The text presents information gained from interviews with blind and physically handicapped children, their mothers, teachers, reading specialists, and librarians concerning reading patterns and library use. The book describes the difficulties handicapped children face in learning to use and enjoy such reading materials as braille books, large print books, and audio cassette recordings. The interviews focus on reading enjoyment and skills, library use, information needs and satisfaction with or improvements required in service from their own network library. Interviews with the children and their mothers provide information about the types of home environment that stimulate reading as well as the types of influences that limit reading. Teachers are asked about their use of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and about their approach to reading in the classroom. Interviews with counselors focus on what handicapped children must overcome to become healthy, happy, and well-rounded. The importance of the preschool years to a handicapped child's development is also stressed. Reading specialists respond to questions about the effects of mainstreaming on reading. Staff librarians offer suggestions on improving the NLS program for print-handicapped children. (CL)