Book Haul!!!

I went to the library today to pick up a book on hold and drop off a few books – and went to the children’s section to look for a couple of things…   and while talking to the Children’s Librarian, I realized there was a yellow sticky on a cart of books that said “withdrawn”.  So asking – yes the books are withdrawn, but haven’t been taken to the area of the library with the books for sale, but I could go through to find anything I’d like to buy.

Our Library system had a few prices – but basically you can buy a Bag (stack) of books for a little over $5… and they are quite liberal with how many books might fit in a bag….

Well, what a haul!

We got

• an Angelina Balerina book (ok, twaddle, but my girls love it…)
• A Paper Airplane Book which my son already loves
• Harry by the Sea – a fairly easy to read book
• Drawing for Older Children & Teens by Mona Brookes (author of Drawing with Children)
• Garbage Delight – Canadian poestry (twaddle or a find?)
• See Saw Saskatchewan – Canadian poetry (twaddle or a find?)
• Eenie Meenie Manitoba – Canadian poetry (twaddle or a find?)
• Oxford Book of Poetry for Children (twaddle or a find?)
• Tales from Shakespeare (woohoo!)
• One-Person Puppet Plays
• Make Way for Ducklings
• A Child’s Garden of Verses
• Canterbury Tales (translated and adapted… hopefully good?)
• The Cremation of Sam McGee – a classic epic Canadian (I think?) Poem
• a couple of I Spy books 

and – if those treasures weren’t enough….. I found

The Spirit of Canada!  This is a $45 dollar book that… well the sub timtle says it… “Canada’s Story in Legends, Fiction, Poems, and Songs”.   Although many of the stories are just excerpts from books, it is great for me to decide if we might want to read that book or not.  The folk songs are great (we know a lot of them), and well – it is a treasure!  We had taken it out a couple of times and my dh had suggested buying a copy before I told him the price… so I’m jumping up and down.

I really have to figure out a way to organize our homeschool books better, I am really losing track of what I own.  My dh rolls his eyes everytime I come home with books… and our shelves are getting pretty full.  But I figure you can rarely have too many books…. you might have ones you don’t need…  well, I had to share with you guys because you will appreciate it.