How many books does your child have?

mamamurphy

Hi There,
Someone was visiting us last night and commented on the amount of books DC have?  I'm curious if we are above average?

Please share your child(ren)'s age and approx. number of books!

Thanks!

Sunndraggon

Easily 100+.......and well above that if I count the books for when she is much older.

I am big on reading so we bought her a ton, my family threw a book shower for me, and a friend was a childrens editor for B&N and sent a ton when he got a new job

carolinag

hmmm.. timmy is 9 months and i'd say he has at least 50. i can't go check right now b/c he's napping. i love to read though.

nicoleRI

DS is 10 months, has approximately 40 books?  Not sure, but a lot, most were gifts- some are for when he is MUCH older so they are put away.  I have at least 20 out and about on his shelf now.  I come from a family of teachers- a book is always part of a gift it seems like.

DG1

Way too many to count, which is as it should be, IMO.  A kid can never have too many books.

DS is 9.5m. If I had to ballpark it, I'd say he has maybe 100 books.

risysmama

DD is a little over 5 months old and she has 30-40 books.  We got a bulk of the books from my cousins hand me downs as well as from our baby shower.  Books are the best gift ever!!!

Shellyburger

Dont know the exact number but a ton, Im an elementary teacher

JessMil10

Over a hundred maybe two hundred, but most we have not read yet. I was an Elem. Education major and our classes received the scholastic catalogs. I went a little crazy.

Telyco

Probably around 30

Sunndraggon

its funny you post this. I was looking at her bookcase yesterday and started counting.....then got distracted. lol

emiliemadison

We have an almost 4 year old and a 1.5 year old. If I had to guess, I'd say they have around 100 books just in the book shelves, not counting the ones still in boxes from our move. In total, probably well over 200 books.

We've had the majority of them since our first child was still a baby. 

Lotte134

Probably 50 or so - we're a book loving family as well!

Kentuckychick_8201

DD has about 20-30 and she is almost 9 months.  We are working on building her collection but right now she is hard to read to because she doesn't sit still.  Although we attempt to read to her nightly. 

Court0026

He probably has gotten 50-75 since we got pregnant and I have at least 150 kids books on my own shelf (I am a teacher).  I buy him at least 1 new book every week I would guess. 

BabyDeacon

Probably in the 100 to 200 hundred range....maybe more.  However, I had most of them waiting on him for years before he was born!  I am an avid reader myself as well as a teacher....books are like gold to me.  My mom recently retired from 30 years of teaching kindergarten and gave me a lot of her old books and those that I didn't take to school I stored here.  Unfortunately, most of his books are still in large rubbermaids in the basement   In desperate need of a bookshelf or two...

msabol2077

7mo prob around 50. We try and pick up a new book whenever we are at a store. His collection is starting to get larger but not as many as I'd like him to have.

rylen11

Probably about 150 -- my mom is an elementary school teacher, and bought a ton of scholastic book collections for her, plus all the ones I got her, plus gifts.She's 7 mo old.