Milton Lomask

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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.

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Cross among the tomahawks
Representative edition published 2011
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St. Thomas Aquinas and the preaching beggars
Representative edition published 2005
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The Curé of Ars
Representative edition published 1998
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Saint Isaac and the Indians
Representative edition published 1991
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Invention and technology
Representative edition published 1991
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Exploration
Representative edition published 1988
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The biographer's craft
Representative edition published 1987
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The spirit of 1787
Representative edition published 1987
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Aaron Burr
Representative edition published 1982
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The first American Revolution
Representative edition published 1974
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Andrew Johnson: President on trial
Representative edition published 1973
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Robert H. Goddard
Representative edition published 1972
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Odd destiny
Representative edition published 1969
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This slender reed
Representative edition published 1966
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Assignment to the Council
Representative edition published 1966
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"I do solemnly swear..."
Representative edition published 1966
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Rochambeau and our French allies
Representative edition published 1965
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John Quincy Adams, son of the American Revolution
Representative edition published 1965
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Seed money
Representative edition published 1964
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A bird in the hand
Representative edition published 1964
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Andy Johnson
Representative edition published 1962
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The secret of the one-eyed moose
Representative edition published 1961
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The secret of the marmalade cat
Representative edition published 1960
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Ship's boy with Magellan
Representative edition published 1960
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