You can't have too many books for kids! Keep those books in your house, ladies!!!

I read somewhere once that the easiest predictor of academic success or failure for a person (with all of the associated socio-economic implications) was simply to count how many books where in their parents house. The more books, the more successful the person was.

(OK, academic success doesn't necessarily make happiness, but it does make for a lot of pretty useful things, in my opinion).

Our place is full of books. We'll have to put doors on some of the bookcases, the lower shelves anyway, by the time our baby is able to crawl over and pull the books out. But we won't be getting rid of any of them, just adding more books suited to small people than we currently have...