to America, Harper, 1951.) Leif's fight station t'o retrieve his stolen bicycle and when he first arrives in Norway seems inconsis- stayed to learn all he could about police work. tent with the customs of the time which demanded The story is obviously written for a Purpose hospitality to all strangers in the country, and and the tone is condescending. The book has the episode in which Leif sleeps through the some value as a picture of the wide variety of discovery of land on his voyage to America work done by the police department and as a seems highly improbably. Aside from these two portrayal of the police as friendly helpful episodes the story is well told in a style that people. There is almost no material on this combines easy reading with interesting material. subject for this reading level (grades 4-5) and it is unfortunate that this book could not Jones, Jessie Mae (Orton), comp. This is the have been written in a more useful and accept- way; prayers and precepts from world able style. Could be used in classroom religions; illus. by Elizabeth Orton Jones. situations but not for general library purchase. Viking, 1951. 6 2p. $3. All ages. Excerpts from the sacred writings of the Gulick, Peggy. near Uncle Looy; by Peggy Gulick American Indian, Hindu, Bushman, Kurnai, Taoist, and Elizabeth Dresser. Knopf, 1951. 28p. Buddhist, Confucianist, Mohammedan, Zoroastrian, $1.75. K-Gr.2. Hebrew, Sikh, and Christian religions are used Another story of Sing, Sang, and Sung, the to show that certain concepts are universal and pandas who live on the top of a high mountain in may be found in all religions. The illustra- Tibet. One day a large crate arrives from Uncle tions carry out the same ideas by showing the Looy who lives down below. The family try in gradual gathering together of children of all vain to figure out what all the items are that races and creeds. This a book to be used with come from the crate but are not able to do so children rather than by children alone since until Uncle Looy arrives and tells them it is the precepts and the language in which they are an automobile with a television set. A good expressed are too difficult for any child to story to read with young children who will enjoy grasp without considerable explanation by an the variety of sounds and the humorous illustra- adult. tions. Leslie, Marguerite. A song for Arabella; illus. Henrich, Thomas David. The way to better base- by Lumen Winter. Coward-McCann, 1951. 44p. ball; a guide for young ball players and their $2.50. coaches; by Tommy Henrich and A. L. Plaut. Arabella is a tiny Stanley Steamer whose Exposition Press, 1951. 135p. $2. life is a series of triumphs and neglects. The A guide to baseball designed for young ball story of her career is told in a highly players and high school coaches but not quite personified, exceedingly sentimental, style satisfactory for the use of either. The sections that has little to offer the reader. The for young player.s vary from formal grammar to picture book format is deceiving for the pages slang and are condescending in tone. The are filled with text in a fine print and written section for coaches is too brief to be of much in a style that will be difficult reading for value and devotes considerable space to one of any child below the fifth grade reading level. the co-author's gripes about some of the less Not recomrnended. pleasant aspects of his own job. Such informa- tion seems to offer little of interest or value Lillie, Amy Morris. Judith daughter of to either coaches or players. Child's How to Jericho illus. by edda alker. Buton, 1951 nlav big league baseball (Harcourt, 1951) covers 192p. $2.50. Gr.7-9. the same material and is a better written book. A story of Palestine at the time of Christ. Not recommended. Judith's life becomes affected by the new teachings and she, herself, becomes a follower Hoppenstedt, Elbert M. Secret of Stygian River; of Jesus. The story has good material about illus, by R. M. Powers. Harcourt, 1951. 233p. the life of that period but a slow style and $2.50. Gr.6-8. static characters will limit its appeal as The Gillie family were dismayed when they general reading. Useful for Sunday School learned that a new super highway was to be built collections. through the Kentucky farm their family had owned for several generations. Martin and his father Lovelace, Maud (Hart). The trees kneel at were avid spelunkers (cave explorers) and was Christmas; illus,. by Gertrude Herrick Howe. it 8 while exploring one of the caves on the farm that Crowell, 1951. 