Show CHILDRENS CHILDREN'S BOOKS I SHOULD ABOVE ALL ALl 5 PROVE INTERESTING By MYRTLE l MEYER ELDRED ELDREDA A book the right book Is so Important important important im Im- im- im to the child that it is a really serious question to answer intelligently intelligently intelligently intelli intelli- gently What kind of book shall I buy The right book boole may easily be the open sesame to an imaginative tive fairyland or it may turn the key on such a land If It it is the right book the child will Immediately Immediately Immedi Immedi- be drowned in Its fact or fancy or adventure If it Is the wrong book it will be tossed away with the disgusted estimate Its Ils no good I cant can't get interested in it it Lack of Interest may be he no fault of the book Itself but indicates only I. I that it Is too young for the ch child ld or far more often too old Among adults there Is too widely held a belief that books for tor children should be improving and tive Always to my rabid mind H should be interesting and u they be textbooks their inform m value should be a seconda secondary 3 Almost always We member without difficulty in which we are arc truly interest Interested The child who coSSi I reads read cont may the more quickly read a particular stage of reading est and go on to the next level B Bt in general girls from 8 to 12 jj w love the so-called so girl book w wK wj is a quiet placid book of real t venture in a real world a world Worn fl girl knows about because she j ji b vivid part of it Their brothers would scorn m. m a a. a book Brothers Brother's desire is fo fored for o ored ti tired red meat of fiction big bold heroes curdling blood-curdling yarn yarm III strange lands and people fl He primed for adventure tj himself ar arhe he needs this worship of oC earl heroes as stimulus to inspire ha to meet boldly the foes human d Ij mental and economic which i boys must face and conquer As the girly book would i II b poison to the worshiping hero-worshiping fco so would his sister be merely w to the book which would 1 him Both interests are typical i ithe the childs child's own sex and stage i development and satisfy a real ne net flee Our two leaflets called Books i ithe the Child's Childs Permanent Library u sz New and Old Favorites are arc g ged pra gra ed cd according to the childs child's re reading ding interests They may maYb had for the usual self-addressed self si an cent 3 stamped envelope sent to t. t ti department and be received belo you fill out the Christmas book list lisi |