she answered: "I am sorry for the poverty I have found in the Far East in children's literature, and they tell me here that things are not much better — but I am glad that there are the first signs of an artistic renaissance in this field, and I have met a select group of young men and women qualified to lead this renaissance and foster it...

"We have in English a number of books about the children of the East, but they were written by Americans who lived in these lands for a stretch of time; and we believe that the best books for children are those written by their own native people, those who have grasped their history and traditions. It is on the track of books of this kind that we are...

"In recognition of the importance of children's literature in our lives, the Children's Book Council, which comprises sixty members repre-senting the publishing houses, devised the idea of 'Book Week,' held in the middle of November every year, for which the forces of the schools, the libraries, the pub-lishing houses, the radio stations, and the newspapers are mobilized in a positive campaign to acquaint parents with the best books that have appeared for children and young people. 'Book Week' has begun to find its way to every advanced country, and Lebanon was the first to adopt this idea: the American Community School held a book exhibition on the eve of the twenty-second of last November and invited to it some of the authors present in Beirut to meet the parents and speak about the role books play in the lives of children — and we have great hope that the rest of the countries of our dear East will awaken to the importance of the idea."

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