12 p. $2.50. Gr.3-5. (D59) Martin discovered the huge cavern that ran under Seven-year-old Afify liked the stories her the farm and that decided the engineers to grandmother told of life in Syria but best of change the highway to another place. The story all she liked the' story of how the trees kneel has some of the same elements of interest as at Christmas. Convinced that such a miracle Church's Five boys in a cave (Day, 1951) .although could also haopen in Brooklyn, she took her the writing is not as good nor are the characters five-year-old brother, Hanna, to the nearby as realistically portrayed, park one Christmas Eve and found there a - 38 - Christmas miracle. An appealing story for tions, done in a garish pink, have no appeal Christmas reading and a good picture of life for either adults or children. Not recommended. in a modern Syrian-American household. Phelps, Margaret. Ketch dog; illus. by Evelyn Lyons, Dorothy. Dark Sunshine; illus. by Copelman. Macrae, 1951. 223p.* 2.50. Wesley Dennis. Haroourt, 1951. 244p. Twelve-year-old Wade Compton iA spending a $2.50. few months in the hills of Arizona with an old When Blythe Hyland moved with her family rancher while his mother is in South America to their new ranch she was bitter to think and his father is in the nearby hills that a bout of polio had left her so crippled prospecting for ore for a mining company. Wade, that she could not take part in any of the who had lived all his life in Philadelphia, ranch activities. However, the encouragement wants a dog but Old Medley refuses to have one of her family and her own interest in a buck- around. Nothing daunted, Wade sets out to tame skin mare, Dark Sunshine, overcame her list- a wild ketch dog that is roaming the country lessness and eventually restored her to health. and does so with amazing ease and e moderate The characters are not realistically portrayed amount of help from two friendly cowboys. The and any value the book might have had for its short, choppy sentences read more like a primer picture of a polio victim overcoming a handi- than a book for fourth or fifth graders. The cap is lost in the display of poor sportsman- story moves slowly and lacks reality in either ship Blythe puts on after losing the Trail characters or incidents. Not recommended. Riding contest; a display made all the worse by the author's obvious' sympathy for Blythe's Renick, Marion (Lewis) Nicky's football team; attitude. The writing is further weakened by illus. by Marian Honigman. Scribner's, 1951. an excessive use of cliches and by numerous 115p. $2. Gr.3-5. instances of slip-shod grammar. Nor recommended. Nicky was too young to play football with the older boys in the neighborhood so he McCormick, Wilfred. Grand-slam homer; a Brono decided to start a team of his own. With the Burnett story. Putnam's, 1951. 183p. $2. help of his best friend, Ted, and Francie Cole, More doings of Brono Burnett, the sterling the girl next door, he manages to earn enough hero of Sonora, New Mexico, his peerless coach, money to buy a Junior size football and even and his teammates. This time they face the interests the fathers in the neighborhood in best American Legion Junior Baseball teams sponsoring a Midget Football League team. from all over the country in the National The moralizing is somewhat obvious and there is Tournament in New York City. As usual they are more about Nicky's attempts to earn money than confronted with a big Problem and, as usual, about actual games but as a first sports story it is solved in time to win the crucial game. for young readers the book is adequate. The problem is the matter of playing hunches versus playing percentages. It gives the Rittenhouse, Constance (Morgan) Abbie Higgins, coach an excuse for innumerable and intermin- young goup work executive; by Constance able monologues on baseball technique and Rittenhouse and Iris Vinton. Dodd 1950. history but beyond that the reader is never 280p. $2.50. Gr.9-11. (D86;D134). very sure just how or why it is affecting the Doubts arise many times in the mind of team. Dull story with completely improbable Abbie Higgins over her choice of professional and unrealistic characters. Not recommended. Girl Scouting as a career and especially when some of her more "successful' (in a monetary 'Itrton, Alice May. Huon of the horn; adapted sense) friends try to persuade her that she is / by Andre Norton, cpseud.A ; illus, by Joe wasting her time in such a profession. Abbie Krush. Haroourt, 1951. 