Treasure

I am a woman who's not terribly hard to please.

As good as a bar of gold to me is finding classic children's books for quarters!!!

Give me a good thrift store, and a few dollars and I can get lost in shelves for hours...or until my 3 year old is dancing next to me needing to find a potty.

Here's some of my finds today!

Not a classic, but these Usborne school books are expensive and excellent quality. Science is Emma and Andy's domain.

The Enormous Egg.

I look specifically for books that won awards, (Newberry etc.), but there aren't may books from the '40's and '50's in which you can go wrong. I love the elegance of the writing...The English is clean and uncluttered with all of our modern word shortening, abbreviating, compounding, slang and conjunctions. I'd rather postpone my kids ever saying "like" when describing something. ;)

Little Women adapted for small children. This will be our next chapter book after our current-

The Family Under the Bridge

And my most exciting find...

"Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

This depiction of the civil war vividly stood out in my high school courses. The story of a family divided who somehow survived to the end of the war and how history looked through their eyes. I will lovingly add this to our bookshelf of school books till Emma is old enough to enjoy it with me again.

'Till I treasure hunt again.....