Goodwill Treasures

I found a great stack of cheap books yesterday at Goodwill. I love going through the book section at Goodwill, it's even more of an adventure than used bookstores, because I'm always even more surprised when I find something good there. And the books are so cheap! There was a great selection there yesterday, and I picked up a french translation of Harriet the Spy, Kenny's Window by Maurice Sendak, Running Out of Time by Margaret Haddix (used to be one of my favorite novels), and one of my childhood favorites: The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble. It's a Native American story about a girl who belonged more with the horses than with her own people, and she eventually becomes one of them. The illustrations are beautiful, and I love how stylized they are. This book actually won the Caldecott Medal.

Another book that I'm really exited about is the sequel to one I mentioned before, Free to Be... You and Me. This one is called Free to Be... A Family, and was written in the '80's. Again, like the first book, it was a multi-media project, and you can buy a CD with recordings of all the artists performing their songs, poems, and stories. I love the illustration on the cover.