Books Galore!

Today our library books were finally due. It is interesting how we will begin to think of certain books as friends, and it almost hurts us to part with them! The "losses" of Madeline for Abby, and Stone Soup for Corbin, were quickly comforted by the fresh new pile of exciting books we got to take home in their places! The only four books we renewed were How to Grow a Young Reader and Honey for a Child's Heart for me, and A Child's Treasury of Beatrix Potter and The 20th Century Children's Book Treasury for the kids. Here is our new list (the kids went down for their naps so quickly at the promise that when they woke up we could start reading them!):

• Raggedy Ann & Andy Giant Treasury, by Johnny Gruelle
• Three Young Pilgrims, by Cheryl Harness
• My Life with the Wave, by Catherine Cowan/Mark Buehner
• Henny Penny, by Vivian French & illustrated by Sophie Windham
• Chanticleer and the Fox, adapted by Barbara Cooney
• Dandelion, by Don Freeman
• Sam and the Tigers, by Julius Lester & illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
• Time of Wonder, by Robert McCloskey
• Blueberries for Sal, by Robert McCloskey
• Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A Classic Illustrated Edition, compiled by Cooper Edens
• The Rooster Crows: A Book of American Ryhmes and Jingles, by Maud and Miska Petersham
• Rapunzel, by Paul O. Zelinsky
• My Great-Aunt Arizona, by Gloria Houston & illustrated by Susan Condie Lamb
• Animals of the Bible, by Dorothy Pulis Lathrop

I'm really excited about all of these books! Almost all of them were recommendations from Honey for A Child's Heart and How to Grow a Young Reader, and I'm certain they will take us on many new adventures over the weeks to come!

"I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book."

~Groucho Marx~