Books For Young People in the Herald Tribune Book Review

Mary Lamberton Becker edited the "Books For Young People" section of the Herald Tribune Book Review. The books reviewed were:

The Three Famous Ugly Sisters Three ugly sisters who live in a cave terrify schoolchildren.

The Ghost Town Mystery by Ethel T. Wolverton. Teenage girl unravels a mystery

Sunday in the Park by Janet Bell, pictures by Aline Appel. Two three year-olds go to Central Park with their dad.

Eisenhower the Liberator by Andre Maurois, illustrated by George Avison. This 80-page bio of the war hero by a prominent French author was one in a series of books being published simultaneously in French and English. Eisenhower was all over the bookshelves this week.

New Six O’Clock Saints by Joan Windham, illustrated by Caryll Houselander, Bedtime stories about saints with names similar to contemporary names for kids (e,g, Gladys, Alice, Humphrey, William, Kenneth). It was one in the author’s popular series of the lives of saints, the sort of book that Catholic dowager great aunts gave to their nieces for Christmas.

Climbing Our Family Tree by Alex Novikoff, illustrated by John English. Evolution for children. This was the sort of book that professorial great uncles gave to their nephews at Christmas. Novikoff was a prominent cellular biologist and medical school professor who was discharged during the Red Scare by the University of Vermont Medical School for refusing to identify Communists among his former colleagues at Brooklyn College. He was later vindicated. He was born in Russia but grew up in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn.