GAIL BORDEN, RESOURCEFUL BOY.

By Adrian A. Paradis '34. New York:Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc., 1965. 200 pp.$2.25.

Adrian Alexis Paradis '34 has written some half-dozen books, most of them designed to inform young people about various job and career opportunities. He has probed into library careers and the public relations field; and one of his works had the straightforward title — "75 Ways for Boys to MakeMoney." His little volume Grown In Grace recorded 33 daily devotions for family worship as practiced in the Paradis home.

In Gail Borden, Resourceful Boy, Paradis has written for juvenile readers an amazingly lucid, semi-fictional account of the career of Gail Borden, founder of the Borden dairy industries and one of the country's early businessman-pioneers." Borden's life (1801-1874) spanned the years when America was changing from a frontier nation to a thriving industrialized country. Raised along the upper New York State frontier, Borden moved gradually westward, experiencing with his family and friends some of the great events which shaped our nation's growth.

Author Paradis has a genuine love for the land and its people, a warm admiration for "resourcefulness" and Yankee ingenuity, those qualities which provided America with her unique heritage. Sound historical fact is blended with detailed descriptions, imaginative conversation and suspenseful narrative to make for an immensely readable and enjoyable book, one of the Bobbs-Merrill series on "Childhood of Famous Americans."

The illustrations by Nathan Goldstein are excellent, and there is a final section with dates, listings vocabulary and questions which buttresses the historical and educational aspects of the book. I highly recommend it for youngsters of all ages!