Miss Joslin's message is that children should share (fat chance), and she presents 14 little (and she hopes persuasive) stories, each illustrated with Mr. Taback's spoofing pen-and-ink drawings.

In each story, two children in masquerade quarrel over the possession of a dinosaur egg, a golden goblet or a peanut (to cite three), and wind up happily agreeing to share a necklace, a gown, a polar bear or a tree (to cite four).

Most children over nine won't read this twice (not a good sign), but very young children may want to have it read aloud to them again and again. If you have more than one little child, you'll need more than one copy of Please Share That Peanut! That persuasive it isn't..

Reviewed by Gene Shalit for Herald Tribune’s Book Week, Oct. 1965