Pleasant Grove Review | 1935-12-13 | Page 9 | Child will Read Story that He Thinks is Good

Child Will Read Story That He Thinks Is Good "Who shall define interest for another an-other person, compounded as it is of the raw material of which personality personal-ity is made?'' queries a writer in the Parents' Magazine, declaring that there is apt to be one of two reasons why a child does not like to read. Either he has not mastered the technique tech-nique of reading to an extent where no voluntary effort must be exerted or else he has not had access In sufficient suffi-cient numbers to books which correspond corre-spond to his Idea of a good story. "Your child will read If he but discovers dis-covers the books particularly right for his Interests and tastes," declares the writer whose experiences with children and books has convinced her that there does not live the youngster who will not listen to a good story, and since reading is only a method of listening to a good story, will not read If the book Is about something in which lie is either actually ac-tually or potentially interested; Is written in words and style suitable to his reading ability; has the decree de-cree of advancement suitable to both his emotional and Intellectual age levels. Those two developments, by the way, are at entirely different rates of speed. As the writer adroitly adroit-ly puts It: "Children do the strangest strang-est juggling and somersaulting as regards re-gards these ages, going Into a handspring hand-spring a poised adolescent coming tip at the end, an emotional eight-year-old."