Thanks, Suzanne, for passing on the info that the SLC downtown library was having a big book sale this weekend. I went on Saturday morning for an hour or two, but I could have easily spent the whole day there.
I was especially on the lookout for children's books. All hardcovers were $1, paperbacks were $0.50.
My favorite find were four books written by Max Lucado. If you're not familiar with this author, he writes great children's books with Christian themes. I first heard one of his books in a Relief Society lesson, actually.
I also got the Doctrine and Covenants illustrated scriptures (it probably won't be read as much as the other books of scriptures, but hey - it was in good condition, it only cost $0.50, and I want to get the whole set eventually), the parable of the girl and the bicycle, a collection of Bible stories, and a collection of nursery rhymes.
I also bought an Algebra 2 textbook for a buck! It will make a good supplementary text for my class.
You may have noticed that most of the books I bought were religious in nature. I have a goal to collect religious toys, books, and pictures to put in a special "Sunday box" for my kids. I got the idea from reading the Work and the Glory series - one of the characters mentions that families did this in early America, and I really like it. I want the objects in the Sunday box to be special, only brought out on Sundays. Some things (like the illustrated scriptures) will be out all week. But I'd like to find a toy set of Noah's ark, gather religious-themed games (we have a Book of Mormon Guess Who to start our collection), scripture DVDs, and maybe some of those scripture action-figures (like Captain Moroni) that I've seen for sale, etc.
That's the idea. What do you think?
3 comments:
If you want cute, durable toy sets, try Little People. They have a great Noah's Ark set and a really sweet Nativity set. My kids have loved them! I bet they have others. I haven't really looked, but I'm sure there are lots of others.
I think that the "Sunday box" is a great idea. You won't need these for a while, but you can also find good Church coloring pages to print out on the friend website and at sugardoodle.net. I also have a stack of old Ensigns that Adriana cuts up on Sundays and then glues similar pictures on pages for a "quiet book" for Sacrament meeting (i.e. several pages of pictures of the Savior, sacrament, scriptures, temples, praying....you get the idea). We just put the pages in sheet protectors and then in a small binder when she's done.
I think that is a great idea too. Another thing we used to do is get those little wallet-ish sized photos of the temple or of Christ and then we put it in one of those small photo books. If nothing else, it helped keep kids quiet at church for awhile.
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