{"id":713,"date":"2006-06-09T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T19:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=713"},"modified":"2013-07-02T11:57:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T15:57:41","slug":"lamplighter-catalog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=713","title":{"rendered":"Lamplighter Catalog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3428\/1662\/1600\/BookChestText.gif\"><img style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; cursor: hand;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3428\/1662\/320\/BookChestText.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI first saw Lamplighter books in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visionforum.com\/default.aspx\">Vision Forum<\/a> catalog a few years ago, and they really caught my attention. I have been pleased to locate <a href=\"http:\/\/lamplighterpublishing.com\/inforequest.asp\">Lamplighter&#8217;s complete catalog<\/a>. They republish some books which I found in old copies in bookshops in Scotland but had not yet been able to find reprinted. Their motto alone was enough to catch me: &#8220;Building character &#8211; One Story at a Time.&#8221;\u009d EXACTLY! That is what I am attempting and I think that reading good stories is an excellent way of building character.<\/p>\n<p>Their books are not cheap, but they are all nicely bound and printed, maintaining a classic look of age. I have not yet read one of their reprints (I have one in the queue!), but they do have a reprint of <em>The Gold Thread<\/em> which is one of our all time favorites (<a href=\"http:\/\/childrenshourbooks.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/gold-thread.html\">read my earlier post on this book here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The catalog itself is nicely organized with listings by age and gender as well as other topics (rare collector&#8217;s series, etc.). If you are looking for books for your children this is certainly one catalog to have ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first saw Lamplighter books in a Vision Forum catalog a few years ago, and they really caught my attention. I have been pleased to locate Lamplighter&#8217;s complete catalog. They republish some books which I found in old copies in bookshops in Scotland but had not yet been able to find reprinted. Their motto alone &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=713\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Lamplighter Catalog&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3784,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/3784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}