After your child has read them all…
Children’s books are incredibly important for teaching everything from how to read, how to spell, about history and social issues, about geography and different religions and ethnicities, about animals and machines and everything else in the world. They really fill a vital role in every child’s young life that could not be replaced.
As a result most families end up with a massive collection of children’s books by the time the child becomes a teenager and moves on to more adult books. So what do you do with all these left over fountains of knowledge?
Give them to Charity
There are countless charity shops on your high street that you can donate books to. They will stick a price on them and sell them, in order to use the money to do some good perhaps with children, world famine people with disabilities or the elderly. You wouldn’t be using the books anymore anyway so why not put them to good use.
Family and Friends
Most of the lessons taught through children’s books are universal and timeless. They include things like lessons on sharing, being good to each other, not telling lies, not being greedy and so on. This means that you can hand the books on to one of your friends and family when they have kids so that they can enjoy reading them as much as your kids have.
Keep the Antique Ones
Old, rare books can become incredibly valuable in a number of years. If for example you had a first edition of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll you could probably get tens of thousands of pounds for it. Perhaps you have been handing down books through your family for years and there are a few particularly dusty ones on the shelf….worth a look right?
Recycle Them
If your children’s books are a bit tatty and worn and are unlikely to ever be bought in any charity shop, then you may want to consider getting them recycled. You could just throw them in a paper recycling bin at your local supermarket, or you could take them to your local recycling centre and watch them get mashed back into pulp and made back into paper to be used again.
The best thing about books is that they are portable and can be handed on both in the physical sense and in the sense that the lessons learned by one generation are passed on to the next.
Sam Qam writes books for children. When he is not writing fiction he enjoys a nice puzzle book.
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