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Show TIIE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, JUNIOR, SUNDAY MORNING, r Newest Fairy Stories Real Charm String l "Once upon a time three little lived with their mother on the top of a high hill crowned with cherry trees. In those days every little girl had a charm string made of narrow ribbon strung with buttons of For NOVEMBER 17, 1929. New Christmas . Youth Red-Blood- ed Tales Found in Pleasant Book' Dan Beard's "Buckskin Book for Buckskin Men and Boys" fine for those who like outdoor life. . M A volume of unusual Christmas stories is found in Coningsby Dawson's "When Father Christmas Was Late," published by Doubleday, Doran and company, Garden City, N. sis-te- rs . t nut Y. The stories are varied and differ--e- at in treatment, offering almost ev ery type of Christmas story suitable for reading for one's own pleasure or for presenting to schools or classes. "The Christmas Legend of Ham-el- in Town" tells how the little children stolen by the Pied Piper were brought back one Christmas eve by the faith and Jove of one mother. "When Father Christmas Was Late" is a rather humorous tale of how Doodle got his goat.- "The Little House", is a Christmas story set in the time of the World m 1 tales I have strong together in a book, just as we used to make a charm string. and I hope they may make many other children happy." This is now Albion Fellows Bacon, littlest sister of the author of the Little Colonel books, explains her stories. "The Charm String" Is a volume of fairy tales real ones, beginas any ning "Once upon a time fairy story does begin, Jived and ending,, happy ever "fhey ' "T" .. after.?" There is the story of the stray Mingst, who is something like one's own ragged puppy, but who has the strange faculty of turning on and off the Sights in his eyes. He can find lost, hidden or stolen articles, with an uncanny exactitude. The King is very fond of the little stray Mingst. until he, himself, decides to hide Then it is a different something. ..." ed ., .1. b. story. There is the story of the Giant of Wier, a regular giant, too, for, as Elas ' says, "I wouldn't give much for a gi- - , ant that is no higher than a church steeple." How Elsa cures the giant's earache and how he repays her makes a delightful giant story. There are two "tales that carry on our own old stories to a logical con- - . elusion. Haven't you often wondered what the Little Old Woman and The Little Old Man and the Barn full of Threshers and the field full of Mow-eand the Cat and the Dog and the Pig. to say nothing of the Pox. did after the Gintrerbread Boy was all eaten up? Was the Little Old Woman content to go back home and never have the child she longed for? You will find the answer in "More About the Gingerbread Boy." And when Goldilocks Jumped out of the window and fled home crying, what happened? Did the Three Bears go hungry because she had eaten their porridge? "More About Goldilocks" tells the charming sequel to this adventure. The Fairy Plum, The Glass Room and all the other stories In the volume are new and quaint and delightful. They will make excellent reading for or to little folks. The print is large and clear, so that those who have not yet got accustomed to reading regular book print will find this volume Just right. The pictures by Billie Chapman are all in yellow and purple two royal colors for a book full of kings and queens and giants. "The Charm String" is published by the Page Company, Boston, and is one of the new volumes of fairy - u x-- ; i. i. : x. X. I n 'litis - Pretty Legend Told About Toys Little Christmas sends this book to you this year, you will have "some" to thing made in Crecho-Slovak-la how your classmates when you study that country, and you will also hare the "true" story of how toys came to be given at Christmas. If IPIAJNO SPECIAL CLASS ; Instruction tmt tofismm, reasonable rates CbJMrea from to IS years Kiss Insz LilSie h 11U Ota 8. By. St n , p. You'll Enjoy These Little Story Sermons 1 &f III I moccasins and legglns such as the Indians wore. He tells how to make traps and bow to use them properly. He tells how to make knife scabbards and quivers; how to measure distance with hands' and feet and how to make maps. This for the autumn days that are now upon us. For winter he has Just as many wonderful things: How to make snowshoes, dog sleds and harness. How to make chaps, Indian costumes, hide shirts and medicine hate. How to cook your camp meal. How to tell time and directions with- -, Now here is one of the finest books for boys that we have run across in all our wanderings among bookshelvesa book for real boys, we mean, boys who want to hunt and trap and fish, boys who want to ski and wear snowshoes, boys who feel that they are, after all, brothers to Daniel Boone and 8am Houston. This book is Dan Beard's "Buckskin Book for Buckskin Men and Boys." Dan Beard, you know, is national scout commissioner. Boy Scouts of America,-- He is founder of the first Boy Scouts and author of many popular outdoor books. Last year Dan Beard thought he was through writing, through scouting, but the boys of America have been so enthusiastic' love out instruments. short, it is a true buckskin book telling you how to" "make real buckskiirtven though you haven't a buck," and how to do all the things the old buckskin clad pioneers had to do. We cant think of any other book that would make a better gift for an Boy Scout than active, this one of Dan Beard's, published by In and admiration that this fine old scout has decided to give them one "more book probably- - his best. The book contains all sorts of suggestions for the boy. He tells Just how to make buckskin and how to fashion from this material ....... or or the Lipplncott