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PUBLICATION 3 0 4 -1 9 4 9

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CHILDREN’S BOOKSHELF
a booklist for parents

FED ER A L SECURITY AGENCY
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CHILDREN'S BUREAU

FOREW ORD
T o people who enjoy children’ s books, there is no need of
offering an apology for making up another list o f them .

For

there are always new books, new children to read them , and
new parents to buy them .

It is hard not to envy those parents

who are just discovering what a circus it is to see their children s
reactions to stories and pictures and information.
This is not a list o f "th e best” hooks.

It makes no pretense

o f doing more than putting down the names o f a few good books
o f each kind, grouped into classes with reference to children s
interests and to their varying levels o f development.

M any

others are equally delightful, but the limitations o f space make
it impossible to get them all in.
These are books that children will enjoy and profit b y.

It

is hoped that parents who find that a certain book or author
arouses great interest will explore further and find other books
that will open wider the doors o f their children s minds.
Some o f these books are very inexpensive, although they
were not chosen for this reason.

But whether their price is

m odest, or whether it reflects the expense and care that have
gone into the production o f a very beautiful book with choice
illustrations, a parent’s m otto might well be that o f the sage
who said, "W e a r the old coat and buy the new book.”
This pamphlet was prepared under the direction o f D r.
Katherine Bain, Director o f the D ivision o f Besearch in Child
Developm ent
Agency.

o f the

Children’s

Bureau,

Federal Security

It is the work o f M rs. M arion L . Faegre o f that

division, assisted by
Office o f Education.

Nora E . Beust o f the United States
The assistance o f M . Ethel Bubb, adviser

to adults in children’s literature o f the W ashington Public
Library, is also gratefully acknowledged.
first issued in 1944 and revised in 1946.

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This pamphlet was

FOR THE
CHILDREN'S BOOKSHELF
W ho are your children’s friends?

D o they know Tigger and

M r. Popper and that scamp o f a hoy, N ils?
skated with Lucinda and skied with Olle?

H ave they roller­
D o they saddle and

bridle Smoky and play they are driving the two-headed Pushm iPullyu?
N o m atter where children live, all these friends can be right
at hand.

In city or country, east or west, they step right out

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living companions for those lucky boys and girls whose parents
appreciate their need o f good reading.
Giving hooks to children only on special occasions like birth­
days and Christmas is a relic o f the tim e when children’s hooks
were few.

Nowadays we m ight well buy good books ju st as

regularly as we do shoes, or anything else children require.

It

is hard to think o f any other things belonging to childhood that
are a more all-around permanently good investm ent.

Books are pleasure-giving
First o f all, hooks are fun.

From the tim e the 2 -year-old takes

a Saturday Walk with his father until he is ready to ride A t the
Back of the North W ind, there is endless variety in the enjoy­
ment to he had from books.

W hether a child gets to know

Babar first, or Ching, or M adeline, doesn’t m atter.

H e’ll

delight in their adventures over and over again, and he’ll never
forget them .

A nd mother and child who have laughed together

over B oo and been anxious with Peter R abbit and M rs. M allard
o f M ake W ay fo r Ducklings in their predicaments, will always
have something in common, something shared that bobs up
tim e and again as they catch each other’s eye and remember the
jolly reading-aloud tim es.

Good bodks encourage the love of beauty
There’s an extra amount o f fun in books nowadays because o f
the wide variety o f splendid, colorful illustrations.

W ho doesn’t

wish sometimes that he could be a child all over again and see
Clare Newberry’s kittens through the eyes o f an 8-year-old?
Grown-ups who read M other Goose aloud have as much enjoy­
ment as their listeners, nowadays, when artists like Rojankovsky
have put their new interpretations on the good old jingles.
People who were brought up on Caldecott and K ate Greenaway
have a pretty good idea o f how jolly it m ust be to have a new
Gram atky or Tasha Tudor book come out, or come upon Shep-

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ard’s pictures o f Pooh for the first tim e.

And the D ’Aulaires,

the Petershams, Daugherty, and Beatrix Potter— those inspired
illustrator-authors— must have been born to illustrate ju st
those stories they have written.

Books broaden a child’s world
Good hooks help to widen a child’s horizon.

They develop

his sym pathy and understanding and give him information on
which his growingly thoughtful mind can go to work.

From

being a self-centered baby, he grows toward an understanding o f
him self as a part o f the great world.

H e reaches out in wonder,

grasping bit b y hit at the fringes o f knowledge about a universe
in which the Gulf Stream and Beaver Pioneers play a part, as well
as the men who went where N o Other White M en had ever been, on
to the court o f K ublai K han like M arco Polo.

He learns o f his

country’s pioneers in Over the Blue Wall and o f his world o f today
in Picture Book of Molecules and Atom s.

H e finds that there

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are 100,000 W hys about the things he sees in a single room.

He

learns that he m ay sometime see the unseen by X -ra y and per­
haps hugs the thought that someday maybe he will add to the
useful knowledge that men store up by means o f the microscope.
I f he is a child who likes to dream, he will thrill to the tales of
early man or ancient buried cities and begin to understand the
world he lives in a little better because he has had a glimpse into
the distant days o f George Washington s World.
N o m atter what a child’s interests, there is always a book that
seems to have been written ju st for him .

There is A ll About Pets

for the child who is never content without some living creature
to care for and Wonders of the Heavens for the one who is tan­
talized by what the winking stars seem to say to him .

The lad

who lives in a crowded city must take much o f his adventure
vicariously; but books like Java H o! and The Matchlock Gun, in
which he enters into the D utch boys’ narrow escapes, and the
dangers o f American pioneer life in his own country, will give
him patterns o f bravery as well as adventure.

Books guide a child’s first steps in world citizenship
W e must acquaint our children with the peoples whose
problems will be their problems in a common future.

W e must

show them how like ourselves other peoples are, how differences
in color or religion or food habits are unimportant as compared
with the sameness o f the blood— that identical stuff here or in
Asia or the South Seas that makes people’s hearts heat with
fear or love or anger.

Children will accept these truths as a

m atter o f course if they are brought up on books like the Chinese
story o f Little Pear or In M y Mother’s H ouse, which the Indian
children near Sante Fe helped to write. N ino in Italy and M aria
Rosa in Brazil have desires very like those o f children in the
U nited States, although the way they live m ay be different.
The children in Around the Year in Iceland are ju st as eager for
their father to get home from a fishing trip as American children
are for their dad’s return from a business journey.

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Reading ability is encouraged by early acquaintance
with books
A n excellent reason for introducing a child early to good books
is that the greater his reading experience, the more he is going to
get from and contribute to his life in school.

So much o f a

child’s education m ust come through hooks that we should use
every means to add to his chances o f success in school adjust­
ment hy giving him skill in the tool o f reading.

M any children struggle along through their school years,
tremendously handicapped by their lack o f ability to read with
ease and comprehension.

The farther they get in school, the

more hopeless it all becomes; for their success depends more and
more upon their reading rapidly and grasping what they read.
Their hobhies and interests, whether music or boat building or
electronics, will be furthered or hindered in accordance with
whether or not they cut their eye teeth on hooks.
There are children for whom it has never become fu n to read.
Children to whom enjoyable, attractive, well-chosen hooks are
supplied as food for their minds, ju st as good food is provided
for their bodies, have an initial advantage over children whose
first acquaintance with hooks comes at school.

A child who

already knows that hooks are a delight starts off on the right
foot when he begins to learn to read.

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Careful choice of books is important
N ow supplying books for children isn’t a m atter o f buying
ju st any books that appear in book stores.

O f late, such a flood

o f books for children has poured onto the market that it is hard
to know which books to buy.
It is not a question o f price, for very m any excellent books are
priced very reasonably.

The average parent will feel safer if he

relies on those who spend much tim e studying the hooks that are
published and who take great pains to find out what children
actually like.

The help o f librarians and o f nursery-school,

kindergarten, and other teachers is always freely given.

