Enjoy your childhood favourites once again, or branch out with something you missed the first time round! I have loved reading, and books, my whole life. Now free to choose how I spend my days, I would like to surround myself with my favourite children’s books, and to share them with you. Ridinghood Books is all about girlhood memories. You will not find rare or collector’s quality books here. The
y have been loved before, and I hope, will be again. I rejoice when a find a nice old chapter book with a dust jacket, but if a grand story has lost its pretty jacket, oh well. The childish scrawl of an owner now grown and gone grey, even the handwork of a little brother with a crayon (why is it always purple?) can’t help but make me smile. I hope you will find books you can curl up with, eat a cookie over, even (sacrilege) take into the tub on a cold evening. Good kids lit equals a good short story. The condensation of a world, a mood, a memory that fits neatly into our busy, time-pressed lives. I know I feel guilty about the time lost if I immerse myself in a full-scale novel; alternatively, I feel martyred if I am having to ignore a just started full-sized book. But a good children’s book is a quick treat; I get the escape and the bliss without guilt or deprivation. Dealing in old books, I come across a lot that is not politically correct. It can be downright offensive. I choose to see, in these dated portrayals, how far our society has come and how quickly we are becoming more tolerant, more sensitive and more aware. I hope you will view these signposts of our journey in the same light. Thank you for your support. I look forward to getting to know you and your library.
