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Show School Tn and VVJ Homo c0 J by Dr. Daryl J. McCarty Executive Secretary 1 Utah Education Association mJ There really is a way you can eat your "cake" and have it too, you know. THIS CAN bring adventure, scholarly curiosity, romance, enlightenment, excitement, sophistication, unspeakably dazzling experiences and glimpses of greatness. The "cake" is a book. READ IT, and it's still there for somebody else to read. As great a bargain as that is, the bookworm is an endangered species. There are reasons. After all, reading a book requires an investment of a valuable commodity-time. commodity-time. And let's face it, among the hundreds of books coming off the presses, many simply are not worth an investment of your time. So why not treat reading as any other investment you might make? What 1 mean is, shop for good books. AND LET'S face it, it's one shopping trip that need not cost you money. After all, you already "own" literally thousands of books. They're the ones in your public library, and you own them as much as any other taxpayer. And your child owns those books in the school library as much as any other student. You needn't waste time on a poorly-written book, an ill-plotted ill-plotted novel, or a dull biography. We have experts to steer us toward a good investment in-vestment of our reading time. ' I mean librarians. And book reviewers in respected magazines. And friends whose tastes we respect. MAYBE THESE suggestions sugges-tions might be helpful to you in deciding what your family might find most useful and appealing on the home library shelves: A dictionary (by all means); poetry; some classical clas-sical literature; a good general reference work, such as an encyclopedia; children's literature; biographies of some striking personalities of our time; a news magazine; and a newspaper news-paper from your own community. com-munity. Then add any material that might be interesting or exciting to your children. It will be frosting on the "cake." |