What makes a book good?
The best books are those that have such real quality that their
appeal is very broad.

The ideal child’s book, in fact, is a "w hole

fam ily” book— one that can be read with pleasure and absorp­
tion by grown-ups, too.

W alter Edmonds puts it well, saying

that a really good book for children should have "enough stuff,
humor, reality, wisdom, excitement to be interesting to an adult
m ind.” A s proof o f this we needn’t go further than K ipling’s
Just So Stories. N o father or mother ever thinks o f it as a chore
to read them aloud! M odern classics that parents enjoy as much
as they did their own childhood favorites are not lacking.

W ho

would miss knowing that remarkable doll H itty , Freddy the
D etective, Bartholomew Cubbins, and Flicka?
The physical make-up o f a book makes more difference to
children than grown-ups would guess.
cover m atters!

Even the color o f the

Blue, red, and yellow— the bright primary

colors— are the very little child’s favorites, inside a book or out.
N ot until children are older do they appreciate the softly tinted
illustrations that appeal so much to adults.

I f a child is just

beginning to read to himself, it is especially important that the
type in his books be big and clear and not too different in style
from that which he has been accustomed to in his beginning
readers.

Books should be stoutly put together; for although

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children can be trained to handle books carefully, anything that
is going to be used as much as a well-liked hook must he sturdy
and durable.

How illustrations add to enjoyment
In illustrations, very little children want plenty o f animals,
children, and the other familiar things o f their everyday life.
They love m any little details— the tiny pictures on the walls o f
the houses Leslie Brooke draws for his animals to live in, smoke
coming out o f a chimney, Peter R abbit’s little clogs. T hey want
pictures to tell a story rather than to be fanciful and decorative.
They are not yet ready at this age for the so-called "a rtistic”
and intricately imaginative pictures that grown-ups like.

They

thoroughly enjoy humor in pictures as well as in words.
they like pictures on every page.

And

Little children enjoy variety in the size and shape o f books as
well as in their contents.

They can be taught the care hooks

deserve by learning to handle gently their large, beautiful pic­
ture books.

They love to own and carry around very tiny

books, too, as the lasting popularity o f such a story as The Little
Fam ily testifies.
T o he worth buying, a book should he o f more than passing
interest, one the child will enjoy listening to, looking at, or
reading to him self over and over.

A story m ay be very slight

indeed, but its pictures m ay tell so much that a child will turn
hack to them often, always finding fresh enjoym ent.
Crow's Garden is a good example.

Johnny

The story depends m ostly

on amusing rhym es: "T h e sheep went to sleep and the arma­
dillo used him for a pillow .”

The dismay o f the unfortunate

sheep when the porcupine tried the same tactics is hilariously
funny.
W hen buying books we must know what interests children
have at certain ages.

Is there a 3 -year-old who wouldn’t listen

with all his ears to a story about colts or kittens?

Can you

imagine a 6-year-old who wouldn’t be interested in the tale o f
how W illiam (in W ait fo r William) rode the elephant in a circus

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parade?

Girls o f 10 rapturously read over and over again books

about favorite heroines.

Special Interests are encouraged by books
Alm ost before we realize they are individuals with ideas of
their own, children begin to have special interests that can be
furthered by providing the right books.

A child who notices

the living creatures about him should have access to authentic
books like Bronson’s Chisel-Tooth Tribe or the Hegners’ Parade
o f the Anim al Kingdom so that he won’t be misled when he comes
across careless m isstatements.

W hen a little girl announces she

is going to learn to fly, instead o f being laughed at, she should
be given a book that will familiarize her with the different kinds
o f planes.

Children who watch a new house or bridge going up

will enjoy Diggers and Builders or Underneath N ew York.

If

they get in the habit o f going to books for the answers to their
questions, children will, by the tim e they are 10 or so, be using
a library as naturally as they turn on the radio.
This is our main object, is it not? T h at children shall come
to have such friendly, natural attitudes toward hooks that they
will seek them out when they want to learn something or when
they want to spend some leisure in thorough enjoym ent.

I

books have been their friends from their earliest years, they
will always he a resource.

W hen a mom ent’s escape from reatity

is needed, when other forms o f entertainment or companionship
are not available, when hearing about a discovery in science or a
famous name sets them wondering— these are the times when
children should have books as readily accessible as water to
d^And these books should he their very own.

Books from the

library are fine, but books o f one’s very own that can be picked
up again and again, pored over, and reread whenever fancy
demands, are even better.

It is hard to estimate the value to a

child o f a library o f his own, for the impressions made on his
mind m ay lie too deep to be chattered about.

A favorite char­

acter m ay, unknown to anyone but the child himself, serve as a

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stimulus to effort that is far beyond our ability to calculate.

A

good account o f the life history o f some bird or insect m ay be
so exactly what a child needs to complement his own observa­
tions that he is given the initial impetus to serious study.

The lists o f books that follow are grouped with more emphasis
on interests than on age.

It is almost impossible to say o f a

book that it is for a child o f 5, or one o f 8, for one child o f 3 will
like to hear the supposedly 5-year-old story, and another o f 10
m ay not he m entally old enough for the 8-year-old book.

Reading aloud adds to family companionship
Children will listen with great enjoym ent to a hook that they
are not yet capable o f reading b y them selves.

U p to the age o f

9 or 10, m ost boys and girls are not reading full-length books;
but a child is delighted to hear such stories as Pinocchio or The

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W ind in the Willows long before his reading ability is enough
advanced to make it pleasurable for him to read them alone.
This advancement o f a child’s understanding beyond his read­
ing skill shows how desirable (as well as pleasurable) it is for
families to do much reading aloud.

Even starting a story aloud

sometimes whets the appetite o f a child who hasn’t yet become
hungry enough for hooks not to need a little anticipatory taste
to get him started.

A fam ily that sets aside only 20 minutes

a day for reading aloud will have read more than 120 hours in
a single year!

Older children will be so eager to go on with the

story that they can be counted on to "sp ell” mother and father
in reading, turn-about fashion.
Parents also welcome the well-done informative books now
written for children and breathe a grateful sigh for the help
such books as Finger Fins— Tale of a Sargasso Fish or H ow the
Present Came From the Past give them .

A mother or father who

makes a practice o f taking children’s questions seriously will
never regret the tim e spent searching for answers.
K eep in mind that m any, many children who "d o n ’t like to
read” feel that way because reading hasn’t become fun.

W hen

that is the case, the reasons for the child’s slow progress in read­
ing should be sought, and help should be given where it is needed.
I f this is done early enough, the teen-age years, during which
leisure-time habits are being formed, will become a period when
children eagerly feast on the wide variety o f good things to be
found in books.

But no m atter how well a child can read, he is

unlikely to think o f this as one o f the very nicest ways o f having
a good tim e unless he is provided with books o f his own and has
parents who have enjoyed those books with him from the days
when he began to listen to nursery rhymes.

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FOR THE CHILDREN’S BOOKSHELF

A B C A N D M O TH ER G O O S E B O O K S
•

a "plant sprung up to wither never.
— Robert Herrick

ABC Book.

Illustrated by the author.

Doubleday.

$1.50

Charles Buckles Falls
A Bible ABC. Lippincott. $1.25................ .... . Grace Allen Hogarth
Gay M other Goose. Illustrated by Francoise. Scribner. $2.
Mother Goose
Illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky.
Harper. $ 1 ................................ ....................................... Mother Goose
Pictures fr o m M other Goose. (Eight, 1 4 " by 2 0 ", for nursery walls.)
Illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky. Simon. $2.50 . . . Mother Goose

Tall Book o f M other Goose.

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M other Goose.

Illustrated by Tasha Tudor.

Oxford.

