Pupils Reading Circles

It is always interesting to contemplate the ways in which we construct and operate the machinery that brings the modern child into close proximity with books. The juvenile departments of our public libraries have developed a wonderfully efficient technique, and it would be interesting to know how many children have been led by the very enticements of the scheme into the temptation to read and thus have formed the habit of reading.

The library, however, cannot reach out and gather into its attractive rooms the thousands upon thousands of children in rural communities. To reach these, many states have organized Pupils’ Reading Circles. Their function is to select books and to make them easily accessible at small cost to the children.

One of the books recently selected by the Indiana authorities is Hexapod Stories, the initial volume in our Little Gateways to Science Series. We feel confident that Miss Patch will, through her stories, make a multitude of friends among the Hoosier children. Who knows that she will not make scientists of them as well?