CHILDREN’S LIBRARY
One of the biggest children’s libraries in the world is in Sweden, housed in an annex of the Stockholm City Library. There are 40,000 volumes in this library,' which, apart from being a place where boys and girls from the age of six can read to their heart’s content, has also a bulletin board on which important world happenings are explained with illustrations and photographs, a room full of books on geography and astronomy which has a chart of the heavens painted on the curved ceiling, and (most popular of all) a fairy-tale room. Twice a week the sounding of a gong breaks the stillness, a sign that this magical room is open, and the children who flock to it are thrilled by a Punch and Judy show, a marionette play, or Swedish fairy tales acted by well-known actors and actresses, when fairy queens, gallant knights, elves, and little gnomes come to life.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21280, 25 February 1939, Page 2 (Supplement)
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155CHILDREN’S LIBRARY Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21280, 25 February 1939, Page 2 (Supplement)
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