208p. $2.75. Gr.6-8. fights this decision over and over again and Re-telling of a little known legend from concludes that the satisfactions from her work Sthe Charlemagne Saga. Huon, the Duke of Bordeaux are of more value to her than higher salaries. became friends with Oberon while attempting to Differs from most career books in the fact that perform a series of tasks imposed on him by it does not follow the routine plan of struggle, Charlemagne and eventually succeeded Oberon as instant success, and romance. The reader king of fairyland. The story of Huon's ad- leaves the book with the feeling that Abbie will ventures in fulfilling his tasks and later in lead a happy, full life in her chosen career defending his castle has all the elements of although fame and fortune may not be hers. the hero tale with a successful blending of Characters are realistic except for Willie, who the fanciful and the real. Told with much the is a stereotype of the c"razy musician." same vigor and drama that have made Howard Pyle's stories favorites through the years, Roberts, Catherine. The real book about making dolls and doll clothes; illus. by the author; Parka, Gale T. Here comes Dad ; pictures by ed. by Helen Boke. Garden City, 1951. 191p. William Gropper. V. R. Scott, 1951. 19p. $1. $1.25. Gr.5-7. A small boy and girl stand on the front Directions for making dolls and doll steps watching for their daddy to come home. clothes of all kinds. There are pipe cleaner As they wait they pretend that each vehicle dolls, cotton and crepe paper dolls, rag dolls, that comes down the street is bringing their paper dolls with clothes draped and pleated daddy even though they know he will actually like fabric, rag dolls made on wire frames, and come on the bus. The book utilizes a form of dolls with hard heads made from soap, putty, play in which many children indulge but the plastic wood, and clay. An introductory treatment here is not ,successful. The text is section gives a brief history of dolls and a not satisfactory for reading aloud, the people final section describes how to make doll who come along the street are not ones that many accessories. Some of the directions are quite many children will recognize, and the illustra- simple but most of them will require adult help 39 - and supervision for satisfactory results. the plebes who enter the academy with the same attitude he had in the beginning. The book Ronnei, Eleanor C. Tim and his hearing aid; gives a good picture of life at West Point from by Eleanor C. Ronnei and Joan Porter; all aspects - academic, social, and military. pictures by Max Porter. Dodd, 1951. 41p. The style is fluent and interesting, using -1.75. Gr.3-5. cadet slang for naturalness. An appendix gives A story with a Purpose. Tim is hard of the meanings of the "cadet slang" words. hearing so his parents buy him a hearing aid. At first he has difficulty using it but with SStevens, William Oliver. Famous women of the help of an Auditory Training teacher he America; illus. with photographs. Dodd, 1950. learns to make it work with instead of against 174p. $2.50. Gr.7-9. him. The book could be used with children with A collection of short biographies of famous impaired hearing but is too contrived to be of merican women. The sketches, which average value for general library purchase. about four pages in length, give some insight into the personalities and backgrounds of the Sayers, Frances (Clarke) Ginny and Cuatard: women as well as basic biographical data. illus. by Eileen Evans. Viking, 1951. 128p. Contents: Pocahontas, "Mad Ann Bailey", Margaret $2. Gr.4-6. (D37). Lewis, Betsy Ross, "Molly Pitcher", Sally Nine-year-old Ginny was not sure she liked Townsend, Martha Danridge Washington, Dolly Los Angeles after having lived in New York City Madison, Saoajawea, Harriet Lane, Clara H. all ner life. However after she had taken Barton, Lucretia Coffin Mott, Harriet Beecher several exploration trips with her parents, Stowe, Susan B. Anthony, Dr. Mary Walker, Maria had made friends with some of the children in Mitchell, Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Cushman, the neighborhood, and nad been adopted by a Clara Morris, Mary Cassatt, Carrie Jacobs Bond, cat named Custard, she found tne city a Anne Sullivan Macy, Mary Mapes Dodge, Jane wonderful place to live. The vivid word Addams. pictures give the reader a real feeling for Los Angeles, for the spaciousness of the city Stirling, Lilla. Jockie; a story of Prince in general and for specific spots such as the Edward Island; illusTby Bob Meyers. Farmer's Market and Olvera Street. Although Scribner's, 1951. 