To make matters worse, she gets bullied for her ‘different’ name, and is so upset she demands to change it. Book blurb: “Anjali and her friends are excited to get matching personalized license plates for their bikes. If you are in Minneapolis on November 10, you can hear author Sheetal Sheth read her book Always Anjali at 11. ‘At the time it was: … Why am I doing this when everybody else is closing? But it’s just been the love of my life.’ ” More at MPR, here. “Amid all the store’s success, and its fast approaching 25th anniversary, Morgan has a message to her younger self, opening the store on its very first day. Bookseller Jean Ernest, who has worked there for 20 years, says she has watched the customers grow up right in front of her, transforming from kids into parents who bring their own children into the shop. “Every afternoon after school lets out, the store still fills up with young readers browsing the shelves, which run from picture books through young adult novels. Her tight-knit staff gathered around her when she got the call. “For co-founder Collette Morgan, finding out that she’d won was a too-excited-to-even-speak moment. Publishers Weekly named it the 2017 Bookstore of the Year, making Wild Rumpus the first children’s bookstore to receive the honor. “This week, the shop was honored for its long history of serving up children’s books with a side of animal chaos. (Jefferson’s in a cage, as are several of the other furry and feathered inhabitants.) “In addition to over 34,000 books, the children’s bookstore boasts a menagerie that includes Tyson the chicken, one ferret, two doves, two chinchillas, a cockatiel and a tarantula named Thomas Jefferson. A crowd gathers, but this striking figure is not the world-famous astrophysicist - it’s a chicken. “At the Wild Rumpus bookstore in Minneapolis, Neil deGrasse Tyson is strutting across the floor. In August, John and family visited friends in Minnesota and, among other adventures, checked out the award-winning children’s bookstore their friends love.Īt Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), Tracy Mumford reports on a visit she made to the store in April 2017. Cats are only one of the unusual features of Minnesota’s Wild Rumpus bookstore, which Publisher’s Weekly named the 2017 Bookstore of the Year.
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