Searching for Nursery Rhymes

[tarotgal]

All righty. So this week's cover challenge at BookCrossing is Nursery Rhymes. A book about them, a book with a title taken from one, a book with the word 'rhyme' or 'nursery' or even 'verse' in the title.

I had SUCH a difficult time! Sort of... LOL I'm really, really addicted to buying books, have I mentioned that? LOL Here was my morning:

Went to King's Park Library:
-Looked at sale shelves a LONG time
-Ended up purchasing:
Dogwatching (I own Catwatching already, hardback)
Catlore (follow-up to Catwatching, hardback)
The Mists of Avalon (will BookCross with)
The Island of Dr. Moreau (will BookCross with)
-I passed on 'The Tenth Insight'. I'm listening to the Celestine Prophecy (sp?) right now on tape and now I feel compelled to read the follow-up book... even though I'm HATING the first book. Why do I still feel compelled to read another book I hate, just to complete the series? I can be so OCD sometimes about books. Luckily, though, both books were on the sale shelf and they looked so happy together that I didn't want to separate them. So I managed to justify it and let myself escape without it. Whew!
-Cost of visit: $1.20
-Nursery Rhyme Books Found: A big fat 0

Then I went to Pohick Regional Library:
-Looked at the sale shelves an even LONGER time
-Ended up purchasing:
Blaster Master (young adults novel based on one of my favorite Nintendo games! LOL)
Chasing Stanley (OMG! I just bought this off Amazon.com for list price. Doh! I'll BookCross with it... maybe in honor of the Stanley Cup playoffs. I might start a bookring/bookbox)
Sphere (will BookCross with- actually, will probably send out in honor of my 5 year BC birthday in August)
The X-Files: Antibodies (will BookCross with)
Buffy the Vamp Slayer: Ghost Roads (cuz I can't resist anything with Spike on the cover)
Gorillas in the Mist (will BookCross with)
Paige by Paige (Trading Spaces book, will BookCross with after I read it)
Eeyore Loses a Tail (hardcover pop-up book rather damaged but it's *Eeyore*!)
-And then, at the end of my searching I finally found 'Ride a Cockhorse' by Raymond Kennedy!!! However, I couldn't remember if that was a Nursery Rhyme or just a song from my childhood. I debated a LONG time, especially since it was a hardcover and cost $1. But then I finally bought it for BookCrossing, intending to look it up when I got home.
-Cost of visit: $6
-Nursery Rhyme Books Found: 1 maybe?????

Then I stopped by the used bookstore on my way home:
-Went straight to the children's section
-Found a beautiful hardcover Mother Goose collection for $11. Did not bother picking that up.
-Turned the corner and found a hardback easy reader 'Jack and Jill' which I immediately picked up
-Then I looked through all their shelves and found a book entitled 'The Sneeze' which I had to thumb through but absolutely could not make myself purchase. LOL
-On the second-to-last one, found a black & white checked Mother Goose collection exactly like the one I had when I was a kid. It was... $3 I think, and huge. And right next to it was the Random House Poetry hardcover book I had as a kid containing that nose poem with the illustration of the gentleman blowing his stuffy nose that I used to LOVE looking at when I was young. *blush*
-BUT right next to those two was a very skinny copy of 'My First Mother Goose Book' which was actually my very first Mother Goose book as a child!!!!!!!!!!! In fact, this one is in better condition than mine was/is because mine was second-hand, too. ANYWAY, I was thrilled! I put Jack & Jill back and got this one because it was only $0.75. Which, in that store (always horribly over-priced) is incredible!
-I skimmed through the book and saw, right there, 'Ride a Cockhorse' just as I'd expected. But I still bought the Mother Goose book because of my attachment to it. And because it was nice enough to confirm my suspicion about the more expensive book I'd just purchased.
-I looked at the sports books, hoping for hockey, and found a kid's book on the Great One, but didn't buy it ($3). Then I looked at the TV/Sci-Fi section and almost bought another Man from UNCLE book, or an Earth 2 book, or a Buffy/Angel book, but held back.
-I heard a women asking the man who runs the store about Diana Gabaldon, and the guy didn't know who that was (WHAT THE HELL?) so I took that as my cue to approach the counter and fill him in and check out, thus sparing myself the shame of buying more books I won't have time to read
-Cost of visit: $0.79 (with tax)
-Nursery Rhyme Books Found: 1!!!

So now I obviously wish that I'd just tried the used bookstore first. And I feel like I'm addicted to buying books. Damn hobby! LOL It was a fun albeit frustrating morning.

Comments

[smokeycat-430.livejournal.com]

Isn't there some mystery writer who always titles his novels after nursery rhymes?

[tarotgal]

Yep, there is. (James Patterson?) There are mysteries like 'Along Came a Spider', 'Pop Goes the Weasel', and 'Kiss the Boys'. All of those absolutely would have counted. But of COURSE I couldn't find a single one when I needed one!!