20 Terrace Review — Wednesday, August 27, 1986
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Books for
young readers

All the books this week are in paperback, suitable
to take on holiday for summer reading.

by Andrea Deakin
Terrace Book Reviewer

‘Ming Lo Moves the Mountain’’ by Arnold Lobel
(Scholastic: $3.95) is a gently humorous story set in
China. Ming Lo and his wife love their little house at
the foot of the mountain, but they do not love the
mountain. They go to the wise man to ask him how
they can move the mountain. With becoming solem-
nity the wise man suggests one solution after another,
the clouds from his pipe weaving more and more in-
tricate patterns around his head. The final solution is
delightful. This picture, book for younger readers is

~ charmingly illustrated in soft color.

‘*Wild Robin’ (Unicorn Paperback/Fitzhenry and
Whiteside: $5.95) is stormy and disobedient. After
one particularly wild fling he runs away from home.
The Queen of Fairyland finds him and takes him to
sher palace where he becomes homesick for the family
he has left behind until his courageous and loving
sister manages to rescue him, Susan Jeffers has il-
lustrated the tale with her inimitable, lovely detailed
paintings.

A delightful contribution from Scholastic is an
Australian picture book, ‘‘Wombat Stew’’. A very
clever dingo catches a wombat and decides to make
wombat stew. ‘‘Wombat stew,/Wombat
stew,/Gooey, brewy,/Yummy, chewy,/Wombat
stew!’’. One by one the other animals come forward
to offer their suggestions for ingredients, mud,
feathers, creepy-crawlies and so on. As he is about to
add the wombat, the other animals suggest that
Dingo tastes the stew first. Sure enough the flavor is
so dreadful that Dingo takes off, leaving the wombat
safely behind. Marcia K. Vaughan’s amusing tale is
most delightfully illustrated with lively pictures by
Pamela Lofts.

Lilian Obligado’s book of ‘terrifically tantalizing
tongue twisters’, “Faint Frogs Feeling Feverish”
(Puffin: $4.95) is just available in paperback. She
presents, alphabetically a series of tongue twisters
that are not only witty and challenging, but charm-
ingly illustrated with lively imaginative drawings.
This alphabet book will delight a youngster who has
a good sense of humor.

Olive A. Wadsworth has taken a favorite old
rhyme, ‘‘Over in the Meadow” (Puffin: $4.95) and
graced it with fresh and lively bright pictures depict-
ing the various little animals playing in the meadow
which is their home. I particularly enjoyed the
vibrancy of ‘‘Over in the meadow in a snug beehive
Lived an old mother bee and her little bees five.”
Another bright little counting book is ‘‘Off and
Counting’? by Sally Noll. (Puffin: $4.95). A little
wind-up frog in a toy shop sets off to count the toys,
hopping from one to another — one castle, two rock-
ing horses, and so on. Clear simple pictures, bright
color and the little green wind up frog linking one
picture to the next make this an attractive first
number book.

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Ticket sales
Tickets were reasonable and sold quickly during the Kinet-
tes Kiddies Carnival.

Daniele Berquist photos