Valerie Koehler says that if her book shop is forced to comply with a new state law regulating public school literature, she might go out of business. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2023-07-26 21:13:13 UTC ]
Drusilla Jones, who owned an antique children’s book shop in Baltimore, died of end stage Alzheimer’s disease and diabetic complications Oct. 20 at Charter Senior Living. The Lutherville resident was 82. Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2022-11-04 09:00:00 UTC ]
Some sad news coming out of the Boston area today: the Children’s Book Shop in Brookline Village, Mass., will close its doors after 45 years. Dear Customers: We are sad to report that The Children’s Book Shop will close its doors on April 30, 2022. We have provided good books, great service and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-04-18 16:28:49 UTC ]
On April 30, the Children’s Book Shop in Brookline Village, Mass., will close its doors after 45 years. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-04-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
Hannah Harlow, executive director of marketing of general interest books at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, has bought the Book Shop of Beverly Farms in Beverly, Mass., together with her brother. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-01-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
A heart-warming love letter to books and bookshops, by an amenable fellow turned antisocial old misanthrope“I was in here two years ago and you had a book by Roger Penrose. Do you know what happened to it?” Shaun Bythell – owner of the Book Shop in Wigtown, Galloway – has 100,000 books in stock,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-08-24 10:58:38 UTC ]
A proprietor’s journey from ‘amenable and friendly’ to ‘intolerant and antisocial’According to George Orwell, “there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops”. Bythell’s diary suggests that not much has changed, in this... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Over the course of its four decades in business, the tiny Boston-area specialty bookstore has weathered monumental changes in publishing, and had an outsized role in the world of children’s books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sainsbury’s has partnered with BookTrust, Penguin Random House and Peppa Pig brand owner, Entertainment One, to commission and exclusively sell children's book Shop With Peppa. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michèle Laouénan, the owner of The Book Shop in Liskeard, Cornwall, has put the shop up for sale as she prepares for retirement. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]