$2
Mother Goose
The Real M other Goose. Illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright.
Rand. $2.............................................................................. Mother Goose

PICTURE STO R Y B O O K S
FOR Y O U N G CHILDREN
'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice,
'without pictures or conversations?’—Lewis Carroll

L ittle Wild Horse. Houghton. $2 . ........................ Hetty B. Beatty
Lullaby. Roy. $ 1 ............................. .... ....................
J. B. Bernhard
Pelle’s New Suit. Harper. $ 1 . 7 5 ................................ Elsa Beskow
The Five Chinese Brothers. Coward. $1.75 . . . Claire H. Bishop
Georgie. Douhlfeday. $ 1 .2 5 ............................................ Robert Bright
Johnny Crow’s Garden. Wame. $1.75 . . . .
L. Leslie Brooke
G oodnight M oon. Harper. $ 1 . 7 5 ................Margaret Wise Brown
The Seashore Noisy Book. Scott. $1.50 . . Margaret Wise Brown
The L ittle Fisherman. Scott. $1.50 . . . .
Margaret Wise Brown
Wait Till th e M oon Is Full. Harper. $1.75 . Margaret Wise Brown
There Was Tammie! Dodd. $1.25 . . Dorothy and Marguerite Bryan

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The L ittle H ouse. Houghton. $2.50......................Virginia Lee Burton
M ike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel. Houghton. $2.50
Virginia Lee Burton

Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book.

Wame.

Hundreds and Hundreds o f Pancakes.

$3

Viking.

Randolph Caldecott
$1
Audrey Chalmers

D on’ t Count Your Chicks.

Doubleday. $2.50
Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire
Too Big. Doubleday. $1.....................Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire
The Story o f Babar. Random. $1.............................. Jean de Brunhoff
Mrs. Mallard’s Ducklings. Lothrop. $2 .....................Clelia Delafield
W hat Every Young Rabbit Should Know . Dodd. $2.25
Carol Denison
Flip. Viking. $1.50............................................. ............... Wesley Dennis
L ittle Old A utom obile. Viking. $1.50........................... Marie H. Ets
Crybaby Calf. Rand. 60c...................................... Helen and Alf Evers
Prayer f o r a Child. Macmillan. $1....................................Rachel Field
Angus and th e Ducks. Doubleday. $1.25...................Marjorie Flack
Ask Mr. Bear. Macmillan. $1.50....................................Marjorie Flack
Wait f o r William. Houghton. $1.25;...................... .Marjorie Flack
Seven Diving Ducks. M cKay. $1.
Margaret Friskey and Lucia Patton
Millions o f Cats. Coward. $1.75.........................................Wanda Gag
Is It Hard ? Is It Easy ? Scott. $1.........................Mary M cB. Green
Cinder. Grosset. 50c............................................................ Romney Gay
L ittle Toot. Putnam. $2.............................................Hardie Gramatky
The Big Snow. Macmillan. $2.50...................Berta and Elmer Hader
Go W est, Young Bear. Coward. $ 2 . 5 0 . . . . . . . . .Elizabeth Hamilton
Hurry, Hurry. Scott. $1.25...................................Edith Thacher Hurd
The Story o f Ferdinand. Viking. $1. . . Munro Leaf and R. Lawson
The L ittle Family. Doubleday. 75c....................................Lois Lenski
Snipp, Snapp, Snurr, and the Gingerbread. Whitman. $1.25
Maj Lindman
L ittle Golden Library (many titles). Simon. 25c each.

The Animals o f Farmer Jones, M y First Book, e tc .
L ittle Lam b. Harper. $1.50............................................. Dahris Martin
Blueberries f o r Sal. Viking. $2..............................Robert McCloskey
Make Way f o r Ducklings. Viking. $2.50..............Robert McCloskey
All Around the Town. Lippincott. $2.....................Phyllis McGinley
The Red Horse. Coward. $1.75..................................... Elsa Moeschlin
April’s K ittens. Harper. $1.75................................Clare T. Newberry
K aty N o-Pocket. Houghton. $ 2 . 5 0 . . . . . ...................... .Emmy Payne
The R ooster Crows. Macmillan. $ 2 . . . . Maud and Miska Petersham

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The Tale o f Peter Rabbit. Warne. 85c........................ Beatrix Potter
The Tale o f Squirrel N utkin. Warne. 85c.................. Beatrix Potter
Curious George. Houghton. $2.50........................................ H. A. Rey
Magic Michael. Macmillan. $1.50...............................Louis Slobodkin
Caps f o r Sale. Scott. $1.50...................................... Esphyr Slobodkina
D orm ouse Awake. Macmillan $2.............................. Eileen A. Soper
The First Christmas. Harper. $ 1 ...................................Robbie Trent
Pum pkin M oonshine. Oxford. 75c................................ Tasha Tudor
W hose L ittle Bird A m I? Crowell. $1....................Leonard Weisgard
Fish in th e Air. Viking. $2...................................................Kurt Wiese
Hiding Places. Scott. $1........................................ Louise P. Woodcock
Saturday Walk. Scott. $1.............................. ................... Ethel Wright

A N S W ER S T O
LITTLE CHILDREN'S
Q U ESTIO N S

. . . a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew, upon a thought.— Lord Byron

The First Thanksgiving. Knopf. $1.75.......................Lena Barksdale
Golden Encyclopedia. Simon. $2.50........................ Dorothy Bennett
Polly wiggle9s Progress. Macmillan. $ 2 . 5 0 . . . . . . .Wilfred S. Bronson
Wilfred S. Bronson
Turtles. Harcourt. $2........................ ...............
W hat9s in the Sky. Oxford. $1.50................................ M. P. Dunham
Listen to th e M ockingbird. Whittlesey. $2........ Irmengard Eberle
Scales and Fins. Heath. $1.32...........................F. E. Engleman, et al.
The Story o f a Baby. Viking. $2.50....................... .. .Marie Hall Ets
All A bou t Us. Capitol. $2........................................ Eva Knox Evans
Your Own S tory: hum an reproduction sim ply explained. Uni­
versity of Minnesota Press,

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5 0 c ,.............................. Marion L. Faegre

Tim Tadpole and th e Great Bullfrog.

Doubleday.

$1.25.
Marjorie Flack
P ictu re B ook o f Insects. Lothrop. $1.50. ............ ... Albro T. Gaul
Very First Garden. Oxford. 50c.................................. Dorothea Gould
L et’ s Go Outdoors. Doubleday. $2.50........... Harriet E. Huntington
L et’ s Go to th e Seashore. Doubleday. $2.50. .Harriet E. Huntington
Tell M e A bou t God. Rand. $2.................................. Mary Alice Jones
Safety Can Be Fun. Lippincott $1.50............................... Munro Leaf
The L ittle Train. Oxford. $ 1 . . .................. ....................... Lois Lenski
Diggers and Builders. Macmillan. $2.......................... Henry B. Lent
A Baby is Born. Simon. $1.50
Milton I. Levine and Jean H. Seligmann
Red Light G reen Light. Doubleday. $ 2 . . . . . . . Golden MacDonald
The Postm an. Shady Hill. $1.25.............................. Samuel Marshak
Picture B ook o f th e W eather. Lothrop. $2................. J. S. Meyer
The Big Fire. Houghton. $2.50...................................... Elizabeth Olds
Riding th e Rails. Houghton. $2.50.............................. Elizabeth Olds
Jesus’ Story. Macmillan. $1.75...............Maud and Miska Petersham
Animal Babies. Beacon. $2...........................................Alice Day Pratt
Picture Book o f Animal Babies. Macmillan. $2.
W. W. and Irene Robinson
God’ s First Children. Roy. $2.............................. .. Ester Salminen
Sun , M oon , and Stars. McGraw. $2.75.
W. T. Skilling and R. S. Richardson
Do You K now A bou t Fishes? Morrow. $1.50............ Janet Smalley
Birds in Their Hom es. Garden City. $2...................... Addison Webb
Travelers All. (Seeds.) Scott. $1.25......................... Irma E. Webber
Up Above and Down Below. (Roots and tops o f plants.) Scott. $1.
Irma E. Webber

B O O K S O F P O ET R Y
Poems come like boats
With sails for wings.— Hilda Conkling

An Inheritance o f Poetry.

