This one belonged to my sisters and me, growing up, and I’ll probably be in trouble when they read this post and discover I snagged it from our parents’ basement. This is his childhood copy, fragile now, kept on a high shelf and read at special times with great ceremony.Ĭhristina Katerina and the Box by Patricia Lee Gauch. I posted about this beloved picture book here-beloved especially by Scott. I’m sorry you can’t buy them anymore, even from used vendors at Amazon Marketplace. There’s no point in my recommending them anymore no one can sell them to you.Īlicia at Love2Learn began a meme for sharing treasured titles CPSIA now makes illegal to sell or swap. Some of these books were published in the dark ages-that is, prior to 1985. Quite often on this blog I find myself encouraging readers to look for certain out-of-print gems, children’s books I think no child should miss. It is against the law to sell them and possibly even to give them away. That means all the books I read growing up, all the precious copies my sisters and I absconded with when we left home and all the ones waiting for our kids in our old bedroom closets, could now be considered, according to the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), a form of hazardous waste. Like many people, I’m still reeling from the bizarre, ill-considered piece of legislation that recently went into effect which (among other things) makes it illegal for Americans to buy, sell, or barter children’s books published before 1985. Ma 8:51 pm | Filed under: Books, Current Affairs
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