Create an Instant
Children's Books Library

Every home should have its own children's books library

It almost goes without saying. If you want your children to succeed, you need a home filled with books.

Well, keep reading, because I'm going to reveal a couple ways to affordably outfit your home (or, say, a grandchild's home) with books, books, books!

The first way is surprisingly inexpensive. The second way is shockingly inexpensive.

Ready?

1. BookCloseouts.com

The green search box above searches my favorite discount books site, BookCloseouts.com. Discounts of 50-80% are pretty much the rule.

These guys sell books that are no longer being printed. This doesn't have to mean these books failed to find an audience. Often it means that one edition of the book is about to be replaced with a newer one.

Create a discount children's books library for the children in your life. The best way to use BookCloseouts.com is to click the link in the previous sentence and just start browsing.

Your kids will have their own children's book collection in no time! BCO.com ships to the US and Canada.

2. eBay

Yes, I said eBay. For an absolutely instant children's book library (often at less than a buck a book), where else would you possibly go?

eBay is like shopping all the world's garage sales at once. Imagine having your pick of every book ever owned by every kid heading off to college.

The world is your children's books library!

The important word to remember when it comes to eBay is "lot". A picture books lot is a big pile of picture books being sold for one price by a single seller.

An instant children's books library!

I've set it up so you can shop eBay from right here on this page.

The three boxes on the right margin are eBay searches for

• picture books lot
• children's books lot
• chapter book lot

Between those three searches you're going to find thousands of sellers with tens of thousands of books.

Hover and click to figure out how it works.

If you've never used eBay, it might seem scary but it's pretty simple.

And if you don't like the idea of participating in an auction, know that a few of the lots have a "buy it now" price.

Also, know that the boxes at right are just searches that I defined. If you want to specify your own search you can be .

Just click the link above to go to eBay's home page. There you can specify your own search, for instance

• Dr. Seuss lot
• Harry Potter lot
• YA Mystery lot
• African-American children's books lot

Now, here's the thing about buying an eBay lot...

You don't have to worry that the children you're buying for won't like ALL the books. At these prices, you can afford to bring a few to the used book store, or drop them off at Goodwill, or...

Sell them back on eBay!

No matter how you go about it, there's no cheaper way to create an awesome children's books library!

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