I often try to find books for Anselm that I loved as a child, and find that they are not available in the US. Latest example: Pookie the flying rabbit, a lovely story I read in first grade or so about a rabbit with wings. I have also tried to get the Ant and Bee series, and the Willard Price books, a splendid series of adventures of two boys collecting animals for their father's zoo around the world, full of factual information that formed the basis of everything I knew about the natural and wider world. (Those do turn out to be available from odd stores, but I haven't bought them yet.) Willard Price was American, an explorer for National Geographic and the Natural History Museum; but the books don't seem to have been read here. Volcanoes! Sharks! Man-eating lions! The Mountains of the Moon! They were what infected me with the travel bug (that, or my dad's genes). The copies we borrowed from the Hobart Public Library didn't have those cheesy covers!
Update on Pookie: Amazon has it, for $125-- there's a limit to love.
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