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bery Medal in 1930 by the American Library Association a.s the best children's book for 1929.

American Folk and Fairy Tales

( 1929) is another exa.le of Miss Field's use of Americm source material.

Points East (1930), narratives of New England in

verse, is her first book written exclusively for adults • .Miss Field is

described as a gracious and charming person,

with a delightful sense of humor and an infectious, chuckling laugh.

Her hair is brown and curly.

of kindliness without sentimentality.

She gives the impression

Nine months of the year

she lives in New York; the three summer months are spent on Sutton Island, off the Maine Coast., where she has a large house • .Miss Field draws a.nd paints, and has illustrated many of her own books with silhouettes and sketches.

These include

her first book,. a collection of poems ent.itled The Pointed _?eople ( 1924); another book of verse, Taxis and Toadstools ( 1926); a series of sma.11, tho charming, books: AA, Alphabet for Boys and Girls( 1926), ~ Litt le Book of Days (1927·), Polly Pat ch work ( 1928), and Pocket-Handkerchief Park (1929t; and Little Dog Toby (1928), a story of Victorian England. - LIVING AUTHORS.

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