Thanks aplenty

Jay Writes -

People are lovely, aren't they?

When Luke and I embarked on this project in March, I'd assumed we'd get most of the books from the library. This has not quite worked out as well as we'd hoped, although Luke's school library are having a look for him. Primarily the books have come from our bookshelves, my increasingly expensive Amazon habit, and the kindness of friends online.

I'd like to thanks some of the lovely people looking books out for us -

• Mark Tranter loaned us The Owl Service and A Christmas Carol
• Sarah, a very kind woman on ReaditSwapit (a great system, btw) is sending us When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
• Immi Howson (who introduced me to Dianna Wynne Jones, for which I shall be forever grateful) is loaning us Mitress Masham's Repose.
• Little Women and The Secret Garden are coming to us from Nic, whom I met online
• Meg has offered us Swallows and Amazons - again from someone I've never met face to face
• Luke's grandparents Colin and Marion have offered to get him a couple of books from the list too

Take a bow, lovely people!

Hunting down the books

Jay Writes -

Hi everyone,

A few people have offered (here or on Facebook or by email) to loan us us some of the books from the list. Below is a list of those we've not got yet. If you have any you'd be willing to lend Luke, could you let us know? I'm running up quite the tab with Amazon - which I must confess isn't unusual for me - but I'd like to only buy those books we can't get elsewhere.

• Swallows and Amazons (promised to be loaned to us)
• The Happy Prince, Oscar Wilde
• The Singing Tree, Kate Seredy
• The Secret Garden (promised to be loaned to us)
• Refuge Boy, Benjamin Zephaniah
• The Tygrine Cat, Inbali Iserles
• Carry On Jeeves (got lots of Jeeves but not this one)
• The Story of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
• Little Women, L M Alcott (promised to be loaned to us)
• How To Be Topp, Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle
• Animal Farm (I think I had this at one point but can't find it on the shelves)
• After The First Death, Robert Cormier
• The London Eye Mystery, Siobhan Dowd

I'd also like to thank Luke's school library, who have promised to get him any of this list they have on their shelves. Librarians rock.