Houghton. $4.
Gladys L. Adshead and Annis Duff
Sung Under th e Silver Umbrella. Macmillan. $2.50.
Association for Childhood Education
Under th e Tent o f th e Sky. (Poems about animals.) Macmillan.
$2.50.................................... ..................................John E. Brewton, comp.
R hym es and Verses. Holt. $ 3 . .............................. Walter de la Mare
Fairies and Chimneys. Doubleday. $1.50.................... RoseFyleman
Very Young Verses. Houghton. $2.
Barbara P. Geismer and Antoinette B. Suter, comps.

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Ring-A-Round. Macmillan. $3. 50. .. . Mildred P. Harrington, comp.
Johnny Appleseed, and Other P oem s. Macmillan. $1
Vachel Lindsay

A P ocketfu l o f R hym es. Crowell. $2 .............Katherine Love, comp.
Song o f Robin Hood. Houghton. $5
(600 illustrations by Virginia Lee Burton) Anne Malcohnson, ed.

Now We Are Six. Dutton. $1.50................................... .A. A. Milne
W hen We Were Very Young. Dutton. $1.50.................. A. A. Milne
Sing-Song. Macmillan. $1.25.................... ............... Christina Rossetti
A Child*s Garden o f Verses. Illustrated by Roger Duvoisin.
Heritage.

$3.75.................................................. Robert Louis Stevenson

Silver Pennies. Macmillan. 96c.................Blanche Thompson, comp.
/ Live in a City. Harper. $1 ........
.................. . . James S. Tippett
Rainbow in the Sky. Harcourt. $3.75....... Louis Untermeyer, comp.
A R ocket in M y P ocket. Holt. $3.50............ .. Carl Withers, comp.

SO N G S

The first gold in childhood's purse.— Annie R . Annan

New Illustrated Book o f Favorite Hymns.

Garden City. $1.25.
Inez Bertail
Fireside Book o f Folksongs. Simon. $3.95.......... M . B. Boni, comp.
Singing Time. Day. $2.75................ S. N. Coleman and A. G. Thom
A L ittle Singing Time. (Preschool age.) Day. $2.
S. N. Coleman and A. G. Thom
Songs o f Am erican Folks. Day. $2.50.
S. N. Coleman and A. Bregman
fa v o rite Nursery Songs. (26 familiar old songs.) Random. 50c.
Pelagie Doane

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Stories o f Our Am erican Patriotic Songs.

Vanguard. $2.50
John Henry Lyons
Songs fr o m M any Lands. Houghton. $2.. Thomas Whitney Surette
Songs f o r th e Nursery School. Willis. $2.50........L. P. McCarteney
Am erican Folksongs fo r Children. Doubleday. $4.
R . C. Seeger, comp.
The Golden Song Book. Simon. $1.................. Katharine T. Wessels
Sing f o r Christmas. Dutton. $3......................................Opal Wheeler
Sing M oth er Goose. Dutton. $2......................................Opal Wheeler

H O W O TH ER
CHILDREN LIV E

For children
from 6 to 14

Behold, how good and -pleasant
it is for brethren to dwell to­
gether in unity.— Psalms.

Sky High in Bolivia. Heath. 48c......................... . .Ruth M ay Adams
Nino. (Italy.) Viking. $2.50...........................................Valenti Angelo
Sm oky Bay. (Iceland.) Macmillan. $2.50........... Steingrimur Arason
M anuela’s Birthday in Old M exico. A. Whitman. $2.
Laura Bannon

Madeline. (France.) Simon. $2 ......................... Ludwig Bemelmans
Cocolo. (Italy.) Harper. $2.50...................................................Bettina
Bright M orning. (England.) Viking. $1.50............. Margery Bianco
Popo and Fifina, Children o f Haiti. Macmillan. $2.50
A. Bontemps and L. Hughes

Jan’ s Victory. (Holland.) Longmans. $2.50.......... Betty M . Bowen
The Big Wave. (China.) Day. $2 . ..................................... Pearl Buck
Somi Builds a Church. (Lapland.) Viking. $2. . . . Rafaello Busoni
In M y M oth er’ s H ouse. (Indians o f our Southwest.) Viking. $2.50.
Ann Nolan Clark

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Boy W ith th e Parrot.

Macmillan. $2.
Elizabeth Coatsworth
L ittle People in a Big Country. (Drawings by Russian Children.)
Oxford. $1.50.........................................................................Norma Cohn
M y P et Peepelo. (Mexico.) Oxford. $ 2 ............................ Ellis Credle
Ola. (Norway.) Doubleday. $2.50.. Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire
Dirk’s Dog , Bello. (Holland.) Harper. $ 2 .......... Meindert D e Jong
Bush Holiday. (Australia.) Doubleday. $2.50. . Stephen Fennimore
The Family fr o m One End S treet. (England.) Vanguard. $2.50.
Eve Garnett
Adventures in Black and W hite. (Africa.) Scribner. $2.
Attilio Gatti
Paco Goes to th e Fair. (Ecuador.) Holt. $2.
R. C. Gill and H. L. Hoke
A Sum m er to R em em ber. (Switzerland.) Whittlesey. $2.
Erna M . Karolyi
Em il and the D etectives. (Germany.) Doubleday. $2.50.
Erich Kästner
Racing th e Red Sail. (Greece.) Longmans. $2............ A. G. Kelsey
Maria Rosa. (Brazil.) Doubleday. $ 2 . . . . . .................... Vera Kelsey
L ittle Pear. (China.) Harcourt. $2.25............. Eleanor F. Lattimore
Young Fu o f th e Upper Yangtze. (China.) Winston. $2.50.
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
Marta th e Doll. (Poland.) Longmans. $2.............. Eloise Lounsbery
A t th e Palace Gates. (Peru.) Viking. $2. . . . . . . .Helen R. Parish
M anoel and the M orning Star. (Brazil.) Harper. $1.75.
Anne Merriman Peck
D aughter o f the M ountains. (Tibet and India.) Viking. $2.50.
Louise Rankin
Swallows and Am azons. (England.) Lippincott. $3.
Arthur Ransome
The Singing Tree. (Hungary.) Viking. $2.50. . . . . . . .Kate Seredy
Li Lun, Lad o f Courage. (China and India.) Abingdon. $2.50.
Carolyn Treffinger
The Cottage a t Bantry Bay. (Ireland.) Viking. $2.50.
Hilda Van Stockum
The Dancing K ettle. (Japan.) Harcourt. $2.50... .Yoshiko Uchida
Pedro’ s C oconut Skates. (Philippines.) Longmans. $1.75.
Esther Wood
Around th e Year in Iceland. Heath. 48c.................Elizabeth Yates

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y

IN FO RM A TIO N
TO

SUIT A L L

TASTES
Beholding the bright countenance of truth.
— John M ilton

This and other sections include a very few unusually good books that
are out o f print but still available in libraries. N o prices are given for
these, but they are starred for identification.

Everyday Birds. Houghton. $1
Gertrude E. Allen
All A bou t Pets. Macmillan. $2.50..........
. . Margery Bianco
Traveling W ith th e Birds. Donohue. $2
. Rudyerd Boulton
The G u lf Stream. Vanguard. $2.50
Ruth Brindze
Finger Fins— Tale o f a Sargasso Fish.* Macmillan.
Wilfred S. Bronson

Anim al K ingdom . Row. 96c.......... R. L. Ditmars and Helene Carter
The B ook o f Living R eptiles.* Lippincott.
R. L. Ditmars and Helene Carter
(Horse, dog, and cat.) Holiday. $2.
Irmengarde Eberle
Oceans in th e Sky. Knopf. $1.75...................... ........: .Vera Edelstadt
Along Nature’ s Highway. Day. $ 2 .....................Carroll Lane Fenton
One G od: th e ways we worship Him. Lothrop. $2.50
Florence M . Fitch
Sunshine and Rain. Singer. 96c............G. W . Frazier and H. Dolman
Vulpes , th e Red Fox. Dutton. $2.50................ John and Jean George
Parade o f th e Anim al K ingdom .* Macmillan.
Robert W. and Jane Z. Hegner
Strange Visitor. (Praying Mantis.) Macmillan. $2.50.
Edith F. Johnston
Wild World Tales: th e tale o f th e m ouse , th e m oth , and th e crow.
Knopf. $2.75............................. .........................................Henry B. Kane

Our Oldest Friends.

