Last year, Lou and I took our boys to Victoria’s annual Booktown event in Clunes (you can find our posts on it here and here).
At the last minute, I made it back again this year. I didn’t bump into any We Heart Books readers this year… but did meet a new kindred spirit over a few bins of picture books.
The weather was beautiful and the atmosphere very lovely. This year, I made an early stop at the CFA ‘nothing over $5′ hall, in a new venue at the town’s Bottle Museum. With kids’ books priced at 6 for $1, you could hardly go wrong. And it was nice for Rowan to be able to pick out whatever took his fancy and hardly be able to refuse… The books had been donated from local school libraries so they were mostly very worn and damaged. But I picked up a few gems – and will post on some of them shortly.
To balance out my thiftiness, I then went on and indulged in a handful of picture books at $6-$10 each… All in beautiful condition though, and the stall owners are apparently opening a bookshop in Northcote here in Melbourne in June – called Brown & Bunting. It should be a good source of secondhand books in fine condition.
We loved Booktown too, although like you we weren’t there long enough. I would like to have met you!
I posted on my finds here:
http://ohpeacefulday.blogspot.com/2009/05/my-booktown-finds.html
Can’t wait to check out the new Northcote shop – that’s our neighbourhood…
Love your blog, Guys.