Most of my wonderful loot.
The library book sale happens only once a year and on a grand scale. I mark my calendar and wait with great excitement for it to come round. They have loads and loads of culled library books and most of them for only a quarter. That is how I come home with a stack of 28 books for a mere $7.00!
I can’t find an adult book worth reading to save my life, but the kids’ books are pure joy for me to look through and this year I came home with a lot of poetry books. I have a list of some of my favorites.
As I dug through the poetry section I was so hopping to find some books by Douglas Florian and as luck would have it I got two, Beast Feast and Lizards, Frogs, and Polliwogs. He has others that I have read and are just as endearing. If you can get your hands on any of his books, they are a real treat to read.
Beast Feast
An excerpt from Beast Feast.
The pictures are super clever and the kids get a kick out of the poems.
This is an excerpt from Lizards, Frogs and Polliwogs.
A very fun little box turtle.
This is one that, though I own it already, I bought because I just couldn’t pass it up we love it so much. I’ll have to bestow it upon some worthy soul who’ll appreciate it as much as I do. Hurry, Hurry Mary Dear by N.M Bodecker is a most delightful poem about a woman rushing about to get all the jobs done about the house before winter sets in. Her husband sitting in his recliner would help but he is sooooo busy. And in the end she’s had enough. The pictures are most charming.
Mary at one of her endless jobs.
A rather macabre tale of a foolish fly and a cunning spider. The illustrations are most apropos, done in the dark Victorian Gothic style of the old silent films. To me there has always been something creepy about those old silent films.
The poem is an old one originally written in 1829 by Mary Howitt but this particular illustrator is Tony DiTerlizzi. This has been one of Athan’s favorites and seeing that I read it almost every day, I pretty much have it memorized.
A cautionary tale of a vain little fly and a cunning spider.
Here is our vain and easily deceived little fly.
Poor little fly.
Great post Meghan. I’m itching to take Rowland to the library now. I think he’s about ready for some poetry.
Ooo that poetry bit sounds delightful! Great tips:)
You should give “Hurry Hurry Mary Dear” to me!! I’ve always wanted to be her, making jam and washing bedding and stacking fire wood to make her house perfectly cozy for the winter.