Show open letter to parents of young children by noted childrens author dear parent your child has friends many of them if he is a normal happy child children he goes to school with children who live ii next at addor they have many lovely advell W s together and these f frient r le n aa A p ps s mean so much to your child but you are careful arent you you dont want your child to know or mingle with children who will not be a good influence that is right perfectly commendable are you as careful in choosing the friends your child knows and loves in the books he or she reads or do you go to a dime store and grab something with large print that the salesgirl says is nice goodread good reading is every childs birthright among your childs dearest friends should be such authors as kipling alcott lathrop brooks potter sandburg hudson dickens and many others the people in these books dhe ke companions to your child aa as as teachers and models ands andy can do so much to make your child happy do you know what sort of books your child reads what does he get when he goes to the public library do you know what they have in the library of interest to your children if not you should certainly check up there is more to this letter but we will stop here what this author has said is vital to every parent in monticello there are so many children in our town growing up without these companions of childhood we are a e starting a drive for more and better reading for our young people and we hope for the cooperation of every parent in town first it is to be understood that parents are willing to be responsible for the return of books children take out of the library if not you must inform us not to let your ch ildren children take books second we are having a storytelling story telling hour for children aged 6 to 10 in the library every saturday at if this is there are other projects under way we I 1 are anxious to get funds to buy more childrens books for the library would the older children say 12 to 16 care to hear the yearling read aloud if you are interested will you let us know it is important that we have the cooperation of every parent this program is for your children send them librarian |