Milton Lomask
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Description
Friends tell me that I enjoy writing for the young because I'm childish. The statement is true, but what little success the books have enjoyed has not been because of this personal defect, but in spite of it. Books for children should not be childish because they are not directed to childish readers. The word "childish" applied to adults has not kept up with their years. I am satisfied with the letters I get from young readers that they are doing very well on that score. It is a grave literary crime to feed children books written in baby-talk and oozing with false sweetness-and-light. Children like their history straight and their fiction believable and thoughtful. The many letters I get from them tell me that on this point the younger generation and this childish grown-up see eye to eye.
Books
Invention and technology
Brief life stories of twenty-seven persons whose inventions or discoveries have altered the environment to a marked degree. Includes a list of important dates in the history of invention and technology.
Exploration
Presents biographical sketches of twenty-five significant individuals in the history of world exploration, arranged alphabetically from Roald Amundsen to Amerigo Vespucci.
The spirit of 1787
Discusses the aftermath of the Revolutionary War and the creating of a Constitution for the new country.
The first American Revolution
Discusses the problems between the American colonies and England and the resulting conflict--the American Revolution.
Robert H. Goddard
A brief biography of the scientist whose inventions led to the bazooka, the jet engine, and the space rocket.
Odd destiny
The controversial life of the man who was the first Secretary of the Treasury of the newly formed United States and who was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr.
Saint Isaac and the Indians
Follows the life of French missionary priest, Isaac Jogues, from his arrival in Quebec in 1636 through his work with the Hurons, Iroquois, and Mohawk Indians to his death as a martyr in 1646.