A Successful Quest!
I’m bit like a pit bull when there’s a book I’m trying to track down, I simply can’t let it go until I’ve conquered the challenge! My recent challenger was Your Own Best Secret Place by Byrd Baylor. It’s an excellent little children’s book about secret places, and it’s one of those pieces of literature that helps to define who you become as an adult.
I was recently reminded of the title while reading Questing, Clark and Glazer, and began a two-week saga of tracking it down for a reasonable price. For reasons still unknown to me, most of Baylor’s other books sell at a reasonable four or five dollars used. But there were listings for this book of over thirty dollars! I want what I want but not thirty dollars for a five-minute read!
So I searched deeper into the depths of Google and finally found sites that listed the book at its original retail value. Hopefully it’ll be here in time for me to use in developing a Questing program with the local school district.
The side benefit to all this “running around” from one on-line store to another was that I ended up picking up a couple of her other books. I already have Everybody Needs a Rock and am looking forward to more of Baylor’s almost spiritual handling of a child’s connection with her natural world.
A big thank you to Byrd for her excellent works!
(p.s. Peaches’ tooth is fine. Apparently she just wanted to savor her chew toy for the whole day.)