Busker Saturday

Saturday always brings an orchestra of buskers to the streets of Nelson.

This morning we had the pleasure of Violet on her cornet!

Geeky Popularity

These two books have just arrived in the shop. We couldn't resist Maya Van Wagenen's Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek. Maya was inspired by Betty Cornell's classic Teenage Popularity Guide.

Grasshopper's Week

It was our great pleasure to launch Grasshopper's Week tonight. Published by Craig Potton Publishing, written by lovely (local) Tania Norfolk & illustrated by her brother Chris Norfolk.
Wonderful to have their families and friends celebrating and supporting Tania's debut children's book.

 

Our own in-store minstrel...

For a time today the normal classical music played in the shop was replaced by the gorgeous tones of Jacquie Walters.

Bookmarked

Here are some of the bookmarks Thomas is using at the moment. Now he has lost his place in four books.

On this day in 1897...

“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”

 Bram Stoker's Dracula was published for the first time. As you can see, he keeps good company with Frankenstein on our Popular Penguin shelves.

Grasshopper's Week

We are very privileged to be launching a new children's book by local author Tania Norfolk, published by Craig Potton Publishing. This Thursday May 29th, 5pm at the shop. All ages welcome.

A visit from an old friend

Our wandering bookseller Maclean popped in for a cuppa and a gingerbread man (thanks for supplying!) this afternoon on her way from Dunedin to the Coromandel. If you can't quite make them out, her earings are wee books.

Book piracy hits Nelson

Jan's new gloves are de rigeur on the high seas of the modern business environment.

Once Upon a Knit...no peeping

Our very first entry for our 'Once Upon a Knit' competition has arrived. We peeked...it looks delightful. Entry forms can be downloaded here.Which knitted, crocheted, stitched or felted creation will arrive next?

Very popular

 

We've got some new shelves (thanks to Susi's persuasive hammer), and we've got a special shipment of Popular Penguins to fill them. Come and have a look! Remarkably good literature and timeless design at a remarkably affordable price (all true to the ideals of Penguin founder Allen Lane).



Anticipation

The crowd gathers to hear Michael Leunig!

Sold Out!

We are very much looking forward to Michael Leunig's talk tomorrow evening. Unfortunately if you do not yet have tickets, we are now completely sold out. If you do have tickets, we look forward to seeing you there.

The varied roles of a bookseller....

Little Miss Reading Books in her favourite place.....a bookshop, of course.

Today it was all aboard for an afternoon of fun on the Great Red Double-Decker Reading Bus

What has Dobbin been up to?

 

Clearly it was quite an interesting Thursday on Trafalgar St. Perhaps the Independent Nursing Practice had been out and about.

A wobble of ostriches and a secret zoo...

Two lovely new children's books arrived this morning which tickled our fancy. Both whimsical and about animals. The Way to the Zoo is John Busrningham's latest book about Sylvie who notices a door in her bedroom wall and discovers there is a zoo hidden behind it. The Odd One Out is a delightful book by Britta Teckentrup, which contains elegant penguins, a sleuth of pandas and a cauldron of bats, but on each page there's an odd one out. 

Memory is a fickle thing

This afternoon I was telling my husband about a picture book I loved as a child, about Alfred Noble blowing up the Swiss Alps while testing dynamite. But do you think I could find it on Google?

I got links to Ben and Jerry's Icecream (no idea what that's about), a Swiss 60's beat garage punk band (they had garage music in the 60's?) cycling and running websites and even something on Noble himself, but not the book I was looking for.

Perhaps I am misremembering, because Google can't be wrong. Surely.

Mothers Day gift basket winner

We were delighted to present the winner of our Mothers Day competition, Mr Tooti Muriwai, with this lovely gift basket today. 

Monday, Monday....

Monday morning and Susie and Marie are competing for the colourful shoe of the day competition

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