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STEAMBOAT GOTHIC (562 pp.)-Frances Parkinson Keyes-Messner ($3.75).
Frances Parkinson Keyes (rhymes with eyes) insists that she doesn't really know how to write a bestseller and doesn't much aspire to learn; she likes to think of herself as "a woman of letters." Her readers, who buy her books by the million, find her disavowals...
Each morning at 9:30, Miss Frances opens her school with a song ("I'm your school bell! Sing dong ding . . ."), and then class begins. Sometimes it is about modeling clay, sometimes talking about buses or fruits. Miss Frances goes in heavily for demonstration: "Little children love to touch...
Though her pupils do not realize it, Miss Frances is forever lecturing them. She may teach them to count by showing them a movie of a mother duck ("Now how many babies does the mother have? One . . . two . . . three . . ."), or she may lecture them about putting away their toys. She...
At the end of each class, Miss Frances asks her pupils to get their mothers, then explains what will be needed next day (some clay, an empty milk bottle, or a paper bag with which to make a Halloween mask). After that, she signs off, while hundreds of tiny hands...