Steady Eddie and I got away last weekend to Chattanooga, and one of the highlights of the trip was a visit to The Book Company. I made away with a hefty bagful of treasures, to the tune of about $20. Not bad. The above collection includes a trio of serendipitous finds, especially Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, which I’ll be reading for this month’s Newbery Through the Decades challenge. I couldn’t resist the Nate the Greats since the DLM has a new-found fondness for them.
This is, by far, the prize collection. I’ve been hankering after some new poetry books for our home collection, and I hit the jackpot:
- Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost
- Poetry for Young People: Emily Dickinson
- The Beauty of the Beast: Poems from the Animal Kingdom, compiled by Jack Prelutsky
- My America: A Poetry Atlas of the United States, compiled by Lee Bennet Hopkins
- The Christopher Robin Book of Verse by A.A. Milne
- I Am Phoenix: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
- Treasury of Poetry and Rhymes
Visiting a new-to-me used bookstone ranks pretty high on my list of favorite things. The guy who went there with me and patiently waited while I look ’til my heart was content? He IS my favorite. 🙂
😀 Playing catch up around here. Yes, going to new-to-you bookstores is totally fun. And the favorites are the men who allow for it, encourage it and wait around while we gather. 😀