If you lived in a book

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Part of The Young Citizen: The Magazine for Young People

Title
If you lived in a book
Year
1940
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THE YOUNG CITIZEN November, 1940 POEMS FOR BOOK WEEK BOOKS BOOKS are doors tha.t open out, Let us travel round about Countries that are far away, While at home we still can stay. Books are windows through which we Other times and people see; Books are friends that cheer us, too; Without books, what would we do? * * * IF YOU LIVED IN A BOOK WHAT do your book friends think of you? Do they find you thoughtful in all that you do? Do you help them keep their houses clean, And all the rooms that are placed between - BOOK ADVENTURES I LIKE to take a book in hand, And travel to some foreign land, Land of adventure and pirates, too, Where men are needed who dare · and do. And so I get a thrilling book, And seek to find some quiet nook Where I can read, and in my mind A treasure island I can find. Ah! here's a story to thrill me through! Pirates! Fighting! Mutiny, too! And with my book my course is plainN ow I am on the raging main. The swish of a wave upon the sand-. And I have arrived at the pirate's land; The beat of a tom-tom, the throb of a drum Tell of adventures yet to come. What will happen within the hour? Who will gain and hold the power? Brave men fighting to keep the hold, Pirates· seeking treasure and gold. (Please turn to page 437.) Those bright new walls? Do you take care That you leave behind you no spot or tear ? 1 If you had to live all the time in a book, You would want to 1le careful of how it would look!