you ran in the sand
With no thought of catching that
small sliver of glass
-Mrs K T. Cooper, Jr.
Wiggles
The Wiggles they start in the feet
The wiggles they start in the feet
They move all around
To the knees and the toes
and up to da nose
But don’t ya know,
The wiggles they start in the feet.
-Mrs. Karl T. Cooper, Jr.
The Beauty of Books
I love selling books, listing new books, smelling them, stacking them up on my desk as I write their summaries and learn more about their authors. I love it when an old note falls from the pages, a scrap of paper a business card or pressed flower. I love getting orders and carefully packing them up to be shipped off to their new homes.
Some have gone to libraries, some were anonymous donations to universities, others were birthday gifts, Christmas gifts, Easter gifts, books that people have been looking for for years and have been thrilled to find at my store. I love sending off the prayer books, rosary booklets and especially Roman missals and thinking of the prayers that will be learned or enhanced because of them.
Some people are surprised that I run a little bookstore and they ask me if they sell and the answer is, yes, books sell. But more importantly they speak. Books are perfect little vessels of the printed word. The bound book is all elegance, unassuming, practical, and yet alluring. They are superior to ebooks, kindles, and blogs not because of nostalgia or sentiment but because of their inherent beauty, their physical accessibility. This will always be the case. When the first book binder painstakingly bound the first book, the written word, betwixt the pages, had found its true home.
-Mrs. Karl T. Cooper, Jr.
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How Sweet?
How sweet is baby in my arms?
Sweeter than cowslips in the field.
How sweet is baby on my lap?
Sweeter than wild suckle on my lips
How sweet is baby in our home?
As sweet as honey from the comb.
-Mrs. Karl T Cooper Jr.
Rossetti
What book do you wish to hear? Sing-song! Sing-song!
What poet do you love best Dear? Rossetti! Rossetti!
Oh, let me read along!
-Mrs. Karl T. Cooper, Jr.
Christina Rossetti Sing-Song
I just finished reading Sing-Song to my girls. It’s a wonderful book of poetry by Christina Rossetti. We have the Dover edition which really is quite nice. However, I was surprised to see such a high price on amazon and began looking for other editions. Here are a few more I found :
Sing-Song Hardcover 1924 edition
I found another 1893 edition inscribed by the poet and playwright A.C. Swineburn to his sister Alice:
-Mrs Karl T. Cooper, Jr.
More Books!
Princess Elizabeth Reading
Princess Elizabeth reading at Windsor Castle 1940