202p. $2. Gr.4-6. the plot is slight, the book has value for A pleasant story of Prince Edward Island, a the poetic quality of the writing and for the small boy, and his mare, Diana. Jockie is warmth and depth of the family relations. staying on the Island with his grandparents while his own parents are on a scientific Selsam, Millicent (Ellis). Play with vines; expedition in South America. To help him pass illus. by Fred F. Scherer. Morrow, 1951. the time and keep from being too lonesome, his 63p. $2. Gr.3-5. grandfather gives him the young foal, Diana, to Simple descriptions of various kinds of raise. When Diana is old enough, Jockie sends vines with explanations of how they climb and her to Charlottetown to be trained for the experiments that can be made with each kind. trotting races. A good picture of life on A useful book for nature study classes and for Prince Edward Island and one tnat could be used home experiments. as a transition from horse stories to other types of reading. Semrad, Alberita R. The zoo; photographs and drawings by Ralph Graham. Rand McNally, 1951. Treadgold, Mary. The mystery ofq he Polly 71p. $2. Gr.4-6. arris; illus. by Pat Marriott. Doubleday, Brief descriptions, photographs, and line 1951. 247p. $2.50. drawings introduce young readers to the various An English mystery story with the usual animals found in the zoo. The book will be contingent of precocious children who outwit useful as introductory nature study material the adults and bring some dangerous criminals and for reading aloud with children before they to justice. The story moves slowly in spite of visit the zoo. the excitement of capturing smugglers and thwarting a plot to blow up the House of Slobodkin Louis. ~ friendlylr friends. Commons. Fine print and crowded pages will Vanguard, 1951. 24p. 2,. K-Gr.2. discourage most readers. Not recommended. A slight but delightful picture-book about the animals a child might well see in his back Tresselt, Alvin R. Autumn harvest; illus. by yard or on the farm. Rhymed text and humorous Roger Duvoisin. Lothrop, 1951. 23p. $2. illustrations tell where the animals sleep, Gr.l-3. what they eat, and what they like to do for fun. With this book the Tresselt-Duvoisin team Boards. has completed the cycle of seasons. Like the earlier titles this is more a word picture of Stanley, John Berchman. Cadet Derry. West the season than a story and its primary useful- Pointer. Dodd, 1950. 276p. $2.50. Gr.8-10. ness will be as nature study material for (D86), beginning readers. Steve Derry enters West Point against his own will and only to satisfy the desires of his Vetter, Marjorie (Meyn) ed. O my honor; mother and uncle. His resentment against the twenty stories from Te American Girl academy and the army career for which he is Longmans, 1951. 229p. $2.75..Gr.8-10. being trained causes him much unhappiness during (D51;D17;D57) his first year but he finds relief in playing A collection of stories from The American football. With the help of his roommate, the g ,rl,most of them by well-known authors, and coach, and a friendly cadet, Steve changes his all of them expressing some part of the Girl attitude and eventually finds himself helping Scout code of honor. A few of the stories are - 40 - too obviously written for a purpose, but in Instructional Materials. Supplementary Reading general the selections are good and will be and Sources of Materials read as much for their story appeal as for the lesson that is taught. The materials listed here are not available from the Center for Children's Books. Orders Waldman, Frank, Bonus pitcher; illus, by should be sent to the publishers of the Robert Candy. Houghton, 1951. 