The joy of books

 While my friend’s granddaughter was visiting for the summer, I asked what her favourite things were.  Animals and books!

I started a search for books and found this fabric at my local shop.  The Library of Antiquities

books by Timeless Treasures.

A lot of books are mentioned — old books — classics like 

Peter Pan

Little’s Red Riding Hood

Pinocchio

Sleeping Beauty

and then there was

this book.  

The Red Fairy Book.  Neither Nancy or I had ever heard of it!  When I got home I went searching because I love to dig and find out more.

I Goggled it.  I got a bit more excited because this would be a great book on my bookshelf.

To quote: ……   

"The Red Fairy Book" by Andrew Lang is a fairy tale collection published in 1890. The second volume in Lang's renowned Coloured Fairy Books series, it brings together enchanting stories from French, Russian, Danish, and Romanian traditions, along with tales from Norse mythology.” 

And then I found the book!!!  On the Indigo website!  I ordered it and it is so much more than I expected and the stories inside....WOW!

In honour of all my elementary school teachers that taught me the love of reading, we are making a donation of books to McMaster Children's Hospital in Hamilton this month.

 have the best teachers at Summerlea Elementary School on 48th Avenue in Lachine, Quebec.  Little Golden books lined my shelves and the Bobbsey Twins were my first chapter books.