When
we got home from school today mom said she had a surprise for us. She
told us to go look in the family room after we got done with our
snack.
This
is one of the days of the week that Maria and Jeremy are here
overnight so the 6 of us talked about what could be waiting for us. I
don't think we have ever hurried that much eating our snack. LOL
When
we got done and went into the family room we found a cardboard box.
It
had a sign on it that said “old kid's books”
We
asked mom where it had come from. She told us that when she went to
the post office today she noticed that the house across the road from
the post office was having an estate sale. She decided to go take a
quick look. She had been looking at books when the man running the
sale had asked her if she had noticed the table at the back. It had a
bunch of boxes on it. He told her that he had just boxed up groups of
books and that they were $10 per box.
Everyone
in our house loves books so she went to take a look. She was hoping
to find more old cookbooks for her collection. Instead she found this
box. She said she lifted the flaps of the box to take a peek and the
first thing she saw was that there were at least 2 Nancy Drew books
on the top. She knows how much Chelsea and I love our Nancy Drew
books so she grabbed the box before anyone else could decided it was
interesting.
When
she got it home she just opened the top of the box enough to see that
the books were really old but she decided to let us look through them
and discover what treasures we have.
Being
the oldest Chelsea and I took charge and opened the box. Sure enough
the first thing we saw were two really old Nancy Drew mystery books.
One was called The Hidden Staircase and the other one is The
Secret of the Old Clock. We love mystery books especially Nancy
Drew mystery books. And to make it even better they are ones neither
of us have read before!
We
took those out and set them to the side.
Next
we found some Little Golden Books. Izzy and Maria wanted those right
away. There were 5 of them but the girls took them so fast I don't
even know what the titles were. I am sure they are going to want
either Chelsea or I to read to them later so we can find out then.
Under
the Little Golden Books were to old science fiction magazines. They
are just filled with old sci-fi stories. Both Michael and Jeremy love
sci-fi so they grabbed those really quick.
We
found two more Nancy Drew books, one was a second copy of The
Secret of the Old Clock but the other one was The Bungalow
Mystery, another one we haven't read.
Next
we saw a blue book and when we picked it up we found out the title is
“The Blue Fairy Book.” It looks like it is just filled
with classic fairy tales.
At
the bottom of the box we found an old reading book, Fun With Dick
and Jane. Later mom told us she remembers reading that book at
school in first grade. That made Izzy and Maria take notice. They
are really excited to be learning to read and they decided to try to
read this one together tonight after dinner.
Also
at the bottom of the box were some more science fiction, a book
called When I Go to the Moon. Along with a really thick Little
Golden Book called Exploring Space. They are both really old
and the ideas are so different from what we know today. The boys are
so excited to read them.
I
think mom got a fantastic deal on this box of books. We are all going
to be busy reading for weeks. Chelsea and I decided to both start by
reading the Secret of the Old Clock since there are two copies of it.
Then we will have to take turns of the other two.
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