156 p. $2.50. individual items. Gr.7-9. Eighteen-year-old Roy Turner signed with a "Guidance in the library"; by the members of major league team immediately after graduation the Standing Committee on Vocational High from high school, and played his first year School Libraries, New York, N. Y. High with the farm team at Louisville. He soon Points 33:30-35 N'51. found himself facing the double problem of antagonism because of his bonus and his own Hewitt, Ruth B. and Hewitt, Clyde E. Help lack of experience, but hard work and a will your child be ready for reading. Language to succeed helped him to eventually win a Arts Monograph #65. Row, Peterson, Co., 1951 place on the major league team. Not outstand- Free. ing writing but acceptable and a good picture of major league ball. The high sahnol librariana choose the best books of 150 for tneir readers. Selected by Welty, S. F. Knihts' ransom. Wilcox & Follett, the School Libraries Division, Department of 1951. 240p. $2.75. Gr.8-10. Education, Baltimore, Maryland in cooperation Sixteen-year-old Vahl Thorfinnsson grew up with Young People's Department, Enoch Pratt in Paris where his father had been head falconer Free Library. for the Duke of Burgundy. The story takes him on the disastrous crusade against the Turks at Klein, M. William. "Appropriate teaching Nicopolis, to Greenland where he helped capture materials for instrumental music classes" eight white falcons, and again to Bursa to High Points 33:21-29 N'51. ransom the Christian knights held captive by the Turks. The story is almost too swift-paced Milhous, Katherine. "The fusion of story and at times but it does give a good picture of picture" National Parent-Teacher 46:27-29 the period and of life in Greenland after that N'51. colony had been almost completely abandoned by Norway. Murrell, Jesse L. "How good are the comic books?" Parents Magazine 26:32,135 N'51. Whitney, Leon Fradley. That useless hound; List on pages 33, 134-35. illus, by Ernest Hart. Dodd, 1950. 211p. Persons desiring information or lists of $2.50. Gr.8-10. (D2) evaluated comic books may obtain them from the Dave Ward, son of the prison superintendent Committee on Evaluation of Comic Books, Lock in a southern prison camp, is recuperating from Box 1468, Cincinnati 1, Ohio. Send ten cents an attack of polio and takes renewed interest in stamps with order. in life when his father gives him a much desired bloodhound puppy to train. For years Potell, Herbert. "Materials for remedial Dave has been disturbed by the prison practice reading in the high schools: a desperate of using mongrel hounds (which many people situation." High Points 33:5-14 0'51. mistakenly call bloodhounds) for trailing escaped convicts and by the opinion that Qualey, Carlton C. "Recent biographies in thoroughbred bloodhounds are useless. With the American history" Social Education 15:320- help of his two Negro "trusty" friends from the 321 N'51. prison, Dave trains his puppy to trail people. For high school use, The successes which Dave and Useless, the bloodhound, have in finding several missing Rosenbaum Rabbi Irving J. and Tarcov, Oscar. persons finally convince Mr. Ward and other Your neighbor celebrates. Anti-Defamation prison officials that thoroughbred bloodhounds eague, 327 So. LaSalle, Chicago 4, Ill., are valuable on the trail. An interesting 1951. 104. story with an unusual setting. Explanation of Jewish festivals. Ryan, Calvin T. "From home to school via Yaukey, Grace (Sydenstricker). Seven thousand books" ~tilandla; the story of the Philippines; by American Childhood 37:12-13 0'51. ornelia Spencer, epseud. Aladdin, 1951. 105p. $2. Gr.4-6. (D62). Spieseke, Alice W. "Bibliography of textbooks Simply written account of the history of in the social studies 1950-1951" ~ocial the Philippine Islands, much of it told from Education 15:385-86 D'51. the ooint of view of Carlos Romulo, whose Stauffer, father led the guerilla warfare against the Russell G., ed. What parents can do to help their children Americans in 1899, and who himself became a in reading pro- ceedings of the First leader in the United Nations. The writing is Annual Parent- on- not as good as this author usually does - at ferenoe on Reading, held at the University of Delaware, December 9, 1950. Vol. times the ambiguity in the use of pronouns I. Wilmington, University makes the meaning difficult to follow, but the of Delaware, 1951. 