I’m continuing to work on replacing books that are ready to be retired, especially before we make the move to the new building.  It’s a financial juggle, and tests my frugal New Englander skills, but I’m able to still order some great new books, replace the yucky old books, and stay within my monthly budget.  Sometimes I amaze myself!!!  (good thing, since it’s not likely that anyone else will be so thrilled by my frugality…)

I’ve found many, many Newbery award-winning books that are in desperate need of replacement, replete with boogers and mysterious stains and who-knows-what-else stuck within their ancient pages, and I’ve been able to track down attractive replacement copies for all of them.  The old books have no monetary value, for those of you who are wondering, since they’re filthy and have been rebound, and those old books have extremely low circulation.  My goal is to get those replacement copies on the shelf so that today’s kids will have a clean, pretty copy to entice them to read some classic, quality literature.  Because, after all, it’s about getting that content, those words, into the hands of children, and for those children to have an opportunity to read those words for themselves.