I wanted a copy of the children’s book Saturday Magic for years! I finally spotted one on the internet. That’s the good news. The bad news is that they want $500 for it.
It is neat to know that all of those tacky vases that I inherited from relatives are really surprisingly valuable.
When I was a wee tot, my very favorite book was The elephant who liked to smash small cars. I checked it out of the library constantly. It went out of print the year I was born, so when I grew up and wanted to find it, it was no longer in any library collection I could get to, and copies on alibris were about $200. Luckily for me, one eventually popped up on abebooks for $40, and now my children know the joy of singing along with the elephant:
Smashing cars! Smashing cars! How I love to smash small cars!"