The more books the better!

My husband constantly tells me, "don't we have enough books!"  My answer is always, "No!"  It is true we have many, many, many children's books in our house, and I will confess that I do have a book compulsion; but in terms of books I don't think you can have too many.
Each one of our classrooms is full of books.  There is a reading center as well as related books in every center.  These books are also rotated out from our very own library.  We are very fortunate to have some of our books donated by families when their children has out grown some books, or from when families buy books from scholastic book orders and as well as when they our bought off of a classroom wish list from our annual book fair.  We have also gotten a good bulk of our books from Makeway For Books.  It is a great organization who came into our school and looked at what books we needed and brought in some fabulous books to our center at no cost to us.  Their website is also a great resource about reading books to young children http://makewayforbooks.org/.   I am always happy see lots and lots of reading going on in our school thanks to all our many books and our wonderful teachers.
When talking to someone about my book compulsion they said me, "how are children going to learn to read without having books around?"  I realize that children will probably learn to read if they aren't surrounded by books, but I think it comes more natural when those books are around you and apart of your daily routine.  There are some great ways to fill your house with books without spending a great deal of money.
1.  Did you know that PJ Library is another great organization that your child can receive some fabulous Jewish books.  There are some great programming that goes along with this.  Both my children look forward to every month when they receive their book in the mail and we look forward to reading it that night.  This is a grant funded program, so the books are free to you for two years.   Check them out here and sign up  http://www.pjlibrary.org/communities/southern-arizona. 
2.  Have your checked out the scholastic book orders?  You can find the book orders in your child's mailbox.  There are some great books for reasonable prices.  There is a $1 book in every book order.  Check it out.
3.  When I take my children to the pediatrician they always receive a book there through another organization called Reach Out and Read. http://www.reachoutandread.org/
4.  You can always borrow books from our classrooms or school library.
5.  There is always the our public library!
6.  There are the bargain sections at books stores as well as bookmans.
I feel so happy that there are so many organizations that feel books our important in young children's hands. So I will continue to fill my house with books and as well as our classrooms.