A Mothers List of Books for Children | Page 5

The illustrations are in
color.

FIVE YEARS OF AGE (p. 32)
How am I to sing your praise, Happy chimney-corner days, Sitting safe in nursery nooks,
Reading picture story-books? STEVENSON.

GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION
When the ice lets go the river, When the wild-geese come again, When the sugar-maple
swells, When the maple swells its buds, Then the little blue birds come, Then my little
Blue Bird came. Indian lullaby from THE CHILDHOOD OF JI-SHIB THE OJIBWA.
DEMING, T.O. Indian Child-Life. Illustrated by E.W. Deming. Stokes. 2.00
Pleasant sketches of the children of different tribes, with many full-page color plates after
paintings in water-color, and black and white illustrations. The big oblong pictures, with
their primitive Indian coloring, are unusually attractive.

MYTHOLOGY, FOLK-LORE, LEGENDS, AND FAIRY TALES (p. 33)
Jack, commonly called the giant-killer, and Thomas Thumb landed in England from the
very same keels and war-ships which conveyed Hengist and Horsa, and Ebba the Saxon.
SCOTT.
BROOKE, L.L. (Illustrator). The Golden Goose Book. Warne. 2.00
Mr. Brooke has appropriately illustrated these old favorites: The Golden Goose, The
Story of the Three Bears, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, and Tom Thumb. Of the four,
the most popular is the tale of the adventures of little Tom, the favorite dwarf of the Court
of King Arthur.
"Long time he lived in jollity, Beloved of the Court, And none like Tom was so esteemed
Amongst the better sort."
LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE. Select Fables from La Fontaine. Illustrated by L.M. Boutet
de Monvel. S.P.C.K. Stechert. 1.80
This edition is chosen because of Monsieur Boutet de Monvel's charming small
illustrations in color. There are from two to eight pictures on each page, accompanying
the text, which is in verse. (p. 34)
As color appeals to the child before he has much notion of form, his first picture-book
should be colored, and as his ideas of form develop slowly, his first pictures should be in
outline, and unencumbered with detail. The French illustrator, Boutet de Monvel, has
given us the ideal pictures for young children. W.T. FIELD.

POETRY, COLLECTIONS OF POETRY AND PROSE, AND STORIES ADAPTED
FROM GREAT AUTHORS
Blind Homer and the chief singer of Israel and skalds and bards and minnesingers are all
gone, tradition is almost a byword, but mothers still live, and children need not wait until
they have conquered the crabbed types before they begin to love literature. Mrs. H.L.
ELMENDORF.
ADELBORG, OTTILIA. *Clean Peter and the Children of Grubbylea. Longmans. 1.25
This large oblong book contains simple verses accompanying delightful full-page
pictures in delicate colors somewhat after the French manner. It tells how Clean Peter
brought tidiness to a little town.
"The children out in Grubbylea Are all as clean as clean can be. And Peter's living there
to-day, The children begged him so to stay."

BURGESS, GELETT. (p. 35) *Goops and How To Be Them. A Manual of Manners for
Polite Infants. Illustrated by the Author. Stokes. 1.50
If there ever was anyone who could cover little pills with a thick coating of sugar, it was
Mr. Burgess when he wrote these clever verses and drew these ninety original and always
funny pictures. Children delight in the Goops. It is almost worth while being one to have
this volume of warning thrust into our hands.
"I never knew a Goop to help his mother, I never knew a Goop to help his dad, And they
never do a thing for one another; They are actually, absolutely bad!
"If you ask a Goop to go and post a letter, Or to run upon an errand, how they act! But
somehow I imagine you are better, And you try to go, and cry to go, in fact!"
BURGESS, GELETT. *More Goops and How Not To Be Them. A Manual of Manners
for Impolite Infants. Illustrated by the Author. Stokes. 1.50
A delightful companion volume of dreadful examples. With ninety-seven illustrations.
"You who are the oldest, You who are the tallest, Don't you think you ought to help The
youngest and the smallest?
"You who are the strongest, (p. 36) You who are the quickest, Don't you think you ought
to help The weakest and the sickest?
"Never mind the trouble, Help them all you can; Be a little woman! Be a little man!"
HEADLAND, I.T. (Translator). Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes. Revell. 1.00
Mr. Headland, who is a professor in the Imperial University at Peking, tells us: "There is
no language in the world, we venture to believe, which contains children's songs
expressive of more keen and tender affection.... This fact, more than any other, has
stimulated us in the preparation of these rhymes.... The illustrations have all been
prepared by the translator specially for this work."
The Oriental atmosphere of the book and the many Chinese