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My dd was very upset at the library yesterday. They have removed all the Raggedy Ann and Andy stories from the shelves! Gone, no longer in the catalog. We loved those stories! I can’t believe they are gone and won’t be available for any of the children. It was a sad day for us.
Blessings, Paula
*Sigh*
Goodbye classic literature, hello “informational texts,” as the Common Core alignment proponents call them.
I am so sorry that your favorite books are disappearing! It makes us all so sad!
I purchased our lovely hardback like-new editions of both Ann and Andy stories for a penny a piece plus shipping at Amazon.
Both of them are available free as audiobooks here:
http://librivox.org/raggedy-ann-stories-by-john-b-gruelle/
http://librivox.org/raggedy-andy-stories-by-johnny-gruelle/
That’s why I, and a growing number of people around the country, are driven to preserve them by starting lending libraries of living books. Who will be next? It’s important and so needed.
I emailed the owner of Living Books Library because I was thinking about it. Need to continue praying, it would be wonderful to be able to do it! Only problem I forsee is not opening the library at all because I would be too busy reading!
So true.
Our library just had a sale and I went in a a LOT of the living history books were in the sale. The great thing I was able to buy lots of books for a good price, the terrible thing is that other homeschoolers won’t be able to borrow them from the library anymore.
The librarian said that many of the books were good books, but weren’t the popular “storybooks” that people like to borrow. She said they were “curriculum support” books, and they just don’t have room on the shelves for lots of those.
It’s not common core’s fault. This has been going on for years and years. I work at a library, and there ARE serious space issues, and they do have to have what children will actually read. Our culture has decided that Spongebob Squarepants and Captain Underwear trump classic literature. It is what it is. Support lending libraries like Robin’s, snap up the good stuff as the libraries get rid of it, but there has been serious discussion at mine about getting rid of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s books. <eyes rolling> It’s not going to be changing. Most libraries keep stats on how often books go out, and they keep the stuff people like and the unloved stuff is eventually going to go.
That’s the saddest thing I’ve heard this week! We love Raggedy Ann and Andy. I added them to our library last year. Our daughter wil have a hard time sharing them when our library begins circulation. It would be so worth your time to seek these favorites out and add them to your own collection.
I do have a few duplicates of very favorite books that I keep upstairs (like two extra copies of The Chestry Oak. ) 😉 Maybe a set of Raggedy Ann for your daughter?
Are you telling me, Robin, that you have 3 copies of my mostest favoritest bestest book ever? I want to visit your library so I can sit under The Chestry Oak again.
blush… Yes, I do. Only one of them is in my library. The other two I keep on a shelf in my bedroom. I have duplicates of all of Kate Seredy’s books. I also have an extra Halliburton Book of Marvels for my geography-loving son. Books that are especially special to us are ones I want to make sure I have for my boys. It makes me so sad to think of the folks who will never ever read The Chestry Oak…and so many others.
Well I have never read the chestry oak and honestly don’t know if I ever will. Just saw that it sales for over 60$. I’ll look for that at book sales, never know!
And it’s worth every penny. 🙂 I have never found one at a book sale but know someone who has.
My encouragement is to collect those books your children love for them to have when they’re grown. I am constantly having moms…and dads…coming into my library searching for books they remember from their childhood and the absolute thrill they have when they find them. Imagine preparing a legacy now to pass on to our children…which is why I named my library Children’s Legacy Library. It is worth a special shelf in our home for these treasures.
Our library is having a sale in early October, maybe I can find them there(they don’t organize, just piles and boxes).
I am intrigued at the thought of having a lending library, but you all have so many books. I have quite a few, but not nearly that many. Mine are in boxes, waiting for shelves.
How did you all get started? Thousands of books seems like it would take many, many years to acquire. Do you only have hardcover books? I have read that you do repairs, so does the condition not matter so much? Are musty books salvageable? Sorry, so many questions, I really like this idea, I have been saving some family favorites to share with future generations within the family, I think establishing an actual lending library would be awesome. Lately though I have not been buying books as we haven’t had shelves for them, and they get wrecked sitting in boxes.
Sorry for so many questions, I just am trying to imagine how a person can acquire, and organize/maintain so many books.
Blessings, Paula
Paula, I have over 16,000 books. But I have been collecting specifically for a library since 2000 and collecting in general years before that. When I opened I had around 7000 books. So,I’ve grown considerably. God just keeps bringing them to me in often miraculous ways. But the key is not in the numbers. It is being willing to make them available. 300 treasures put into eager young hands (and minds) is worth more than a million books full of poison.
Most of my books are hardback but I do have many paperback. A paperback copy is better than no copy at all. And it’s the words inside that make it special, not the cover. 🙂
I do repair my books. Some I pass by such as those that are really falling apart or that are really musty or show signs of mold which could actually destroy other books. Torn pages, shaky spines, even broken spines are easily repaired with the right materials. My friend, Emily Cottrill Kiser, (who does the Picture Study Portfolios) did a DVD which demonstrates most repairs. You can get it on her website.
http://www.livingbookslibrary.com
They also have the recordings of the conference we did last year. (The book repair DVD is included if you buy the set.)
As for shelving, be creative! When the Cottrill’s first opened their library, they lived in a 900 sq. ft. cottage. The books were on shelves that actually were used as room dividers. It was lovely!! Now they live in a different house with a designated area but there are so many options. One lady lives in a LA apartment. She is finding a way.
I wIll be so happy to help anyone interested in rescuing these books for future generations. (Can you tell this is sort of a passion of mine?) Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t have. God is able and willing to provide the increase. I’ve seen it over and over.
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