Children's Fiction Books & Libraries
Dear Bookstore
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2025
- Category
- Books & Libraries, Emotions & Feelings, New Experience
- Recommended Age
- 3 to 7
- Recommended Grade
- p to 2
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781536210699
- Publish Date
- Mar 2025
- List Price
- $24.50
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Description
A picture-book love letter to bookstores, inspired by a song from award-winning children’s songwriter and ukulele player Emily Arrow.
Dear Bookstore, I remember
the first time I ever visited you.
For one little girl, the local bookstore is not only the beginning of her reading journey, it’s a world that’s always there for her—one that allows her imagination to soar, provides any answers she needs, and sparks her curiosity. It’s a place of wishes and dreams, where everybody and every book fits in. There’s always someone there who is happy to see her and help find her next exciting chapter. With cozy, fanciful illustrations by Geneviève Godbout and based on musician Emily Arrow’s song of the same name, Dear Bookstore is an ode to bookstores, the people who love them, and the books that fill them with magic.
About the authors
GENEVIÈVE GODBOUT habite à Montréal où elle travaille en tant qu’illustratrice. Elle a étudié en animation traditionnelle au Cégep du Vieux-Montréal avant de poursuivre sa formation à l’école des Gobelins à Paris. Geneviève fait des illustrations pour des clients dans le domaine de l’édition et de la mode. Elle est l’illustratrice de l’album Quand le père Noël était petit… qui a remporté le Prix jeunesse des libraires du Québec 2017, catégorie 0 à 5 ans.
GENEVIÈVE GODBOUT lives in Montreal where she works as an illustrator. She studied traditional animation at Cégep du Vieux-Montréal and at the prestigious Gobelins school in Paris. Geneviève illustrates for clients in the fields of publishing and fashion. She is the illustrator of the picture book Quand le père Noël était petit... which won the Prix jeunesse des libraires du Québec in 2017 in the 0 to 5 years category.
Editorial Reviews
A heartfelt tribute to the power of books and bookstores.
—Kirkus Reviews
