Show The Child i Reader by MARJORIE BARROWS Editor Child Life Magazine I 1 met Bills Bill's father futher today Bill Is six years old he said snide Hes Bes n a hardheaded hard hard- x r headed you young n g ti man and be treats fairy tales with a n withering wither wither- withering In ing contempt Ie He likes real stor stor- ies tes He likes lIke s B simple Imp 1 e books a about b o u t how things happen Are there any 4 new books that will tit Bill Billi i I J gave him the Marjorie Barrows Dames names of sev sev- several several eral new ones for there re lots of Bills In America America Amer Amer- ica today and many authors are writing just the sort of books they like Real Adventure Best If your BIll BUI doesn't take to faIrytales fairy fairytales fairytales tales to legends to fables dont don't force them on him trim Offer OlTer him Instead Instead In In- stead Charlotte Kuh's Kuhs delightful A ATrain ATrain ATrain Train a Boat and an Island the stor story of n a real family's real trip to Bermuda Offer OtTer him fascinating Letters to Channy n a real mothers mother's letters of a trip around the tine world written for her own lIt little tie boy back home Offer him The Pilgrims Pilgrim's Part Party o or orThe The rhe Cruise of ot Mr ChrI Christopher Clumbus Columbus Columbus Co C- lumbus by and Anson Lowitz two humorous and very n 0 picture books that thai acquaint acquaint ac nc quaint younger readers renders with stirring stir sUr- stirring ring history Perhaps Bill nm wants to know v more about motormen and firemen and what they really do Mrs Kuhs Kuh's books for small children will help belp him out there then Perhaps he lie would like How Bow It All Began a book that Is delightfully written and 11 n. 1 I by Janet Smalley It will tell Bill how primitive e man watched the lightning and found he too could make fire Ore by twirling two sticks sUcks around together Later man found other W ways S 'S of heating and lighting and at last we get our matches gas as oil and el electricity The book goes on In n the simplest fashIon fash- fash Ion to show v the beginnings of or ormes mes of travel clothing houses It Is a thrilling sort of real fairy fairytale fairytale tale tn-Ie that particularly appeals to to boys like Bill Travel Stories Are Good What happens to a real letter after It gets posted may also Interest interest Inter inter- est some of our very youngest readers read ers era William SIegel a Russian artist tells a tJ simple story about that In Around the World In a Bob Boh and MaIlbag Bettys Betty's letter to their father r doesn't reach him In San Francisco So It Is forwarded to China Chinn Russia Russin France and even een evento evento to Egypt But though the various postmen do their best the letter does not finally each ench him until he Is back In New York again The Johe pictures pictures pic pie tures cures make this book Look especially at at- Here are Just a few of ot the new books for tale strikers Many more are to be found In the lie libra Ilbra rles ries and amid bookstores Just exactly the book your Bill Is looking for Is waiting for or him there And It Is IB Just the right book for him at the present time Take Tale him along and let lot Mm him help find It I J |