{"id":4474,"date":"2006-02-14T17:10:08","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T22:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4474"},"modified":"2022-10-09T22:37:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T02:37:33","slug":"4-for-3-kids-book-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4474","title":{"rendered":"4 for 3 – Kids Book Special!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So as a constant Amazon user I get offered special deals all the time. The latest special deal is 4 for 3. Buy 3 children’s books – get one free. This was perfect timing – coming right after this post about kids’ books<\/a>!<\/p>\n

I decided to buy some of the old classics – books I love, or whatever, that I just happen to not OWN. (I have a huge collection of children’s books in my own personal library – which I will get to, in my Daily Book Excerpt feature, around the year 2009.)<\/p>\n

I am so excited at what I just got. It was so so hard to choose (they had specific books you could choose from, that would be “included” in the special – But this was an awesome choice – 179 pages of choices!!) I scrolled through, seeing all these old titles come flying out at me …<\/p>\n

Should I get Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing<\/a>\"\"<\/i>?? LOVE that book! Mmmm, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler<\/a>\"\"<\/i> … oh no, wait, I already have that one. How about The Outsiders<\/a>\"\"<\/i>?? I really should own a copy of that. And Tex<\/a>\"\"<\/i>, too. I actually liked Tex<\/i> BETTER than The Outsiders<\/i>. Blasphemous! How ’bout Deenie<\/a>\"\"<\/i>? Nothing like a little scoliosis to brighten your grad-school day. I was not wacky about Deenie as a child. I realize that people with bad spines probably felt validated by it, Judy Blume was a master at stuff like that – Deenie<\/i> is the kind of book that could literally save a lonely person’s life, because someone SEES, someone CARES. To not be invisible anymore. But when I was 11 I just felt grossed out by it, and didn’t like the part when her boyfriend discovered her back-brace while trying to feel her up or something. I can’t remember. I was young, and the whole thing seemed EXTREMELY disturbing. So I will skip that one. Anything else? Forever<\/a>\"\"<\/i> Uhm – no. Not that book either. Ahem.<\/p>\n

I had a BLAST scrolling through. Heaven, actually.<\/p>\n

And – well – I got my 4 for 3 and then couldn’t help myself and bought three more. Grand total: 28 bucks. Not too shabby.<\/p>\n

Here is what I got:<\/p>\n

<A Separate Peace<\/a>\"\"<\/i> by John Knowles Phineas. Sniff. Sniff. I love this book – or I did, anyway – and I am so thrilled to OWN it now<\/p>\n

Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great<\/a>\"\"<\/i> by Judy Blume – SO EXCITED. Not just because the heroine has such a GORGEOUS first name. But I remember so much about this wonderful book – and the Tarrytown setting – the last time I read it I was, oh, 4 feet tall – I am so psyched to read it again.<\/p>\n

Are You There, God? it’s Me, Margaret<\/a>\"\"<\/i> by Judy Blume The mere thought of it makes me get choked up. This book was so important to so many.<\/p>\n

The Sword in the Stone<\/a>\"\"<\/i> by TH White – I already have Once and Future King<\/i> in my collection, but Sword in the Stone<\/i> was the first one I read as a kid, and I found it … well … just absolutely mind-boggling. That last scene never fails to make me cry. So now I will own it!!<\/p>\n

After the First Death<\/a>\"\"<\/i> by Robert Cormier – one of the scariest books I ever read. We had to read it in 8th grade. A schoolbus is hijacked by two crazies with a gun. It is the story of the bus, sitting on a bridge, waiting for the hostage’s demands to be met … If you think there’s a happy ending, you’re wrong. You also haven’t read Cormier’s other amazing books. But this one is heeeeeavy. I remember reading it when I was 13 and being so upset and so hopeful that things would turn out that I felt almost sick to my stomach. However, I didn’t take the clue from the TITLE that this was going to be rough … Great book. He’s an amazing writer. The Chocolate War<\/a>\"\"<\/i>. I Am the Cheese<\/a>\"\"<\/i>. Hea-VY! No redemption!<\/p>\n

Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself<\/a>\"\"<\/i> by Judy Blume – this actually might be favorite Judy Blume (although – hmmmm – Tiger Eyes<\/a>\"\"<\/i> might be her best book – I own that one, have had the same copy since I was 17 years old – LOVE Tiger Eyes<\/i> – anyone else remember it??) – Sally J. Freedman<\/i> is not as well known as her others, but I just love it. A young orphaned girl in the 1950s, shuffled around in foster homes, basically idolizes Marilyln Monroe and … Esther Williams, I think … and dreams of getting to Hollywood to be a star. Meanwhile – it is post WWII so if I recall correctly there is a lot of growing horror at what the Nazis wrought in Europe – Sally is 10 years old and she becomes obsessed that her next-door neighbor is an escaped Nazi. This is all very vague. I haven’t read it since I was 11. Lovely book – very different from Blume’s other books.<\/p>\n

And now … the creme de la creme – a book I have been looking for and keeping my eye open for for YEARS –<\/p>\n

A Nice Girl Like You<\/a>\"\"<\/i> by Norma Johnston. No one has heard of this book. It is not in bookstores anymore. Johnston was the author of the very popular The Keeping Days<\/a>\"\" series – which I LOVED – and she ends up writing a couple of books in the next generation of that family – this is the first of those books. It takes place during WWI. A young girl of 16, Saranne – somehow befriends the “bad boy” of the town – who truly is just misunderstood (like Cal in East of Eden<\/i>) – Nobody will give him a chance but she will – at the risk of her reputation. I LOVED this book when I was a young woman myself – it’s marvelous – has anyone else read it??? Anyway – I have all of the “Keeping Days” series in my own personal library – except for Nice Girl Like YOu<\/i> – and now – in a matter of 5 to 9 shipping days – I will own it!<\/p>\n

SO EXCITING!!! There were others I wanted to get, but I forced myself to calm down and be frugal.<\/p>\n

Others that called to me that I did NOT get:<\/p>\n

The Trumpet of the Swan<\/a>\"\"<\/i> by EB White<\/p>\n

Flood Friday<\/a>\"\"<\/i> by Lois Lenski (a book which – I have to have read 50 times in one year when I was 9 years old I loved it so much)<\/p>\n

The Witch of Blackbird Pond<\/a>\"\"<\/i> – that BOOK!! Ann Marie leant it to me when we were adults – wonderful book!! Need to own it!<\/p>\n

And the absolute CLASSIC:<\/p>\n

How to Eat Fried Worms<\/a>\"\"<\/i> – Never been a book like it. Before or since. It stands alone.<\/p>\n

And many many more …<\/p>\n

But I stopped the frenzy before it got too nuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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