Word: harpers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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IRVING AND ME, by Syd Hoff (Harper & Row; $3.95). The adventures and mishaps that befall a 13-year-old Brooklyn boy when he moves to Florida. A good-humored novel by one of The New Yorker's cartoonists...
WHEN I HAVE A SON by Charlotte Zolotow, illustrated by Hilary Knight (Harper & Row; $1.95). This small book, highly reminiscent of Mr. Knight's best-known Eloise, will be fun for both child and parent. "My son," says John, speaking for all young boys, "won't have to take piano. He'll never have to go to sleep till he finishes the chapter, and he can have triple malteds just before dinner...
ZERALDA'S OGRE by Tomi Ungerer (Harper & Row; $3.95). This lonely ogre has sharp teeth, a big nose, a bad temper and he sometimes eats little children for breakfast that is, until he meets Zeralda, who is such a good cook that he swiftly switches to pompano, roast chicken and other goodies. Though it may sound scary to adults, it is the kind of story that is invariably amusing to children and the youngsters will love the menacing drawings. Also recommended: Ungerer's Moon Man, a story of the man in the moon's brief visit to earth...
MARY ANN'S MUD DAY by Janice May Udry, illustrated by Martha Alexander (Harper & Row; $2.50). This little girl does everything with mud from making simple mud balls to mud mountains and an entire mud village with mud people. She even tries to sell mud. She spends an entire glorious day working with the gunk...
...Harper's Bazaar used to be able to say, 'This year you wear green,' or whatever," says its editor, Nancy White, "but not any longer." Vogue Editor Diana Vreeland agrees that what gives the new fashions their fresh look and vitality is youth: "This generation stepped out and away and did things their way." As a result, notes Vreeland, "no one is obliged to wear anything she doesn't want to, and one can go as far as she wants. She can wear absolutely anything that is wildly becoming...