Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-11-17
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Win CHILDREN
PUBLIC LIBRARY EXHIBIT
OF NEW EDITIONS is
DRAWING CARD

| Hundreds of little tots, older boys
and girls and high school students,
have each day since the opening of
Children's Book Week at the Wausau
! Public library on Monday, crowded in
to that building between the hours of
four and six o'clock in the after
noon intent upon reading The Hoosier
Sehoolboy, FSs9ccio, Mother Goose.
The Baby Bears or the hundreds of
other new and old books on exhibition.
Love Pictures
The west wing of the library is en-
tirely devoted to this exhibit. large
round table in the center of the room
is completely covered with books for
very little children, and kindergarten
chairs are placed about so that they
can sit down to enjoy the illustra-
tions which, it seems, particularly fas-
cinate them. There are the Complete
Tale of Humpty Dumpty, The Baby
Bears, many books by e. Boyd Smith
and dozens of others equally as at
tractive.
One table is arranged for boys
books, there being over 1000 favorites
on it, including seven new copies of
hS iiOooiGi DtJOOlbOy, dlItduy Hlutu
in demand. While The Pilot reporter
was there, in came a young man who
said: Cant / take one of these books
homer Miss Lansing had to tell him
that he could not until next week.
If they cannot take them home yet,
they read them at the library and so
there's another table with over 100
girls books on it. One whole shelf
is devoted to fairy tales--Irish, Japa-
nese, English fairy tales, and others
Older Ones Laugh
Eight or ten copies of Mother Goose
are scattered about and these the
younger children seize with eagerness
the minute they arrive. Even high
school boys and girls take these books
and laugh until the tears come to
their eyes over the funny illustra-
tions. Splendid editions of Robinson
Crusoe, Daniel Defoe's great book, are
available. New copies OF Treasure Is
land, Westward Ho, the Children's
Blue Bird, Hans Anderson's Fairy
Tales, Grimm's Fairy Tales with illus
trations by Louis Rhead, Heidi, Gulli-
ver's Travels, are among the favorites
Practically all of the new editions of
old books are bound to be in tremend-
Gus demand. They are printed in large
readable type and have excellent edi-
tions; great contrast to the older
editions in which the type used was
small and there were no illustrations.
Between 300 and 400 have been pres
ent late ey ~ afternoon, taking the
opportunity to see the 500 to 600 new
books the library has purchased for
children this fall. Over 200 books were
issued TO children on Monday, accord
ing to Miss Lansing, and on last Sat-
urday, the children drew 300 Of the 700
books taken from the library.
Hardest Problem
One of the hardest things the libra
rian and her assistants have to con-
tend with is the problem of "clean
hands. On every table, in every cor
ner, are signs reading "Are Your
Hands CleanT II you are just cas-
ual investigator you will find that they
are not usually clean. The corners
and bottoms of pages prove that very
dirty hands have sometimes handled
the books.
And so this little poem, showing
what Brownies, do, is conspicuously
posted where all may see IT as they
enter the library:
'Brownies wash their hands quite
clean,
A dirty book they've never seen.
Brownies do not show their greed.
Cy eating candy while they read.
Brownies do not mark their books,
For this they know would spoil their
looks.
Brownies put their books away;
They find them on the shelf next
day"