Rose Is a Gertrude

THE WORLD Is ROUND--Gertrude Stem --William R. Scott ($2.50).

When her publishers suggested that she write a children's book, Gertrude Stem was delighted with the idea. Many a grown-up and many a child will be delighted with the result, especially if grownups follow directions by reading it out loud-"if you have any trouble, read faster and faster." The World Is Round has 34 chapters about a little girl named Rose and her cousin Willie. Long and serious practice has given witty Miss Stem a mastery over itty language that puts most children's writers in the shade. Any child can understand such information as:

"The thing that bothered Willie the most

Was that when there was no wind blowing

A twig in a bush would get going

Just as if the wind was blowing."

The Rose in the book is a real person: Rose Lucy Renee Anne d'Aiguy, nine years old a neighbor and friend of Gertrude Stein at Bilignin, a village near Belley, where Miss Stein has her country house. Gertrude "likes Rose's way of thinking because Rose helped her remember "all the things that troubled my own child hood." Gertrude read most of the book to Rose as it was being written, translating into French as she went along, and Rose suggested numerous incidents. Says Gertrude" "Rose likes her book; she likes her book very much." Gertrude also says it will be a short war, and she is not planning to do any ambulance work this time.

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