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 The community makes the best textbook for developing a real homemaking program. In
order to enrich and broaden the information gained from the homes, textbooks and reference
materials are necessary for scientific and authoritative information. We are greatly indebted
to the State Board of Education for their action in 1938 in adopting seven new books for use
in home economies classes. This adoption of a separate text for different areas in home eco-
nomics is in keeping with the trend in home economics which has shifted from the use of one
textbook to the use of several. No textbook, however good, is available which supplies all phases
of subject matter needed for good teaching. A working library built up of one book of a
kind for every four pupils will meet better the needs of home economics education than a
single text for each pupil.
 Each teacher is allowed to requisition books amounting in value to the sum obtained by mul-
tiplying thirty cents for each pupil by the total number of pupils enrolled in home economics
classes. This total sum of money can be used to purchase any of the new books listed and in
any combination desired. The allowance of thirty cents per pupil is subject to change.
 It is s!.i:iste.d that teachers order at least one copy of each of the seven new books in
order to have a desk set for use. Additional copies of these books should be chosen in the fields
which are in greatest need of new material to supplement that already on hand.
 TEXTS
Baxter, Laura and Alpha Latzke. 1938. MODERN CLOTHING. J. B. Lippincott Company,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Price $1.68. This book should be in every department. It has many
aids to teaching and learning in addition to an extensive bibliography of books, bulletins, and
pamphlets. It has score cards for garments, suggested field trips and demonstrations. Over a
hundred pages are devoted to consumer education. The problems and exercises are designed to
help each girl work out a solution to her individual clothing problems. The material and illustra-
tions are attractive and modern.
Burnham, Helen A. and Evelyn G. Jones and Helen D. Redford. 1935 THE BOY AND HIS
DAILY LIVING. J. B. Lippincott Company, Atlanta, Georgia. Price $1.80. The specific purpose
of this book is to present materials relating to home living at the secondary level. Boys must
participate in family life. Boys must choose food, clothing, and recreation. Boys must share
and cooperate to a greater or less degree in all activities of family and community life. This
book is a result of the wants that boys have indicated, and together teacher and pupils have
worked out materials which they (the boys) wished to include in their curriculum in individual
and home living. Even if teachers do not have boys in classes, it is well to have a copy of The
Boy and His Daily Living in order that sisters and other girls may see the boy's viewpoint on
family living.
Goodspeed, H. C. and Emma Johnson. 1938 CARE AND GUIDANCE OF CHILDREN. J. B.
Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Price $1.80 This book is said by the authors to
be a new and enlarged text and not a revision of the earlier book Care and Training of Children.
This text covers the infant during his first year, from two to five years, and as a family mem-
ber. New material has been added on feeding the baby, sleeping habits, exercise and play, and
social development. It is planned specifically to meet the needs of high school home economics
classes in child care and training.
Harris, Florence L. and Ruth A. Henderson. 1938 FOODS. Little, Brown and Company, Bos-
ton, Massachusetts. Price $1.76. This is written for pupils in advanced foods classes and offers