La Fontaine, Jean De.
Select Fables from La Fontaine.
Illustrated by L.M. Boutet de Monvel.
S. P. C. K.
Stechert. 1.80
This edition is chosen because of Monsieur Boutet de Monvel's charming small illustrations in color. There are from two to eight pictures on each page, accompanying the text, which is in verse.
As color appeals to the child before he has much notion of form, his first picture-book should be colored, and as his ideas of form develop slowly, his first pictures should be in outline, and unencumbered with detail. The French illustrator, Boutet de Monvel, has given us the ideal pictures for young children.
W.T. Field.
Poetry, Collections Of Poetry And Prose, And Stories Adapted From Great Authors
Blind Homer and the chief singer of Israel and skalds and bards and minnesingers are all gone, tradition is almost a byword, but mothers still live, and children need not wait until they have conquered the crabbed types before they begin to love literature.
Mrs. H.L. Elmendorf.