Children's Books (9.26.2013)

While working at the bookstore I passed the dangerous section, the general books department. I normally don't work in that department, but my project that day took me on a track past the department, where my eye was caught by the clearance books. SO DANGEROUS. As I continued to look I saw a children's book - Amos & Boris. The front was a simple watercolor of a whale and a mouse riding on his back. It looked so simplistic I couldn't help but pick it up and flip quickly through it. The pictures were so simple - basic outlines with pretty much one color fill but something about them drew me in and I really really liked them. I put the book down with the intent of coming back later to look, because I was on the clock and really shouldn't be wasting time. I kept my promise and after coming back to work, but before clocking in I went back to the general books to look at the book again. After checking the price - it was discounted to $2 and something cents, I used the employee discount as rationale and decided for whatever reason that this book was something I wanted to be able to spend time reading and pouring over. As I perused the rest of the children's book section I came across Blueberry Sal. I distinctly remember my mom reading this book to my sister and me when we were younger, and I remembered the illustration style, and the entirety of the book was just so nostalgic to me (except the glaring new-ness of it) that I decided to get it too. So now I purchased two children's books for myself as a sophomore in college and I am more than okay with that!