Does she know about browsing through unfamiliar books on the shelves of a bookstore or library to pick out a few she likes? I'm not sure exactly when I learned how to do that, but I could do it by the time I was 7. (I also remember being young enough to believe my father always knew exactly what books he wanted, and was scanning library shelves and flipping pages in order to find them, not to choose them.)
You might keep your old chapter books in the basement, explaining to Cordelia that the cool dry air is good for keeping books in good condition, and taking her down there for regular supervised browsing. I don't know if she'll want to put any of her old picture books in the basement library to save them for posterity. But she's likely to find at least a few books there she wants to take upstairs and read.
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Date: 2008-12-03 07:21 am (UTC)You might keep your old chapter books in the basement, explaining to Cordelia that the cool dry air is good for keeping books in good condition, and taking her down there for regular supervised browsing. I don't know if she'll want to put any of her old picture books in the basement library to save them for posterity. But she's likely to find at least a few books there she wants to take upstairs and read.