"One day Mr. Wang Kuan-ping, the head of the Taipei Municipal Zoo, heard about my work, and he decided to transfer some eight hundred children's books to me from another children's library that had been closed for two years.
連圓山動物園園長王光平也風聞這件事，特地約唐朝選談話。幾經晤談之後，便把停辦兩年的兒童圖書館的八百多本圖書，轉贈給他；加上陸陸續續添購的書籍，「自愛學園」就在六十五年冬成立了。「民國六十七年初，台北市政府要收回那塊公園預定地，學園只得遷移。