we love books

Tuesday morning we took a jaunt into town to visit the local used bookstore and of course came away with some amazing beloved treasures. It is of course impossible to not find something wonderful in a bookstore. The smell of the paper and the thousands of titles to peruse and ponder, the lovely scripted letters and intriguing cover art. Books are like old friends, even new ones, turning pages and bending the page edge as a book-mark (a bad habit I know but one learned from my grandma-so I love it) lying in bed at night and catching up with friends old and new between the bindings of a book. I always have a kid's book and something i am reading in my bag so if ever we have to wait somewhere we can read, I take them to restaurants to read after ordering, and to the park for when someone needs a rest or perhaps a bit of alone time. The written word is a place of rest and relaxation and I don't think I will ever get enough.

We added to our Little Bear collection with a paperback copy of Little Bear, Father Bear Comes Home, Little Bear's Visit, and A Kiss for Little Bear. All of which have been read at least two times over by now.

I came across this tucked into a stack of children's books and practically jumped out of my skin! I so loved this book as a child, the story is so simple and wonderful, but the pictures are astounding! The detail is amazing and the colour oh my! I was so happy to add this book to our collection and it joined our basket of living room books, we have gleefully read it at least a few times a day discovering new details in the bathtub with each read.

We also bought this lovely copy of Higgelty Piggelty Pop by Maurice Sendak who so sadly passed away recently, but isn't it so comforting that we have all of these wonderful stories to keep him alive. This is one of my favourite books because the artwork is mostly line-drawings, so simple and pure.

 And one last photo of a bleary-eyed just woken child and her new doll Olivia, just can't get enough of them together, so sweet.