Volume 3, Number 8 · December 3, 1964
Engines of Mischief: The Best Children's Books of 1964
By Janet Adam Smith
Wally the Wordworm
by Clifton Fadiman
Macmillan, 64 pp., $3.50
The Untold Adventures of Santa Claus
by Ogden Nash
Little Brown, 47 pp., $2.95
How to Catch a Crocodile
by Robert Pack
Knopf, 40 pp., $3.25
How the Whale Became
by Ted Hughes
Athenaeum, 100 pp., $3.50
Squawky
by Stephen Potter
Lippincott, 48 pp., $3.75
Tom and Tabby
by John Symonds
Universe Books, 63 pp., $4.95
Elisabeth the Cow Ghost
by William Pène du Bois
Viking, 41 pp., $3.00
The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn
by Eric von Schmidt
Houghton Mifflin, 48 pp., $3.25
The King Who Loved Candy
by Peter Hughes
Abelard-Schuman, 64 pp., $3.25
Meeting with a Stranger
by Duane Bradley
Lippincott, 128 pp., $3.75
The Takula Tree
by Elizabeth P. Fleming
Westminster, 175 pp., $3.25
Children of Africa
by Louise A. Stinetorf
Lippincott, 157 pp., $3.25
The Letter on the Tree
by Natalie Savage Carlson
Harper and Row, 116 pp., $3.50
A Day Without Wind
by William Mayne
Dutton, 64 pp., $3.50
The Coriander
by Eilis Dillon
Funk and Wagnalls, 211 pp., $3.25
The Alley
by Eleanor Estes
Harcourt Brace, 283 pp., $3.50
Harriet the Spy
by Louise Fitzhugh
Harper and Row, 298 pp., $3.95
I Go by Sea, I Go by Land
by P.L. Travers
Norton, 233 pp., $3.50
Knights Beseiged
by Nancy Faulkner
Doubleday, 213 pp., $3.25
Save the Khan
by B. Bartos-Höppner
Walck, 242 pp., $4.00
The Burning of Njal
by Henry Treece
Criterion, 191 pp., $3.50
The Book of Three
by Lloyd Alexander
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 217 pp., $3.75
To Catch a Spy
by Amelia Elizabeth Walden
Westminster, 224 pp., $3.50
'Damn them!' wrote Lamb to Coleridge in 1802. 'I mean the cursed Barbauld crew, those blights and blasts of all that is human in man and child.' Lamb was in a temper because, having gone to Newbery's bookshop to buy 'the old classics of the nursery,' he had been fobbed off with 'Mrs. Barbauld's and Mrs. Trimmer's nonsense'; and he was sure that the 'knowledge insignificant and vapid' that they conveyed would only serve to give a child an absurd conceit of himself—
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