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Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books ILLINOI S UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN PRODUCTION NOTE University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library Large-scale Digitization Project, 2007. BULLETIN OF THE CHILDRENS BOOK CENTER Published by The University of Chicago Library - Center for Children's Books Vol.rr -JALy IIS3 r4o. If BULLETIN of the Children's Book Center. thorough knowledge of English history at the Published by the University of Chicago Library, time of Nelson for complete understanding that Center for Children's Books. Mary K. Eakin, it will be incomprehensible for most readers in Librarian, this country. Much of the plot development The book evaluations appearing in this BULLETIN hinges on improbable coincidence. Not are made with the advice and assistance of recommended. (Gr.7-9) members of the faculty of the Graduate Library School, the Department of Education, and the Beeler, Nelson Frederick and Branley, Franklyn University Laboratory School. M. Experiments with Airplane Instruments; illus. by Leopold London. Crowell, 1953. Published monthly except August. Subscription $2.50. price is $1.75 a year. Checks should be made Easy-to-follow directions for constructing payable to the University of Chicago Library. working models of many kinds of airplane instru* Correspondence regarding the BULLETIN should be ments. Most of the materials required for the addressed to the Center for Children's Books, models will be found around any home. The 5835 Kimbark Avenue, Chicago 37, Illinois. clear, simple diagrams make the directions easy to follow and the explanations of principles ew Titles for Children and Young People easy to understand. The book contains more in- formation than the title might indicate since Barker, Melvern J. 6 O'Clook Rooster. Oxford, it includes accurate, detailed information 1953. 32p. $2.50. about the basic principles on which airplane Picture-story book of a young city boy who instruments operate. Excellent. (Gr.7-11) visits his country cousin. At first the boy is disturbed by the night noises - the wind whistling Bemelmans, Ludwig. Madeline's Rescue. Viking, in the trees, the crickets chirping, the windmill 1953. 56p. $3. banging, and the early crowing of the rooster. More about Madeline, her eleven school In time he becomes accustomed to the noises and mates, and the long suffering Miss Clavel. thinks that they have stopped because they no This time Madeline falls into the Seine and is longer keep him awake at night. The concept of rescued by the dog, Genevieve, who is promptly the effect of familiarity on a person's awareness adopted by the girls, only to be turned out by of his environment is a subtle one for the picture the trustees. After the girls have searched book age child to grasp. The illustrations are in over all of Paris and returned disconsolate to rather drab colors and are, like the text, some- the school, Genevieve finds her own way home what too sophisticated for the young child. Not and rewards the girls by presenting them with recommended. (Pre-school) "enough hound to go all around." The sequel has somewhat more substance as a story than has Barrett, Anne. Stolen Summer. Dodd, 1953. 236p. Madeline and has the same inimitable humor and $2.50, vitality of both text and illustrations as the Life became a real struggle for Jenny Rivers earlier book. First published in Good House- and her mother after Jenny's father was killed in keeping. (Pre-school - Gr.3) the war. He had been an artist whose work was just beginning to be recognized, and about the Bishop Curtis. Larry of Little League. only thing of value he left his family was one of Steck, 1953. 161p. $2. his last pictures. At the start of one summer, Ten-year-old Larry Scott had little hope of when prospects looked especially bleak, Jenny and making any of the Little League teams sponsored her mother stumbled on to an old English country by the merchants in his section of town, but house in which no one was living, and were given his perseverance and willingness to work hard permission, by the caretaker, to live in it for won him the favor of one of the coaches and a the summer. Mrs. Rivers set about cleaning and spot on that man's team. During the first year restoring the house and its furniture. Jenny Larry's sole contribution to the team was as a embarked on an attempt to solve the mystery of third base coach, but he was happy In that Job the conflict between the two neighboring villages because it helped the team win the town champi- of Starmayne and Stareford; a conflict that dated onship. The subject is interesting but the from the time of Nelson's death at Trafalgar. style is exceedingly sentimental and most ten- 1he basic situation of the story is interesting year-olds will react negatively toLarry's S would have appeal for many American children. incessant weeping. Not recommended. (Gr.4-6) However, so much of the story depends on a - 73 - 74 - Block, Jean Libman. Linda Jordan: Lawyer. foreman, the weather, and the Indians, suc- Messner, 1953. 