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Show School and j Home cp 7 by Dr. Daryl J. McCarty , t Executive Secretary I Utah Education Association isSmJ 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, unspeakable dazzling .,expqne,nqes,,, 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. 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 I 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 thou-sands 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 wast time on a poorly-written book, an ill jjlottejd, .novel, ; or a .dull . ' biography. We have experts to steer us toward a good investment of our reading time. I mean librarians. And book reviewers in respected magazines. And friends whose tastes we respect. Maybe these suggestions might be helpful to you ,in depiding what your family might find most useful and appealing on the home library shelves: A dictionary (by all means); poetry; some classical literature; litera-ture; a good general reference work, such as an encyclopedia; children!. literature: biographies biogra-phies of some striking personalities person-alities of our time; a news magazine; and a newspaper from your community. Then add any material that might be interesting or exciting to your children. It will be frosting on the "Cake." |