Library Book Sale

Emily Anne and I hit the local library book sale after dropping Will off at preschool today. We scored some great classics at great prices and also helped out our great library! Children's hardback books were fifty cents; paperbacks, a quarter! We came home and displayed our finds on our rain gutter bookshelves.

Here are some books that will be great for American history next year.

I was excited to find some of the books of the Narnia series, especially as The Voyage of the Dawn Treader will be coming out as a movie soon. I will be on the lookout for the other books to fill out the series.
This book will be great for Biology.


Emily Anne was excited to find these classic books about horses. We read Misty of Chincoteague this summer, and she's very excited to have her own copy of this favorite. She's also looking forward to reading My Friend Flicka.

I thought these books would be good for Emily Anne in a few years, but she surprised me by sitting down with the Nancy Drew and reading a couple of chapters this afternoon. I remember devouring these mysteries when I was young, but not quite as young as Emily Anne!

We thought this book would be good for Will and also good for later this year in history when we cover the Middle Ages in Britain.

Emily Anne is a huge fan of Cynthia Rylant's Mr. Putty and Tabby books, so we thought Poppleton might be good, too.

Here are some great classic read-alouds.

I am really excited about this book. It is a poetry textbook from the 1920s and is labeled with the second grade, just right for Emily Anne.

Check out the endpapers! I love the silhouette of the children on a flying carpet and the implication that poetry can take us to other lands!

Here is the title page.

They included "Winken, Blinken, and Nod", along with a charming illustration.

I'm looking forward to reading these poems, perhaps at a weekly tea. Aren't new books fun?

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. ~Henry Ward Beecher