RADIO OUSTS FAIRY TALES
ACCORDING to members of the American Library Association, few children enter public libraries today to ask for fairy tales. “No wonder,” explains Miss Ruth Barlow, of the children’s library at Flint, Michigan, “when nowadays a child can turn on the radio and hear the voice of the King of England. A boy reads of airmen’s exploits, and it has to be a pretty good fairy tale to excite him more than the usual events of his everyday life.” Modern children, the librarians say, ask for books telling them how a fireman puts out fires, how banks are run, and how cities are governed,
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 February 1935, Page 15 (Supplement)
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