Best-Loved Juveniles

No three grownups will agree on a list of children's classics. But most grownups who liked to read when they were children can enjoy such a list as was published last week. Peter Parley to Penrod (edited by Jacob Blanck, R. R. Bowker Co., $4.50), the joint selection of an authority on first editions and leading U. S.

librarians, is a bibliography of 156 books --written in the U. S.--that U. S. children of the last 100 years have loved best.

Fifteen of the 156: Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Elsie Dinsmore, Uncle Remus, Penrod, Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, The Story of a Bad Boy, Little Lord Fontleroy, Goops and How to Be Them, The Last of the Mohicans, Freckles, Tarzan of the Apes, Pollyanna, Beautiful Joe.

Some of these first editions, of which only one or two copies have turned up, are now the rarest U. S. books: The Wonder fid Wizard of Oz (1900), Horatio Alger's Ragged Dick (1868), Little Prudy (1864), The Wide, Wide World (1851), Elsie Dinsmore (1867). A complete collection of first editions listed by Editor Blanck would be worth approximately $5,000 to $6,000.

Best-sellers of them all have been Freckles, which since publication in 1904 has sold over 2,000,000 copies, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), with total all-time sales of 1,500,000 copies. At least five others have sold over a million: Pollyanna, Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, Beautiful Joe, The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, Huckleberry Finn.

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