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_Treasure Island_, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON It had sixteen full-page pictures in colour, lining papers and a coloured title page by Wyeth, and was quite satisfactory. _The Boy Scouts’ Year Book: 1923_ Penrod had belonged to a troop which had busted up and there was no use joining another as he expected to begin smoking shortly, anyway. However, this book was useful, containing stories and talks on sports and tales of true adventure and Dan Beard’s camping stuff and “Boys Who Have Made Good” and a bunch of funny stories and--best of all--all about radio. _For the Good of the Team_, by RALPH HENRY BARBOUR This was a brand-new, regular hot story about Stuart Harven captaining the football team at Manning School and his roommate, Neal Orr, and other fellows. Penrod regarded it as a slick story and nobody was going to borrow it from him for a darn good long while because it was brand-new and a hot story. _Lochinvar Luck_, by ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE One of those he-men, you said it, this Albert Payson Terhune and two-fisted and all, and writes the grandest dog stories a fellow ever gets hold of, no Black Beauty here-nice-doggie story but a corkin’ story about how Jamie Mackellar, a plucky little truck driver, mortgages his truck to own a fine th’rough-bred collie and the kennel owner who is a crook stings him bad; but the measly pup runs away and lives wild and grows a wonderful bone and coat; and then Jamie captures him back and takes him to the show and what Jamie and the dog do to that crook kennel owner is some cautionary warning to all crooks. _Fourteen Years a Sailor_, by JOHN KENLON This here’s a good sea story, especially when they get shipwrecked on the desolate Crozet Islands and make a wonderful escape, hard to believe but it musta been so, because Kenlon he comes to New York later and sees a fire panic in a theatre and that turns him to be a fireman. Now he’s Chief of the New York City Fire Department, can you beat it? What wouldn’t I give to ride to a four-alarm fire with him, going like mad! _Kim_, by RUDYARD KIPLING Things in this story of _Kim_ I don’t just get hold of, but it’s a great story all right and I’ve read it twice and I bet I read it some more. Got to get the _Jungle Books_ and _Captains Courageous_ to put alongside it. Certainly Kipling’s the real thing, most especially on India. _The Boy’s Book of Inventions_, by RAY STANNARD BAKER Well, of course. A fellow’d have to have that, and the on’y thing was to get hold of the other, _The Boy’s Second Book of Inventions_ it was called, to go with it. Couldn’t have too many books like that which besides being useful, and the kind you c’n always get your folks to give you for presents, was interesting, like most of the books they give hardly ever are. Penrod reflected. No use to worry. He had room for ’most twenty more books, anyway, allowing for Henty; and when he had read some of these enough he could give one away now and then. Or maybe start a circulating library, a cent a week, which would leave room on the shelves and bring in money for new books.... From the distance came a voice: “Penrod!” His mother was calling, and as it unquestionably was a call to supper, perhaps he had better respond. He moved away. “Gosh, my fifteen minutes was gone an’ I never read anything. Takes fifteen darn minutes a day deciding what to read. Maybe she’s got strawberry shortcake I c’d eat five feet of that no trouble at all!” Books for Alices and Penrods. It has become the fashion to try to classify books for boys and girls by ages, but as children’s mental ages, tastes, interests and other details vary not less widely than adults’, it is much more discreet to arrange the “juveniles,” so-called, by general characters. Books not explicitly named above are included in the following very limited and rather carefully chosen groups: All About Animals. MARGERY WILLIAM’S _The Velveteen Rabbit_, with colour pictures by William Nicholson. Unusual