{"id":66990,"date":"2025-02-04T01:42:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T01:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/an-awfully-big-blog-adventure-building-a-library\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T01:42:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T01:42:15","slug":"an-awfully-big-blog-adventure-building-a-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=66990","title":{"rendered":"An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: Building a Library"},"content":{"rendered":"


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About a year ago, I posted about books From Back When<\/a>. I have a library of favourite books that were read to me when I was little, and that I read to my boys when they<\/i> were little, and now we’re building a library for my grandson<\/i> who is little. (He’s 3 now.) We’ve found copies of some of the (very) old favourites. And every week, on Thursday morning, he and I go to the local public library and trawl through the overly-packed boxes in the picture book section. And we are finding treasure! Here are just a few of the books that we found and are gradually buying for Arran to keep for when he has children of his own.<\/span><\/p>\n

(These are of course just what’s home from the public library at the moment and therefore available to be photographed. There have been many more!)<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Queen’s Lift-off<\/i>\u00a0written and illustrated by Steve Antony, for the fabulously detailed pictures<\/span><\/p>\n

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I am Bat<\/i>\u00a0<\/i>written and illustrated by Morag Hood, simply for Bat – ‘I am ferocious like a lion. (But smaller and with wings.)’<\/p>\n

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And one more Morag Hood –\u00a0Teapot Trouble<\/i>\u00a0– because I am in love with Tiny Horse and his irrepressible enthusiasm<\/span><\/p>\n

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On the Night of the Shooting Star <\/i>written\u00a0by Amy Hest and illustrated by Jenni Desmond, if for no other reason than it includes the sentence ‘The cocoa is hot, the biscuits sublime.’<\/span><\/p>\n

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Who knows what we may discover next Thursday! Meantime, a<\/span>ny suggestions for Arran’s library gratefully received.<\/span><\/p>\n

Joan Lennon website<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Joan Lennon Instagram<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n