The Wonder o f Life: how we are born and how we grow up.
Simon. $ 2 . . . . •.............. Milton Levine, M . D ., and Jean H. Seligmann

Am erican Trees. Random. $1 ................................Russell T. Limbach
Anim al Tracks. Miorrow. $2......................................... George F. Mason
Am erican Butterflies and M oths. Random. $1.75
Cecile Hulse Matschat
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Book o f Wayside Fruits.

Macmillan. $2.50.
Margaret McKenny and Edith F. Johnston
Basic Science Education Series. (65 titles.) Row. 36c each.
Bertha Morris Parker
(Clouds, Fire, Fishes, Trees, Reptiles, etc.)
How to K now th e Birds. New American Library. 35c
Roger T . Peterson
Junior Book o f Birds. Houghton. $2.50................ Roger T. Peterson
Anim al X -rays. Putnam. $3.50 ...................................Brenda Putnam
Am erica’ s Treasure. (Our natural resources.) Harcourt. $3.50.
W. Maxwell Reed
The Stars f o r Sam. Harcourt. $3.75....................... W. Maxwell Reed
Bird Portraits in Color.* University o f Minnesota Press.
Thomas S. Roberts
Boys9 B ook o f Insects. Dutton. $3............................ Edwin W. Teale
Big and L ittle. (Photographs o f animals and their young.)
Scribner. $3........................................................................................... Ylla
M ice , M en , and Elephants. Harcourt. $2..................Herbert S. Zim

People and places
Daniel B oone. Harper. $1.50.... ......................... ..............Esther Averill
Story o f th e Negro. Knopf. $3. . ......................... Am a Bontemps
L ittle D uchess: A nne o f Brittany. Knopf. $2.50. . . Emma Brock
Stanley’ s Africa. Viking. $3.50.................................... Rafaello Busoni
Our C ountry’ s Story. Rand. $2.50.......................... Frances Cavanah
Volcanoes New and Old. Day. $3.75....................... Satis N. Coleman
Making an Orchestra. Macmillan. $2.................... .D . B. Commms
A. Lincoln. Viking. $3.50.................. , ..................... James Daugherty
George W ashington. Doubleday. $2.75.
Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire

They P ut O ut to Sea. Knopf. $ 3 ...... .... .....................Roger Duvoisin
The Courage and th e Glory. Lippincott. $2.75... .John J. Floherty
The Story o f th e Great Lakes. Harper. $1.50........ Marie Gilchrist
Nansen. Viking. $ 3 ........ ..........................................Anna Gertrude Hall
These United States and How They Came To Be. Macmillan.

«3

.................................... ........................................ . Gertrude Hartman
Macmillan.
«4 ........................ .................................................... . . . Gertrude Hartman
Benjam in W est and His Cat Grimalkin. Bobbs. $2.50
Marguerite Henry

The World W e Live In and How It Came To Be.

Judith o f France. Houghton. $2.50.......................Margaret Leighton
How Man Becam e a Giant. Lippincott. $2.25. M. Ilin and E. Segal

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A Ring and a Riddle. Lippincott. $ 2 ................. M. Tlin and E. Segal
He W ent W ith M arco Polo. Houghton. $2.50
Louise Andrews Kent
Harper. $2.50.
Ralph and Adeline Linton
Sky Highways: geography fr o m th e air. Houghton. $2.50.
Trevor Lloyd
Over th e Blue Wall. (Discovery and exploration west o f the Appa­
lachians.) University o f North Carolina Press. $2 . .. . E. L. Matthews
Story o f th e Great Plains. Harper. $1.50.
M . McNeer and C. H. Dewitt
Invincible Louisa. (Life o f Louisa Alcott.) Little. $2.50.
Cornelia L. Meigs
Picture Story o f the Philippines. M cKay. $ 2 . 5 0 . . . . Hester O’Neill
History o f Everyday Things in England. Batsford. $5.
Marjorie and C. H. B. Quennell
The Earth f o r Sam; th e story o f m ountains , rivers, dinosaurs ,
and m en. Harcourt. $3.75.............................. ..........William M . Reed
History o f th e United States f o r Young People. Random. $1.
Arensa Sondergaard
Boy on Horseback. (Autobiography.) Harcourt. $2.50.
Lincoln Steffens
How th e Present Came From th e Past.* Vols. 1 and 2. Macmillan.
Margaret E. Wells
M ozart th e W onder Boy. Dutton. $2.50.
O. Wheeler and S. Deucher
Lost Worlds: adventures in archeology. Random. $3.
Ann Terry White
The Story o f English Life. Coward. $5.
Amabel Williams-Ellis and F. G. Fisher
Those W ho Dared; stories o f early days in our country. University
o f North Carolina Press. $2. ...................C. H. Willis and L. S. Saunders
You and the Constitution o f the United States. Children’s Press.
$1*50..........................................................Paul W itty and Julilly Kohler
Young Hickory. (Boyhood and youth o f Andrew Jackson.) Rinehart.
$2.25........ ................................... ......................................... Stanley Young
M an ’ s Way , From Cave to Skyscraper.

Men at work
Going Up: th e story o f vertical transportation.

Abingdon. $2.
Jack Bechdolt
Electronics f o r Young People. Whittlesey. $2.25. . . Jeanne Bendick
How M uch and How Many. Whittlesey. $2.............. Jeanne Bendick

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The Story o f Our Calendar. Vanguard. $2.50............ Ruth Brindze
W hat M akes It Tick ? Houghton. $ 3 ....................... Katharine Britton
Black M agic; th e story o f sm oke. Knopf. $1.75___ Vera Edelstadt
Giants o f th e Rails • Garden City. $1.50................ S. Kip Farrington
M ake Way f o r th e Mail. Lippincott. $2.50.............. John J. Floherty
Fun w ith Chem istry. Random. $1.25.............. Mae and Ira Freeman
The Story o f Sound. Harcourt. $2.................. ............James Geralton
Pictures to Grow Up W ith. Studio. $ 3 . 5 0 . . : ___ Katharine Gibson
Underneath New York. Rinehart. $ 3 ............ ............Harry Granick
The Boy Builder. Dodd. $3.50............................ .Edwin T. Hamilton
How Things Work. Morrow. $3....................George Russell Harrison
The Peddler s Clock. Grosset. 50c..............................]V1abel K.. Hunt
Black on W hite; how books com e to be. Lippincott. $2 . . . M . Bin
100,000 Whys. (A trip around a room.) Lippincott. $1.75.. . M . Ilin
Picture Fact Books. (Textile, air, office, movie workers, nurses at
work, radio workers, etc.)

Hinds.

$1..................Alice V. Keliher, ed.

Fun W ith Magic. Lippincott. $2.50.................... .. .Joseph Leeming
Stampography. (An instructive travel album for the young stamp
collector.)

Greenberg.

$2 ...................................

Robert V. Masters
$2.
Jerome Meyer
A First Electrical Book f o r Boys. Scribner. $3. . .Alfred P. Morgan
The 26 Letters. Crowell. $3.50.......... ............................... Oscar Ogg

Picture Book o f M olecules and A tom s.

L et’ s Find O ut: a pictu re science book.

Lothrop.

