CHILDREN'S READING
Sir. -In the public library, looking for an old friend. I passed the children’s department--sweet. sanitar?. whi lesome—but empty of children. M vain hunt near the "Illustrated Lor - cion News” for its one-time neighbour. "Punch.'' sent me downstairs, where a kindly lass produced him from hieing. He did not at first glance prove quite as amusing as once, but I maraged a wry smile over a picture < f a woman inquiring in a library fi r a bock, "no matter how horrible, s» long as amusing.” Elsewhere, I found a herd of youngsters, avid-eyed, glued to a trough of comics. Who says children cannot concern rate” Adults amor 5 them, oblivious to all. squeezed a dip. or a wade in search of a joke. Is England losing her battle of wit. to America? Will six-year-olds descend in school elsewhere to less exciting stuff, or later m life?—Yours, etc., TOP SAIL. November 2, 1950.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26261, 4 November 1950, Page 3
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