Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Bookity Book-Book-Books


Kelly has this weakness. And I know what it is. And like any loving husband, I exploit that weakness like I'm Lex Luthor with a treasure trove of Kryptonite every single chance I get. If you haven't guessed what it is yet, then you probably didn't read the title to this particular post.

She loves the books. She cannot turn a good-looking book down. So tonight, while she was shoe-shopping, I was browsing Books-A-Million because, despite working in a used book store, anything is better than shoe shopping*. After she was done, she came to pick me up. And before we could leave, she had to take a field trip into children's book section. Mind you, we haven't a child. We haven't even a lead. But that didn't stop us from spending over fifty dollars on childrens' books tonight.

I love illustrated books and will pay top dollar for a book with gorgeous art. So I kept adding to the pile in her arms (maybe too rambunctiously, as Kelly went on to elbow the entire contents of a shelf onto the floor). While she would read the books I handed her, I would hand her more books. We had to sort through them in the end and eventually settled on three: Cloudette, by Tom Lichtenheld; I Love You Through and Through, by Bernadette Rossetti Shustak; and The Kissing Hand, by Audrey Penn.

I love that Kelly is a comparison-shopper. She's not afraid to rummage through bins at Ross or wait until that jacket at that store in the mall goes on sale. But when it comes to books . . . she can't say no.

* I say that, but the last time we went shoe-shopping, it was I, not her, who found her the perfect pair of shoes. I went to art school. I know good craftsmanship when I see it.

5 comments:

  1. That's my girl. She knows that while you may have enough shoes, you can never, never have enough books.

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  2. Do you have Animalia by Graeme Base? It's my fave. BEAUTIFUL illustrations.

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  3. My favorite book for a friend with adopted children is Jamie Lee Curtis' "Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born."

    http://www.amazon.com/Tell-Again-About-Night-Born/dp/006024528X

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  4. Thanks, Queen Christine! We were looking for one of those and couldn't find one. And Wee Kate, we don't have that book, but I'll be on the lookout for it now!

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  5. James LOVES I Love You Through and Through! I'll have to check out the others as I have a similar passion for children's books. Funtimes.

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