Many of them arrive unsolicited, delivered in padded envelopes to my front door. It’s driven me at times to my new lament: “Oh, please, please. These days, religion-faith-spirituality books roll off the presses each year like tsunamis roll off the ocean. Yet apart from those treatises that already have long been classics - say Jonathan Edwards’ “Standing in Grace” or Jeremiah Burroughs’ “The Excellency of a Gracious Spirit” - I wouldn’t want to have to bet on which titles might still be on bookshelves in 2030. Even now, the cover of the Christmas book catalog I got this week from Ligonier Ministries touts “gifts that last forever.” Burd illustrated most of the Platte and Munk Co.’s enduring children’s books.īefore the information age, the age of globalization and print-on-demand, books were things of permanence and weren’t so quick to go out of vogue like the fashions of last season. There’s “Old Mother Hubbard,” “Little Tom Tucker” and “Mistress Mary, Quite Contrary.” In the back is an alphabet illustrated by G. As its title gives away, it brims over with the rhymes on which generations of English-speaking children cut their literary teeth. Inside its front cover it’s so inscribed.įirst published in 1928, three years after “Nursery Tales,” it was by 1952 in its 28th edition. “The Brimful Book” was a gift to me for my second birthday from my Aunt Vi. I still have the two volumes that earliest came into my hands: Platte and Munk’s “The Brimful Book” and “Nursery Tales Children Love.” I’ve delighted in books more than most things in the world since before I could read. There was a time not long ago I never could have pictured myself picking up a book newly in my possession with a sigh.
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