Scott. $1.50.
Herman and Nina Schneider
Alum inum . (Also Asbestos, $ 1, and Radium, $1.25.) Harper.
$1.50. ......................................................................... Lilian Holmes Strack
A Boy and a M otor. Harper. $2............................ Raymond F. Yates
The Boys’ Book o f M agnetism . Harper. $2 . . . .Raymond F. Yates
Codes and Secret Writing. Morrow. $2..................... Herbert S. Zim
Parachutes. Harcourt. $2.75................ ..........................Herbert S. Zfm
Submarines. Harcourt. $3............................................ .Herbert S. Zim

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For a jollie goode booke whereon to looike

Is better to me than golde.—John

Wilson

Miss Hickory. Viking. $2.50........................... .Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
The W onderful Year. Messner. $2.50............................Nancy Barnes
W atch f o r a Tall W hite Sail. Morrow. $2.50........ Margaret E. Bell
High Trail. Doubleday. $2.50...................
.................. Vivan Breck
Caddie Woodlawn. Macmillan. $2.50...................... Carol Ryrie Brink
Drusilla. Macmillan. $1.75 . ........ ..................... ........... Emma L. Brock
The Lonesom est Doll. Houghton. $1.75. . ...................Alice F. Brown
Away Goes Sally. Macmillan. $2.50. . . . . . . . . .Elizabeth Coatsworth
W inter on th e Johnny Sm oker. Morrow. $2.50.
Mildred Houghton Comfort

Skip-C om e-A -Lou. Lippincott. $2.......................... Ada Claire Darby
H enner’ s Lydia. Doubleday. $2.50.......... ..
.Marguerite de Angeli
The Saturdays. Rinehart. $1.75................................ Elizabeth Enright
The M elendy Family. Rinehart. $2.95.......... ..
Elizabeth Enright
Thimble Sum m er. Rinehart. $2.50...........................Elizabeth Enright
The Middle Moffat. Harcourt. $2.50...............................Eleanor Estes
M artin Pippin in the Daisy Field. Lippincott. $2.50.
Eleanor Farjeon

H itty, Her First 100 Years. Macmillan. $ 2 .....................Rachel Field
All Those Buckles. Viking. $ 2 ................. ...................... E. R. Gaggin
Blue Willow. Viking. $2.50........................... .......... ......... Doris Gates
The Dolls9 House. Viking. $2.50.................................... Rumer Godden
The Fair Adventure. Viking. $2.50.................... Elizabeth Janet Gray

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Sierra Sally. Nelson. $2................................................ Eleanor Hoffman
Bayou S uzette. Lippincott. $2.50 *...................................... Lois Lenski
Judy's Journey. Lippincott. $2.50.............J...... .............. .Lois Lenski
Strawberry Girl. Lippincott. $2.50...... .............................. Lois Lenski
High Harvest. Harcourt. $ 2 .5 0 ...................................... Elizabeth Low
The Jum ping-O ff Place. Longmans. $2.50. . Marion Hurd McNeely
A Candle in th e M ist. Houghton. $2.......... Florence Crannell Means
S huttered Windows. Houghton. $2.50.........Florence Crannell Means
Windigo. Harcourt. $2........ . ............................. Kathrene S. Pinkerton
Black-Eyed Susan. Houghton. $1.50...................... . Ethel C. Phillips
Roller Skates. Viking. $2.50...............................................Ruth Sawyer
Downright D encey. Doubleday. $2............... Caroline Dale Snedeker
Circus Shoes. Random*. $2.50........................................Noel Streatfeild
Beany M alone. Crowell. $2.50............................................ L. M . Weber
The L ittle House on th e Prairie. Harper. $ 2 ...........Laura I. Wilder
Liberty f o r Johanny. Longmans. $2.50.
Sum m er a t Buckhorn.

Adelaide H. and John C. Wonsetler
Viking. $2........ ................. Anna Rose Wright

Sm oke Jum per. Houghton. $2.50.......................... Marjorie Hill Allee
The R ooster Club. Viking. $2........................................Valenti Angelo
S tocky , Boy o f W est Texas. Winston. $2.50... .Elizabeth W. Baker
Pecos Bill> th e G reatest Cowboy o f All Time. Whitman. $2.50.
Boys9 Life o f th e Wright Brothers.
Great Caesar's Ghost.

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Doubleday.

James C. Bowman
$2.50.
Mitchell V. Chamley
$1.................... . . Manning Coles

Harper.

Gid Granger. Holiday. $2....... ..................... ............... ... Robert Davis
Partners o f Powder Hole. Holiday. $2.25....... ............. Robert Davis
Daniel Boone. Viking. $3..................
.......... Janies Daugherty
Skippack School. Doubleday. $2....................... Marguerite de Angeli
The T w enty-one Balloons. Viking. $2.50___William Pene Du Bois
The M atchlock Gun. Dodd. $2.50..................... Walter D. Edmonds
“ I Have Just Begun To F ig h t." (John Paul Jones.) Dodd. $2.75
Edward Ellsberg

Johnny Tremain. Houghton. $ 3 ............ .......... ......... Esther Forbes
North Fork. Viking. $2....................................... ................>
t Doris Gates
The Boy Jones. (A chimney sweep in Victoria’s London.) Viking. $2.
Patricia Gordon

Adam o f the Road. Vikmg. $2.75................... .Elizabeth Janet Gray
Saltwater Sum m er. Morrow. $2.50........................R. L. Haig-Brown
Skid. Houghton. $2.50..................................................... Florence Hayes
R ock et Ship Galileo.
Scribner. $2.50....................Robert Heinlein
Justin Morgan Had a Horse. Wilcox $2.75......... Marguerite Henry
King o f th e Wind. Rand. $2.75.................... ..........Marguerite Henry
Spice and th e Devil s Cave. Knopf. $2.75.. .Agnes Danforth Hewes
Seabird. Houghton. $3...............................................Holling C. Holling
Call M e Charley. Harper. $2........ ............ ................... Jesse Jackson
Lassie Com e H om e. Winston. $2.50.......................... Eric M. Knight
Black River Captive. Random. $2.50.............................West Lathrop
The Tw enty-fifth Mission. Longmans. $2.25........ Loring MacKaye
Boys* K ing Arthur. Scribner. $2.50..................... Sir Thomas Malory
None hut th e Brave. Houghton. $2.
Rosamond Van der Zee Marshall

Jim Davis. M cKay. $1. . ...................... ............. ...........John Masefield
Boy W ith a Pack. Harcourt. $2.50...................... Stephen W. Meader
Hari, th e Jungle Lad. Dutton. $2.25.................... Dhan G. Mukerji
M ocha th e Djuka. Dutton. $2.50..............Frances Fullerton Neilson
M y Friend Flicka. Lippincott. $3................... ............... Mary O’Hara
Hannibal9s Elephants. Longmans. $2.25......................Alfred Powers
Merry Adventures o f Robin Hood. Scribner. $3....... . Howard Pyle
Great N orthern? Macmillan. $ 3 ........................ ..
Arthur Ransome
Green Treasure. Harper. $2 . ................................................ M. I. Ross
Call It Courage. ]Vfacmillan. $2.50...........................Armstrong Sperry
Abe Lincoln: Frontier Boy. Bobbs. $1.75. . ___ Augusta Stevenson
L ittle Blacknose. (Story o f America’s first locomotive.) Harcourt.
$2.25.......................................................................

