Greatest Children's Bookshops World Tour
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010We Heart Books is hosting a virtual world tour of children’s bookshops. They say: “Here’s your chance to help compile a list of the best children’s bookshops in the world. Nominate your favourite children’s bookshops anywhere in the world… and spread the word if you know others who might like to have a say too!” All you need to do to participate is leave a comment on their blog with the name, address and website of the store, and a short paragraph about your reasons for nominating it (please note that they are looking for specialist children’s bookshops, rather than generalist ones).
So far they’ve had nominations from Australia, Canada, France, Singapore, the UK and the US. The picture of Kids Republic, in China, makes quite an impression, and Singapore’s Woods in the Books, specializing in picture books for children and adults sounds wonderful, too! Now… who is going to volunteer to create a wonderful logo for the project? It certainly deserves one!
They are using a Google Map to chart the itinerary for the “Greatest Children’s Bookshops” World Tour, so I encourage you to keep an eye on it. It should prove a lovely way of finding new reasons to travel!
This project, come to think of it, reminds me of our Around the World in 100 Bookshelves. We are still looking forward to your photos!
