Today is Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day. This is a day to
share the wonder of reading with someone small. Jenny Milchman, the founder of
Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day said,
“Bookstores hold
a place in the hearts of our community. They are places to discover an author,
a story, a life. Nothing affords the conversation and interaction among books
and book lovers that a bookstore does.” She suggests if we want bookstores to
be a part of our communities’ future, we have to introduce our children to
them. Nearly all of the
mom-and-pop stores I enjoyed when I was a child are gone. They were replaced by
B. Dalton, Waldenbooks, Borders and Media Play. And now none of them are here,
either. If I take a child to a bookstore today, it will probably be Barnes and
Noble or Deseret Book.
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