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classic in its

all-time favorite

big and beautiful

ABC

book

by distinguished artist C. B. Falls has been making new friends with delighted children for over forty years.

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When

it

was

re-issued in 1957, a

noted children's book reviewer hailed the event with these words: "Despite aU the ABC books that have come our since this was first published way
. . .

(1923), almost none have measured up to it in direct appeal to the two to

four year old.
. . .

Astonishingly

mod-

ern in conception and design." Anne Carroll Moore, the famous

children's librarian, stated:

"We may
book so

well feel proud that an

ABC

admirable in design and

in color print-

ing has been produced on this side of the Atlantic. Mr. Falls designed the

book for his

ter

little

three-year-old daugh-

who

likes a

big book with

are

lots of

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on fourfrom printed and wood blocks color plates, and the artist has personpictures.

The drawings

cut

ally

superintended the reproduction of them. The imagination of a child or

grown-up

is

left free to

capture by

its

own
in a

thrill of

recognition the familiar

new-old medium where color has not obscured the outline nor played too many tricks with nature.

"The book
braries,

will take

its

own

place in
li-

the art departments of schools and

but the fact that

for a living child for

was designed whose mentality

it

the artist had such evident respect

stamps

it first

of

all as

a children's

book

which bids
books."

fair to exert a

very consid-

erable influence on American picture

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INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVLAN PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES

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dren
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literature

comment on

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made an

"The famous abc book, designed and cut on wood, by C. B. Falls... has
instant appeal to very
little

nothing whatever about the alphabet... because of

Jts

children ...
clear

who knew

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and bright and pure color

critic of

"

book

Becker, noted chilthe Herald Trib-

une, in First Adventures in Reading

"With

its

colorful

woodcuts of su-

perbly drawn animals and its beautifully shaded alphabet, it remains one of the distinguished books for children produced in this country." Dora V Smith, president of the }^ational

Coun-

cil

of Teachers of English, in Fifty

Years of Children's Books.

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"A most highly recommended (* *) book whose demonstrated usefulness

in elementary and junior high schools and children's libraries is vouched for by a representative group of experienced librarians and specialists
in chil-

dren's literature.

//.

W. Wilson Chil-

dren's Catalog.

The

small illustrations

on

this

page are reduced facsimiles in black and white from the a b c book of
C. B. Falls.

Printed in the U.S.A.

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