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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

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

jdavitt01@rogers.com

[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

[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

[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?

[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.