Usborne Mysteries & Marvels of the Animal World, Karen Goaman and Heather Amery (jv nature) – more information about real animals – they don’t act much like they do in Dr. Seuss. Mentions Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster and rats raining from the sky – another step towards fortean phenomena.
The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss (jv) – more whimsy from Seuss.
Usborne Book of Farm Animals, Felicity Everett (jv) – companion to Marvels & Mysteries. Now we learn of sheep, cows, goats, horses, pigs, chickens, ducks, etc. Even cats and dogs.
Sir Toby Jingle’s Beastly Journey, Wallace Tripp (jv) – A man with armor and a sword is a “knight”. A child’s glimpse of medieval times, castles, dragons, and such. There was a drawing of a gryphon in Animal Ghosts; here we find a well-drawn gryphon character. And, after the Usborne books, Cubby knows that cats, foxes and wolves don’t normally talk.
“The Fog-Horn,” “The End of the Beginning,” Ray Bradbury (sf ss) – Our first proper short stories show an amazing use of language. The first gives us more in the dinosaur arena; the second could accompany the NASA film.
Superman: The Dailies, 1939-1940: Introduction and “Superman Comes to Earth” (1/16 – 1/28, 1939) – This was easy for Cubby to understand: Krypton was a tiny disk floating in space, like Earth in LS, and the “supermen” evolved beyond earth people as LS showed fish, reptiles and mammals in succession. The Big Idea, though, is: there may be other planets out there in the dark universe with inhabitants of their own!
The Lady Vanishes (1939 thriller) – Early Hitchcock mystery. The first real (and model) trains Cubby has seen, though Wile E. Coyote tends to get hit by them in cartoons. They look like fun! And he spotted a young (but balding) Hitchcock. Baseball is “Rounders”, eh? No cricket? Americans have no sense of proportion . . .
Twelve books read = 1/400 of all books. Cubby’s advancing in leaps and bounds, or so he thinks.
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