From: Eric Jablow <ejablow at cox.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: suggestions needed
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 18:38:15 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Cathy,

Along with your idea to get books by Edward Eager, I would suggest
that you get books by Edith Nesbit.  Some are non-genre children's
books, like "The Railway Children". Others are fantasies like "Five
Children and It" and "The Phoenix and the Carpet".

Purple House Press has reprinted some wonderful children's
books.  I recommend The Space Child's Mother Goose", by
Fredrick Winsor, illustrated by Marian Parry:

Little Bo Peep
Has lost her sheep,
The radar has failed to find them.
They'll all, face to face,
Meet in parallel space,
Preceding their leaders behind them.

and

Little Jack Horner
Sits in a corner
Extracting cube roots to infinity,
An assignment for boys
That will minimize noise
And produce a more peaceful vicinity.

and

Three jolly sailors from Blaydon-on-Tyne
They went to sea in a bottle by Klein.
Since the sea was entirely inside the hull
The scenery seen was exceedingly dull.

They also reprinted the Mad Scientist's Club series by Bertrand R.
Brinley,
stories originally published in Boy's Life Magazine.

Respectfully,
Eric Jablow