Company, Book of Ver$e About " LUlIs Girl Charming A charming book of verse about a little girl called' "Elisabeth" Is "Elizabeth's book," by L. O. Kady," Here is - one on Just published. "Aunts and Uncles": Uncle play exciting games And call you funny kinds of names; They give you toffee balls to suck And laugh when all your teeth get stuck; They race you up and down the Aunts are ever so polite; They hope you're feeling quite all And build you lovely forts from chairs, And just before they go away to spend," they "Here's say. When I am old, I want To be an uncle, not an aunt. stairs. right; the head. They pat you gently-or- i And want to see the rabbits fed; They bring you choe'latec (mostly half-a-cro- plain) TWENTY-FIV- . E .. OP THE NEW BOOKS FOR CHILDREN BOOK Two Brothers and Their Animal Friend Real Plctur Book Rhyme Tim for Cnuoren Today! ABC Book . Out of the Xverywhnv (Poems) Hindu Fables Adventures of Tommy tugle Doll of Roumanta PUBU8HXS AUTHOR Emiue Poulaaoa Ellaabeth King WlnUred Howard Mukerjl H. a. Well Quean Marie of Roumanta Oeorg Mitchell Emma Brock Jacques Dorev Johnny Qraell Ruth Plumly Thompson Thornton W. Burgee . ' ' Christmas Tree Annual ' K. Price The stories were prepared for and were first used in actual Sunday school work. . They could also be used as "bed-timstories in the home; or for any character-buildin- g work with children. The volume is published by the Abingdon Press, New York. e" Book on Astronomy Pleae$ Boy Reader $ 'Boys will find "A Boy's Book of Astronomy," by X Harris Gable and O. D. Swezey, an excellent book, written very simply. This is another addition to the well known and well loved boys' book series, among which are "Boy's Book of Camp Life," "Boy'g Book of the Earth." "Boy's Book of Ships," and "Boy's Book of Canoeing." EiDIDDiES 3--T Like the Birht Kind of Books tor Christmas T 3- 4- - 10 Duttoa 8toke 8toke g--M g--10 - Uppincott Knopf ' Vollaod Reuly Lee u Little, Brown Bcrlboer Maeaulay Lipplncott Harper ut 3--T Rob. McBrlde Oxford pm Knopf "The Friendly Light" and other story sermons for children, by Virginia Greene Milllkin, offers some thirty-thre- e little stories, each with and definite. They its moral clear-care not "preachy" stories, and they are not dull. They are merely little incidents that seem to have happened to real children; little opportunities for the child to make a moral judgment and to reap the benefit of so doing. Instinctively, the child who reads or hears these stories will apply the conditions to himself, and will see that he, too, has the same opportunities. The traits of character by the Knighthood of ' phasized Youth, honesty, courtesy, obedience, are all emphasized in this little vol- T fUnd McNally Lothrap. Lee Shepherd Houghton-Mltfl- Margaret Seamaa Suitable for Afes. Stokes Sergeant Giggle The Bunaway Sardine Three and the Moon Ifaroella and Raggedy Ana Jack PumpklnlMad of Oa Seashore Book for Children American rolk and Fairy Tales Masie llimte Bhoo Bonner Buckskin Book for Boys Beard . Homer's Oddyieey Legend o tb Beva Boa Book of Mysterle Hi : Lnukl - Little story sermons for children are sometimes difficult to find, vet they are often in demand. Sunday school teachers, older boys and girls who are trying to help with the little tolas, ana parents, memseivea, 01 tea ask where they can obtain a volume of stories that are written definitely to teach some moral. ume. - And tell you how you've grown again, But oh, I wonder why they should So love to ask if you've been good? 1(29 B n i in their And Christmas used. If',,. A an English widow as the chief char. , acters. "Mother of God" tells of the search to find Mary, made by three Romans years after the' crucifixion of her son. Galus. the crippled soldier, set out for Jerusalem in the hope of finding Mary and of learning whether her son was truly God. What they . found and what they decided makes a lovely Christmas story. "To Love Is to Laugh" is the very modern story of a very modern young miss who finds herself "mad at everything and. everybody" on Christmas. Of course, before the day is over, she has learned to love and to be happy, "The Seventh Christmas" is the story Of Christ's seventh birthday. It is a charming little story of a small boy trying to understand how he can be the Bon of God, but put- lng inese inougnis asiae to neip nis father make an ox yoke. For boys and girls in Junior high school or high school, these stories are excellent. They are especially adaptable to Christmas programs. ra This is a pretty little Legendyfo be read to or by little folks who Are be ginning to wonder Jaaw Bant Claus can go all over the world in one night, and how he can make all the millions of toys In one year, and how toys came7 to be made at Christmas, anyway. The legend is limply and charmingly told: How Little Christmas came to be bora high up in the snowy mountains; .how the village children brought him his first playthings, and bow he lived to repay their kindness. ' Of course, all the animals Df the forest helped Little Christmas, for they were his friends. And all the little angels, especially Peter, helped, too, tie Christmas. The illustration are by Zdenek Outh, and are as quaint and charming as the legend itself. The book, which is a product of the Macmillan company, was printed in Czechoslovakia, and that 'accounts for the brilliancy and harmony of the colors Page Thres ln DouMeday, Doran Apptcto Co. 5- 10 -- M - 1J 7- -u i-- n 10-10-- K 10-- DESERET fcROIECei DMPAMY 1 10-- 10-Lor In da M. Brlcht Children- - Book of Legend Century 10-Child' OeocraohT of tha World Htllver Century I. B. and A. A. Knipt Dodd. Mead Co. 10-1-4 Story of Old Ironsides Helen Keller Doubled; Doraa Any Age Story of My Life 44 EAST ON SOUTH SALT LAKE OTV-tTTA- TEMPU ' |