When I was a girl, I read voraciously. I remember how I would "go to bed" at 9, and then hide under my bed covers with a flashlight and read for hours and hours, past midnight at the least, until my eyes were too heavy to look at the page and I drifted off to sleep. (As anyone who loves to read knows, night-time, after everyone else has gone to sleep, is the best time to read. No-one will bother you or tell you to do the dishes then!) I read every single book we owned over and over and over again. I loved books! And I still do.
One gift that I really want to give James is a good collection of books to read from. Even though my mom took my sister and I to the library every single week, and even though we could check out up to 75 books between the 3 of us, I still ran out of reading material on a regular basis, and had to forage through my parents bookshelves for something, anything, to read. Even though my parents own a lot of books, none of them were quite the sort of books that 10 -12 year olds should (or would want to) be reading, so I often went "hungry," in that respect. I hope that James learn to love reading as much as I did, and do, and I hope that we have enough great books around that he will never have to "go hungry," for reading material like I sometimes did.
With that in mind, I have been buying up great kids books whenever I see them at the thrift store or the library book sale. I've been buying a few every week for the past 2 years, and I now have well over 500! My goal is to have complete collections of all the kids classics, and slowly but surely, we're getting there.
And by the way, books are so expensive, aren't they? Maybe not when you are only buying 1 or 2, but you can get quite a lot more books for your dollar when you are paying 25 - 50 cents per book (the standard thrift store and library price), as opposed to $7 - $15.
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