The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-11-16
BOOKS, LIKED BEST
WINNERS OF ESSAYS ARE
AWARDED PRIZES
School Children Show How Familiar
They Are With the World
Authors.

Authors.
Prizes were awarded by the pub
lie library last week to the children
Of the schools for the best essay en-
titled "The Book l Like Best" The
winner was Janet Leo of the fourth
grade in the Franklin schools,
whose essay was as follows:
Il like Grimm's Fairy Tales the
best of all my story books.
There are many interesting stor-
les about COLLINS, elves, fairies and
princes.
THE fairies are always helping
the poor people and saving them
from danger.
1.-THE reason I like Grimm's best
Is because / think 1t is nice to act
the stories that are told In the book.
1T seems that they could be true
and there are fairies everywhere.
THE stories are told so every
child can understand them and read
them easily"
The first prize in the fifth grade
of the Franklin school was won by
Lorraine Jefferson, as follows:
THE book like best is Lorraine
and the Little People Of Spring"
like because I can see bright and
DeduIllul plCluiCS VI AahlOS auu
flowers and because the little girls
tell you about the chapter I like
best. Jack Frost tells the SNOWFALL
flowers that they are not real snow
balls. But Zephyr, Lorraine's mes
senger, tells the sunbeams that Jack
Frost is in the garden. The sun
beams come into the garden and as
soon as he sees them away he goes.
Then the little sun beams bid Lor-
raine goodby."
The third prize in the Lincoln
school was won by Frank Bowen Of
the sixth grade, as follows:
The book like best is Twenty
Thousand Leagues Below the Sea.
81 like this book because ehe man
that wrote it did not know Of sub
marines but just thought it up.
THE story runs like this: People
living along the coast used to see
what looked like an enormous whale.
Not long after this several ships
were sunk by this supposed whale.
So a ship was rugged up to go out
and try to harpoon it. They hadn't
been out long when they saw the
whale and sailing up as, close as
they dared several tried to harpoon
| it but the harpoons would rebound
making a hollow noise. Then the
supposed whale went under and
struck the ship near the stern. The
ship tipped and two men were
thrown overheard. When these men
were nearly exhausted they sud
denly saw a platform and SWAN to 1t.
They were no sooner on 1t than a
trap door opened and four men
stepped out and seized the two men.
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of the submarine as this man called
it was so pleased with them that he
took them on a cruise around the
world. Afterwards these two men
made their escape. After they got
on land they related their adventures
to their friends. The author of this
book is Jules Verne" -.
Other prizes which were awarded
In the various grades for the con-
test, "The Book like Best" are as
follows:
Fourth Grade - Second prize,
Duane Cassett, Lincoln: third prize,
George Engle, Franklin.
Fifth Grade-Second prize, Robert
Berquist, Lincoln; third prize, Err
vim Fethke. Lincoln. -
sixth Grade-Second prize. Leroy
Reed, Franklin; third prize, Luella
Mintz, Franklin.
Seventh Grade-Hazel Wiltgen,
Franklin Junior high: Richard Var
CO, Franklin Junior high: Katherine
Bergmark, Franklin Junior high.
Eighth Grade-First prize, Nina
Hockenbrock, Lincoln Junior high;
second prize, Pearl Kelley, Lincoln
Junior high: third prize. Martha
Nielsen. Lincoln Junior high.
Ninth Grade-First prize, Vivian
Chesley, Franklin Junior high; sec
ond prize. Margaret Donohue, Lin
coin Junior high; third prize, Max
Johnson, Lincoln Junior high.
BRIGHT coIored tags were given te
all the children who visited the
public library TODAY. Two read
books from the Public Library, Do
You?" were neatly printed on the
tags. Announcements had been made
in the schools and all Of the chill
dren visited the library and rece1v-
ed tag. The idea as expressed by
Miss Harriet Van Buren,. school IL
brarian. Is to get children who are
not interested to read books and
visit the children's room In the IL
brary.
There will he a children's cos
tune party at the club room Of the
public library on Saturday after
noon and the mothers will find
books on costuming at the library,
as the children are expected to
come represented as a character in
book. This will be a lot Of fun
for the children. besides having an
educational value,