Today we are thrilled to announce the winner of our first “Around the World in 100 Bookshelves” book draw. The lucky child is 5 year-old Shashank, from Bangalore, India. Congratulations, Shashank! PaperTigers will be sending five multicultural picture books for you to add to your bookshelf! Please let us know what you (and your friend Mickey Mouse) think of the stories, when you’ve had a chance to read them!

So far, we have heard from The Philippines, Canada, the UK, US, Sweden and India. We want to see bookshelves from all corners, though, and to hear about the books that inhabit them, so please keep those photos coming! Your young bibliophile could be the winner of our next book draw, which will happen on Jul 15.

To see all bookshelf photos submitted to date, and to catch a glimpse of a world made smaller through books and reading, click on the “Around the World in 100 Bookshelves” logo, on the sidebar.

Bookshelf #9:
Addy and Elly
2-1/2 years old and 10 months old
Marlborough, United Kingdom

Submitted by: Sam

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Bookshelf #8:
Carlos Miguel
1 year & 7 months old
Manila, Philippines

Being a bibliophile myself, I would like my little boy to grow up around books. I would like to instill in him the passion for reading. Books develop and broaden horizons and for little ones, I believe that starting them young will help them as they grow older. I have taken snapshots of little Miguel’s own book collection. He shares a couple of shelves from me so his books will have their own places in the house. Being 1 year and 7 months old, his books range from coloring books to the educational/learning starter books such as the ABCs. The shelf above contains his coloring books, learning the alphabet and numbers books, beginner’s shapes books, board books of trucks, dogs and kittens, illustration books and flashcards with Barney’s photo, too. It also contains the kiddie books we bought from our MV Doulos trip.

This middle shelf contains his other mini board books and some glitter books. He also has some books featuring Winnie D Pooh and friends.

The bottom shelf contains his I Wonder Why books, a gift from his aunt. Also, it houses some baby-kiddie books meant for my reading.

As a mom, I am proud to say that he can now fully recite the ABC, count 1-15, recognize shapes!

Submitted by: Frances
http://ivan-ulrich.blogspot.com

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Bookshelf #7:
Clarke
4 years old
Los Angeles, CA, USA

My husband built and painted this bookshelf to Clarke’s specifications. It had to “look like a zebra.” Currently, Clarke especially enjoys reading Mo Willems’s Elephant & Piggie series, as well as the Dr. Seuss “Beginner Books.”

Submitted by: Candace
http://www.bookbookerbookest.blogspot.com

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Bookshelf #6:
Albin
12 years old
Stockholm, Sweden

This bookshelf belongs to Albin, who is 12 years old. As you can see, Japanese manga is a favourite… But also Cressida Cowell, Cornelia Funke and J.K. Rowling, as well as Swedish writers like Niklas Krog. Since I work in a library I don’t buy a lot of books for my children – we borrow them at the library instead. When I asked him which book he likes the best he thought about it quite a while and then said it was Airman by Eoin Colfer.

Submitted by: Anna G. Chen

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A recent addition to our blog is Around the World in 100 Bookshelves, where parents are encouraged to send photos of their children’s bookshelves, along with the name and age of their child. It is already becoming wildly popular, with snapshots coming in from all corners of the world, and I am always eager to see the latest bookshelf, or variant thereof–parents are quite creative in ways to store their offspring’s book collections! (My oldest son’s first books were kept in his little red wagon, which he was too small to use for conventional purposes.)

My reaction is curious as well as delighted, and comments from other viewers convey the same yearning to know what are the titles of some of the books in these pictures. And beyond that question is which of these titles are most requested as bedtime stories or daytime readalouds?

Which of these books does the owner spend time poring over, perhaps knowing them by heart? If they are owned by someone who can read the words, which of them is most read aloud to her parents or his younger siblings–or to a pet dog or cat for that matter!

Please tell us which books are most popular in your household? Which one can you recite from menory as you read it aloud to your child? And, while you’re at it, if you haven’t sent us a picture of your child’s library, we are eager to see it–and so are other parents around the world.

Let’s find out if a child in Bangalore loves the same book as a child in Brooklyn–and what books a mother in the Philippines most enjoys reading aloud to her children. The world is full of wonderful books and the children who love them–which are your child’s favorites?

Bookshelf #5:
Pranav
6 years old
Bangalore, India

Submitted by: Anandhi Yagnaraman

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Bookshelf #4:
Morgan and Alastrin
3 years old and 2 years old
Windsor, Ontario, Canada

This is a photo of my two girls’ bookshelf. We own more kids’ books than that, though. Some are in the living room, for easy access; others they aren’t quite big enough for yet, are upstairs in storage; and the seasonal books (Christmas, Easter, Halloween) are also stored upstairs, and only brought out during the season they’re about. My girls love reading books and will go in there and “read” for a good 20 minutes on their own!

Submitted by: Callista/Kathleen

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Bookshelf #3:
Shashank
5 years old
Bangalore, India

Most of the books in Shashank’s shelf are in English and Kannada.

Submitted by: Prashanth Patali

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Bookshelf #2:
Cherie
3 1/2 years old
Delhi, India

Here is our bookshelf. It’s actually not a shelf, but a couple of drawers salvaged from a termite- ridden dresser, lined up on the floor for easy access. We used to have them in a cabinet, but our last major haul was temporarily piled up here, while we played at having a book fair at our house. I found that this was much easier to use and encouraged more reading, as it was actually in the playing area, so I let it be, and arranged a little sitting space around it. As you see, we started painting them, and then the project got shelved The background shows the latest artwork, and a couple of Rajasthani puppets we picked up recently. And that is my little one ‘reading’ a favourite (on account of its various pull-out sections).

The books we have, with a few exceptions, are totally dependent on what was available at the book fairs we attended last year, and at bargains, rather than our choice. But they all have nice pics to look at, so that is alright. Mostly fiction, a few small encyclopedias and even fewer science books. Of course I want more of these books, but now I am also looking for biographies, science, math and discovery/invention books.

Submitted by: Swati
http://hellonetbaby.blogspot.com

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