Crazy story time

[chocolatepot]

So when I was a little kid in Ellenville, my mom used to read me this book called Tommy at the Grocery Store. You've probably never heard of it. It's a poem about a kid (well, piglet, because they're all pigs in the illustrations) who gets lost at the grocery store, and people keep picking him up and thinking he's various things - "he's a potato! he has eyes!" etc. - until he's finally reunited with his mother. It's adorable and we love it. But it's been out of print for a while, and my mom looks for it at every book sale, but it never turns up. She finally went to Amazon to buy one of the cheapest copies from some reseller warehouse in Indiana, and it arrived today.

It is the copy from the Ellenville Public Library. It has a card pocket and bar code from Ellenville on it. She picked a cheap one at random from a state halfway across the country, and it just happened to be the exact copy that she used to read to me when I was a toddler. I am actually kind of crying now.

Comments

[lliira]

That's so awesome!