Your public library clearly had a far superior selection of books (and has kept them) than ours!

Most of my formative childhood books were either from the Cambridge Public Library or my elementary school, but I've been very happy to discover they exist elsewhere!*

* Except for The Valley of Song, which I have to request from a different library every time. Someday I will find an affordable copy in a used book store that doesn't know what it's got and I'll be very happy.