The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-11-12

lopolItan Book company, publishers,
taken from you the constant wisdom
and joy they gave. Come, seek In
you followers. To the rescued We
Will go forth upon a quest into the
fair Land of Imagination, and return
our good book friends to your book
shelf,
Beautiful Adventure
The knight of the BooS-mark then
gave each of them boGk-mark
like his own and, after they had ban
ished tho giant. they started on a
long, long quest that lay afar in the
fair Land of Imagination. There
they rescued from dark dungeons
! books which they knew to hold
treasure. books which Worthless
Reading had hidden away, and they
| brought them back to the nursery
bookshelf to live and to stay for
always.
1t was beautiful adventure. Little
boy liked being a really true Knight
Of the Bookmark, you may be sure.
He and his little sister had no end
of good times finding the lost story
books that the Giant of Worthless
Reading had stolen away from the
childrens very own book-shelves.
And what splendid stories the really
true book friends did tell themi
object OF ChiIdren's Book Week
This being The fourth annual
"Children's Book Week" for the
whole United States of America
few are now asking what its mis-
sion Is. because we already know
but for the benefit of those who do
not please let me tell you that 1t is
! Just q week set aside when public
| libraries, bookstores, mothers clubs,
parent-teachers' associations, the
schools, churches, scout organizations
and other organizations concerned
with children, each year take the
opportunity of this week to empha-
| size the Importance of books for
boys and girls. Exhibits OF books
to buy for children, discussion Of
the books children really like to
read. distribution of lists of books
for young people, consideration of
authors and illustrators who are de-
voting their talents to children's
bCoks-these are some of the feo-
lures of the week in various COM
munities
Over Million Children Arrive at
Reading Age
Each year over a million chill
dren come to reading age. sWbat
books shall we buy for our chill
dren? is a question every parent
should endeavor to solve ctnseien-
tiously. The schools teach the chill
dren to read, the public libraries
give opportunity to boys and girls for
forming the habit of reading and for
devele ping good taste In books. A
growing appreciation of the impor
tance or childrens reading is marked
IN the bookstores, and the hook
publishers OF the country are leading
the world in the production of inter-
esting and beautiful books for hovs
and girls. The books that actually 60
into the forming of child's home
library are the ones that form his
growing taste. His ability to use
books for information and fer pJeas
ure when he is grown older. denends
on his acquiring the reading habit
when he is child.
Model Ffve-Foot book Shelf
AT the last meeting of the "Amart-
can Association and the National
educational association" a "ModeI
Five Foot Book Shelf" for children
was selected and was later exhibited
at Columbia university, New york
city.
The list OF the books selected in the
order In which they were chosen fol-
lows:
Little Women" by Louisa M. AL
colt; Alice in Wonderland" by Louis
Carroll; Robinson Crusoe," by Defoe /:
Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain !;
Treasure Island" by Stevenson;
BOYS Life of Abraham Lincoln" by
Nicolay; Jungle Book" by KipIing:
Fairy Tales" by Anderson; "Aesop's
Fables" >
Garden of Verses" by Stevenson
merry Adventures of Robin Hood"
py Fyie; Tales from Shakespeare"
by Lamb; Boys King Arthur" bv
Mallory; Story of Mankind" by Van
Loon; "Rebecca of Sunnybrook
Farm" by Virgins: Home Book of
Verse for Young Folks" by Burton
e. Stevenson.
Last OF the Mohicans." by James
Fenimore Cooper; Christmas Carol
by Dickens: RIP Van Wrinkle" by
irving; Mother Goose" Hans
Brinker," by Dodge; Boys Life Of
Theodore Roosevelt" by Hagendorn:
Wonder Book" by Hawthorne.
wild Animals I Have Known" by
thompson Seton. and THE Arabian
Nights"
Excellent Work OF the Publishers
|. Following up the work of the H.
praries, CLUBS, associations and other
organizations for the promotion and
extension of Children's Book Week.
the publishers have fai.ly out-done
all other efforts in making books
for children.
Not only are they works Of art
when 1t comes to "covers.' and
decorations" but the print" the
paper. the entire appearance of the
book, as well as the selections Of the
very best In literature for children to
put this effort upon is COM
mendable and worthy of the great
names of the heads of the various
publishing houses of America.
Little Women
With all of its beauty and its
charm shown in the physical make
up" of Little Women" by Louise M.
Alcott (Little, Brown & Co.,
publishers. BOSTON,, this favorite for
children is exquisitely done.
The book radiant with tho person
ality Of the beloved author who for
years upon top of years has been
a favorite with children. has never
had more beautiful setting than in
this new popular illustrated