and later that day , he takes all of his storybooks - the little golden books , the pop-up books , the i-can-read books , the dr. seuss books , the green fairy book for young folks , and he puts them in a carton , and he puts the carton down in the basement , and he thinks : 'i would not care if an earthquake came now and opened a crack in the floor and swallowed up every one of those books .