Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-12-05
GOOD BOOK WEEK


dren" is the slogan for Good Book
Week" being held all of this week. Dur
ing this week the Wausau Public library
will have its annual exhibit of books
for children that is usually held be-
fore Christmas to help parents
choose books for the holiday season.
Everyone is cordially invited to call
and see them. We have some very
fine lists OF books to give you if you
are interested enough to ask for them.
This exhibit will give you some idea
of the sort of books the boys and girls
are getting to read
Books as gifts proclaim the heart
and mind of those who give and those
who get" Therefore, when happily
chosen, books are matchless gifts.
Books admit children to new worlds of
delight. Contribute much to their hap
piness, stimulate their imaginations
and leave lifelong joyous memories.
Good books owned and read in child
hood are enduring contributions to
life as true wealth. To the children,
therefore, give good books this Christ
mas.
The exhibit at the Wausau Public
library this week will help you de-
eide on what to choose for your boys
and girls.
"What 1,500 school children did be-
tween Friday and the following Mon
day." and "The hobbies of 933 boys"
were the captions that attracted uni
versal attention at the Rochester, n.
Y, child welfare exhibit recently held. In
both cases reading claimed the largest
percentage of time. That is most
gratifying; but it must be understood
that practically in all surveys OF read
ing made by librarians and teachers
almost without exception the unwel-
come fact is disclosed that the books
of the underground library are as
infiuentian as those circulated by pub
lie means. Happily, though, the vol
umes of the dime or the nickle novel
are fast disappearing from this pri-
vate circulating exchange. Through the
good influences of the schools and Ii
braries the yellow back" is being
hard hit. One of the most valuable
assets a boy has is his imagination.
In proportion as this is nurtured
boy devefopes initiative and resource
fulness. The greatest possible service
that education can render is to train
the boy to grasp and master new sit
uations as they constantly present
themselves to him; and what helps
more to make such adjustments
than a lively imagination? Story books
of the right sort stimulate and con-
serve this noble faculty.
The good book for the average boy
must be one that. as the Century
magazine says, is wholesomely peril
ous." And what is meant in this: the
red -blooded boy, the boy in his early
teens must have his thrill; he
Graves excitement, has passion for
action, something must be doing all
the time: and in nothing is this more
true than IN his reading. Let US give
him then the sort of book he wants
but instead of the old style penny
dreadful" choose from the many good
thrillers one that has moral pur-
| pose and real intelligence.
Cheap editions of the best books
may be bad for the same price as the
poor stuff and written by the modern
authors whose books are so popular
with all boys, and they may be found
wherever books are sold.
The Wausau Pubuic library has lists
of just the sort Of books all boys like
and they invite you to call and look
over those in the exhibit held during
Good Book Week-Dec. 40, before
buying anything in the book line fol
boys.
| The wausau Public library has lists
library is at your service in helping
YOU buy books for your boys or girl:
at any time. The Good Book Week
campaign is for that purpose also
We want all the boys and girls as vel
as older people interested in Chill
dren's reading to call and look Owe
the lists and books on exhibition al
the week. LIBRARIAN.