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WILMETTE LIFE November 16, 1928 to the rustling- of its leave'S as he turns them, and to throw at the cat." Another of the favorites for this age to which ones attention need only be called is a new Hugh Lofting "Doctor Dolittle in the Moon" in which this intrepid man goes in the interests of ·science to the moon and there learns the language of the vege· tables. There are books on count· less unusual subjects for the entertainment of children, as the book "Cork Ship·s and How to Make Them" by a sailor, Peter Adams. Another attractive book not to be forgotten is "Ghond, the Hunter" by las year's Newberry Prize winner, Dhan Mukerji. For children old enough to enjoy history and adventure one of the very best of this year's offerings is "The Sword's of the Vikings" by Julia Davis Adams, daughter of John E. Davis. These are stories of stirring adventure translated directly from the Danish Saxo Grammaticus. A book of America·n adventure is "On Sweet Water Trail" by Sabra Conner, a fascinating story of scouting with Kit Carson. For history there is n o t h i n g better being offered this year than James Boyd's "Drums" a story of the Revolution which Scribn·.!r has just added to its illustrated Cla·.;sics Series. Another historical novel of the West is Alice MacGowan's "The Trail of the ~ittle Wagon," the story of a trip across the continent in a covered wagon in 1870. Older boys would be interested in the ·story of Indian childhood by an Indian, "Long Lance." Another book which should not be overlooked for older boys is "Theodore Roosevelt's Diaries of Boyhood and Youth," an interesting companion volume too, to the "Letters to His Children." For all older children let me recall again the excellent guide to reading by May Lamberton Becker, called "Adventures in Reading" published last year. In it is the germ for the building up of wonderful children's books for the a discriminating taste in reading. This is only a very small portion of the year but they must suffice because of the limitations of time and space ! Esther Gould,s Book Corner I JUST PARAGRAPHS For those who are interested in children's books th~re is a very lovely exhibit in the Children's Museum at the Art Institute. There are gathered together books from many nations each one vying with the other in color and the lavish use of the imagination. Books from France, Germany, Italy, and Czecho-Slovakia are just as attractive and not so very different from those bearing such familiar names as Arthur Rackham, Tony Sarg, and Kate Greenaway. This book should be large, flat, have big print and clear pictures. · Such a book is the really delicious ,.Millions of Cats" by W ~nda Gag, whose futuristic work has received high acclaim in New York. It is a book which no young child should miss. There should 'be of course for every child a "Mother Goose." Among books that parents can read to their children a very good one is "Here and Now Story Book" by Lucy Sprague Mitchell, and another is the "Why-So Stories." · Also in this age come the jingle books, one of the best of which, Edward Lear's "Book of Nonsense" has been reissued with "Other Absurdities by Lewis Carroll" by Dutton this year. Another jingle which is delightful "Dame Wiggins of Lee and Her Seven Wonderful Cats" by John Ruskin has also been issued by th~ same publisher. From the time that the child can read for himself there are hosts of things to recommend. The important thing is that he have already acquired a love of books, thinking of them not as connected with duty but as aids to pleasure. For John Farrar says "We cannot expect to be thoroughly cultured or eve~ thoroughly educated until we learn to allow our children to believe that reading is just as much pleasure as eating candy or going to the movies." One of the most irresistible of all books for this next age is "The House at Pooh Corner" by A. A. Milne and decorated by E. H. Shepard. If you are a friend of Pooh and Christopher Robin you will, no matter what vour age, not stop for anything from- the first page to the last. Not for anything that is, except to read aloud passages to any handy though halfuncomprehending ears. For this is one of those books that you mu ~ t read passages and quote from-but there, one has to be firm or the entire column would be filled by Pooh. Dorothy Aides has added another charming book of verse "Here, There and Everywhere" to her "Everything and Anything." They, too, are for grownups as well as for children. Books for children of this age should be well made, on substantial paper, suh3tantially bound, for, as Robert Ballou said in a masterly sentence I havCJ quoted before, "Adults want a book mainly to read, while a child wants a book to read but also to look at, to feel, to smell, to listen IUVNfAIN SQVARt · LVANSJON Telephones: Greenleaf 7111 Wilmette 3711 Ropn Park JIZZ Winnetka 5ZI · For Children's Book Week The Boys' Book of Pirates Harper's .....·.·....... $2.50 Pinocchio with illustrations made in Italy. Limited edition .......·. Ss.oo French Fairy Tales ······.····.·······. Ss.oo Willy Pogany's Mother Goose sophisticated, handsomelyvolume for a modern child ·.·..·...···... $4.00 Signed editions ·······.·. Ss.oo illustr~ted A Millions of Cats Pictures by Wanda Gag .. $1.25 The House at Pooh Corner A. A. Milne with the usual Shepard illustrations that grow lovelier and lovelier all the time ··.·. $2.00 Clearing Weather A new book by . Cornelia Meig· ..·... $2.00 CHILDREN'S BOOK WEEK Children's Book Week, like Christmas, and most other things for which we are never quite prepared, comes on space. It is the time when we stop and consider, since it was for this the week was made, what is good for the young to read. Or if we don't know we listen to what the wise among us have to say on the subject. They say a great deal, but one who seems to speak with more than usual understanding is Emily Newell Blair. She describes interestingly t h e stages through which a child's reading should go. First, in infancy a child should have · tiny books which it can handle itself and learn to love and associate with pleasure. For this there are the cloth non-tearing books, and various series oi small books such as "The Happy Hour Series" to which there are several additions this year which can be read aloud to young children and which are small enough for them to hold. In the next stage the child wants to lie on the floor and finger and pore over a book for himself, looking at pictures and perhaps studying out the words. The Dryad and the Hired Boy Ethel Cook Eliot .··... $:z.oo BOOKS OF THE HOUR LOVE By William Lyon Phelp· Author of HAPPINESS $1.00 The White Cat: Fairy Tales from Countess d' Aulnoy ·. $J.OO The Wonderful Locomotive Cornelid Meig· .······· $2.00 Mercy and the Mouse Abdall~h and the Donkey Peggy Bacon .....·.·. $:&.oo FAVORITE JOKES OF FAMOUS PEOPLE By Frank Ernest Nicholson Read 'em and laugh $2.50 By K. 0. S. . .....·.·. S2.oo The Happy Hour Books .··.·......········.· soc These include Goldilocks and the Three Bears: The Little Red Hen: The Old Woman and the Crooked Sixpence: The Golden Goose; The A. B. C. Nonsense Book: Three Little Kittens and many others. SLAVES OF THE SUN By Ferdinand Ossendowski Author of BEASTS, MEN AND GODS $3.75 PERSONALITY AND DESTINY Marcu's "Lenin" is described by May Lamberton Becker (in the Saturday Review of Literature) as "a n·erv· ous, implacable biography, in which personality is so interwoven with destiny it is hard to tell which makes the other." Mrs. Becker adds, "This book seems to me the most valuable to come to us so far from the Russian upheaval." NOVEMBER BOOK SELECTION "]ubi lee Jim : The Life of Colonel Jam~s Fisk, Jr.," by Robert H. Fuller, has be.en chosen by the Editorial Committee of the American Booksellers' association as the Book Selection for Nonmber. "Jubilee Jim" was publishcci November 7. Mrs. Wayne Bennett of 3016 Colfax avenue, Evanston, will entertain the north · shore alumnae of Chi Omega at luncheon Friday, November 16. It reads Jlke a fairy tale. A CHRISTMAS BOOK By D. B. Wyndham Lewis Author of FRANCOlS VILLON $3.00 Sokar and the Crocodile Alice Woodbury Howard .·. S:z.oo The best gift book of the year for boys and girls 'is Abdul: the Story of an Egyptian Boy Winthrop Palmer ....·. $2.00 NAPOLEON THE MAN By Dmitri Merezhkovaky Author of THE ROMANCE OF LEONARD DA VINCI The Dutton Book of the Month for November DRUMS by James Boyd With 1 7 color pages and 46 drawings by The Charlie Books By Helen Hill and Violet Maxw~ll These includeCharlie and His Kitten Topsy ............ $1.00 Charlie and His Puppy Bingo ........·... S 1.25 Ch~rlie and His Coast Guards ·.·..·.··..· S 1.25 Charlie and the Surprise House ············ $1.75 Charlie and His Friends .· S J.oo $3.00 N.C. Wyeth Tms famous classic of the American Revolution a favorite with younger read~rs since its publication, is now added to the Scribner $2.50 lllustrated Classics in a superb edition profusely illustrated with N. C. Wyeth's best work. c..)ltyourbookstore Susan B. Anthony The woman who changed the mind of a nation. By RHETA CHILDE DOBR No small undertaking for a school teacher of thirty-three to start out to change the minds of the entire ruling class of men as to one of its most fundamental prejudices-the position of women. Yet she did it! THE CORPSE ON THE BRIDGE By Charles Barry The Dutton Mystery for November E. P. DUTTON a CO. Inc. 286-30:& Fourth Avt., N. Y. C. Lord',_...chiltlttn'· Boolu Firat Floor DtWil $2.50 SCRIBNERS Frederick A. Stoket Co. $S.M