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Girl With a Pen: Charlotte Bronte by Elisabeth Kyle

Earth Science Syllabus (Mother of Divine Grace School) by Laura M. Berquist

Magic & medicine of plants by Reader's Digest editors

Catholic Stories from Science...For Little Folks by Nancy Nicholson

A Hundred Million Francs by Paul Berna

The one minute manager by Kenneth H. Blanchard

The Carpenter Bee by Ross E Hutchins

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Library3,388 books — see library

Reviews21 reviews — see reviews

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TagsChildren's (468), Catholic (339), YA (205), Children's Fiction (200), Author-Illustrator (196), England (175), Biography (164), Juvenile Literature (159), Fiction (145) — see all tags

GroupsAll Books Africa, Arabic, North African and Middle Eastern Literature, Art is Life, Awful Lit., British & Irish Children's Fiction, Canadian History for Canadian Kids, Cathedrals, Catholic Homeschoolers, Catholic literature, family & homeschool, Catholic Science Fiction — show all groups

Favorite authorsPaul Berna, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Rumer Godden, Rene Goscinny, Paula Grogger, Irène Némirovsky, Flannery O'Connor, Nevil Shute, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Hilda Van Stockum, Angela Thirkell, Philip Turner, Sigrid Undset, Sheldon Vanauken (Shared favorites)

About me I really love my books, and cataloging them has lead to some interesting discoveries. Mainly, the number of books which are unique to my collection is staggering, or does everyone think that, and notice the same thing with their libraries, I wonder? Occasionally I'll check on some of these unique treasures, to see if maybe another LTer has listed it. I've collected most of my books in the last fifteen years, as a result of teaching my kids myself, and wanting them to have good books around. I do have some older books from my childhood, that I am thrilled I still have for their own sakes, and to share with my children.

About my library Lots of Catholic books, or with the Catholic tag. Lots of children's vintage fiction and non-fiction "living books", illustrated by inspired illustrators. I have quite a few books of Norwegian folk tales, crafts, and customs; books by Norwegian authors, mainly Sigrid Undset. Lots of English village novels by authors like Miss Read, Angela Thirkell, Margery Sharp, and Rumer Godden, and my husband's Patrick O'Brien's. Now I am going through my books yet again, to find the best of the best, and pass on the rest, so my collection will not be so unweildy, as in taking over the house.

LocationWest of the Mississippi

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URLs http://www.librarything.com/profile/SaintSunniva (profile)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/SaintSunniva (library)

Member sinceJun 28, 2006

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SaintSunniva added:
Wordly Wise Teacher's Key: Book 9 by Kenneth Hodkinson

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Wordly Wise Teacher's Key: Book 8 by Kenneth Hodkinson

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Wordly Wise: Book 7 by Kenneth Hodkinson

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Wordly Wise Teacher's Key: Book 5 by Kenneth Hodkinson

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The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami

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The Old Farmer's Almanac 2008 (Old Farmer's Almanac) by Old Farmer's Almanac

Thanks for greeting me and telling me about the book covers now available. It was very kind of you to tell me about the covers. I come on Library Thing only sporadically and am still working on adding all my books (maybe if I quit going to book sales I might catch up - you think?) so I might not get to doing covers very soon, but I will eventually (one can hope).

posted by buriedinbooks at 11:19 pm (EST) on Oct 11, 2008

Hi AMy,

Yes, my Ball Blue Book has that same subtitle.

Blessings,

Mary Ann

posted by maryanntherese at 10:51 pm (EST) on Oct 9, 2008

Thanks so much. It's a great room to hibernate in. I took a quick look at your books and plan on looking some more. Intriguing. Andrea

posted by AndreaandSamantha at 10:17 am (EST) on Sep 10, 2008

I am pleased you find my library interesting. I am in the process of adding "reviews" for as many of the books therein as I can--these are based on comments I made to myself right after reading the book. They are not profound, but they are honest reflections of what I thought of the book I read.

posted by Schmerguls at 11:59 am (EST) on Sep 7, 2008

Thanks for the classification book cover! It is tons of time and work to get covers for all of our books isn't it?

posted by homemommy at 9:22 pm (EST) on Sep 1, 2008

I guess they deleted that link because they just brought in a cover-locating thingie (technical language and me, not a good mix, lol) on the Statistics page. Click on Statistics and Library Statistics page comes up, but at the top there is a link to Book Covers and you can find the information you want.

posted by muumi at 1:24 pm (EST) on Aug 13, 2008

I hope I didn't overwhelm the Canadian History for Canadian Kids group and scare everybody away with my excessive enthusiasm.

I just added an Ann Bridge book that you also have -- noticed that you have several but because of your omnibus edition and I suppose just the general difficulty of finding Ann Bridge books, this is the first we have in common (and you have a cover picture, but mine's an old orange Penguin, so I have to scan my own this time). I've read more of Ann Bridge's books than I actually own. I especially enjoy the Julia novels. Bridge readers are pretty scarce so it's nice to find another, and yet another similarity in our libraries.

posted by muumi at 2:00 pm (EST) on Aug 11, 2008

I don't think I can resist a group called Canadian History for Canadian Kids. I used to do workshops for our homeschool group on teaching Canadian history with good books. :D

posted by muumi at 12:52 am (EST) on Aug 10, 2008

Hi SaintSunniva,
It does sound like we have similar circumstances! I do have six kids, love being Catholic and love books, but am not homeschooling any longer. I'm finding LT to be quite a draw also. It's pretty fun!
Therese

posted by therese.jones at 10:35 pm (EST) on Jul 31, 2008

I was interested both by your library and your webname, Sunniva is really a popular name here in Norway because the St. apparently came here from Ireland and landed somewhere on the Norwegian coast . . . sorry I've forgotten the details, have to look it up again.

posted by DollyBantry at 5:06 pm (EST) on Jul 28, 2008

I have several books by Virginia Kahl - I fell in love with The Duchess Bakes a Cake when I was 4 years old, and yes, I've tried to get a copy of that particular book for each of my children. I'm short one though. I guess I need to start looking for a copy for my youngest child!

Barbara Cooney is an excellent illustrator and I like her books also, although I don't have very many.

Cordially,
Laura

posted by LauraLLD at 4:45 pm (EST) on Jul 26, 2008

I love "The Little Juggler" and Tomie DePaola's book "The Clown of God." I'm always weeding through our library to discard those books we don't read or use. One only has so much space, right? I'm looking forward to the day when all my children take their favorite books from my library to start/make their OWN libraries!

posted by LauraLLD at 12:39 am (EST) on Jul 26, 2008

Thanks for the cover to Merry Hearts & Bold!

I see that you're a Catholic homeschooler; you might enjoy the following blogs by Sally Thomas, a writer who is also a Catholic homeschooler herself!

http://fineoldfamly.blogspot.com/

http://saintdanielstylite.blogspot.com/

posted by echo at 9:08 pm (EST) on Feb 17, 2008

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