We Have New Books!

Yesterday my Mom came over and brought with her three boxes of children's books. My parents had saved all of the books that Buddie and I grew up with. These books are now going to be loved again (hopefully) by my daughter.

It felt like Christmas morning as a child when I started poking through the boxes. Although my mom was a single parent for the first few years of my life, she splurged on some great book clubs for me. Every month a small box containing two new books would arrive. I had forgotten how much I loved some of these great stories!

In my opinion, the best book series was the collection by Stephen Cosgrove. He wrote Serendipty, the Muffin Muncher, Wheedle on the Needle and many more entertaining stories. My favorites are the Leo the Lop books. Leo was a bunny with particularly long lop-ears. The other bunnies made fun of Leo's useless long ears. I was obsessed with Leo when I was little. Years later, when we had a lop eared bunny, I was slightly disappointed that my parents didn't purchase a boy rabbit so we could name him Leo. (For the record, our super sweet lop was named Bessie. I forgave my parents for mistakenly purchasing another girl bunny because Bessie was truly a character.)

To anyone who is looking for good stories that just don't get old, I would recommend you check out Stephen Cosgrove's books. The stories are timeless, the artwork is beautiful, and each story has special message to children. The moral of Leo's story is "Normal is whatever you are."

And now, I'm off to read to Aubrey!