LEAF, FRUIT AND FLOWER, A NATURE PRIMER and LET'S LEARN THE FLOWERS

by Marshall McClintock '26. Chanticleer Press, N. Y., 1948. pp. 28 if 29, $1.00each.

These two Chanticleer Junior books, each with photographs in full color, are models of book production. How such well printed large-leaf books with beautiful color reproductions can be produced to sell at a dollar in this day of increasing book costs is something of a miracle. The books are for junior readers, but they are so well written and attractively illustrated that I am sure many adults will find pleasure in them.

Leaf, Fruit and Flower has twelve chapters, each with two color illustrations. An idea of the contents may be gleaned from a sampling of the chapter titles:—Why Roses are Red,They are Red When They are Green (black- berries), The Love Apple, Seeds with Para-chutes.

Let's Learn the Flowers contains 21 color reproductions of 21 different flowers, most of which a child is apt to see when quite young. A few of these flowers are wild, but most are cultivated, as the rose, iris, poppy, snowdrop, tulip and calendula (the only poor color illustration). One flower however, Orbus vernus, will be familiar probably to few children or adults. The text in both these volumes is well written and accurate. All in all the books are those that any child will welcome, and I cannot imagine a dollar better expended than getting one of these beautiful books for a young friend.