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Young Readers like to Stretch

Young Readers like to Stretch ELSEWHERE I have said in effect that we have, at some centres, so developed our work with children that we have created a vested interest which is, maybe with the best intentions in the world, often keeping children from real books rather than encouraging them to use them and further, I would add that I have often wondered whether in our children's libraries we do not strive to inculcate in the young people precisely those reading habits that we deplore when they grow up. These two ideas require elaboration. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Library Review Emerald Publishing

Young Readers like to Stretch

MCCOLVIN, LIONEL R.
Library Review , Volume 12 (5): 7 – May 1, 1949
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Emerald Publishing
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0024-2535
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10.1108/eb012141
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ELSEWHERE I have said in effect that we have, at some centres, so developed our work with children that we have created a vested interest which is, maybe with the best intentions in the world, often keeping children from real books rather than encouraging them to use them and further, I would add that I have often wondered whether in our children's libraries we do not strive to inculcate in the young people precisely those reading habits that we deplore when they grow up. These two ideas require elaboration.

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Library Review – Emerald Publishing

Published: May 1, 1949

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