The Little Strawman suddenly finds himself alive when the wind blows a wisp of straw into a raspberry bush and caps it with a berry head. There is throughout the rhymed narrative the breezy call of the out-of-doors; the gurgling of brooks and the singing of birds unite with the sweet fragrance of clover bloom and violet bank. The imagination of the child is led out into varied channels, and a wholesome love for birds and flowers and animals is instilled.
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PRINCE TRIXIE
OR
BABY BROWNIE’S BIRTHDAY
BY
ELBRIDGE H. SABIN
With 8 illustrations in color and 30 in black and white
by FRANCES BEEM. 144 pages. $1.00 net
This is an attractive fairy tale. The king of the fairies sends his son, Trixie, in search of the rare gifts of Health, Work and Love, to be bestowed upon a baby girl. The ways that are found to convey the mite of a princeling to his far-away goals are so novel, and his adventures so spirited, that no child can fail to be delighted while reading them.
WONDER HILL
BY
A. NEELY HALL
With 10 illustrations in color and 47 in black and white
by NORMAN P. HALL. Cloth, 8vo. 288 pages. $1.20 net
Betty, aged six, wanting a playhouse, her brother Bobby determines to dig one in the out-of-doors. A few feet underground their experiences begin, and they find themselves, along with their pet monkey Utz, in a palace with revolving and dissolving walls. An imaginative child will revel in the book which holds one with the charm of “Alice in Wonderland.”