[Publib] Getting kids to read

[Backwage at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/17/2009 5:43:04 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
terry.lawler at phoenix.gov writes:

What  kid respects books? 


Funny you should mention.  I have in hand a copy of My  Spelling, a Ginn 
and Company grade six speller once owned by the Edward  C. Delano School of 
Chicago.  The acquisition stamp on the book is dated  September 7, 1954.  The 
inside cover bears a stamp wherein the users of  this book could put their 
names--there are three there, Vanessa, Maria and  Amber.  
 
And, wonder of wonders, the book, now 55 years old, has no writing in it to 
 speak of except for a handful of stars next to some selected review words 
on  page six.  
 
All those generations of users and no real damage to speak of, except a bit 
 of dog-earing on the corners.  Call me prejudiced, but this book could not 
 have been touched by that many years of little boys--unless  boy-children 
in Chicago's West Side are much kinder to books than those  elsewhere.  
 
The Delano School:  _http://www.delano.cps.k12.il.us/History.htm_ 
(http://www.delano.cps.k12.il.us/History.htm) 
 
M. McGrorty, who loved books but sometimes dog-eared them  too.
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