pictures drawn on stone by the artist. MARSHALL SAUNDERS’S _Bonnie Prince Fetlar_ and her _The Wandering Dog_ ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE’S _Buff: A Collie_ and his _Further Adventures of Lad_ WILLIAM T. HORNADAY’S _The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals_ ERNEST THOMPSON SETON’S _Bannertail: The Story of a Grey Squirrel_, his _Wild Animals I Have Known_, his _Lives of the Hunted_--all illustrated by the author. JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS’S _Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings_, with 112 illustrations by A. B. Frost. Mostly about animals. It is important to have Mr. Frost’s pictures. RUDYARD KIPLING’S _The Jungle Book_ and _The Second Jungle Book_ have been mentioned; likewise FORRESTINE HOOKER’S _Star_ and her _Prince Jan: St. Bernard_. _The Elephant’s Child_, _the Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo_, and _How the Alphabet Was Made_ are Kipling selections now published as separate small books For quite little boys and girls there are the MAY BYRON books: _The Little Black Bear_, _The Little Brown Rooster_, _The Little Yellow Duckling_, and _The Little Tan Terrier_; and also books by JOHN BRECK, as follows: _Mostly About Nibble the Bunny_ _Nibble Rabbit Makes More Friends_ _The Sins of Silvertip the Fox_ _Tad Coon’s Tricks_ _The Wavy Tailed Warrior_ _Tad Coon’s Great Adventure_ _The Bad Little Owls_ _The Jay Bird Who Went Tame_ Introducing Fairies. All the books named above by ROSE FYLEMAN, including _The Rainbow Cat_ _Fairy Tales_ by the BROTHERS GRIMM, illustrated by Noel Pocock _The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Other Tales for Children_, retold by SIR ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH and illustrated by Kay Nielsen The Fairy Ring Series: Andersen’s Fairy Tales illustrated by Dugald Stewart Walker--_Thumbelisa and Other Stories_, _The Mermaid and Other Stories_, and _The Garden of Paradise and Other Stories_ KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN’S and NORA A. SMITH’S _The Fairy Ring, with Children’s Bookplate_, and their _Magic Casements: A Second Fairy Book_ The Most Wonderful Pictures. The series of classics illustrated in colour by N. C. Wyeth includes: _The Scottish Chiefs_, by JANE PORTER, edited by KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN and NORA A. SMITH _Westward Ho!_ by CHARLES KINGSLEY T_he Last of the Mohicans_, by J. FENIMORE COOPER _The Boy’s King Arthur_, by SIDNEY LANIER _The Black Arrow_, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON _Kidnapped_, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON _Treasure Island_, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON _The Mysterious Island_, by JULES VERNE _Poems of American Patriotism_, chosen by BRANDER MATTHEWS Among the books illustrated by Howard Pyle are: _The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire_ _The Story of King Arthur and His Knights_ _The Story of the Champions of the Round Table_ _The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions_ _The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur_ The two books illustrated by Kay Nielsen are: _The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Other Tales for Children_ retold by SIR ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH _East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North_ Here are two books illustrated by Maxfield Parrish: _The Arabian Nights_, edited by KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN and NORA A. SMITH _Poems of Childhood_, by EUGENE FIELD Some other books with especially fine illustrations in colour are: _A Child’s Garden of Verses_, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith _The Wind in the Willows_, by KENNETH GRAHAME, illustrated by Nancy Barnhart LOUIS DODGE’S _The Sandman’s Forest_ and his _The Sandman’s Mountain_, both illustrated by Paul Bransom MARY MAPES DODGE’S _Hans Brinker, or, The Silver Skates_, illustrated by George Wharton Edwards FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT’S _Little Lord Fauntleroy_, with illustrations by Reginald B. Birch MAUDE RADFORD WARREN’S and EVE DAVENPORT’S _Tales Told by the Gander_ and their _Adventures in the Old Woman’s Shoe_, both illustrated by C. A. Federer _The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha_, edited by J. B. TREND and illustrated by Jean de Bosschere _Robinson Crusoe_, by DANIEL DEFOE, illustrated by Noel Pocock _Stories from Hans Andersen_, illustrated by Edmund Dulac _Stories from the Arabian Nights_, retold by LAURENCE HOUSMAN, with pictures by Edmund Dulac _The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French_, retold by SIR ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH, illustrated by Edmund Dulac HAWTHORNE’S _A Wonder Book_, illustrated by Arthur Rackham ÆSOP’S _Fables_, illustrated by Arthur Rackham _A Fairy Book_, illustrated by Arthur Rackham The Outdoor Life. WARREN H. MILLER’S _Camping Out_, his _The Boy’s Book of Hunting and Fishing_, and his _Canoeing, Sailing and Motorboating_ _The Boy Scouts’ Year Book_ for 1923 or earlier years, as each annual contains outdoor information of permanent interest _The Boy Scouts’ Book of Campfire Stories_, and the _Boy Scouts’ Book of Stories_, both edited by FRANKLIN K. MATHIEWS EDWARD CAVE’S _Boy Scout’s Hike Book_ and his _The Boy’s Camp Book_ ERNEST THOMPSON SETON’S _The Book of Woodcraft_, his _Sign Talk_, his _Woodcraft Manual for Boys_, and his _Woodcraft Manual for Girls_ JEANNETTE MARKS’S _Vacation Camping for Girls_ DAN BEARD’S _Shelters, Shacks and Shanties_, his _Boat-Building and Boating: A Handy Book for Beginners_, his _The Field and Forest Handy Book_, his _The Jack of All Trades_, his _The Outdoor Handy Book_, and his _The American Boy’s Handy Book_ LINA and ADELIA B. BEARD’S _Recreations for Girls_ and their _The American Girl’s Handy Book_ Fiction. JOSEPH A. ALTSHELER’S stories. Altsheler wrote seven romances (_The Last Rebel_, etc.), eight books in The Young Trailers Series, beginning with _The Young Trailers_; three books in The Texan Series (_The Texas Star_, etc.) and three miscellaneous Indian stories (_The Last of the Chiefs_, _The Quest of the Four_ and _Apache Gold_) as well as two of The Great West Series, _The Great Sioux Trail_ and _The Lost Hunters_. He wrote three stories dealing with the World War, but his French and Indian War Series (six books beginning with _The Hunters of the Hills_) and his Civil War Series (eight books, beginning with _The Guns of Bull Run_) are old favourites RALPH HENRY BARBOUR. School stories. Besides fifteen not in any series and the Yardley Hall stories (eight, beginning with _Forward Pass_) five series of three books each--Hilton, Erskine, the “Big Four,” Purple Pennant and Grafton WILLIAM HEYLIGER. The author of _High Benton_ and _High Benton, Worker_. There are three books in the Fairview Series, five in the St. Mary’s Series, six in the Lansing Series, besides the extremely popular books about Don Strong in the Boy Scout Series--_Don Strong of the Wolf Patrol_, _Don Strong, Patrol Leader_, and _Don Strong, American_ FRANK T. BULLEN’S _The Cruise of the Cachalot_, a classic for boys RALPH D. PAINE’S _A Cadet of the Black Star Line_, his _The Fugitive Freshman_, his _The Head Coach_, his _College Years_, his _Campus Days_, his _Sandy Sawyer, Sophomore_, his _The Stroke Oar_, and his _Sons of Eli_ LAWRENCE PERRY’S _For the Game’s Sake_, his _The Big Game_, and his _The Fullback_ (Fair Play Series) DAN BEARD’S _The Black Wolf Pack_ FRANK B. LINDERMAN’S _Lige Mounts: Free Trapper_ FRANCIS LYNDE’S _The Golden Spider_ LEO E. MILLER’S _Adrift on the Amazon_, his _In the Tiger’s Lair_, his _The Hidden People_ and his _The Black Phantom_ ARTHUR STANWOOD PIER’S _The Boys of Saint Timothy’s_ JULES VERNE’S _Around the World in Eighty Days_, his _A Journey to the Centre of the Earth_, his _From the Earth to the Moon_, and his _Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea_ RICHARD HARDING DAVIS’S _The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys_