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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Books: a lifelong love affair


In this house we collect books like a lumberjack collects flapjacks. In his belly. Hmm. I'm trying to say that we go to the library, dollar bookstore and half-price bookstore at least once a week, lugging armloads of lightly used adventure back to our hoarding cave.

Here are four delightful books for children that I highly recommend for your own collection, 3 of which were read to me as a child. What a true joy to be reading them to my own babies and to cultivate a love of books in those unsuspecting little melons!


Blueberries for Sal, 1948 by Robert McClosky




The Snail and the Whale, by Julia Donaldson





the Little Bear series, 1970s by Else Homelund Minarik (pictures by Maurice Sendak!)







The Hair Book, 1984 by Graham Tether




book tree. kitschy, not kid friendly


You never know when you will need skills of stealth, people.