Analysis Of Naperville's Reading Children

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I feel that the Reading Children is the most meaningful because the sculpture was the recognition of the 100 th anniversary of the library. Also, the sculpture captures the delight of reading brings to Naperville’s Children and the sculpture is located at Jackson Ave. between Eagle St. and Webster St. The artist is Dennis V. Smith and the creation date was 1988 and this piece was adopted into the Century Walk in 1998. The library is being commemorated because it is been showing respect by having a sculpture there for their 100 th anniversary. Dennis Smith is one Utah’s best sculptures and ‘the sculpture shows the positive spirit that the children have toward life that we often lose as we grow older, they become the metaphor for our greatest

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