National Children's Book Week: Last Week of November

Abstract

Children's Book Week, which occurs during the last week of November, was first inspired by a speech delivered by E.W. Mumford of the Penn Publishing Company at the American Booksellers Association (ABA) annual convention in 1912. Mumford regarded reading as an act of habituation. He said that a child raised on trashy novels will grow up to read such fare, but that a child instilled with a taste for better books will ultimately develop mature and catholic reading interests.

Citation

Thurston, C.B. (1986), "National Children's Book Week: Last Week of November", Reference Services Review, Vol. 14 No. 4, pp. 127-132. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb048967