Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Advent, Books, and Cheer: A + B = C

 Summer morning 2012

Kathleen to Joe in You've Got Mail, "I started helping my mother after school here when I was six years old. And I used to watch her. And it wasn't that she was just selling books, it was that she was helping people become whoever it was (that) they were going to turn out to be. Because when you read a book as a child it becomes part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does...."

Books belong under the tree. We share our love of the world and of story with those we most love. In part, we learn how to form our story by reading great stories. Books under our tree this year:

The Story of Doctor Doolittle
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Life of Faith Series - because she loves all things old!
Twig by Elizabeth Orton Jones
The Fables of La Fontaine
A Young Scientist's Guide to Defying Disasters with Skill and Daring by Doyle
Makezine: For Dad
For Girls Only: Devotions
The Story of Shell by Repp
Pibben the Small by Repp
Reading to Learn: Book One by MacMillan 1935 - list price was .84 cents
Hans Brinkers on the Silver Skates
How to Build Treehouses, Huts and Forts
A Pink Bible
The Ordinary Princess by Kaye
The Christmas Story by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to be read on Christmas Eve

Shh....don't tell. 

Most all of these books were thrifted finds for a dollar or less.  Yes, a dollar or less. Books do not have to cost a lot. Secreted away during the year, they now patiently wait to delight children. What will be under your tree this year? 

Advent + Books = Cheer

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