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“To learn to love books and reading is one of the best things that can hap- pen to anybody." 'ons of children, and which children today nd repeat. There are many versions and ellings of old fairy tales in print, and unfor- unately they are not all as inspiring as they ight be. Some outstanding ones, however, hich show respect for their traditional ource material are The Golden Goose Book I. Leslie Brooke, Tales from Grimm by »' anda Gag, and English Fairy Tales by Flora ‘ nnie Steele. A girl came to the library desk with the ooks she wanted for the weekendâ€"The tingle Book, Treasure Island, and The Adw entures of Tom Sawyer. In answer to the 'brarian’s query she said, “Oh, yes. I’ve read em before. But they're too good to leave ing in the library.” These are certainly ome of the books that are too good to leave 111% unused anywhere, for they have the ‘nd of adventure, humour and beauty that. . all the richer for being shared. Your local brary will be able to suggest many more tles, both for the family to enjoy together. ' d also to satisfy the individual tastes of its ‘arious members. During Young Canada’s Book Week. WhiCh '3 bEing celebrated from November 15th to '1 22nd, it will be particularly worth while a follow the library’s activities. The purpose I the Week is to emphasize the importance ‘ seeing that children have opportunities to :‘perience the best books we can offer them. 4 the library naturally does its best to forâ€" ard this aim. “Do you know?” announced w boy triumphantly during Book Week last all} “I’ve read quite a few good books. It's ‘L‘tlng so that when you say, ‘Have you read ch»and-such?’ why, sometimes I have!” I l I LL 1958 Following is a list of the books mentioned. Publishers’ or agents‘ names are given, the Canadian agents in parenthesis. The address of all of these is Toronto. The Tale of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Pot- ter. Warne (Saunders). AIice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Lookingâ€"Glass. by Lewis Carroll. Macmillan (New Children‘s Classics) (Brett- Macmillan, Galt,) Lavender-’5 Blue, Lines. Oxford. The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame. Methuen (Ryerson Press). The Cambridge Book of Poetry for Chi]- dreu, edited by Kenneth Grahame Cambridge University Press. (Macmillan of Canada.) Nonsense Omnibus. by Edward Lear. Warne (Saunders). The Golden Goose Book. by Brooke. Warne (Saunders). Tales from Grimm, translated and illus- trated by Wanda Gag, Coward (Longmans. Green). English Fairy Tales, by Flora Annie Steel. Macmillan (Brett-Macmillan, Gait! The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling. Macmillan (Macmillan of Canada.) Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Dent. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain Harper (Musson). fir * * The World is rt looking glass, and gives hack to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it and it in turn will look sourly upon you: laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly. kind companion. slVf/fiam filah‘fiem‘c T/mrl’mmy. * fir ir compiled by Kathleen L. Leslie 27