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What about the bookstores? Beyond the standard fare--like Washington coloring books--there were a few standouts. Alice Provensen's The Buck Stops Here is a droll recap, in verse, of all 42 Presidents. (Tricky Dick's couplet: "Here's Thirty-seven! Nixon, R./ California's tarnished star.") Judith St. George's So You Want to Be President? offers such tips as "It might help if your name is James." The kids' sentimental favorite: When John & Caroline Lived in the White House...
...What about the bookstores? Beyond the standard fare - like Washington coloring books - there were a few standouts. Alice Provensen's "The Buck Stops Here" is a droll recap, in verse, of all 42 presidents. (Tricky Dick's couplet: "Here's Thirty-seven! Nixon, R./ California's tarnished star.") Judith St. George's "So You Want to Be President?" offers such tips as "It might help if your name is James." The kids' sentimental favorite: "When John & Caroline Lived in the White House...
Exurbanites, among others, know the only permanent thing is change. Alice and Martin Provensen serve a child-size portion of that wisdom in Shaker Lane (Viking; $14.95). Into the old Shaker country of abandoned farms come the first of the home builders. A sleepy village is born. In time it gives way to county developers. Where once there were bulls there are now bulldozers, and in their wake come tract housing, aboveground swimming pools and backyard basketball courts. One holdout remains, surviving on his houseboat, a poignant reminder of the rural past. The Provensens' flat, colorful paintings are nostalgic...
...Leonardo was the greatest artist in the world." So begins Leonardo da Vinci, by A. & M. Provensen (Viking; $14.95). "He was also an astronomer, an architect, and an engineer who made hundreds of inventions." Granted, but how can a child be shown the breadth and scope of a genius five centuries removed? The Provensens have performed the impossible, and they have done it in twelve pages. Their solution is worthy of Leonardo himself: a popup book designed to show a movable church, a flying machine, a winged man, engineering and anatomical studies, a three-dimensional model of the heavens...
...starting goalie Jim Perkins returns to the nets after an absence of over a month with a shoulder injury, the team loses the strength of fullback Chris Provensen, whose nose was broken in four places last week at Brown. Floyd Molloy will join Lanny Keyes at fullback in place of Provensen, who is reported still in bruised, but safe condition...