It’s not unusual to find Burgin Streetman scouring San Antonio’s Goodwill, library and yard sales for those few vintage children’s books that have managed to allude her. A weekend hobby? Please. The woman is a pro and that means making the rounds at least three times a week to add to the hundreds, nay thousands of classic kiddie lit titles already on her shelves. Obsession? Let’s call it a passion. A passion we can thankfully all benefit from as Burgin reviews a new vintage book almost every weekday on her blog Vintage Kids Books My Kid Loves. After ten years in the New York publishing world, she’s relocated to her husband’s native Texas where she writes freelance and raises a very literate three year old.

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