Children's librarians, traditionally and actually,
have always felt that an essential part of their work is to
broaden a child's interests in reading and to deepen his appreciation
of quality in books. In other words, it is not enough
to give a child the book he wants. He must also be
unobtrusively persuaded to want the best books we have.
There is another realization which, taken in conjunction with
the one just mentioned, reveals the first pattern to be discerned
in the building of a book collection for children. This
is the recognition of the fact that generation after generation
of children respond to the same books, and that, as the years
pass, the ephemeral, the insufficiently worth-while, the expedient
book is winnowed.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Allerton Park Institute (3rd : 1956)
ISSN
0536-4606
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
Permalink
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