Books: Best-Loved Juveniles

No three grownups will agree on a list of children's classics. But most grownups who liked to read when they were children can enjoy such a list as was published last week. Peter Parley to Penrod (edited by Jacob Blanck, R. R. Bowker Co., $4.50), the joint selection of an authority on first editions and leading U. S.

librarians, is a bibliography of 156 books —written in the U. S.—that U. S. children of the last 100 years have loved best.

Fifteen of the 156: Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Elsie Dinsmore, Uncle Remus, Penrod, Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, Peck's Bad...

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