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WINNETKA TALK lon + ee NL November 17, 1928 Acids. FOVNIAIN SQVARE - EVANSTON Telephones: Greenleaf 7000 Wilmette 3700 Rogers Park 1122 Winnetka 520 For Children's Book Week The Boys' Book of Pirates Hatper's cdo eennsn nen. $2.50 Pinocchio with illustrations made in Italy. Limited edition ......... $5.00 willy Pogany's Mother Goose A sophisticated, handsomely- illustrated volume for a modern child Millions of Cats Pictures by Wanda Gag. .$1.25 The House at Pooh Corner A. A. Milne with the usual Shepard illustra- tions that grow lovelier and lovelier all the time. ....$2.00 Clearing Weather A new book by Cornelia Meigs . ..... $2.00 The Dryad and the Hired Boy Ethel Cook Eliot . ..... $2.00 The White Cat: Fairy Tales from Countess d' Aulnoy ..$3.00 The Wonderful Locomotive Cornelia Meigs ........$2.00 Mercy and the Mouse Peggy Bacon Abdallah and the Donkey ByR. OS. ...... + +++32.00 The Happy Hour Books ne oa wk AR 3nd ++ .50C 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. Sokar and the Crocodile Alice Woodbury Howard. . .$2.00 Abdul: the Story of an Egyptian Boy Winthrop Palmer . ..... $2.00 The Charlie Books By Helen Hill and Violet Maxwell These include-- Charlie and His Kitten Topsy Charlie and His Puppy Bingo Charlie and His Coast Quatds:. . . . veins $1.25 Charlie and the Surprise House". ..c..cnonsss31.75 Charlie and His Friends. . $1.00 Lord's--Children's Books First Floor Davis Esther Gould's Book Corner JUST PARAGRAPHS For those who are interested in chil- dren's books there is a very lovely ex- hibit in the Children's Museum at the Art Institute. There are gathered to- gether 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 attrac- tive and not so very different from those bearing such familiar names as Arthur Rackham, Tony Sarg, and Kate Greenaway. CHILDREN'S BOOK WEEK Children's Book Week, like Christ- mas, 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 under- standing is Emily Newell Blair. She describes interestingly the 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 of small books such as "The Happy Hour Series" to which there are sev- eral 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. BOOKS OF THE HOUR LOVE By William Lyon Phelps Author of HAPPINESS $1.00 || FAVORITE JOKES OF FAMOUS PEOPLE By Frank Ernest Nicholson Read 'em and laugh $2.50 SLAVES OF THE SUN By Ferdinand Ossendowski Author of BEASTS, MEN AND GODS $3.75 A CHRISTMAS BOOK By D. B. Wyndham Lewis Author of FRANCOIS VILLON $3.00 NAPOLEON THE MAN By Dmitri Merezhkovsky Author of THE ROMANCE OF LEONARD DA VINCI The Dutton Book of the Month for November $3.00 (l THE CORPSE ON THE BRIDGE By Charles Barry The Dutton Mystery for November Il E. P. DUTTON % CO. Inc. 286-302 Fourth Ave, N. Y. C. This book should be large, flat, have big print and clear pictures. Such a book is the really delicious "Millions of Cats" by Wanda Gag, whose futur- istic 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, Ed- ward Lear's "Book of Nonsense" has been reissued with "Other Absurdi- ties by Lewis Carroll" by Dutton this year. Another jingle which is delight- ful "Dame Wiggins of Lee and Her Seven Wonderful Cats" by John Rus- kin has also been issued by the 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 even 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 your age, not stop for anything from the first page to the last. Not for any- thing that is, except to read aloud passages to any handy though half- uncomprehending ears. For this is one of those books that you must read passages and quote from--but there, one has to be firm or the entire col- umn would be filled by Pooh. Dor- othy Aldes has added another charm- ing book of verse "Here, There and Everywhere" to her "Everything and Anything." They, too, are for grown- ups as well as for children. Books for children of this age should be well made, on substantial paper, substantially bound, for, as Robert Ballou said in a masterly sen- tence I have, 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 SR The best gift book of the year for boys and girls is DRUMS by James Boyd With 17 color pages and 46 drawings by N. C. Wyeth Tuis famous classic of the American Revolution, a favorite with younger readers since its publication, is now added to the Scribner $2.50 Illustrated Classics in a su- perb edition profusely illus- trated with N. C. Wyeth's best work. ¢ Atyourbookstore $2.50 SCRIBNERS to the rustling of its leaves 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 enter- tainment of children, as the book "Cork Ships 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 Swords 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 Amer- ican adventure is "On Sweet Water Trail" by Sabra Conner, a fascinating story of scouting with Kit Carson. For history there is nothing better being offered this year than James Boyd's "Drums" a story of the Rev- olution which Scribner has just added to its illustrated Classics Series. An- other historical novel of the West is Alice MacGowan's "The Trail of the Little Wagon," the story of a trip across the continent in a covered wag- on 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 in- teresting 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! PERSONALITY AND DESTINY Marcu's "Lenin" is described by May Lamberton Becker (in the Satur- day Review of Literature) as "a nerv- ous, implacable biography, in which personality is so interwoven with des- tiny 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 "Jubilee Jim: The Life of Colonel James Fisk, Jr.," by Robert H. Fuller, has been chosen by the Editorial Com- mittee of the American Booksellers' association as the Book Selection for November. "Jubilee Jim" was published 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 like a fairy tale. Susan B. Anthony The woman who changed the mind of a nation. By RHETA CHILDE DORR 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-- iis position of women. Yet she did t! Frederick A. Stokes Co. $5.00