My new Obsession
I have a thing for old books. The picture above is from Grandfather Stories. It has a great version of the Bremen Town Musicians. When I was little we lived about 35 miles north of Bremen for two years in a town called Osterholz-Scharmbeck…fascinating I know, but it was very cool living so close to a real fairy tale.
My latest favorite are the Harper’s readers from the late 1800’s.
This is from the third reader. The illustrations are amazing, and it is interspersed with science, history, poems, and stories.
Here’s a list of some of the books available in Google Books. I could spend days on these!
April 7th, 2008 at 8:47 am
I don’t remember if I already knew you lived in Germany as a kid . . . we lived in Heidelberg for 3 years (’84-87)! Small world, eh? I remember taking the train with my dad up to Bremerhaven to pick up our car when it came in.