.Hildegard H. Swift

All Am erican. Harcourt.' $2.50................................... .. .John R. Tunis
Whalers o f th e M idnight Sun. Scribner. $2.50. _____ _ Alan Villiers
Lions on th e H unt. (South African veldt.) Viking. $2.
Theodore J. Waldeck

Treks Across th e Veldt. Viking. $ 2 . 5 0 . . . . . . . . Theodore J. Waldeck
Ride, Cowboy, Ride! M cKay. $2.50................................Billy Warren
The Magic Forest. (A boy in the Canadian woods.) Macmillan. j§
$1.2$........................................................................ Stewart Edward White

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LA S T IN G F A V O R IT E S
O F BO TH B O Y S A N D GIRLS
There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away.— Emily Dickinson

Fables o f Aesop. Illustrated by Emery Kelen. Duell. $ 2 .........Aesop
L ittle W om en. Little $1.25; Grosset 75c.................... Louisa M. Alcott
A lice9s Adventures in Wonderland. (Contains Through the Look­
ing Glass). Macmillan, $1.50; Heritage, $2.75; M cKay, $1
\
Lewis Carroll
Arabian Nights. Macmillan. $1.50........................ Padraic Colum, ed.
St. Nicholas Anthology. Random. $5 ...............H. S. Commager, ed.
R obinson Crusoe. Houghton. $2. . . ................................Daniel Defoe
Personal H istory o f David Copperfield. Ginn. $1.65.. Charles Dickens
Hans Drinker. Scribner. $ 3 ................................... Mary Mapes Dodge
Tales fr o m Grim m . Coward. $2.75................................... Wanda Gag
Jungle B ook. Doubleday. $ 3 .......................................Rudyard Kipling
R ed Fairy B ook. (Also green, yellow, blue, etc.) Longmans, $2.
M cK ay, $ 1 .................... ............................................... .Andrew Lang, ed.

The Story o f Dr. D olittle. Lippincott. $2.....................Hugh Lofting
A t th e Back o f th e N orth Wind. Macmillan, $1.50
George MacDonald

The Treasure Seekers. Coward. $ 2 ....................................... E. Nesbit
Story o f King A rthur and His K nights. Scribner. $3.50.
The King o f the Golden River.

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Howard Pyle
Macmillan, $1.25; Heath, $1.
John Ruskin

Bambi. Noble. $1................................................................... Felix Salten
Heidi. Houghton. $2.50.....................................................Johanna Spyri
Kidnapped. Scribner. $ 3 ................................. Robert Louis Stevenson
Gulliver’s Travels. Heritage. $2.75.............................. Jonathan Swift
Adventures o f Tom Sawyer. Harper, $1.25; Grosset, 75c.
Swiss Family Robinson.

Macmillan.

Mark Twain
*2.25............. Johann D. Wyss

"TIM E T O L A U G H "
. . . I never dare to write
As funny as I can.— Oliver Wendell Holmes

Mr. Popper’ s Penguins. Little. $2.50.. Richard and Florence Atwater
The Fast Sooner Hound. Houghton. $2.
A. Bontemps and J. Conroy

Sad-Faced Boy. Houghton. $ 2 ................................... ; Ama Bontemps
Freddy , the D etective. Knopf. $2.50...................... Walter R. Brooks
R oundabout Turn. Warne. $1.50...................... Robert H. Charles
Andy and th e Lion. Viking. $2.........................James H. Daugherty
The Great G eppy. Viking. $2.50.......................William Pene DuBois
Big Road Walker. Lippincott. $ 2 ............................... Eula B. Duncan
P eterkin Papers. Houghton. $ 2 ................................. Lucretia P. Hale
Just So Stories. Doubleday. $3................................. Rudyard Kipling
Mr. 2 o f Everything. Coward. $1.50.......................... M . S. Klutch
The Com plete Nonsense Book. Dodd. $3.50; Little. $2.50.
Edward Lear

H om er Price. Viking. $ 2 ...................................... . Robert McCloskey
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ABC B o o k ..............................................
Abe Lincoln: Frontier B o y .................
A. L in coln ..............................................
Adam o f the R o a d ................................
Adventures in Black and W hite........
Adventures o f Tom Sawyer................
Alice’ s Adventures in Wonderland. . .
All About P ets.......................................
All About U s........................................
All American. . ......................................
All Around the T ow n ...........................
All Those Buckles.................................
Along Nature’ s Highway.....................
Aluminum...............................................
American Butterflies and M oth s. . . .
American Folksongs for Children. . . .
American Trees......................................
America’ s Treasure...............................
Andersen’ s Fairy T ales.......................
And T o Think That I Saw it on M ul­
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Andy and the L ion ...............................
Angus apd the D u ck s...........................
Animal Babies........................................
Animal K ingdom ...................................
Animal T racks.................. ....................
Animal X -ra y s.......................................
Animals o f Farmer Jones. . ................
April’ s K ittens.......................................
Arabian N ights......................................
Arkansaw B ear.................................... ..
Around the Year in Iceland.................
Asbestos.................................................
Ask Mr. Bear.........................................
At the Back o f the North W ind. . . .
At the Palace Gates............................
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Away Goes Sally. . . , .................

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B am bi...................................................... 29
Basic Science Education Series...........
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Bayou Suzette........................................ 26
20 Beany M alone........................................ 26
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27 Bibliography o f Books for Children. . 33
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25 Big F ire................................................... 17
21 Big Road W alker....................................... 29
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21 Big W a ve................................................ 19
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21 Birds in Their H om es..........................
22 Black-Eyed Susan................................. 26
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Black on W h ite...................................... 24
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29 Blue W illow ............................................ 25
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21 Book o f Wayside Fruits...................... 22
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15 Books in Search o f Children................. 33
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Boys’ Life o f the Wright Brothers. . . .
26 Finger Fins— Tale o f a Sargasso Fish.
Bright M orning...................................... 19 Fireside Book o f Folksongs.................
Brownies— H ush!..................................... 31 First Adventures in Reading.............
Bush H oliday..........................................
20 First Christmas.....................................
Caddie W oodlaw n................................... 25 First Electrical Book for B o y s...........
Call It Courage........ ...........................
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First Thanksgiving.............................
Call M e Charley...................................... 27 Fish in the A ir.......................................
Candle in the M ist.................................. 26 Five Chinese Brothers..........................
Cap’n D ow and the Hole in the
Five Hundred Hats o f Bartholomew
Doughnut.............................................. 32 Cubbins...............................................
Caps for Sale............................................. 16 Five Years o f Children’ s B ooks.........
Casting Away o f Mrs. Leeks and
F lip...........................................................
Mrs. Aleshine........................................ 30 Freddy, the D etective..........................
Cautious C arp.......................................... 30 Fun W ith Chemistry............................
Children’ s H om er.................................... 31 Fun With M agic...................................
18 Gay Mother G oose...............................
Child’ s Garden o f Verses.......................
Child’ s History o f the W orld................
31 George Washington..............................
Cinder......................................................... 15 George Washington’s W orld...............
Circus Shoes.............................................
26 Georgie.............................................. ..
Cocolo.........................................................
19 Giants o f the R ails................................
Codes and Secret W riting...................... 24 Gid Granger...........................................
Complete Nonsense B ook ...................... 29 Go West, Young Bear..........................
Cottage at Bantry B a y ........................ 20 God’s First Children........................
Courage and the G lory........................ 22 Going u p .................................................
CowTboy Sm all.......................................... 32 Golden Encylopedia.............................
Crybaby C alf.........................................
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Curious George...............................
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Dancing K ettle........................................
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Daniel Boone..................................... 22,27 Great G eppy..........................................
Daughter o f the M ountains................ 20 Great Northern......................................
David Copperfield................................
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Diggers and Builders............................ 17 Gulf Stream............................................
Dirk’ s D og, B ello.................................. 20 Gulliver’ s Travels..................................
D o Y ou Know About Fishes?....................17Hannibal’s Elephants...........................
Dolls’ H ouse........................................... 25 Hans Brinker..........................................
D on’t Count Your Chicks................... 15 Happy Jack............................................
Dormouse Awake..................................
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Downright D encey................................ 26 He Went With M arco P o lo ................
Drusilla........................
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Dulcie Sews a Sampler......................... 31 Henner’ s L ydia......................................
Earth for Sam ........................................ 23 Hey Diddle Diddle Picture B o o k .. . .
Electronics for Young People............. 23 Hiding Places.............. ...........................
Emil and the Detectives...................... 20 High H arvest.................. ......................
Eskimo S to re ......................................... 32 High T rail...............................................
Everyday Birds.....................................
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Family From One End Street............. 20 Hitty, Her First 100 Y ears.................
Fast Sooner H ound............................... 29 Home Book o f Verse for Young Folks.
Favorite Nursery Songs.......................
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Homer P rice......................................
Honk, the M oose...................................
Horn B o o k ..............................................
Horse W ho Lived U p s t a i r s
How Man Became a G iant.................
How M uch and How M an y...............
How the Present Came From the
Past......................................................
How Things W ork ................................
How T o Know the Birds....................
Hundreds and Hundreds of Pancakes.
Hurry H urry..........................................
I Had a Penny.......................................
**I Have Just Begun to Fight” ..........
I Live in a C ity .....................................
In M y Mother’s H ouse........................
Inheritance o f Poetry..........................
Invincible Louisa..................................
Is It Hard? Is it E asy.........................
Jack Tales...............................................
Jan’ s V ictory.........................................
Jesus’ Story............................................
Jim D avis................................
John Henry and the Double-jointed
Steam D rill.........................................
Johnny Appleseed and Other Poems. .
Johnny Crow’ s Garden........................
Johnny Tremain....................................
Judith o f France....................................
Judy’ s Journey......................................
Jumping-off Place.................................
Jungle B ook....................................... ,.
Junior Book o f Birds............................
Just So S to rie s.....................................
Justin Morgan Had a Horse...............
K aty and the Big Snow .......................
K aty N o-Pocket....................................
Kidnapped..............................................
King o f the Golden R iver...................
King o f the W in d ..................................
Lassie Come H om e...............................
Let’ s Find O u t.......................................
Let’ s Go Outdoors................................
Let’ s Go to the Seashore...............
Liberty for Johanny.............................
Li Lun, Lad o f Courage.......................
Life With Father.................
Lions on the H u nt................................
Listen to the M ockingbird.................
Little Blacknose. ..................................
Little B oy L ost......................................
Little Duchess........................................

