I hadn't been on Mom and Dad's website for a while and hadn't seen this page of vintage, rare and really interesting children's books. Worth a look. Lots of L. Frank Baum, Palmer Cox, and other things you don't see every day.
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The Rains Came — Tuesday, November 5, 2024
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I'm glad you linked to the website again . .
I love these books. I have young grand nieces with a mother who would appreciate these. So I will walk through the aisles here :)
(The curious cow picture is perfect)
Cathy, I didn't appreciate it at the time, but growing up in a house full of books and a store full of books was a wonderful experience. I still have a large collection of the books I loved and Becky and I reread them often. In fact we lost an old favorite last year, The Sherwood Ring, somewhere in this mess, and she got me a copy for Christmas. What a delight to read it again...for the upteenth time. I can still remember taking it out of the library at school because there was a horse on the cover. It isn't about horses but how I have loved it all these years!
Lately, I've come to realize how important . . . no . . . 'vital' - the presence of books is to young lives and minds.
I've rarely encountered in the associations of my own life or in the biographies of thinking people - any that were bereft of books.
Cathy, at the party yesterday I watched my lovely, wonderful, adorable, huggable, and incredibly cute great-niece toddle around sharing her little books with all her family and thought...true love is instilling a love for reading and books in a child...a life-long gift of everything they could ever need for their mind and spirit. I was flattered beyond telling when I got a turn to "read" one with her.
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