About Us

Hi! Thanks for visiting our little corner of the internet.  Here's a little bit about the children's book lovers who created this website.

We are three sisters who also all happen to be elementary school teachers!  Cindy teaches Kindergarten, Betsy teaches first grade, and Virginia teaches second grade. Here's a picture of us on a recent kayaking trip in McCall, Idaho (where Virginia, the oldest sister, lives.)

We all love children's books and have created this bookstore to help get good children's books into the hands of teachers, librarians, and parents.  We know nothing can spark a love of reading and learning like funny, clever, well written and illustrated children's books. And as teachers, we love sparking a love of learning!!

We've run this informational site since 2010, and then in 2015, we opened a bookstore as well!  We would love it if you would visit our bookstore?  Just click the link!

Why did our bookstore web address change?

We ran this bookstore together from 2015 to 2022. But after years of teaching full time during the day and running this bookstore at night, it was time to slow down a little.  Luckily, we found the perfect person to take over the business....our brother Brent. Brent was moving to Utah (where two of us live) and had all the organizational skills and knowledge needed to step right in and take over. Here's a picture of Brent:

Brent ran the business for the last few years, until July 2023 when he suddenly died of a massive heart attack.  It was tragic and so sad.  He was too young! When Brent died, we shut down the original store (www.the-best-childrens-books.org) and did nothing with the remaining inventory for a year. We weren't ready.

Now, a year later, we've decided to sell the remaining inventory at close-out prices. We want to get these books into the hands of young readers...and end the bookstore on a happier note. But Brent took over the bookstore, he also took over legal ownership of the original site, and re-gaining legal access would require jumping through a lot of hoops!  So instead, we created this new site -- www.best-childrens-books-clearance-sale.com.  It's still us -- same people running it, same great deals -- just with a new name.