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Favorite Nursery Rhymes
Cover and illustrations of a book featuring stylized portrayals of childhood innocence typical of the period.
This Is Your Page: Speak Up!
Published letters to the editor. Includes letters from a school principal and a fourteen-year-old.
This Is Your Page: Speak Up!
Published letters to the editor. Includes a letter from a Filipino reader.
12,000 Boys and Girls are now Enjoying this Fascinating Library
Advertisement directed at children for a volume of books in "The What-Every-Child-Should-Know Library."
The Dirt & Trash That Kids Are Reading: And What Can Be Done About It
Alerts parents to distasteful literature: comics, romance magazines, and war novels. The article notes the quality of children's literature and means to encourage parents to divert their children from reading comics.
Junior Has a Craving
A mother investigates the reading habits of her eight year-old son.
The Case Against Comics
Reprints John Mason Brown and Al Capp's opening statements from their "America's Town Meeting of the Air" radio session, in which they debate why comics are a problem.
What Parents Don't Know About Comic Books
A magazine article written by Wertham. He argues that juvenile delinquency is becoming more prevalent and violent due to the popularity of comics with children.
Australian Obscene Publications - April 28th, 1954
Continued discussion of the amendment to the Police Offences Bill. Particular focus is paid to the meaning of the word "obscene."