Children's books

[estepheia]

It just occurred to me that maybe I could ask you guys on my friendslist whether you have a few English children's books that you no longer need and would be willing to part with (hopefully for not too much money). I would like to teach Tina better English, and I'd like to read to her in English, but children's books are frightfully expensive, English books more so. I could try ebay UK, I guess, but I hate spending money on books without being able to look at them first. And not every seller accepts paypal, which makes money transfers utterly tedious.

So, if you have a few picture books with simple English texts for ages 5-8, I could really really use them (even if they are old and tatty) to teach my little English class, or I could donate them to Tina's primary school (the different classes have book corners in their classrooms). After the summer holidays Tina's class will officially start to learn English (in my time English lessons started in fifth grade, but recently this changed to third grade). It would be nice if they had a small collection of English books. It's a nice school, but they're not exactly rolling in it. Even the computers that the kids use have been donated by parents...

I'd gladly pay for postage and maybe donate a (mostly symbolic) sum to your charity of preference, if you like. I feel a bit awkward asking you guys to help out, but then I remember that we always give away the kids' clothes and toys once our kids grow out of them, rather than selling them on ebay or hitting the fleamarkets. And hey, if things were the other way round, I'd send you lots of German children's book.
Thank you in advance. :-)

Comments

[mommanerd.livejournal.com]

I'd be glad to send you books - we have scads of them. And I'll pick up the postage.

Your timing is great. I have some days off next week, and one of my goals is to clean out closets of old clothes and to go through the books.

Just email me where you'd like me to send them.
mommanerd@yahoo.com

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

Oh thank you. That is ever so kind of you!!! *hug*
*rushes off to send you the snail addy*

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

I'll dig around and see what I can find... I usually wind up picking up multiple copies of books I enjoy (including children's books) when I find them at yard sales and such, so I may have a few hanging around.

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

usually wind up picking up multiple copies of books I enjoy (including children's books) when I find them at yard sales and such

*nodnodnod* I do that too. When I see cheap Mama Muh books, or Patterson and Findus, I pick them up and pass them on because I like them so much.

Thank you so much. :-)

[zyrya]

Bugger! I donated FOUR BOXES of children's books to a school library just a few weeks ago. Not that I would send you four boxes of course, as the postage would have been phenomenal, but still ... could have set aside the nicest ones for you.

Bum.

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't say 'bum'. The school must have been really glad. :-)

Thanks for the sentiment anyway. *hug*

[yin-again.livejournal.com]

Email me your address to s_verse at yahoo dot com and I'll happily send you whatever I can find in the stacks.

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much, dear. :-)

Email is on its way.

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

I'll see what I can persuade my offspring to let go of; you'd think, at seventeen and merely nineteen that they'd be willing to cut down on inventory.

Of course it's true that several of the children's books here- notably Dr. Seuss' On Beyond Zebra and a copy of The Saggy Baggy Elephant with a Christmas inscription from my grandmother- are mine.

Julia, never enough bookcases, never too many books

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

Oh goody, thanks. :-)

I have a few old children's books that I won't let my kids touch. Oh, and cutting down on inventory? Something you recommend, but don't do yourself, at least that's how it's with me. I have too many books but I'm only very gradually realizing that I should let go of the ones that aren't good and should only keep the good ones. Hee.

Steffi, never enough bookcases, three packed boxes full of vampire books

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

Send me the snail mail addie and I'll gladly send you some

jdavitt01@rogers.com

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

And no need to pay postage or anything; sharing books is something I've always loved doing and I've sent them all over the world.

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

Oh thank you very much, dear. *smooch*

[jilmac5.livejournal.com]

I will be happy to donate to the cause.
Just send your snail mail addy to jilmac5@yahoo.com

Also would you mind if my daughter sent a letter
in english to your daughters? She has been working on constructing
letters and would love to practice on your girls. It will be very
basic english as she is only 6. Thanks, Jill

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

Wonderful, thank you!
And sure, my daughters looooove getting mail. They'll be happy to write back!

[married-n-mich.livejournal.com]

Looks like you might have more than enough... but I'm in too. I have tons of kid's books. Maybe not in the best of shape, being kid's books and all. But if you're interested, let me know.

smilingnmichigan@gmail.com

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

Maybe not in the best of shape
Hey, I honestly don't mind. I'm sure we can get mileage out of them. So yeah, I am interested. Like I said in my post, I would also like to pass a handful of them on to Tina's primary school for the classroom library, if that's okay with you.
With all the cuts to public spending the schools are not as well equipped in the arts as they should be. There is an unholy conspiracy at work that wants to turn our children into mad german scientists, i.e. the sciences get much better funding than the arts. Bah.

So, a few more books can't hurt. I promise, we'll make good use of them. :-) We love books.

Tina is currently into Harry Potter - in German of course.

[married-n-mich.livejournal.com]

Feel free to email me your addy and I'll do my bestest!

:o)

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!
Will do. :-)

[blondegirlchris.livejournal.com]

My brother and me have a few books suitable for children, including a very nice one about animals and a quiz book.
I want to keep them, but i could make a copy for you if you wanted?

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

Hi Chris,
Haven't heard from you in a while.
As for the copying, it's probably not such a good idea. It would damage the spine and besides, it looks like we'll have enough to read for quite some time.

:-)

Steffi

[aayesha-r.livejournal.com]

My daughter is 10 now, but we still have a lot of her old books. I'll try to pull a couple of the nicer ones to send to you. Please send me your address at aayesha_r at hotmail.com, and I'll put them in the mail.