Get a Load of the World’s 10 Most Valuable Children’s Books
If there’s an old, out of print book I’m trying to track down, I check a few places: Powell’s used section, Ebay, and AbeBooks (do you have a favorite I don’t know about yet?).
When I was visiting AbeBooks yesterday, I came across their page for the World’s Most Valuable Children’s Books.
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So here’s my challenge to you: try to guess which books might be on the list, and then click here to see if you were right.
I bet you’ll get at least a couple.
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About Travis Jonker
Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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I have a a first edition, but later printing of that Philosopher’s Stone. I knew exactly what I had, but your post still make me recheck that title page, to see if I was wrong the first 30 times I checked.
Thirty first time’s the charm!