Children’s Book Week
HERE were some excellent and enthusiastic talks on the radio during Children’s Book Week, in connection with which the Dunedin Public Library had a remarkable exhibition of children’s books on display. I can’t help feeling the eye to be a better advocate than the ear in this matter; parents may listen to an enthusiast urging them to buy and read respectively, but it means little unless the books are there to choose from. Never in any bookshop have I seen such a collection of books as the Dunedin Library offers for children, nor could any parent hope to afford many of them, I therefore suggest a Library Ticket as a Christmas present for an. importunate offspring; it has the merit of affording more reading matter than the child can ever devour, and also, which will appeal to Dunedin people, it costs exactly nothing. Add to this the purchase of some of those colourful books with which the shops are crammed, but don’t forget, when making your choice, that some of the best children’s books have been published here in New Zealand.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZLIST19451130.2.22.1
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 336, 30 November 1945, Page 12
Word count
Tapeke kupu
184Children’s Book Week New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 336, 30 November 1945, Page 12
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Material in this publication is protected by copyright.
Are Media Limited has granted permission to the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa to develop and maintain this content online. You can search, browse, print and download for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Are Media Limited for any other use.
Copyright in the work University Entrance by Janet Frame (credited as J.F., 22 March 1946, page 18), is owned by the Janet Frame Literary Trust. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this article and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the New Zealand Listener. You can search, browse, and print this article for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from the Janet Frame Literary Trust for any other use.
Copyright in the Denis Glover serial Hot Water Sailor published in 1959 is owned by Pia Glover. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this serial and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the Listener. You can search, browse, and print this serial for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Pia Glover for any other use.
Log in