49p. $1. material is interesting and meets a need for Address orders to: Russell G. Stauffer, Director, The Reading Clinic, information about the Philippines for elementary school readers. University of Delaware, Neward, Delaware. - 41 - CARNIVAL of Books programs for January 19, 1952 Brown, M. W. The sleepy little lion. Harper, through February 23, 1952. The dates given 1947. here are the dates on which the programs are . Winter noisy book. Scott, 1947, broadcast from Chicago. For local times Brunhoff, J.de. Story of Babar. Smith and consult your local NBC stations. Haas, 1933. Burton, V.L. Calico. Houghton, 1950. Jan. 19 - THE APPLE AND THE ARROW, by Mary Chalmers, A. Thad a penny. Viking, 1944. and Conrad Buff Child Study Association. Read me another Jan. 26 - LITTLE NAVAJO BLUEBIRD, by Ann story. Crowell, 1949. Nolan Clark Collins, R.M. Septimus. Dodd, 1949. Feb. 2 - GINNY AND CUSTARD, by Frances Conger, M. Rosae the rhino. Abingdon- Clarke Sayers Cokesbury, 1948. Feb. 9 - GEORGE WASHINGTON, by Clara Ingram Dannecker, H. Fisherman Simms. Abingdon- Judson Cokeebury, 1947. Feb. 16 - AMERICA'S ETHAN ALLEN, by Stewart Dawson, R. A walk in the city. Viking, 1950. Holbrook Dennis, M. Burla2 Viking, 1945. Feb. 23 - ALBUM OF HORSES, by Marguerite . Skit and Skat. Viking, 1951. Henry Doane, P. Smallchild's book of verse. Oxford, 1948. GREAT BIOGRAPHY: Dudley, R. Hank and the kitten. Morrow, 1949. "1) It must recreate its central character in Ehrlich, B. Co9clo Harper, 1945. a way which will give us a sense of Eta, M.. Little old automobile. Viking, 194E rounded reality. Fatio, L. Qhristmas orest. Aladdin, 1950. 2) The classic biography must also tell a Felt, S. Rosa-too-little. Doubleday, 1950. compelling story. Garbutt, K., Hdie. Aladdin, 1949. 3) Finally, a biography of the first rank Gilbert, H.E. r. rotter and his big gold must relate the character and the story watch. Abingdon-Cokesbury, 1948. in not only a significant but a poignant Gramatky H. ttle Toot. Putnam, 1939. way to our universal human experience so Grider, b. Mfirst picture diotionary. that . . w.e feel our own experience has Wiloox & Follett, 1948. been vitally touched." Hader, B.H. The big snow. Macmillan, 1948. Quoted from Allan Harris, I. Little boy Brown. Lippincott, 1949 Nevins, "How shall one write of a man's life" Henderson, L.,G. ats for Kansas. Abingdon- New York Times Book Review, July Cokesbury, 1948. 15, 1951. p.20. Hogan, I. About Peter Platyus. Dutton, 1948, The Center for Children's Books receives numer- Nap Y is a cowbo. Dtton, 1949. ous requests for lists of books by grade level. oner, Oxford, 1949. It is not possible for us to issue such lists Howard, J. ountg Katie. Lothrop, 1946 as separate publications but we will from time Ipoar, D.Z. e hne farm Doubleday, 1950, to time, include such lists in the BULLETIN. Jarratt, E.A. rt Mr. Tim. Abingdon- The lists will usually be for a three grade Cokesbury, 1949. span. The following titles have been accepted Kelsey, R.I. aoodenouh Gismo. Houghton,1948 for use with Kgdr.2. Kinert, R. Little helicopter Macmillan,1947. Krasilovsky, P. an who didn't wash his Association for Childhood Education. ol ihe. Doubleday, 1950. under the blue umbrella. Macmillan, 1933. Krauss, R. Backwardday. Harper, 1950, Aulaire, I.M.d' Animals everywhere. Doubleday, Lenski, L. Little auto. Oxford, 1934. 1940. McOloskey, R. Blueberries for Sal. Viking, Averill, E. Jenny's first Darty. Harper, 1948. 1948. Barker, M. J. Little sea lews. Oxford, 1951. McGinley, P.L. All around the town. Barr, J. Little circus dog. Whitman, 1949. Liopincott, 1948. Becker, E. 900 buckets of aint. Abingdon- . Horse who had his picture in the Cokesbury, 1949. paper. Lippincott, 1951. Beim, J. Country fireman. Morrow 1948. Meeks, E.K. One is the engine. Wilcox,1947. L. Saaha and the samovar. Harcourt, Milne, A.A. Now we are s. Dutton, 1950. 1T44. Morrow, E.R.C. jintejd . Knopf, 1930. Bemelmans, L. Madeline. Simon & Schuster, Newberry, C.T. -bone. Harper, 1950. 1939. Oftedal, L. My first dictionary. Grosset, Bianco, P. Joy and the Christmas angel. 1948. Oxford, 1949. Palazzo, T. Federico. Viking, 1951. Parkin, R. Red carpet. Macmillan, 1948. i-- :, Playtime in Cherry Street. Oxford, Petersham, M.?. Box witn the red wheels. 1948. Macmillan, 1949. Binney, I. Boppet, please stop it. Scott, 1948. ... . C.ircus baby. Macmillan, 1950, Black, I.S. Spoodles. Scott, 1948. Roster crows Macmillan, 1945. Pickard, V. Mr.obbs can fix it. Abingdon- Boutwell, E. Red rooster. Aladdin, 1950. Ookesbury, 1948. Brok, E. L. Surprise balloon Knopf, 1949. Bromhall, W. Mary Ann's first picture. Knopf, Politi, L. SonR of the swallows. Scribner, 1948. 1949. Brown, M. he little oarouse. Scribner. 1946. Rey, M.E.W. Billy's picture. Harper, 1948. ___.kiper Jo' s coo0k. Soribner, 1951. Sohloat, O.W. Playtime for you. Soribner, Brown, M. W. The little farmer. Scott, 1948. 1950. Schneider, N. While Susie sleeps. Scott, 1948.