1753p. 2.50. ceeded in proving his ability as a sheepherder Run-of-the-mill career story about two and won a permanent job on the ranch, The young law students who succeed in uncovering story is slow-paced but there are some exciting and bringing to justice a Special Prosecutor episodes and the book gives an interesting who is shielding the gang of racketeers he is picture of the Basque people in this country. supposed to be investigating. The story does (Gr.7-9) not give enough actual information about law and lawyers and the implication that students Conger, Marion and Young, Natalie. The Rainy succeed so easily and so spectacularly is mis- Day Play Book; pictures by Corinne Malvern. leading. Not recommended. (Gr.7-9) Simon and Schuster, 1951. 28p. (A Little Golden Book). 8bQ Goldencraft Cloth Binding. Brink, Carol (Ryrie). Family Grandstand; illus. Very slight story of the activities of two by Jean Macdonald Porter, Viking, 1952. young children on a rainy afternoon. Peggy and 208p. $2.50. (D37). Paul are much more adept at coloring, cutting, As Mrs. Ridgeway was wont to say: "We live and building than are most children their age on College Avenue and we have the football and, for average youngsters, tne activities stadium in our laps." To the three Ridgeway suggested in the book will recuire considerably children - ten-year-old George, twelve-year- more adult participation than the story indi- old Susan, and six-year-old Dumpling (original- cates. Calendar type illustrations of children ly christened Irene) - there could be no better who stay spotlessly clean and neat no matter or more exciting place to live. They shared how hard they play. Not recommended. the acedemic ups-and-downs of the current foot- (Fre-school) ball hero who kept their grass cut, and from the high tower on their house they could watch Crisp, Frank. The Sea Robbers; illus, by R. M. all of the football games through their Powers. Coward-McCann, 1953. 247p. $2.75. father's field glasses. Life would have been Melodramatic story of robbery on the hiah perfect if only they could have turned their seas. Dirk Rogers and his cousin, Jim driveway into a parking lot, but their father Cartwright, heroes of Haunted Reef, go through vetoed that action on the grounds that they a series of adventures including shipwreck, must maintain "academic dignity." A lively and murder, and deep sea diving. There is less amusing story of the everyday life of a real- actual diving in this story than in Haunted istic and likable family. (Gr.5-7) Reef. Much of the plot is based on sheer sensationalism. Not recommended. (Gr.7-9) Brown, Margaret Wise and Hurd, Edith Thacher. Seven Little Postmen; pictures by Tibor Crump, Irving, ed. Boys' Life Book of Scout Gergely. Simon and Schuster, 1952. 28p. Stories. Doubleday, 1953. 219p. 2.50. (A Little Golden Book). 85% Goldencraft Uneven collection of Boy Scout stories Cloth Binding. taken from Boys' Life magazine. Some of the Semi-rhymed prose relating the steps in stories are obviously contrived to present the journey of an airmail letter from a small examples of the spirit of scouting. Not an out- boy to his grandmother whom he is planning to standing collection but one that could be used visit. The text is not always clear although where there is a strong interest in scout work the illustrations help somewhat to overcome its or where there is need for additional snort weaknesses. Schloat's Adventures of a Letter stories. (Gr.7-9) (Soribner 1949) is a better organized and better written book on the same subject. Not Daugherty, James Henry. Trappers and Traders recommended. (Pre-school) of the Far West. Random House, 1952. 181p. (A Landmark Book). $1.50. Brunhoff, Laurent de. Babar's Cousin. That The story of John Jacob Astor's American Rascal Arthur; tr. from the French by Merle Fur Company from the time of the Tonquin's ill- Haas. Random House, 1952. 48p. $1. fated voyage to the betrayal of the Astoria Re-issue, in a slightly different format, fort to the British. The book is primarily of a book first published in this country in concerned with the overland trek of the first 1948. The book is not quite as large as the party of trappers from Montreal to Astoria. earlier edition and libraries will find it The title is somewhat misleading since the book easier to shelve. The story concerns Babar's deals with only one company of trappers and cousin, Arthur, who tries to stow away on an traders and merely mentions in passing the airplane and ends up in the jungle many miles independent trappers of the area.
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