Volume 18, Number 7 · April 20, 1972
Kids, Pull Up Your Socks!
By Margot Hentoff
His Own Where
by June Jordan
Crowell, 90 pp., $3.95
The Planet of Junior Brown
by Virginia Hamilton
Macmillan, 210 pp., $4.95
Blowfish Live in the Sea
by Paula Fox
Dell, 116 pp., $.75 (paper)
The Making of Joshua Cobb
by Margaret Hodges
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 170 pp., $4.50
The Dragon and the Doctor
by Barbara Danish
The Feminist Press, 21 pp., $1.00 (paper)
Challenge to Become a Doctor: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell
by Leah Lurie Heyn
The Feminist Press, 60 pp., $1.50 (paper)
The "Little House" Books
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Harper & Row, $.95 each (paper)
The First Four Years
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Harper & Row, 134 pp., $4.95
Since television his largely superseded books as children's entertainment, it is reasonable to question what function children's literature now has—or at least what function is intended. I am speaking of those books for children meant to have a beneficent effect on their readers, apart from the pulp aimed at the childish in children which they happily obtain for themselves.
Review, 2474 words
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