Motion Picture Reviews (1933)

Motion Picture Reviews Seven A SELECTED LIST OF FIFTY BOOKS Building for International Attitudes for Children California State Division American Association of University IV omen FOR LITTLE CHILDREN Beskow, Elsa: Olles Ski Trip. Harper, $2. A charming picture book of far northern Sweden. Brock, B. L. : To Market; To Market! Knopf, $1.75. Here, in gay pictures, is a little Dutch town. A Runaway Sardine, with illustrations by the same artist, tells of a village in Brittany. Clark, Margery: Poppy Seed Cakes. Doubleday, $2. A book of far away that children love. Delightful in its illustrations and story of Andrewshek and Aunt Katushka and the goat that gave the milk for the poppy seed cakes. Cole, Walter: ABC Book of People. Minton, Balch, $2.50. From “A for the Arab” to ‘‘Z for the Zulu” . . . peoples of many lands, in bright native dress, with a descriptive passage concerning each. Bright and gay enough for the very small child, with an authenticity of costume that gives interest and value for others. d’Aulaire, Ingri: Ola. Doubleday, $2. Ola lived in the forest of Norway. Colorful illustrated maps show the country where he went skiing and brought home eiderdown and a cod. Flack, Marjorie: Story about Ping. Viking Press, $1. An amazing little tale and pictures of a Peking duckling on a Yangtze houseboat. France, Anatole: Our Children. Duffield, $2.50 Proper little French children at play are pictured in story and in exquisite illustrations by Boutet de Monvel. Grishina, N. J. : Peter Pea. Stokes, $1.50. A Russian fairy story that, like Shorty, a Nursery Tale from Far Away , is charmingly set down by a woman who first told it to boys and girls in the land of its origin. King, Marian: Kees. Harper, $2.50. Of a little Dutch boy and Kleintje, his yellow duck at a carnival in Holland. Kuebler, Katherine: Hansel the Gander. Morrow, $2. Pictures in soft color and in black and white tell of Elsa and her gander in a Bavarian village. LaVarre, Andre: Johnny Round the IV orld. Simon and Schuster, $2. An irresistibly charming book. Full page photographs of the children of forty countries with delightfully put information about each. It would be difficult to avoid loving the Lapland baby, the Finnish child, the stern little Highland laddie. . . . Illustrated maps on front and back inner covers add interest and value. LeMair, Willebeek: Old Dutch Nursery Rhymes. McKay, $2. Lovely pictures and songs that children enjoy. McNab (ed) : The Picture Book of Rivers. Macmillan, $2. Many and colorful are the countries the rivers pass through, and delightful this way of becoming acquainted with geography. Morrow, Elizabeth: The Painted Pig. Knopf, $1. Here are Pita and Pedro, and Pancho the toymaker, showing American children the artistic, sunny side of Mexican child life. Petersham, Maud: Miki. Doubleday, $2. In which Miki goes to Hungary and, with a dog with silver curls, listens to the shepherd’s folk tales, dances with the gypsies, and rides on the merrygo-round in lovely Budapest. Roberts, Jack: The Wonderful Adventures of Ludo, the Little Green Duck. Duffield, $2. A gay little book printed in France; splashily charming in illustrations and type. On the inside cover, adapted to very small children, is a map on which to follow the wonderful, and international, adventures of Ludo. Siegal, William: Around the W orld in a Mailbag. McBride, $1.75. An early approach to international cooperation in the story of the letter that goes traveling far to find the father of Bob and Betty. Gaily colored postmen of all nationalities cooperate. The travels of the letter can be traced on a vivid little map. Sugimoto, C. M. : Japanese Picture Tales. Stokes, $1.25. Stories a little Japanese girl heard her “honorable grandmother” tell. Wiese, Kurt: Liang and Lo. Doubleday, $1.50. A little folks’ tale of Liang, the son of a Chinese tea merchant, and Lo, who lived on the back of a water buffalo. FOR CHILDREN EIGHT TO TEN Brann, Esther: Lupe Goes to School. Macmillan, $2.25. An interesting story of a little girl in a boarding school in Spain. The author has also written of Nicolina, who lived in Florence, and of Nanette of the Wooden Shoes and her life in a village in Brittany. Burglon, Nora: Children of the Soil. Doubleday, $2. About two children in Sweden and the good fortune they earned for themselves in that north country. Casserley, A. T. : Michael of Ireland. Harper, $1.50. Delightfully told Irish tales of Michael and his adventures with the apple woman, Flanagan’s pig and the red-haired girl. Chevalier, Ragnild: IV andering Monday, and Other Days in Old Bergen. Macmillan, $1.75 Monday is only one of the fascinating days in Norway that the author remembers and describes.