Each gorgeously illustrated spread features one of her favorite things. With antique boxes, parasols, and yarn for knitting, children can learn the alphabet in grand style.

    

    That's a sample too of all the other things in the book kids have always loved to do. By the author of A Hole Is To Dig here is a grab bag of instructions for such tricks of the age as having sales, playing with parents and "how to be inside a whale"- some naughty, some nice, some sugar, some spice.

    (No rat scene. No spaghetti dinner scene.)

    

    

    Because four-year-old Robert calls the public library "Mike's House" a policeman can't understand Robert's destination when he becomes lost.

    

    This story tells how Appolonia, who wasn't good with scissors, succeeded in making the valentine chosen to be sent to a little French boy.

    It is something sweet and something sad. It has its gaieties and its ironies; it has its smiles and its tears."Selected and edited by Margaret Bradford Boni. Arranged for the piano by Norman Lloyd. Introduction by Irwin Edman. Illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen.

    The story of the construction of New Bridge over Big Sleepy, the "muddiest and sometimes the meanest river in the country," as Old Bridge watches on in aching, groaning, amazement.

    He likes his brother's suggestion of getting a job, but is turned down because of his small size.