She was offering the book to an elderly man who had just learnt to read, not a child. The book is about book burning which seems appropriate for what is going on.
A lady visited her elderly mother and saw “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” on her bedside table. She asked, cautiously, how she was enjoying it. Her mother said “It’s wonderful. Read one page and you are fast asleep.”
She was offering the book to an elderly man who had just learnt to read, not a child. The book is about book burning which seems appropriate for what is going on.