The Three Owls: A Book About Children's Books, Their Authors, Artists and Critics

xv, 376 pp. Orange cloth boards. CONTENTS: Foreword; Contributors and Critics; The First Flight; George MacDonald; The Return of the Knickerbockers; Hallowe'en; A Storyteller of True Romance; Walter De La Mare; Salt Seas and Salty Books; Children's Book Week; Books for Little Children; St. Nicholas Eve; A Christmas Traveler; Twelfth Night Revels; Books for Birthdays; The Return of the Peterkins; Padraic Colum; Naturalizing Hiawatha; St. Valentine's Day; Picture Book Countries; The Three Owls Explore; The American Adventure; Washington's Birthday; Pennsylvania's Stories; The Everyday Country of Eliza Orne White; Kate Greenaway and Randolph Caldecott; Dream Ships and Pinnacles; A Spring Holiday; Hans Christian Andersen's Birthday; The Bravest Day in the Year; May Day; Boys and Their Books; The Quest for the Perfect Boy's Book; Robin Hood's Country; Why Not Virginia?; Tests for Children's Books; Aristocrats and Griffins; Girls and Their Books; Poets and Lepracauns: Midsummer Songs and Tales; Vacation Boxes; Fourth of July; The Ageless Child; Singing Games of American Children; Plays to Read and Plays to Act; Czech Children at the Theatre; Widows'-Walks and Chock-Pins; Far and Near Stories; Reading Parkman; Modern Poetry for Modern Children; Reading Poetry with Children; Pinocchio in Pictures; A List of Informational Books; A List of Plays for Summer Days; Notes on Artists; Index.