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Little Fam ily..........................................
Little Fellow ...........................................
Little Fisherman...................................
Little Gulden Library...........................
Little H ouse............................................
Little House on Stilts.................. ••••
Little House on the Prairie.................
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24 Little L am b............................................
22 Little Old Autom obile..........................
15 Little Pear..............................................
15 Little People in a Big Country..........
32 Little Singing T im e..............................
27 Little T o o t............................. *..............
18 Little T rain.................
19 Little Wild H orse..................................
17 Little W om en.........................................
23 Lonesomest D o ll....................................
15 Lost W orlds............................................
30 Lullaby....................................................
19 M adeline.................................................
17 Magic Forest..........................................
27 Magic M ichael.......................................
Make W ay for Ducklings....................
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18 Making an Orchestra...........................
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29 Mary Poppins........................................
27 Matchlock G un......................................
32 McElligot’ s P o o l....................................
15 Melendy Fam ily....................................
29 Merry Adventures o f Robin H ood. .
28 Mice, Men, and Elephants.................
27 Middle M offat....................... ................
27 Mile Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
24 Millions o f C ats.....................................
.17 Miss H ickory..........................................
17 Mocha the D ju k a..................................
26 Mother G oose................... .. .................
20 Mozart the Wonder B o y .....................
31 Mr. Popper’ s Penguins..........................
27 Mr. Tootwhistle’ s In ven tion .............
16 Mr. Tw o o f E verything......................
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M y Friend Flicka..................................
M y Pet Peepelo. . ................................
M y Roads to Childhood......................
Nansen....................................................
New Illustrated Book o f Favorite
Ilym n s.................................................
N in o.........................................................
N o Other White M en ...........................
None but the B rave.............................
North F ork .............................................
Now We Are Six.................................
Oceans in the Sky.................................
O la............................................................
Old Peter’ s Russian T ales...................
One D ay on Beetle R o c k .....................
One God, the Ways We Worship H im .
One Hundred Thousand W hy’s .........
Our Country’ s Story.............................
Our Oldest Friends...............................
Over the Blue W all...............................
Paco Goes to the Fair..........................
Parachutes..............................................
Parade o f the Animal K ingdom .........
Partners o f Powder H ole.....................
Paul Bunyan..........................................
Paul Bunyan and His Great Blue O x.
Pecos Bill, the Greatest Cowboy o f
All T im e..............................................
Peddler’s C lock......................................
Pedro’ s Coconut Skates.......................
Pelle’s New Suit....................................
Peterkin Papers.....................................
Picture Book o f Animal Babies.........
Picture Book o f Insects.......................
Picture Book o f Molecules and
A tom s..................................................
Picture Book o f the W eather.............
Picture Fact B ooks...............................
Picture Rhymes From Foreign Lands.
Picture Story o f the Philippines........
Pictures From Mother G oose.............
Pictures to Grow up W ith ..................
Pinocchio.................................................
Pito’ s H ouse..........................
Pocketful o f R hym es............................
Pogo’ s Train R id e ........................
Pollywiggle’s Progress..........................
Popo and Fifina, Children o f H aiti. .
Postm an..................................................
Prayer for a C hild.................................
Pretzel.....................................................
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Rahbit H ill.............................................
Racing the Red Sail.............................
Radium ....................................................
Rainbow in the S k y ..............................
Reading With Children.......................
Real Mother G oose..............................
Red Fairy B o o k ....................................
Red Horse...............................................
Red Light Green L ight........................
Rhymes and Verses..............................
Ride, Cowboy, R id e.............................
Riding the Pony Express....................
Riding the Rails. . . ..............................
Right Book for the Right Child.........
Ring and a R iddle................................
Ring-A-Round.......................................
Robinson Crusoe...................................
Rocket in M y P ocket..........................
Rocket Ship "Galileo” .........................
Roger and the F o x ................................
Roller Skates..........................................
Rooster C lub. ........................................
Rooster Crows ...................................
Rootabaga Stories.................................
Rose Fairy B ook ...................................
Roundabout T u r n ...............................
Rusty Wants a D o g .............................
Sad-faced B o y ........................................
Safety Can Be F u n ...............................
St. Nicholas Anthology........................
Saltwater Summer................................
Saturday W alk............ ..........................
Saturdays...............................................
Scales and Fins......................................
Seabird....................................................
Seashore Noisy B ook ............................
Seven Diving D ucks.............................
Shuttered W indows...................... ....
Sierra Sally.............................................
Silver Pennies............................ ,..........
Sing for Christmas................................
Sing Mother Goose...............................
Singing T im e. ......................... ..............
Singing T ree...........................................
Sing-Song................................................
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Snipp, Snapp, Snurr, and the Ginger­
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Somi Builds a Church.........................
Song o f Robin H o o d .............................
Songs for the Nursery School.............
Song from M any L an d s.....................
Songs o f American F olks.....................
Songs o f the Yolsungs..........................
Spice and the Devil’ s C ave.................
Stampography...............................
Stanley’ s Africa......................................
Stars for Sam ...............
Stocky, Boy o f W est Texas................
Stone Soup..............................................
Stories o f Our American Patriotic
Songs...................................................
Story o f a B a b y .....................................
Story o f Babar.......................................
Story o f Dr. D oolittle..........................
Story o f English L ife............................
Story o f Ferdinand...............................
Story of King Arthur and His K nights
Story o f Our Calendar........................
Story o f Sound.......................................
Story o f the Great Lakes....................
Story o f the Great Plains....................
Story o f the N egro.............................
Strange Visitor......................................
Strawberry G irl.....................................
Submarines.............................................
Summer at B uckhom ...........................
Summer to Rem em ber.......................
Sun, M oon, and Stars..........................
Sung Under the Silver Umbrella. . . .
Sunshine and R a in ............................■••
Susan W ho Lives in Australia............
Swallows and Am azons........................
Swiss Family Robinson........................
Tale o f Peter R a b b it............................
Tale o f Squirrel N utkin.......................
.Tales From G rim m ...............................
Tall Book o f Mother G oose................
Tell M e About G o d ..............................
There Was Tam m ie..............................
These United States and How They
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They Put Out to Sea............................
Thimble Summer...................................
Those W ho D ared.................................
Through the Looking Glass................
Time to Laugh.......................................
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19 Treks Across the V eldt........................ 27
19 Turtles..................................................... 16
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