GETTING WELL WITH BOOKS
1933; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Volume: 33; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1097/00000446-193312000-00009
ISSN1538-7488
Autores Tópico(s)Themes in Literature Analysis
ResumoONE of the most charming of recent picture-books is Powder by Esther Averill and Lila Stanley. Powder was a snowy white, mischievous and fearless colt living happily in the pasture with his mother, Caroline. One day the terrible Duchess claimed him for her riding horse. He wanted to run away, although he was too small to go into the wide world, but a circus came along and saved him just in time. A translation from the French, The Story of Babar by Jean de Brunhoff, will undoubtedly be a great favorite. The little elephant, Babar, wandered from his jungles to a city and was befriended by a kind old lady. His adventures in elevators, department stores, and with automobiles are very funny, indeed. It reminds one of that nursery classic J h ny Crow's Garden by L. L. Brooke. Another delightful picture-book of the fall is The Story of Ping by Marjorie Flack. Ping, a very small duck, lived with his mother and father and innumerable relatives on a house-boat on the Yangtze River. Although Miss Flack is an artist as well as an author, she wanted Mr. Wiese to illustrate this book, as he knows China so well. Angus and the Ducks she illustrated as well as wrote. Wanda Gag's picture-books have claimed thousands of small admirers w o will welcome a new one, The A B C Bunny. Others are Millions of Cats, The Funny Thing, and Snippy and Snappy. No childhood is complete without a liberal dose of Mother Goose. The most satisfactory edition is The Real Mother Goose, by Blanche Fisher Wright. A. A. Milne has caught the
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